iPad Lighting?

We here at the Program have all fallen in love with the iPad and here is another reason why every photographer should have at least 9 of them....what?

Sebastien Guindon

Our second year student Sebastien Guindon has one of his concert shots of Dev up on her blog, congratulations buddy.

How Multitasking Affects Human Learning

As instructors issues of students not paying attention in class and specifically surfing the web while in class usually comes up every year.

Many students defend such behaviour because they believe they are effect multitaskers.   However, recent studies have shown multitasking actually hampers the brains ability to learn and in the end makes one less productive.

A recent NPR interview with Russel Poldrack, a UCLA Psychology Professor talks about how bad multitasking is especially in a learning environment  Listen Here.



Ultimately what confounds us the most is why students who choose to surf the internet or work on other things in class seem to care very little for their instructors and more importantly their fellow students who find their behaviour distracting.

So when you are working on other things in class just remember this you are wasting your money and someone around you is looking at you and wishing you would start being more respectful toward others.

Feel free to leave a comment to this post below.

F8 Magazine

Great new online Photo Magazine recently launched, F8 Magazine.

There are great articles on documentary photography, photo-journalism and photographic education plus some great photographs.

The article on Alicia Rius - Discovering the Magic of Abandoned Places and the EFTI Photography School are great reads.

What We Are Reading

For months now we have been posting interesting articles in our Interesting Reads and of course posting new and current Books from our LRC in the Books section of our index.

Within the Program we are always trying to promote our students, grads and alumni to read and stay current on trends and issues in photography.

To help further promote this we have added a WHAT WE ARE READING section in our sidebar.   This is directly linked to our Google Reader account and will have the articles we think you should be reading right now.

TED Talk Winner JR

Photographer JR is the TED Prize Winner for 2011.

image © JR

JR is best known for posting his large scale his images in urban environments to bring awareness to social issues.

Originally his photo pasting projects were unauthorized and mostly done in slums to shed light on poverty, since then he has moved through different social issue most recently focusing on the plight of women in Africa.



For more information on JR visit his website and read the article in the New York Times and on the TED blog.

In February 2011 JR will announce his TED wish.

Stop Motion Multimedia I 2010

Every year in the Program our second year students start their study of Motion with an assignment we call Digital Flipbook. The students must shoot a minimum of 30 still images and using Adobe Flash create a stop motion video.

Much like Eadweard J. Muybridge's early motion studies help pave the way to early motion pictures we hope our students are looking forward to full motion capture next semester.

Below are some of their motion experiments.


Tom Oliver Stop Motion


Danielle Myres Stop Motion


Kelsey McFarlane Stop Motion


Matt Usherwood Stop Motion


Brittany McElroy Stop Motion


Ariane Pilon Stop Motion

Man Ray Exhibition Vancouver

Thanks to Professor Andrew Balfour for letting us know about this article in this Saturday's Globe and Mail.  The article talks about a current exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens.

This show put the spotlight on Man Ray's photographs of African objects and discuss how he and other artist of the time helped transform these artifacts into art.

Bridget Farr | Alumni Update

Image © Bridget Far

Algonquin Photography Alumni Bridget Farr is having a show at Arts & Architecture in Ottawa called Beyond Buja: A Return to East Africa.

The show is to raise funds for the Burundi Film Center a non-profit organization that helps the youth in Burundi learn to use mass media communication technology.

All the profits from the sale of prints will go to this organization that is inspiring, educating and entertaining the youth in Burundi.

The vernissage is on Thursday November 4th from 7 - 9PM and the show runs from November 3rd to the 21st.

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Emily Brennan | Alumni Update

Our globe trotting Alumni Emily Brennan of Spirit Works Photography & Art has recently returned to Canada after her travels in Africa.

While abroad she had the chance to shoot for the magazine Business Liberia, her front cover shot is above.