Fashion Shoot

Recently did a fashion shoot with a friend of mine for college... heres what it looked like http://www.flickr.com/photos/7758149@N02/3586494202/

have got a ton of things I have done... but Im not really that proud of it so I dont see the point in posting it.

I love Flickr

Its such a great community for feedback and for real comments. There seems to be a lot more "real" artists/photographers on there compared to the likes of Deviantart which seems to drag some very unflattering characters into its community.

I've been getting a lot of attention on my Nude series I did last year for my creative photography course and I must say its still a series I'm very proud of, my sister and model was such a great help in the lighting and posing department. I owe a lot to her for her help!

Anyways heres one of them from Flickr, you can check out the rest here at My Flickr

Artist Block

I look at so much art on a general basis. I constantly keep feeding myself motivation, inspiration and concepts to try and inspire myself to find that niche.

And I'm struggling.

I look around, I look so much and I look at my favourites and I noticed that I like the same things over and over again just done maybe a little bit differently. It motivates me further to be different and tell a different story to the world. But I'm struggling, in the overwhelming thing of trying to become different I cant pick up the camera and do it.

Yes, I absolutely love the feel of the camera within my hands, viewing through the camera seeing the image lying before me. And then the block kicks in.

I've been struggling at college too. Not in terms of my work but the general motivation to work as hard as I can in all the different areas of photography Im exploring. My most dreaded being Studio... No matter what I do, my work is just never right for the lecturer...

Also, I was supposed to have a book with my work inside for this month of photography but in the end they only chose two images from the the student exhibition. Im disappointed. I didn't expect a page dedicated to my work, I just expected more from the student exhibition or maybe just a small shots of other peoples work.

So, Im frustrated, blocked...

Exhibition

So... after my parents ditched my exhibition the boyfriend came and looked at my stuff.

All the photographs on the night seem well received. I wasnt impressed however when my head lecturer got up on her high horse moaning about how she guides us as students - seriously - people dont care. She just sounded stupid. And then she read out this email about how she had been spending too much money for this month of photography and how she was now going to sell students (not student work, or artwork) to regain losses. This was someone sending an email to someone else in the college about her.

Im offended that they didnt really advertise our exhibition let alone support us by giving us all the money for our work. If we sell its most likely they will take a hefty chunk of profit for themselves.

I will post photographs soon of what my photographs looked like. Unfortunately I had to use my cellphone camera and not having a blue tooth dongle (or rather having lost the one I did have) I will need to find a alternative means of posting the photos. yup.
have a good day

2nd Exhibition tonight

I guess this isnt really such a big deal. I mean where ever I look to try and find and try to find any mention of the gallery I'm exhibiting at - its no where online. Theres a million entries for the other photographers in the Month of Photography.

*Sighs* college can be so bad at times. The way this term has been structured is horrifying. And I thought it was bad when I exhibited last year where the gallery took a 50% commission on my work. Now my college wants a cut too! at the beginning of the year I had to pay R4000 towards printing, film and framing costs for this exhibition and now the college wants a pretty hefty cut on work I shot myself and film I paid for myself. All they gave me were lecturers who aren't even that helpful in the end. so I could end up walking away with maybe 10% of the original selling price.

Anyways... I know not to expect support from my parents or friends for that matter in terms of my work. At least theres two people who support my work and who I am. Better than no one and who better to support me. <3 love to the boyfriend and best friend

Exhibition Number two!!!

Its official! two series of my art works will be on sale for the month of photography! :D Im so excited! there was good feedback on the series I posted just before this blog entry.

:) GO BUY MY STUFF!!

This is my second official exhibition.. I had one earlier last year to sell some photo manipulations at a gallery. Commission on artworks is horrid. If you can sell privately. They take about 50 percent commission on your work at the place I exhibited. Each of my artworks were about R800 and I only got about R300 after covering costs for printing and mounting :(. The guy who owned the gallery was a real asshole too.... Apparently he owes a lot of people money and he still has some of my artworks I had before - *goes to send a nasty email*.

Mine were the top two and the middle of the second row.

Work exhibiting

This is a series of artworks I created for one of my projects this year, its going to be up for the month of photography held in Cape Town. My head lecturer is the curator for it and she's submitting two of my series of artworks along with a bunch of other students in my year.

Quite exciting, I may sell a series of prints as well at a later stage.

for more artworks see my flickr http://www.flickr.com/xdra or my deviantart http://xdra.deviantart.com