Lecture. ‘Paradigm shift in photography`

Lecture. ‘Paradigm shift in photography: new business and funding models (social media,
crowdfunding, publishing)’

“For this Friday please make sure that you have signed up to Twitter, and use the time til Friday to start following people that you deem relevant. If you can please bring your laptop or phone that lets you tweet, we will use this in the session!”

Heike Lowenstein, Jonathan Worth (from Coventry University) online via the internet for the session.
During this session Jonathan Worth (http://www.jonathanworth.com/) spoke to us online and co hosted the session with Heike.

Areas discussed included the new creative methods required to fund/sell work in the world since the introduction of the internet. This included discussion on how to give work away for free to promote special limited edition prints/books. http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/profile/2108237/freetard-visionary?WT.rss_f=All+the+latest+articles+from+BJP&WT.rss_a=Freetard+or+visionary%3F

During the session a couple of tasks were also set which involved gathering free available images from creative commons (http://creativecommons.org/) to create an image sourced from the description on unphotograhable. (http://www.unphotographable.com/).