Hooray! They’re here. We have bagged some awesome prizes from Photojojo which are up for grabs to all #phonarnation students who share their task responses. If you want to be in the prize draw, head over to Phonar Nation and get sharing. #awesome prizes for awesome #kids. @photojojo macro lens, scholarship, pouch and mobile slide filter up…
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St Andrews Primary take #phonarnation by storm
We took a jolly trip down to St Andrews primary school, host to some awesome #phonarnation photographers. Their work is absolutely amazing and they are so excited to be connecting with Gems Academy in Chicago. As a way to say hello, we worked on ‘message in a bottle self portraits’ to send over. How great are…
Being Active in a Community
Being part of an online community is something that I have been doing actively since I guess 2013. You could say that I’m a real newbie. What I mean by ‘actively being in a community’ is being part of conversations with people I don’t know, but have shared interests with. Until then I had been…
Catching up
It’s been far too long since writing a post. And I find myself in a very different place to where I was six months ago. I finished university and immediately embarked on teaching Phonar-Nation to a group of 7-10 year olds. I adapted the course originally written for teenagers and worked with children in a primary school. This…
George Rodger – Village of the Nubas
Cover : Village of the Nuba by George Rodger Phaidon Publishing This book is a celebration of George Rodger’s work from the Nuba tribes in 1940s Africa. It is the newer addition of the original book by George from 1955. It contains George’s own written pieces and of course, his photography from tribal Africa. The…
Lois ‘Jinx’ Rodger Biography
Lois ‘Jinx’ Witherspoon was born in 1925 into a world of adventure. In a conversation with Jinx, I learnt a lot about her life with travel, photography, Magnum and, of course, her husband George. “I’m a travel-ist by birth, I started travelling when I was one month old and probably never stopped, my father was…
George Rodger Biography
George Rodger was one of the founding members of the highly acclaimed Magnum Photos which was established in 1947. Robert Capa and himself, once photographers for Time & Life Magazine, imagined a photographic career not dictated and copyrighted by magazines, but under their own names. Magnum Photos has now been running for 67 years, Jinx…
Lois ‘Jinx’ Rodger Biography
Lois ‘Jinx’ Witherspoon was born in 1925 into a world of adventure. In a conversation with Jinx, I learnt a lot about her life with travel, photography, Magnum and, of course, her husband George. “I’m a travel-ist by birth, I started travelling when I was one month old and probably never stopped, my father was…
George Rodger Biography Research
George Rodger was one of the founding members of the highly acclaimed Magnum Photos which was established in 1947. Robert Capa and himself, once photographers for Time & Life Magazine, imagined a photographic career not dictated and copyrighted by magazines, but under their own names. Magnum Photos has now been running for 67 years, Jinx…
Stuart Whipps
I visited the Ikon Gallery in 2011 to see Stuart Whipps’ installation ‘Uncatagorised Boxes’. The work was eluding to the short-lived architectural culture of Birmingham. Architect John Madin saw more than one of his buildings get demolished in his lifetime, and all the remains are the archives of the plans for them. Paper has outlived…