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--> Keith Morris is a Welsh photographer who rarely travels outside his home county and yet has found a successful niche for his images.

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Mohamad Itani - Book Cover Photographer

Mohamad is a specialist photographer who shoots images specifically to suit the book cover market. He tells us all about it in our interview.

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Starting a Career

We asked 16 visual-media professionals what advice they would give to anyone wanting to start a career in the industry.

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Model & Property Releases

A signature on one of these forms can make a big difference to the sales of your work.

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Boring Backups

Backing up your image and video files regularly saves a lot of heartache if you have a computer or hard drive catastrophe.

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Image Quality

Image quality is critical to success when selling your work. Lets see what goes in to a quality image.

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Useful Bits of Kit

A series of articles about accessories that make a difference to the quality of your work. Starting with something that gets you close up to your subject. See what extension tubes can do for you.

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Business Insight

We talk to Alan Capel, head of content at Alamy stock agency, about success, Stockimo and the future of the stock industry.

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Business Startup

We've put together a list of 50 things to consider before you start a new photography business. Applies too if you've already started.

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Useful Bits of Kit

The 50mm lens is one of our favourites. Here are 11 reasons why that is.

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Should I Work For Free?

Creatives are regularly asked to provide their skills and services for nothing. Should you always say no?

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Magazines

Newspapers and magazines need a constant stream of images for articles about current affairs and general topics. How do you earn from these sources?

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Business Insight

We talk to Zoe Whishaw about her role as a mentor and commercial photography consultant.

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Inspiration

You need lots of inspiration to help you create interesting images that lots of clients will want to buy over and over. Here are some thoughts on how to come by some!

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EOS Magazine

We talk to EOS magazine where Canon photographers can submit images to be used in their articles.

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Licencing

Image licencing sets the rules for what the client can and can't do with your pictures. See what the different types of licence mean to you.

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Filmmaking.

19 things I've learnt about filming that make a big difference to the quality of my work.

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6 reasons not to buy a 50mm lens.

Why buy a 50mm lens? It's small, plasticky and cheap. Surely you don't want one of those do you?

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5 Things you don't want to hear your photographer say.

If your photographer says any of these things to you during a shoot it's a bad sign. Lets take a look and see how to avoid them.

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Sports Photography

5 things to love about sports photography and 5 things that aren't so great.

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Stock Photography Decision Making

Decisions decisions! When you shoot for stock there are many things you have to decide before that image is ready for sale. We look at those decisions in detail.

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Glossary

A definition of visual media technical terms, phrases and acronyms.

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Know How

Paul Hough tells us about a unique scheme in the East Midlands placing new graduates in to art organisations where they offer their skills to help on new projects.

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Blog

Our occasional updates about the world of photography, filmmaking and making a living as a creative.

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Sports Photography

If I'm asked for sports photography tips, this is always my first answer. Think about the background first.

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Photography Basics

Understand the building blocks of image capture: Shutter, aperture and ISO.

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Photography Basics

The skill of 'seeing' is how you decide what you want to photograph and how you do it. Lets take a look.

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Seeing The Light

Photography is all about light and capturing how it falls on your subject. Let's look at light outdoors.

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Stock Infographic

You make a lot of decisions when shooting stock. What you shoot has an impact on what you can do with the images. We've made an infographic describing those decisions.

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Product Photography

A simple product photography hack to give you great-looking professional images of your products.

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How I Took The Picture

How I took this image of a downhill mountain bike racer.

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Commissioning Photographers

If you're responsible for commissioning photographers, it's important to understand image licensing. We look at some important points.

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Using Music Legally.

Lots of music used with visual media is not licenced. We look at ways to use music legally.

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smartLav+ & Zoom H4N.

How to get the Rode smartLav+ to work with the Zoom H4N recorder.

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Risk and Reward.

Going in to business can be exciting and fulfilling. As with any new venture there's risk. We consider risk and it's effects.

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Getting Paid

Perhaps the most important aspect of earning money from your photography is how you get paid the royalties that your images have earned for you.

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Prints

Selling your work as prints online is now very easy. Lets take a look at how to sell your art.

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Business Insight - Peter Dazeley

We talk to the very successful UK commercial photographer Dazeley about his journey to the top, his photography projects and the future of work in the visual media industry.

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Your Best Photography Tip

Add your best photography tip to our superlist to make the ultimate photography tip list!

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What Stock Photography Sells?

As a stock photographer, that's the one question you have to ask. We discuss it here.

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Why You Need T&C's

Terms and conditions help to clear up gray areas between creative and client. Find out why here.

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Harmonised Colour

How the use of harmonised colours, combinations and tones improves the look of your imagery.

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Manual Follow Focus

There are times when you need manual focus and the skills to follow the subject with focus. We take a look at how to do it.

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Business Insight - John Lund

We interview John about his beautiful, amusing conceptual stock photography and discuss the future of the stock photography industry.

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For Photo Newbies!

If you'd like to learn more about how you can make money from photography but don't know where to start, this is our first port of call for beginners! We describe all of the options and how the different income streams can earn you money.

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Take Your Sharpest Photos Ever

Our guide to taking the sharpest pictures ever and avoid blurred, fuzzy images.

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Best Business Advice

We asked 11 visual-media professionals what was the best bit of business advice they were ever given. Here are their replies.

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Exhibiting

Seeing your work framed and displayed is great. Even better when someone buys it.

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Stock Photography Articles

All of our stock photography articles and interviews in one place.

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Jason Hawkes - Aerial Photographer

We talk to Jason about his almost 25 year high-flying career specialising in aerial photography.

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Business

Signs that you are a professional running a photography or filmmaking business.

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Photography Business

8 Reasons why you shouldn't become a photographer and 1 reason why you really must.

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Filmmaking

When the photographer decides to learn filmmaking, this is essential information to get started.

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Antonio Olmos

Antonio Olmos, the award-winning photographer tells us about his work as a photojournalist and his thoughts on the future of photography as a career.

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Filmmaking

A little look at some cheap LED and fluorescent lighting for filmmakers.

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Danny Cooke

When your films achieve over 13 million views and you get a Vimeo staff pick, you're on the filmmaking map. Danny tells us about his work.

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Product Photography

How to create 360-degree rotating photographs for a web page.

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Megan Stacey

Megan Stacey is an emerging cinematographer with a wealth of work in her showreel already. We ask Megan about what it takes to make it as a cinematographer.

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Business Insight

Nick Chaffe, a Manchester-based designer and illustrator, tells us what 10 things a designer needs from a commercial photographer.

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Chris Harper

Chris Harper is Chief Executive of one of the UK's largest organisations representing professional photographers. Chris tells us about the BIPP.

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Clayton Bastiani

Clayton Bastiani is a specialist book cover photographer who produces dramatic and mysterious imagery. He tells us about his career and inspiration.

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Cheryl Newman

Our interview with the ex-photography director of The Telegraph Magazine who tells us about her career and what it's like to work on a busy picture desk.

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Nicholas Goodden - Street Photographer

Nicholas tells us about his commercial photography and cinemagraph business that specialises in shooting London's streets.

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Gem Atkinson

Editor Gem Atkinson tells us about her career and experiences working in the high-pressure world of the Bloomberg picture desk.

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Megan Gill

Megan is an editor with 20 years experience working on high profile movies like Eye in the Sky. In our interview Megan tells us what it takes to be an editor.

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Business Insight

We talk to UK-based Tim Gander about what life's like to work on the business-end of a camera as a commercial photographer.

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Phil O'Brien

Phil started a major sports photo agency, Empics, from scratch. In this interview he tells us about his career as a photographer and business owner.

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Liz Allen

We talk to award-winning documentary filmmaker Liz Allen about her work and the world of documentary filmmaking.

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What Makes a Successful Photograph?

We try to maybe, possibly identify what might be the important ingredients that contribute to a successful photograph.

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Gail Jenkinson - Camera Operator

Gail has worked on major documentary and drama productions both above and below the water. She tells us about her career.

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Dan James

Dan James is a broadcast editor who puts together films for high-profile tv programmes like the BBC's Top Gear. Dan talks to us about his career, how he started and what an editor does.

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Jane Hilton


Jane Hilton is an established photographer and filmmaker with a huge critically-acclaimed body of work. Jane tells us about her career, moving images and motivation.

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Simon Stock - Car Photographer

Simon Stock is a car photographer with a client list that reads like a who's who of motoring manufacturers. We get an insight in to his career.

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Equipment

You can spend a lot of money on gear to create work to sell or you can spend very little yet still make sales. Lets take a look.

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Burnham Niker

From our series of articles about photographers' agent Burnham Niker, we talk to newly promoted joint Director Alex Wilshire. Alex tells us about her career to date.

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Tony Swinney

Creative Retouching is one of the least talked about skills in visual media. We interview Tony Swinney who has worked on some very high-profile imagery.

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Burnham Niker

From our series of articles about photographers' agent Burnham Niker, we talk to the newest member of their team, Production Assistant Jenny Wickens.

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Stock and the Algorithm

The algorithm makes all the decisions about what appears in stock searches. For some that's good, for others, that's bad. We take a look why.

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Ryan Cardone - iPhone Stock Photographer

Surfing photographer Ryan Cardone tells us about his stock photography and how he uses his iPhone to shoot stock for the Stockimo collection at Alamy.

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Jill Cotton

Exciting photography careers aren't just about being a photographer. Jill Cotton, PR Director of the World Photography Organisation, tells us about her work.

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Creating a Showreel

I recently put together a new showreel for my visual media business and here's how I did it.

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The Bentley 53 Gigapixel

Photographer Simon Stock takes us behind-the-scenes to see how he created the largest ever image used to advertise a motoring brand, featuring the Bentley Mulsanne.

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Be Prepared

When a photographer or filmmaker is out in the field being prepared is important. We look at what that means.

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Good & Successful Photographers

There's a huge difference between a good photographer and a successful photographer. We take a look at what that is.

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Graham Watson - Cycling Photographer

As a cycling photographer, when you're supplying images to the sport's governing body, you know you're at the top of your game. Graham tells us about his career.

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Patrick Gosling

We talk to Patrick about a career photographing cars, bikes and people in the motorsport world.

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Commercial Photography

Working with clients and providing them with a professional service to shoot their images is what commercial photography is all about. See what's involved here.

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How to Photograph Flatlay

Flatlay is now a very popular style of photography so we've put together an article of tips to help you take great flatlay images.

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Louise Hagger

We interview specialist food photographer Louise Hagger about her work and photography career.

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Steve Etherington

We interview Steve Etherington, an F1 photographer working with the Mercedes AMG Petronas team who tells us about his career shooting fast cars and famous drivers.

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Careers Interviews

All of our career interviews with filmmakers, photographers, broadcast TV and related visual-media professionals.

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Deconstruction

How to deconstruct the technical aspects of an image to understand how it was made.

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Cutting Out an Object

How to cut out, or isolate an object in a photograph.

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Stuart MacFarlane

For the sports-loving photographer who also supports Arsenal, Stuart MacFarlane has a dream job, Chief Photographer for Arsenal FC. Stuart tells us about his work.

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Joe Dick - Motorcycle Photographer

Joe is celebrating 10 years as a professional motorcycle photographer. In our interview he tells us all about his career and work at Motorcycle News as their staff photographer.

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Cress Time-lapse

We take a look at how we made a short time-lapse film showing a seed growing in to a full-size Cress.

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Jobs, Careers and Vacancies

As we find them, we'll post them here.

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Greg Whitmore


Greg Whitmore has worked on the Observer picture desk for 24 years. Here he tells us about the challenges and changing nature of the job.

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David Cantwell

Commercial photographer and filmmaker David Cantwell tells us about his career, how he started and what he does.

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Gear

As filmmakers and photographers we all love gear but do we neccessarily need the most expensive?

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Sports Articles

All of our sports photography and filmmaking articles and interviews in one place.

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Camera Features

Cameras are now very complex devices full of technology. We look at a few useful functions you might not be using yet.

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Filmmaking for Photographers

This is part two of our exploration in to the world of filmmaking for photographers.

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Digitising 35mm Film

This describes a method I use to digitise 35mm slides and negatives.

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Opinion

Photography competitions have rules and when the organisers break their own rules where does that leave us?

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Nicola Brown

Nicola tells us about her factual documentary filmmaking career and her work with virtual reality.

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Burnham Niker

In the final article from our series looking at Burnham Niker, owner Katy Niker tells us about the work of the photographers' agent.

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Rachel Price

Rachel, a camerawoman working for the BBC, tells us about her career, why apprenticeships are a good thing and volcanoes.

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Cheryl Newman

We catch up with Cheryl who tells us about her new career as a curator, artist and photography consultant.

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Louise Haywood-Schiefer

Louise's portrait photography has appeared in many prestigeous publications. She tells us about her career.

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Buying Second-hand Gear

Creatives always need more gear so should we buy it second-hand to save money?

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What is SEO?

We take a look at Search Engine Optimisation.

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Unwritten Rules

The rules of photography, never written and only ever learnt through experience.

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Making A Film

In the third part of our introduction to filmmaking for photograpers, we look at making a film.

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Kathleen Hawkins

BBC Click Reporter and Producer Kathleen Hawkins tells us about her career and how she found ways to work with her disability.

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Instagram Photographers

We take a look at the relationship between Instagram and the photographers who use the service.

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Andy Stevenson

Andy tells us about his career as a radio reporter and TV producer and working with a disability.

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Carly Brown

Carly tells us how she gained experience in the media world and became a junior editor at a busy production company.

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Paul Martin

Freelance Cameraman Paul Martin tells us about his work behind the camera.

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Carol Abbott

Freelance Vision Mixer Carol Abbott tells us about her career in the gallery.

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Russell Edwards

BAFTA-nominated sound recordist and mixer Russell Edwards tells us about his work and career.

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Stuart Earl

Multi-cam and OB television Director Stuart Earl tells us about his work and career in the gallery.

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James Mobbs

James tells us about his career and work as a senior designer at the BBC.

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Improving Skills

How to improve at photography or filmmaking without spending another penny.

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Sam Robinson

BBC apprentice cameraman Sam Robinson tells us about his experience as he learns the ropes of working behind the camera.

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Unexpected Time

Five suggestions for making the best use of unexpected time.

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Julie Ritson

Julie tells us about her 30-year career working on news stories around the world as a Camerawoman for the BBC.

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Start a Career

What does it take to get a foot in the door and start a media career?

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Richard Coventry

Specialist outside broadcast director Richard Coventry gives us an insight in to his career.

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