Take some time over the summer before your course starts to do some research into the industry you're training to enter. Find out as much information as you can regarding your chosen career path, from where you start to where you could go. Use the information below as a starting point and see what else you can discover.
Who inspires you and where you do you want to go? Do you want to work for yourself or get a job working for a creative company? Collate all your research using one of the platforms you're going to be working on, or in your preferred format — we may even ask you to share it with us when you start your course.
Each year we invite a range of industry experts and our recent graduates to share their journey into the photographic industry and discuss their practice.
We encourage you to self promote and have a strong history in competitions, we advise you look at and find competitions relevant to your own style of work.
Here are some examples to get you started...
Exhibitions are and important part of both creative and self promotional development. Visiting and hosting exhibitions is something we encourage.
Prepare yourselves by visiting or familiarising yourself with some of the diverse range of exhibition spaces in Glasgow, to both visit and to exhibit. Some examples....