Carl Baker

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is as important for photographers as it is for any other profession. I maintain and develop knowledge and skills through studying for further qualifications, exhibiting and entering internationally recognised competitions. Personal projects are a very important part of the process and at any one time, I can be working on up to three self-commissioned projects. Camera Unfriendly is an ARPS project I started working on in 2014. It explores the impact of CCTV on the individual and how makeup is used to protect privacy. The project has already clocked up two successes: a gold medal in the Southern Federation championships and highest scoring print in the league. Winter's Waif: Gold Medal portrait at SCPF Brown Sugar: Highest Scoring Print in Southern Counties Division. Selected for Regional Finals. https://www.studio-grey.net/peer-review-regional-success/

A friend of mine has been 39 for the past seven years. They aren't ridiculously vain nor are they delusional or prone to chronic wishful thinking. But they are useless at managing their professional online presence. Now, I'm not talking Facebook. That's Corporate Headshot regularly updated. Yet the same effort is not expended on their professional networking sites. So their LinkedIn profile sports a pixilated selfie taken years ago by a long dead 'phone and their company website portrait hasn't been updated in years. This friend is in regular employment and they're not actively looking for a new job, so why does it matter if their profile is out of date? Teamwork : 300 million professionals use LinkedIn. Even if a few are looking for a company that sells a difficult to find widget or service, that's still a huge number of potential customers. And guess what? Your 7-year-old profile picture gets featured on the company's LinkedIn page. Great: you've j...

Facial recognition software, combined with CCTV and increasing connectivity represents perhaps the greatest threat to personal freedom. The ability for a complete stranger to download your full personal history whilst you queue for a Latte is a technical reality. Facebook recently decided not to offer its  photo-sharing app Moments in  Europe because of regulator concerns over its facial recognition technology. Photography: Grey. Make Up: Hattie Florey, Model: Chloe Wainwright, Published: The Upcoming. But it is available elsewhere and not everybody plays by the rules. So how to protect yourself from unwanted intrusion? Camouflage make-up, designed to fool high definition CCTV cameras and software? It may be before a night out we don't just get 'glammed up' we also camm-up. Photography: Grey. Make Up: Hattie Florey, Model: Lewis Good, Published: The Upcoming. Camera Unfriendly  is part of an ongoing project to explore how camouflage makeup and fashion combine to complete a ...