STRAND Under The Dark Cloth

This documentary about the legendary Paul Strand his photography and his relationship with his mentor Alfred Stieglitz and his wife the painter Georgia O'Keefe. This is also a new arrival to the Learning Resource Centre and a must see for any buddy young street photographer.

"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness." Paul Strand

Art:21 Video Series PBS

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century is a series of videos on at the Learning Resource Centre that deals with photographers, painters, sculptures and other artist today, Oliver Herring is one of the featured artist.

Art:21 also has a blog that keeps the series up to date.

Good News From Our Grads

One of our recent graduates, Amila Matthew, is currently working for a newspaper in Tbilisi Georgia, Georgia Today. Amila's two page photo story is above, congratulations Amila on your recent publication.

If you want to see some more of Amila's photos and read the article about the IDP (Internally Displaced Person) Settlements in Georgia visit Georgia Today Electronic Version Section and download the recent edition.

Information Session 2009

Today was our annual Program Information Session for our First Year Students. We met many of our new students, discussed the program, answered questions and gave a few tours.

The Faculty is looking forward to the upcoming year we have many exciting new additions to the program. It also looks like we have a great batch of new students and of course an awesome group of returning students, see you all soon!!

Photo Life - Emerging Photographers

Two of our graduates and a second year student have been included in Photo Life Magazine's Emerging Photographer contest Leslie Dornan, Andrew Cottingham and Amy Jenson, congratulations!!

The issue is out now so pick up a copy to see which of their images were selected.

Nikon Bob | New Nikon Coolpix S1000pj

Rarely will we comment on point and shoot cameras but Bob has sent us a really interesting one. The Nikon Coolpix S1000pj it is a point and shoot with a built in projector that is pretty darn cool.

Good News From Our Grads

Rémi Thériault a recent graduate was published on the front cover of the Ottawa Citizen this weekend. Good work buddy and nice shot, check out his blog and website for more of his work.

Nikon Bob | New Nikon Gear

Nikon Bob is keeping us in the loop by sending us some literature on Nikon's new D300s, now with D-Movie capabilities (sweat!) and a whole bunch of other goodies under the hood.

This along with a New D3000 entry level camera and a few very interesting lenses the AF-S Nikkor 7-200mm f/2.8 VR II and the DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 ED VR II.

Check out what is new at Nikon Canada for all the specs.

Emerging Photographer Series

As I am sure you are all aware we have begun a series of videos focusing on second year students and their personal projects called The Emerging Photographer Series. Our first video focused on Thomas Dagg who was gracious enough to let us film him photographing us for his Multitude series.

As the school year approaches and the faculty start back to work we are beginning to look for more subjects for this series, we do have some stipulations though:

1. We are looking for students who are actively producing personal work.
2. We are also looking to film you on location during a shoot, so both you and your subject(s) must be willing to be recorded and published online, so model or location releases are needed.
   

Submissions will be reviewed by faculty and because this is an extra curricular activity for both the student and faculty it will be subject to the availability of the faculty.

Please submit, via email, a sample of your personal work and a brief overview of the nature of the work.

Please Submit To: machinj@algonquincollege.com
Deadline: None

Front Row At The Olympics

One of our recent graduates Dani Kerr will be going to the Olympics!

Dani applied to volunteer at the 2010 games and got a position as a photographer's assistant, an amazing opportunity both professionally and personally. Good luck Dani and don't forget to send us some photographs.