The storm has definitely arrived in the form of a virus, Covid-19 has caused huge disruption to the global economy and people life choices and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Here are PhotoFinance we are also affected, locked down Britain is no fun we are working from home, but that does not help as a photographer needs to visit their clients to be able to make images. So work has just stopped, but that does not mean that we have to stop working. Looking forward life will return to normal, people will go back to work …

The power of LinkedIn Do you use LinkedIn if not why not? is my question. Of all the social media platforms it is the one that most easily lets you connect with others in a professional capacity. There are also ways of downloading the contact details (namely email addresses) of all your LinkedIn contacts. See this video for how to do it by Ilise Benun. I have realised that when I am searching for people to show my portfolio to, that LinkedIn is really helpful for finding out who has what job. As an example, I was looking for the art director …

On Friday we had nearly got the website up and running and then encountered the problem with the mail chimp and collecting of email addresses which is still not working only to somehow corrupt the whole website trying fix the problem so we have had to start again which is what we are doing right now.