Amelia Lonsdale- Guest Speaker
Amelia Lonsdale is the director at Pupilsphere, an international photography network whose target audience is students and graduates. Pupilsphere is unfunded and ran by volunteers, the company’s aim is to connect photographers all around the world as well as giving them exposure. The website features projects, interviews and articles on up and coming photographers. The support that they offer includes, mentoring, exhibition help and book launches as well as critical evaluations. Profits from the online shop goes back into helping to run the platform and the shop has also helped photographers to sell their first book, you can send in your own work.
Amelia is currently studying a masters of research at the University of Huddersfield. The photography that she specialises in is Landscape. As well as working at Pupilsphere she also works in events and management. Amelia has shown numerous exhibitions between 2017 and 2020. Her most recent exhibition being ‘The Time We Call Our Own’ at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. 3rd September - 23rd October 2020. The exhibition featured a range of artists who came together to show their photographic projects that were about time, identity and place. Amelia’s project was titled ‘Miles and Other’s Smiles’ and is a selection of home fashion and music. Her mother had given her archived images and letters over the years and her mother and mother’s boyfriend at the time had photographed each-other before going out to clubs. This project is now part of Amelia’s postgraduate research.
Amelia was the guest speaker at an online lecture that I attended today. She spoke about the Pupilsphere company and the open call competition for graduates of this year, that they are holding from the 1st April till the 31st May 2021. I found Amelia’s talk really useful in terms of what resources are out there for both students and graduates and it is really nice to see a student / graduate supporting other students and graduates.
View Amelia’s website here: https://www.amelialonsdale.com/
