To mark what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday on 9th October Archive Services have been showing some of their remarkable photographs of the Beatles. Taken by Hungarian photo-journalist Michael Peto the images include the Beatles being awarded the MBE in 1965. Peto was given access to the group while they were recording Help…Continue Reading John Lennon Photographs
The exhibition Moving Jamaica: Scottish-Caribbean Connections & Local-Global Journeys – first shown in the Lamb Gallery in 2018 – has been restaged at the St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum. As part of Black History Month, a special online event is being held on 15 October at 6.30pm, hosted by Dr Susan P Mains (Geography, University…Continue Reading Moving Jamaica – a virtual tour and online discussion
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Promoting social change to enhance diversity, justice and socio-economic prosperity’
For her River Deep Mountain High contribution, Patricia Ramaer has stepped away from typical photographic methods to employ an intriguing technique to burn, not print. This little girl is Margot Cox on Lossiemouth beach, 1909. Margot 1908 by Patricia Ramaer Carbon on paper “I’m mesmerized by photographs of people long gone, remnants of ephemeral lives held in the…Continue Reading RDMH – Margot by Patricia Ramaer
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Innovating technological solutions to tomorrow’s problems’
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Life-enhancing creativity and design’
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Understanding and improving health and wellbeing’
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition has now come to a close, with 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research Competition Winners
The Digital Exhibition 2020 of the Dundee Museum of Memory showcases student work on the new interdisciplinary Humanities module Making Memory. For their final assignment, students selected a ‘site of memory’ from Dundee and beyond and created a digital exhibit choosing forms such as a photo-essay, video, podcast, piece of creative writing, or comic strip,…Continue Reading Dundee Museum of Memory Digital Exhibition: ‘Love From, Elie’ by Mollie Stevenson
DJCAD students often propose to take over exhibition spaces in the DJCAD Matthew and Crawford buildings. The ‘Capture’ photography competition curated by our level two Contemporary Art Student, Katie Nelis, was due to ‘pop up’ in the Matthew Lower Foyer, earlier this year in April. Unfortunately due to the current lock down and closure of…Continue Reading Capture: DJCAD Student photography exhibition
Peto worked overseas on Save the Children Fund assignments, capturing the poverty and hardships of what was known then as ‘third world countries’. This photograph from 1967, taken in Kerala, is one of many featured in the Peto Collection from his time overseas with Save the Children. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Kerala, India, 1967
Peto’s passion for photographing the ordinary often led him to capturing the more eccentric aspects of British life – and this capture of a group nuns sleeping in deckchairs from the ’60s is a quintessential example. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and ‘60s. His collection is a chronicle of an…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Nuns on Deckchairs, 1960s