INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTRE KURDISTAN

International photographer Eddy van Wessel returned to Sulaymaniya and started a 3 day workshop for students of the Media Faculty of Sulaymaniya University. Fifteen students came to the training hall of the IMCK on Saturday November 10, 2012 to work with him on the basics of photography. The workshop is the result of cooperation of IMCK with Sulaymaniya University and the Department of Youth of the KRG Ministry of Culture. Van Wessel, a prize winning journalist, is a regular trainer with IMCK and works regularly in the Middle East and other conflict zones. The pictures are on Facebook .

IMCK director Judit Neurink held a lecture at the Media Department of Sulaymaniya University. Her public was made up of print students of the fourth and final year of the faculty. The lecture took place at the university on Thursday January 19, 2012. Neurink spoke about the difference of the situation of media education in her motherland, the Netherlands, about the profile of a journalist, about responsible journalism and about the role of journalists in a democracy. The lecture is the first of a series to help students practice the making of journalistic stories.