Wednesday 27 February 2013

Mini Click - March Programme

To coincide with International Women's Day, Jim Stephenson & his Mini Click crew have lined up a fantastic programme of talks throughout March. 

Over to Jim . . .
"On March 2nd we're doing a full-day of talks and panel discussions co-curated by us and Fiona Rogers from Firecracker and hosted by Miranda Gavin. It'll feature Jo Metson Scott, Agata Pietron, Maria Gruzdeva, Chloe Dewe Matthews and Abbie Traylor Smith. More info here <== 

On March 24th we're running a workshop with Laura Pannack. More info here <==

And on March 28th we've got a night of talks from Alma Haser and Natasha Caruana. We're also launching the first issue of our new magazine that night, which is also on the theme of Women in Photography. More info here <==

The talks are free entry & the workshop £90. Thanks for curating another great programme Mini Clickers.

Monday 18 February 2013

My Heroes

Photographers and Agents alike are always asking me to recommend suppliers. So I thought it was about time I shared a few of the great on here.
In this, the second of these posts, I bring you the incredible make-up stylings of Miss Aly Hazlewood.

I am ridiculously in awe of Aly's make-up skills & portfolio. Last year I had some shoots coming up with Jonathan Knowles, we were looking for a new artist to work with and spotted Aly's work in a stylists folio.

It was this shot (right) that had us itching to work with her. That colour and blending work is stunning, and so hard to do.




The shots that Jonathan & Aly worked on are to the left.

I hope to work with her a lot in the future, because Aly is the sort of supplier that I love, she brings her own creativity to the table too. And it's great. Invaluable really.


Have a look at Aly's website here <==
or Tweet her here <==

Monday 11 February 2013

Thoughts For Photographers

There was a shout out on Twitter this week along the lines of "what do I do when a client isn't paying?"

My first port of call, after the polite asking stage, is to let the client know you're going to have to follow the Late Payment Legislation. It's an incredibly helpful tool that calculates a per day percentage penalty charge on monies owed.

To be honest most late payers will cough up the cash just with the mention of this, after all who wants the bottom line to go up after you've wrapped?

Creative thinking with Brand Perfect

There's me in the purple jumper

Last year I had the pleasure to lend Brand Perfect my creative brain for a few of their events.

If you've not heard of Brand Perfect, well they're a kind of wonderful creative think tank of an organisation. They work with organisations and individuals, looking at how brands are developing, how they could be developing and offer thoughts and magic creative solutions across sectors.
Currently they're braving the weather in NYC and running an Adventures in Publishing event.

Wish I was there really. Especially if it's anything like the event we had at the British Library, where 20 folks, including myself, were called upon to ponder a challenge set to us by BL; "how to get the library's 'Silent Network' to engage with each other."

It was great to be workshopping ideas alongside Creative Directors, Typographers, App Developers and the like. Throughly inspiring and energising really. And I think we came up with some great ideas.
Now it's over to the BL to pick them up.

You can read what the British Library thought of us here <= and what Brand Perfect thought here <=