Monday, November 16, 2009 Posted in Personal
Exciting news all round in the Parsons camp!
First bit of news is that I’ve just launched my new commercial photography site! You can access it at http://corporate.rosieparsons.com and just like my wedding photography, it aims to provide something a little bit different to the average corporate photography sites!
I’ve had a lot of fun putting it together with Lee and getting all the images for it. We had a fantastic few days in Dartmouth shooting at Browns Hotel and then at celebrity chef John Burton-Race’s gorgeous place The New Angel.
I’ve also been working with solicitor’s firm Hartnell Chanot & Partners in Exeter on their new staff profiles for their website. My father is a partner there and it’s been great to work with family!
The other bit of news is that we are moving home!
If you’ve been following me for some time, you might remember that we only moved to Bristol about 6 months ago – so it’s been quite a stressful year, but Lee has got a new job in Exeter doing web design and we are really excited to be moving to this wonderful part of the country!
I’ve already been along to a couple of networking meetings for Devon folk and am looking forward to meeting many more. There certainly seems to be a thriving social networking scene down here on Twitter and I’ll be heading along to the Exeter TAGS tweetup on Thursday.
I grew up in Exeter, so it’ll be fantastic to be back and to meet up with old friends. The city has changed a lot since I left for University aged 18 (almost ten years ago now!) – the new Princesshay shopping centre looks fantastic and I know Lee and I will probably be found in the Apple Store most weekends! 
We’re already setting up home down here, but are still receiving post at our Bristol address for the next few weeks.
Look forward to seeing you all for cream teas down here soon! 
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Sunday, September 6, 2009 Posted in Personal
It’s been a bit quiet on the blog front lately as I’ve been editing like mad and shooting lots of weddings before heading off to Italy tomorrow for Bren and Julie’s villa wedding near Lake Garda. Hurrah for sunshine!
I don’t think there will be much chance to check emails etc while I’m away, but I’ll be back on Friday so if you drop me a line I will reply to you then!
I look forward to updating you with some fabulous pics upon my return (as well as photos from the beautiful Shan + David’s wedding in Wales and Anna + Roberts at Notley Abbey from yesterday)!
See you then!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Posted in Personal
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Posted in Personal
Yesterday I put on a funny accent and with my friend Katheryn (whose wedding I photographed at the Thali Cafe earlier this year) we hopped over the water to Cardiff and headed to the Museum of Wales to see an exhibition of work by portrait photographer Diane Arbus.
Until her suicide in 1971 she photographed a variety of portraits, most of which – judging from the exhibition – were focused on the strangeness of life.
She seemed to seek out the weird and eerie, especially in the normal and everyday. But the sad thing is that the photos seemed to speak louder about the woman who took them than the subjects she photographed.
Arbus focused on the marginalised in society – disabled people, transvestites and the poor, among others. But instead of photographing these people with dignity and compassion, her work seemed to have a mean undercurrent. She chose images which were obviously from a series and she’d picked the photo where her subject looked the worst or was in the middle of speaking. She suffered from depression, and I wonder if this contributed to what she chose to photograph, or the frames she chose to keep from each session. It can’t be easy when you are depressed yourself to see the positive and good in others, and the exhibition of 69 images itself certainly conveyed to us the feeling of hopelessness that she perhaps felt herself.
It’s not really fair for me to write too much more as Arbus is no longer around to speak for herself about why she chose her subjects or particular images above others. But I came away from the exhibition thinking that I should like to do an exhibition myself – but this time one of joy, showing the best of human nature. I’m brainstorming ideas already!
To view more of her work visit her wikipedia page here (I can’t post her images as they are under copyright) or visit the Museum of Wales website.
by rosie
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