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Life in a Cold Climate A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SINGER ANNALIE GENEVIEVE THOUGHT MARK MAKES TV ANDREW DAVIES, TOUR ENDS THE YEAR ON CAREERS ADVICE WAS FOR LEEDS DE YORKSHIRE CYCLIST A HIGH NOTE A BARREL OF LAUGHS Issue 03 | Autumn 2015 I saw so many The magazine for LGS, LGHS & GSAL Alumni fantastic displays of aurora night after night. ONE MAN AND HIS CAMERA: LIFE IN A COLD CLIMATE Like us on facebook Follow @GSALalumni on Twitter Welcome to Memento Contents OL makes TV for Leeds 3 Wright stuff behind 4-5 the camera Genevieve: brewing up 6-7 a storm Annalie in the arts 8-9 Daniel makes designs 10 on the furntiure market Class of ‘90 Reunion 11 Life in A cold climate A BARREL OF LAUGHS Back to school 12-13 PAGE 4 PAGE 6 Rose Court Farewell 14-15 World War I remembered 16 Pupils benefit from 17 alumni experience Daniel has designs ON London Branch round-up 18 furniture market People 19-25 PAGE 10 Obituaries 26 Alumni Events 27 Memento is produced by the External Relations Team at The Grammar School at Leeds. Editor: Alison Knight Design & Print: Principles Agency A Strictly SurPrise ON TOUR WITH ANDREW DAVIES Please email [email protected] with alumni news PAGE 20 PAGE 25 and to update your contact details. 2 Memento | The magazine for LGS, LGHS & GSAL Alumni Profile: Mark O’Brien Mark makes TV for Leeds Mark O’Brien (OL08) has played a key Mark studied English Literature at St role in bringing a brand new television Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he station to Leeds. became involved in student journalism. Work as an intern on a magazine in China The journalist and broadcaster was a and a placement at Sky News only served member of the Made in Leeds consortium to galvanise his interest. Then in 2011, who successfully saw off bids from four when he should have been revising for his other companies for an Ofcom licence to finals, he started working with a group of create a community-based station. people aiming to start a local TV station Now, less than a year since its launch in Leeds. the station has 300,000 viewers a week This was his introduction to the Made for its mix of local news, sport and in Leeds team and while working on the entertainment, covering Leeds and bid over the next three years he was also surrounding areas. building his own career as a freelance The schedule includes two half-hour news journalist, writing regularly for the bulletins every night and a half-hour Yorkshire Post, The Guardian, Daily what’s on magazine show called The Book Telegraph, The Independent, and various It List. Other highlights include a rugby magazines. league show Rugby AM, a weekly current It was a long slog, he says, but the hard Mark O’Brien affairs debate hour, and a weekly Leeds work paid off. So how does the new United talk show called All Leeds station differ from the output from the Aren’t We. traditional BBC and ITV channels? For a Made in Leeds can also lay claim to the start, with a 24-hour schedule to focus on UK’s first dedicated yoga show, Everyday the region, Made in Leeds has more time Yoga with Helena Byles. to delve deeper into stories. As senior producer, one of Mark’s roles is Mark said: “We can go to the places and to develop the next wave of programming meet the people that they might miss. and among the ideas being considered are So much so that we actually sell Made in programmes to showcase local musicians, Leeds content to the BBC which they then new film reviews and grassroots boxing, often use on Look North or Radio Leeds. as well as a show where famous faces from “I like to think above all that we speak the the county are flown over Yorkshire in a Leeds language, that we are very much plane and shown places that mean a lot in by Leeds folk for Leeds folk, in a way that their lives. other broadcasters in the region can’t quite He said: “Our aim above all is to match.” reflect what Leeds and the wider To see Mark’s interviews with the school’s region are about, to produce locally- new principal Mrs Sue Woodroofe, visit made programming that speaks to the gsal.org.uk. community.” Issue 03 | Autumn 2015 3 Profile: Oliver Wright One man and his camera: life in a cold climate Our stunning front cover shot of the aurora borealis was taken 195 kilometres inside the Arctic Circle by Oliver Wright (OL90). Here, we talk to Oliver about how he gave up a career in management for a life in photography. 4 Memento | The magazine for LGS, LGHS & GSAL Alumni Profile: Oliver Wright Inquisitive moose Oliver Wright A passion for photography, combined with His first ‘proper’ job was with GE (General He said: “I arrived in November and didn’t an adventurous spirit, has developed into Electrics) where he stayed for 10 years, see the sun until February 5 when it came a new career for Oliver Wright. starting as an analyst and working his way over the horizon for about five minutes, up to head of operations projects. He also but I saw so many fantastic displays After many years of pursuing photography worked for O2 before joining Morrisons, of aurora night after night. as a serious hobby, Oliver ‘finally took the but throughout his career he continued plunge’ in February 2014 and set himself “The clients were all keen photographers climbing and taking photographs. When up as a professional photographer with and, as I was mainly working with them at an injury kept him away from his beloved a studio in Headingley, Leeds. nights, I had plenty of time to do my own mountains for a while he started to take photography during the day. The wildlife Now, just 18 months later he is already photography more seriously, eventually was incredible and I saw Arctic hares, making his mark in the world of adventure deciding to turn professional. which are like giant white rabbits, came photography, shooting wildlife and Just months after setting up his studio he face-to-face with a mother moose and landscapes in some of the remotest parts saw an ad for a photographer to work in her calves and spotted an incredible 60 of the world, including the Arctic Circle. the Arctic Circle. The only skills needed white-tailed sea eagles in one day on When he left his job as an internal were experience of photographing the a trip to the Lofoten Islands. management consultant at Morrisons head aurora borealis, running workshops and Oliver will return to Abisko in November office in Bradford, he concentrated on an ability to work in a cold, inhospitable this year where, as well as the tours he honing his photography skills across the environment! supervised last year, he will also be guiding disciplines, from commercial shoots to “It was my dream job,” said Oliver. “I had an eight-day photography expedition, family portraits and weddings, as well already done a number of aurora trips so travelling on dog-sleds. as running photography workshops. I knew how tough the conditions could Before he heads off though, he exhibited However for many years Oliver had be. I emailed the company immediately his photography at the White Cloth been fascinated by wildlife photography, and two weeks later I was on my way to Gallery, in Aire Street, Leeds, from July combining it with a love of travelling and Abisko in the Arctic Circle.” to October. mountaineering. The work was for a UK-based travel For more information on Oliver and his He learned his climbing skills at LGS company Lights over Lapland who hired work, visit oliverwrightphotography.com and, following a microbiology degree at Oliver for five months to run nightly Liverpool University, he was picked for the and weekly guided photography tours of British Climbing Team. He spent the next Abisko National Park which - due to clear three years climbing all over the world, skies and virtually no light pollution - is including the Alps, Germany, Spain and one of the best places in the world to see Thailand, taking work to pay for his trips. the northern lights. Issue 03 | Autumn 2015 5 Profile: Genevieve Upton Brewer thought careers advice was a barrel of laughs Brewer Genevieve Upton 6 Memento | The magazine for LGS, LGHS & GSAL Alumni Profile: Genevieve Upton When Genevieve Upton (née Salter OG04) took part in psychometric testing at Leeds Girls’ High School the results gave everyone a good giggle…her number one career option was brewing. She didn’t take the idea too seriously, but fast forward a decade and Genevieve has just become a master brewer after seven years of study while working at Marston’s Brewery. She now works as an innovations brewer for Marston’s with her own signature beer on supermarket shelves. She said: “At the time it seemed totally ludicrous because no one went into Marston’s Brewery brewing. It didn’t seem like a real job!” Top projects have included creating a beer morning when all the beers packaged in However during her first year studying for the company’s Revisionist range, which the last 24 hours are tasted. It can be a applied and human biology at Aston sees her face and signature on bottles of brilliant aspect of the job, but sometimes University one of her modules was California Common Steam Beer on the beer tasting is the last thing you want to do mycology - the study of fungi – which shelves of Tesco supermarkets, and she also early in the day.
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