It's fairly daunting that after the long summer holidays, I'll be going into my final year of education. When I left school at 16, I went straight to college to study Photography as a full-time National Diploma; So after my 3rd year at university, it's going to be the first time I haven't been in education since I first started school.
So I'll be going into the big, wide world and ideally, this blog will be documenting me 'making it' into the Photography industry. I guess this blog is going to be 'professional' but it will still be relatively informal while maintaining relevance.
Like I said, I'm a 19 year old, second year Photography student at Norwich University College of the Arts. Although I am versatile, my main passion lies in Fine Art and Fashion Photography. I personally find a lot of Fashion Photography rather bland and uninspiring so my main aim is to bring my Fine Art style into Fashion to create exciting and innovative images. Before I even think of becoming a high-end Fashion photographer with said style, I first have to focus on graduating with a high-class degree. When I graduate, I would have spent 5 years dedicating my education solely on Photography so I want a degree that reflects my hard work & dedication over the years.
These two photos above are from a recent brief set by Hoare Lea - an engineering consultancy firm. This project really showed my versatility with Photography. Creating photos for the office space of an engineering consultancy isn't really 'my thing'. Yet I still worked hard at creating these abstract images that convey the feel of Hoare Lea in my own creative manner.
Now these two photos were from another recent university project that was a bit more up my street. It was another live brief for the D&AD awards, set by Rankin. The brief was relatively open but the final images are aimed to be shown in Rankin's magazine Hunger.
This was a key project for me as I picked up the style of hand-colouring. It was exactly what I needed to convey the fine border between Fine Art and Fashion and also to add my own physical touch to the images - to make the photos mine.
Hand-colouring is a technique that I'm currently refining in my work and hopefully will have some new hand-coloured photos to post on here soon!
Hand-colouring is a technique that I'm currently refining in my work and hopefully will have some new hand-coloured photos to post on here soon!
I think I have posted enough for today & plenty to describe my history, passion and style in Photography :) I intend on keeping this regularly updated, so keep a look out for a less biographical post soon.
- Charlotte
