Susan Jefferson

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is as important for photographers as it is for any other profession. I maintain and develop knowledge and skills through studying for further qualifications, exhibiting and entering internationally recognised competitions. Personal projects are a very important part of the process and at any one time, I can be working on up to three self-commissioned projects. Camera Unfriendly is an ARPS project I started working on in 2014. It explores the impact of CCTV on the individual and how makeup is used to protect privacy. The project has already clocked up two successes: a gold medal in the Southern Federation championships and highest scoring print in the league. Winter's Waif: Gold Medal portrait at SCPF Brown Sugar: Highest Scoring Print in Southern Counties Division. Selected for Regional Finals. https://www.studio-grey.net/peer-review-regional-success/

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is as important for photographers as it is for any other profession. I maintain and develop knowledge and skills through studying for further qualifications, exhibiting and entering internationally recognised competitions. Personal projects are a very important part of the process and at any one time, I can be working on up to three self-commissioned projects. Camera Unfriendly is an ARPS project I started working on in 2014. It explores the impact of CCTV on the individual and how makeup is used to protect privacy. The project has already clocked up two successes: a gold medal in the Southern Federation championships and highest scoring print in the league. Winter's Waif: Gold Medal portrait at SCPF Brown Sugar: Highest Scoring Print in Southern Counties Division. Selected for Regional Finals. https://www.studio-grey.net/peer-review-regional-success/

Facial recognition software, combined with CCTV and increasing connectivity represents perhaps the greatest threat to personal freedom. The ability for a complete stranger to download your full personal history whilst you queue for a Latte is a technical reality. Facebook recently decided not to offer its  photo-sharing app Moments in  Europe because of regulator concerns over its facial recognition technology. Photography: Grey. Make Up: Hattie Florey, Model: Chloe Wainwright, Published: The Upcoming. But it is available elsewhere and not everybody plays by the rules. So how to protect yourself from unwanted intrusion? Camouflage make-up, designed to fool high definition CCTV cameras and software? It may be before a night out we don't just get 'glammed up' we also camm-up. Photography: Grey. Make Up: Hattie Florey, Model: Lewis Good, Published: The Upcoming. Camera Unfriendly  is part of an ongoing project to explore how camouflage makeup and fashion combine to complete a ...

Making portraits of female clients is an honour but also a bit daunting. Women balance several roles simultaneously; sister, mother, lover, daughter, friend and of course professional businesswoman. It makes them complex creatures and a challenge for the portraitist needing to capture character. Creating a professional portrait is even harder. The image has to communicate professionalism without losing personality, capture elegance without losing authority. "clients make unconscious decisions based on your portrait." Despite our best efforts we all make unconscious judgements based on appearance. Recent Princeton research found that first-impression judgements were made in milliseconds and reinforced the longer portraits were viewed. You probably have a LinkedIn account: clients, employers and colleagues will be making unconscious decisions based on your portrait. So, for professionals of both sexes your portraits are vitally important. "identity can only provide clues...