Overall...

Looking back, I think everyone contributed equally to the exhibition. Here is a list of what I contributed to the Ten Degree Souths, The Round Tower exhibition...

Myself - Responsible for sponsorship and catering.
            - Gained sponsorship from Steven Piper from 'Something Interesting' = £75
            - Raised £88 from selling on Ebay
            - Catering for the exhibition, My Mum made 120 mince pies for the guests, 60 for each day of
               the exhibition (Well done Mum!)

Big well done to all of the members of Ten Degrees South, Exhibitions are alot harder than we all thought to organise!!

Success!

After all our hard work, I think our exhibition went really well! The lovely man that brought one of my post card photographs has also kept in touch with me, emailing me about my work and how I should further it.

He said about emailing Fort Purbrook and Fort Nelson to see if I could sell my photographs at the Forts.

I took this on board and emailed Fort Nelson with this email...


Dear Sir or Madam,

I am a student studying Photography at the University of Portsmouth. For our first brief, we had to create a series of images based on the subject 'Territories'. I therefore decided to photograph Fort Nelson and Fort Purbrook. I showed my final photographs in an exhibition at The Round Tower and a man who brought one of my photographs told me that Fort Nelson produce a paper called the 'Portsmouth Paper'. I would love to see my photographs in the paper as they really portray Fort Nelson beautifully. I displayed my images as if they were a set of post cards on a table at the exhibition. I also think they would work well as being sold as Post Cards in the new cafe there aswell. I have sent you my set of 10 images that I displayed at the exhibition. Please let me know what you think.

Many Thanks,

Lauren Whatling

Still waiting for a reply though..

6.30pm - Opening Night

After a great first opening day and selling one of my photographs for £3 (very happy!), Our venue closed at 6pm to the public and we then had a special guest evening for our lecturers, friends and family to view our work. The evening went really well and we all had a great time showing our walking and talking to different people about our work too.

Here are some photographs from the opening evening. We had muled wine, tea and fantastic mini mince pies that my mum made! :)...

I also sold another two photographs on the opening evening (very very happy!), great to know your hard work is admired! :) 

...ACTION!

After a long couple of months listening to all the problems with our venue, trying to raise money for the venue and getting the photographs prepared trying to get prepared for the exhibition, it was finally the opening day!

Everyones work was up and we were prepared for opening at 10.30am! Here is everyones fantastic work...

My Concept for my images...

After putting the lights up we finally could finally put all our hard work out, our final photographs!

For my final photographs, I looked at Forts for the concept of 'Territory'. I photographed Fort Nelson and Fort Purbrook showing the main features of both forts and what makes them territorial.

I made my photographs look like old fashioned postcards and presented them on a black board in mounted windows on a glass table.

Here is what my final piece looked like...

Lights, camera...

Tuesday 6th December,

We all head down to The Round Tower with our mats for the floor, our work and also to meet and greet the Electricity men who were putting up the lighting rig!
Here is how it all looked...

                                                       All ready for the next day!

10 Days to go!

10 Days to go till the exhibition! All sorting out last minute things, especially me!

My first idea was to create a light table however, I changed my mind last minute and decided to window mount my images onto black mountboard into a table and put glass over the mountboard. This would save money and time!

Here are the images that I will be exhibiting in my table at The Round Tower...