{"id":1799,"date":"2019-10-18T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:25:52","slug":"portrait-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I sometimes question myself and my reasoning when I am out and about shooting personal work (that’s work I shoot just for myself with no third party brief and, no pay). It usually involves people I’ve met or approached who I think would make for an interesting portrait. My self doubt arises, usually when it’s cold, dark, wet and miserable and I’m lugging my gear around on my own (which I do for most of my personal work – it keeps me grounded by reminding me what it’s like to be an assistant again). It’s often further exacerbated when my subject asks me why I want to take their photo and what am I going to do with it? The very lovely Mrs Griffiths even went as far as to say that I couldn’t be a very busy photographer as nobody would want to buy her picture!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait of Mrs Griffiths, who was part of my 28 Days In February<\/a> project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

But every now and then something happens that make me feel it’s all been worth it. This time it was an email from the Portrait Salon<\/a> to say that one of my images had been selected for their exhibitions at the Royal Photographic Society<\/a> in Bristol and at the Photo North Festival<\/a> in Harrogate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not the first time I’ve been in the Portrait Salon as last year the image below of Trevor<\/a> got in, and what made it even more satisfying is that it was voted for by the public, and anyone with an eye on my social media<\/a> following will now that I wasn’t able to call on thousands of followers to vote for mine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait of Trevor in his workshop, voted for by the public for Portrait Salon 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year though I had my portrait of a bell ringer chosen by renowned photographer Peter Dench<\/a>, who was curating this years awards, and Peter is a photographer whose work I have long admired and enjoyed as his work has a real sense of humour. It is always very reassuring when your work is selected by your peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait of Roger, Tower Captain which was selected for Portrait Salon 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a pause, I am about to recommence my bell ringers project<\/a> and fresh from this success, and filled with enthusiasm I will now tackle the narrow spiral steps that lead up to most ringing chambers with a renewed sense of vigour and optimism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sometimes question myself and my reasoning when I am out and about shooting personal work (that’s work I shoot just for myself with no third party brief and, no pay). It usually involves people I’ve met or approached who I think would make for an interesting portrait. My self doubt arises, usually when it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,115],"tags":[6,92],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition-2","category-portraits","tag-portrait","tag-portrait-salon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y0F3-t1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}