#PICBOD

Picbod - [pic-bod] is a free and open undergraduate photography class run by Jonathan Worth and Matt Johnston from the photography team at Coventry University in the UK
This is a JISC funded project which seeks to give access to networks and communities of subject specialists, professional practitioners and wider learning communities.

Material from this class is open for use and re-use under a CC BY SA licence.

Download the PICBOD CLASS APP!

You can download the Picbod class app for iPhone by clicking the image above

Share your images in our Flickr Group

#picbod uses Creative Commons licensing

Creative Commons License
Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution..
Let us know if you see an error on this website by clicking on the above icon and sending us an email

“Is that it? Are we done?” Steve Pyke on judging the World Press Photo Award.

By admin, on February 10th, 2012%

Share

Two weeks,  124 nationalities,  5,247 photographers,  101,254 pictures, finally the winner has been announced and  Steve has stepped away from the official press conference to speak from backstage to #picbod

 

 

You can see the winners over at the official World Press website and for the back row, here are Steve’s previous conversations:

 

Steve Pyke from the World Press Photo Award on fifteen hour days, Royal audiences and being massaged.

Steve Pyke on reviewing over 8,000 images for the World Press Award whilst . . . → Read More: “Is that it? Are we done?” Steve Pyke on judging the World Press Photo Award.

Leave a comment   AUDIO   , ,  

Steve Pyke from the World Press Photo Award on fifteen hour days, Royal audiences and being massaged.

By admin, on February 7th, 2012%

Share

The judging process is entering the final stages and Steve updates us on how discussion between the chairs inform opinions, can swing images between categories and we follow up on the images that him, Bill and Dana had seen through . . . → Read More: Steve Pyke from the World Press Photo Award on fifteen hour days, Royal audiences and being massaged.

3 comments   AUDIO   , ,  

Steve Pyke on reviewing over 8,000 images for the World Press Award whilst eating Brie.

By admin, on February 6th, 2012%

Share

It’s lunch hour at the beginning of week two and Picbod contributor Steve Pyke MBE squeezes in a behind the scenes update from the World Press Photography Award . . . → Read More: Steve Pyke on reviewing over 8,000 images for the World Press Award whilst eating Brie.

2 comments   AUDIO   , ,  

Picbod contributor Steve Pyke MBE talks about judging the World Press Photo Award

By admin, on February 4th, 2012%

Share

We’ll be hearing more from Steve backstage this week as he continues to chair the portrait category for the World Press Award. He’ll be giving the picbod lecture in week 8 and talking about his Los Meurtos exhibition and the long-term project photographing his sons Jack and Duncan.

 

There’s more from the official World Press . . . → Read More: Picbod contributor Steve Pyke MBE talks about judging the World Press Photo Award

Leave a comment   AUDIO   , ,  

Documentary Filmmaker Adam Hopkins on ‘Negotiation’

By admin, on January 14th, 2012%

Share

Image: Matt Johnston

#picbod’s Matt Johnston met with documentary filmmaker Adam Hopkins recently to add some real world experience to the ‘negotiation’ theme and task we have been exploring this week. As an established practitioner Adam Hopkins has produced films including ‘Wild Things’, ‘Alice and Her Six Dads’, Neighbourhood Watched’ and ‘Trawlermen’ for the BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic among others. These projects consistently involve Adam stepping into unknown situations and meeting his subjects under differing circumstances, he must also ensure he tells both an accurate and compelling story often from only brief meetings.

In class we will be first watching Adam’s production ‘Wild Things’ produced for Channel 4, before listening to the interview and viewing his 5 top tips video.

As well as dropping by Adam’s blog you can also follow him on twitter here.

Wild Things:
(This can only be viewed in UK – we are working on a solution)

Adam Hopkins in Conversation With Matt Johnston:

Adam Hopkins: 5 Top Tips . . . → Read More: Documentary Filmmaker Adam Hopkins on ‘Negotiation’

One comment   AUDIO, IN CONVERSATION..., VIDEO   , , , , ,  

Guest Lecture: Pete Brook – ‘Tattoos, scars and tears, Robert Gumpert’s work in San Francisco jails’

By admin, on February 9th, 2011%

Share

Pete Brook: ‘Tattoos, scars and tears, Robert Gumpert’s work in San Francisco jails’

This week, Pete Brook came in from Seattle to speak to #picbod students about the work of Robert Gumpert in San Francisco jails. This was an amazing opportunity for #picbod students and a real honour for the class. The audio is now available to listen to here and will be available shortly on our iTunesU page.

As well as writing ‘Prison Photography‘ blog, Peter edits WIRED Magazine’s online photo feed, so he’s a pro-Photo Editor and very highly regarded photography commentator.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRISON PHOTOGRAPHY (IN LOOSE CATEGORIES)

Before the golden age of photojournalism, the photographing of prisoners was used for purposes of identification, order and discipline. The two part mugshot (front view and profile view) was standardised by Alphonse Bertillion. Police departments adopting the system had in-house technicians and photographers but they are anonymous in history.

Remarkable archives by anonymous police photographers exist the world over, but two noteworthy collections are in New Orleans and Sydney.

American prisons fell on to the radar of professional and committed photojournalists in the sixties and seventies, more and more. Three Magnum photographers (Eve Arnold, Bruno Barbey, Danny Lyon) went to Texas. Arnold returned to the subject . . . → Read More: Guest Lecture: Pete Brook – ‘Tattoos, scars and tears, Robert Gumpert’s work in San Francisco jails’

3 comments   AUDIO, GUEST LECTURE   , , , , ,