So first day of University, second year. Nice that they start us off with a lecture from 3pm til 8pm. Anyway, that aside, this actually turns out to be a really interesting and enjoyable lecture.
The lecture itself was by photographer and magazine contributing editor, Peter Dench. In the lecture Peter talked about crowd funding/sourcing as well as his own experiences with it. For me this was a very interesting lecture as i had never heard of crowd funding or Peter Dench for that matter. Peter Dench is a documentary photographer who specialises in photographing the english and their drinking habits. Dench’s work is often humorous and funny to look at and even understand. I think that i personally admire him a little bit as i have never been able to, or had the guts to document people as closely as he does. It is something that I dont really feel comfortable doing, but i commend anyone who does it.
Peter spoke abut crowd funding and how it worked for him. Dench was trying to publish a book of his images of the Uk and its drinking habits. As his theme was very english orientated he wanted it to be published at the specific time around the Queens jubilee and the Royal wedding. However this didn’t look like it was going to happen with conventional publishing. There for Dench turned to crowd funding/sourcing. Crowd funding/sourcing are websites that help you to promote your project and what you want to achieve to a wide audience. The purpose of crowd funding is that people who like your idea/project will invest money into your project and help you to reach your target inorder for your project to succeed. Usually if you dont reach your target then you dont get any money, but this differs from site to site. There are many different sites that can be used for crowd funding. The ones that Dench talked most about where: Empas.is, Indigogo and Kickstarter.
overall this lecture was really useful as it kind of opened my eyes to other ways of funding and achieving my goals within my projects.
Amy Youngs 