Since the start of the academic year, we have had a multitude of photographers and industry professionals in to talk about their careers. This gave me invaluable insight into the industry I will be entering. After the talks about their journey to where they are now and what they have been working on, we had the opportunity to sit down with them and have them review our work. For the majority of of these sit downs, I only had my Dartmoor work and not my abstracts. I generally had positive feedback as well as a suggestion from Dr Alison Nordstrom to focus on my emotive work as it got the audience to feel which was my intention.
During the week at Free Range we had two industry professionals come and review our work. I had four of my abstracts showing and they did give the audience a feeling of confusion which is what I wanted. I did have to explain my work to them but they agreed that the images I had shown met the goal of educating the public. As I was being innovative they couldn't offer me too much advice beyond suggestions for funding such as getting funding from the National Arts Council and getting in touch with organisations about autism for their support.
Portfolio reviews have been important to the development of my photographic practice. By listening to their advice I have developed a better understanding of my work and where I should take it to improve the quality of my images and where I should go for support both financial and for development of future projects.
Fig 1: Jeffries, L., (2019). Visiting Lecturers. Photograph. Photographer's own collection.
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