Recent content by Vic

Having just completed my degree I'd say its difficult to say what Documentary photography is now. I've noticed a lot of people are influenced by the deadpan look, ie. Alec Soth, Rineke Dijsktra, etc and some go for more abstract like Rinko Kawauchi. Martin Parr is still a big influence to...

You sound like you know what you want to do which is great, more than I did when I started my degree! :) I am in debt with my degree and although it is nothing to be taken lightly I do not regret it at all, I have learned so much and found out what I want to do in life. +1 Heard good...

It depends on what kind of photojournalist you want to be? Do you want to be a press photographer or someone who spends years covering a single subject/country? If it is the latter then yes education is a good route in my opinion, not just institutional but you really need to educate...

Experimenting with cameras is great. Yes it would be silly to do it with your 5D mark2 or the like if you are depending on it for work. However getting a cheap digital or film body and seeing what you can do is very interesting, I have shoved things behind the lens, submerged some film in water...

:thumbs: As I said in post#25 I don't think there is anything I can say that is going to realistically change your views, hence my comment in post#27. However in hindsight perhaps my personal experience of interacting with asylum seekers and refugees has blinkered my ability to be cynical...

Hmmmmm I would say a keen observation but I can see why you would be insulted. Something to take onboard for yourself hopefully :thumbs:

Oh yes you definitely have answered your own question, only with an answer you want to hear, however as long as it makes you happy then who am I to argue anymore? Thankfully a lot of Glasgow are far less ignorant ;)

People smugglers do not smuggle to the first available country, like I said if the asylum seeker has paid to be taken to a certain place then yes they will pass through several countries, actually smuggled through several countries. By smuggled through several countries you do know that means...

You answered your own question in post #9 I believe. They pay or bargain themselves into a way out of the country and the people who they have paid have a set destination, sometimes the UK. There are various meetings, groups and even fun exhibitions happening around Glasgow if you want me to...

Really? I work in Glasgow, I haven't heard of this. Every asylum seeker I know loves Scotland, they miss home of course, but I have never heard any saying that they actively want to go to London. The only ones that have gone to London is when they have been scheduled to be sent back from...

Sure it was ;) By saying half I was referring to the ones that were smuggled directly to the UK and not passed through other countries. The majority that myself and my colleagues have talked to have been genuine. But then I am only going on personal experience and not internet articles.

Out of the people I have met, and have felt comfortable enough to ask, I'd say almost half or more. Most of the people that I have talked with and subsequently became friends with are genuine (not in quotation marks).

I volunteer with asylum seekers, you might the odd fake but most are genuine. In regards to the safest place you reach, yes this is mostly true if they have made their own way to the country however a vast number of people have paid to be transported to the UK, perhaps this is because the UK is...

Source Magazine and Hotshoe Mag publish a lot of UK exhibitions coming up. I guess it would depend where you are based?

I'm sure a lot of people do class them as that as well, different strokes! Google is an odd viewing experience mind, god forbid we judge all artists on that ;)