week 34

We had a visit from Jess Crombie who is the photo editor of NGO Water Aid, but has previously been an art buyer and worked at Magnum, the talk was really interesting and Jess went through  the career paths of different photographers and how they have got where they are today as a result, it seems if I do want to be a editorial reportage photographer for an area it is best to jump in  the deep end and move over there and then make the contacts like Olivia Arthur.

Other advice she gave was to enter competitions and enter grants as this could be the way to fund the projects you want to do, and to get art buyers attention she said to send a card with website and then ring a week later as she personally hate to be cold called. and again don't be snobish about doing advertising photography if you consider yourself a fine art photographer and so on as this will lose your work and might mean you don't have the funding that you need for a personal project later on down the line.