'In five years time where will you be....' - Well hopefully making images like Carlos Arroyo Galaxia

With two new projects beginning and a New Years Resolution not to leave work to the last minute, I have gained the excitement back for my course that I lost thanks to the 'Contemporary Technologies' project... finally I get to photograph my own images again and this time decide my own brief, be in control of EXACTLY what I want to do. However, the daunting thing is, what is it that I exactly want to do? At 20 I feel that life is still an open book and I am young enough to not know, but in reality I finish university in just over a year and then am thrown into the big bad world. With my 'Negotiated Practices' project, my tutor has asked us all to fill in a form all about where we see ourselves in 5 years time. Well for me, hopefully as a successful band reportage or editorial photographer but in the current climate it's more likely I'll be alone, jobless and penniless with a very nice camera to keep me company.

Therefore in light of this what am I doing, where am I going melltdown, I decided to actually do something about what I want to do and really start researching into well, photography, so that my next two projects will be all about me, my style, what I like and what I want to create. I have started to think about doing more work experience (the last couple of days I have spent with fashion photographer Victor de Mello, assisting his shoot for the Sunday Times Style Magazine) as well as really researching into photographers and I happened to stumble across the beautiful work of Carlos Arroyo Galaxia in 'Dazed and Confused'. He is a Spanish born photographer who captures his subjects with 35mm film focusing on the space of others, both happy and melancholy. His new project 'I Wish You Were Me' shows almost an obsession with bedrooms and how they relate to people, something that I have been looking into doing for my 'Photographic Bookwork' project as people's bedrooms have always been an interest to me and therefore his work really fascinated me.

For now I leave you with some of my favourite shots from his new project and hope you love them as much as I do!

Pop Art Take 2

So here I am, still struggling with my Contemporary Technologies project (surprise, surprise) and trying to create my own Pop Art style, which is a lot harder than one would think. However, by combining the few influences I have researched and admire, such as Warhol, Julian Opie and "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater (a series head tripe) I feel that my own style has started to emerge. Here are a few of my first experiments that I am currently developing, take a look, let me know what you think and how you think I could develop it!

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Final Land Photograms

These are my final images for a Themes and Responses project that I just recently handed in. The edit consisted of 8 images that I felt worked in two different series as one set were very red and black whilst the other more orange and pink tones. The set up shown below is how I envisaged they would look on display. I tried doing large scale photograms within the land but to no luck, every single one of them came out black, however I am definitely still pleased with my final smaller ones and think they make a great series! I love their abstract shapes, the texture nature has created and the vibrant colours! So let me know what you think!?

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Nicholas Hughes

I am just in awe of Nicholas Hughes's work! Like me with my current project, Hughes is working with the art of camera-less photography, however he works with light pollution exposing the paper and his images are much less abstract than mine. His photographs are mysterious, often dark and eerie landscapes that one would be excused for mistaking as a painting and I just absolutely adore them. I hope you agree!

A Very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

Well another year has flown by and so I thought I will share with you all a few festive shots that I took over the Christmas holidays. For the first year in a long long time I didn't go ski-ing over the New Year but instead went down to Salcombe which made a nice change even though I love ski-ing and missed it, but instead I got some lovely family and personal shots that I hope you will all enjoy!

I wish you all the best for 2011 and am keeping my fingers crossed for myself too! New Years resolution - drink less, stay in shape and keep on snapping!

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The Morning After