United States Embassy Fulbright Specialist Prof Peter Glendinning is touring South Africa to recruit aspiring journalists in a bid to capture the country’s important moments and history.
Prof Glendinning who is a Professor at Michigan State University in the USA takes his experience of Arts, Arts History and Design and has shared it with Media Studies students at the University of Limpopo (UL) an opportunity to collaborate with him on a project titled “Attached to the soil”.
The project seeks to capture special portraits and records of oral history related to the 25th anniversary of democracy based on Nelson Mandela’s inauguration speech.
Head of Department of Media, Communications and Information Studies at UL has also shed light on Glendinning’s role in the planning of a conceptualised photography module in the university’s media studies programme.
“Photos are an essential part of communication and work more perfectly in media studies. In the future, we will send our students to benchmark on good photography and its concepts at Michigan State University. We will also have a look at their course outline to further develop our programme,” Dr. Solomon Bopape informs.
