Making Contact With an Established Photographer: Nick Turpin

For my second interview, I have been tasked with to making contact with Nick Turpin. This, for me, is something huge, I think if I hadn't already made contact with Howard Barlow as mentioned in a previous post, that would have been just as daunting, these two photographers are people I look up to as a student, so making contact is something that is kind of scary but something rather fulfilling at the same time.

After sitting with Nick's number on my phone for a couple of minutes, I decided to press the call button, deep breaths Mikey, deep breaths!! Answer machine... Now that's typical!
Having listened to the answer phone message from Nick, he said if he's not contactable via telephone, the next best way is via email as he's usually out of the country or too busy to answer the phone...

'Good afternoon Nick,

My name is Michael Colebourne, I'm a second year photography student at Salford University. For an assignment we've been given, I have been asked to make contact with a photographer who is established in my field. If you could spare me a couple of minutes I would just like to ask a few questions about yourself and your career if you don’t mind? I appreciate you must be very busy and I would be very grateful for any reply. I tried to reach you by telephone but got no answer. 

Just starting with something simple, who was your inspiration when you first got into photography? And who would you say is your inspiration now?

As an aspiring street photographer myself I often worry about the possibility of making a living this way. As an established photographer yourself, how do you see street photography as a career?

Who or what was your first commission?

How do you find your clients?

When starting out as a photographer did you always aspire to be a street photographer?

And finally, what is it that you look for when you are ready to create an image? 

As I mentioned earlier, I tried to make contact via telephone, if this would be easier for us to complete this interview, my telephone number is 07598 464386.

Thank you for your time, 

Regards,

Michael Colebourne

https://www.facebook.com/pages/M18-Photography/207081052661922

https://twitter.com/M18Photography'

I am still awaiting a reply from this email. It will be updating as and when I receive this reply.


Contact details:

http://nickturpin.com/
Phone: +44 (0) 7831 507 629
email: nick@nickturpin.com