A short essay by Offline's Brian Carroll reflecting on the challenge of stressing the value of photography festivals and local events to students and graduates.
One of the recurring, hand-wringing contradictions in photography education today is that students often want professional insight, industry access and meaningful contact with working photographers, yet may not always attend the very events where these things are readily available.
As demonstrated by The EYE Festival last weekend, when a local photography festival brings internationally respected practitioners to Wales, students, as seems so often the case, can be thin on the ground. This raises an uncomfortable, but useful, question: what is the student’s responsibility to their own professional practice?
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