A Project From Idea to Book

Written By Angela Nicholson

Presenter: Carolyn Mendelsohn
Carolyn talks about how to develop an idea into a fully-fledged photographic project and a book.

During the webinar Carolyn covers:

  • Exploring project ideas

  • Developing a project

  • What to do when you lose inspiration

  • Getting the work out into the public arena (or not)

  • Exhibiting the work

  • Fundraising Sponsorship

  • Media

  • Finding a publisher or self-publishing

About Carolyn

Carolyn Mendelsohn is a photographer, and filmmaker. Her passion is her personal work; photographic and film work on a large scale, based on the lives of individuals and their stories. Alongside this, she works on personal portrait commissions and commercial briefs, lifestyle and fashion.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, and published by The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, La Monde, BJP, RPS Journal and contemporary magazine, amongst others and has been featured online in BBC News, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, British Journal of Photography and Camera Jabber.
Carolyn has received awards including the 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Portrait Series, 2020 Open Walls Arles British Journal of Photography, winning BJP, Portrait of Britain 2017, and 2019, Winning The Royal Photographic Society International Print exhibitions RPS IPE 159 gold, and being in the final in for RPS IPE 160. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the International Women Photographers Award, and nominated for the RPS 100 Heroines.

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Webinar Sponsor: Datacolor Spyder
This SheClicks webinar was sponsored by Datacolor, a global leader in colour management for 50 years. Datacolor is committed to helping photographers achieve their vision, from capture to edit to print.
Discover more at datacolor.com

Angela Nicholson

Angela is the founder of SheClicks, a community for female photographers. She started reviewing cameras and photographic kit in early 2004 and since then she’s been Amateur Photographer’s Technical Editor and Head of Testing for Future Publishing’s extensive photography portfolio (Digital Camera, Professional Photography, NPhoto, PhotoPlus, Photography Week, Practical Photoshop, Digital Camera World and TechRadar). She now primarily writes reviews for SheClicks but does freelance work for other publications.

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