Exciting news!

It's time for a long overdue update!

Degree show went well - it was nice to hear what people thought of the work, and get some time to stick my nose into a few good books!

During the degree show, I was invited to apply for a MFA in Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois.  On Monday I found out that my application has been accepted!!  All going well, I'm hoping to move out there at the end of next month, to get myself settled in time for Orientation week, and classes starting in mid-August.  You can read more about the course here.  Whilst I'm there, I'm hoping to continue with my photography and also explore video.

I will also have a Teaching Assistantship, which I am super excited about!  I have always wanted to teach at a College or University.

The course is three years long, so for the next three years I will be living in the United States!  I have always wanted to move over there, for as long as I can remember, so I am very excited!  I probably wont have much chance to come back to Scotland during that time, but I'm hoping I can manage at least one or two big trips - I will really miss my family and friends over here, but am super excited about what adventures await me!

The next month or so will be very busy, but I will be sure to try and keep my blog updated.

DJCAD Degree Show 2013

Photographs of my final set up for degree show;

I have to confess, I'm feeling a bit lost now its all over!

DJCAD Degree Show 2013 - Website

The DJCAD Degree Show website can be viewed here.  If you search carefully you'll find my profile ;)

It has been a lovely week end - very, very surreal.  I have been wanting to come to Art College since I was in primary school, and have always looked forward to the degree show.

After all the effort, exhaustion, tears, highs and lows I am very, very pleased with how my show  turned out, and my result.  I've always felt that dundee has been a bit bitter sweet for me, but I would never change my time at DoJ for anything.

It's nice to finally sit down, have a wee chat, and read a good book.  I will post some of my personal favourites later on in the week.

Fourth Year, Easter Holiday

The past few weeks have been very quite for me.  The bonus of printing digitally is that they are handed over a good few weeks before any deadlines, to allow the company to print them!  They are all loaded into the back of the car, ready to head back up to Dundee tomorrow afternoon.  Everything is in place, and now its just a case of sorting out my space, and hanging my show.  A week on Monday were into our spaces!

I have spent the past few weeks reflecting on what has been an amazing academic year, and one I will be very, very sad to see the end of.  I am going to really miss having a studio with so many people, and going to Art College every day.  I have loved my time at DoJ, and I owe a lot of people a very big 'Thank You' for making it all possible.  If you had asked me what I was expecting from this year, I would never have imagined that it would be what I have produced!

I dont expect to be posting too much else on here until after the degree show, but in the mean time my website can be viewed here.

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 11

This week I submitted my entry for the Magnum competition with IdeasTap.com, which can be viewed here.

I have been working on my book, and think it is more or less finalised, apart from the finer details, and some technical issues.  Once its done it can be purchased online and delivered, or via e-book ;)

I will have my sample strips from the printers back on Monday.  I might be going home next week after my tutorial to reshoot some images to stitch them together for one large print, but I'm still not sure about that...

"What changes when you are there before my eyes is that you become unpredictable.  What you are about to do is unknown to me.  I follow you.  You act.  And with what you do, I fall in love again."

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 9

This week I bought my domain name:

www.janeflynnphotography.com

I still have some final photographs to add, and need to upload a personal statement, then it will be more or less finished.

We found our degree show spaces out on Thursday afternoon - I am in the General Foundation studios, and I got the exact corner that I was hoping for, so I am very chuffed with that!

I sent some sample strips away to the printers in Edinburgh yesterday, and they should be with me in about 10 days.  All going well, I now only have to make the final tweaks to the images, and then send them to the printers!  I am thinking of reshooting one of my images so that I can enlarge it even bigger than I had originally planned, and have it as the main focal point of my final show, but I'm still not 100% sure about that.  I hope the samples I am getting done will help me make a final decision about this!.

I am entering the Jill Todd Photographic Award, and an award on Ideas Tap, so I have been busy working on my submissions over the past week or so.  Hopefully I will get them finalised and submitted this coming week.  By total coincidence, both the titles for these are 'Home', so I am feeling quite confident about what I am submitting!

My business cards arrived this morning, and everything is finally coming together... 6 weeks on Monday we get access to our degree show spaces!

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 8

This week has been a total write off, but I today I spent some time on my website;

http://janeflynnphotography.weebly.com/

I still have a lot more photos, and journals to scan and edit, but that wont be happening for a wee while yet.  Once I have all my work on there, I will purchase a domain name and order some business cards!

Gathering all my work together has been a mammoth task, and I still feel like I have so much more to do.  I had no idea up until now how much work I did on my Gran.  It has been a strange day today reading through one of my journals - I should make some more.