Portfolio Platform
Portfolio is very individual subject to talk about, so I start with defining what's portfolio means for me, for people who I admire their works (by listening to their online talks), and for Thai photographers' career path (by portfolio review them.) I talk with Poupay-Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet who is main guest of the program and she also think the same.
Course sketch
The answer is; We want portfolio in any platform to communicate with other people in photography industry about photographer's body of work. Portfolio should be tools that help them grow up to be them self.
So this is it.
Portfolio Platform is the secord part of 2 parts course. The first course is Creative Universe which we talked about the way photographer processing creative vision on their work. (See it here http://pasineepramunwong.com/creative-universe-course)
This time, we want to expanded to other roles in the photography industry. Get to know photographer's co-worker reflect on portfolio, and to see how photo editor important, how graphic editor important. We want people to hear the insight from the real one to help them understand that good works that we see as the end product are not from only a skilled photographer but consist of a skilled professional team.
From that, we reached to and got support from Marvin Orellana, who kindly talked to us about what's he see through 17 years as photo editor/senior photo editor in the NYC photography industry and Umi Syam, graphic editor behind stunning The New York Times articles/interactive articles.
This is the course outline. It’s all free and we do it by email subscription so you can learn it anywhere anytime.
Our main guest is Poupay-Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet, NYC-based photographer working with various publications and clients. She's a talented photographer and my beloved girlfriend. In this course, she will talk about how she done her portfolio and how she develop it from her experience. This is the video. https://youtu.be/j3Iu44FaoSA
I design a worksheet to help photographers think systematically about their artistic vision and goal aims to make them see their career path more clear.
This is the sketch.
And this is the final one by our art director.
Marvin Orellana talk about photo editor's work, what's practical portfolio looks like for him, and advices on how to grow in NYC photography industry. I love him and his puppies screen background so much. https://youtu.be/4_uEsLBKUaw
Umi Syam shares insights and her thought process on designing The New York Times' Years in Pictures, Decades in Pictures and 108 female soccer players, to help people get the sense of possibilities portfolio website as a photo-based website could be. https://youtu.be/TqC0Xtz1-h0
In every email, we also add Poupay’s tips and way of thinking on each portfolio platform.
The interview is 1 hour long and cut it down, so there are long-intense-fun-uncut version on my computer like a gems for me, waiting for a proper time to go out. (and also waiting for money to hire people working on subtitle because doing subtitle for 1 hour-video is too much workload for me.)
Marvin Orellana
Umi Syam
Enjoy an end-of-this-page quote I love from Marvin Orellana. (Think of him telling this with a puppies background)
Do you have any advice to photographers?
know your field. Know the history of what you are getting into.Know people who are doing work out there. Experiment. i think that's important too to be experimental. Open to ideas and to share those ideas. Think about the way you wanna be. if you want to shoot for NYT. Look at NYT. I don't say shoot like NYT but you know see the level of photography that goes in a magazine. and if you wanna be there, be in touch with a photographer in your community. assist, Be in that world. I feel like all those things will inspire you and focus you. In New York, it's hard because there is competition but it's good to be in an environment that forces you to actually focus and understand where you fit in this big puzzle. Poupay does this thing but it's also like how Poupay does things. that's kinda my jam too but how can you disintegrate yourself out of it. do your homework. It’s sad as it sounds.
