Photography in Practice

 Photography in Practice is an Assignment we have just been given that involves working with Clients to produce photographs according to their brief. Several Clients came to introduce themselves. They included Attik Dance, Theatre Royal, Records Office, Part-Exchange, The Museum, SW Coast Path, Barbican Theatre and ACD & C (Architectural Centre for Devon and Cornwall).

At the end of the session we were asked to consider our first and second choices, and to give reasons for those choices. Students will then be allocated by our lecturers to the Clients.

My first choice is ACD & C The Architectural Centre. The obvious choice for me would have been The SW Coast Path because of my love of landscape, but I felt that I wanted to challenge myself. The first part of the Architectural brief has strict guidelines about what they want in a photograph, the second part is a more flexible creative guideline. I felt that working towards a strict guideline would give me valuable experience of what it is like to work with a client. I also thought that it would be interesting to discover the 80 Public Art Pieces that lie around Plymouth as I have only seen a very few of these.

Marie Sellars (Project Manager) mentioned the sculpture at Victoria Park in Stoke, by Richard Deacon who won the Turner Prize. I have seen this piece probably 1000 times but I had no idea that it was a work of sculpture created by Richard Deacon. This afternoon I shot some images of it.

I know that there will certainly be a few more surprises along the way and I am looking forward to starting the project.

 Richard Deacon Sculpture, Victoria Pk, Stoke, Plymouth