First book commission

The first but hopefully not the last!

This American Life

idea?

The Original

The Imitation

Social Networking

I hate it!

OK, maybe that's a bit strong. I enjoy reading other peoples blogs but it's really not for me, which is why this blog is becoming a real chore.

Unfortunately it's a necessity on the course, so I need to make a conscious effort to change the way I do this, somehow?!

New Assignments

The first two assignments I have been given are both photography competitions.

The first is the Fujifilm student awards, by where I have to create either a single image or a collection of images on my interpretation of the 5 senses.

Sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.

Photographs are to be taken on film and they are after fresh ideas. So far I have not come up with an idea I feel is very strong. How do you photograph sound or touch?

Full brief at www.fujifilmstudentawards.co.uk

The second brief is to enter photographs to the DNAD photographic competition. This brief is being sponsored by Bloomberg who are after a collection of between 4-8 images. the final collection should reflect bloomberg's style of big, bold and innovative.

Full brief at www.dandad.org/awards/student/2011/categories/20/photography

New Year, New Opportunities

Today has been the first uni day of 2011. I've been briefed on what opportunities I need to be thinking about and working towards the end of the academic year.

January and February are going to be working on competitions for Fujifilm and DNAD.

March is Format Festival at Derby QUAD.

and continually working towards ideas for the Free Range exhibition at Truman Brewery in June.

My intention for this year is to show my work to more people and think about where I want my photography to go, where it is best used and how I can put my work to use.

We discussed our thoughts on what style we felt our work is and the sort of things that interest us and inspire our work. It feels good to think about this early on, the feedback that I got was that my work is experimental documentation. Where does this fit in?

I like playing around with other forms of media and materials and while my final piece of work always equates to a photograph I enjoy creating things just to photograph them.

Everything is very technical and the introduction of 3D television, touchscreens and the sence that everybody is being connected electronically facinates me

I am inspired and drawn to subjects that I don't know about. Which sounds like I dont know what I'm interested in, but I enjoy learning and seeking information, I find peoples stories intriging. I feel that photography helps me in a way make sence of things.