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Social Media: Just How Much Is Real?

21st November 2015 By aAh! 0 206

By Sarah Lavery I enjoy a selfie and an Instagram filter as much as the next person, but recently Instagram modifications have been getting out of control. While scrolling down my newsfeed, amongst the many photographs of food and puppies in bow-ties, I am alarmed to see just how many images there are of women posing…
Lifestyle, Manchester, News
PHOTOBOMB Exhibition: Is What You See What You Get?

20th November 2015 By aAh! 0 200

By Joshua Lee As much as war is vulgar, illogical, horrific and inhumane, to the majority of the Western world, it is not something that often occurs on our doorstep. War is something that we see on the news and read about online. Something that happens elsewhere. The PHOTOBOMB exhibition, held this week in the…
Lifestyle, Manchester, News
Shortlist Announced for the 2015 Manchester Writing Competition

20th November 2015 By aAh! 0 360

By Jacqueline Grima The shortlist for the 2015 Manchester Writing Competition has now been announced. The list, comprised of poems and six short stories, was decided by poetry judges, Adam O’Riordan, Olivia Cole and Kei Miller and prose judges, Nicholas Royle, Stuart Kelly and Leone Ross. The winners will be announced at a glittering prize-giving…
Manchester, News
Remembering the Holocaust: Students from the North West Pay Homage at Auschwitz

20th November 2015 By aAh! 0 213

By Jacqueline Grima In 1940, at the height of the Second World War, the Nazi concentration and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was established in a small village in Poland. As the war continued, approximately 1.3 million people, mostly Jewish, were brought to Auschwitz from all over Europe, an estimated 1.1 million of those meeting their death…
Lifestyle, Manchester, News
Activist Photojournalism: How Photographers Engage with Political Issues

18th November 2015 By aAh! 0 826

By Jacqueline Grima Often, mainstream media coverage of complex political situations, such as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, is perceived by many to be biased, subjective or simply insufficient. At Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) this week, photojournalists and activists, Oren Ziv and Mehmet Kacmaz, spoke about how groups of photographers have worked collectively to counter prevailing narratives…

PHOTOBOMB Exhibition: Is What You See What You Get?

Shortlist Announced for the 2015 Manchester Writing Competition

Remembering the Holocaust: Students from the North West Pay Homage at Auschwitz

Activist Photojournalism: How Photographers Engage with Political Issues

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