Blog Posts
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Exploring Post Graduate Options: What’s Next?
May 6, 2025
Throughout my final year, I have been considering possible paths to progress in the future. I have still been working at Wild Ginger Photography (where I did my placement year) part-time time and it has always been an option for me to stay full-time after I’ve finished my degree, however…
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From Personal Projects to Professional Passion: Reflecting on My Final Year Journey
May 5, 2025
As I reach the end of my final year, I have been reflecting on the past year and how much I’ve grown professionally as a photographer. This year has been a lot about learning and experimentation, and over this year, I have developed many transferrable skills that I can carry…
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The Journey of Creating my Photobook
May 3, 2025
The journey of creating a photobook has been very challenging, but I am so glad I persevered and stuck with it. I feel very happy looking at the final book and knowing I created it myself! There were many times along the process I felt tempted to order one online…
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Projecting Grief: Can Grief be a Catalyst for Creativity?
April 20, 2025
Whilst at the PhotoNorth Festival, I found a project called Projecting Grief, which is a project that consists of photographs and interviews with various people, looking at the relationship between grief and creativity. It shows different people’s journeys and how their creative hobby has helped to give them comfort. At…
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PhotoNorth Festival: Breaking into the Industry
April 14, 2025
When visiting the PhotoNorth Festival, there was opportunity to see various work that was on display, speak to various companies and listen to a really interesting talk from Channel 4
This talk was all about young people breaking into the industry, and although it was primarily based on their apprenticeship…
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Portfolio Review Insights
March 25, 2025
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For this portfolio review, I spoke to two industry professionals- Tom Duffield and Roz Doherty. I had the choice of four people, and I picked these two as I felt they would be best to look at my work as their own practice is most similar to my own.
When…
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A New Perspective from Victoria Tower
March 20, 2025
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My final year project ‘Always’ (working title) has Huddersfield at its core, symbolised by Castle Hill. Within this project, Castle Hill represents a place that is revisited, symbolising how loved ones who are no longer with us continue to watch over us.
I have taken many photographs up at Castle…
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Tom Duffield on ‘Moving from the Personal to the Professional’
March 3, 2025
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We had a talk from Tom Duffield as part of our current module. Tom Duffield is a photographer, researcher, and a previous alumni from the University of Huddersfield. In this talk, he discussed his transition from personal to professional work, focusing on his most recent project, ‘Poppy Promises, ’ and…
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Portfolio Reviews at the Impressions Gallery
February 23, 2025
I went to a portfolio review at the Impressions Gallery in Bradford to gain some new opinions and insights into other people’s views of my work. As this was the first one I had done, I was quite nervous as I wasn’t fully sure what to expect! I prepared a…
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Placement Year: My Journey from Assistant to Photographer
February 15, 2025
Before my final year, I decided to complete a placement year to help me on my professional journey as a photographer. I did my placement year at Wild Ginger Photography (WGP), which is a family-run photography business, with a key focus on family and children photography. This studio is also…
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The ‘Nationhood: Memory and Hope’ Exhibition
February 7, 2025
As part of a university trip, we visited the ‘Nationhood: Memory and Hope’ exhibition at the Impressions Gallery in Bradford. This exhibition is a collection of different styles of works by various photographers and shows
“powerful and poignant photography celebrating the diversity of the UK today. It is a love…
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A Little Bit About Me!
February 1, 2025
Hello! My name is Sarah Loveland, a 22-year-old photographer, currently working part-time at a family photography studio whilst completing the final year of my photography degree. This series of blog posts are going to be a diary of experiences throughout my final year, looking at the process of creating my…
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