Phones & Warzones: What is and isn't Photojournalism?

Phones & Warzones: What is and isn’t Photojournalism?

  The landscape of photojournalism is changing. Advances in technology have not only made photographicequipment cheaper and more accessible, but publications are also increasingly willing to print images from ‘non-professional’ sources.  These changes have no doubt opened a window of opportunity for many, but they have also created a gulf between...
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Has Social Media Killed Photojournalism?

Has Social Media Killed Photojournalism?

The evolution of an art form and why we should embrace it. The revolution will be ‘Twitterised’, or so the pundits claim. Although this claim is yet to be truly evidenced, it is difficult to overstate just how much services like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and even FourSquare have affected the lives of those who use...

Student Protests in Retrospect: Cops, Kettles, and the Media

Education has been the first social good put onto the coalition chopping block, and was perhaps one that Westminster thought might pass quietly. What they didn’t expect was to see over 50,000 youngsters, long branded as ‘politically disengaged’ , to turn out of class and hit the streets in protest. Images of the shattered windows...
Student Protests: Building Towards the Vote

Student Protests: Building Towards the Vote

Published in SOAS Spirit Student Newspaper, December 2010. It’s the 10th of November and live news footage is streaming into living rooms up and down the country. 52,000 die-hard anarchists are marching through the streets of London intent on smashing any pane of glass that has come within a country mile of conservative politics, hell-bent...