My scrapbook

Promotional card, postcard from exhibition at NPG, my future husband says a ye olde fair game. Going to marry a fat chef!

Here is something very dear to me! I have never shown this to anyone or really spoken about it, when I moved to London in 2008, the summer I finished my photography degree in Newcastle I decided very soon to keep a scrapbook. I knew how incredibly lucky I was in getting this job - the one I still have now and I thought I need to remember as much as I can and wanted to create something special to look back on when I'm old and grey. I took inspiration from a article in Lula Magazine all about the art of scrapbooking.

The story goes... two AMAZING photographers shared a studio in a little town called Holloway. Talented and great as they were, they were very messy and unorganised creatures who needed someone to help. They put an ad on the AOP website offering a 6 month internship, aka a cry for help! Little naive Emily gets interviewed, wooed them with her northern charm. The decision was made and 6 months turned into a real job. Over the next four very happy and mad years, the number of photographers in the studio multiplied to four and it got very cramped, then one photographer went back to his home so Emily went full-time with the remaining photographer. Why the hell I explained that as a fairytale WHO KNOWS. 

The crazy shoots, odd requests, hilarious episodes that have happened in London are something I don't want to forget! The time where I got to meet Matt Smith (I'm a BIG Doctor who fan), worked with Jedward, worked with Zooey Deschanel, went to a Halloween party in a barn on a Norfolk farm, lived with a comedian, dealt with egos, gatecrashed birthday parties, visited Japan two weeks after the big earthquake, broke my foot, danced onstage at KOKO to 2000 people and many more seriously embarrassing things are all in here in someway.

The scrapbook is very unfinished, it won't be finished till I leave. I know I won't be here forever. I add to it every few months when I am in the mood for reflection and also a cheering up. I keep business cards, old test prints from work, cut outs from magazines, invitations, tickets, receipts, photographs and mementoes from certain days I liked. I lose most cinema tickets, but try to save many as I can as I go quite a lot. The plan is to fill all the gaps, here is my work in progress...

I used to do black+white printing in the bathroom and here is a outtake of Daisy Lowe, a religious card of baby Jesus from Valencia, naturally.

The last pack of polaroids taken in the studio and two of me Gran when I borrowed a Hasselblad 500 - they used to give me little projects to do at weekends.

Lots of pages of tickets

results of a cheapo disposable