Paul herrman Redeye

In today’s lecture we have had a guess speaker giving us a presentation. Paul Herrmann director of Redeye , a photography network, came along and gave an inspirational talk on what possibilities there are after university and how Redeye helps students with just about everything both pre and post degree. He started asking the group generic questions to see what types of photographers we were and what as a group are our fears and weaknesses as photographers. The mass answer was confidence! I am on board with this weakness too; I lack complete confidence in both producing and show casing my work. He carried on telling us that Redeye hold a “Hothouse” which he thought our group would all benefit from. It’s where Photographers meet and give short talks or presentations on a finished or working piece of their own work, to other photographers about to do the same thing. I do think this is a really good idea I would really like to attend one to just listen at first , I think it would be useful to see what other photographers are doing at the moment . See how they adapt to showing their work in front of a room of other photographers. The idea of giving a talk on the other hand is a bit daunting. I can see that if you had positive feedback from your talk it would massively lift your confidence but I feel already that showing my work in uni presentations leaves me feeling very vulnerable but as part of my personal development plan there is no need not to confront this . As part of the workshops for this brief we have one based around our portfolios. I feel like that on completing either a draft or polished portfolio maybe then I can attend a Hothouse and see what people think. Now I have more information on Redeye and what it does I am going to start looking into a membership (especially whilst I can still get student prices) and also keeping up to date with its website to see what’s going on .