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GRADUATE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ONLINE 2011

Matt Simmons

This body of work explores the concept of the utopian as an unattainable vision. Taking a local shopping centre as its subject, the project uses montage to bring together archival type imagery with architectural drawings. The images of the building become disrupted; squashed into impossible shapes and broken up by the lines of its envisioning. Although only examining one building, the work considers civil architecture as a whole, highlighting the impossibility of fabricating the utopian city centres we see proposed in our society. The many translations a building undergoes to reach its final completion means that it will inevitably fall short of its idealised conception. This translation is continued by time, as architecture is inevitably re-contextualised within the urban landscape.

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Current Course:

University of Wales, Newport  BA (Hons) Photographic Art

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 •

Courses:

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

Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography

IADT Dun Laoghaire
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

Kingston University London
BA (Hons) Photography

London College of Communication
BA (Hons) 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

Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photojournalism

University of Ulster
BA (Hons) Photography

Categories:

Documentary/Photojournalism

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Commercial/Fashion

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Landscape

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Portraiture

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Staged/Constructed

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Urban/Suburban Landscape

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