Category Archives: Photography Education

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Aspects of Edgerton

19th
Jul. × ’10
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 [...]
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Jonathan receives Fellowship from Royal Photographic Society

16th
Jul. × ’10
Jonathan has been awarded a Fellowship (FRPS) from the Royal Photographic Society. Chairman of the Fellowship Board Dr Michael Hallett said “Fellowship’s are awarded for excellence and distinguished ability, combined with evidence of originality and freshness in approach.” This is a very exciting opportunity to work with this prestigious society in developing and promoting new [...]
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Invitation to talk about Harold Edgerton with Ikon Gallery

19th
May. × ’10
Jonathan has been invited by Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library and Ikon Gallery to talk about his work and its relationship to the pioneering work of Harold Edgerton. This new show pays reference to their first exhibition of his held in 1976. This was in fact the first European solo exhibition [...]
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Photographing Time @Estorick Collection

1st
Apr. × ’10
Talk by Jonathan Shaw Photographing Time Saturday 3rd April, 2pm, Estorick Collection, London Jonathan has been invited to talk as part of On the Move exhibition curated by Jonathan Miller at the Estorick Collection. All are welcome, the more the merrier! Jonathan will be talking about his ideas, work and encounters with the masters of [...]
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Brussels beckons!

24th
Feb. × ’10
Jonathan has been invited to give a talk about his practice at Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel. The talk will feature as part of a seminar series on Time and Photography being organised by Dr. Maarten Vanvolsem at the University. Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design was founded in 1880. It evolved from the Neo-Gothic [...]
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Jonathan becomes a fellow of the RSA

8th
Feb. × ’10
In recognition for his innovation and influential role in developing business and education models in photography Jonathan has been invited to become a fellow of the RSA. For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social [...]
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