#91 ‘THROUGH OUR LENS,’ A COMEBACK STORY
Today a photographer who has been making the news on the BBC and the Huffington Post of late, Carolyn Mendelsohn on her incredibly powerful photography project for teenagers in Bradford during lockdown called Through Our Lens, a grass roots photographic self-isolation project that brought young people together to express their honest feelings pictorially during this time and rebuilt a photographer's belief in her business.
As a professional photographer, Carolyn’s business had been building steadily, her private and commercial work being a stable source of income with a photographic business that had a strong reputation when Covid arrived. Within weeks her diary suddenly and unceremoniously emptied, like many of our diaries of course in the photography business, well certainly those in the social and commercial genres. She was due to hold a major exhibition abroad and there was the publication of a book, all of it went. It was a huge shock as you could imagine, and she’ll take up the story within the episode.
Over the next two Tuesdays covering two concepts, we’re going to understand how important projects are to us as photographers and how they have the power to rebuild our love for making pictures and have the ability to literally rebuild what we have lost.
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