elliepowell

I've started a new blog! I think I might actually use it (notice how I'm already failing to use this?) seeing as I made it my home page and it's just begging to be used...ahem. How about checking it out? I'll pull a very pleading face if it'll convince you any... --> http://museumofexploration.wordpress.com/ My current project is progressing slowly but surely, I've pretty much got my final prints. I just need to finish off my sketchbooks and it'll all be fine. I sent my mini portfolio off to ECA last night, I find out what they think in February... Daryl (who is one of my photography teachers) has promised to beat them up if they don't let m

My UCAS went off impossibly close to the deadline (my tutor is an idiot), but I get a response from ECA yesterday. Admittedly, the response was just the automatic "oi bitch, submit an online portfolio". I'm taking it as a good thing that they didn't say no right away though... So anyway. I'm in the middle of doing that, I need ten images of sketchbooks/development, ten of completed pieces and five sources of inspiration. I've done 2/10 completed and 1/5 of inspiration... So only 22 more images to do! *sigh* It has to be done by 29/1/2012, I'm trying to get it done by next Monday though. All the deadlines seem to be now, my coursework has to

All of my "major" projects seem to be about collection, it's what I always go back to and something I've done since I can remember. If you like, collections are my artistic vocabulary. You can say a lot with collections. My current project (which is coursework for A2 photography) is just finishing off, and the initial inspiration for it was - you guessed it - collections. And a wonderful, beautiful, inspiring book I was given years ago, it's called 'How To Be An Explorer Of The World' (Keri Smith) and I honestly think everyone should own a copy. It's about really looking, discovering the odd and profound hidden away and it's about letting you