#professionalpractise

[babssmithart]

The Trip to Venice Biennial was fabulous! Here are some photos of my favorite pieces and the beautiful city itself.

This is the work of the British artist representing England. Phyllidia Barlow caught my eye a year or two ago with her interesting journey as an artist and teacher. She began working on what would lead to this gigantic playful style late in life. I love how she keeps everything that she works with in a huge outside site and reuses materials. She brings familiar abstract forms and materials to the viewer in an abstract, magnificent way. It is almost Alice in Wonderland with an undertone of sinister.  Folly is playful and explores our understanding of sculpture.  Definitely my favorite, (for now)

[alfielaneart]

Red Beat Common Launch

A couple of friend’s of mine working in graphic design and film production have set up an Instagram based creative, aiming to produce graphic design/Music videos for artists and musicians in Manchester. 

Rationale:

For the launch, they asked me to create some artwork for a short, looped video to post on their page. Each frame of the video will have a different overlay design, producing an animated sequence when put together.

This is just a quick creative project that I was involved in last month, however I documented the process of research and design ideas for this project as a powerpoint slide, converted into a PDF document which is linked below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcN8uCQfP6pqfbr9vSKW6AJ2d-l5AafC/view?usp=sharing

[alfielaneart]

Art of Energy Open Call

Below I submitted my work to ‘Art Of Energy’ open call by Energy Ethics Research Group at the University of St Andrews. The call asked for work reflecting our current energy crisis and how we can create solutions to the demand for energy in regards to climate change. 

I submitted one of my paintings with an artist biography below:

[alfielaneart]

Par Contre Zine

I was recently successful in submitting work for a zine. Their instagram page called for any forms of artwork exploring identity, politics, climate change etc. The theme of the first issue is ‘New Beginnings’. Evidence of my submission for the zine has been documented below:

[elsaruffieux]

Cover Letter Example -  Professional Practise

After looking at example online I tried to compose my own cover letter:

Dear ...., (or use to Whom it may concern if not aware of the person responsible)

I am writing to express my interest in the art fair assistant position (or what ever job I am applying to) at your upcoming event. 

Currently, I am on my second year of my photography degree and find myself attracted to the curating side of the industry which I would like to explore.

I am confident I could be of good help throughout your fair and would be grateful for the opportunity.

I thank you in advance for taking the time to read my CV included in this email and I hope we are able to meet soon.

Yours sincerely

Elsa Ruffieux

[elsaruffieux]

Professional Practise - Workshop with Abigail

27th January 2020

I missed the lesson but I asked my friend Denise to record it for me. It was interesting to listen to the recording of the two different people who talked about how they ended up going into a certain field without really realising it. Listening to how different both of them were and the qualities they had makes you realised that we all have qualities that sometimes we don’t consider as quality. Also the path they took to find their current occupation was interesting as both of them didn’t really expected it.

[elsaruffieux]

Professional Practise - Freelance Work Experience

I was asked by my boyfriend’s mum to photograph some socks for a project she was working on. It was a bit last minutes so all I had with me was my camera. I shot the product using what I had at the time which was natural light. It taught me how to make the best of what I had. I waited until daylight light arrived and shot everything close to a window, sometime using a white curtain to diffuse the light. The shooting part all together took me an hour and a half which is probably quite long but I just wanted to make sure I had everything I needed. There were two pairs of socks plus a setting including someone’s feet in the frame. I photographed those socks from each possible side. I probably spent too much time shooting but I first tested the light and from where I wanted to take my shots to create something consistent. Also I knew I wouldn’t be able to reshoot if I didn’t have what I needed as I was in the Netherlands and would be able to take the products back with me to England.

I was asked to produced those photographs quite quickly as it was something they wanted to sell for Valentines’s day. I don’t have the email asking me from the images as my boyfriend asked me if I could do it on the phone and it’s only when I went to pick up the socks that I talked with his mum to be able to get a sense of what she wanted. She showed me an example online and asked me to do something similar. It’s only later on when I send her my work that I have screenshot of each emails we exchange.

Once I sent her the images, she used them in an online article about it and also on the website they were selling them on. One of the photo was also used in an article from a newspaper called “Netheralndsdagblad”.

It took me quite a long time to process the images. I wasn’t really confident about it as I am far from a master at photoshop and even I had already done similar things in the past, I wasn’t quite sure which technic to use to do it. I tried different one, asking Denise on how she would do it. I once I found the right way to do it it went quite quickly and was able to finish them. I shot everything on Tuesday the 28th of January, processed the files on the 29th and 30th and sent them on the 30th in the evening.

I will had all the emails in my submission folder.

The address of the website the socks can be purchased from is the following: https://www.intimitijd.nl/a-58782624/romantiek/sekssokken-2-paar/#description (I did not take the first 2 images, they were added later on).

All together I have spent half an hour testing and shooting plus 2 hours of postproduction for two following night, which makes 5 hours and a half.

These are the two example I was given when I asked about what they wanted:

[elsaruffieux]

Professional Practise - Research

27th January 2020

from Engage:

Roy’s Art Fair - Assistant volunteer Email CV and short cover later note to [email protected] (with subject line Roy’s Art Fair) by 29th February

Westminster Working Cultures Toronto Motivation to apply for the program 300 words + main graduate attributes you think you will gain through this experience 300 words. by 2nd February (I am still thinking about this because I am already travelling a lot in general and I am not quite sure it would work with my job at the moment)

Internship Program - The Fold Gallery Email cover letter + CV to [email protected]. Include why would I like to work for Fold by 6th September

Photography Assistant  - Diana Gomez Email CV + cover letter (including available date to start) to [email protected] by 5th April

Gallery I would be interested to apply:

National Portrait Gallery Do not have any volunteering or work experience opportunity at the moment (Last checking update 26th FEB. on https://app.betterimpact.com/PublicOrganization/1c3ecdd2-fd75-4e7f-b360-9885ef0ccbcb/1)

Tate Do not have any volunteering opportunity at the moment. (last checked on 26th FEB. on https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/volunteering/search/search-opportunities?search_api_fulltext=tate&latlng%5Bdistance%5D%5Bfrom%5D=100000&latlng%5Bvalue%5D= (as mentioned on their website, they only advertised volunteering or work experience on the website above)

Photographers’ Gallery Email: [email protected] Offers a range of workshop for young people but otherwise not advertising any work experience or volunteering on their website.

Lumas Email: [email protected]

Atlas Gallery Email: [email protected]

Hamiltons Email: [email protected]

Huxley-Parlour Gallery Email: [email protected]

Research done on Prospects.ac.uk:

Internship:

International internship (maybe for later) Continuous recruitment (only problem is that you have to pay to do it)

What Can I do with my degree? Job related to photography:

Graphic designer

magazine feature editor

Medical illustrator

Photographer

Press photographer

Television and camera operator

Relevant opportunities:

Image archiving

Framing services

Print services

Photo developing

Interpersonal Skills Important:

Customer services

Social events (to observe structure and organisation + practise your photography skills)

Typical Employers:

Media organisation (Newspaper/ magazines/ film/ television)

Wedding photographer or hight street photography company

Large organisations (Universities/ hospital/ airport/ cruiser liners holiday/ theme park)

I am going to check the few link above found on prospect and see what comes out of it.