This year I have collaborated with not just my classmates for the Print Auction, Summer Show and Free Range, but I have also been in contact with a local photographer Richard Walker who has been taking me up to Dartmoor as I can't drive and the bus services don't go to the locations that I want to shoot. I had spoken to Richard Walker before and I arranged to go up to Dartmoor when he did as he knows Dartmoor better than I do. Richard Walker is a very good contact for me as he is a local and knows the lower half of Dartmoor very well. On the excursions we went on, he took me to parts of Dartmoor that I had never been and had no idea what they were. Richard Walker has developed his own network of photographers who he goes on shoots with as well as people who have links to Dartmoor based organisations such as the Dartmoor Magazine. Through Richard Walker I could develop contacts with these people and organisations that could further my photographic career.
Fig 1: Walker, R., ((2019). Richard Walker. Photograph. Photographer's own collection.
I was unable to go to the Photography Show this year which is an invaluable resource for networking with not just other photographers but with businesses such as Nikon and Canon to name a couple. This is an event that I intend to visit every year so that I can develop my own network and hopefully start collaborations with other photographers and other photography related businesses for future projects.
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