This weekend’s inspiration is a flashback to this time 4 years ago, when borders closed and we all found ourselves facing lockdown. Very strange times indeed. As an antidote to this, ex-advertising creative and top ad photographer Billy Plummer and I created an online workshop, taking 20 photographers from around the world through the process
Personal work can take you on some pretty interesting journeys. Apart from the process itself, the final work can end up in editorial stories, photo books, exhibitions, and being used in ad campaigns. In Melbourne photographer Jason Reekie’s case, one of his personal projects has become a chamber opera. At a Christmas party way back
There are probably lots of things you want. Beautiful, challenging, meaningful briefs that align with the work you love making. An income which allows you to support those who need you, and which gives you the freedom to say no to the jobs which don’t float your boat. And space to create work for yourself
Today as we celebrate International Women’s Day, I want to shout out to all you fricken-amazing-rockstar-kick-ass women who have turned photography into a career. It’s hard enough in general to be a lens-based image maker but holy moly, the hurdles that women have faced over the years need no explanation. One of those hurdles has
If you’ve been following me for a while, or working with me, you’ll know that I am obsessed with personal work as a vital part of a photographers practice. Not only because it’s a way to flex your creative muscles, push yourself harder and remind yourself why you did this in the first place. But
This is my phrase of the week. Credit for it comes from a photographer I work with, who was grumbling about marketing. “I hate marketing.” he said. “I just want to make great images.” (Which he does, a lot.) As I pointed out to him, if you’re a photographer, your number one marketing tool IS
This is my dad, and yesterday was his 86th birthday. In the late 70’s he wrote a quality control system for the developing computer industry. The system was adopted by British Standards (BS 5750), and today, manufacturers of most camera companies use the same quality control standardisation (now updated to ISO 9000). Dad is systems
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