New Fellowship programme is launched for young photographers.
The Suffolk and Norfolk Collaborative Outreach (SNCO) project has joined with Framlingham-based arts organisation, PhotoEast to provide professional mentoring from photographic industry experts to four young students from the region.
The Suffolk and Norfolk Collaborative Outreach project is a new collaborative network aiming to help raise aspirations and encourage more students in the two counties to see University as an option by offering them the information, advice and guidance that they need to apply. The government initiative with University Campus Suffolk as the lead institution is working in partnership with University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich University of the Arts (NUA), City College Norwich, Easton and Otley College and the College of West Anglia.
The 2016 PhotoEast Young Person’s Fellowship Programme will offer 16-19 year olds the opportunity to be mentored by a photographer and to help with the PhotoEast festival which will take place in Suffolk next summer, in association with University Campus Suffolk.
Applications are being sought from students who are currently studying art or photography in sixth forms or colleges across Suffolk and Norfolk. Four Fellowships will be awarded to students who are able to impress the expert panel with their ambition and ideas interpreting the 2016 Festival theme ‘Of Time and Place’ and share this work with their wider school or college community.
Those selected will be able to use the newly refurbished state-of-the-art photography facilities at University Campus Suffolk to produce work that will feature in the exhibition.
Chair of the Fellowship panel and BA (Hons) Photography Course Leader, Mark Edwards, said “This is a fantastic opportunity for young people from the two counties to experience university life and rub shoulders with professionals working in their field. It’ll be a valuable experience for the students in their current course of study and could significantly influence and benefit their future careers. For us, it’s a chance to explore and celebrate the burgeoning photographic talent in the East Anglian region.”
Adrian Evans, director of PhotoEast and London-based photo agency Panos Pictures and one of the professional mentors, added “For anyone considering photography as a career, the PhotoEast Fellowship offers an insight into how to navigate your way through the complexities of the contemporary photo economy and have your work shown in major new industry event.”
To apply for a PhotoEast Fellowship applicants must submit a 250 word proposal by the deadline of 18 December 2016. Proposals must indicate the format the body of work might take and suggest ways in which other students from the candidate’s school or college might engage with the idea.
