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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

China | Monday, January 14, 2013 | 5 photos

My Father, to protect his own camera, gave me a box brownie when I was 8, I wish I could say I have been taking pictures ever since. I studied commercial & advertising photography for 2 years but never found work in the industry. Life got in the way, and I lost my creativity outlet for far too long. I was a solo Mum struggling to put food on the table let alone film in the camera. I found myself looking at ‘winning’ shots I had taken in the past as if they belonged to a former life that was lost forever until a few years ago, I was in the Kimberley and had an epiphany when I took a shot which awoke my passions once again, so I’m like a born again photographer.

6 years ago I resigned from my job & tried to launch my own business concentrating on fine art landscapes. I had a few exhibitions and my work was well received but I haven’t sold much so it was financially disasterous.
To have the opportunity to learn from Jason Edwards would indeed be an honour. I would hope that such and opportunity would help me achieve two ambitions, a National Geographic cover shot and the confidence to become a freelance travel photographer.