Jason Bell Photography

Jason Bell
I love this photographers work; the simple, amazing portraiture!
I also particularly like his website design; simple, but stunning! I would like to have a very simple design/layout for my website, although not a flash site such as what this one is.

Jason started as a photographer in 1990. His portraits appear regularly in many editorial publications including Vanity Fair, Vogue US & UK, Men's Vogue, Sunday Times Magazine, GQ, Arena, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Spin and Rolling Stone. He has worked on many film posters including Billy Elliot, About A Boy, Millions, Love Actually, Bridget Jones 2, Golden Compass and the upcoming films Accidental Husband and Inkheart. His work is also in the National Portrait Gallery collection. In 1998 he was awarded Best British Black & White Photographer at the British Picture Editors' Awards. In 2000 his book "Gold Rush - Athletes Photographed by Jason Bell" was published by Dewi Lewis to coincide with the Sydney Olympics. The project was also exhibited in galleries in London, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Berlin, Munich, Athens and Sydney. A permanent exhibition of the work is planned at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. In 2002 he was shortlisted for the Kobal Award and was overall winner in the BBC Music Photo Competition. His second book "Hats Off" was also published in 2002. In aid of the charity Mentality, which promotes mental health awareness, the book features many of the world's leading celebrities all photographed in hats. In 2004 he was a winner in the US National Press Photographers Association 'Best of Journalism Contest' in the Magazine Portrait & Personality section for his work for Time Magazine. His third book "GiveGet" was also published in 2004. The book was in aid of Cancer Research UK and featured celebrity portraits connected with the idea of giving clothes. The GiveGet project has so far raised over 1.25 million pounds for Cancer Research. In 2006 The Royal Photographic Society gave him The Terence Donovan Award for an outstanding contribution to photography. In 2008 he was winner in the Best Single Advertising Image category at the New York Photo Awards for his work for the Royal Opera House. Jason lives in New York and London.

Photographers.co.uk

Photographers.co.uk

A brilliant website to look for photography jobs in the country. That is the draw back...it is a national website and not local and therefore sometimes takes a while to drawl through the different listings, but there are some exciting opportunities listed!

Here is a listing I found which sounds interesting!:

Editorial Photographers

Company: Bear Publishing

Description: I am a freelance creative writer. I specialise in writing articles, reviews stories and features for subjects such as: Art, Fashion, Design and Culture. I'm looking to collaborate with Photographers or Illustrators for editorial magazine content. Example magazines include: Vice, ID, SuperSuper, Interior Design, Blueprint, Art & Architecture, Dazed & Confused, Pop, The Face etc... etc... If you can prodcue high quality iamges for magazines such as these then please send a link with your up to date work. If you are not familar with at least half of these titles, please do not apply. If you would like to collaborate and work on stories and articles for publications please get in touch. Kind Regards, Mark

County/Area: UK

Contact: Mark
Email: Click to email
Date Posted: 12/May/2010

Adrain Turner- Local Photographer

Adrian Turner is based in Brighton. He is one of the best established photography companies in the area. Again, this is a company that I will send my information to, in order to find out if they have any open opportunities.

Web Developer Job Desciption

(Sourced from Prospects.ac.uk)


Web developer: Job description and activities

Web designers are responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website. This role may overlap with that of a Multimedia programmer and web architect. Using a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge of how web pages are created, the work involves:

• liaising closely with a customer or client at the design stage and finding the answers to questions about why the site is needed, who the target audience will be, who the leading competitors are, etc;
• producing a design that will be attractive to the target user, has a logical navigation system and has all the features required;
• writing web pages in a combination of codes, such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript, ColdFusion, .Net, Flash, or using code-generating programs, such as Dreamweaver and Visual Studio;
• deciding on how images and other material will be digitally optimised and presented for the web;
• ensuring that material on the web site is accessible to all groups including those with disabilities;
• testing the site for functionality in different browsers and at different resolutions;
• fixing errors.

Web designers will have knowledge of graphic design packages such as Fireworks or Photoshop in order to produce basic layout and manipulate images. Skills in e-commerce and server side technologies, such as PHP and .Net, and internet security are also important. As users gain faster access to the internet via broadband, web designers with skills in multimedia and interactivity are likely to be in greater demand.

Garage Studios

Garage Studios, Brighton- A local, very exciting, vibrant photography studio situated in the heart of Brighton. I am going to send off a CV to this company at the end of the week, to see what response I get. I want to see if they have any internship opportunities or work experience. I also have a list of other local photography companies, including AnimNation Ltd and Adrian Turner, also Brighton Based companies.

Gumtree!

Another Amazing place to look for local jobs in the Brighton and surrounding areas. It is also a good place to find non paid work experience and perfect for opportunities for building on portfolio work.
There area quite a few people advertising for photographers to carry out small, unpaid projects for them. I am going to keep my eyes open at posting son Gumtree, for future opportunities!

Gumtree Brighton Media and creative Jobs

Wired Sussex

An amazing website!
I have already look at many exciting job opportunities on Wired Sussex, even if they aren't want I am looking for...they just sound so exciting!
I did apply for one job on the Wired Sussex Website... It was for a part time talent scout for a photography company in Brighton. I did get a response back very shortly after sending my application. They informed Me that they had had some any applications that they wouldn't be able to use mind at this moment in time, but would keep my CV on record for the future.

Talent Scout - in Creative Dep - Trevillon Images

Closing date: 31/05/2010

Brighton And Hove

Trevillion Images is a leading international image library famous for its creative, atmospheric photography.

Job Description:
We are currently looking for assistance in our Creative Department. Working closely with the Creative Director, the role would involve sourcing new photographers via the internet, with a view to their placing their images with our archive. Start date: As soon as possible Days: Part-time - 2 days per week Hours: 9:30 – 5:30 Location: Central Brighton/Hove Salary: To be discussed
Skills Range:
Candidates must have knowledge of: 1) Photography 2) Working with Mac Computers 3) Internet research and all latest social networking sites 4) Good written English 5) Organised, efficient with good record keeping skills
Salary:	To be discussed
How to apply:
Please email application full CV and covering letter to: Annalisa Khan, Library Manager at info@trevillion.com
Contact Name:	Annalisa Khan
Company:	Trevillon Images
Email Address:	info@trevillion.com
Website:	http://www.trevillion.com

No agencies please

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David Bailey- Portraits

Will Smith, Los Angeles, 1997
Jack Nicholson, London, 1984



I have always admired David Baileys portraiture work. I Love the expressions he has captured on many well known faces., in particular the "loud" Jack Nicholson and Will Smiths signature feature, His ears... Very inspiring!


(Sourced http://pdngallery.com/legends/bailey/bio.shtml)


David Bailey, born in 1938 in London's East End, says that as a youth he had very limited choices in the job market. "You could become a boxer, a car thief, or maybe a musician."

David Bailey

Photographer wasn't on the list and seemed an even dimmer possibility after Bailey's failed early efforts to take snapshots with the family's Brownie camera. Instead, he pretty much did anything and everything else to make money: carpet salesman, tallyman, shoe salesman, window-dresser. . . . It was only after being posted to Singapore while in the British Royal Air Force in 1956 that Bailey started getting more immersed in the field of photography. He discovered the work of Henri Cartier Bresson, which greatly inspired him, and started voraciously poring through copies of LIFE and various American photo journals. In 1957 he bought his first camera. "I was smitten, and gradually the prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable."

After finishing his national service in 1958, Bailey secured a job with David Olin, who was then the main supplier of photos to Queen Magazine. In 1959 he became an assistant to fashion photographer John French in London. In 1960, at 22, he was already working as a freelancer for British Vogue, and soon became almost as famous as the people he was photographing: fashion designer Mary Quant, and everyone who was involved in Bazaar, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, The Who, singers Marianne Faithfull and Sandie Shaw, actresses Mia Farrow, Catherine Deneuve and Geraldine Chaplin, actors Peter Sellers and Michael Caine, and models Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy and Penelope Tree. Bailey also photographed the period's current fashions on the streets of London and New York for magazines like American Vogue and Glamour. "I wanted to be like Fred Astaire, but I couldn«t, so instead I went for the next best thing, which was to be a fashion photographer."

Bailey's career and personal life seemed to thrive during the Heyday of the "Swinging Sixties," and while at times the public seemed more interested in his colorful exploits than in his photography, it is his work which really speaks for itself and withstands the test of time. In the past, he's cited Picasso as being his greatest inspiration. "The first half of the century belongs to Picasso and the second half belongs to photography. These days everyone is called an artist from Madonna to someone who can hold a paintbrush, but it is Picasso who really started the whole thing off and made me want to go and take pictures." And in the past 40 years Bailey has held steadfast to the way in which he take pictures: Black-and-white, minimalist, very graphic with high contrasts between lighter values and darker tones, and shot on a variety of formats. "I take the same approach today as I did when I started.I've always hated silly pictures and gimmicks, which is all I see these days, or, to put it another way, 'the Avant Garde has gone to Kmart."

All told, Bailey has written and produced countless books, directed films, arranged photographic shows and made commercials. His book Goodbye Baby and Amen is the complete record of his work and captures the decade he first flourished in, with portraits of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, as well as actresses, politicians, artists and writers of the day. His first book of portraits, David Bailey's Box of Pin-ups, was published in 1965. David Bailey's Rock and Roll Heroes, 1997, showcases more than 80 of his most vivid images of the pop scene from the 1960s on - images of Mick Jagger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and The Who - and also includes more recent photographs of recording artists like Seal, Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Sting, and Dave Stewart. Two noteworthy films are Beaton by Bailey, 1971, and Andy Warhol, 1973. In 1984 there was a major retrospective of his work at Manhattan's International Center of Photography, and in 1999 another major show, "The Birth of the Cool," at London's Barbican Centre.

David Bailey, Archive One 1957-1969, published in 1999, includes the bulk of his early fashion and portraiture work, but also unearths some photojournalistic gems taken in the early Sixties, mostly of London's East End. Today, Bailey's still going strong and shows no signs of slowing down. His most recent work includes portraits and celebrity shoots for Harper's Bazaar, Italian Vogue, The London Times and Talk magazine, among other publications.

Job Descriptions

I started my research, by looking into the expected job roles of different media based jobs:

(Sourced from Prospects.ac.uk)

Photographer: Job description and activities

Job description

Photographers create permanent visual images for an exceptionally wide range of creative, technical and documentary purposes. A professional photographer usually works to a brief set by the client or employer. Examples of image content include wedding, family and baby photographs, fashion, food, architecture, corporate photography, war zones and landscapes.

Most professional photographers specialise in one area, such as fine art, fashion, advertising, editorial or social photography. Around half of all professional photographers are self-employed. The remainder work for a wide range of employers, including creative businesses, publishers and photographic agencies, or in the education or public sector.

Typical work activities

Work activities vary according to specialisation. However, common activities for most photographers include:

• working with clients to discuss the images they require and how they want to use them;



• seeking out appropriate photographic subjects and opportunities;


• carrying out research and preparation for a shoot;


• working in different locations, and in different circumstances, to get the right image;


• using an extensive range of technical equipment, including cameras, lenses, lighting and specialist software;


• communicating with photographic subjects, putting them at ease, encouraging them and directing them;


• arranging still life objects, products, scenes, props and backgrounds;



• liaising with other professionals, including graphic designers, writers, gallery managers, picture researchers, commissioning editors and art directors;


• managing the processing and use of images, discussing technical problems, checking for quality and dealing with clients' concerns;


• preparing proofs for approval;


• compiling finished products for sale, including albums and framed prints, for example;


• understanding traditional film and digital photography and keeping up to date with industry trends, developments and new techniques;


• developing expertise with software to digitally enhance images by, for example, changing emphasis, cropping pictures, correcting minor faults, or moving objects around;



• managing the business aspects of the work, including administration, scheduling work, invoicing and basic accounting;


• developing a good portfolio, building a network of contacts, and achieving a reputation for quality and reliability, in order to secure future assignments;


• self-marketing by, for example, producing business cards, postcards and promotional materials, and creating and maintaining a website.

Many graduates start out as a photographer's assistant, spending a great deal of time on routine administration and helping out around the studio.

Grading Criteria

As part of our grading criteria for the unit AF304: Personal and Professional development,we have to show our own awareness of the career paths available within the creative industries.
My main interest is in photography, and therefore I have mainly focused on what options there are available to take to kick start a career in this field. I am also quite interested in web design, but my knowledge isn't yet sufficient to be competent in taking on a a job role in the web design industry.
I have started my research, by looking in to job descriptions, particularly for photographers and photographers assistants.
I then went on to research into local media job advertisements, to see what is available at this moment in time, particularly in the Brighton or Eastbourne area. I don't particularly want to move away at this moment in time from the local area, but this may be a possibility in the future.
I have also researched into leading photographers in the field, especially portrait and documentary photographers, as this is what i would like to specialise in.
In this blog, I have also included my current promotional medias and my intentions for future personal promotion.