While those working secure 9 to 5s have been offered a 5-15% pay rise to keep up with inflation, freelancers find their necessarily risen prices often rejected by clients not willing or able to pay more due to the rise in all other business and personal expenses.

Pippa Nissen, director of exhibition design studio Nissen Richards, adds that tighter budgets have prompted a more considered approach than usual.

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For most of us, the dream is to go full time freelance. Our own rules, our own schedules and great work being produced on a regular basis. However, as with any other job, freelancing comes with challenges, and it’s important that aspiring freelancers are aware of these challenges before going full-time as an independent contractor.

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A mesmerising new film tells the story of Katia and Maurice Krafft – a pair of married, daredevil volcanologists who spent their lives filming erupting volcanoes around the globe.

Katia and Maurice Krafft were like the Tom Cruise of volcanologists. With a camera, the French couple searched for erupting volcanoes around the globe, teetering dangerously close to the bubbling lava and poisonous smoke, sometimes removing headgear to pose with the magma and rocks hurtling through the air. The pair, ultimately, were prepared to gamble with their lives to document the tall, dark, handsome third wheel of their love triangle – in 1991, they were killed in Japan when Mount Unzen blasted out lava and gas at 125 mph.

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