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link to a very useful set of articles on visual journalism from the Nieman foundation Context. Layered information. Voice. Movement. Transparency. Photographer as "author." Subject as "storyteller." Image as "instigator." Words and phrases that even a few years ago were not used to describe the practice of photojournalism surface today with hesitant certainty. Where the digital road is leading those whose livelihood relies on the visual portrayal of our contemporary lives might not be entirely clear. By adapting to technology in shooting their images and in how they publish and distribute their work, photojournalists are constructing roads that are already taking them in new and sometimes unanticipated directions.

In 1994 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired the personal archive of the American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975). The Walker Evans Archive contains the artist's life's work-forty thousand negatives and transparencies dating from the late 1920s to the early 1970s-as well as Evans's personal and professional correspondence, papers, diaries, family photo albums, and his collection of books, picture postcards, clippings, roadside signs, and works by other artists.

The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection of more than 20,000 works is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan.

session 2 12.30-1.30 links jake sugden http://jakesphotography.photoshelter.com/gallery/G0000WkuDcj5e5ik Graham Miller http://photohonesty.photoshelter.com/gallery/Most-Important-people-in-the-World-Honesty/G0000_42yQpLkJsI/ Richard English http://richardenglish.photoshelter.com/gallery-list Dan Weill http://danweill.photoshelter.com/gallery/G0000WdtlkMNjgHs Christina Vazou http://christinavazou.photoshelter.com/gallery-list

session 1 09.00-11.00 links tracey fahy http://traceyfahy.photoshelter.com/gallery-list jo ellicott http://joellicott.photoshelter.com/gallery-list italo http://italomv.photoshelter.com/gallery-list chris helgren http://chelgren.photoshelter.com/gallery/Portfolio/G0000JvpeMduv.pI gemma http://gemmadottravel.photoshelter.com/gallery-list veronika lukasova http://veronikalukasova.photoshelter.com/gallery/Lukasova-MA-tutori... simon bates http://simonbates.photoshelter.com/gallery-list

"There are times when technological change catches up with an idea. Now is such a moment, as social media transform how people receive and share news and information. Just a few years back the notion of journalism being a conversation, not a lecture, wasn't embraced widely in an industry content to transmit what reporters learned to audiences expected to consume it. Comfort with that notion grew as online comments and live chats assumed a role that Letters to the Editor once held on their own, albeit with greater anonymity and often less civility. Then, from the "audience" spilled forth blogs and photos, videos and tweets. Soon, the words "citizen" and "journalist" were joined in a marriage brokered by technology and nurtured by convenience as news organizations shed staff yet still needed to produce "content.""