Daring to apply

Today I applied for something I know I am not going to get. But I thought I will anyway, because if you don't, you will never know and what is there to lose?

'If you don't ask, you don't get'

That saying has a lot of history for me. It is literally what got me the job I wanted in the early days of my career. I wrote an email on the off chance, asking for a job, and I added 'If you don't ask, you don't get' at the end and boom, I had an interview and consequently, the job.

The job ended up taking more from me than I got from it, it was all really very cheeky, but it became a big part of my development in film and moving image.

It all started with my student project based on Mona Hatoum, artists and frank interviews with the artists - and that's another story for another day.


Image: Eltham Palace