I have just had two days of interviewing for the Apprentice task, and very enlightening it has been, for a number of reasons.
The first interviewee, a photographer with experience of curating/portfolio reviewing/ editorial also gave me some insight into my portfolio. Actually the process of preparing a generic portfolio was a challenge and made me recognise a themes within my work. I can see how I have progressed, what I am doing this year makes last years work look naive and contrived, funny when I was so pleased with it last year. such is growth I guess!
That meeting has been particularly useful when thinking about what exactly I might want to reshoot at the archive for my final portfolio of images and what would complete it, and make it into a more well rounded collection.
The second interviewee was a very experienced, award winning photographer with a long career which has covered just about everything, from war to royals and everything in between. Happily he gave very freely of his career and advice for people starting out in the business, so much so that I thought how great it would have been if he had come in to talk to the students at college (he would but I bet the college wouldn't want to pay for it!)
He explained a lot about the business side, which has not been discussed at all on course, it was all very interesting and I wish I had had this meeting earlier, and all for the price of lunch! Bargain!
I just need to write up 3 hours worth of conversation. These two days have given me a lot to think about.
