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Louise Carreck
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My current body of work deals with the illusion of space placing the viewer in an environment where scale and location are hard to identify. By using the abstraction of architecture I am able to create these surreal environments. Only very minor alterations to the images have been made, wanting them to remain as close to the original subject as possible. Light is an important element to the work, as it enhances the ambiguity of the spaces. With many modernist influences I am keen to maintain this minimal, reductive approach, where there is none is very little evidence of human presence. After graduating I wish to further my photographic career, continuing the exploration of architectural photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Catherine Chapman
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Continuing an exploration into Western cultures diminishing connection to the natural landscape this body of work centralises around experience and perception. Preceding a documentation of urban sprawl at night, these photographs explore the one area of the UK that remains totally dark come nightfall. Once our native landscape, forests now cover less than 10% of the UK. These nocturnal trips to the forest with a torch and large-format camera map my primal and often fearsome experiences through long exposures. Large areas of the scene are concealed, revealing small intricacies of the forest to the viewer. The resulting panoramas are printed large and displayed on concave aluminium, placing the viewer in the space with the aim of communicating my experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Gillo
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In my practice I utilise alternative photographic processes with the photogram very much at the heart of my practice. The work explores my personal space and re-examines reality. I have been inspired by 19th century photography and through using antiquated techniques I am rebelling against digital technology and returning photography to it key roots. An underlining theme throughout my practice is the link between art and science from which the images have adopted a forensic style. Presenting the work in this manner invites the viewer to examine and conclude their own assumptions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Harding
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Alastair Littleton
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is mainly landscape based with heavy influences from land artists. The concepts revolve around a physical act or place where I am able to interact with. The images I produce document this interaction as a second hand source but the audience is unable to experience the true meaning of the work unless they see the work as a primary source. These images form a piece of work involving solitary walking along a repeated path at different times of the day and how my thoughts, meditations and memories are effected by the walk and surroundings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola McBride
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Switched off to the outside world. Fully absorbed into the very thing that we are viewing. Our eyes remain wide - we become transfixed. Whether the screen may be that of the television, a computer or even perhaps that of a phone, far too much of our day-to-day lives are spent immersed into some form of simulated reality. Blurring the boundaries between the still and the moving image - somewhere in between the real and the unreal, Nicola McBride's series Transfixed looks at the relationship between social interaction and technology, and the effect it is having on our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Mecklenburgh
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

While exploring the Lulworth gunnery ranges in Dorset my images are documents of a land under limited access by regulation of section 28 of the military byelaws. The objects in this restricted landscape are artefacts and traces of the military activity there and raise questions about their use and place in a landscape of treasured beauty. The absurd nature of these landscapes show the history of this restricted area of the Jurassic coast and one which is generally overlooked and blocked off to the general public. The banal objects themselves hold their own narrative and with this 'late' photography the trace and history is what is experienced. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marie Mitchell
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work deals with spatial ambiguities and human presence within space; along with continued themes of narrative and the fragment this work translates the subtle and delicate nature of loss and trace. The ambiguous nature of this work allows the viewer to interpret these spaces as if they were their own, yet we are invited into an environment in which we shall never know its true location and thus shall always be left with a feeling of the unknown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Pickett
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Throughout art history the study of the human form has continually been an area of great interest both scientifically and artistically, both seek to understand its intricate and complex structure inside and out. 'Figure Studies' is a body of work that engages with the primitive ideas of painting and photography whilst exploring its indexical forensic nature. The work presents a continual battle between contemporary and traditional, the process is fundamentally using the idea of the photogram as a direct contact print, contemporised by the use of a digital scanner. The body is presented as an object for a universal audience and references a long history within figurative art. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander Reed
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Channel tunnel is a microcosm of England's changing landscape and cultural identity in recent years. The freedom of movement facilitated by the Tunnel is creating a more Eurocentric and multi cultural nation but also one that is becoming more homogenised. The photographs depict the tension between old and new, the end of England's physical isolation from the continent, and explore mans ability to manipulate the earth to his specification and the possibilities that this creates. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Terrence Smith
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Terrence Smith is an artist whose practice is influenced by Victorian and Antiquarian Avant-Garde photographic processes. His concepts focus around "Nothing" and "The Void". He explores interests in ideals based around "the sacred" and questions how it transcends to the everyday and to the art object. Photography is his starting point, through, which he embodies a relation with space and the environment to produce a body of work exploring the idea of experience between work and the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alison Bettles
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Objects, photographs and places evoke the memories and absence of others and our own mortality. The kept object plays an important part in the cathartic process of remembering and the experience of grief. I have used archival material to portray and explore the notion of inheritance, keeping and loss and how this can perhaps be an overwhelming burden in many respects by the amount of residual belongings that we accumulate over time from others past lives and existence. We all will or have been subjected to the possible guilt of throwing things away that belonged to a loved one and that we feel we ought to keep them as a sense of duty, tradition and remembrance. There is a pull from both sides. My temporal structures echo the fragility of our existence whereby the object is removed from what it initially represents to something it signifies in the present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Janine Boyer
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am a Brighton-based artist who uses the medium of photography. The personal art projects are used as a vehicle for commentary on a variety of issues of the modern world. In particular they focus on what it means to me be a woman, how we are viewed and treated. My most recent project, an extract of which is shown here, is the 'Narrative of Invasion' and is rooted in my personal experience as a sufferer of Endometriosis, a disease specific to women. As an artist within the community I have undertaken collaborative projects that empower young people to find a voice through the use of the medium of photography . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Burton
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This body of work looks at spaces that, to an adult, might suggest a sense of danger and raise caution but, to a child, allow for an extension of their imagination and childhood fantasy. These are spaces that could once have been the backdrop for many adults play when they were children, but as they have matured and as that sense of imagination has diminished, now appear little more than areas of abandonment. The work explores the perceived innocence of the child's adventure and curiosity whilst unease builds, within the adult viewer, in witnessing children in these peripheral areas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Malachy Donnelly
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'(un)Familiar Night' explores the notions of landscape under the cover of darkness. Landscape, when identifiable in terms of landmarks or geography, becomes an aesthetic landscape. It is this that separates it from a conceptual one. If a landscape is to avoid becoming an aid to its own inevitable destruction, it must bear no clues to its whereabouts. Once free of this constraint, it can become a representation of ones thoughts, feelings, emotions and creativity. It can become, in essence, a vehicle for the human soul. This allows for the freedom of the depicted environment, respecting its privacy and purpose within the natural world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Azadeh Falakshahi
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Betsie Genou
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Les images choisies par le souvenir sont aussi arbitraires, aussi étroites, aussi insaisissables, que celles que l'imagination avait formées et la réalité détruites." - The images chosen by our remembering are as arbitrary, narrow and intangible as those created by imagination and destroyed by reality. (Marcel Proust). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Holmes
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This series of intimate portrayals of life within the miniature world of model railways explores the human urge to recreate tiny versions of our reality. In 'Little Worlds' fictional and yet familiar narratives are created involving the tiny train-set figures, that scratch beneath the surface of this seemingly innocent world and go beyond the benign. Inspired visually by the cinematic, these narratives are manipulated to include an adult perspective of this world where childhood innocence is mingled with a sense of loneliness, alienation and voyeurism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucie-Anne Lang
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My practice typically transforms my own various emotional influences into a form of visual diary, using a variety of technical photographic techniques and subject matter to physically represent my emotional response to a given situation. More often that not my work draws greater influence from the more emotionally charged aspects of my life, past and present. Therefore the general ambiance of my images incorporates an atmosphere of melancholy. What would normally be viewed as a mundane object or daily act is photographically captured and consequently viewed over and over again. Replicating what we often do with the negative emotions (more so than the positive ones) that relate to different aspects of our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Paige Smith
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Laura Pannack
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Young' is a project exploring the complexities of adolescence. Observing young love, identity and rebellion. The body of work consists of individuals all united by their uncertainty, fear and invincibility and looks at the different approaches the subjects take to tackle their journey through adolescent life. The subjects consist of couples, young offenders, special needs pupils and secondary school pupils; all extremely individual and equally misunderstood. The groups all raise issues of identity, conformity, uniform and love; whether it be the young couples entering a relationship to share the burden of self discovery and acceptance or the young offenders rebelling to gain love or understanding. Society has a tendency to label young people instead of exploring their world, I hope to understand my subjects and present them as they wish to be viewed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Pepper
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Claire is a young photographer based in the South of England. Her practice is concerned with relationships - between people and the camera, light and space, seeing and being seen. She is available for commissions and commercial assignments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Willie Robb
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In 2004 the Scottish Parliament initiated a 'Land Reform Plan' which was intended to make it easier for small hold tenants to buy the property on which they worked and lived. Unfortunately this created a counter-movement with private owners actively seeking to remove tenants who appeared to have the financial capabilities of buying land. These images are from a series titled 'Dupplin' documenting the effects of 'Land Reform' on Aberdalgie and Dupplin estate, located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tamsin Ross-Van Lessen
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Old age is something viewed by most with apprehension, a time when life begins to end. Yet more and more older people are living life actively and fully well into their twilight years and even beyond, making the most of the opportunities afforded by time and money to learn new skills and languages, go on exotic holidays, attend dances and even fall in love again. This work is a glimpse into a world of old age that is far more varied and involved than many anticipate, and one in which the inhabitants are far more contented and relaxed than their younger counterparts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Madeleine Wilson
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"...you are overtaken, say, by a sense that something has been irretrievably lost... so memory becomes tinged with the bittersweet sadness of nostalgia... we can do nothing but accept it has been lost forever". The project is concerned with memory, the act of remembering how things were, and how they have changed or stayed the same. Despite recent polls ranking Middlesbrough as the worst place to live in the UK, my memories of the area are somewhat different. I remember sugary cups of tea, drives past Roseberry Topping Hill and my Grandad's video box set of 'Sharpe'. Once or twice a year we would make the six-hour car journey from our home in Surrey to visit my Mother's relatives up North. Over the past few years these visits have become more important to me. The images and text in this project are comparable to a re-writing of the family album. I have tried to record the memories, commit them to paper. They are testament to what has passed, what has not changed and what may soon be lost forever. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Wright
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This body of work focuses on the landscape surrounding Faslane naval base on the Gare Loch in Scotland, one of the UK's three naval bases and the home of our Nuclear weapons. The photographs concentrate on presence in the landscape. It is due to the efforts being made to conceal that the area has such an atmosphere. Unknown to most the mountains are hollow, filled with arms and the landscape is filled with MoD markers, fuel tanks, barracks and surveillance equipment I was concerned with the contrast between the rugged natural beauty of the area and the extreme violence inherently suggested by the MoD. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben/Sam Absalom/Bardsley
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'8X's' is an ongoing collaborative project exploring the relationship between personal and objective histories of place through photography. The photographs shown here are part of an extensive collection of imagery taken from the book titled '8X's'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Abotsi
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Women looking at women form the central theme of my work. Does the feminine gaze in itself, or is it just an extension of the masculine gaze? My work seek to explore women's perception of the feminine through the hybrid fashion image; that which an alternative view to fashion and fine art in a photographic environment. Drawing on the artifice of the photographic environment I am exploring ways of disrupting the power relationship between the photographer, the model, and the studio space to create tension in my images, where the lighting backdrop, and any other features of the studio all become props, asserting a certain punctuation of their own and establishing a complex axis of power. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire-Louise Barker
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The following images depict my continuing exploration and realisation of the complexities of familial relationships. Focusing on the concealment and revelation of gazes, altering perspectives and the photographers ability to represent an identity separate to the one implied through familiarity. My work explores the restraints of the familial, identity and it's erasure through process and narrative- creating imagery that attempts to elude and displace the viewer, generating concurrent feelings of distance and connection. Through involving myself within the frame and exploring the idea of illusions, I aim to create transitional dialogues between documentation and eventual image. Utilizing the camera as a transitional tool and objective device, an analytical and theoretical distance is created, allowing me to gain impartiality and highlight my own perspectives concerning identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Theres Bergman
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In my photographic practice I am investigating issues of loss through a mixture of narrative photography and a phototherapeutic approach. These images explore different kinds of loss such as loss of identity and loss of information. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dune Brodiez
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The cohabitation of constructed and natural spaces and the possible parallels with our constructed social behaviour is here explored within the context of spaces that aim to integrate them both. 'Locked outside' questions the possibility of this coexistence while maintaining the spaces' essence. The transformation of the original image is the result of a translation between the missing elements' name and a plain color, which artificiality, expresses the perversion of the natural in becoming experienced as a representation. In 'Terra Nullius' the constructed is defined as a space of exclusion, spectacle and social influence whereas the natural is envisaged as a state of balance. The distinction between them no longer resides in their appearance or matter but in how they are experienced. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Burt
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"The idea that colour is beyond, beneath or in some way at the limit of language has been expressed". My work is concerned with the reproduction of colour through description: spoken and non spoken. I try to look at ways of proving my idea that it is impossible to reproduce colour through description: spoken and textual, but do so by creating "experiments" to disprove that idea. These are the results of these experiments. Although I do have some control over the aesthetics, I try to leave the results as "unworked" as possible. The results do not reveal my ideas and give away very little that will inform the viewer of their origins or meaning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Cratchley
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The images selected from this series show installations of projections onto various surfaces and objects, and images of exterior 'decorated' spaces. The work addresses the function of decoration in the familiar space, where these common and often well-known patterns (and processes of decoration), are used in an unorthodox fashion, juxtaposing the nature of interior and exterior surface. The process of decoration begins as a conscious decision into the pleasing of the self within a space or home. The use of projection exposes the subjectivity of of these decisions, imposing many different textures and patterns onto the same objects and surfaces, resulting in a completely inter-changeable environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Craig Dow
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Exploring Time, Duration and Relativity through a dynamic mix of traditional and contemporary photographic technologies, my work encourages the viewer to consider these human concepts, keeping in mind that the world is temporary and ever changing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karolina Dudek
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I have always been very interested in the idea of telling a story about human, as a hybrid of body and soul. Representation of the person as a object, meat, consumption product or bodily and spiritual combination. One possible way of understanding that is fact that human has body and soul as a inseparable component of human being. That kind of representation is the most humanitarian. Secondly, there is a dealing with human as a object. By collaborating with human and nudity as a element of existential point of birth and death, I try to find the way to represent human digressed from the dualistic construction and objectivity. In my projects I do photography of imagination which is clearly dominated by fantasy. I do collaborate and explore the term of salvation, in the context of suicide, as well as existential problem of passing time and death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Gentry
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Set in an urban location my work explores the relationship between image and object. In particular, the way images represent objects and how objects can be manipulated to create and adjust the information within the image. This relationship creates an ambiguity that provides the starting point for my practice. It is the layering within images and the ambiguity within the process that makes the viewer look twice at these initially mundane images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Richard Goff
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Ximena Hunter
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work explores themes of self image through a variety of mediums including video, photography and installation. The work attempts to address my negative self image by continually putting myself in situations that make me uncomfortable, and documenting them in a way that in turn makes the viewer uncomfortable. As a result the work has become increasingly performance art rather than strictly photography. Other recent work includes the reworking of Disney films, in order to explore themes of feminine rivalry and jealousy, and the battle between different age groups of women within fairytales. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louis Jaquet
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Exploring the presentation of the manufactured/residual landscape, the by-product of human intervention within the natural world. This particular site has been approached with a specific sensitivity to classical landscape and traditional Alpine photography, with a focus on the picturesque and sublime, resulting in beautiful yet ironic images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sami Knight
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Espen Krukhaug
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In this project I have explored the night time. Then more specific insomnia and solitariness. And I have tried to find the total silentness you can find under the night time in a town. I have always liked the quit times of the night. A time when most people are sleeping and their for missing a lot of beautiful things. The streets that in the daytime is full of people stressing from a to b, but in the night time are all quiet and empty. A time you can feel like the only person in an abandoned world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Kuhn
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This photograph is part of series of portraits of my great uncle who is 92 years old and almost completely blind. My idea was to capture the everyday life of a blind person, either during an activity at home or during some training sessions for example. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Newman
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This particular series is entitled 'quads' and concerns the relationship between light and form within the photographic image. The resulting 'alternate spaces' suggest structural impossibilities intended to disarm the viewer and their inherent aesthetic evokes an otherworldly visual context. Inspired by everything from sci-fi to the Bauhaus, my work aims to explore the themes of light and space through the use of a common and personal visual language. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrea Parrie
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is driven by the desire to discover and uncover. The formation and destruction of memory is greatly influenced by the images we are left with on paper and it is this idea that has led me to work with found and sourced images. In this series I have collected images sourced from my family archive and put them through a series of processes to illustrate the acts of forgetting and remembering, deterioration and nostalgia. With these images I am searching for a way to create something new out of something once forgotten or overlooked and bring it into the present tense. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katarzyna Perlak
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The aim of this project, which is partly presented here, is to explore the relationship between the photographer, the camera and the photographed subject. It is a study of the impact the photographer and camera have on the presented or represented identity of the subject. Furthermore it is an attempt to explore different photographic contexts that would challenge this impact. All portraits were taken in a photographic darkroom where subjects were seated in the dark. Then they were asked to release the flash themselves right at the moment when they felt the least self-conscious about having their picture taken. Each photograph takes its title from the precise number of minutes and seconds that pass from the moment each subject sits down to the moment they release the flash. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zhao Renhui
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Institute of Critical Zoologists (ICZ) is the first interdisciplinary scholarly center dedicated to promoting critical scholarly dialogue and research on the principles and practices of animal spectatorship, animal advocacy, animal killings and animal-related policies in the fields of social sciences, entertainment, commerce, aesthetics, culture and ecology. The institute employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission - engaging in research, classification and exhibition. It is undeniable that looking at animals is considered both desirable and pleasurable in societies. Animals convey meaning and values that are culture-specific, and in viewing the animal, we cannot escape the cultural context, political climate and social values in which that observation takes place. All images courtesy of the Institute of Critical Zoologists. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jazmin Shallcross
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Sometimes our strongest associations with place seem to be derived from a logic all their own" - Akiko Busch (1999). My work investigates the place where we live, challenging the way people inhabit and perceive domestic space. From the way we shape the space, to the way the space affects us. By placing the viewer in the room, he/she begins to relate what they see to themselves, the familiarity of the domestic setting resides with ones own personal experiences and personal space. I play with this notion and belief, wanting to question the viewer. This investigation has partly become a self-portrait. Having delved into my personal space, I have stripped back the layers of how I live, exposing myself. Exploring the ideas of domesticity and intimacy. There is a strange but interesting crossover; between the spaces we inhabit being private, yet concurrently public. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mirka Vecerova
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Memory. Temporal Time. Translation. Imaginary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alyson Ward
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is concerned with what can be termed psychologies of domestic space; how the rooms we inhabit feel to be occupied, and how we emotionally engage with them. I am interested specifically in the ways architecture dictates this relationship. To that end I have built camera obscuras (a process created and distorted by the architecture of a room) in a variety of rooms, placed photographic paper on the walls, and positioned people and objects in front of the paper. These life-size photographs look to initiate in a viewer a sense of occupancy; a spatial engagement with the image of a room before them, and to generate an awareness of one's own sense of space and positioning in a room. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Bullen
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My most recent work continues to explore the theme of geometry and reflections. This concept has been expanded upon, and links directly to my own life, as the photographs not only capture obvious reflections, but also portray a sense of self-reflection in my life. The work is enhanced by the use of light as a theme, and what can be hidden and revealed within an image. This hiding and revealing is highlighted in the textures and settings of the image. It plays an important role within the photographs, as it enhances the juxtaposition of concept vs. reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Collier
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

With my Photographs I am interested in challenging the ideas surrounding De-industrialisation, particularly relating to our increased dependence on imported goods and energy. I also seek to explore the continuing role of manufacturing within Great Britain and other western nations, photographing active and abandoned sites as well as new industrial projects. I take inspiration from my personal archive of found 16mm Films, Old documents, photographs and promotional materials relating to the British Coal Industry. The idea of the "archive as art" as developed by artists such as August Sander and the Bechers is an important aspect to my work. I am also influenced by the writings and artwork of Robert Smithson, Particularly on the themes of memory and monument. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Collin
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work engages with abstraction and experimental photographic images in ongoing series which explores the ambiguity of surface. The pieces are often created with a strikingly simple and original concept from the minimum amount of material. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jane Coulson
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work looks at the forgotten and the disused. It explores places that once had a purpose but now no longer belong in the present day. Whilst these remains preserve the history and stories that are associated with these locations, they are still in danger of being lost or forgotten. Each place is a link to the past and consequently a trigger for our memories. My work juxtaposes what has been, and what is yet to be, as the decay continues and more of the past disappears with time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martin Hodgson
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In my work I use found images to make collections in an exploration of the archive and its transformation of the image. Objects lose their meaning and original use when they are assembled in this format. As a procured assemblage of images the way in which they are displayed displaces their original purpose and creates new meaning. The archive is intriguing in the way it structures interpretation in relation to the viewer's own personal experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Hopper
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work continues to explore the thresholds of liminal space and the relationship between people and their environment. I am exploring the spatial awareness between the subject and the viewer, investigating architectural spaces and interiors through which human subjects move in and out. I am exploring how these sites control people's movements. The images show derelict spaces and their dismembered forms influence the reaction of an inhabitant of that space. The relationship a person has with an unfamiliar environment, whether the movements are repetitive or none existent is directly influenced by the surrounding architecture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Kellaway
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The British seaside holiday is an age old tradition, renowned for its brash and tacky souvenirs and keepsakes. What is it that draws the public to each seaside town? Is it the hypnotic arcade machines with the promise of 'Big Prizes', from plastic toys to cheap tin watches? Or the heavy blasts of winds from murky crashing waves, with the call of seagulls circling in hope of discarded greasy chips? My work is a combination of video installation and photography examining the great British seaside holiday. The photographic images are derived from video work in a closer examination of the grotesque and what draws an individual into the world of the seaside holiday. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Kendall
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work engages with urban landscape and concentrates on structures and processes rather than people. These images represent an attempt to understand our experience of the city. I have chosen the urban landscape as it gives me the opportunity to photograph a vast amount of different subjects, which can be widely explored. At first the work investigated architecture but then I widened my approach. Eventually I decided on a new route and concentrated on the subject of Journeys. At the same time I will continue to photograph the urban environment in this context. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica King
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My body of work utilises the genre of portraiture, it takes influence from photographers like John Coplans and David Bailey. In my images I try to convey an aspect of the subject's personality, by keeping the photos as natural as possible to convey a reflection of the subject. I use lighting and specific framing to convey the most important and interesting features of the models. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Joanne Leman
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This autobiographical project arose from an inner desire to belong. Over a period of time I have travelled through and explored the landscape of my childhood, creating fragments of a personal narrative. The photographs appear seemingly mundane, a record of my banal everyday existence. They evolved to not only record the location, but also record the attachment and feeling which these areas evoked. The sequence of images and dates create their own sense of place and time, positioned to illustrate the confused and unsettled nature of my past. They resonate emptiness. The aspirations for this project were to mark the point of change and progress, thus enabling me to gain a sense of who I am and where I belong. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Khaleed Olaniyan
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My practice covers fine art new media and photography. Which is concerned with the interaction between the work and the viewer. Without warning the viewer is put in a situation where choice is seemingly taken away and replaced with a belief that they must comply with what is seen. These images relate to a video work, which confronts the audience in various different ways and seeks to hold your attention. The photographs are similar as a series of performed stills where the scale of the image and facial expression are key to audience interaction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Reynolds
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

A photograph of a house - there is no denying that a photograph of a house is exactly that. My images do not try to make the subject of the picture something it is not. They aim to acknowledge what it is. I look at everyday locations that are often missed and admire the banality that makes them so unique and of interest to me. No matter where you go there are buildings and places that have meaning, which can go unnoticed. I choose to photograph simple yet detailed fragments of our world and put them together in order to compare them with each other. Consequently their typology reveals more than their original setting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andy Rixon
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"...I think we all have somebody who is dead inside of us. A dead child. I remember the little Christian that is dead inside of me." (Christian Boltanski). By means of fragmentation and deconstruction, my work evokes the recollection of childhood memories. I use traditional British themes for my subjects, images we associate with our childhood years that hold poignant emotional values. The viewer is invited to transpose their individual, personal contexts via mental process of recognition and reconstruction. In doing so it is my aim to regress the mind to a place in time we grieve for, a part of our lives that can never be re-lived, and to interrogate the authenticity of such memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellen Rudge
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My body of work seeks to explore the meaning in objects and play with our perceptions of ordinary everyday objects by placing them in unusual isolated situations. Taking them out of their normal environment gives everyday household objects new meaning when otherwise we may take them for granted. The meaning of an object lies within the mind and we are too aware of the concept of mundane that these are discounted as forms of art. The juxtaposition between the object and its unnatural surroundings adds intrigue and surprise in my images but maintains a subtle approach as if it could have been there all along. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kelly Barnes
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

All aspects of photography interest me and over the past few years I have had the pleasure of photographing many different things and in many different ways. My set of images is a range of photography from studio to still life. These images are taken from several bodies of work. What I enjoy the most is a new challenge in photography and experimenting with photographic techniques and processes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Case
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My current photographic practice has become increasingly concerned with portraiture. For me a portrait possesses a curious quality; the trace of a person captured in time is rendered neither tangible nor illusory, yet has the ability to touch us, profoundly, within an instant. To see another person is, in part, to understand something about them. If we see happiness then we share in that happiness, if we see burden then we share in that burden. This notion of the human condition is a driving force behind my current work. The images below are from a selection of ongoing works. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jill Cole
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Drawing on a broad tradition of documentary photography my approach is to create extended narratives which consider contemporary issues directly affecting our lives today. Under the title Training Land the images below bring together three larger bodies of work. Portraits of young army recruits on paintballing exercise and birds captured for research on army land sit alongside winter landscapes of military firing ranges. By referencing the interrelationship between conflict, beauty and renewal the aim is to locate our own realities within the ongoing presence of war. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Cowen
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This selection of images are taken from a series investigating the postmodern youth identity and the representation of smoking within it. Lighting plays a strong part in a lot of my photography which is prevalent in these images. My preferred photographic style is that of portraiture and the study of people, which is often influenced by fashion photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Craig Earl
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Over the last century, Staithes' traditional way of life has faded, and over the last decade the village has been changing from a traditional fishing village to a tourist attraction. Of the 300 or so houses in Staithes, over 200 of them are now second homes and holiday homes. Sitting empty, apart from a few weeks a year, the numbers in the community have fallen dramatically. In a village that is continuously changing, I have been trying to record the community that is left; each resident has their own story to tell and formed their own opinions on what is happening to the village and what will happen in the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Danby
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Scars, Secrets and Tattoos all reflect and impact on life's imprints on our skin. Sometimes these are of a time we would rather forget or, the complete opposite, a token of a great memory we want to last for the rest of our lives. As a photographer I wanted to document this in a series of everyday portraits showing how everyone, however normal, has secrets and scars and tattoos. This will later be complemented by images of secrets I have collected on my secret website where I have asked people to contribute their secrets anonymously. This has really helped many people and has definitely informed my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Dowdy
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work is concerned with issues of impermanency and instability, reacting to my own changing condition and circumstance I have captured moments of stoppage in locations that I have spent time in but have tentative connections to. Some of my photographs from this body of work use the ephemeral qualities of daylight to dictate the freezing of moments, these often have little time for consideration before capture as the fleeting light quickly moves elsewhere. Others, produced at night, utilise the stillness of available light to produce long exposures that allow the subject matter to be considered in part, but maintain an element of uncertainty through the inclusion of areas of darkness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Everson
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

As a Photographer I look to capture experiences, emotions and states of mind. I am intrigued by times of reflection and change, and also the way a photograph allows you to hold a moment at a remove to be considered independently. The samples of work here are from three separate series. Unwelcome, which focused on times of transition and feelings of dislocation. Rotterdam, an examination of isolation and restlessness; and an untitled series of portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zia Natasha Shortt
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My aim for this project was to show how the female body can be displayed in a different way. I used mannequins to show this. Although the mannequins I have photographed are not all perfect and look quite horrific, I think it is bizarre how life like they look, especially in their faces. Mannequins were used a lot in surreal art to display fashion, feminism, and eroticism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Noah Stephenson
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

For me, photography is about going out and seizing the moment. When you think off the enormity of a big city, thousands of people acting out the dramas of life, coming and going in a constant flux of change. There is something exciting about being out in the crowd, amongst all that chance and change. This is what intrigues me, what drives me to go out and find these moments amongst all that change. It's tough out there, but if you keep paying attention long enough, something will reveal itself, just a second, then its gone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Toby MacGregor
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This series is a set of location images for a coming fashion shoot. The clothing's style is a mix of urban military and hip-hop. It has often been quite surreal to wander around this desolate landscape at night only meeting the occasional urban fox on its travels. My original intentions were to photograph the industrial areas of Middlesbrough but due to the fear of terrorism the area has been declared too "sensitive" for photographers. I'm looking forward to exploring my imagination and putting a model in the urban environment. I will post my results on my web site. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Céline O'Donnell
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My photography reflects my interest in human nature and my aspiration to capture the true person in an instant. The essence of this work comes from my fascination with the relationships between photographer and subject, the initial few seconds where trust and an unspoken agreement can make or break the truth that can be created. This series is from an ongoing body of work, which has developed into a broader study of people in our societies. These portraits have been created on location using a daylight studio and by approaching strangers on the streets of the UK, Ireland and USA. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenni Hart
Cleveland College of Art & Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

These images were produced, at first, as a coincidence or by-product of simply taking a lot of photographs. I found myself guilty of the offence they represent. I was looking (often through my lens) and not seeing all of the people around me doing precisely the same thing. It's tiring: the belief that to experience something fully we must record it completely. The Alhambra, Granada, Spain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Costello
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is primarily concerned with the human condition. It seeks to find the physical ways in which human fears and anxieties manifest themselves in our lives. These images are part of a series, exploring the workings of the unconscious mind. Taking inspiration from the work of Anna Gaskell as well as common dream theories, I have constructed nightmare scenes involving some of the most common nightmares, which many people encounter at some stage in their lives. Examples of these include drowning, being trapped, feeling out of control and being chased, to name a few. Examining how our fears and anxieties manifest themselves in our nightmares, this body of work aims to question the relevance of our nightmares. Do our nightmares have any significance in the waking world? Are they trying to tell us something or is their any relevance to them at all? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amanda Gourley
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Home-Grown' is a photographic book which aims to give the viewer/reader an insight into the farming situation in Ireland today. It illustrates to the viewer the fact that farmers are being forced to diversify their farms in order to earn a sufficient income. This work is based on a farm which has been transformed by the farmer into a tourist attraction; Doagh Isle Famine Village. This centre depicts scenes from the Irish Famine connecting that situation with what is happening in third world countries today. It is a documentation of old and new brought together under one cover, giving the viewer an insight into what can become of the farming crisis, which is continuing to leave many with an uncertain future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Graham
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

A woman does not turn up for work. It is 1994. A woman is murdered. As a twelve year old I encountered the media reports and heresay related to this death. This is the personal and chronological starting point of the project Gully Talk (Ongoing). The work takes the form of a photographic installation, its framework the events of, and surrounding, the aforementioned murder.Through the installation there is an attempt to engage the audience in a climate of uncertainty, as the imagery takes on a more poetic form than that of a conventional narrative. The action 'plays out' in the mind of the viewer as the traditional photographic link to truth provides an uneasy verification of uncertain truths. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niamh Grimes
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Like most things in this world, our relationship with animals is a symbolic, unreal one. This relationship begins in childhood; surrounded by images of cute, humanized animals on television, in magazines etc, we are taught to think of animals as something which they are not. In adulthood our relationship with animals continues to be one of distance, images of animals reach us through the print or screen media - stories of animals whose status is elevated above the others by some means. They are cuter, in more danger, smarter. When one animal is mythologized, others become forgotten. The polar bear is just one example of an animal who has been mythologized to the extent that any truth is obscured. The polar bear in our minds is a construct of many things and many truths. It is an unreal construction. For this work then I have reworked once familiar media images of polar bears. The bears in my photographs are fragmented sculptures, hyperreal yet their shape and pose is familiar to the viewer. The settings are landscaped parks, constructed to appear natural. The photographs should evoke a sense of de-ja-vu in the viewer, a sense of having seen it somewhere before. The distance between the human/animal remains as does the distance between truth/fiction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Holfeld
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work explores the effects of my German heritage, the role my father played as a hunter and how or even if this relates to me in a modern context. The juxtaposition between family album photographs and performance based video/still images creates a discourse between past and present. My own performance is an attempt to understand his role, while exploring the forest as a metaphorical rite of passage that is fraught with the tensions I felt growing up, not knowing if I had to be this man or discover my own identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David McClean
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

When presented with photographs in certain contexts such as museums and archives our tendency is to believe that they are the genuine articles. This body of work explores the belief we vest in photographs to be an objective witness of the past. As Bertolt Brecht remarked, "The camera is just as capable of lying as the typewriter". This series of diptychs contains authentic articles from historical events such as artillery shells from World War 1 to twisted beams of iron from the World Trade Centre. Each artifact is accompanied by a landscape shot of where the objects were found. These diptychs combining genuine historical materials and fictional events leaves the viewer questioning the validity of photography to narrate truth and neutral information. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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George McManus
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The body of work Casting Shadows, represents the photographer's return to the site of his father's death. The landscape of this site is embued with the photographer's relationship with his fathers passing, one of sorrow, respect and trauma. The images in effect are understood firstly in terms of a eulogy to the father, and secondly in the distance between personal histories and the surface realities of the photographic image. As such the camera becomes central in any representations made after the fact. In this instance the aura of the image is obscured by the breath of the photographer so as to interrupt the indexicality of the photographic surface.The personal nature of the trauma is removed the actuality of the landscape: the event is alluded to but hidden from the viewer. The intention of the photographer is to construct a space within which a presence is suggested, where memory is fragmented, but remains just outside the sphere of understanding and acceptance. It is the photographer's position that within photographic representation, understanding is merely an assumption of understanding. For real understanding can only be brought about through lived experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Medjber
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project features women of the muslim community living in Ireland. The documentary style portraits allow the viewer to meet with the women in their own personal evironment. A cross section of women is represented regardless of age/occupation/nationality as the aim of this project was to fairly and honestly represent female muslim community. These are people who are quite often miss represented in Western society. Challenging stereotyped views that are held by an unnerving amount of non-muslims that these women are oppressed by men, meek and timid , even uneduacted. The photographer contacted women through many different channels such as Muslim dating websites, approaching women on the street and visiting the mosque in order to represent an unbias cross section of women. In doing this, the project shows exactly the types of muslim women in Ireland. We see docile women, mostly homemakers but we also see that there are very strong, powerful and well educated muslim women active within the Irish community. The viewer is introduced to all these women, a doctor, a student ,a homemaker and many other average women all in their everyday common settings, familiar to us all, the office, the city street or classroom. The images deconstruct any ideas that these women are different to the average woman just because she covers her hair or worships another God. The female viewer is compelled to recognise themselves in the images, relating to their occupation or environment, the male viewer recognising what could be his mother,sister, friend. The main aim of the project is to promote intergration and to dispell previous myths about Islam. And to also encourage the viewer to realise that muslim women are simply women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darran Murray
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project is a fictional portrayal of one of America's most revered and least understood writers, Charles Bukowski. Taken from his book of short stories The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and other stories and from other writings by him in poetry (Burning in Water Drowning in Flame) and novels (Ham on Rye), this project aims to examine this very complex and cruel but often very hilarious character. Most of Bukowski's writing is autobiographical in nature and provides a great insight into how he lived and worked as a struggling writer who came to prominence late in his life. A loner alcoholic the scenes in each image attempt to create the persona Bukowski has created in his work through his alter ego Henry Chinaski - as played by a semi-professional actor and writer. Each image carries excerpts from interviews and writings by him where the scenes acted out explore his strongest and weakest characteristics - loneliness, alcoholism, womanising, factory worker, gambler, his sense of humour, and of course as a writer. Each image then is a still performance by the actor based on this man in how he lived his very extreme and unordinary life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Murray
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Playing with your sense of reality, these hyper-real landscapes create a dream-like realm that fall into the fantasy genre. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Phipps
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work is coming from many different areas, it is for one about the city and how the people of the city interact and flow through their urban environment. It is also a project about the physical structures within a city and how people's traces are left amongst them. The Urban nightscape is an important element to the work. Night time provides a cloak over the city which transforms the physical structures of the city into the realm of the urban imaginary. The idea of the urban imaginary is important as it is the basis for how one can depict the traces left by the people of the city. The project depicts this by placing the figure in the images in such a way as to suggest just a trace or indication of a figure that meanders through the city leaving an invisible path which in turn makes up the flow of the city. The idea of the urban landscape is relevant in the formalities of this work as each image is compositionally similar and the architecture depicted in each also follows similar formal arrangements. The element of architecture in this series is just as important to it as the use of the figure. The use of anonymous 70's style architecture provides the images with unfamiliarity with Dublin city which is exactly what the intent is as the images should be anonymous so that they can relate to any city and also project and sense of the unreal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Margaret Brown
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

A major ingredient in the role of identity is the passport image. Photographic identities are a form of control, but they are also seen as a sign of belonging, acceptance and empowerment. For some, status can be fragile, with expiry dates constantly looming. The use of simple words illustrates how language can constitute social reality and affect people's lives. This work plays on the use of the passport image to interpellate the visible and invisible identities of people who were born abroad, but are now living in Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Byrne
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

With the phenomena of social networking sites we are currently faced with, self-representation via the photographic image has been embraced by many. Although assumed to be non-fictional, social networking sites allow for creative control of one's personal online profile. They provide editorial freedom over the way we want to be perceived. In this virtual world, there appears to be no limits to what can be said online. Social networking websites operate on the basis of a virtual community. This project attempts to see how easy it may be to form an identity and then be accepted within a virtual community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Padraic Dillon
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Memories of childhood can be very vague. Our personal photographs that appear in the Family Album generally inform them. The photographs are normally snapshots, and these photographs are a recreation of snapshot photographs that are absent from my own Family Album. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ciaran Dolan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Untitled constructed images questioning the relationship between the viewer and the image within what is considered photography. The individual and their environment construct a scene of a generation, a moment and a question. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Garvan Gallagher
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The varying perceptions of senior citizens in Western societies are deeply rooted in historical, sociological and cultural discourses. This project embarked me on a personal journey, re-visiting and documenting the dolmens of my own childhood; those people whom I would have had some form of relationship to as a child and now happen to be in the social category of 'senior citizens'. My secondary school principal, the lady who taught me the accordion, the post man who was simply called 'John The Post', my very first teacher and some neighbours I never really knew. This project is about the people photographed and their lives. It is partly autobiographical. It is about photography and its split second ability to record and embalm, while also being about the perfectly natural and normal process of aging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Diarmait Grogan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth" (Joseph Campbell). Grounded in my everyday experiences, these photographs represent an attempt to engage meaningfully with the world around me as well as with the people whom I encounter in my daily life. Although made from an individual viewpoint, the success of the images is largely measured on how well they resonate with the viewer. While such a resonance is at the heart of any myth, the apparent contradiction in the title 'Personal Myths' refers to the ambiguity of meaning that is inherent in all forms of communication. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Hamilton
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'I Am Alive' is a project about people who have come through times of great pain and distress in their lives. The project is comprised of photographic illustrations of the locations where each person considered or attempted suicide. The photographs are accompanied by written pieces from each individual. Alongside the images are also audio pieces from those participating in the project - about their life now, their journey to survival. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Healy
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In mathematics, a self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself. Many objects in the real world, such as coastlines, rock faces, and leaves, are statistically self-similar. For this suite of images, I chose particularised topographical locations which represent my interpretation of the self-similar landscape. Within this series of images, I am also considered a self-similar object. Essentially, this project is a meditation on my relationship with the landscape. It is a reflection on the nature of my own personal interaction with a specific geographical environment. The project was primarily undertaken as an endeavour to ascertain aspects of my identity, through the physical engagement with a landscape, which is steeped in familial history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anthony Kavanagh
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world." (Isaac Bashevis), quoted in Tom Robbins, 'Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas'. It would be naïve to think that we only have to open our eyes to perceive the world as it is. In fact, the world we see is a construction, a collection of many representations, a complex act of making things mean that occurs so effortlessly, so quickly, so automatically that it naturally remains implicit, invisible, and unanalyzed. The outcome of this construction process depends partly on what we perceive, what is out there to be seen, and partly on our frameworks, our schemas, our narratives, our models, our attitudes, and our beliefs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frank Little
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Rene Descartes thought that all sensory information was channelled to the pineal gland in the centre of the brain, a sort of neural headquarters where sensory information is presented for conscious awareness - a bit like an interior stage. Though people do not believe in this dualistic perception of themselves anymore it is extremely difficult to escape from the notion that the phenomenology of perception is acted out in the 'Theatre of the Mind.' The images are allegorical representations of the senses. In each of the photographic tableaux one of the senses is highlighted as if on show in an imaginary 'Cartesian Theatre of the Mind'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paddy O'Brien
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This documentary work excavates the relationship between labour and housing commodity by asserting the concrete social relations of capitalist production. Representations of the commodity are presented with audio testimonies of immigrant workers framing a materialist dialectic that seeks to demystify the nature of housing commodity production in contemporary Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gerry O'Riordan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The changes happening in Dundrum, a Dublin suburb, are a microcosm of what is happening all over Ireland. The impact of the 'Celtic Tiger' has led to a building boom in the village, with the advent of a new shopping centre, apartment blocks, roads and a light railway system. In turn tensions have arisen firstly, as infrastructural changes have damaged Ireland's heritage and secondly, as the benefits of this boom have not been enjoyed by the whole community. Unrealistic increases in house prices and mortgages have occurred at a time when we are facing into a global financial crisis. This project addresses these issues, and the example we are giving our children in pursuit of material wealth and possessions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Saunders
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work investigates the space and environment in modern developments with the use of pattern shape and colour. It explores the idea of how the everyday in these highly constructed places can seem natural and common, where in fact they are alien and surreal. I have concentrated on man-made aspects and nature, to articulate the creation of the idyll in the control of space, and have used symmetry, angles, colour and uniformity to express the aestheticization of the everyday. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Sheehan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The maternal instinct is very strong and while it is inevitable that a child will grow up, there are times when a mother wishes she could hold onto the present forever. While it is only natural that parents enjoy watching their children acquire the skills for adulthood, there is also a sense of sorrow as we mourn the loss of childhood. This series of portraits explores how a mother views her ten year old daughter's transition from childhood into adolescence. Taken over the course of a year, these images document not only the child, but also the mixed emotions of a mother as she sees her little girl slowly begin the wondrous journey towards womanhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eoin Williams
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work examines my own particular mode of communication through photography, specifically I am looking at the process of image making and the importance of this process on the final piece. My work is centred on the idea of how a photographers specific set of aesthetic values is intrinsic to the image that is produced; that the photographer then is unavoidably present within their images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Woods
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work explores the concept of the geographical imagination and how we construct visual identities of others. It deals with questions surrounding the process of how we visualise others beyond our immediate environment and the image we may construct of a person if we do not possess any real facts or visual reference about the context in which they exist. The work examines the sources or reference points we may draw from in this process and looks at the influences and preconstructed notions that we have been exposed to which may lead to these ideas. The images reflect visually my translations of what imagined geographies may be constructed to visualise my life, by others from outside of my environment based on characteristics about me, such as being from rural Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgina Angless
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Taylorism is the scientific study of industrial management. It is a system to minimise production time per unit of commodity. Work is reduced to 'machine-like repetitive operations' for the maximum possible efficiency to produce a maximum potential of earnings, known as Taylor's 'time and motion' studies. Canary Wharf, the Isle of Dogs is an international financial centre. Its eco-system of bankers and business men runs like a production line of clock work associates that ebb and flow, rise and fall through the steel structures with military precision. The routine and pace of these indistinguishable beings is undeniably regular with time and money at the epicentre of their objective. It is 'Dog eat Dog' in the rat race of capitalism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matt Barnes
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This is a documentary project looking at the European graffiti culture. Giving a small insight into the situations, relationships and people involved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Desiree Elfstrom
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

On the south Anatolian coast of Turkey a small agricultural town called Demre is to be found. This is an ancient pilgrimage site originally known as Myra and where the real saint behind our beliefs in Father Christmas is claimed to have lived around the year 350. Summer time numerous visitors past by, mostly on pre-organized holiday tours which economically does not enrich the local population. Turkey is in general standing on the edge of modernization developing fast along with its younger more secular generation. I went to Demre during December 2007 in a search for visual clues both representing the past and the future of this traditional but unique Turkish town. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigaile Fraser
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Exploring ways to escape the world is a fruitless exercise, finding places in the landscape where there may be an opening to another world, a secret tunnel to somewhere better. These places do exist but we cannot escape because the problems are usually in our own minds and we have to take those with us. Both of these projects are based on this problem. Landscape documents these 'escape points' in the undergrowth, places where anything might happen if we let it. In silence is a record of submission, the knowledge that we cannot change things and an admission of defeat. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katinka Goldberg
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Taking pictures is working at a broken mirror, working on an image of oneself in the image of another" (Zoltan Jokay). I have photographed portraits of adolescent boys. This is an interesting age because so much is going on and one is trying to figure out who one is or who you want to be. This is not just a time in our life, but a state of mind that everyone somethimes can identify themselves with. And that is what this project is about; searching for identity in relation to others. My other project consists of a series of self-portraits inspired by the photographer Rinko Kawauchi's ability to use motives from an external reality to tell a story about an inner emotionally abstract reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicolson S. Hamada
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Japanese construction workers are often never seen as they work within the enclosed walls of their site. This project aims to take them out of their usual environment and give personality to the anonymous faces of the Japanese construction industry. Shyu-go-rei literally translated means 'guardian spirit'. A religious/cultural belief of Japan where every person is watched over by a spirit, usually someone you knew very well and has passed on, someone you had a special connection with. It is said that your shyugorei can change several times in the course of one's life. The black and white and colour image is of my twin brother, and is about the event of one's demise. The shadow in the black and white image is myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mike Hunter
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This body of work has been created around the sights that you see when you go out into a nightclub as an observer. I tried to stay away from capturing moments of partying and happiness and tried to look for the more interesting emotions that are on display at night. nothing more, nothing less. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katrina Johnk
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Family dynamics reflect a state of society. They are constantly changing to fit the evolution of our societies-where some things may be sacrificed, others are gained. The viewer is encouraged to be the voyeur of each family. By glimpsing a scene from outside a window, the viewer sees a moment to linger on; photography allows us the means to contemplate this further. Music, clothes, politics-these are all things which can bind people together to give them a sense of group identity within a social construct. Emos are a predominantly young social group that I have photographed as individuals to relay their personal identity while it is still forming and while it is still influenced by the group identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Myers
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Rocket' recalls the feeling of launching oneself from the side during a swimming lesson: the fear and hope and awkwardness of letting go. 'Missed Connections' is about the atmosphere in a city, where encounters are constantly almost-but-not happening, where many people move past each other, or stand close to each other on the underground but never actually meet. This feeling that something has been missed is partly inspired by short stories, particularly those of Anton Chekhov and John Updike. I want my work to be both sad and beautiful in the same way as these stories . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgeana Parsons
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Digital painting is the combination of photo-manipulation, montage and digitised traditional art techniques. It is a new and emerging art form which is already multifaceted and has a range of applications. In this project I have used these techniques to create a piece of work which can combine the realism of photography with the possibility and abstract reality of painting. The subject that I have approached deals with the inner strengths and weaknesses that make up an individual. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Atkin
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Inspiration for my work has been the fluidity of dance and the Cornish landscape. I explore the energy, emotion and grace of dance as an age-old force, and try to capture in a photograph new subtleties in the performance. Whilst some images focus on the purity of dance, others project the dancers on to trees and rocks, making them a part of the landscape. In other images I have sought out equivalencies in natural features to emphasize form and rhythm. The work encompasses contemporary and classical dance styles. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Krishula Auckland
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Alis Volat Propriis' is an exploration into an anatomical impairment and the effects this has on one's perception of beauty. Borrowing traditional themes often found surrounding the female nude in classical painting and sculpture, I hope to portray a sense of femininity and fragility, rendering the human body as beautiful yet vulnerable. Presented on fragile textures, these small photographic studies represent my own attitudes to the body in relation to debilitation and illness. These intimate portraits juxtapose with technical medical drawings depicting the Lymphatic System, a vital network of organs, nodes, and vessels which have a crucial effect on our immunity. If this system becomes damaged or blocked many parts of the body can be affected and a condition known as Lymphoedema occurs. Throughout this series I aim to present two sides of this illness: psychological flight and anatomical constraint. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kimberley Balsdon
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Initially based around the ideas and history in connection with the archetypal characteristics of the family album, this body of work concentrates on relationships and memories. This project mainly concentrates on portraiture and still lives of the female members of my family, their environments and relationships with each other and myself. Strong connections with Cornwall's history and culture are evident throughout. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah-Kate Banham
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am interested in the everyday, the routine of daily life. I want to provide space for the viewer to take the time to reflect on there own lives. My work aims to heighten people's visual awareness and elevate our homes and surroundings into art. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alison Barton
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"So what is the work that mourning performs?" (Sigmund Freud). Freud describes the human need to counter balance loss in life by holding on to the lost one through any means possible. The ego cannot be free and uninhibited until the 'Mourning Work' is completed. This selection of images is part of my 'Mourning Work'. In grieving it is difficult to undertake any task which is not related to remembering the lost one. Holding onto any trace of them is important. Taking detailed studies of hand written letters sent to me by my Father has allowed me to keep traces of him permanently in my world. They have become a substitute for what I have lost. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Blowers
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Faces are the most interesting things we see" (David Hockney). These five images are selected from a total of 72. My granddad has Alzheimer's and is losing his memory of our large family. This project is in my own way, helping my granddad to try to remember everyone. I also hope it is a way of making the distance between us all a bit smaller. I used instant Polaroid as I wanted them to take the moment in time and make it more than just a photograph. I think a Polaroid is more of an object, a keepsake. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Boardman
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Drawing on childhood experiences of living on a small holding in Oxfordshire, my project harbours a desire to re-educate the public as to the reality of the countryside. The excitement of growing up surrounded by far-reaching fields was gradually replaced by a growing awareness of a harsher reality. Rural England is changing and so too is societies attitudes towards it. British farming is suffering with the nationwide desire for cheaper, inadequate produce. In 1957 33% of household income was spent on food, compared to today's figure of just 15%. Crumbling support for British farmers has forced them to compromise animal welfare - curing sick animals is no longer cost effective. This is a loss not just for the farming industry, but for the culture of our nation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Boon
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Through my work I explore the micro and the macro, the enormous and the miniscule, and the space and relationship between the two, while simultaneously seeking to understand the possibilities of image making. This work explores a number of different ideas, beginning at the correlation between household dust and celestial skies, the study of snail poo and other gathered dirt in connection with larger landscapes, using dust as a means to recreating 'other' landscapes such as that of the moon, and finally a selection of 9 circular images based on the sky at night considering a variety of view points from on and around the earth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Esther Boullier
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project portrays Cornwall as a county that is moving steadily towards sustainability and creating ecological solutions in response to climate change. I have been photographing individuals, families, communities and small businesses around Cornwall that are making positive changes to their lifestyles to reduce their carbon footprint. We are so overwhelmed by shocking images of natural disasters to remind us of climate change. I wanted to create a body of work that uses the opposite approach. I aim to raise awareness of climate change and inspire people to make simple changes in their own lives to have a positive impact on their environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanne Buckley
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Contained within each image is a constructed performance using photography within a landscape. Each performance explores my personal feelings and issues. However, I encourage the viewer to bring to the images their own individual experiences. The images are visual metaphors that can be perceived differently by varying audiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Burt
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Benjamin's work allows him to explore his emotional condition by being within the landscape, giving him the chance to wonder, discover and contemplate various aspects of his life. With the aid of photography he is able to create and display alien landscapes that could be anywhere but also nowhere. Shooting both in the day and at night the work creates an uneasy narrative as well as visual beauty that compels the viewer to interact with the imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Bustamante-Brauning
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This body of work and much of my work has been involved with looking at objects and their emotional attachment when concerned with culture, religion and family history. These mementos can take us back to this event or place. Having them makes us remember and holds this place, person or time locked like it is still living, it encapsulates everything about that time even the emotion and sense. This work has explored the locations that we find these discarded objects, looking at the value of objects how and why these objects become redundant- but also how they can gain importance again. Also exploring the story or life of these objects, how the object has its own tale. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Chilton
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project is an study into the bizarre world of the night. Using the ground level perspective in my work to emphasis the strange shapes and shadows. I primarily shoot on beaches, as I find them very strange places at night and when the tide it out, there is plenty of the unfamiliar to discover. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruby Dhalay
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Around and About' is concerned with humour and melodrama in the everyday. It is a way of seeing influenced by my unexplored heritage - colour is as key to my work as is in these cultures. Disposable cameras and their democratic, 'point and shoot' aesthetic ideally suit my subject; discretion is key in capturing these moments. Economy film and a plastic lens lend a hazy, timeless quality to my photographs, making them recognisable to everyone. 'Around and About' is as much a portrait of the photographer as it is of the street. 'Around and About' is being exhibited in the 'Plastic Camera' exhibition at the Arts Institute Bournemouth alongside Stephen Gill and Justin Quinnell, and at the Newlyn Exchange, Penzance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Drewnicki
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This year I have been documenting the duality of memory and cultural identity within the home environment at the home of my Grandmother, Karola Werchola, who lives with Alzheimer's and is supported by a network of carers, including my mother, Yasmin Drewnicki. I use photography to explore Karola's world, attempting to translate the harsh reality of her fading memory into subtle metaphors and magical moments. The evidence of our Dutch/Ukranian heritage within the environment also forms part of the series, calling into question the line between place and identity, memory and imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Lee Dunbar
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Temporal Lobe, situated in the brain, is responsible for sound, sight and memory functions, which will be fundamental in viewing my work. Within my final degree project I have been exploring the elements that make up the experience of time passing. For example, what it is to move on leaving a place as a memory and how this affects or changes our original perspective. An integral part of 'change of perspective' is journey or moving and without this there would be no way of making a comparison. This will be shown through an installation with elements of stills and moving pictures. I intend that each viewer will walk away with individual ideas and emotions as a result of my work that may differ from my own perceptions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kayleigh Emberley
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"...once I feel myself observed by the lens everything changes; I constitute myself in the process of posing, I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image," (Roland Barthes, 'Camera Lucida Part 5'). Typically people perform when in front of the camera, both consciously and subconsciously. We often feel exposed and put on a front, attempting to hide certain characteristics. This reveals only what we want people to see. My portraits document several people continuously, recording how their performance and reactions change over time. My aim is to capture the exact moment; that split second when the subject engages with the camera. As the sitter/photographer relationships progress my images become more successful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Hofman
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Poland has always been a always been a place of curiosity to me, ever since I was young I was proud to be of Polish blood. My Grandfather Eryk, came to England when he was 20, but not out of choice, he came here by war and could not return to Poland because of communistic regime. Times have changed and people come and go as they please. There is a difference of intent with the new migration to England, a choice. The expansion of the EU meant thousands of Polish could brighten their future in England by working. Their relationship to England is different, to that of Eryk's. In this project, I have been exploring notions of my Polish heritage, and the Poles' relationship to England. Poland is a strong Roman Catholic country and their mass migration to England has revived many churches. By visiting my unmet family in Poland I began to uncover my Grandfathers life back in Poland before he was conscripted not far from my age. By photographing his remaining siblings, the landscape, and the house where he grew up, which was very much untouched. I have used photography as a tool for a deeper understanding of self-reflection, but at the same time discovered the wider context of current Poland, both culturally and politically. As well as their movements in England, I have juxtaposed images taken in Poland as well as in England, to break down the borders of the two countries. I find it interesting the fact that they have left behind their country in search of something more. Other people in Poland I met wanted to stay in Poland and make it work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Hopkinson
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Through exploring psychological based illnesses like Stendhal, Stockholm and Mean World syndrome within various locations or studio-based constructions, I have tried to show different experiences, objects and certain key stages an individual can endure to develop such a syndrome. For example the images based around Mean World Syndrome; a psychological based illness that affects the perception of sufferers, when viewing mass media with violent content (such as news or television). The individual begins to believe that the World is more dangerous than it actually is. I wanted to capture the television falling and smashing on impact to depict the violence that affects the sufferer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Hunt
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

An Essex girl at heart with East End born parents, I was raised surrounded by mechanics, the motor trade and cockney banter. I aim to visually explore the past and current transition of the East End Population and its migrations into Essex; in particular the male dominated motor trade. "Blue Collar Roots" is part of a long-term exploration into the values, lives and working environments of the traditional white working class man. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Ingmire
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"I think of nothing really, I don't have a home. I live in a tent in Troon, have done for about a year. I have my friends though, they're important. Home is security, being with family and friends. I had a wife and kids, but we're divorced, I used to be a heroin addict, I'm clean now. I've been homeless for about four years now, they put me in some accommodation for a while but they threw me out 'cause they caught me doing heroin. I wouldn't do that again, I've learnt my lesson" (Anon. Camborne Homeless Centre, 5th Feb. 08). This is a series of photographs from one persons room in a 'Salvation Army House', a stepping stone from homelessness to hopefully permanent accommodation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Lamb
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils except perhaps in fiction" (Carol Shields). The depiction of ones childhood within your family archive is a right of passage. Something everyone has and can often take for granted. Imagine not being able to look back upon your past, not having any snapshots from which to recreate your memories. Revisit, Reframe, Reinvent explores not only notions of home and the significance of space in relation to my own memories but is a way in which I am now able to reclaim the power over the representation of my childhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dean Leivers
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Anamnesis'. The recollection or remembrance of the past; reminiscence. My photographic work investigates the way we approach memory on a daily basis. Primarily the recollection or disregard for insignificant experiences and their involvement in the fuller aspect of our personal journey throughout our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Morrison
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In my degree project 'Your Rubbish' I have drawn attention to the unnoticed members of society that play a vital role in the collection and disposal of our waste. Focusing on each individual, to question the process our waste goes through by giving an identity to the individual whose job it is to sort through the things that we dispose of. My intention was to highlight the need for change in relation to the volume we throw away, and to en-power the people who deal with it, making us think twice about what we throw away. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dean Myatt
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Here is an object which I must aim to reproduce. In order to concentrate on reproducing it faithfully I must forget everything I have seen, and even forget the way such objects have been treated by others" (Jean-Simeon Chardin). There is art which appeals to the eye and great art which appeals to all senses. Throughout my education I have developed a style of working that focuses on the importance of individuality. I have devoted myself to the study of nature investigating the reality of the material world. Each of my images approach important issues with a level of appeal and disgust which is completely necessary to give a true representation of the modern world and the way it is perceived. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorna Jane Newman
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I have been exploring Magic Realism, normally used in literature and film, as a starting point for my project. I have looked at the main themes used in this movement; the possibility that an extraordinary event can take place within the context of a mundane reality, and its use of symbolism. My main influence has been from the book One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by Garcia Márquez in 1967, where humans and everyday objects have the capability to levitate. Transcending natural empirical realities, and especially flying, are popular themes of Magic Realism and I have used these ideas in my work. I am exploring the use of symbolism, also a main theme of the genre, looking at different colours and there meanings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deborah Royle
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am a photographer who is always on the lookout for a composition that will excite me. My work reflects my thoughts and feelings. Even if I am not physically in my compositions I believe that my work is a body of self-portraits. This body of work contains subtleties that reflect my emotions. I have become drawn to abandoned landscapes. Places where land and objects within it have been left to become lifeless, loosing its purpose and meaning. I do not alter or disrupt the landscape in any way to make the images easier to take; I document the terrain and its contense. I have perused in bringing them back to life by giving them focus and importance once again. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melanie Salisbury
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

A certain sense of belonging may be prevalent through the timelessness of a place, evoking feelings of reminiscence in connection to the archetypal home. Primarily stemming from personal attachment and sentimentality, a collection of imagery has developed and intern, these images have become objects of their own. Through various formats and processes used, I hope to preserve and in some way re-invent certain existing subject matter in order to maintain its historical value alongside its present representation. This Polaroid series belongs to a further investigation into the objectifying and preservation of particular places. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ross Sanderson
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My project work is a personal response to an area of the Cornish Landscape known as The Mineral Tramway. This historic tramway was part of a network of industrial rail routes that allowed mineral and ore to be transported between the north and south coasts of West Cornwall. Photographing the Devoran to Portreath section of the Tramway has concentrated my work on topographical study, and in particular how the landscape changes and evolves within different environments of the Bissoe and Poldice Valleys. The intrigue I owe to these environments stems from a fascination with man's influence on the landscape and how historic processes and industries can radically alter and transform it. I feel my work provides a document of such huge process and transformation, reflective of previous history, and contemplative of man's continual intervention within the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lindsey Skinner
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The lost photograph is unlike any kind of image, it no longer serves its purpose as memory holder or keepsake and it is no longer a reliable document. The lost photograph transforms into a secret holder, a potential treasure chest that can never be fully opened to reveal its full contents. The collector might find a name or a date scribbled on the back but other than that the places and faces remain secrets kept only by a handful of people, though remaining forever preserved in a two dimensional silent paper prison. My work concentrates on creating a false truth, taking a found photograph and elaborating on the judgements that are already made. I give back a sense of being and existence to the people in the photos, a hint at a past and a future, I make them a reality again. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Ward
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

For my final degree project I started by looking at the work of Bill Brandt and Edward Weston, I was enthralled by their ability to abstract and portray their subjects in entirely new ways. I have taken the idea of transforming subjects into other forms and applied it to architecture. The aim of my project was to create a body of images of Buildings, and other man made structures that look like, echo or connote plants or aspects of nature. I have been inspired by the work of Stuart Redler, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Imogen Cunningham and Alexander Rodchenko. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Westcott
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My photographic inspiration lies in many genres of photography from high fashion to industrial and commercial work. The narrative series show individual approaches to themes that have a personal resonance. I hold a strong passion to photography and wish to develop this further in my career. Story telling plays an important role in my work, the concept of capturing the viewer's imagination is something that is key to my ideas. This project involves capturing the transitional period between childhood and adulthood that is experienced by everyone in different ways. This formative stage of adolescence is challenging as many children in today's society are obsessed with growing up. The work that I present conceptualises the loss of innocence apparent in our culture and explores the more surreal and sinister aspects of the theme. Applying uneasy visual language throughout the series allows the resulting perceptual triggers to provoke a variety of reactions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lesley Billingham
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Pendeen is an outpost. In 1912 electricity arrived to feed the mine. I am photographing the telegraph poles within the landscape Using a Box Brownie camera. Prints are made in the darkroom and digitally. I am also reviving some anonymous Victorian portraits from glass negatives Using Fox Talbot's original chemistry to make the prints. At the moment the leaves bordering the portrait connect these images. These were collected from beneath the telegraph poles. This is work in progress. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzanne Chilton
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I have often wondered if everyone else sees the world in the same way that i do. I have been going to places where people go to look to see what I can learn. So far this has been viewing points which look out at sea. I have been photographing these people, making sure that they are not aware that I am photographing them. I am in the process of trying to find a way of allowing the viewer of my imagery to share something of the subject's experience of looking. I am also exploring the idea of controlling what and how long people look by experimenting with video as well as photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Costantin
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

There are too many things in life that are crap. Work, love, and British weather continually smash us down. My work is simple entertainment and a break from the whole seriousness of the average British life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Doubleday
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

It's about trying to discern order in a chaotic world. We seem unable to deal with nature in all its true messiness; we build structures, mark out territories, count, measure, hypothesise, construct explanations and feel comforted by these acts. Pointing a camera at the world can be about imposing a sense of order upon it, we select, align, compose, focus, calculate an exposure and extract a small rectangle within which we hope our idea of the world is captured. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Neil Earnshaw
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I use my camera, and it's distinctive view of the world, to communicate with specific people that I know. I am exploring its ability to express emotional states or 'equivalents' in the zone between straightforward representation and the purely abstract, which is more typical of photographers working in the area of equivalence. I want my audience to 'feel' something when they look at my work, rather than just seeing something. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Hobbs
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I just enjoy making pictures in these places. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oxana Mazur
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The project shows a range of feelings and internal state of minds without narrative, i.e. to show emotions themselves. My hope is, that the viewer will also be able to identify with something emotionally relevant to his/her life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Purdy
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Rockets pierce those big spaces that we can only dream of. Whilst struggling with the day to day, daydreams of safe spaces are found by looking at the sky. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Sinclair
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The present growing body of work is exploring the interface between sculpture and photography through an exploration of organic materials. Photographic qualities such as a trace, the growth and development of an image and the making permanent of our perceived world are taken through to sculptural equivalents. So the slow growth of roots into a moulded from replicate the growth of silver crystals on photographic paper, the carbonisation of bread the fixing of an image, the hands movement brushed across a sooted surface leaving its trace - each of these talk of the nature of photography. But often these pieces have an organic life that lets them mature and develop through time, they themselves cannot be held in permanent form. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Terry Swainsbury
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My interest at the moment is in the field of negative entropy and the attachments we make to objects that are transitory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Udy
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is currently concerned with photography as a means of documenting place. With rural life as the focus for an investigation, I am looking at different ways of exploring its personality. By heading off on a bike and seeing what the countryside really has to offer, a body of work is being produced that mixes some different photographic traditions. With some foundations in a typological approach and some far freer; the project combines what may appear to be disparate parts, forming what is becoming an archive of evidence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Webb
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In her seminal essay 'In Plato's Cave', Susan Sontag explores Diane Arbus' suggestion that taking pictures is 'perverse' or 'naughty'. The camera's naughty intrusion, trespass and exploitation of its subject have become the focus of my study. I am particularly interested in privacy, the practices of looking and the influence of technology, specifically camera phones, CCTV and the Internet in contemporary society. My work in progress questions the reliability and validity of surveillance technologies and the role of the observed/ observer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Whitworth
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Through the use of video, the viewing experience will be acutely orchestrated to shift the focus of attention between and within the visual and sound elements. This will reflect how, when in a natural environment, due to its spontaneity and diversity, one's attention may be drawn to the mesmerising swaying of trees in the wind, to a brightly coloured flower caught in your peripheral vision, then to a distant bird's call or a branch scraping past your ear. The pace of the clips will vary - sometimes fast as a multitude of stimuli are witnessed, and other times slower, allowing the events to unfold within the frame, forcing the viewer to wait and reflect, encouraging an attentiveness and patience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martje Zandboer
University College Falmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My grandparents both grew up in Indonesia, at that time a colony of The Netherlands. Because my granddad died before my mum was born, I've only heard stories about Indonesia from my grandmother. When she had to move to a different house we found a sigar box with old family negatives in it. I'm now working with this family archive, projecting my own stories and emotions into the photos. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gus Akerman
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

These five photographs represent a larger body of work that explores human endeavour and hope. In a time where the negative seems a far superior subject matter I find I strive to remind myself of the fun times, the mesmerising times, the comforting times. Those moments of pure happiness that are experienced in an instant and never forgotten. Colour and movement play a very large role in the photographs I make, deep blacks seep into nuclear greens and mustard yellow's creating a sensual almost tangible atmosphere. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Baker
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

As an investigation into modernistic volumes of space, the work explores the contemporary institutionalised environment. Our lives are consumed by a never-ending search for an understanding of the world and the environment that surrounds us. Through instinct and research, I strive for an understanding of contemporary society as it is today and desire a vision of what it could be tomorrow. With a notion that modern culture is translated through the circumstances in which we reside, architectural surroundings become significant, interiors become dominant. In their unfamiliar, barren state, we become aware of their vastness, their emptiness and the space in between. Within an architecturally dominant space, empowered and enhanced by sharp thrashes of colour, my photographs focus on the subtleties of light, beautifying the lifeless interior revealing previously obscured character and opportunities for regeneration and renewal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonny Barr
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Blending traditional and digital photographic techniques I explore empty and temporary spaces. Current work portrays natural spaces at night or in the hours of failing light, which has allowed the capture of deeper, richer and more sombre tones. Working at night also enables experimentation with spatial awareness with the aspect of time as a recurring theme enhanced by contrast between sharp detail and movement conveyed through long exposures. I am currently developing portable lighting into my work which allows me to completely light create my own environment or use it to subtly enhance particular details and examine the way light falls. The ability to sculpt the light is one of the principal reasons I prefer to work at night but also because of the peace and calm I experience when away from the city. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Flynn
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is concerned with the identity of place. I work with natural light and try to capture feelings of loss and emptiness that are present in empty urban and rural spaces. These images are from a body of work exploring disused factories in post industrial locations on the outskirts of Philadelphia. My future aspirations include the intention to use my skills to help organise and promote exhibitions showcasing the work of emerging young artist's. I intend to undertake such projects whilst simultaneously continuing to develop my own practice, and am open to proposals for both. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Hewett
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The thought of climbing a tree is a strange one, to an adult. It is not really necessary to climb a tree, or stranger still, remove ones shoes and climb it barefoot. Barefoot, where the bark rubs abrasively causing an uncomfortable friction of heat and splinters that pierce the skin. Muscles that work to heave the body towards the centre burn and complain on assent. When the highest point is obtained, the effort over, one can enjoy the rest from exertion and be at peace to enjoy the reality of their surroundings, peaceful existence, solitude and true meditation as one looks down on the highly complex splendour of the world created, by nature, by man. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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A. D. Jacobson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am working on figuring out. On modes of representation, of dissemination, of disinformation. I am working on combinatory postulations integrating the concrete visual with apparitions of the imaginary, the photograph with the phrase. I am walking. I am stumbling and careening and stopping. I am bored and waiting; and enthralled. All good things. My photographs don't show this. They show the space I live in: the vastness of a playing field, the curious positions of unsightly bushes, the banality of the real. These images form a backdrop onto which I can paint. They are the beginnings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tor Jonsson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

A sequence of photographs from a larger body of work which explores imagined topographies; the necessary mysteries of our dwellings, from where the local and global geography is filtered and understood. A narrative is formed within daydreamed landscapes (elsewhere). We are floating 'upward into the depths'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ditte Knus Toennesen
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Because of individual understanding there is never really one reality. Therefore reality should always be understood as layers of understandings in different contexts. My work is not illustrative of something that once existed and does not symbolise a story. Since, when something is presented as a story it is taken out of reality and is therefore not happening. As the work itself is now physical and present, it has been brought into the world of reality. Now it represents an opportunity or possibility for change in a collective or individual reality. The work originates from those moments of coincidences where realities join in a collage to speak of a second or parallel world. Often this creates a cultivated naïveté, since working with the extraordinary in the ordinary happens to bring out this sly abnormality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Silja Leifsdottir
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

According to a 20th century folklore, the laws of aerodynamics prove that the bumblebee should be incapable of flight, as it does not have the capacity in terms of wing size or beat per second to fly. Not being aware of scientists 'proving' it cannot fly, the bumblebee succeeds under 'the power of its own ignorance'. I manoeuvre myself through this life with the help of rational and emotional decisions. They both have their disadvantages though, and sometimes I ignore one or both and attempt the impossible, like the bumblebee. I know I can't fully control my life, but I like to think that I can. It's easier to let go if you forget about gravity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Mersinis
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project is about islands and the space between. It is about the constantly changing water mass and the impossibility of defining it. It is about unclear boundaries and the dream of navigation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Lamb
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I enjoy looking at colours from different places and different eras. I like to find places that seem to have been left untouched for so many years. I love the faded paint and the kitsch wallpaper and the memories held within these places by the people who still care for them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ina Rundhaug Tyrdal
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"In his work Magritte often painted curtains and opened them to see that behind the curtain there is another. (Marc Maet). The apparent obscurity can be justified because a visual idea is not something that has been translated from the language of words, they are essentially visual. There is no need for summary or explanation, because offering you this sandbox of detail is the clearest and simplest way of saying in full what I want to say. A language that describes every aspect of how we experience the world has not yet been invented. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Thomson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is concerned with issues of memory and histories. I am interested in the relationships people have with one another, and with objects of personal significance. Often my work makes a play on the techniques and ideas of the snapshot, which are important tool in discerning the human condition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Wewiora
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Interest, for me, lies in discovering ambiguous and extra-ordinary spaces within a very ordinary environment. A figure and its actions fundamentally change the way we correspond to the surroundings it is within. New perspectives can be created, and with it new questions. I look for the empty space in an image and try to fill it, giving it a purpose and importance, whether it is real or simply metaphysical. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Abrahams
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Looking at the idea of someone else's choice of moral choices being imposed on others to control and manipulate. The self-destruction effect of brain washing. The control over sex or wrong doing, The confusion of thoughts of control and desire. Shot digitally, combined with elements in postproduction, made and lighted in a 3D CGI program. Nominated for the Association of Photographers Student Award 2008. I have a great interest in portraiture and fashion, but generally I like to keep it light -hearted and entertaining. I love working like this, by this approach I am able to create much more interesting work that is livelier so that my shoots doesn't get too stale. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Appleton
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

South London based photographer Tom Appleton is currently working on several photographic projects surrounding the urban environments of the capital. Working across a range of photographic formats he tries to capture the light and beauty of the concrete jungle. From Council estates to Fried chicken shops his work takes an architectural and sometimes humorous look at the cities new cultural environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Coupe
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In early January St Paul's Housing Estate in Cheltenham began a process of rejuvenation. This transition was the council's way of improving anti-social behaviour and standard of living in the community, which ranks in the bottom five percent of deprived areas in Britain. Having lived on the edge of the estate I started documenting the demolition of Crab Tree Place. I wanted to capture the landscape before and after the builders had moved in as I knew, having spoken to some residents that many people were dead against the whole renewal. Capturing different social streams has become important to me as I document my visions of England. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Green
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

An ongoing series of portraits exploring the uniqueness of the individual through a uniformity of expression. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stacey Hatfield
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My passion for Photography began in my father's darkroom at the age of 8. After travelling to New York, New Zealand and Beijing I pursued further education in Photography Editorial and Advertising at the University of Gloucestershire in 2005. I have great enthusiasm for image; my photography is Portraiture and documentary based and continually being developed. I have been fortunate to have worked with established Photographers and companies such as Harpers Bazaar Magazine, Harry Borden, Rankin and also recent work published in popular music magazines, I wish to progress creatively and professionally towards a career in the Photographic industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marc Haydon
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am passionate about combining my interest in music with photography. When shooting live music, I try to capture the energy, essence of the atmosphere and passion of the musicians on stage. When shooting portraits I try to maintain that energy and follow themes in relation to the musicians to create an enigmatic narrative that stimulates the imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Geoff Hodgson
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I work predominantly within the genre of landscape photography, and I explore the often-uneasy relationship that exists between man and the land he lives in. Utilising carefully observed scenes on the edge... of the landscape, I show the results of man's co-existence with the natural topography, re-interpreting the work of the New Topographic Movement, but in the 21st Century. My recent work has concentrated on typical British seaside resorts, today a mainly deserted shadow of what was previously a thriving tourism industry. Although now neglected, largely forgotten and devoid of people these places still evoke fond memories for some. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vicky Hodgson
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Emotions, self-portraiture, portraiture, displacement of time, people and places are the focus of my work. The double self-portrait is from a larger piece of 72 images where the emotions of childhood have been acted out in adulthood. The next images are a selection from an untitled installation, showing the emotional state of a woman alone on a train. Finally, the last three images examine, through old family snapshots, what happens when strangers become surrogate parents. Here, the adult child and surrogate parent are displaced in both time and place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Kenney
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Kenney is in his third year of Photographic study at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham. This set of images was taken during the demolition of a Taxidermist attraction, which he enjoyed throughout his childhood. The work, which is an on going project, aims to document the declining Taxidermist industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Kriszyk
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work explores the relationship between us and Architecture, How much our built environment effects us day to day through the cycle of Construction and Demolition of the buildings around us. The certain designs of building for a certain function, Shopping malls, financial, Residential and so on. With the rise of the Uniformed high streets, less space for housing and no go areas for the public. I am showing change as it happens. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hugo May
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Within my work there is always one thing that I try to take into consideration and that is how people will react to my images. Various emotions can be found within my work but I prefer to work around the humorous aspects that lie within the subject matter, which can be seen through the light-hearted feelings induced within my work. Contained within this principle my work also takes on two different styles that use both digital manipulation and capturing the visual aesthetics of our surroundings, whether they prove to be pleasing or displeasing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Munday
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My still-life work revolves around a desire to create colourful, intriguing images in which light is carefully controlled. These images in particular have a very symmetrical aesthetic. I would label myself, if that's the correct term, as a still life photographer who draws on other influences, and is also beginning to branch out to extreme sports photography, which can be seen on my website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Snowden
University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In this series I have tried to convey the idea of impossible beauty in an unconventional way as I have taken the characters of an old fashioned freak show and abstracted them using colour and movement. I wanted to portray a different type of beauty in an interesting way that forces the viewer to question their own perceptions of what they consider beauty to be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Effie Coe
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My practice has been preoccupied by the passage of time, a photograph suggesting movement, a video capturing stillness. In this series I have been animating still photographs to create moving images. The sense of testing and experimenting is an important part of the work and I am keen to reveal some of this process to the audience. The images shown are to be read as stills rather than individual photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luana Gomes
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Luana Gomes's travel photography attempts to illustrate the beautiful simple moments in life caught in the eyes of the people from around the globe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elli Goodlet
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work explores the rhythm of the natural world both in the studio and out, and is underpinned by an intense respect for what is around us; whether conventionally beautiful or not. I am fascinated by patterns and graphic shape in the world around us and their ability to engage us on a primal level. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ken Harrison
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The photographer can create a frozen moment, but all structures are in a relative condition, a transition, neither permanent nor temporary. The structures purpose, and our relationship to it are also in a state of evolution. The ability to document and capture these relative structures is an important aspect in my photography. These images are part of a collection from the Heygate Estate, a modernist structure due for demolition in 2010. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rhiannon Hutchings
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The photographs do not simply record the objects they contain; they elevate the status of the products and bring them to life. A vitalising force in the image is always sought through the photographic set up, lighting used or the treatment of the subject. This can be seen, for example, within the reflection of the glasses, the earring that seems to float, the animated water and the plant that appears in mist. The status of the product or subject becomes heightened when positioned in these arrangements and thereby directs the viewer's attention to the products. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deirdre King
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Charity shop bric-a-brac - a sea of unwanted gifts and holiday souvenirs, trinkets once loved, now lost, or the worn-out familiars of everyday life; intimate stories of sunny windowsills and what-nots gathering dust. Poignantly centre-stage once more, they tell tales of the small tragedies and joys of somebody's life and of all our histories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Myers
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This course has enabled me to explore one of my great passions - late 1800's to early 1900's photographic processes. The work was made even more exciting for me because I was able to use some of the latest imaging programs and state of the art inkjet printers to produce the large negatives needed for contact printing. As part of my research, I investigated digital printers as a whole, and among the more obscure ones that I found was one for printing messages on biscuits and another for decorating people's fingernails! The photos shown here include a Cyanotype, Salt Print, Gum Bichromate, P.O.P., and a Bromoil. I am now working on a book on how to make digital negatives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Vassiliou
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I enjoy creating my own interpretation of the obvious, exploring light and Illusion, creating imagery that steers away from the obvious image /state of mind. Approaching and treating the subject as a chance to experiment and manipulate. I like the borderline between photography and painting and how by using one technique you can create the other, a painting or photograph. I want the viewer to study and question the images I create. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Davinia Young
London College of Communication - Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Fashion today is as much about image as it is about ideas; the two concepts are synonymous with our perceived notions of style. Yet over the past decade the increasing use of technology and image manipulation within the fashion image has led to an increase in the fantastical image being as much a product of the machine as it is a result of its imaginative creators. I set out to explore the innovative and thought provoking use of digital technology and its implementation within the modern fashion shoot, by combining digital photography with the machine to produce the fantastical image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marianne Archbold
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The crowd, as a moving mass of people bonded together, is akin to a single living organism whereby its social contract exacts a non-negotiable relinquishing of hold over individual space. 'Ritual Sequences' is a visual exploration of a world held in unity through the vice of spatial homogenization and social ordering. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marc Burden
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The advent of photography popularised the portrait, it made the likeness more accessible, more scrutinized, it is the surface on which we assume representation. The portrait though, like the medium itself is by its very nature a contested territory of interpretations, it is a locus of the mediation of experiences and desires of those that participate in its relational structure, it acts as a screen in which the various desire of those involved are played out. 'The Sitting' operates at the confluence of the oft-conflicting desires and gazes of the camera, the spectator and the subject, interrogating the portrait as being analogous as a screen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Davies
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Issues of the gaze, and the notion of a potential observer run through all my work and are continued in the series 'Silent, Dark and Deep'. This work explores the theme in relation to forests and heath-land. Dark voids gape at the boundaries of woodland, presenting a palpable threat to the viewer as they hint at an unseen other and provide a metaphor for our instinctive anxiety of the unknown. The dark lures and repels the imagination of the viewer as the forest becomes a world of psychological uncertainty, heavy with the potential gaze of figures hidden or supposed, and an implied menace towards those that may trespass. The viewer becomes the viewed, potentially the object of unknown intent. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cordelia Donohoe
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Out-Takes is a series of images of internet escorts. The arrangement of the works, the different sizes of shots, the repetitions, the focus on pose, the grammar of their placement in relation to each other make reference to minimalism. The removal of faces comments on shame and asks questions about who is looking and who is seeing. Cordelia Donohoe sees her work as a practice that is continually mutating the connections and tensions between what the subjective and the objective and the construction of gender in photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kristy Gosling
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

These images pivot around the conceptual historical link between the photographic portrait and death, which is undoubtedly rooted in it's unique relationship with time. The prolonged exposures seem to demand a prolonged look from the viewer and unsettle the generally accepted idea that photography deals in instantaneity and as a result they utilise the discourse of the moving image by pointing to duration, endurance and temporality. A pertinent feature of these portraits is that the sitter who is asked to stand still for 90 minutes in silence and practical darkness (itself not unlike the cinema experience) often 'zones out', relinquishing of the power of representation and offering us a rare and powerful glimpse of the smiles slippage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Toby Smith
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Former GDR "Bunker 17/5001" was sealed in 1989 coinciding with the end of the Cold War. Toby Smith's photographic installation using images from its interior seeks to create a dialogue between the viewer and the past conflict. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Krzysztof Szmigielski
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Whenever we imagine what we know, we recollect it out from our own references. Withdrawing ideas out of the surface of the image is purely based on recreating the world as we remember it. How can we be sure that we are understanding or being understood? An absolute subjectivity meets an endless relativity in the process of translation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Taylor
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Taking inspiration from the relation between the landscape, the mind and the body that Rebecca Solnit ascribes to the act of walking, Louise Taylor's series Four Chords explores the potential for interplay between subject, photographer and viewer if the construction of the image is made visible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Bewick
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Man has used hair as a sexual indicator, as a status symbol, as an indicator for everything from strength to freedom, from evil to wisdom, from virility to ostentation" (W. Cooper, 1971). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jo Bounds
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My camera is an extension to my mind; it is what comes most naturally to express my concerns. My photographs not only deal with objects and memories left behind, they raise questions about the people that are missing. My work concentrates on space that was once very public and part of people's everyday life. Abandonment, narrative, isolation and romanticism are all important words I would use to describe my images to the viewer. My concepts are informed by my family and the tangle that responsibility weaves. In my opinion a photograph should draw you in, keep you hostage and then leave you wondering. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Burgoyne
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work primarily revolves around the themes of lost identity and narrative within photography. I am particularly fascinated by portraits of people, and love to collect 'found' portrait images of strangers. My photographic practice is mainly inspired by the old Victorian Carte de visite photographs (a practice that became common from the 1860s until the turn of the century). Due to the Carte de visite, people from everyday walks of life were able to have their images captured and immortalised forever. I am also inspired by renaissance themes, and the Latin belief in 'Memento mori'. Through combining and linking together these themes, I am keen to convey the notions of mortality and the forgotten image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Douglas
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is anchored around the ideas of complexity and chaos theory. I use photography to capture unique moments inside a chaotic system. I choose a chaotic system to study and create an environment in which I am able to capture the images I want. I am in control of the environment completely except for the subject matter itself. I can only let the events unfold and record what happens. In essence I photograph nature under scientific conditions. Through the way I compose and display my photographs, my intention is to disregard the importance of representation of the subject. To confront the viewer with only the complex and sublime forms and interplay of light within the photograph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Harvey Richardson
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The shadow is both a false representation of the self and a record of a person's presence. It conceals information yet at the same time becomes an externalised representation of a person's inner being. Above all the shadow has the ability to represent a mystified and distorted version of the self and the other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alison Herbert
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Considering aspects our personality I have used fragmented pieces of indexical markings of my own skin moulded in latex. The latex acts as a second skin ageing and deteriorating with time, like the life stages and changes that we go through. This 'artificial skin' actually contains the history of my body including unique fingerprints, lifelines, scars and blemishes. However, they give no information of my ethnicity, social upbringing, education and lifestyle and say nothing about my personality. The work explores and challenges people's psychological fears, vulnerability and uneasiness through 'lifelike' pieces and the emotions and intrigue that they induce. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liz Oliver
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My photographs are a manual cut and paste within a structured mechanical process, they cut through social structures, narratives, time and place. I manually desecrate the perfect image .My work evolves through rethinking the boundaries of traditional film photography technology and how it can be manipulated. I want the montage to be obvious to the viewer; I want the viewer to see the trace of the artist left on the print.The cuts in the photographs are fast and rough, made thinking about manipulation of time within photography and that the events I photograph disappear within seconds. The content of each photograph is considered to lead narrative and the audience's conceptions of what I am representing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hayley Proudfoot
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Photographs not only have the potential to enhance something to be looked at and make experiences important but, are also an extension of the self and can therefore relate to everyday life encounters. As we move forward in time we are constantly looking back into the past. This is important in my work, but not in the literal sense. As we travel on our journey through life, memories fade and time decays. With the use of multiple technologies, along with myself, each of my photographs represent this concept in a their own unique style. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Sobol
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I see my work as a statement on modernism as a whole. My work seeks to show how media creates conformity in society. Not mocking media but representing the power it has on shaping our assumptions in life. I seek to question issues of modern surveillance and cyber culture through the use of the projected eye and the idea you are being watched. Virtual reality is a key theme in my work using the electronic the unreal, to create the real representing how in modern culture the electronic source (the unreal) can create control in our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Alice Wilkie
Leeds Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Within my current practice I have been moved to investigate areas such as architectural and social spaces in relation to myself, my work and places of residence. Taking an extremely public space and watching it become quite unique and personal to myself, visible in the ways I approach and document it. The Colours painted with are of personal regard as they are sourced directly from the maternal family home and of some significance to myself. It is no surprise for anyone to see pure paint on a surface within their own home. However when placed within a non domestic environment, it can generate an other-worldly ambience. It is this 'colour association' from one environment to another that is reflected as an aid in the remembrance of the 'familiar', or as a method of negotiating or navigating ones self around a new and unfamiliar space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Carter
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am interested in the idea of familiarity and true personality and how much of these can show through in a single photograph. Using people I know as my models I have tried to get across how the person feels towards me, as well as their personalities, through including their natural environments and natural appearance. The faces are deadpan as I am trying to convey how I would see these people in the everyday- it's not their usual state to have a fake smile plastered on their faces so I am attempting to be true to life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Enderby
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This assortment of work is a collection of pieces from various projects with a fashion or editorial output in mind. I like to create a scene within my images as I prefer to shoot on location to create 'stories' or 'narratives'. I create images with models and clothing in mind while using a certain idea to project these elements within the photograph, whether it be ghosts of fashions past in an old mill or lingerie wearing cats being spied upon in a hotel room. I often use multiple lighting set ups within my images while also varying the equipment used such as ring flash or numerous flash units around the scene, with all examples seen in this collection of images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fiona Kenny
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The social documentary Home from Home depicts the decoration of rooms from bed and breakfasts it gazes into the window of history to which we view an almost lost and forgotten, idyllic and romantic past. What we see in these places is a quaint portrayal of generations gone by. Often, such presentations, to the modern eye, seem outdated and vulgar. Nevertheless, these places are of charming eloquence. The old-fashioned bed and breakfast break is becoming less essential and more unloved as a result of the consumerism driven society created as a result of modernity. Bed and breakfasts offer a break from the society within which we live. They offer personality, individualism and the beauty of smallness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Linden
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This body of work is an abstract piece taken from the human eyes and mouth. I cropped the images in tightly around the eyes and mouth to create close up shots. I aimed to create images that were aesthetically pleasing yet I wanted to produce something which was bold and intense on the observer, thus creating abstract images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Murray
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project is based on the idea that some people believe that, by wearing a certain style of clothing, they can belong to a particular group of people. Others believe that there is more to being part of a certain group, than just what they wear, and that they must also have similar interests that are associated with them. The main idea behind this is that you could purchase any outfit or trend of today and immediately, by simply wearing it, you can belong to the style or group of people it relates to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Pratt
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Light can fall and be captured in the most beautiful and magical of ways, creating patterns and spotlighting. In this series of work I aim to explore this idea as I work with farmyard barns. The cracks and crevices in the roofs of the barns allow light to creep through and form in different ways depending on the time of day and year the image was taken, and also the brightness that particular time. The barns are primarily used for the storage of horses. The barns are dirty, dusty, old and very much lived it, so each have their own unique character. The arrangement of the dust, the scattering of the sawdust and the placement of feeding troughs and water butts all add to the character of these images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Valentine
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Photophobia' explores the ways in which you can never escape from light. It is a very powerful element which can be use in many different ways. I have experimented with photographing light, which focuses on the ways in which light can be both beneficial and detrimental to the health and wellbeing of humans. Epilepsy and migraine can both be triggered by bright and flashing lights where as softer lighting is used in sensory rooms to soothe those with conditions such as autism. My work incorporates both of these ideas showing both soothing and more vigorous light. My work is intended to be pleasing to the eye as it is often 'nice' things in life people who suffer from migraines or epilepsy miss out on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Atwell
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project offers the opportunity to survey the representation of time and space within time-based-media, through the creation of several ten minute looped videos within selected locations, taking place in both interior and exterior environments. Each one is shot in one take with the camera set in a fixed position, drawing attention to the subtle movements of the surrounding environments and transforming each video into a conscious, live photograph. Each video represents an extended, almost boundless, moment. Through the application of artificial lighting and the use of sound as a language of the subconscious they project a lost story and display the remnants of a moment long since past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kyle Bentley
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I did this dance the other day, I shut my door and drew my curtains and just danced. The dance last for a moment, then I stopped. I opened my curtains and my door. No one ever knew. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Briggs-Miller
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The memories of places from your childhood and the locations around you as you've grown up all after a time begin to fade. Within dreams these locations reemerge, but these buildings and environments that were part of your everyday life become distorted from what they once were. They can never be re-visited, the memories never recaptured. My work is an attempt to re-capture these memories, not the events that happened there, but the place itself. These are done in constructed sets which are combinations of locations from both long ago and times closer to the present, they are fictitious spaces reflecting how the dreams/memory becomes distorted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Myra Eagles
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Fool is both the lowest and the highest in the hierarchy of Tarot characters. It is The Fool's journey that is laid out in the form of the other 21 picture cards. Starting with the lowest ranked and ending with The World, the purpose of his journey is to accept his past, gain wisdom and understanding and finish where he began. In this interpretation of Tarot, I am The Fool embarking on my journey through the cards. I am present in each card, moving within the image, sometimes a shadow, sometimes a light. I am exploring the archetypes of human behaviour that the cards represent and that we are all experiencing on our own personal journeys. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shay Evans
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Shay's interest in the Asylum began knowing that her Uncle, who has been mentally handicapped from birth, was once institutionalised for many years. Her Uncle; always in possession of a disposable camera, has the ability to 'snap' away at the most banal subjects. Looking through his photograph albums, Shay began to notice a reoccurring theme throughout; consisting of images of windows from the inside, looking out. The notion of confinement and isolation is still evidently present in her Uncle's memory, and this shows the idea of the 'barrier', that once deprived him of his freedom. Being influenced by these compelling photographs, Shay constructed a series of images within an abandoned mental institution. The light in her images creates an interesting contraposition; the viewer can either be allured or frightened by it, giving a sense of the unknown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gemma Gaskins
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Jill and David have been married for 55 years this year and no matter what happens, when everything changes around them, with people moving in fast-forwards they still repeat their day-to-day routines, looking out for and caring for one another. This state of routine has moulded them together indefinitely. There home, Garden House, where they've lived for many years may now only have two people living there but there's only the presence for one being and this is what I began to unveil, their life as one, a third someone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rory Geraghty
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Chiaroscuro' began as a photographic series referencing the 'stations of the cross', yet as the collection matured it transcended its original incarnation becoming more secular - removed from the confines of esoteric religious dogmatics. Etymologically 'Chiaroscuro' can also be translated as clear and obscure and thus the series undercurrent of Christian themes takes on greater resonance. The clear being the transition from a static state through frenzied motion, whilst the obscure transfigures from incarceration, metamorphosing through suffering towards an ethereal spiritual entity, be that a refugees plight or a more corporal metaphor of a body struggling with disease. The figure's face is deliberately shrouded throughout the series so that he becomes a motif... an everyman... a pilgrim walking his path. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicolas Hughes
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work challenges our notion of a truly creative act based upon the relationship between space and creative perception. Space, more specifically the interior of our own intimate personal environment represented by the the bedroom which has unexpectedly become a major aspect of the work presented. This intimate environment to some extent has dictated the creative flow that is inherent in all of us. The window allows the light from the sun to illuminate this space, much like a plants growth depends on the relationship it has with the sun, the source of all living creatures, it will flourish if exposure is decent and will shrivel if exposure is poor. The light that penetrates our personal space enhances our vision within the creative flow, allowing ideas to form much clearer peaks. The work engages in an exploration between the relationship that is inherent in light and the intimate personal environment, how they correlate and influence one another. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Elizabeth Jury
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"The 'stranger' unites 'here' and 'there'. If she stays, she may come to belong and reciprocate, or may remain detached and disinterested." The photograph creates a visual platform for the unconscious, like a dream it is a point of mid-situation, in which thoughts are expressed in images, to evoke meaning as opposed to explaining what has or is about to occur. The images are deliberately ambiguous, non-descript and at times bleak, which enable them to become void of any sense of time or cultural recognition; instead they act as a backdrop tinged with human emotion, in which the viewer can project their own feelings upon. This project has partly been inspired by Yi-Fu Tuan and his concepts of space and place. A 'sense of place' is a deeply personal and emotionally charged space and this strong bond between us and the land can form part of our individual, cultural and social identity. As a result, the images form a complex knot of experience, memory and emotion that serve to question our ardent need to belong in a multicentered society and how returning to a place that has helped shape and develop our personalities after a prolonged period of time impacts on who we are at present and who we may become. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgina Kloss
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

With the decline of industry in the Rhondda Valleys (1960's), much of the population was forced out of employment. In trying to deal with these life-changing circumstances, and the new lack of affluence or outside interest in the area, a solid communal front was formed amongst the local communities who seem to abuse the land because they regard it as a land commodity. Finding myself in this Welsh environment, my initial feelings were of unexpected displacement, a sensation of not belonging to my immediate surroundings. The series will consider the outsider in relation to this divergent environment and culture. Creating interventions and improvised acts to reveal a distant identity, a notion of not being entirely worthy of such a bleak and dull sight, to explore the historical formation of the Rhondda Valleys. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Mason
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Human Behaviour' stems from an idealist fantasy where all creatures unite on a global level, I'm fully aware that this fantasy is naïve at best; never the less the body of work has been created within my own idealistic universe. This universe transcends reality, a reality where the notion of superiority does not exist; a mountain holds the same intrinsic value as a grasshopper, as does a human and a bird. Using the medium of photography allows me to build this platform for this universe. The photographic performances are based on the similarities within behaviour of two species, humans and birds, behaviour that originates from survival, feeding, procreating and parenthood, encouraging a harmony between humans and animals. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Paterson
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In order to understand my deep-rooted childhood connection with the New Forest and other natural environments, I have explored the notion of biophilia. The term used by entomologist Edward Wilson, describes an instinctive bond between human being's and other living things - the psychological connections we subconsciously seek with the rest of life. These deep affiliations we have with nature are rooted in our biology, as we evolved as creatures deeply entangled with the intricacies of nature. Upon entering a natural environment, I allow myself to become 'another', developing the instinctive natural bond. Adopting an essence of play, I act out a sequence of movements that are scattered and fluid, resulting in the physical interactions between my surroundings and myself that strengthen this connection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Peel
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In the derelict and abandoned spaces of our present society, we have the contemporary ruin. The monumental and historical ruin is replaced with sites of neglect and decay: empty spaces that disband the picturesque monuments and substitute them with disintegrating places of sociological collapse. These are places where time is suspended, where the ruin has fallen from active time to allow past, present and future to converge. These photographs, as well as investigating the relationship between photography and the ruin, explore the theme of memory. With their fragmented traces of times now past, we are invited to create our own narratives. Indeed sometimes, the things we do not know are more fascinating than the things we do. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katherine Perrett
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Set in an urban Community garden, whose physical presence has all but been eliminated from view, the images refer to a space that is implied rather than exposed, where unwanted plants have grown up between the garden boundaries and the protective surface of the polytunnel. The images seem to depict a perpetual descent into the winter months as the foliage of the Buddleia davidii slowly retracts over time from the almost invisible fog-like surface of the polytunnel. The images look away from the garden, beyond the boundary and through the surface that clouds the view. The invasive, unwanted Buddleia davidii peers through the murk, forcing itself into the frame revealing the unobserved remarkable that surrounds us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Michelle Power
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

'Mere Mortal' refers to being nothing more than destined to die, suggesting that we cannot comprehend more, such as the meaning of existence. From this, the project explores the human condition; the way humans deal with the fragility of their own life. The middle class subjects hold no religious beliefs and they seem uncomfortable in their understanding of mortality, accepting but also dismissive. Constructed in the subject's personal space, natural light illuminates them as shadows hint at the unknown. The moment of self reflection is in a doubtful glance. The camera immortalises them in a state of disillusion. In the gaze, a quiet sadness and uncertainty lingers towards this ambiguous subject; something they all possess but will not talk about. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carly Seller
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

By documenting locations of recent drowning incidents that have occurred along the coast of Cornwall, this work examines the conflicting relationship between the horrific and the romantic. Aesthetic appreciation is key to our formation of emotional attachments towards places, yet aesthetic pleasure can only ever be fleeting. For a place to be compelling in ways that move beyond aesthetic appreciation it must have a history of human tragedy. These timed exposures, which relate to the time of exposure of the body to water when drowning, allow for brief moments of contemplation. The ethereal quality created in the images hint towards the pleasurable feelings brought about by this fatal experience, creating tension by representing these powerful, dangerous seas as dream-like surfaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgina Street
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

An illusion is a distortion of sensory perception, revealing how the brain normally organises and interprets sensory stimulation; this can be made to distort reality. Optical or visual illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that are deceptive or misleading. Imagery can be deceiving. Perception begins with senses in the mind, which lead us to generate reasonable concepts representing the world and images around us. The key element of my work is that perception and scale can be deceiving through the lens of a camera. The interpretation by the photographer enables the viewer to imagine and perceive hidden depth. Macro abstractions begin to reinvent themselves, absorbing into a surreal and dreamlike fantasy, portraying a world of unfolding bizarre images. Mould is the perfect subject to generate this effect of underlying fascination, the perception within the image and, the viewer's interpretation. These multiple perceptions create a spectrum of diverse imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elliott Wilcox
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work examines representations of enclosed space concentrating on sporting courts. In photographing the courts as a space and taking them out of context, it provides new light. The camera shows details, which people who play the sport miss and viewers can see closely, the subtleties go un-noticed. The vivid stains, blood, scratches force the viewers focus on these details rather than just the court. The courts have one single use, for sports. These normally sub-conscious spaces become alive. Much like a gallery space is missed to the artwork, the space of these courts is missed to the sport. The un-judgemental image creates an experience to explore, a path to revealing the un-noticed and exposing the un-exposed, romanticising the courts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Wilson
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Children's imagination was my initial influence for this project and I wanted to try and show this by photographing my subjects playing games. However seeing the results of my imagery, I was struck by how something as simple as children hiding in trees and bushes reminded me of one of the facets of childhood. I began to look at the subject of over protectiveness of children which is triggered by fear in parents caused by their belief that children are in more danger now of being abducted than they were twenty years ago. This fear is completely unfounded but is provoked by constant media coverage of child abduction cases. I was drawn to this topic surrounding children as a result of being acquainted with some families where this issue is evident, (although not in the families of children I photographed). Their claustrophobic hiding places of trees and bushes act as metaphors for a risk averse society, one that is controlled by fear, more concerned with restricting and overprotecting rather than creating a balanced world for their children to exist in. I believe children need to experience a balanced up-bringing, one that lets them live out their childhoods with a little room for freedom and imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jo Winney
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This photographic inventory methodically examines the sheer volume and diversity of our commodities. Through individually photographing each one of the 1,986 objects I own, this catalog serves as an archival record of my life to date. Removed from their assigned place within the bedroom, each possession is subjected to inquiry in a reassessment of value. Through classification, the purpose of each possession is reexamined and its relevance justified. The revaluation of each object determines the way in which I choose to be perceived in future and is ultimately bringing this chapter of life to a logical conclusion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Bottomley
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Last summer, i became fascinated by Greek mythology. To a certain extent these collections of fables depict how we live are lives, by what we deem to be right or wrong. The simplicity of the morals acted out by the various characters captured my imagination. Applying this moralistic simplicity back into modern society, where sometimes morals can be lost behind a barricade of political correctness, beaucary and much more obviously alcohol. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julien Danan
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Post-Apologetic is, first of all, a tribute to a man's philosophy and courage. It is also a testimony of a condition of life. Tom has been from living in a self made hut in an abandoned industrial area to inside a tunnel, in the UK, in the twenty first century. It is also a debate. For human rights, for the way society functions in respect to the destitute. For us. Finally, it is a question: What is it, being human? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aislinn Delaney
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"'Come for a ride in my chariot, dear children,' she said one day. When they arrived at the Great Lake, she ordered the children into the water. No sooner had they entered than she struck each one with her rod of enchantment, turning them into four swans. 'For three hundred years you will swim on this lake,' she gloated, 'and then you will fly to the cold Sea of Moyle. For another three hundred years you will shiver and suffer, before you can go the Sea of Erris, for the final three hundred years!'" (The Children of Lir). In 1998, I started working in St. Michael's Parish Youth Project in St. Michael's Estate, a local authority flats complex on the edge of Dublin's inner city. At this time, the flats were at their lowest ebb, existing in a state of official neglect and under siege to the ravages of the heroin trade. Many of the young people in the area slowly began to succumb to the drug. 'Children of Lir' seeks to evoke a sense of this time, and the enormity of what growing up with an overabundance of heroin has subsequently meant for this group of young people. In using the Irish folk tale 'The Children of Lir', it seeks to combine two parallel stories that challenge the audience to re-imagine the drugs crisis of the mid to late 1990s in Dublin's working class communities. It also aspires to evoke the idea of a curse, as a way of comprehending the injustice that created the conditions where a generation of Dublin's young working class became heroin addicts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Gardiner
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

X-Linked Hypophosphatemia is a hereditary genetic metabolic condition that primarily affects bone development. Its notable characteristics are bowed legs, short stature and poor teeth formation. Affecting about 1 in 20,000 people. The symptoms may be mild, moderate or severe in different individuals with XLH. From 2002 the US President proclaimed the 'Bone and Joint decade' in an attempt to "raise awareness and educate the world on the increasing societal impact of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders". This project looks at the complexity and variations of XLH as much as it celebrates the body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Will Hartley
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

These images are from a series of an ongoing project photographing part of my life, they are friends of mine, which choose to live by squatting in various buildings around London. I hope through my images the viewer can sense the feeling that I felt when I took the photo and see the beauty that I see in a different way of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kathrin Hauser
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This body of work explores different issues of the family-dinner as a dying 'ceremonial tradition' in Britain. It was my intention to highlight the importance of shared mealtimes in order to build identities and to develop a bond and a sense of belonging, not only within the family, but for each individual member. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eveliina Hujanen
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

It's hard to imagine the extent of the effect the Vietnam War had on the Vietnamese people. Apart from the socio-economic disaster the country was after the war it also had to deal with other profound problems such as the pollution of land with herbicides and chemicals. Lack of nourishing food combined with little healthcare alone increases chances of children being born with disabilities and defects. Orange Blossom examines the effort that the Vietnamese today are making to assist families with disabled children. This development is new- the single party government has been slow to accept that children, who are not able to keep up with the rest, need and are worth the extra time and money spent on them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Jenkins
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Garw Valley in South Wales has had a tradition of mining stretching back for over two hundred years: once the valley contained numerous levels (drift mines) and with six deep pits. In the last twenty years reclamation and regeneration have changed the landscape drastically- all the slag heaps, spoils have been removed, and the valley is green again. Nature is now slowly covering up any remnants of the mining industry. Still, the valley has a story to tell about the past history within its landscape. 'Duw, It's Hard' is an observation of nature reclaiming the land and slowly healing the scars of it's past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Muiread MacNabb
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Point-to-points would be classified as the first stage of racing, most trainers aim to succeed in these races before even thinking of entering the horse on 'The Track'. Compared to track racing Point-to-Points are very unofficial; with a field as the course, straw bales for navigators and white tents for buildings, these portable race courses are one of the most demanding and troublesome races a horse can do. This winter-season sport attracts hundreds of keen equestrian people, testing their endurance to the winter climate as well as the basic facilities... porta loos! The jockeys symbolise warriors going out to battle or the hero of the day, if they win. They are mainly young boys who have a passion for riding horses. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John McKernan
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

On the estate where I grew up, the local dogs were our heroes! These dogs never wore collars or were seen on leads, these dogs were free to roam and join in with the kids at play. Today the lives of dogs seem very controlled. You rarely see one without its owner; they are loved, and pampered, treated to everything from gourmet meals to the latest waterproof outfit. But for all this cosseting, whenever I see a dog tied up outside a shop or park, I am reminded of how far removed their lives have become from those of the wily dogs of my youth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hiroyuki Mori
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Gwent Levels, stretching along the bank of the River Severn, is an internationally significant landscape for its rich ecology and heritage. Over the past decade and a half the Welsh Assembly Government has established plans to build a new motorway route part-through the Levels, to relieve increasing traffic congestion on the nearby M4. My photographic exploration along the proposed route engages with this ongoing, contentious scenario through a mind-state of reflection. In building road upon road, how long do we continue our way of short-term thinking? What of the consequences on the wellbeing of the socio-environmental whole? The essence of this story, in a macro perspective, reveals much about our current relationship with nature and, finally, with ourselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Janire Nájera
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This series explores the double dimension that characterizes the Northern Ireland's conflict, inviting to think about other dualities generated by the human nature itself or through the influence of the memory in the understanding of the present. A powerful iconography has emerged to respond to a political situation. These symbols created during or after "The Troubles" are still up in the streets of Belfast and Derry and they are displaying explicit and implicit messages to residents and visitants. I have used the double exposure technique, photographing in the same frame the murals or architectural icons up on the streets and the residents passing next by, melting past and present and exploring stories more subtle about former and potential conflicts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ally Nelson
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Home is a space we create to free ourselves from the outside world. We are stripped of our manufactured outfits; we can live in our skin, relax in our mind and in our soul. A place where we can shed our emotions and confront our inner self. Attaching meaning to meaningless objects often helps to make us feel secure, creating distractions from life's complexities. The boundaries we encounter are often unclear; the wisdom we gain on our journey cannot always defeat life's challenges. Not only do I see photography as a way of understanding more about myself but also learning what others desire, to understand about their own world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Clare North
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Therein lies the ultimate consequence of their marginalisation. That look between animal and man, which may have played a crucial role in the development of human society, and which with, in any case, all men had always lived until less than century ago, has been extinguished" (Berger, 1977). That look between animal and man is a true instinctive interaction, reflected by a split second deliberation of whether to fight or flee, friend or foe. One cannot help but consider man as foe in this complex and uncertain relationship. Man constantly needs to govern and prevail, hopelessly wrestling with a life of harmony and respect for other sentient beings. A long and weary affiliation has led the near defeated party to retreat and as a consequence of that, numbers dwindle and species vanish. Poaching, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change all constitute weapons over which nature could not triumph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Townsend
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In the small fishing village of Thiaroye sur mer, a group of women have come together due to difficult circumstances of their community. The fishing trade here is in rapid decline and, with it jobs for the local men and boys. This puts pressure on the men to immigrate illegally. They embark on an 800 mile long journey to the Canary Islands in small wooden fishing boats. With a low rate of success the women are very often left, not even knowing of the outcome from their husbands or sons journey. The women in this community have come together to work for the survival of the rest of their families and this vanishing population. The group named themselves - 'Collectif des femmes pour la lutte contre l'immigration clandestine.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hunter Workman
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Travelling to the Shetland Isles in the spring of '08, I expected to encounter a landscape characterised by the National Geographic. An archipelago 200 north of Scotland, a landscape where you are never more than half a mile from the sea, a landscape visibly sculpted by history and toil. Viking, Christian and the Hansa. This ever-changing social history today is apparent in the open attitudes of today's islanders. History is apparent throughout the islands from the Viking burial mounds, to the abandoned radar stations of the Cold War. The Shetlands represent to me one of the few remaining traditional rural British landscapes. A difficult period awaits, with new social and governmental pressures the islands may be loosing their precious traditional image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dave Allies-Curtis
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This series of photographs shows members of various faith groups engaging with their own spiritual sounds of chanting, singing, or recitation of Holy verses. The innately profound effect that sound is able to exact upon the listener is intensified when associated directly with spirituality. The manifestations of these charged intonations and music are most apparent in the faces of those that are affected. This project encourages the viewer to experience a richness of spiritual diversity at the same time as showing an essentially strong thread of unity throughout. It celebrates the individual faiths and spirituality as a whole, helping to promote the breakdown of religious prejudice and championing the need for unity between all humanity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alison Avery
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Monozygotic is the scientific name for identical twins. It comes from the Greek word meaning one egg. This body of work explores the differences in the appearance of identical twins. They may look alike and sound alike but they are still unique individuals. The twins are dressed differently to allow dissimilar traits to emerge through the portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Bowditch
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Bowditch, my Dad, who died when I was eight years old. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marc Breton
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work focuses on two aspects of the Isle of Sark. The first, titled 'Intrusion into Silence' shows the inside of cave systems, which I managed to climb down the cliffs to get to. The 3 initial images show the inside of the 'Boutique System,' and I focused on the details that appeared to me out from the dim light and atmospheric silence. The final two images are from the project called 'The Tractors on the Isle of Sark'. Sark is a small island and cars would be rather impractical on the dirt track roads. The piece looks at how the island needs tractors to perform everyday tasks. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Cooper
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Curry is Britain's number 1 favourite dish. This work takes a celebratory look at the Curry House's unique presence in Britain drawing on aspects of cultural identity in the post colonial era. It explores this from the perspective of the restaurant's renowned interiors focussing on the typical table setting. The work brings attention to the strong character and uniformity of the Curry House that is instantly recognisable. The images capture the essence of the cultural balance achieved by these restaurants paying homage to their success that has changed the eating habits of the entire nation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Dare
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The Great British Gun Owner is a documentary series about gun owners in the UK. Since the ban in '98 gun crime has doubled meaning that the destruction of an age-old British tradition was done in vain. The result was that gun culture in the UK was driven underground. James Dare's series dives into the unseen world of the British gun owners. In a silent and dignified protest against the further destruction of other British traditions these people are given a voice, where they were ignored in the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hazel Davies
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Adult Babies are a specific group of fetishists who enjoy age play, dressing and being treated like babies. They may wear nappies, sleep in a cot, drink from a bottle, or play with baby toys. These images show "Nurseries" created as a safe environment for Adult Babies to play out their fantasies. Nurseries such as these, offer a "nanny" service, providing nappy changes, feeds and even spankings for misbehaving "babies." There is no link between Adult Babies and real babies and this fetish does not involve real children in any way. The intent of this work is to help promote better understanding and acceptance of Adult Babies by breaking down misconceptions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andy Donohoe
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

A Celebration of the time that I have spent at university, the people I have met and the experiences we have shared. Friends, in a personal environment, connecting with the camera and therefore, me. This is a representation of my life in Southsea and how much I have enjoyed the past three years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stuart Leech
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Stuart's project entitled 'District Number One' is a visual depiction of the UK postcode system. Based on the specific location given by Google maps he travelled around the South of England documenting 48 different locations, each the number district of each postcode area. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gisella Molinari
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

There is an ongoing debate about the influence of women's magazines and images of skinny fashion models and celebrities upon the body image of women, especially the whole size zero phenomenon. This piece of work illustrates the depth fashion models go to in order to become highly successful, resorting to look like a 'skeleton on the runway'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keeley Walsh
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Channel switching was not a problem until the remote control". This body of work explores the characteristics and individuality of a person or family through the location of their remote control, whether it is where the remote is normally kept or whether it has been lost. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Buswell
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The project aims to compare and contrast the homes of 10 families living in social housing in the Whitechapel area of Tower Hamlets, London. The families share a common ethnic background, all Bangladeshi. They are also, without exception, awaiting re-housing by the local borough due to domestic overcrowding. The project was undertaken with the help of another photographer who recorded the people in their homes whilst my work focused directly upon their environments. The intention was to present each room as a complete image in order to allow a direct comparison between all the cases. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Cavaliere
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Still is a study of the place of acted, borrowed, 'pretended' emotion in film and photography; By inviting amateur actors to re-enact emotional moments from my favourite films, I am looking at the nature of the audience manipulation and the constructed image. First, the actors are filmed rehearsing their role, perfecting the Look and imagining the emotional content. We watch their nervous, silent efforts, accompanied by subtitled directions from behind the camera. Once the Look is perfected, the actor is heroically re-presented in a studio-lit location photograph. What follows is a critique of emotional manipulation in photography and film. By using the touchstone of cinema, by manipulating its traits and structures, this process asks questions of the voracity of the photographic image, and looks at the ways in which photography is inherently 'believable'; this carries its resonance out of the cinema and into the visual manipulation we find in advertising, documentary and the media. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jozy Chao-Chih Chen
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The style of our diet has a dramatic change during these decades. More and more items of food are provided by the purpose of being more convenient for eating, or having longer shelf-lives. However, most of this food doesn't look quite proper to me. I would rather see them as merely materials which are not eatable than real food. The work expresses my doubt toward this kind of processed food and also some questions toward the raw materials which normally being seen as healthy to ourselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicolás González
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Being influenced by the surrealistic philosophy, which proposes desire as the authentic voice of the inner self and at the same time a path to self-discovery. I spent one year recording my living spaces using the camera as a diary and working under a strict discipline of the spontaneous, the innate, and the non-learned I explored the idea of identity through the register and documentation of my fixations and the influence of my dreams in my walking day life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miguel Rodrigues
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Football has never been so popular and never has there been a sport linked to a nation as football is to England. The roots of football go back more than two thousand years, but what makes football the most universal and popular game? The core of my project is to put myself in the position of a football supporter and follow a non-league competition from the first round to the final. The purpose of this project is to capture the intensity of each game and progressively, throughout the competition, create a photographic diary of the personal experience and observations of the event. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Roesink
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work deals with personal memories and emotions attached to family photographs. They are never the same to any member of the family, nor do they evoke the same recollections. I asked both my parents to write down memories to an identical set of photographs of my childhood. I did the same. The outcome was very various and at times revealing to me. I then set out to photograph both of my parent's homes and combined the photographs with diary extracts relating to the experiences I made during each of the visits. It is a journey into the familiar nostalgia we feel about the past, something anyone can relate with on some level... . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shoko Sata
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I have been interested in a relationship between visual and emotions all the time. Treasures, there should be many memories, feelings, history behind, and it does not mean anything to the others. To produce a series of portraits with my title as "treasures", I asked people around me to show their treasures, and had a question about their life (the way of thinking), then tried to photograph him/her with it. Even if I gave the same instructions to each people in shooting time, they all had different reactions, according to their characters. They already have their style, so I wanted to push that aspect, that influence to the photographs. I hope you could see inside of themselves with the photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Schwab
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Series of five 1:1 scale portraits out of ten people of my closest surrounding taken as a case study. This MA project has evolved around a following of investigations into the functioning of memory and specifically in relation to the face. It is said that there is no single object that we see more often than the human face and none that is so inaccurately remembered as people think about the face as an idea rather than a piece of design. You would hear more often, 'that girl is charming' than 'that girl has a deep and wide pair of eyes'. Thus, starting with the idea of testing our own memory for faces and to see if there is a way to improve it, tasks were given to the selected people and myself. Distant from the crime scene, but by using Flashface, an online "photofits" system or by meeting experts of face identification at Scotland Yard, this project has been driven by a need to overview, challenge and understand the memory process better. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Killian Toomey
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Taking specific reference and inspiration from concepts found in abstract expressionism this work focuses on the base principles of the medium; light, surface and time. Allowing these elements to act as the subject matter for my work this is a personal endeavour to visually articulate, express and represent my understanding of composition, spatial organisation and the foundations of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aris Tsoutsas
Central Saint Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The river, a link as well as a frontier, plays an essential role forming a patchwork of stories, images and meanings. My project focuses on documenting the scenery of the river Thames through the personal stories of people working and living around it, by following a narrative of a walk along the bank side. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Aldred
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Natalie Bloor
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Richard Bradley
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is a documentary of two places that have become very significant to me since moving to Swansea; the first is my student house, which I share with five other guys and the other is my girlfriend's house. The way we try to define space as our own has always interested me, adding a human element to a man made structure gives it character, a history, a soul. For this project I have tried to photograph these two places, capturing the little moments, the funny quirks and the downright bazaar situations that occur living in shared accommodation. These images make up so many memories for me and I hope that anyone who has experienced living in shared accommodation can relate to them in some way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Serena Brook-Hatch
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The successful interior photographer should be creating images that portray the architect or designer's vision of the space. The 2D images should allow the viewer to fall into a full sensual experience of the space. I find great pleasure in getting to know an interior and finding its best vantage points to create beautiful images that compliment the designers' ideas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Eadweard Doyle
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Photographing with 'out-of-date' film stock and subsequently cross-processing in the 'wrong chemicals', I discard photographic precision for ambiguous time representations. Time, and its presumed western cultural visual idiosyncrasies are subverted for indistinguishable temporal representations, collapsing periods of time altogether. 2008 marks the 130th year since Eadweard Muybridge created his 1878 mammoth plate panorama of San Francisco. Travelling back to the original site, I re-photographed the panorama using the largest Polaroid camera in the world; Polaroid 20x24. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Henry
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

As a lapsed skateboarder now turned photojournalist, with a dedicated interest in British social issues (especially in relation to our city space), I feel obligated to put forward the somewhat unreported and strangled viewpoint of the U.K. skate community. Throughout the nation an abundance of controlling anti-skateboarding devices are endlessly being hammered into the fabric of our so called 'public spaces'. These later additions to the pre-existing architecture have been dubbed 'corporate vandalism' and (when viewed in a wider context) seemingly infringe upon society's use of 'public space'. I am compelled to communicate these issues in my work, acting as a voice for the wood pushing subculture, whilst simultaneously engaging the viewer in an unconsidered subject matter which provokes them to reassess the city. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirsty Hougham
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

With a growing lack of concern for traditional family values, children and teenagers seem to have an attitude towards society that we used to associate with criminals and dead beats. But this generalised opinion of youth is something we should be attempting to change not fuel. Yes children are growing up younger and dealing with adult situation before they are capable of making the right decision, but we should ask ourselves whether we are ALL responsible for this change in youth. As a species we are all individual not only in our DNA make-up but our up-bringing, beliefs, opinions and attitudes. This is also true for our youth, sometimes we forget this. I've spent time with a group of teenagers, getting to know their characters and the type of people they are. Photographing them has helped to change my opinions. I continue to work with them and am meeting new characters everyday. Reaching their 6th form prom was a milestone for many and it was this event they asked me to document. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Husband
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In previous years, my images have formed a diary consisting of a lot of anger and regret. As situations changed and maturity grew, my images have become based less on the obvious surroundings and more about recording moments that humanity often walk past in the modern rush of the world as it is today. Within these moments, it appears that life stands still. Just enough time to glimpse how beautifully light can touch. My instinctive reaction is to use a lens to capture the moments as a representation of a personal need to experience stillness, physically and mentally. A presence, whether it is my partner or natural space outdoors, is often what makes me notice the light that creates this moment. I believe this is due to the explosion of positive emotions, feeling relaxed with who I am and my surroundings. I find I lose myself within the moment of stillness, being intrigued and also in admiration with how the light falls. As I did, I imagine viewers will become lost in the moments, admiring how the light and colours blend to create a sense of relaxation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stig Jensen
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"This static landscape of new media pushes us into a sense of geographical and social distress where old conventions of experiencing and associating with nature is left behind. Memories of place become vague and we are forced to look at the landscape with new eyes anchored heavily in digital technology." . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ed Kulakowski
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My project contains imagery of tourists and observation from cities within Europe. I've photographed several European cities walking around observing tourism and how people react in these landmark spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William De Labat
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Alex Long
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"It's like being back at school working here. The suit, it's like a uniform" (Joe Smart, 18th March 2008). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Owen Martin
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work for this project is on pollution, I have focused mainly on the sky as a way of showing various different forms of pollution. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linda Oesthagen
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My interest lies in the power of ambiguity, mixing glamour and the profane with horror and eroticism. With photography I can emphasize these themes, connecting my visual expression to fashion and gothic romanticism. A background in theatre and dance makes me naturally include a performative aspect into my work, using dramatic lightening and staging my own reality. In this project I've used raw eggs as an effect on the naked body, because the texture has the ability to be both erotic and grotesque. It can symbolize life and fertility, and on the other hand various body fluids like urine, breast milk, blood, and sperm. The images can be looked upon as both sexual and disturbing, and link to religious icons. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Pope
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My photographic practice embraces the performative act in order to critique the discourse between a time-based photography and a notion of event. The utilizing of performed photography sees its two main elements; a photographic record of an event and the event itself amalgamated. Subsequently the resulting performative photograph resists truth through the blurring of fact and fiction. Instead of an objective document, we create a vague and unclear document that must be approached from a subjective perspective. Combining this strategy with the figure of repetition we see a character suspended within space as he translates his unbridled demeanour into absurd actions; actions that result in ambiguous, gravity defying photographs. In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge photographed his mammoth plate panorama of San Francisco. 2008 celebrates the 130th anniversary of Muybridge's panorama and date that I re-photographed the panorama on the original site, employing the largest Polaroid camera in the world; the Polaroid 20x24. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alan Rowlette
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In my work I am concerned with the notion of journey, what Carl Jung describes as an "evolution". By undertaking a series of drifts with a camera, I can metaphorically glimpse into the internal landscape, the boundaries between the sub-conscious and the conscious. By looking through oneself a greater understanding of the surrounding world can be attained. The images are intrinsically linked with the forming of identity, the internal and external. The images raise questions regarding the boundaries of reality and fiction in the digital age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephen Sidlo
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Travelling south from Morocco is a politically disrupt country in turmoil, Western Sahara. After crossing the border, many UN and Polasario Front armies were at checkpoints keeping the peace. Photography was strictly prohibited, only two weeks prior two Norwegian photojournalists were jailed and later deported. This selection of images is from these checkpoints and areas around Western Sahara that is continually in paranoia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ida Sorknes
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work is about the reiterated performances of everyday lives. I use self-portraiture and digital photo-montage to visualize my world, and the identities I take on to communicate in it. According to situation or audience, we choose to show various sides of our personality or take on different roles; improvise performances of familiar gestures and expressions. Analysed and reacted to. I find the question of defining an identity interesting. Who are you today? A performance is developing; a meeting between two characters in a confined space. It is a dialogue between likeminded, a connection, play. A moment of excitement, anticipation, transformation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Vaughan
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

All photographs are taken from the ongoing series 'The Framework Collection', a portraiture based documentary project made in collaboration with the Swansea based art collective 'Framework'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Walker
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This project is a personal view on the situation in Zimbabwe. I am a Zimbabwean myself. I was born there and it is all I knew as a child. When I turned eighteen, I was forced, like many others, to make the decision to move to the United Kingdom. This project is about that choice and how it effected each individual. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgios Anastasakis
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

In this project, Georgios Anastasakis focuses on the relationship between the city and self-exploration. The city-wanderer is an idea that emerged at the same time with modernity. A lonely man who observes all those elements that constitutes the urban experience. In common Places it is not only the after-hour city that such a wanderer explores, but also the self. As fantasy breaks into reality, these photographs are warped documentation of places, potentials, things about to erupt to creation or destruction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Cunningham
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

place/home explores notions of space, home and time. Located in the outskirts of Paris, this house has been in the same family for generations and is full of the objects and memories of lives lived and lost. The photographer has no direct connection to the house, but for the house's owner, each object contains stories and emotions unavailable to both the photographer and the viewer of the photograph. The marks of the past and present are visible on the surfaces of tables, on walls, and in the objects themselves: in the dust, scratches, cracks and paint. Stillness, then, is not only present in the 'still' photograph but in the inanimate nature of the subject itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Su Fahy
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work focuses on sense of place, trace and memory. The work reflects on connections with time, disorder and the legacy of art as communication referencing the Expos held worldwide as part of locating art within national identity. It is the markers and positions of locations that are disappearing, the work muses on past histories, evokes past lives and the geographical spaces they inhabited. The work in Legacy reflects on the impact of Expo '67 on the city of Montreal and looks at its architecture, sense of identity and speculates on its reference to this event. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Krisztina Fazekas
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Krisztina Fazekas was born in Hungary, but she moved to New York in 2004. Her work was selected for juried exhibitions and auctions across the United States and she continues to exhibit her photographic work in Eastern Europe. She also participated in the Renaissance competition where her work was selected as one of the winners and was exhibited at the Proud Galleries in London. There are places that trigger certain memories, as they would be able to contain particles of human life. These memories emerge from an altered state of consciousness, they are undefined and dreamlike. The boundaries of reality and memory become blurred. Unconscious components which are present in every aspect of our lives are revitalized. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miguel Ángel Fonta
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

If you look around carefully in the city you can find beautiful things that you haven't seen before even though it was always there. The aim of this project is to show the beauty of everyday life, in little details that surround us, in empty spaces such as a launderette, a place we visit regularly and ironically we never notice how beautiful it can be. We are the witnesses of the quotidian, but we don't pay attention to little details that carry the beauty of life. If we did that we would find more satisfaction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrea Jaeger
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

By reducing images to their baseline, Andrea Jaeger breathes a different understanding to life through this project. Photography claims to capture the perfect moment. However, life is not a still that technology can fix. Like time, life dissolves into a cloudy mist of interpretations, feelings and memories. The viewer is likewise in his/her life forced to look elsewhere in the image for meaning and to form a new, more independent relationship with the subject that stays in the background - unsharp and undefined. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ilona Jurgiel
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

We carry the idea of home within us. Home consisting of fragments, of memories embedded in things. What we remember is fragmentary and broken into little pieces, especially as time goes by. We recall others by their scent, the colour of their hair, the tone of their voice. We remember places by the way light touched the walls in a room, how comfortable was the sofa, how beautiful was the petunia. Belongings contain the essence of the very person who owns them. People's possessions, the tiny atoms of reality, gain importance when a person's soul sinks into them. The way in which we construct our private space often tells our stories better than any voice ever could. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roger Mavity
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Many photographers make images of the real world they see with their eyes. I try to make images of the surreal world I see with my mind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Rowelsky
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

After finishing his undergraduate degree in Photographic Arts, Sam Rowelsky joined a commercial photography studio in London as a studio manager and senior photographer. His photographic interests are largely anthropological in nature and essentially concerned with cultural observations and the society in which we live. He wishes to continue this investigation for the time being and hope to win funding for a major project in 2009, which is aimed at highlighting the incredible cultural diversity along the west coast of Africa and will focus on the unseen economic imbalances imposed by the West on an already beleaguered continent. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Sabella
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Steve Sabella is holder of the Ellen Auerbach award (2008) granted by the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Germany. Currently he is exhibiting in Turin/Italy (April 22 till September 28) in 'Gates of the Mediterranean' -international exhibition curated by Martina Corgnati. The key words for my work are disorientation and dislocation. The latter word should be more understood in terms of disorder, disturbance and confusion. Living in a constant state of 'mental exile', I now try to give a 'form' to the state of mind of how it is to live in permanent exile. I am assembling my own constructions-creating a new structure, or a new 'impossible reality'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Selina Shah
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Selina Shah was born in 1984, London. She is a practicing photographer and video artist, training to be an art teacher and teaches English as a foreign language. Her main art work relies on a conceptual background, exploring contemporary issues of interest whilst considering society around her. Her main mediums are photography and video, but she also experiments with mixed-media, finding her passion in digital and installation outputs, especially in collaboration with other artists she meets along the way. Selina was recently invited to Indonesia as a residential artist to Yogyakarta International Video-Work Festival #3 and has had her photography, video and sound work exhibited internationally in places like Tallinn, Helsinki and Salzburg for new media art festivals and exhibitions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liam Sinnott
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Liam Sinnott was born in Harrow, North London and his interest in photography began with a City and Guilds in the subject at Amersham College. From there he spent some time travelling and developing his photography further before returning to the UK to do a BA in Photographic Arts at University of Westminster. Following this degree he decided to continue his studies on the MA Photographic Studies course at the same university. His photographic work mainly consists of constructed surrealist imagery, combining contemporary techniques with the influence of traditional practice. The various projects he has been developing deal with a range of issues infused with a social or political charge. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frank Dabba Smith
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Frank Dabba Smith was born in California and studied Linguistic Anthropology at UC Berkeley. He was later ordained as a liberal rabbi at Leo Baeck College and his thesis critically examined the usage of photography during the Holocaust. His research concerning the war time altruism of Ernst Leitz has yielded several publications. Frank drives his three children to school each morning and then photographs them. This project records elements of this power dynamic as well as the intimacy, distance and ambivalences that exist in family relationships. This is an exercise in shaping memory while acknowledging the gap between how experiences are lived and the memories we have of them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mimi Winter
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

The 'bungalow' is a generic architectural form which reflects an intercultural exchange with its origins in the history of colonisation. These photographs depict an urban settlement erected in Oxfordshire in the 1950's to accommodate US airmen and their families stationed at an American Air Force base during the Cold War era. 'Flat-packed' bungalows were imported and constructed on site with typically American features: 110 volt electrical system, street signs and fire hydrants - a self-reliant 'mini-city' with complete infrastructure. Purpose-built as temporary housing, what emerges years after its original occupants have left (1994) is a sense of its own obsolescence and transience, mirrored by its current use as short-term rented accommodation. The photographs are a record of the remaining traces of American colonisation of the English countryside. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Cartwright
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work deals with the salvation of photographs that have become detached or lost from their owners through unknown circumstances. Some are printed from negatives found in junk shops and some of the photographs are from unprocessed films left or found in old cameras. The main subjects within the photographs are memorable occasions taken within the social environment such as days out, birthdays, and weddings, the moments we all photograph in life to be preserved or remembered. Through re-printing and processing of these films I can "reincarnate" these captured lost memories and make them available for contemplation they would have had without my intervention. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Davenport
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

Me and my work have become more defined over the last few years, my increasing interest with crime scene photography has had a major influence in my work and this piece of work for my final project at university encompasses this interest accompanied by my ever conscious mindfulness of the environment we live in. We, as a people, discard unwanted items every day, be it in our homes, bins or on the street. This project was to look at the traces, not only of the rubbish we leave, but fragments of ourselves on these items, our fingerprints. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Edwards
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This on-going project considers the ease that we can access wilderness areas. Through man's intervention there are many situations where simply driving, parking and walking but a short distance allows us to stand on the edge and experience the magnificence of vast wilderness. To this end this body of work is produced in the aesthetic of the f64 group and such notable photographers like Weston and Adams giving a romanticised vision of such areas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Franklin
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This piece of work is about my childhood memory each picture be it food or a location represents my childhood memories with my brothers or it shows the place where the memory was created. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Hall
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This series of images is part of an ongoing exploration in to the passage through non-spaces. I'm interested in artificial non-spaces created through social and commercial architectural development. Within sprawling cities lay endless locations of closed off, often restricted access pathways, steps, exits and thorough fairs. These sites are sometimes in constant use directing a safe passageway through but can also be closed off non-spaces that often exist in case of emergency. The project explores these spaces and places the viewer within the location, engaging them through the scale of the photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Ann Moody
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

"Nature: Whole system of the existence, forces, and events of the physical world that are not controlled by human beings." This is exactly what I try to capture in my photographs. In today's society we seem to be over ruled with this idea of 'perfection' where everything and everybody should be living to this 'perfect' standard. In my photographic work I try to get away from this and focus on landscape and nature in its own natural beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Kenyon
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

My work has evolved over the years and I have created my own style of photographing glass artwork. I started by using the pieces for my own personal work, which then expanded to photographing most of the 3rd year glass student's degree pieces. I particularly like having reflections within the photographs as I feel this adds another depth of creativity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Murphy
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

This work focuses around teenage binge dinking and party culture. How it may take a young person especially, an hour or more to get ready for a night out and the same time to destroy all their effort. Placing the subject out of the home environment and into a more derelict setting enhances the mood of the depressed youth. It gives a feeling of isolation and separation from the reality. Why is it we put ourselves through this week after week? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Styles
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

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Tonje Ytterstad
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2008
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:42:08 EDT

I am a final year BA (Hons) Degree student in photography, and as a final year student most of my work has been focus on people and our body. My project has been about feeling vulnerability, how we are being viewed by other people, and I have been lucky having people putting them self in this position in front of my camera. My work is mostly black and white, since I personally think it gives the images more expression. My work with people in black and white is something I would want to work further on hopefully as an MA student, but also as a continuous project, with people of all ages and all sizes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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