Subject of critique

I've always been interested in women in the workforce and women photographers.  This time I've decided to look at one of the first well-known women photographers, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Jane Bown, a well-respected woman photographer of the 20th century.

I worked as a photographic within British Airways at Heathrow Airport in the 1990s when women photographers were few and far between. In the end we formed a sort of clique and networked between us with ideas and jobs.

It was always a good idea to keep in with the men photographers around the airport as well as the women as they could also recommend you for a job that they were unable to do.  It was also useful to talk to them casually to get hints and tips on how to handle jobs.  These photographers were not the paparazzi but jobbing men who worked within the industry at the airport.  On one occasion, I was talking to one photographer, Adrian Meredith, who was the corporate photographer of choice for BA and he'd had to go into the CEO of the airline to update his picture.  As the time, it was usual to take a Lastolite portable background which was contained in a metre-wide material case.  

As you can imagine, time was short with a CEO and to get the background back in its case, mo mean feat at the best of time, Adrian and his assistant had to walk it out to the corridor to stuff it back in the case as they wanted to appear professional and not complete idiots.  Even the best of us can stuff up!