What areas of work are you considering when college finishes? Do you know what you will have to do to get there?
Apply for a 'staff' job? Launch yourself as a freelance? Take an assistant’s role? Buy a franchise? Move to another city or even another country?
Write 1000 words outlining your photographic career plans and the options you think are open to you.
Nothing is fixed, everything might change - and no-one will make any form of judgement about what you choose, but writing this will help you focus your thoughts.
Explain what you know and/or think you will have to do to get where you want to be. Can you identify the steps you will have to take?
Will you need funding or start-up capital? Further training? Will you seek advice, and if so who from? Is there are an area of business that particularly interests you? Have you seen a gap in the market? Do you have a USP (Unique Selling Point)?
Deadline Monday 2nd June - Lecture theatre 2: 12 noon
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Graded Unit
Submission of final projects: Monday 12th May Lecture theatre 2 @ 10.00am
We will review all the work
Submission of written evaluation: Monday 19th May Lecture theatre 2 @ 12noon
All projects (proposal, research, pictures and evaluation) need to be package ready for collection. Please do not be late.
We will review all the work
Submission of written evaluation: Monday 19th May Lecture theatre 2 @ 12noon
All projects (proposal, research, pictures and evaluation) need to be package ready for collection. Please do not be late.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tutorials Monday 28th
1.15pm Jen
1.45pm Tertia
2.15pm Louise
3.00pm Sam
3.30pm Nick
4.00pm Ben
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1.45pm Tertia
2.15pm Louise
3.00pm Sam
3.30pm Nick
4.00pm Ben
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Professional matters
When you arrive at the point where you can't face being a criminal any longer, try googling Scottish Enterprise or Business Gateway
They will give you advice on what to do.
You must keep a record of all your purchases - receipts and ideally a separate bank account. (Purchases made prior to you going 'legal' can be used to lower your first year's tax bill.)
Information on Income Tax and National Insurance contributions is here
Tax is calculated on PROFIT not turnover, so get an accountant to look at your books. He or she will save you whatever fee they charge - and more.
Insurances are up to you - equipment, public liability, illness, pension, etc
A good resource for news, jobs, insurers, lawyers (and an annual review of the professional photo vest market) is the printed version of the British Journal of Photography, available in the college library - and also online
Friday, April 11, 2008
Monday 14th April
Lecture theatre 2 at 10.00am
Professional issues: Income Tax, VAT, Banks, Accountants and Pensions
Please think about a tutorial time in the next couple of weeks - I need to see you all individually at some point.
Professional issues: Income Tax, VAT, Banks, Accountants and Pensions
Please think about a tutorial time in the next couple of weeks - I need to see you all individually at some point.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Tutorials Monday 14th: Room 187
Please bring along your graded unit work-in-progress and workbooks
1.15pm Howard
1.45pm Theo
2.15pm Jaime
3.00pm
3.30pm
Use the comment function to book a time. I need to see all of you over the coming weeks and will have to dictate times if we can't negotiate.
1.15pm Howard
1.45pm Theo
2.15pm Jaime
3.00pm
3.30pm
Use the comment function to book a time. I need to see all of you over the coming weeks and will have to dictate times if we can't negotiate.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Monday 7th April
Lecture theatre 2 @ 10.00am - we will look at 'The Bus' by Daniel Meadows
Don't laugh - people still look like this in Australia
Here's Daniel Meadows' official 'Bus project' website. Please take a look - there's a huge amount of information and some great ideas. The project is still very much alive.
French Philosopher Roland Barthes uses two terms to describe photographs:
Studium - is the surface impression of an image - it's technical quality or 'competence'
(Whether the image is ok - not bad - alright)
Punctum - is the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct relationship with the image
(The bit that grabs us)
These concepts first appeared in Barthes's Camera Lucida (published in 1980)
Barthes's influence is greater than you might think, even in commercial design and photography circles
There's even a Punctum group on flickr
So anyway, back to these two muppets... it's the 1970s - they're wearing tartan - they must be Bay City Roller fans...
WRONG!
See the records he's carrying
Well, the top one is Deep Purple (manly Heavy Metal to you) - not cissy pop music for girls.
Before iPods and walkmans, young men used to take records round to their friends' houses to listen to - protected from the weather in a polythene bag.
And the scarf:
...is a Manchester United scarf. One of the few bits of merchandising fans could buy in an age before the commercialism of football started to fleece fans for replica shirts and official socks, underpants, bed linen and matching curtains...
These two young men are wearing tartan jackets to associate themselves with Manchester United and their Scottish manager (at the time...) - Tommy "The Doc" Docherty.
"The 'punctum' for me in this picture (and many of Daniel Meadows 1970s Bus portraits) is how I feel when I see the jackets, and haircuts, and imagine the smell of two young men who only bathed once a fortnight (if that).
I never had a jacket like that - my Mum wouldn't let me - and I would have been frightened if I walked down the street towards 'big kids' like them. They were the sort of lawless hooligans who would "kick yer 'ed in".
Now I see them and smile at how harmless, innocent, naive and comical they really were.
I also feel touched at the sight of the records - and remember that I often used to listen to music intently with friends. We would sit in each others' bedrooms and pore over every inch of the gatefold sleeves, devouring the lyrics and looking for mysterious messages scratched into the run-out groove.
People don't do that anymore.
I don't do that anymore.
But this picture transports me - like falling through a hole in the fabric of time and space, back to an age when things were simple - people ate meat and two veg everyday and knew their neighbours.
The punctum isn't necessarily a flaw, or a hole or a specific item - it best describes our emotional response to images (and perhaps people, music, places, tastes) - not something that everyone shares or understands - but matters indvidually to us.
Don't laugh - people still look like this in Australia
Here's Daniel Meadows' official 'Bus project' website. Please take a look - there's a huge amount of information and some great ideas. The project is still very much alive.
French Philosopher Roland Barthes uses two terms to describe photographs:
Studium - is the surface impression of an image - it's technical quality or 'competence'
(Whether the image is ok - not bad - alright)
Punctum - is the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct relationship with the image
(The bit that grabs us)
These concepts first appeared in Barthes's Camera Lucida (published in 1980)
Barthes's influence is greater than you might think, even in commercial design and photography circles
There's even a Punctum group on flickr
So anyway, back to these two muppets... it's the 1970s - they're wearing tartan - they must be Bay City Roller fans...
WRONG!
See the records he's carrying
Well, the top one is Deep Purple (manly Heavy Metal to you) - not cissy pop music for girls.
Before iPods and walkmans, young men used to take records round to their friends' houses to listen to - protected from the weather in a polythene bag.
And the scarf:
...is a Manchester United scarf. One of the few bits of merchandising fans could buy in an age before the commercialism of football started to fleece fans for replica shirts and official socks, underpants, bed linen and matching curtains...
These two young men are wearing tartan jackets to associate themselves with Manchester United and their Scottish manager (at the time...) - Tommy "The Doc" Docherty.
"The 'punctum' for me in this picture (and many of Daniel Meadows 1970s Bus portraits) is how I feel when I see the jackets, and haircuts, and imagine the smell of two young men who only bathed once a fortnight (if that).
I never had a jacket like that - my Mum wouldn't let me - and I would have been frightened if I walked down the street towards 'big kids' like them. They were the sort of lawless hooligans who would "kick yer 'ed in".
Now I see them and smile at how harmless, innocent, naive and comical they really were.
I also feel touched at the sight of the records - and remember that I often used to listen to music intently with friends. We would sit in each others' bedrooms and pore over every inch of the gatefold sleeves, devouring the lyrics and looking for mysterious messages scratched into the run-out groove.
People don't do that anymore.
I don't do that anymore.
But this picture transports me - like falling through a hole in the fabric of time and space, back to an age when things were simple - people ate meat and two veg everyday and knew their neighbours.
The punctum isn't necessarily a flaw, or a hole or a specific item - it best describes our emotional response to images (and perhaps people, music, places, tastes) - not something that everyone shares or understands - but matters indvidually to us.
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