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New Cultural Journeys

Blazing a trail:
New Cultural Journeys is
inviting proposals for creative
projects that will 'Blaze a Trail'
across Lancashire and the Fylde
Coast, UK, between March and
September 2010.
For a full brief, including
information about the individual
commissions and how to apply,
please email:
sara.domville@lancashire.gov.uk
The closing date
for proposals is
29th January 2010
New Cultural Journeys is an ambitious youth led culture and sport

Creative Credits not for freelances

NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has launched Creative Credits, a funding scheme allowing businesses to hire creative firms across Manchester at subsidised rates. But photographers and sole traders are specifically excluded from the scheme.

Photographers protest over arrests

The campaign 'I'm a photographer, not a terrorist' plans its first public 'flash mob' for 3pm on 12th September 2009. The main event takes place at Canary Wharf, London, while the campaign encourages photographers to follow suit and get out their cameras at shopping centres around the UK at the same time.
The campaign is focussing on shopping centres as they are examples of privately-owned spaces that normally allow public access, but frequently clamp down on the use of cameras.

Documentary Photography Scholarship

We've received details of this new award which is aimed at documentary photographers who have studied at postgraduate level and reside in the North West of England... Here's the full text of the press release:

THE HUMPHREY SPENDER JOHN MARRIOT SCHOLARSHIP FOR SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2009

Photography is Dead...The Debate

This seminar is one of the keynote events at this year's Rhubarb-Rhubarb International Portfolio Review in Birmingham. Chairing will be Stephen Mayes, Image Future Forecaster and CEO of VII photo agency. The other panel members will be:
Alison Nordstrom
Jon Levy
MaryAnn Camilleri
John Cross
Brian Griffin

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