Approached last minute during class and got asked to photograph the exhibition being held at Flannels called ‘Response’ which was the same place as the ‘Put your money where your mouth is’ exhibition. As living close to the exhibited area and not having any plans for the evening I thought why not?
The only thing which I were unsure about was from the first exhibition held at Flannels, I put all the images on a disk and sent them off, then told they were very happy with them and what they needed but never heard anything from it as was told if they were used for advertising or anything that I would be contacted or have a copy of the published images.
Either way I thought its still experience, great networking and if I get asked each time an exhibition is held to take it up, even if I am doing it for free because in the long run it will benefit me especially getting to know the right ‘crowd’ shall we say (photographers, artist, companies, staff working at Flannels etc).Unlike last time I learnt my lesson of walking up the ten million flights of stairs and took the lift, for the doors to open and the room layout to look exactly the same with the lighting and the bar area which were good as I knew the environment from previously and knew what I were working with. Even though I knew the experience was going to be more or less the same as the first exhibition and I wouldn’t really learn much from taking the pictures I also knew the same people will recognize me from last time and all I kept saying to myself is “this is good networking”!
The last exhibition had work up from the teachers of Leeds City College art and photography department however this time round it had the students work up and also professional photographers Martin Parr and Fay Godwin. When walking around the exhibition and looking at the work I really enjoyed it, a large variety of work was displayed all in different styled frames which as a whole worked well together.
Whilst myself and Jess (other photographer) occasionally bumped into each other for a chat we both decided that our favorite piece of work was a portrait of an old man by K James, the old man being his farther. The expression his fathers face was brilliant and well captured, edited in sepia giving the image an older feel to it. With a thick black frame and boarder with a thick black edge bring the whole image together.
