You get lost, you get found. It’s a cliché but you lose yourself, you find yourself
In November we heard from Laura Meek, a photographer based out of Edinburgh. As Laura tells it, she picked up a camera with her dad when she was a child, and never looked back. A few years ago, Laura moved from America to Scotland. It was here that she got lost, and then found home. We were struck by Laura’s honesty and her ability to gently articulate that feeling we all come across from time to time. She brought humour and an openness to our morning audience. “There’s that feeling of isolation, but it’s also open playing fields’ on moving to a new country. Forcing myself to be lost in a new city was also forcing myself to find things.”
About the speaker
Lost by Chance Lost by Choice
Laura Meek, a photographer based in Scotland and working between Edinburgh and London, is best known for her portraiture, commercial and fashion campaign work. She studied Fine Art Photography in America and was trained in traditional darkroom methods of analog photography. With a mission of producing work that pursues the delight in honest beauty and quiet curiosity, finding beauty in the ordinary amidst the moving world is a driving force behind her work. With a passion for film photography and unscripted journeys, the comeliness, mystery and romance within life and nature inspire her instinctive connection and interpretation of the world she navigates through.
Her series, "Reverence" is a retrospective collection from the past three years across Scotland and the Pacific Northwest, shot on classic Kodak film.
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Find people that you can connect with and that you can reach out to in the creative world in these times.
You just kind of have to go with what happens.
(freelancing) we go up and down in peaks and troughs with our process and with our work, and find ourselves in lots of low points where we lose our sense of identity.
what I sort of found myself getting lost in was taking opportunities as they came because starting out you have to be a yes man.
This was also foundational; Creative Mornings was one of my first things I did when I moved to Edinburgh.
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