From the OCA Blog: The Big Issue in the North – 600 photographs later

A bit of background on the publication and initiative that published four of my images in 2016:

Thanks to the generosity of the editor of independent street paper The Big Issue in the North, more than 600 photographs by around 100 OCA photography students have featured in the magazine. OCA’s partnership with the magazine began in 2011. Now that we have become part of UCA and no longer have the charitable status we had back then, we’ve agreed not to continue the partnership in 2017.

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The Big Issue in the North has a circulation of over 20,000. It’s sold on the streets of towns and cities in the north of England (Lancashire and Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North East) by vendors who want to earn a living to help them get off the streets. The partnership has given OCA students the opportunity to bring their work to a wider audience and exposed the readers of the magazine to the possibilities of photography they may not previously have considered. 

More at the link.

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Publication: The Big Issue North: October 2016

This time an image from our trip to Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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Publication: The Big Issue North: Sept 2016

The OCA/Big Issue editor picked up one of my Japan images for the September 2016 issue.  This makes three in almost as many months.  Might an Almaty image be next?

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Publication: The Big Issue North - once more

No sooner had the first image been published than I was asked for permission to use this one, another from my Tbilisi collection.

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Publication: The Big Issue North

One of my Tbilisi photos was picked up for publication in The Big Issue North.  The image appears to have been found in the OCA Flickr group by the college's PR and Communications director.  No remuneration apart from bragging rights.  

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