Scholarship oppurtunity for Pathshala students in NYU

Dear All,
Magnum Foundation in UK is offering ONE scholarship to a Pathshala student for the NYU-MF Human Rights and Photography program this summer. We will update you with instructions for submissions shortly.

Courses in Photography & Human Rights

The Department of Photography & Imaging atʼsNewTischYorkSchoolUniversityofthe Arts

and the Magnum Foundation present a suite of four courses in Photography and Human Rights designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects in pursuit of human rights.


WEEKS 1-3 MAY 17 – JUNE 4:

THE PICTURE ESSAY FOR PAPER AND PIXEL – Fred Ritchin DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE –Cate Fallon

WEEKS 4-6 JUNE 7 – JUNE 25:

HUMAN RIGHTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY – Peter Lucas THE PHOTO ESSAY –Susan Meiselas

This 6-week program is made up of 4 intensive evening courses, intended for intermediate and advanced students, including experienced professionals, who seek to hone their documentary and media skills in the context of human rights. The assumption is that all students will be relatively fluent with the use of a camera to produce photographs but will benefit from work on developing a visual essay for both conventional and digital media, using video, sound and interactive techniques to enhance the power of the imagery. A major emphasis of the program will be on the relevance of human rights law to the documentary work, and strategizing projects that aid in the attainment of such basic rights. Guest lecturers for the program will include many documentary photographers, editors, and critics.

Students are encouraged to take all four courses, but the courses can be taken in any combination that works for the student. Courses can be taken for credit or non-credit. Registration begins February 8th. For registration and housing information, please consult nyu.edu/summer.

At the end of the summer session, the Department of Photography & Imaging and the Magnum Foundation (www .magnumfoundation.org) will host two panels entitled “Bearing Witness: Human Rights and the Law” and “Creating an Alternative Human Rights Documentary Community.”

For more information, please visit photo.tisch.nyu.edu or call 212-998-1930.


MAY 17 – JUNE 4

THE PICTURE ESSAY FOR PAPER AND PIXEL (2 credit lecture)

This course will focus on the long-term photographic essay. It will look at both linear and non-linear forms of the essay, with and without the use of text, sound, video and other media. Intent, ethics, grammar and presentation issues will be considered. There will be many references to a variety of historical models from magazines, newspapers, books, exhibitions and digital environments, including the Web.

Fred Ritchin is professorʼTischSchoolofPhotographyoftheArts&. HeImagingisalsoat New York University

the director of PixelPress (www.pixelpress.org), creating web sites, books and exhibitions investigating new documentary strategies and promoting human rights.

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE (2 credit studio)

The class will explore tools that are useful for a documentary photographer, relating to the digital camera, as well as to image capture, preservation, presentation and transmission. Lighting, audio interviewing, and the production of short videos will also be covered at a basic level. Students work on several small assignments to experiment with software and hardware, and will have the opportunity to complete a small project of their own. This course is intended to give students a fundamental understanding of the efficiencies and possibilities of the digital realm.

Catherine Fallon is the former Digital master printer for Gilles Peress. She has had residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada; the MacDowell Colony; and the Ucross Foundation. Her photographic work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, New York; Blue Sky Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon; City Gallery, New York; and Soho 20, New York.

JUNE 7 – JUNE 25

HUMAN RIGHTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY (2 credit lecture)

This class will focus on photography, representation, and human rights. Specifically, we will examine the crucial role that photography plays in the global human rights movement. Many photographers who once considered themselves to be working within a documentary tradition now conceive of themselves as also working within a human rights framework. In order to understand this change, we need to view the many historical and contemporary movements related to documentary photography. We will also explore critical issues surrounding the ethics and politics of photographic representation and the different mediums (such as traditional print media versus new media) used to express human rights issues. We will also carefully place photography and visual representation within the wider field of human rights. And finally, we will study the impact photography has had on social change and the many possibilities photographs may have in the future struggle for universal human rights.

Peter Lucas has taught at Columbia University as a lecturer of peace education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, at The New School, Bogazici University, and Istanbul University. His research and teaching focuses on international studies in human rights, human rights and photography, human rights and media, the poetics of witnessing, peace education, and human rights education and documentary practice.

THE PHOTO ESSAY (2 credit studio)

This is an advanced course that concentrates on creating photo essays in the context of human rights. Students will photograph, edit, sequence and present a photographic essay that they produce during the course, using allied media when useful; they will also read essential human rights literature and discuss in class its importance in pursuing the photo essay. Issues in effective fieldwork will be discussed, both strategic and ethical. The class will also consider the potential usefulness of such documentary projects and how to target work for greater social impact.

Susan Meiselas (www.susanmeiselas.com) received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. She is well -known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, including the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador.

Full Disclosure - A Documentary by Brian Palmer, USA

FULL DISCLOSUREBrian Palmer, Director • 917.561.1964 • bxpnyc@earthlink.net

http://www.policyinnovations.org/calendar/data/000022
Journalist Brian Palmer followed young U.S. Marines on dozens of missions during three embeds in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. Back in the States, he continued to document the war and its human cost. Full Disclosure captures the consistent, sometimes benign, but often tragic miscommunication between U.S. troops and vulnerable Iraqi citizens. Amid the inexorable and destructive momentum of the occupation, the documentary explores the consequences of our inability to speak with and understand those whose country we occupy. It exposes the gap between what we think we’re doing in Iraq and what we’re actually doing.
Iraq was the war five years ago when Palmer started Full Disclosure. Afghanistan was “the forgotten war.” The opposite may be true in 2010, but even as Americans turn toward “AfPak” and Yemen, the discord and damage in Iraq remain.

Brian Palmer is an independent journalist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009, he completed Full Disclosure, for which he received grants from the Ford Foundation and Applied Research Center. Palmer has written for Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Pixel Press.org, ColorLines, Foam (Amsterdam), Independent World Report (Stockholm) among others. He is a Fellow at New York University Law School’s Center on Law and Security and a faculty member in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From 2000 to 2002 he was an on-air correspondent at CNN. Prior to that, he was a staff writer at Fortune and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report. Palmer began his career in journalism in 1988 at The Village Voice newspaper.

The Final Presentation by ECU and Pathshala students

January 30, 2010

To
All Tutors, Existing and Ex-students of Pathshala

Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography

Panthapath
Dhaka
Subject: The Final Presentation by ECU and Pathshala students.
Dear All,
We are very pleased to inform you that the final presentation and the exhibition of the works of students from Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia and Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh will be held on the 1st and 2nd of February 2010. The final presentation and the exhibition are the outcome of the workshop which was conducted by Tina Ahrens, Photo Editor, GEO magazine, New York, during the period from January 9-13, 2010.
Presentation:
February 1, 2010 from 3.00pm – 7.00pm at Drik Gallery (2nd Floor)
February 2, 2010 from 3.00pm – 8.00pm at Drik Gallery (2nd Floor)


Exhibition:
The inauguration of the exhibition will be on January 5, 2010 at 4.30pm at Drik Gallery. The exhibition will remain open from January 5 -12, 2010 from 03.00pm to 8.00pm everyday.
All participating students are requested to be present at Drik Gallery at 2.30pm without fail.
All tutors, existing and ex-students are invited to attend this presentation and see the exhibition during the period as mentioned above for the encouragement of the participating students and also for making it a successful one.
Thanks for your participation.


Yours sincerely,


Joseph Rozarrio
Administrative manager