AGH Photography: An Introduction.

Welcome!

My name is Amelia, I'm currently in my second year of University studying Photography for Fashion & Advertising. Here you'll find my work, my thoughts and some "behind the scenes" to show you how I pull my photo shoots together.

Photography has been a big passion of mine since the age of fifteen. Throughout my school years, I had always experimented with art but never found a media that I had excelled in. I was quite talented at sketching, reasonably okay at painting, but I was never quite there. That was until I discovered photography. It wasn't long until I discovered that I had an interest in fashion photography, I used to buy copies of ELLE and Vogue and stare in wonder at the beautiful photographs before me. Being the weird, arty, slightly gothic quiet girl in school, I kept my interest for fashion photography private. I thought you had to be one of the popular girls to have the slightest interest in fashion. Everyone knew photography was my hobby, but no one knew I had an interest in fashion. Shortly I had decided that I wanted to make a career out of photography.

After I had completed my GCSEs, I waved goodbye to my horrible school, and I started a new course in college. My years spent in college were the years I had finally come out of my shell! I experimented with photograms, film, and digital photography. I have some of my best memories in college, I truly miss it at times. It was that push I needed that I didn't get from school. I also got some great experience with photography through college, and outside of college.

When I graduated college I took a gap year. I wasn't so sure if University was the right choice for me, and I didn't want to start a new chapter of my life if I wasn't 100% sure if it was the right choice. Throughout my gap year I assisted photographers, experimented with my personal projects, attended photography workshops, worked to save up money for new equipment, but also had fun at the same time. By the time February rolled around, I had made the decision that I definitely wanted to go to University. I was fed up of being stuck in a small town, not pursuing the career that I had dreamed of for so long.