iTunes features #PICBOD in What’s Hot in Photography Apps!

24th
Apr. × ’12

 

It was great to hear over Easter that the latest app that Jonathan has been working on was featured in the iTunes What’s Hot in Photography Apps!

Although, the class has now finished the app continues to allow it’s users access to its content and acts as a great resource for photographic inspiration!

If you still have not had chance to download the app then either click here on the image.

If you have any questions then please drop us a line, it would be great to hear from you.

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Jason Tilley Photographer in Residence talks to #PICBOD class

23rd
Feb. × ’12

Jason Tilley – Photographer in residence from CU Photography on Vimeo. With a big thanks to Jaskirt Dhaliwal production assistance.

It was great to hear Jason talk today to our #PICBOD 2012 students about the years he spent travelling across India ‘making portraits of the people I encountered along the way’.

During his time with us Jason has also been talking about his relationship to his grandpa’s photographic collection who was a photographer  for The Times of India newspaper working from their offices in Bombay in the 1930?s.

The residency has been generously supported by Arts Council of England and is in partnership with Pete James Head of Photographs, Birmingham Central Library and Jonathan Shaw Associate Head of the Department of Media, Coventry University.

You can find out more about the progress of the project on Jason’s blog

http://thebeautifulpeopleblog.wordpress.com/

 

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#PICBOD 2012 App is now live and ‘active’

20th
Feb. × ’12

Jonathan is very excited to announce the new #PICBOD 2012 app is now available to download from the App store. This is a builds upon the earlier #PHONAR app launched before Christmas that Jonathan worked on with the Serious Games Institute (SGI) and fellow CU Photography team member Matt Johnston.

The first #PICBOD app was conceived and developed by my colleague Pete Woodbridge together with the team and was talked about by the Times Higher Education, British Journal of Photography and Professional Photographer magazine and was described by Professor David Campbell as ‘an innovation in photography education’

We are really grateful for all the feedback we have received and have now been able to respond to that with #PICBOD 2012 v1.1. You can now take and upload your own photographs, there is enhanced sharing and you can now easily search all of #PICBOD posts to find exactly what you need!

You can download #PICBOD 2012 from the Apple App Store. An Android version is in the pipeline and should hopefully be available later this year.

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The RPS Moving On: Promoting Photography & Education

16th
Jan. × ’12

Jonathan was delighted to be invited to join the Royal Photographic Society Education Working Group.

“We need to change the mood and the culture. We started to manage change within The Society’s Distinctions. Now we need to support that 21st century vision via our mission as an educational charity, with the stated aim of promoting the art and science of photography.”

Michael Hallett (Chair of Education).

The working group includes Head of Photography and Film at the University of Westminster, Fenton Medallist Andy Golding; documentary filmmaker and media consultant Peter Hayes ARPS; Emeritus Professor of Imaging Science at the University of Westminster, Ralph Jacobson ASIS HonFRPS; Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library, Peter James FRPS; Photographer and Associate Head of Media and Communication, Coventry University, Jonathan Shaw FRPS; and Skillset’s Photo Imaging Sector Manager, Pippa Walkley.

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The Royal Photographic Society Gets Moving

29th
Dec. × ’11

Over the past year Jonathan has been working closely with the Royal Photographic Society’s Chair of Distinctions Advisory Board Mike Hallett and Honorary RPS Fellow Daniel Meadows. The working group recommended some of the most far reaching changes to the distinction process for several decades. The new Multimedia & Narrative distinction panel, encompassing audio visual, the moving image and time based media considers the new tools of visual literacy, new platforms on which to deliver them that evaluates a considered object, or objects, that need to be seen over time.

You can read more about the new distinction category on the RPS website.

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iPhone Photography App Launched

23rd
Nov. × ’11

This is the first of three Apps that Jonathan is working on in collaboration with the Serious Games Institute for the Open Classes that he oversees in the Department of Media at Coventry University. The #phonar app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch landed in the App store yesterday afternoon and is now available to download for free here.

The App provides easy access to the Photography and Narrative (#phonar) class run at CU Photography by Jonathan Worth, Jonathan Shaw and Matt Johnston. This is the second App built, following the success of the worlds first photography ‘class in an app’ last year.

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Over 700,000 people tuning in to Photography on iTunesU!

22nd
Aug. × ’11

The Photographic Mediations channel on iTunesU, that Jonathan established with the symposium (of the same title) he co-organised with Professor Gary Hall and Joanna Zylinska has now had over 700, 000 people tuning in. It has been ranked 2nd in the Fine Arts category and this year it has been recommended as ‘noteworthy’ alongside Universities such as Harvard and Stanford.

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Free Online Class Shakes Up Photo Education

12th
Aug. × ’11

On the ground floor of a converted, Victorian-era cinema in Coventry, England, Jonathan Worth delivers a world-class photography lecture anyone can attend at any time, from anywhere, for free.

The green-tiled building stands on an otherwise typical city center street. From here, alongside teaching assistant Matt Johnston and boss Jonathan Shaw, they coral 28 attending students in addition to the few thousand clocking-in from across the globe. Continued…

Pete Brook covers art and photography for Wired.com’s Raw File blog. He also writes and edits Prison Photography. He lives in Seattle.

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Public art commission for Leeds

17th
May. × ’11

We are delighted to announce that Jonathan has selected as one of a number of artists for the Situation Leeds project JUNCTION.

What is JUNCTION?

JUNCTION is a series of temporary commissions for Leeds City centre utilising the ubiquitous `junction box` as its canvas. Everyday we walk by these neglected metal boxes without a second thought, but now JUNCTION offers artists and designers the chance to transform these tired boxes into vibrant, intriguing and humorous interventions in street life.
Where?

All the identified boxes lie in the town centre; they form a trail that starts outside Leeds Train Station, go up Park Row, ending at the crossroads of Park Row and the Headrow, adjacent to the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery.

This is the first step in Situation Leeds’ commitment to raise the public art profile of the city. Over the next few years we hope to widen the JUNCTION project to other sites across the city and identify other exciting opportunities to work creatively with the urban fabric of the city centre. We believe that `the everyday`, could be a lot more intriguing, and we see JUNCTION as a first step to attract interest, support and sponsorship for further creative public realm projects that will make walking round Leeds City Centre more interesting, extraordinary and pleasurable.

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Aspects of Edgerton

19th
Jul. × ’10

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Aspects of Edgerton, Sunday 22 August, 2pm – FREE
Unit 39-40, The Pallasades Shopping Centre
An Ikon Gallery event with Jonathan Shaw, photographer and Associate Head of Media & Communication, Coventry University and artist Trevor Appleson. The speakers discuss the influence of Edweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton’s photography on their recent work.

Full details of the exhibition can be found here on the Ikon Gallery website.

Refreshments are provided. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.

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