Interview with Tom Poultney, Photographer
Tom Poultney is a photographer who also teaches photography at Leeds City college. He specializes in documentary and conceptional photography, as well as commercial, although he prefers documentary and conceptional.
Poultney has many reasons that contributed to him becoming a photographer. He has always been a visual artist and has always used lens based media as it is the most concise. He also believes that photography is the best medium in which to exhibit his work as it is the best field to communicate his concepts.
His qualifications contributed to his love of photography. He studied fine art at Leeds university and also studied to gain a masters degree in fine art, although he specialized in photography and other lens based media. Before and during university, he originally thought he would specialize in sculpture and painting, but after practicing lens based media he changed his artistic medium.
At the age of 21, he began working as a self-employed photographer. He has always tried to achieve a healthy medium in his work of commercial work, which is higher paid and personal project photography.
Poultney's career goal is to be able to shoot much more personal projected work, and be able to turn down work which he does not find particularly inspiring to focus on personal projects. He would also like to continue teaching and improve on teaching as well as selling his photography books.
The inspiration for his work comes from many different mediums. They include looking at photography books, discussing photography and art with other artists and admirers. Two of his favourite photographers are Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
When asked which shoot was his favourite that he had ever done, he said that the current shoots are always the ones that he is most into, until he moves on to the next project. At the moment, his best shoots are the ones he is doing currently, these shoots are a project named 'nothing' and a documentary project about people who have been disrupted by industry. The documentary project will be accompanied by an article about the topic.
Various other questions were asked in the interview, such as who was the most famous/well known person you have shot. He shot the girl group Girls Aloud for a cancer research campaign as well as various shoots for the BBC and look north.
He shoots all his images using digital photography, which he started using while at university when digital was a new technology and was trendy. However, if he was a student now, he would prefer to use film as it is more experimental.
When asked what job he would most like to do, excluding pay and talent, he said his current job.
Tom Poultney is a photographer who also teaches photography at Leeds City college. He specializes in documentary and conceptional photography, as well as commercial, although he prefers documentary and conceptional.
Poultney has many reasons that contributed to him becoming a photographer. He has always been a visual artist and has always used lens based media as it is the most concise. He also believes that photography is the best medium in which to exhibit his work as it is the best field to communicate his concepts.
His qualifications contributed to his love of photography. He studied fine art at Leeds university and also studied to gain a masters degree in fine art, although he specialized in photography and other lens based media. Before and during university, he originally thought he would specialize in sculpture and painting, but after practicing lens based media he changed his artistic medium.
At the age of 21, he began working as a self-employed photographer. He has always tried to achieve a healthy medium in his work of commercial work, which is higher paid and personal project photography.
Poultney's career goal is to be able to shoot much more personal projected work, and be able to turn down work which he does not find particularly inspiring to focus on personal projects. He would also like to continue teaching and improve on teaching as well as selling his photography books.
The inspiration for his work comes from many different mediums. They include looking at photography books, discussing photography and art with other artists and admirers. Two of his favourite photographers are Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
When asked which shoot was his favourite that he had ever done, he said that the current shoots are always the ones that he is most into, until he moves on to the next project. At the moment, his best shoots are the ones he is doing currently, these shoots are a project named 'nothing' and a documentary project about people who have been disrupted by industry. The documentary project will be accompanied by an article about the topic.
Various other questions were asked in the interview, such as who was the most famous/well known person you have shot. He shot the girl group Girls Aloud for a cancer research campaign as well as various shoots for the BBC and look north.
He shoots all his images using digital photography, which he started using while at university when digital was a new technology and was trendy. However, if he was a student now, he would prefer to use film as it is more experimental.
When asked what job he would most like to do, excluding pay and talent, he said his current job.
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