James Head
This project focuses on how I have used portrait photography as a means to document and explore skateboarding. My photographs represent a collective of individual skaters who are committed to a common identity and purpose, even though they are mostly misunderstood by society at large. My photographic approach comes from an insider's perspective and covers the skaters' faces to shift the main focus of identification onto their skateboards. This both creates a collective identity. The removal of the face is a denial of identification that alludes to how the photographic portrait can form conventional ideas about subjects, particularly problematic in the representation of sub-cultures in society. This process is constructed by photographer and performed by the subject.
Emily Clemson • Philip Curnow • Nicola Dellard-Lyle • Julia Dudkowiak • James Head • Beverley Isaac • Aidan Mayne • Kate Mercer • Jason Peck • Sue Anne Phelan • Matt Simmons • Hannah Winston •
Blackpool and the Fylde College
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Brighton
BA (Hons) Photography
Mid Cheshire College
Foundation Degree Contemporary Photography
University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
Cleveland College of Art and Design
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Cumbria
BA (Hons) Photography
De Montfort University
BA (Hons) Photography and Video
University of Derby
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
University College Falmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University for the Creative Arts Farnham
BA (Hons) Photography
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media (Part Time)
Hereford College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
Hereford College of Arts
FDA Photography
The National College of Art & Design
Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Photographic Art
University of Plymouth
BA (Hons) Photography
Portsmouth University
BA (Hons) Photography
Staffordshire University
FDA Creative & Cultural Industries, Digital Media
Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts