On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 05:21 pm, Brian Seed wrote:
If my teaching experience has taught me anything it is that if the students
have a burning desire to be photographers they will probably make it. I also learned that my preliminary judgements of� students abilities and their work will likely be proved wrong in the long term. And, I learned that what was a wasted pitch was the academic teaching of photography by instructors who have never earned a living with a camera.
Dear Brian
I too have done some part-time teaching in the past. The students who succeeded most were the ones who followed me to the pub for lunch.
I think it is interesting to look back at the assistants I have employed and seen their early potential.
Graham Ford was a messenger when I offered him a job as my assistant. Another assistant, who I took straight from college, Bernard Pearson became Managing Director of Pinewood Studios. Chris Holden is a photographer somewhere in the USA and forgave me for firing him when he later assisted me as a freelance. I have lost track of some like Chris Stephens who went on to be a partner in an ad agency. Of course the freelance assistants I used had already self chosen themselves.
The fellow assistants I worked with in a big studio when I was an assistant included Jhon Kevern & Christopher Joyce.
It is interesting also to see the number of highly rated photographers I have known who have decided to retire rather than convert to large format digital capture. Perhaps this has made room for new entrants?
Yours
Bob
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