TALK - PERSONAL PROJECTS
MAKE THE WORK AND GET IT SEEN
Wednesday 22nd April 7pm (uk time) I’m presenting an online talk for the @rpscontemporary tomorrow. I’ll be sharing strategies for turning personal work into exhibitions, awards, commissions, publications and photobooks. Using my projects, 100 Women of Oxford, and Once a Slag as examples, I’ll explain what worked, what didn’t, and how to build momentum.
If you’d like to join, drop me a dm and I’ll share the zoom link
Dr. Sally Hope
Studied Medicine at Jesus College in 1975-1981, just one year after it opened its doors to female students.
Commissioned by Jesus College
Sarah Marshall, Oxford University Boat Club, studying BA History and Economics at Jesus College.
Commissioned by Oxford University to celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Jesus College 🎉
Dr. Nancy Levenson.
Astronomer and Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
I meet some incredible people in my job.
Commissioned by Jesus College, Oxford University, celebrating coeducation.
A portrait of three Oxford University students at Port Meadow.
This was the first portrait out of fourteen that I was commissioned to make to celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Jesus College in Oxford.
I was excited, but also quite anxious as I knew the results from this session would set the tone for the whole series.
When I first meet who I’m photographing I like to make time to play, to see how one moves, interacts and responds to me, my camera and in this case to each other. It took me a while to reach this point, I kept trying different shapes, and compositions, but once I took this I knew it was the one, and for it to set the tone for the rest of the project.
Photography looks so simple.
These incredible women left to right:
Salma Ali, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics 2023-2027
Tabitha R. Taberer, DPhil Biology 2022-2026
Gabriella Fitzgerald, MSc by Research in Experimental Psychology 2022-2025
@jesuscollegeoxford@oxford_uni
The Telegraph Magazine
Portrait of Lara Feigel, author of Custody - a secret history of motherhood
Words by Jessamy Calkin @jessamy.calkin
Pic editor @andygreenacre_ 🙏 @telegraph
