CV

This is a current CV in which i recently applied for a job with:

Education and Qualifications:

Thomas Alleynes High School (Uttoxeter) Then 1 year at Moorlands 6th form college

Now in 2^nd year at Burton College studying Photography and Digital Imaging

GCSE:

 English C

English Literature C

Maths C

Science B

Additional Science C

Music A*

Art A

Religious Education C

Design and Technology (Textiles) C

French C

General Studies (AS level at GCSE) D

AS Level:

Working towards music tech BTEC national diploma

Psychology

Art

General Studies

2^nd year of Photography & Digital Imaging national diploma- DISTINCTION

Employment:

The Red Lion (Pub), The Star (Pub)

The Dog and Partridge (Pub)

The Isaak Walton (Restaurant)

Alton Towers (RETAIL HOST)

Interests:

Music, Band, Singing, Communications, Playing Guitar/Bass/Piano, Events Organising, Gigs, Creative Arts, Tours, Art, Festivals, Social Events, Photography, Photography & Editing, Visual Art, Fashion, Textiles, Socialising, Digital Editing, Digital Imagery

Work Experience:

Company: Theo Georgio’s hairdressing salon.

Jobs included, looking after the clients- making sure everything is okay for them and dealing with any problems they may have, I also made sure that they enjoyed their experience at the salon by also providing them with refreshments, magazines etc. Washing clients’ hair, making sure the facilities were all clean and safe to use etc.

Skills:

I am a very social person and make friends easily, I’m good at dealing with situations and problems, I am very trustworthy and reliable and also, I am very polite and good at communicating with strangers in a friendly manor.

I think i would be suitable for this job because I am a very social person, I find it very easy to approach and talk to customers, I am very good at upselling the latest products/ products on offer. Also i have very good retail experience and hospitality as I have worked for Alton Towers resort as a retail host.

Still Life- Food

For this task we had to take a photograph of a food item, i chose a cookie then when i edited it using instagram i chose colours similar to the cookie to compliment it, neutral colours.

Write and Fold Over

For this task we had to write a word then fold over and pass along to the next person then keep repeating that task until completed, my words were; red, lighter, high, lego house, 23.

Snowflakes

These two photographs are of snowflakes that we made and cut out, we had to photograph them in an interesting way so i put mine in water, in a puddle so there was some light reflecting off the water, i kept the photographs square so it gave the images a nice composition.

My Photographs In The Style Of Martin Parr

These photographs are a few of a series i have taken in the style of Martin Parr, his photographs are of everyday life, they are snapshots to show his life and how he lives it, like a diary.

Martin Parr

Parr began work as a professional photographer and has subsequently taught photography intermittently from the mid-1970s. He was first recognised for his black-and-white photography in the north of England, Bad Weather (1982) and A Fair Day (1984), but switched to colour photography in 1984. The resulting work, Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton, was published in 1986. Since 1994, Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos. He has had almost 50 books published, and featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide - including an exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London. In 2007, his retrospective exhibition was selected to be the main show of Month of Photography Asia in Singapore. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in recognition for his ongoing contribution to photography and to MMU's School of Art.

Amelia Beavis-Harrison

Amelia Beavis-Harrison is an artist and curator currently based in Nottingham, UK. This website documents some of the art work and curatorial projects produced since 2007. Amelia initiated and runs Lincoln Art Programme, a live art commissioning body in Lincoln, alongside her freelance work.

Amelia makes art work that is informed by histories, mythologies, situations, occurrences, conversations and the production of art. Using research as a process of investigation for creating work Amelia interrogates subject matters to develop concepts, whilst using snippets of information gathered from common sources such as newspapers and the internet. Research into both the unusual and the trivial create starting points for investigation, which often leads to performance, action and text based work. An element of Amelia’s performance work looks to investigate the role that costume has in performance and its function as an object. The key strands that run through Amelia’s practice are the presentation of performance in an immersive and collaborative manor, many of the works she produces involve audience participation, whilst at times working with other practitioners to bring the work to fruition. Amelia’s text work uses influences from the every day and the under exposed inform the works outcomes. Through gestures, visualisations and the blatantly obvious she explores ideas and re-conditions them in her art.

Jade Birchnall

Jade Birchnall uses a medium format film camera and enjoys shooting her images in black and white. She did a series of images featuring a home of elderly people and the nuns who cared for them. Each individual portrait of each person really portrays and shows that particular persons character. I found the photographs very interesting and moving because it just shows how sad and lonely some of the elderly residents actually were because you can jut see it in their expressions yet their individual character still shines through. 

My favourite series of images that she did were the ones of the strippers, i liked them because they pushed the boundaries of art showing that she did not care what others thought of her work. I liked how the images were in black and white because it gave a dark contrast and highlighted the imperfections on each women's body. also in each of the images you can see a slight innocence in some of the women's eyes, maybe because they are embarrassed of what they do, maybe they have no other option, it brings mystery to the images.

Erik Knudsen

Erik Knudsen is Professor of Film Practice at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK, where he is currently the Head of The School of Media Music and Performance. He regularly conducts guest workshops at international film schools, such as the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba, where he was Head of Editing between 2001 and 2009. He was born in Ghana to a Danish father and Ghanaian mother in 1956. He grew up, and was primarily educated, in Denmark, with a few years of schooling in Britain. After a stint of Law studies at Århus University in Denmark, he then went on to study film production at York University in Toronto, Canada, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Specialist Honours in Film Production in 1983. He returned to Britain in 1984, where he has lived and worked since. He gained his PhD from the University of Salford, 2002.

this is an example of his still life photography.

This is a screen grab from one of his films 'Silent Accomplice', Set in rural and urban Britain, The Silent Accomplice is a story seen through the perspective of water that flows from a spring to the sea. This ever-present silent protagonist engages with people in often intimate moments in their lives, giving us an unusual and intimate snap shot of contemporary living. Episodic and peripatetic in construction, and poetically blending fiction and documentary, the narrative weaves its way in and out of specific people's lives to reveal a Britain with hidden and unspoken disparities and aspirations.

Fujifilm 2012 submit;

more ideas;

My ideas for this assignment are that i want to apply bright, bold, dramatic make up onto various models,  i was thinking of using elderly people to model this upon too as i think it would create an interesting texture and add depth to the photographs e.g. with wrinkly skin.

Ideas for Extreme Make Up;

MAC Cosmetics has been known for some fairly far-out collaborations, but this one's definitely the furthest-out collaboration the Canadian-born makeup brand has forged to date. MAC's fall collection, slated for Sept. 29th, is modeled by American artist Cindy Sherman, the art world's queen of reinvention and cosmetic disguise.

Known for putting herself into sometimes haunting, often disturbing images that she stages, styles and photographs, Sherman has been reinventing her image and pushing buttons long before Madonna and Lady Gaga (both previous MAC collaborators) thought to do the same.

With the help of props, makeup, prosthetics, wigs and sets, artist Cindy Sherman embodies this Power of Transformation—from off-kilter Hitchcock heroine to fresh corpse, Caravaggio Portrait to Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Maven—all elaborate exercises in trying on different personas. In the campaign we've longed forever to conceive, Cindy Sherman for M·A·C created three characters using three different colour stories. We're living in a time when people of all persuasions have become bolder than ever about the ways they choose to express themselves: with a colourful palette of possibilities, You are the Artist, You are your own Subject, and no matter how fearfully you begin, you become fearless in the process.

EXTREME

Definition of Extreme;

ex·treme  (k-strm) adj. 1. Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest: the extreme edge of the field. 2. Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense: extreme pleasure; extreme pain. 3. Extending far beyond the norm: an extreme conservative. See Synonyms at excessive. 4. Of the greatest severity; drastic: took extreme measures to conserve fuel. 5. Biology a. Characterized by severe, usually oxygen-poor environmental conditions. b. Having an affinity for such conditions: an extreme microorganism. 6. Sports a. Very dangerous or difficult: extreme rafting. b. Participating or tending to participate in a very dangerous or difficult sport: an extreme skier. 7. Archaic Final; last. n. 1. The greatest or utmost degree or point. 2. Either of the two things situated at opposite ends of a range: the extremes of boiling and freezing. 3. An extreme condition. 4. An immoderate, drastic expedient: resorted to extremes in the emergency. 5. Mathematics a. The first or last term of a ratio or a series. b. A maximum or minimum value of a function. 6. Logic The major or minor term of a syllogism.

Previous Winners

Above are last year winners and merit winners, i was lucky enough to be a merit winner.

Fuji Film 2012

Fuji Film 2012For this assignment we have to submit 5 images to fuji film to show the theme 'Extreme'.

This could be anything that comes across as being extreme.

IDEAS;

.Extreme Hair

.Extreme Make Up

.Extreme Piercings

.Extreme Tattoo's

.Extreme Clothing

.Extreme Weather

.Extreme Sports