Student’s Newlyn Photography wins prestigious scholarship and significant funding

Tom Jamieson, second year student on BA(Hons) Press & Editorial Photography, has been awarded £1000 by established arts charity, Ideas Tap to shoot a photo story of his choice following submission of images taken on a Newlyn fishing trawler. Earlier in the year the same photography saw him also win one of only four coveted full scholarships to attend the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop run by the VII Network in Istanbul.

In response to the Person At Work - Environmental Portrait assignment set in his first year at Falmouth, Tom spent 5 days and nights on the Newlyn based trawler The Crystal Sea where he photographed the life of the vessel and her crew of 5 as they fished in the East Atlantic, south of the Isles of Scilly.

Tom applied to the Innovator category of the Ideas Tap Ideas Fund that focuses on funding original ideas for projects from any creative discipline and on the strength of his proposal and portfolio Tom was awarded £1000. These funds will allow him to increase the scale of his documentary of the fishing industry.  Visits not only to Newlyn but also to North Shields, Pembrokeshire and Scotland are planned along with the addition of video and audio work to create a larger-scale multi-media piece.

On winning the award Tom said; "I am thrilled to win this funding that will allow me to take a project that was inspired by Cornwall to a larger and more national scale. I am very grateful for the important support of Ideas Tap and also for the opportunities and teaching given on the Press & Editorial course and I hope I will now be able to document and also comment on the decline of the fishing industries in the UK as a whole."

Beating 75 applicants, the strength of the same Newlyn photographs secured Tom nearly $1000 and a place on the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in June on what is known as "six days of Photography, community and inspiration in the queen of cities" with classes and workshops led by an impressive line up of some of the world's best photojournalists. During this time Tom documented Christian refugees from Iraq living in Turkey.

Mal Stone, Award Leader, BA(Hons) Press & Editorial Photography comments, "All the academic staff on BA (Hons) Press & Editorial Photography are thrilled with Tom's news. He has produced a fantastic photo story from his assignment and shows the strength of his abilities against tough competition. I'm very excited at how the course has grown and is now producing talented students like Tom across all three years."

Tom's winning photography can be viewed here: vimeo.com

Ideas Tap will be present at the 5th Annual Careers Fair on Wednesday 17 November at UCF's Tremough Campus with around 50 employers attending, ranging from large blue-chip corporations to small and medium sized enterprises as well as charities.

For further information about BA(Hons) Press & Editorial Photography at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/pressphotography email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213854.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name.  It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing.  The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2013/2014 that will be unique to the South West.

The University College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One and Convergence), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.

Ideas Tap is an arts charity established to help young, creative people at the start of their careers with funding, career development, networking, advice or access to creative collaborators in a variety of fields.  They have partnered with some major arts organisations - Old Vic New Voices, the National Youth Theatre, L'Ouverture,  Magnum Photos and other organisations like the BBC, RSC and National Student Drama Festival to offer exclusive opportunities.

The VII NETWORK expands the ideals and journalistic mission of VII Photo agency that was founded in 2001 specialising in conflict photography to include important photographic work by selected non-members.  This new collection of talented photographers permits VII Photo to continue to support its clients throughout the world, in meeting their demand for high-quality, in-depth reportage, contemporary issue-based stories, which provide a critical photographic perspective of the world around us.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby Dip CIPR MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792, or email:  jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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