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Photo Gathering Jan 2010

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So last Saturday I went to the Mass Photo Gathering in Trafalger Sq. About 2000 photographers turned up and it was very good natured and cheerful event. It was interesting to see so many people taking photos in one area of each other. It’s funny to think about how much as a photographer myself I prefer to be behind the camera rather than in front of it, I know many other photographers like this too, but it seemed that no one minded having their photo taken here. People probably expected to have their photos taken as I’m sure is what happens when you throw 2000 photographers into a small area together raising awareness of an issue specifically for photographers.
I’m very glad I went and although I hope there won’t be a need for another event like this, I wouldn’t mind it again either.

…until I finish university. It is rather daunting. I’m not sure what I am going to afterwards. I want to experience things and travel and live abroad and learn a language or two and take pictures of it before I settle into working full time. I also want 2010 to be my year of ‘why not?’ instead ‘why?’. Of course I won’t do things that seem dangerous, but I want to start doing new and different things. Things that I think will help me learn something about myself. I just want to take advantages of all the opportunities available to me.

I have also been trying to take some photos and upload them my flickr everyday just to get in the habit of taking and editing photos the same day. But as I’m going to be home and away from my mac thats not going to be possible for a while. So there maybe a mega upload when I get back!!

But first I am going home for two weeks to my mom’s. Oh and I am also going to the mass photo gathering tomorrow at noon. There should be some interesting photos from there. I will (hopefully) be able to tweet it while there and write about it here afterwards. depends on money and the capabilities of my old old laptop at home.

I am almost finished with uni work!

Well the end of formal classes is coming up soon. Next semester we only have one scheduled class and the rest of the time is up to us to get on with our final projects. Which isn’t that good for me because I am so unsure of what I have chosen to do! I am going to push through though and start on it and let it evolve with my emotions. How philosophical of me! Or stupid, I’m not sure which yet.

All the snow we’ve been having recently, which was great at first, is now beginning to get on my nerves. It’s making a documentary project outside really difficult and also getting to and from work is becoming a pain. I am tired of every step being a strategic manoeuvre and having cold and wet feet! Though saying that I did build an awesome snow bear with my flatmate and her boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »

I have a very small exhibition tomorrow based on the work that everyone who went on the uni trip to Berlin took. I am really excited as I feel the work I have put up is a starting point for a project I wish to spend alot of time and money on once I finish university. It is based on the experiences of people with the Berlin Wall. Apart from that I have been trying to earn some money and carry on doing uni work while helping organise the end of year show. It has been very crazy recently.

So I am trying to write my final project proposal which is due in Friday. It only has to be 150 words, sounds pretty easy right? It would be if I didn’t stop changing my mind as to what I will be doing for the next of year of my life! I mean the general gist of my project I have down, how I want it to look, but it’s just the details I am struggling with!
Do I discuss the lost of innocence in different stories, or do I concentrate on one?
Do I discuss feminism in different fairy tales or to stick to just one?
If I do do more than one story will it be a cohertent series of images?

Perhaps I should stop drinking caffine so late at night and talk to someone about it tomorrow.

First off let me just say there are no presents in this post it just goes well with the rest of the title!

The next two or three weeks just seems to be filled with presentations and proposal as to what I am going to be doing for the next year. I can tell what I’m going to be doing, lots and lots of uni work!

I am kind of struggling at the moment with balancing work work and uni work as I haven’t yet recieved my student loan and am therefore working all I can to be able to survive, but hopefullay that should all be resolved by this time next week, and then three weeks after that I will hopefully be in Berlin again with uni. My friend Charlotte will be coming with me, and also hopefully one of my flatmates Aly, but she’s still hesitant about it. I’m not sure why, these are always awesome trips. I’ll be sad next year when I can’t go anymore. Especailly if they go somewhere I haven’t been!

As for my photography, today I am doing my presentation for Editorial Imaging. I’m hoping to get the go-ahead for a project about taking portraits of people who live on house boats. Either that or portraits of people who live at my local Eco Village. And then I’m going to work after that, after working yesterday (though I did get my second tip EVER, and my first tip as a waitress! £5 no less! ( I do events, there not much call for a tip)) and coming home to do more uni work. AND THEN, (I feel like a kid, ‘AND THEN, and then, then susie wee’d in her pants!!!’) doing even more uni work before uni tomorrow!!

As for for my work experience with Zoe she is in LA again soon, so that’s on hold until she gets back. I so volunteer to go with her, but I can’t afford the tickets.

Anyways back to getting ready for uni/work!!

Recently I have been trying to get some experience in fashion photography by assisting people with various shoots. One of the more recent shoots I worked on was for Hawes & Curtis, shot by my friend Lucy Brown. Mainly I was in charge of moving and setting up the lights, making sure the set was clear of object and there were no reflections from the mirrors dotted around the bar. It was loads fun really.

I will also be helping out on some fashion with photographer Zoe Zimmer soon, which I am really excited about as she is a fantastic photograher.

It’s my birthday today, I am 23 and what did I get? I got a flat to rent for the next year in Ealing!! Which is actually better than it seems as I was about to go crazy with the amount of time I was spending on my phone to estate agents. I swear more than a few of my brain cells have been fried in the last week from being on my mobile so much!

Now if my online student loan form would go through unlike the last 3 times I have tried today would be amazing!

Oh yea, I didn’t get that internship either. They ended up hiring someone the day before my interview, which sucks but is probably for the best.

I finished university yesterday and handed in everything on time. I surprisingly didn’t feel nearly as stressed out as I did last semester, and I don’t think I was the only one who was eerily calm. Almost everyone I spoke felt the same way.

Some of my classmates were saying yesterday how suddenly they felt bored by having nothing to do, but I feel like I am going to have thankfully busy summer. Not only is my family coming over from the US next week, my mom is getting married, I’m going to see my dad in America and I plan to start researching my dissertation and my final project while doing my work experience. I am really looking forward to doing to my work placement. I have an interview for a place in two weeks and I don’t want to jinx it, but I really really want to work there.

So this summer expect comments on essays and little snippets of information about the theory of photography.