Finding Focus
Finding Focus is a series of informal conversations attempting to reveal the processes of contemporary photographers in Scotland today. The aim of these discussions is to go some way toward demystifying the creative industries, providing an exploration of the bits of photography that you don't often hear about in ticketed artist talks - how to talk about your work, stay motivated, meet other artists, look after yourself, build community and make money along the way. Plus plenty of tangents! Each photographer will also go into a bit of detail about a project that I ask them to introduce.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2020
6 | Dave Ferrie on 'The River isn't Yellow in Winter'
In this episode (recorded in January) I talk to Dave Ferrie ahead of completing his recently self-published book: The River isn't Yellow in Winter. We discuss the tension between man-made spaces and …
5 | Artist Spotlight: Dave Ferrie
In this episode I talk to Dave Ferrie about a variety of things: not going to art school, his journey self-publishing photo books and zines, receiving critique for the first time and the whole point …
4 | Erin Semple on: 'twenty-four'
In this episode I display absolutely terrible interviewing skills and mainly talk AT Erin Semple about her project twenty-four, with tangents on the labour of arguing with men on the internet, Peter …
3 | Artist Spotlight: Erin Semple
In this episode I talk to Erin Semple about a variety of things: the importance of a 'support group', understanding that even 'successful' artists most likely wait tables, the New Photographers' Guil…
2 | Zoe Hamill on 'Control'
In this episode I talk to Zoe Hamill about her current work-in-progress Control, with additional tangents on dressage, horse text books as bedtime stories, the names of horse bits, kinky sex stuff, '…
1 | Artist Spotlight: Zoe Hamill
In this episode I talk to Zoe Hamill about a variety of things: the post-graduation abyss, the size of a pine-cone, photographing collections, getting a job in a gallery and the balance of working/vo…