Third year students visited working photographers in Manchester last week as part of their professional development and the new Jeremy Deller exhibition showing at the Manchester City Art Gallery ‘All That is Solid Melts into Air’ to look at contemporary display methods.

We visited Andrew Brooks who gave great insight in to the working life of a photographer working freelance for great clients such as the BBC Philharmonic and how he continues his personal projects and the development of his unique image making style.

We also visited Vice Magazine photographer Chris Bethell and his journalist friend Caroline at Piccadilly Gardens who very kindly took a few minutes out from working on an article for Vice to give an insight into collaborating on articles and how Chris operates as an editorial photographer choosing projects and issues to focus on for article proposals.

Thank you to all Andrew and Chris for some great advice and insight in to your busy lives.