Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery – Autograph ABP and Magum Photos

A Hayward Touring exhibition in collaboration with
Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos.
‘Slavery in the contemporary world is what it has been since the beginning of human history – the complete control of one person by another. Violence is at the heart of that control, and the aim is profit.’
Kevin Bales, President of Free the [...]

Leica 37.5 mega pixel S-System Digital Camera

One after another the digital camera race is in full swing!
We may be approaching a point where medium format digital backs collide with their digital SLR cousins. It may not be so simple an analogy technically. However, in terms of quality issues, we will be seeing claims of ‘medium format quality’ with the smaller dslr [...]

BJP International Award 2008 Extended

I got this in an email from BJP
**DON’T FORGET THE DEADLINE FOR THIS YEARS BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2008 HAS BEEN EXTENDED TILL 2ND OCTOBER!!!!**
If you have a substantial body of work and you want the chance to exhibit it at a top London Gallery, here’s you chance.
And for those of you who [...]

Vision Pro Photography Event at Business Design Centre

Vision is held on 7th November 2008. Organised by British Journal of Photography, BJP.
There will be

Interactive workshops,
Seminars
Product showcases
Professional career advice

Tickets are £10 and the portfolio reviews might appeal at £5. Don’t know how much time you get for that kind of money.
Register at the BJP website.

Canon 5D Mk2 – DSLR to Match Nikon and Medium Format Digitals

After all the speculation here is the spec:

New 21.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor with improved EOS Integrated Cleaning System
New Full HD 1080 resolution movie recording
3.9 frames per second continuous shooting
High performance DIGIC 4
Maximum 310 large JPEG images in a single burst with a UDMA card
3.0inch VGA Clear View LCD
ISO 100-6400 (expansion from 50 up [...]

South American Child Poverty – Viewfinder Gallery – London

Viewfinder to show South American child poverty

To mark World Poverty Day, Greenwich’s Viewfinder Photography Gallery announces a hard-hitting exhibition which tells the story some of the hundreds of child workers who fight to survive on the streets of La Paz, Bolivia.

Lustrabotas, a series of photographs by Phil Clarke-Hill, documents the shoe-shine boys of the city [...]

Host Gallery – Access 2008 by University of Westminster MA Photojournalism Graduates

Artists: MA Photojournalism Graduates, University of Westminster

Date and Time: 19th – 24th September, 2008
10:00 – 18:00 Monday – Friday
11:00 – 16:00 Saturday
Event Location:
HOST Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TH
Nearest Train: Old Street, Barbican
Tel: 020 7253 2770
Showing a diverse selection of picture stories from recent MA graduates of one of the UK’s [...]

Keith Morris – Parting Shots at Proud Central – London

Win Courvoisier Cognac Chateau Trip – Jarnac – France

Sounds like a must for all you entrepreneurs and winners out there!
The Observer

Photo-Forum – London 11th September at Jacobs Pro Lounge

This month we have Jenny Matthews showing her work on women and
conflict shot over the last 25 years.

Nils Jorgensen will present a show of his street photography.
Dillon Bryden will be talking about the Beijing Olympic Picture Wall
he set up two weeks ago at The Press Photographer’s Year exhibition to
showcase the outstanding photography taken [...]