I Leave My Mark

On the 21st May I was asked to do a favour  to photographer Jon Silver who is the official photographer of the charity but wasn't able to make it to photograph an afternoons of work. Jon is the photographer who helped my passion for photography grow and the person who taught me how to use my first camera so when he asked me I was quite honoured that he asked a 17 year old amateur to do the job for him :)

The aim of this charity is to work with other charities and raise money to put towards the help of children who have suffered childhood traumas, which include accidents, abuse, loss of parents or a brother or sister, drugs or alcohol in the home or family, serious illnesses and bullying. All you have to do is give £1 and then if you want leave your fingerprint. Their aim is t create the largest collection of fingerprints and have decided to create a child's face using them.

It a fun afternoon seeing how they were all so committed to the work that they were doing and that children's TV presenter Dave Benson Phillips came down to help and leave his mark.

Here are some of my pictures from the afternoon :)

They even had somewhere for doggies to leave their mark :)

As you can see Dave made the afternoon really enjoyable and brought a smile to everyone's face

If you want to read more about the afternoon here is a link to a post Debbie Brown put on their website.: http://www.ileavemymark.co.uk/?p=1402

Busy Busy Busy

Just to start off so sorry for the massive gap between updates :( Firstly the exhibition went really well and a lot of people that attended said that mine was the best because it actually fit wit the theme of tribe. The only annoying thing about the exhibition was that we had no input into how the images were displayed and it ended up that they were just put on wire which distorted the images slightly but overall it was a good evening!

I have been so busy lately and have covered 4 different events which where an afternoon documenting the efforts of the charity I Leave My Mark, photographing a contemporary dance show called Breaking Boundaries which our college had set up and done all the marketing and website for, following a St Johns group up to London on St Johns Day and finally doing my first wedding ever!! I will be doing separate posts for each thing so hope your looking forward to hearing about them :) 

Here are some pictures from my exhibition.

Finals

After about two lessons of looking through and editing my images I have finally chosen my finals which are to be displayed in a cafe which is dedicated to photography. Although we only have one image that is going to be printed and mounted which is annoying it will be nice to have something of mine displayed.

Here is my print image

Here are my images which are going to be projected onto the wall in the cafe

Two more visits

Over the last few weeks I went into the tattoo shop two more times and managed to have to good shoots and able to get a couple of really good photos from them.

As I have taken more photographs I have realised that my project has ended up focusing on one particular tattoo artist in the shop and one person she is working on.

My tattoo

After spending an afternoon with the staff of Wizard of Ink I decided that I was going to get my first tattoo! It had been something I've been contemplating for a while and knew that I wanted to get it done there. I went in there on Wednesday and had it done, I was so nervous! But I did it and was pleasantly surprised by how little it hurt compared to how much I thought it would.

First meeting

Finally I was able to get a place that was willing to take me which as Wizard of Ink along Lewes Road

I went in there on Friday 18th and ended up spending a few good hours in there talking to the staff and watching how they work. Unfortunately the day I went in was very quite due to the rain so I wasn't able to get a wide variety of different shots but I was please to be able to get to know the staff in there and was welcomed back anytime I wanted :)

Here are a few of the shots I got.