Professional futures

In second year for professional futures I emailed a photographer that I was really interested in and had been for years, i was surprised to get a response but sadly he could only be reached the week after the hand in.

I stayed in contact with him and interviewed him anyway as it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to talk to someone that was on of the main reason I has such an interest in camera-less photography. i couple of weeks ago he emailed and mentioned that we has holding a talk at the V&A and asked if i would be interested in going. I went along and was able to listen to him talk about fin art photography which is one of the main genres of photography I am interested in. 

Some info as to what the talk was about. 

Thinking about what i want to do after university I realised my interest in fine art photography is one this that not only am I confident in but I enjoy doing. I am looking into ways to work in this genre (even if that is mainly entering competitions). I am still interested in archiving and curating but fine art photography is my main goal. 

Diary 4

These are the video diary's that I made, after this one I stopped recording myself as i found it hard to look back at them. Although my original idea was to cut up various clips of me and possibly use stills of the video diary's i found it incredibly hard to look back at them and thats why i will not be using them. It is a shame because I am incredibly vulnerable in these and they actually show what I am going through and you can hear my voice shaking and how tired I become later and later throughout the vlogs, I am just not comfortable with people seeing this side of me. Written word is the way i have chosen how to vent as people can't see me but I'm still communicating how i feel, plus is it extremely blunt and emotionless, this means people can read it how ever they please and take their own views of it.

diary 3

diary 2

video diary

Final piece

After thinking about making a book, i thought about printing out 3 large images (digital) along side them but after thinking and getting my book printed I realised that it would be distracting. The images in the book are colour and black and white 35/120mm film and the images that would be printed would be digital. Although I am extremely pleased with these images having both film and digital shows two different versions of events as one load of images have been edited to fit in with the theme and the other are natural. 

I had my book made in Boots as I realised that they did their 1 hour service there, I was integrated with the idea of making the book myself making it more personal but i also wanted the book to look professional. The images are still in the same format of letter on the left and the images are on the right so the first thing they see is the journal entries. 

Website

I updated my portfolio, I made myself a website on Wix. it was quite easy to do once I got the hang of it. In it i have included film, portraits, street and nature photography.

I have used different ways of laying them out as some images are bigger than others and look better when in a slide show. The main page is just a collection of all the images (ones that I feel show my better skilled edits or strong images on their own)

http://franjackson.wix.com/jacksonphotography