Grassroots recommendation and neighborhood at Offspring Photo Meet

Set up by business insiders, Offspring Photo Meet is a world-class portfolio evaluation – and a technique to enrich the photo-community

“It’s so beautiful, I’m really happy and proud,” says Mimi Mollica of Offspring Photo Meet, the portfolio evaluation he dreamt up a decade in the past, and co-founded with Twenty Twenty agent Frede Spencer. Mollica is a well-established photographer, recognized for his books Terra Nostra and Moon City, and he and Spencer based Offspring Photo Meet with a panel of friends, together with curator Monica Allende, designer and commissioning editor Johanna Neurath, and former BJP editor Simon Bainbridge. It’s the key to the occasion’s success. A grassroots mission arrange by insiders with many years of expertise in pictures within the UK, it provides entry to each business contacts and a vigorous neighborhood. 

This yr Offspring Photo Meet takes place on 07 and 08 May, and contains figures corresponding to Matthew Beaman, pictures director of Monocle and Konfekt Magazine; Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography at FT Weekend Magazine; and Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian News and Media Group. It additionally options people who’re much less recognized however equally necessary behind-the-scenes, together with artwork patrons from a few of the UK’s greatest advert companies. Appointments are additionally out there with image editors from the worldwide press – much less well-known within the UK, however equally necessary within the area. 

“Not everyone knows everyone, and not everyone reads the biographies properly!” Mollica smiles. “But photographers can get in front of people who can offer career-changing opportunities. We have crafted a group of photo experts who range from the editorial and to the commercial spectrum – we have advertising agencies, production agencies, curators, gallery directors, photo editors, publishers, book designers and writers. Basically, if you look at me as a photographer, in one day I could put my work in front of people that are extremely relevant in the business.”