Finding the Time!

When ever anyone asks the question, hows your Masters going. My response is always the same, primarily good, enjoying the creative freedom, tutorials and being able to do my research taylored to me. Which does mean spending ages reading books, writing notes and going to lectures. The freetime to take photographs is very much limited, particularly seeing that my work is primarily studio based. But one thing for sure is and all my fellow students are also having the problem is managing this course and having to work, which takes up another large section of my time.

As none of us have a massive £20'000 grand checked rolled up our sleeves, working is essential in order to survive, and in some repects slightly more important. as this is what I and everyone else rely on to pay rent, bills, council tax, food and not to mention anything I need to do on my course. Thats not to say my masters isn't a priority; its my number ONE priority, without it I may as well move back into my parents house in Cambridge, and find part time work there. Okay so Starbucks isn't my ambition, and I certainly don't want to be there in five years time, but in many ways I am very lucky to have it. For starters its a job, which many of my fellow BA graduates are stuggling to get (some of whom are setting up there own buisness), and ultimatley money is money, secondly it is a job that I have been promoted in, therefore more money (eventually), and also there is a team of some amazing people. Many of whom I have grown to love.

At the moment, I have taken holiday time off in order to find the time to really get cracking with my course, hopefully write my essay so its done before christmas, and really build on my research, and shock horror, shoot!

yet another photograph

this semester Anna ...

... I shall be photographing something, yet nothing.

AF: explain?!

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Text and Image workshop

6 word autobiography

went bankrupt after four photography degrees

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and so the MFA continues ...

Masters!

Well, I think I may be sort of properly starting my Masters in Photography, tomorrow. 

These past couple of weeks I have had a somewhat patronising and painful time. Firstly, Induction week - for the things I already know. Then when my real introductions began, low and behold I have a non-negociable wisdom tooth extraction to have. So I have had a somewhat painful day today. :( and I have more to come 

However after much trying to understand my timetable and the lectures I do have, and some e-mails my first lecture begins 10.30 tomoz. So early 6am start on the train to get back to Farnham in time! Should be excellent though studying (or should I say researching) of the 'photographic referent'. Then having more lectures on Curating and Exhibition practice, and writing my research aims, for 'Experimental Practices' unit.

All of a sudden I have become so busy. 

A Photograph!

MA Timetable

I have my new MA Timetable, which seems to tell me nothing about whats going on.

there seems to be a unit called "Curation and Exhibition practice" and "Contextual Perspectives 1". I get the feeling that this is a very general timetable for more that one course, and not subject specific. Ultimately I have know idea.

Postgrad Solutions... I love you

After a couple of months off from uni, I am dying to get back into the fold of studying and learning. Quite frankly this is what I love doing and comming into Uni gives me a purpose. Also I am seriously lacking some structure in my life, and when I'm not at work, I'm slowly becomming a bum. This is not a good thing.

After much on again off again desperate searching for funding that seems disinterested in supporting anyone who is postgrad, working in the arts, who is underr 25 (apparently I should be still dependent on mum and dad, despite being 22) who isn't an ethnic minority, who's parents should over lived in a very specific remote village, and my surname should be Kentish! yes Kentish.

After a chat with Martin, who in a nutshell, said "keep at it", I have decided to do another trawl through the old funding search engines again, and fortunatly found 'Postgrad Solutions', who don't seem to think that my mother should have been born in the middle of nowhere is important in giving me some finantual support. It is purely judged on my powers of persausion, in setting a good case as to why I need the money more than they do. Hazar!

Now I need to do is to make this case, so amazing that they cannot resist! oh an in less than 200 words of course.