Exhibitions & events

Photography Symposium 2010

9:00am to 6:30pm, 23 February 2010 to 25 February 2010 - Every day

Chapel Lecture Theartre, Tremough Campus, Penryn

University College Falmouth's School of Media would like to invite you to its 2010 Photography Symposium.

We hope you agree that this year's collection of speakers, from every corner of the photographic world, reflects the international standing of our portfolio of Photography courses.

Dates:

Tuesday 23rd February: 10.30am - 6pm
Wednesday 24th February: 9am - 4pm and 5pm - 6.30pm
Thursday 25th February:  9am - 3pm

Speakers

Guests of BA(Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography

James Brickell

James Brickell is a wildlife filmmaker at the prestigious BBC Natural History Unit. His TV filming credits include the Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One, Big Cat Diary and the ground-breaking, highly acclaimed series with Sir David Attenborough: Life in Cold Blood (BBC1, 2008).  James Brickell's TV filming credits include the Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One, Big Cat Diary and the ground-breaking, highly acclaimed series with Sir David Attenborough: Life in Cold Blood (BBC1, 2008).

Inspired by figures such as Gerald Durrell and Jacques Cousteaux, James became fascinated by animals from a young age and filled his parents house with a menagerie of tarantulas, snakes and lizards. After reading Zoology, he followed his dream and joined the BBC Natural History Unit and is delighted to have the opportunity to work with his childhood hero, Sir David Attenborough. James continues to direct and produce wildlife films with the best. During his career, James has worked with Michaela Strachan, Nick Baker, Simon King, Charlotte Uhlenbroek and Steve Backshall.

Roger Covey

Roger Covey is a senior specialist marine officer for Natural England. He has worked in marine conservation nationally and regionally for more than 20 years, ranging from marine survey work throughout the UK during the early 1990s, to conservation roles in Cornwall & Isles of Scilly.  Recently he was part of the development team working on the parliamentary marine bill which became law in December. He is recognised nationally as one of the leading figures in marine conservation and has chaired numerous meetings and events on marine issues. He contributed to the development team of this course, Marine & Natural History Photography.

Guests of BA(Hons) Photography

Wendy McMurdo

Wendy McMurdo works in digital media, with a particular interest in the ways in which new technologies impact on the imaginative life of the child. She has exhibited in numerous group shows on the subject of digital media including 'Scanner', curated by Lary Rinder for the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, 'The Anagrammatical Body', curated by Peter Wiebel for The Centre for Art and Technoogy, Kalsruhe, Germany and 'Unheimlich' at the Foto Museum, Winthertur, Switzerland.
She is currently based in the U.K. For full biography and new projects please click on http://www.wendymcmurdo.com

Francis Hodgson

Francis Hodgson is the writer on photography for the Financial Times. He has been for many years been a specialist writer on the subject, including stints as contributing editor on photography to Art Review, critic for The Spectator and the Economist, and frequent contributor to the broadsheet and specialised press. He is an expert in the history and culture of photography, having been for some years the head of the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s.

Hodgson was one of the founders of the Prix Pictet (the leading prize in documentary photography in the world, with an annual award of CHF 100,000 to the winner) on which he currently serves as the chairman of the panel of jurors.

Kelley Wilder

Kelley Wilder is Senior Research Fellow and Programme Leader of the MA in Photographic History at De Montfort University in Leicester. She served as the Assistant Editor on The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, and the co-editor (with Roger Taylor) of Fenton’s Letters from the Crimea; both sites can be viewed at De Montfort University’s photohistory page http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk/kmd_photohistory_page/. From 2005-2008, she was  a Research Fellow at Department II of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, where she researched the nature of photographic evidence and scientific observation and photography.

Guests of BA(Hons) Press & Editorial Photography

Day entitled: Press and editorial photography: the phoenix rising from the ashes what are the trends for the future?

Jon Jones

Jon Jones is the recently appointed Director of Photography at The Sunday Times Magazine. He joined The Independent newspaper in 1988 as a photographer, covering such events as the release of Nelson Mandela, the fall of communism and the first Gulf war. In 1991, he moved to the Sygma Photo Agency in Paris, covering conflict all over the world, most notably in Bosnia from 1991 to 1997, in Chechnya, Nagorno Karabakh, Somalia, South Africa, Rwanda and Sudan. His work has appeared in such leading publications as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times magazine, The Sunday Times magazine, Paris Match, Stern, Life and Figaro. In 1999, Jones joined the BBC as a cameraman and producer, working worldwide on magazine features, documentaries and news. In 2007, he joined The Times as deputy picture editor, working as visuals editor on the re-design of the main paper and its supplements, as well as conducting multimedia and video training. Jones has taught the Joop Swart Masterclass and his numerous international awards include two World Press Photo Awards.

Harry Borden 

Though born in New York, Harry Borden grew up in Britain. His earliest commissions were for the NME and then the Observer. Throughout the 90‚s Harry’s profile grew steadily as he became a regular contributor to all the leading international magazines. Awards followed, including prizes at the World Press Photos of 1997 and 1999. The last five years have consolidated Harry’s position at the leading edge of contemporary portrait photography and in 2005 The National Portrait Gallery in London played host to his first solo exhibition ‘Harry Borden on Business’. He has over one hundred images in the permanent collection.

Adrian Evans

Adrian Evans studied history and history of art at York University. After graduation, he drifted through many jobs, his interest in photography eventually leading to work as a picture researcher in a photo agency. In 1990, he moved on to run Panos Pictures - at that time a small photo agency specializing in environmental issues. Within five years, Adrian had bought a controlling share in the company, turning it into a leading agency for concerned photojournalism, with a reputation for groundbreaking exhibitions and photography projects. In 2005, together with Jon Levy of foto8 magazine, he opened Host, London's only gallery dedicated to documentary photography. In 2008 he was also a World Press Photo contest jury member.

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