As it is our final year, we have been advised to start thinking about graduate jobs and what career pathway we want to take when we graduate in the summer. I have signed up for many graduate job websites including :

• Targetjobs
• Trovit
• Milkround
• The Dots

I am constantly getting emails from each of these websites with new graduate jobs appearing daily. I have been trying to think about exactly what area of photography I would like to go into as this has drastically changed since I started University. Since completing my project on the Street Pastor’s in Bath, I have wanted to work with charities and continue to work as a documentary photographer. To achieve this, I have continued to work with the Genesis Trust (a local Bath charity) as their paid photographer, as well as completing projects surrounding political and social-realism documentary photography. These include my project ‘Centenary’ where I photographed 100 women in celebration of the 100 year anniversary of women gaining the vote. I have also submitted a project working with Cerebral Palsy Plus (a charity in Bristol) as well as my current project which has me working with charities in Bath and Boston, Lincolnshire. I believe that all of this experience will be a positive step forward for me and my photography career and something that I will be able to include on my professional C.V.

Thinking about my professional C.V. :

James delivered a lecture to us discussing the importance of our professional C.V. and making it as precise and concise as we possibly could. We started to write our C.V.s all together during the lecture, just so that we would know how to start them and make them read as professionally as possible. I thought back to all of the photography jobs that I had undertaken in the past, not just at university but also in my gap year running up to university. I also thought back to the past exhibitions that I had worked on with the rest of the exhibition team as this would be something that I could include within my C.V. James gave us some tips to think about including in our C.V:

From this, I began to write my own professional C.V. to start to upload them onto the graduate job websites:

Lucy Slade

Mobile : 07824505183

Email : lucyjoslade@gmail.com

Website: lucyjoanneslade.co.uk

Profile

I see photography as a powerful platform for change, although I am based in the South West of England, the projects that I do take me all over the country through the gravitational pull of my passion for documenting lives and story telling. Much of my practice focuses around documentary and portrait photography where I focus on story telling through a journalistic approach. 

Professional Career History

Freelance Photographer : paid work with Genesis Trust Charity
September 2016 - present

Sports Photographer : paid work for Bath Spa AU teams

Clients 

Genesis Trust, Bath

Cerebral Palsy Plus, Bristol

Exhibitions / Achievements

Second Year group Exhibition :
Walcot Chapel, Bath
15th May, 2018

BA Photography Third Year Exhibition :
Curating and exhibiting team
Walcott Chapel, Bath
18th February, 2019

Bath Spa Degree Show, June 2019

Form Exhibition Graduate Show, June 2019

Exhibition Committee - final year degree show in London. 

Responsibilities includes curating, fundraising and setting up the exhibition

Background work

The Mall, Woodhall Spa 2014-2016

The Dower House Hotel, Woodhall Spa 2015-2016

St James’ Wine Vaults, Bath 2017-Present

Work Experience

RAF Coningsby : Photography Department

Skills

Strong knowledge of aspects of digital workflow, in particular the Adobe suite: Photoshop

Indesign

Lightroom

Bridge

Further Skills:

Final Cut Pro 

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Powerpoint 

Excel

Qualifications

A levels :
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
2013-2015

BA Photography Degree :
Bath Spa University
2016-2019

References

Genesis Trust Charity : Vitalie Duporge

St James’ Wine Vaults : Mandy Connor

I need to work on my C.V. and talk to people about referencing and equally expand on the past jobs that I have done in the photography sector. I will look at my other C.V. for this so I am able to include the exact dates that I have been working in particular places.