Fritt Ord Student Grant to Bangladesh, China and Norway

Nima Taheri

Three photojournalist students who graduated in June 2020 have received Fritt Ord Student Grant. All three will continue working on their individual photographic projects which they started and developed during the International Documentary Course in Nepal in February-March.

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PHOTOJOURNALISM HIGHLIGTHED

Director of Afghanistan Photojournalists Association, Farzana Wahidy is an award-winning photojournalist, who was the first woman photographer to work for international news agencies.
Dr. Saumava Mitra has done a unique work of research on Afghan photojournalists.

In this week’s four day session on Peace Journalism with Afghan editors and journalists, the highlight was Thursday, when we had invited Dr. Saumava Mitra from Dublin University as well as  director of Afghanistan Photographers Association .

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Tipping Point 2020 Pop Up Exhibition

people watching the exhibition in front of a window.
picture from Tipping Point 2020


Photojournalism students from four countries launched their book and posters exhibition at OsloMet Sunday. 

The launch was streamed live to reach those who could not be in Oslo. The webpage went viral earlier in the week.

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Photo lecture on how to cover corona

Fabio Bucciarelli on a zoom call
Fabio Bucciarelli sharing his experiences on covering the pandemic online

The Danish and Norwegian photojournalism departments and Canon invited students to the first photo lecture on Zoom with Fabio Bucciarelli last week. 

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18 young photographers from 4 countries

The students and tutors after the start-up workshop (Photo: Sagar Chhetri)

Photojournalism students from China, Bangladesh, Nepal and Norway attended a start-up workshop in Nepal last week with world-famous Christopher Morris and Philip Blenkinsop from VII Academy as tutors. 

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Preparing for fieldwork

Abeer Saady teaching the students how to protect each other (Photo: Nima Taheri)

JMIC safety trainer Abeer Saady held a one day safety workshop in Oslo this week. Read More

Images from China in Oslo

From the opening in Oslo (Photo: Ellen Lande Gossner)

Ten of the projects from the photo exhibition “Golden Pig” is exhibited in Oslo for the first time. Read More

New Nordic Master

Photo (from left): Per Mattsson, Bernt Eide, Jon Petter Evensen, Cathrine Gladh, Søren Pagter, Mads Greve and Terje Lindblom.

The preparations for a Nordic Master in Photojournalism continues.

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