Rewind

Lately I've been looking back through my college projects and found the very first one I remember doing that wasn't a basic skills one. We had to choose two advert to make an advert for. I chose Amnesty and Greenpeace and these were my works of art.. Works of art that are now quite bad compared to later work I produced. 

Racial abuse campaign, but not focusing on black people.

The beautiful Laura McGahan modelling.

Deforestation campaign. 

My awesome Dad modelling.

I still like this shot, minus my Dad and the text.

UOG Rag Society Big Pink Pre-Drinks

Another post about yesterday, after I had finished at Stow I came home to upload, shovel food down and head over to the FCH campus as RAG were hosting an event in the Student Union Bar there. The Big Pink Pre-drinks event was to raise money for Cancer Research, a very worthy charity.

Group shot of the Rag society.

Raffle prizes on offer

Summer ball ticket available for auction.

Enjoying the atmosphere of the evening.

First music act of the night, Steven on guitar.

Goodies available at the tuck shop. 

Pool competitions were ongoing throughout the night.

One of the barmen also picked up the guitar to entertain the audience.

Strong turnout!

RAG President and Deputy

Bar shot!

Watching the human auction.

Rob Tidey, SU President was one of the people to be auctioned off - offering to cook a meal for the lucky bidder.

SU barman was offering to cross dress the Wednesday night shift in the bar next week, this went for £50, which went up another £30 when Rob Tidey (above) agreed to do it with him.

RAG president offering to be a slave for the night for the lucky bidder.

Enjoying the music.

Auctioning off multiple prizes, members of the RAG society.

Strawberry and cream flavour vodka went for £14

Auction viewers and bidders.

Taking donations from the attendees, RAG Deputy President.

It was a very interesting night which everybody seemed to enjoy, with two auctions, one of which was for people, a raffle and a tuck shop. I'm very glad Space asked me to cover this. 

People At Work

We were set a little task today in our lectures to photograph people at work. I headed out to the High Street and hit the Charity shops, I went to find people that were working to help others. These are the results I got, my favourite two images.

When I first went in to this shop - Oxfam (it was very well hidden) I wasn't entirely convinced I would be able to shoot. It turns out however, that this woman knows a lot about photography and so was able to tell us some stories about her own personal experiences - including one about a friend which had her in stitches, as you can see.

This lady was very lovely, and very softly spoken, to stereotype she's the type of lady I would expect to find in a charity shop, she was lovely to talk to as well, and very interested in what we were doing.

In order to keep these portraits as natural as possible, I had Ellie to talk to them and keep them distracted whilst I was taking photos, this way they payed less attention to the camera and became less selfconcious.