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louthomsonba3 · 9 months ago

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12 Practitioners Research

After thinking deeply about what I want to do with my photographic practice after education and with the help of creating my mood board, I feel passionately about getting work seen by others and to sell it as well. I want to do this through having my work be featured in exhibitions and even curate exhibitions of my own, as well as creating photo books and getting them published.

With this in mind I have looked into practitioners such as photographers, artists, curators, publishers and others whose work centres around an exhibition/displaying of work format. I will put the contact information I plan to correspond with them on this post so they are all together.

**some practitioners on here do not have contact info but instead a place on their website to submit enquires so I have featured these to show this.

Callum Diffey

Callum is a fine art photographer/visual artist and a recent graduate of The Glasgow School of Art, and also someone I know through the queer scene in Glasgow. His work is primarily on film and I know that he is at the end stages of creating his own photo book "growing pains" and getting it published, so it will be very valuable for me to hear about his experiences with this process. I plan to contact him via his instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/callum.diffey/

Malcolm Dickson

Malcolm Dickson is the director of Street Level Photoworks, an exhibition space for lens based artists situated in trongate in Glasgow. This is a space I have visited frequently and it would be great to get insight from such an experienced curator such as himself about what is required by a photographer to get their work shown in an exhibition and the process involved. I got his email via the street level website:

[email protected]

Street Level Photoworks - Futureproof Exhibition

The gallery space I previously mentioned is also currently having an exhibition of newly graduated artists from multiple Scottish institutions including City of Glasgow College. I intend to go to this exhibition soon and potentially contact some of the artists whose work resonates with me and hear what they have to say about the process of their work being featured in an exhibition.

Kate Ballis

Kate Ballis is an Australian fine art photographer I have followed on instagram for a while now and whose work heavily revolves around the use of infrared, a medium that I also particularly enjoy using in my own work. I really like her work and would love to hear from her about her process of using infrared to achieve the effect seen in her work. Her work has also been featured in multiple galleries and magazines across the world so is no stranger to this process and what is requires of her.

Another Place Press

Another | Place is a small independent publishing company located in the Scottish highlands that specialises in helping contemporary photographers create and publish photo books. I figure as I one day want to get my own photo book published that a publishers would be able to give very detailed insight into how the books are made and also what it is they look for in terms of work when looking to make new books. They also state that the artists don't pay anything towards the production of their titles and receive royalties on every book sold, which I thought to be very generous and considerate for a smaller company.

Carter Baran

Baran is another photographer whom I have followed for a while now. He specialises in low-light photographer whose work is often very colourful and well lit and has been an inspiration to my own work quite recently. I would love to hear from him about his work process when he is shooting in order to achieve the images he does, as up till now everything I know about low light photography I have taught myself through trial and error so this would mean a lot to me as photography of this nature is what I can see myself doing in the future.

Heather Graham

Heather Graham is a graduate photographer based in Glasgow. I came across her project "PA14" at the Futureproof exhibition at glasgow street level recently. The project documents a neglected area of Glasgow known as Clune Park. I want to contact Heather and see if she could give me insight into the process of getting her work exhibited as she has had work featured at multiple exhibitions in Scotland. There was also a photobook of the project present at the exhibition so would love to hear about how she went about getting this created as well.

Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood is another graduate photographer whose work I came across at the futureproof exhibition. Being a recent graduate from city of Glasgow college which is where I am studying, I feel that hearing about her experience as a newly graduated photographer whose work has been exhibited for the first time will be very relevant and helpful to me.

Anthony D'Arcy - AMD Studios

Anthony is the owner of AMD Studios - a multimedia company specialising in wedding and commercial photography where I worked as a photographer part time for two years. This was valuable experience for me and taught me a lot about the commercial side of photography.

Colin Wright

Wright is a Scottish infrared photographer based between Edinburgh and Glasgow. He produces very professional infrared images of places all over Scotland so I thought it would be helpful to hear about his practice as an infrared specialist, especially one based in Scotland as I could see myself doing something similar after I graduate.

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