I am currently a student.
Struggling for money. 6 hours sleep per night, at most. Eating canned soup for lunch 5/7 days per week. Using any positive/negative opportunity to have a drink. Working part time at the weekends.
I am a photographer based in Norwich, UK.
This blog is for me to express my inner thoughts, my inspiration, essentially a documentation of my life.
Not only can this be influential to myself, but hopefully to others who may read this.
Up until this point, my life has not been an easy ride, but then again, who's life has!?
University life is exactly how I expected, ups and downs, but one thing that was very noticeable, was that A levels, I found, were worse.
Time and time again, I will always stir people away from doing A levels if they can afford to, talent is not based on grades, and I will always stand by this.
If I knew I wanted to be a photographer from the beginning, I would of gone straight to a specialist college to do photography and only photography, but that wasn't the case, and that is generally the case for most 16/17 year olds.
I ended up going through an art foundation year, which eventually confirmed my career path.
Many young people, have no clue at what they want to do, or what they will end up doing in the future.
Even with my traumatic record, I consider myself very lucky to have finally discovered a path that I can continue with and happily so.
I won't lie, I still get stressed. Photography is a lot of work, art subjects in general are considered an easy way out, but they are not.
The amount of thought that goes into any art work, what ever medium is used, is so extraordinary.
It's something I have learned on the way, I work just as hard, if not harder, than the Biology and Chemistry A level, I so regret choosing.
As I write this first blog post, I'm sitting at my childhood home, where I haven't stayed in over a month, with a glass of wine, after an intense deadline week.
No matter how many times someone tells me that the first year doesn't count towards your final degree, I will never see it like that.
I am a perfectionist, I want to perfect every single criteria that is expected of me. This can be a bad thing, this can be a good thing. I'm visiting my home town for a short 3 days. I have work on the weekends back in Norwich, money I wish I didn't have to work for, but I am so used to being on the go all the time, it is almost unnerving being back home with nothing to do.
As an introverted individual, I find it difficult to express my opinions, to speak in front of others. No matter how many times I do this during group crits, I will always get awfully nervous beforehand. I want to use this blog as a platform for my opinions, on anything and everything. Anyone who may read with could agree or disagree, but I do enjoy a healthy debate.
Not only this, I hope some of the thoughts I post can be relatable to others. I know I am not alone in what I experience, both mentally and physically, no matter how much I sometimes convince myself I am.
I'll see you all very soon.
Lorna x
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