Portfolio Reviews

Having your work reviewed by professionals is always a scary but exciting experience. I had the privilege of having the choice of several professionals visiting my university to choose to do portfolio reviews with and I was able to speak with Thomas Duffield and Roz Doherty. Each review was 15 minutes long.

Thomas Duffield http://thomasduffield.com/ :

My review with Thomas Duffield started by explaining my project and allowing him to look through my dummy book in a PDF format due to unforeseen circumstances with printing. As this was my first portfolio review I realised that I should have taken more time beforehand to write a coherent artist statement that I could refer back to when talking about my project. The key points that I took from Duffield’s advice is as follows:

• Think about how certain images fit in with others e.g. commercial style compared to lifestyle

• Write out a coherent artist statement at the back of the photobook to provide context for the audience to then look through the images in sequence again

• Remove certain images

• Find a different way to give credit to poet (instagram @ looks unprofessional)

Roz Doherty: https://www.rozdoherty.com/#1

• Try cutting the book to the minimum and then work from there

• As the project is to be continued after graduation create one handmade book as this works best for the overall idea

• Have a look at adding in some objects into the book instead of adding them as photographs

• Artists to look at for inspiration- Nick Goring, Armani Willet (The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer), Virginie Rebetez