It was good to be part of a collaborative entry with:

• A permanent platform for the work, stays after the degree shows
• Targeted industry exposure: established professional readership (editors, curators & publishers)

My Learning:

Again to adapt to different technical requirements, no trailing statements and special characters were new to me. I again adapted my statement and info to fit a different word count and to take into account their criteria, especially researching the background of the landscape judge.

I captured my images and the OCA the online presence below:

DETAILS: SOURCE GRADUATE ONLINE GROUP SUBMISSION: DEADLINE 12.5.24

From Source Website: https://www.source.ie/graduate/submission/index.php

Excellent Value: Only £33 per student for UK based courses / €38 per student for courses based in Republic of Ireland. Includes a free 1-year digital subscription to Source (worth £26.99) with access to our extensive back issue archive and our monthly e-bulletin which will ensure you stay informed with all the latest news and opportunities from the photography sector.

Miriam one of my OCA peers offered to coordinate our group submission and sent us the details below:

Sun, 28 Apr, 17:03  

Hi all

The time has come to submit our images to Source.  This is the website, but I’ve pasted the format for submission below.  I’ve made a folder to collect your submissions. Please make your own folder within this and let me know if you’ve uploaded or are having any problems. 

Copy and paste link if needed: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-vKJ5IhHX3LLDOc-U2dkGWox6PzH_ZtE?usp=sharing 

Source have also asked if we’d like to send them any pictures of Install-in-progress or promotional material.  That’s a separate ask, so you can email direct to the email provided.

Miriam

Here’s what you need to know: BA Submission Deadline: 12th May 2024

Submission format

1. (Required) Eight images saved as jpegs, 72 DPI and 1024 pixels along their longest edge. All jpegs should be saved in sRGB colour profile. We cannot accept moving image files. Note: the Student may submit less than eight images if they wish. If the Student’s work is made to be shown in a gallery we would recommend that one of the eight images be an installation shot. This is to show the scale of the work and how it is presented.

2. (Required) A 120 word statement about their work.

3. (Required) Each student must specify which one of the following six categories best describes the work  they are submitting – only one category may be selected per student:

• Documentary/Photojournalism

• Commercial/Fashion

• Landscape

• Portraiture

• Staged/Constructed

• Urban/Suburban Landscape

4. (Required) Personal email address. This email address needs to remain valid after the Student has graduated.

5.  (Optional) Personal website address.

6.(Required) Payment of £33 per student for UK based courses / €38 per student for courses based in Republic of Ireland. Note: the Lead Student will gather all the individual payments and then make a one-off payment to Source on behalf of their class.  (MC: I’ll let you know how to send the money).

(You can apply to the Enterprise scheme for the £33.  We each need to apply separately. https://www.oca.ac.uk/studying-with-us/oca-enterprise/ )

Share your Install-In-Progress images and/or Promotional Poster Image

Each year, we offer additional help for students promoting final year work, using our social media platforms to promote your class’s degree show (physical or digital). In previous years, we have posted images of installations in progress and exhibition posters (see attached examples). You are very welcome to email 3 – 4 install photos and/or a poster image to my colleague Susanna Galbraith at research@source.ie. Please ensure:

1) To include the name of your course

2) To include details of the location and the dates of your show (if there are two shows, please include the two addresses)

3) To include an appropriate credit for any photographic work shown in the image(s)

4) To include the relevant Instagram handle for your course/university/college, as appropriate

5) The images attached are square (ideally 1080 x 1080 pixels)

(They share these images from May to July, so that’s the time frame.  I’ve asked if it’s 3-4 per person or in total and will let you know.)

Their technical requirements for images were again different:

1. Image filenames should not contain any spaces, apostrophes, quotation marks, or any other unusual characters.  I’ve asked about the actual names and will let you know and also underscores. 

2. Saved as jpegs. All jpegs should be saved in sRGB colour profile.
3 Scaled so that they are 1024 pixels on their longest edge. (A jpeg scaled in this way will never exceed the 2 Mb file size limit.)

Text

The system clearly can’t cope with any formatting so….

1. Each student’s introductory text should be formatted as a single block of text with no carriage returns.
2. Web addresses and email addresses MUST NOT include any trailing spaces!  If they have they’re not read as links.
3. If in doubt, the safest way to deal with problematic special characters is to substitute them with safe alternatives. Replace curly quotation marks with straight quotation marks, replace ’em dashes’ with short dashes or hyphens, replace ellipses with three periods and replace ampersands with the word ‘and’.

I PREPARED THE FOLLOWING FOR OUR SHARED FOLDER and was able to take into account the suggestions given by the lens Culture Reviewer:

Niki South personal email: niki.south@hotmail.com

Website: https://nikisouth.myportfolio.com/home

Category: Landscape

Artist statement:

‘What Lies Beneath’ uses the landscape of an ancient woodland to express my thoughts on community, creating a visual model where things coexist and support each other. Footnote images signpost its inherent qualities like, diversity and cooperation.

Humans and my experience of community provoke the project’s concept, where locals are often disharmonious and driven by difference. Sadly, incomers are never accepted as local, no matter how long passes or what they contribute to their neighbourhood – a story common to settings across the globe. The work has helped to heal some of the wounds that inspired the story’s beginning.

What lies beneath the emerald wrapping, embracing their collective realm?

What lies elsewhere beneath man’s disguised demeanour, civil but deliberately divisive?

Niki South

I submitted the same 8 images as for Lens culture

3.6.24

Hi,

I’m the web editor at Source Magazine.
You recently submitted your work to our ‘Graduate Photography Online 2024’ project.
I’m delighted to inform you that the project is now live on our website and can be viewed at:

https://www.source.ie/graduate/2024

We want to thank you for participating in the project and we wish you all the best with whatever comes next.

Best regards,
Stephen Hull
Web Editor, Source Magazine.