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Maybe… just maybe, tonight will be the last time I stress out all night over a hand in!!

I watched the Arakimentari this weekend and found it very interesting. Besides the fact I am currently obsessed by his work, it was very interesting to find out how his models and fellow photographers feel about him and his work. It seemed to me that the man is really a larger-than-life character who manages to make people feel comfortable in his presence. It is easy to assume that because of the types of images he is well known for that it may seem as though he prefers to have power over women, but he is not that type of person at all. In fact he loves women, all women.  He sees his work all connected, the erotic, life, and death. He considers the start of his photographic career with the publishing of his book ‘Sentimental Journey’ with photos taken on his honeymoon of his wife. He is an obsessive photographer, deciding to photograph everything and publishing over 300 books and still counting.

His images, while controversial, certainly leave an impression on the viewer. While the majority of his images are sexual and contain bondage his models do not look afraid or concerned. There is a certain amount of power in the women in his images. I also find it amazing how almost anything he photographs becomes sexual when viewed through his lens.

It is a fascinating documentary I highly recommend to anyone interested in photography.

We are putting on a fund raiser for our end of year show! Come and buy some prints and enter the raffle!!

I recently had my image of the Red Shoes in an exhibition at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich. It is the first time I have exhibited outside of the university organizing an exhibit. The image was popular and got a good reception which gave my confidence in my photography a really big boost.

I also got the images from the Hawes and Curtis advertising shoot I assisted on and the images look really good. I think background that Lucy and Chirag built the night before worked really well. They make a really good team and are always fun to work for.

In my own photography I have been looking at printing on glass and mirrors for one project and starting my final project. I have done one shoot for the final project but it is not quite what I am looking for and have two more shoots in mind to do next week. I just need the time first! Things have been crazy with waitressing work and trying to fit uni work in too and doing an internship with Louise at the Viewfinder Gallery. Thankfully Louise has said that I can cut back my time at the gallery until things at uni have calmed down a bit. I feel it’s a shame I have to do that because I really enjoy working there but honestly, university is so important and there isn’t too long left there.

Anyways, I am off to do a shift now.

I have started my last semester of university. I only have 3 hours of classes a week so I am trying to keep myself busy with working my paid job and also interning at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich. I am there two days week learning every I can from Louise the curator there. I’m really excited about it and my first day is tomorrow! I am also hoping to enter something into the Open Salon exhibition this week.

I have also been doing some freelance work here and there and last week I got to assist on another Hawes & Curtis campaign. I will put some images up when I am able to but it is very exciting! I am also still working with Zoe when she needs an assistant. Also my friend Lucy Brown said she may need my help on some upcoming fashion shoots she has soon.

All this makes it sound like I am not doing any of my own work! Alas, I still am trying to take photos every day and posting them to my Flickr account while also doing a rather ambitious university project! Oh and helping organise the end of year show and fundraiser!

All this means the next three months will be very interesting for me!

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. (more…)

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!!