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.

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.

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.

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…

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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.

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 opportunities for photographers to support their future.

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 by the pioneering American scientist and photographer Dr Harold E. Edgerton.

I will post some more when I have some further information.

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 Time and Movement within photography with particular reference to the work of Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton.

Animated sequence of a buffalo (American bison) galloping. Photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge, first published in 1887 at Philadelphia (Animal Locomotion). Animation by Waugsberg, 2006-7-16.	Bullet through banana, 1964, photograph by Dr. Harold Edgerton

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 arts and crafts schools built in the second half of the 19th century by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, an international teaching order founded by John Baptiste de La Salle over 300 years ago.

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 progress.  Our approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action.