Guest Lecturer - Tracy Marshall - February 25th
Tracy Marshal is most profoundly known for her work with Northern Narratives; an outlet that focuses on documentary Photography from the north of the UK. In her guest lecture with us, Tracy talked about her work in the recent years, most recently her Photo Festival around Bristol. However, Marshall has galleries and work all over the UK, including the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool high includes the very impressive project “209 Women” which surrounding the journey of 209 female photographers who took portraits of 209 female politicians.
Tracy talked to use about the importance of fund raising, and how helpful it can be for putting on a show or exhibition. Some of the most effective ways to fund raise are explained below.
Outcome / Resource / Brand
before asking for funding, think about the allocation of your event and how it will benefit the community.
Campaign / Long Term Goals
mention what your monthly goals up until the event, and what will come afterwards
With our exhibition in a few months, as a class we are looking into being sponsored by Ripe Digital or Bath Spa University. Some of these simple, effective techniques could really help use reach our goal.
Tracy Marshall went on to talk about her longer projects, my personal favourite being her work with Northern Narratives and the community herself and other creators have built surrounding the documentation of current world issues. Tracy and I talked for a while about our experiences in a Northern Ireland, being from Belfast she had a lot of political agendas to discuss. I remember driving around the street of Belfast, with advertisement and signs everywhere promoting new city councillors, we laughed how obscene that would be if in the UK. I showed her my 35mm photos from my time there in 2017, my girlfriend and I go ever summer to visit her family. She liked how different Limavady and Belfast are, but the language the photos portrayed with the deep history still spoke through. I also had chance to show her my most recent project at the time; my book “Banshee” and the first Zine, I talked through the ideas behind the projects and how the collaboration works in a book form, she seemed very impressed and gave some compliments about the photos and layout. After our session with her, she asked if I could send her a copy of a my book for her to distribute to other photographers, I will really happy to be asked this as only one other student had their work requested. I told Tracy she could keep the copy we looked at, and that I would send her a PDF copy the next day. So far, nothing has come from this interaction, however I am not upset about this. Being very new to the real working world, I need to network as much as possible. Having my book in the hands of someone as well regarded in the industry as Tracy Marshall is a really good feeling.