JAMIE MACDONALD
Senior Lecturer – BA (Hons) Photography
Qualifications:
2019 CMI Leadership Training
2017 MA Photography, University of Sunderland
2011 HEA Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2007 Post Graduate Fellowship in Film Digital Production, University of Teesside
2006 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
As a lecturer of photography at degree level, and Post Graduate level (both at NSoA and External institutions), Jamie Macdonald also creates films that inform, educate and inspire others. Drawing from an extensive career as a practitioner and educator, his specialist area of research is British, European and American documentary photography. He has collaborated on a number of commissioned and self-funded projects. Partners include: Arts Council; MIMA; Teesside University; Institute of Digital Innovation; National Glass Centre; MPF; The Photographers Gallery; The Guardian, Observer and Sunday Times. Areas of current Research associated with curriculum development include technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and its relationship with documentary photography and photojournalism.
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/glass-exchange-arts-council-england/jwWhewtcmLTNaQ?hl=en
Professional Activity
2025 External Examiner, BA Documentary Photography, University of South Wales
2024 External Examiner, MA Photography, University of Lincoln
2021 External Examiner, BA Hons Photography, University of Hull
2020 External Examiner, BA Hons Photography, University of Wolverhampton
2020 External Academic Adviser, (Hull College Group) / University of Hull
2019 External Examiner, FDA Photography and Film, Hull College Group
2019 External Examiner, BA Film Making and Creative Media, The Open University
2018 External Examiner, BA Hons Photography, University of West London
2018 External Examiner, BA Hons Photography, Deutsche Pop Berlin
2018 Academic Validation Panel member, Hull FDA Photography and Moving Image
2017 Author Revalidation, BA Hons Photographic Practice (with Moving Image)
2017 Author Revalidation, BA Hons Commercial Photography
Arts University Bournemouth
2017 External Examiner, DPOP / Munich, Germany University, West London
Research Interests & Projects / Publications / Awards / Exhibitions / Media Coverage:
2025 MIMA : Exhibition: Photographic response: The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes
2021-22 Glass Exchange – Documentary Film Commission – Arts Council – (Artists Pascale Marthine Tayou, Monster Chetwynd, Ryan Gander, Katie Paterson) Northern Gallery Contemporary Art
2022 Art Shed – Constructing Exchange – Joint exhibition Tony Charles – Conceptual Painting Sculpture and Photography
2022 Café Royal Books – Ian Macdonald Offshore The Southern North Sea (forward)
2021 Lockdown Lecture series 2 – interviews and recording (Toby Glanville, Danny Lowe, Jamie Hawkesworth)
2020 Matthew Finn Photographer – Documentary (Stanley Barker Publishing: Another Magazine)
2020 Programmed and interviewed a series of Photographers for Lockdown Lecture series 1 (including Guardian picture Editor Lou Siroy, Editorial Photographer Amit Lennon, Photographic curator and consultant Elizabeth Smith)
2019 Shooting Time – Screening Dean Clough Art Gallery, Halifax
2018 “Rig” Group Exhibition “Changing States” Northern Gallery Contemporary Art, NGCA Sunderland (UK)
2017 “Friday Night” collaboration with novelist John King Exhibition, Hull International Photography Festival (UK)
2017 Curator HIPF City of Culture Hull International Photography Festival
2017 Shooting Time – Screening – Here We Are (London Fashion Week) – Burberry, London
2016 Shooting Time – Martin Parr Foundation – Bristol (Foundation / Collection)
2012 Shooting Time – Sky Arts Channel – Acquisition for Broadcast