After being stuck in doors for most of the day yesterday I was really pleased to get out this morning. I had to cancel a meeting yesterday and we rearranged it for today so I wrapped up warm and headed down to Sheffield town centre. My road is completely snowed in but I was really impressed with the main roads and Sheffield's Street Force who were out gritting and clearing the pavements.
My meeting was with Anita (education co-ordinator) from Museums Sheffield. I did some work with them last February and they got in touch with me a few days ago with a new project for me to do. I have been asked to create a schools' resource aimed at GCSE and A'level students that looks at some of the photography galleries that are currently in the Graves Gallery. At the moment there is a selection of portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe so that is to be my focus for the scheme of work. However they have also asked me to try and make it a little more photography portrait based so that it can be used for other exhibitions in the future. I am really excited about this project as it combines my love of portrait photography with my 9 year teaching experience. I couldn't ask for a more dream job! After I had had a good chat and found out more about the work that they wanted me to do I went for a wander around the gallery to familarise myself with Mapplethorpe's work....and I loved it! The Graves gallery have also got a Comedians' exhibition which is from the Portrait Gallery and has some great shots of past and present comedians. I had a really self indulgent morning wandering around the gallery and can write it down as work.
I then made my way back up to Woodseats and had a wander through the local park which is where I took this photo....my first self portrait of the year.
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