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

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!

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…)

Sorry for the lack of updating. I am having problems getting connected to the internet since I moved. But I have a little bit of connection right so I will quickly update.

Some new photos are on the front if you haven’t seen them. They are from a range of projects I did last semester.

This semster though, it’s so awesome. Studio Practice, Advance Imaging, and Language of Photography are my modules. I get to make a book. And I have the best idea for the book. I can’t wait to do it, if I can pull it off right it’s going to be the best thing I’ve ever made.

is Friday. Brain will resume work shortly after. Thanks.

Ok, so it’s the first week back and I feel like I am already falling behind. This is not good. The way work has me scheduled and the days I am at uni is crazy. I actually have no days off until the 30th of October. Excatly when I am meant to take photos and do essays I am not sure… I guess it was a good idea to buy that light kit last year as it seems I will be doing most of my work in the evenings after uni and work.

I’m going to try and get into a rhythm and get a momentum going that will last until I go to Prague.

Ah, Prague, I cannot wait to go. I am already unbelievably excited about it. I hope I don’t work myself to death beforehand, perhaps I shall just crash and burn while I am there and take no photos except snapshots of the evenings out. Though that is highly doubtful.

It’s not all doom and gloom though at the moment working so much means I get paid lots in the run up to Christmas and I have managed to do part of a project tonight. Doing the research for a project is ok it’s just the actualy execution of the photos and printing.

Please don’t let me get ill.

It is a week till the end of term at university and everything is due in. I think I am pretty much on top of things. I have finished my Visual Studies essay which was a pain to do. It hasn’t really been my best or favorite subject. Also I have got my final images for Digital Photography done. Now I have to print them at A3 and produce a portfolio with an evaluation and do the evaluation for the website as well. I am actually kind of surprised at my marks so far for web design. They are the highest marks I have ever gotten for an essay. Writing really isn’t my strong point. I’m more of a practical person than an academic one.

I am going to Gatecrasher this weekend and I was really aiming to have all of my work done by then, most of it is done, or at least the large bits that would take my most of the time so I am pleased. If I am also honest I thought that Gatecrasher was next weekend, and had a rather rude awakening on Sunday when I was told otherwise!

Also last Sunday I went to the Life Before Death Exhibit at the Wellcome Gallery in Euston with my mom. It was an interesting exhibit with collaboration between a reporter and a photographer who spent time in a hospice in Germany interviewing terminally ill patients about how they felt about their death. Unsurprisingly, the text was very powerful. The images were very confrontational. They were close up images only showing the face in high contrast. You could make out almost every wrinkle on the older people and the details of the younger subjects were very full of sorrow. The text ranged from anger at having life taken away from them to what they were holding onto and what their families felt and hoped for them. A few subject said they felt at peace with their impending death and were able to accept it after a time. The photos were taken in the last days or months of their life and the day that died. When I spoke to one of my teachers, Carol, who had gone to see a talk about the exhibit she mentioned how she had spoken with people ranging from nurses and doctors to embalmers and bereavement councilors. I think it is interesting to note the type of people who were interested in this exhibit. Not only artists and people interested in art but people who deal with death everyday. Although everyone encounters death within their lives it is something that most people find really difficult to talk about and wish to avoid thinking about, but it is also one thing that everyone has in common with each other.

I am deep and a cliché.

Sadness

Originally uploaded by LadyBinx

I took this on Monday. I was trying to do silhouettes with colored gels for my final digital photography and this came out as one of the mistakes when some white light manged to creep in. I still like it though, it is ‘my favorite accident’ in the words of Motion City Soundtrack.
I think I am losing my eyesight though, either that or the focusing on my camera is messed up. Many of the photos were out of focus, so I am re-shooting some of the images next week.
I don’t think I have enough confidence in my work and I feel that because of that my photos lack something. It’s like a never-ending circle. I just feel really lost at the moment, not just in my work but in everything.

I have always been awestruck by the images Nick Knight seems to produce. There is something so captivating about his photographs I cannot quite place my finger on. He seems to be able to use color to an extent that whether it is an extensive range of bold colors, one streak of color, or simple images with pale and desaturated colors that the colors alone are able to make someone feel a certain way.

For the major project in digital photography we have to choose 5 adjectives from a list and show an image that represents the adjectives we have chosen. I want to get into the studio if I can and photograph silhouettes against a colored background. I think the form of certain poses and the colors chosen to represent the adjectives will be very interesting together.

I think I have finally got my site sorted out and almost finished. I have finally figured out how to upload a Wordpress theme, which I have linked to my site. Now all that is left to to learn how to configure it so it goes better with the rest of my site but also stands out as it will be updated often and will show my current project ideas. I also need to place my email on my site somewhere, but hopefully that will be easy (famous last words!). Which leaves my visual studies portfolio and essay, and my digital photography portfolio and essay. Also I got a light kit. Yay me!

University trip to Prague in November, also stopping in Cologne for two nights which will be awesome. And cold. Probably.

Like I mentioned in my last post, time at university is ticking away. It seems strange to think my first year is almost over. I feel that this year was a lot of technical learning while next year will challenge our creativity, it should be fun/interesting…

I am going to Gatecrasher Festival at the end of May. I am thinking of taking my beloved Polaroid camera which reminds me I need to buy some film for it.

It really annoys me that they are getting rid of Polaroid film. I know it seems unnecessary in this digital age, but there are some of us who are still in love with it. They could at least sell the license to another company and let them produce it. Although I have heard rumors that other companies are having trouble selling developing products. I hope that the ease of digital doesn’t take too much away from the fun of seeing your photographs developed in the dark room. The darkroom always makes me feel better, I started to miss it during my year off. I also realize that I am sad for feeling this way!