market reseach

Market Research

Who am I selling myself too?

There are two parts to this answer one being I would be selling myself to someone in charge of a teaching course, someone who is in charge of a secondary school. Then I would be selling my photography to either art collectors or exhibitions buyers.

After finishing university and graduating in July of 2016, I aim to take a year out to get some qualifications that I need to get onto my PGCE course in 2017 for myself to become a secondary school art teacher. But in the process of the year I will be selling myself to many people, either regarding me getting onto the course to get the qualifications I need for the PGCE, and I am also applying to do a work placement with a secondary school, so in that case I will need to make an appointment and represent myself to the person that will be in charge of the school. Not only that I will also be applying for the PGCE so in that case I will again need to sell myself to the course leader to make it possible for me to be awarded a position on the course.

Where as my photography I would class myself to be a documentary photographer and I am mainly focusing on the exhibition that I have coming up as part of my final degree show for university and so I aim to sell my work, by engaging the viewers and presenting my work and myself in a professional manor. 

Who would hire you

I would say my initial market for my style of photography would be a magazine, calendars, newspapers or travel companies.

I tend to produce documentary style photographs, photographs that have a repeat pattern or close up. I try to make my work look like documentary but not be as obvious as too what I am photographing.

What do they expect to see?

Photographers would expect to see a style of photography that is consistent and shows a document of situations or places.