037: Becoming A Student

Welcome to the Idle Hands Society Podcast.

Today’s episode is the first one we’ve ever filmed. We’ve released the video on YouTube. We don’t often ask for things from you, but we’d appreciate as many subscriptions to our YouTube channel as we can manage. It’ll let us know if this colossal effort is worth it in the future.

We have a slightly slower, more awkward start because this is the first for us. Please bear with us; we relax into it after a while.

In our first ‘in-person-pod’, we discuss learning as a mature student. Dan has accepted a place for a BA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. We talk about Dan’s motives and feelings about the move and whether going to university as a mature student is worth the time and money. And, of course, we wander off-topic more times than we realise.

Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, and @paulbenceuk on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

Shout Outs

• Paul’s shout out is ‘I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating’ by the amazing Alec Soth

• Dan’s pick is Dmytro Kozatsky, Azov Regiment fighter and photographer who documented the siege of the Azovstal metalworks.

Mentions

• Our YouTube channel

• Moment Photography

• The Messy Truth: Dr Jennifer Good - On Ethics (With Gem Fletcher)

• Sasha Wolf - PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice

• Aperture: The Photography Workshop Series:

• Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude

• Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning

• Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image

• Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation

• David Campany

• Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One by Eugen Herrigel

• McDojoLife on Instagram

Cover photo by Dan Higginson - Made as leaving the offer holders day at UAL.