Joanna Black’s Profile
Joanna Black’s Profile
- An epiphany on a train
- 3May2013
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- I had a long train journey so I bought a couple of magazines to prepare for the expected boredom. The first magazine I read (Hotshoe) had an article with a photo essay from artist Mike Brodie called "Juvenile Prosperity" about his decade of riding the rails in America as a boy and young man. I found the combination of his work with the fact that I was also "riding the rails", cup of tea in hand, quite enthralling. I then read further until I got to a quote from...
- Burnt embers
- 28Feb2013
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- Unexplored worlds.
- 7Feb2013
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- The Deceivers
- 6Dec2012
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- Jubilee
- 30Nov2012
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- The trouble with....
- 9Nov2012
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- Why won't anybody listen?
- 24Oct2012
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I was born in Edinburgh to Polish parents and studied photography, film/media and art briefly upon leaving school over 25 years ago but changed direction on the advice of my Mother who in her thick Polish accent said “Joanna, dat is all very nice you liking dis art and taking lots of nice pictures, but you will never make a living from it, it is far too hard. Why do you not go and study something that will give you security and a nice home”? So I did!
Having listened to her advice, I only started to create images to vocalise stories and my own thoughts/observations again in April 2010 and one year later was selected for Review Santa Fe in 2011. I had now demonstrated that I was a Fine Art Photographer.
In September 2012, I was awarded 2 Honorary Mentions for my Deeper Perspective entry in the IPA (International Photography Awards) having been selected from over 18,000 submissions from 104 countries across the globe. The IPA is a sister effort of the Lucie Foundation where the top 3 winners are announced at the annual Lucie Awards gala ceremony.
Web: www.joannablackphotography.com
Contact Details
Tel: (+44) 07775583675
email: joanna@joannablackphotography.com
web site: www.joannablackphotography.com
facebook: www.facebook.com/joanna.black.9
I am a self taught photographer who studied briefly art, fashion and photography upon leaving school but gave it all up on the advice of my Mother who believed it was a field that was too difficult to become successful in.
It was not until April 2010 when I got a cellphone with a camera (ironically for work) that I started to produce photographs again. In 6 weeks of owning my phone I had taken over 1000 images and so my husband insisted I bought an actual camera which I did under protest! I now own hundreds (!) of old film cameras and lenses which I use to capture the stories, ideas and thoughts that are in my head.
In January 2011 I applied to Review Santa Fe, the first review/competition I had ever entered for a project I started that same month and was selected. This experience was life changing as it was the start of a realisation that I am in fact a Fine Art Photographer, something I thought I had given up over 20 years ago.
In 2012, I was awarded a Honorary Mention in the Deeper Perspective IPA Awards for my series Jubilee, part of the series The shell of the insane and the infirm.
Stats:
- Albums Published:
- 22
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- Number of Connections:
- 10
