Returning to Study

Jesse and Clare talk to Michelle Sank and Geoffrey Bird, both educators and photographers, about their experiences of returning to study photography at postgraduate level as 'mature students'.

Michelle is a celebrated documentary photographer and environmental portraitist, and Lecturer on the MA Photography (online) programme at Falmouth University.

Geoffrey Bird is a photographer and teacher at the Vancouver British Columbia Institute of Technology, and graduate of the Falmouth MA.

The episode discusses the challenges that getting back to study after an extended period of time can bring, and also asks what maturity brings to a cohort of students, and a creative practice more generally.

@Sank_Michelle

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PhotoPhone theme tune by @MichaelJamesUK

Portrait by @CostiganJoe

Thank you so much, Alan Pelz-Sharpe for giving us this topic to discuss!

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