Today I went for my portfolio review with Rhubarb Rhubarb. I had mixed feeling about going - Rhubarb Rhubarb is very much a photography agency promoting photographic work from the West Midlands, yet I don't really see myself as a photographer despite my current work being largely lens based. In the end though I figured it couldn't do me any harm so I went.
It was actually really useful, the woman reviewing my work (Lorna, I think?) immediately spotted my problems, namely that the work I was producing wasn't what I wanted it to be, the things I'm trying to convey are getting lost somewhere between thought and image. There is a lot of potential in my work, I knew that already and she seemed to pick up on that ('a good start' I thing her words were) but, again same problem, that potential is getting lost somewhere. At the minute I'm struggling to figure out what exactly the work is: I know its not painting, and I think it might be lens based, but i lack confidence because I don't know what I'm doing. The solution suggested is to experiment, play around with cameras, film, printing the photographs myself and to go out more with my camera. Once I've done that and my work has progressed some I'm to go back for another review session.
While I'm feeling a lot more positive about my practice than I have been as of late, I know a PhD, which must come out of practice, even if it's a theoretical research project, is further away than I thought.
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