I found the personal statement for my masters quite hard to do as I am not very good at writing and I didn't really know what I wanted to say. I felt this with my UCAS applications and I think it can seem like you are too desperate to get on the course and that isn't what I wanted to convey through my personal statement. This is what I submitted:
"I am applying for a place on the Photography MA course because I have a very strong interest in the subject and have done for many years. I first became enthusiastic about photography as a child after being given a Fisher Price camera as a gift and my fascination and love for it never died. I would like to further my knowledge of photography as much as possible, as it is a subject that I am extremely passionate about.
I am close to finishing my BA Hons degree in Photography at The University of Salford, where I am currently working on a project that is exploring the relationship between fashion and music and the presentation of self within society and communities. I have chosen to focus on the psychedelic community as it has quite an eclectic group of people within it. I have attended events to capture portraits of the participants and I have been experimenting with my images by bleaching the prints and then combining them with psychedelic paintings I have done myself. Choosing this group to focus on has propelled me into creating a link between the subjects and the music through using an unusual technique. Due to working on this project, I now have a strong interest in interpersonal behaviour and self-presentation. Learning about this has benefited me greatly as I now understand some of the reasons people behave the way they do and how we are influenced by others, meaning I can analyse the subjects within my work more proficiently.
I am very experimental with my approach and I constantly strive to find new techniques to make my work unique. I particularly enjoy trying out new techniques in Photoshop with photographs I have taken and finding different ways to make them into repeating patterns. I also take pleasure in making new attachments for my cameras and quite recently I made a large mirror prism that sits onto the end of lenses to create a kaleidoscope effect. I used a mixture of both film and digital, but I prefer to work with film as I like that I can manipulate the photographs before I have prints by making concoctions of detergent to put the cannister in. I then dry the film out and load it into my camera as normal.
I feel that a place on this course would benefit me greatly as I would be able to continue experimenting with my work in a learning environment with the added input of a lecturer and peers.
Following completion of the MA, I hope to undertake a PGCE as it would give me a chance to learn more about photography with the added advantage of teaching others too.
The address to my online portfolio is klairewalmsley.tumblr.com"
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