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Al Moutasim Al Maskery
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Since the age of 11, I have been fascinated by lightening storms. I always thought about the power of lightening and the sound that fallows it, like an angry giant awoken from a long sleep. I would observe it for a long period of time. Unlike the other children who were frightened from this bizarre phenomena, I waited for it and froze it on film as a reminder of the sheer power of nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amina Al Tamimi
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Everyone is defined by their past, influenced from the ones before, and brought up slowly with their previous experiences. These photographs are part of a body of work that characterizes each individual that is part of my present life, influencing each other into who we will become. This is my family tree now and soon each of them will move on to another tree, but a part of them will stay with me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ayah Atoui
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The idea behind creating this fictional family is to depict a standard family that has its imperfections; so exaggeratedly imperfect that their deficiencies eat at their very cores only to turn them into these nonsensical creatures. This is a life depicting its nonsensical beauty through how our innermost characters morph us into outlandish individuals. In the end, the inevitability of our shortcomings makes us only human. My intention is to make spectators look at the pieces, see something familiar and relate to these eccentric blemishes of people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Manal Elias
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are part of a photographic documentary entitled JAB, which focuses on the training of boxers in one of the only boxing gyms in the United Arab Emirates. After three months of having trained with the boxers 3 times a week, I learnt that their training is their meditation. The entire book can be previewed at www.blurb.com . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shereena Lootah
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this body of work, I wished to visualize and embody the inner conflicts and struggles that a person goes through and how your own words can overcome you. Motivated by an overwhelming personal experience, I had decided to portray that experience in this set of photographs, so that I can look at them and see what I once felt. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elena Lukyanchuk
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In the U.A.E., Russian women are labeled as prostitutes. Seeing that - I as the photographer am Russian - this notion of exploitation has triggered me to document this group of women who have come here like any other expatriate with high hopes of a better life. Going into their living spaces opened a door for me to slowly pace myself into their privacy establishing a sense of voyeurism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marina Lukyanchuk
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this series of portraits I wanted to show the classical beauty of a human being by emphasizing the powerful posture and glance of the past and apply it on modern faces. While photographing, I noticed the constancy in facial structure regardless of the time frame. Prior to our time, the make up application, the hair styling and the choice of wardrobe was undeniably different yet again the facial projection of the human face remains the same. Throughout my set of photographs, I have chosen genuine 2009 faces and portrayed them under an 18th century scholar portrait. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sami Sasso
American University in Dubai - BFA Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series is a result of a final project for a studio lighting class. I chose to shoot my 1:18 scaled model cars. There is no hidden catch, they are what you see; my model cars and I having fun in the studio. Several of the images I had pre-visualized, others were just a matter of trial and error and experimenting with different lighting setups. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sofia Ali
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is about the differences and changes in our culture and society. For the hotel project I looked at archive images from Blackpool’s main library, and I photographed the same scene as it is today. The project was to see the difference in design and also to see how society and the economic climate have helped in shaping the image of these hotels over the last 30 years. For the Muslim women project I have been concentrating on trying to break the stereotypical view people have towards Muslim women and Islam. The emphasis of the project is to visually explain the freedom Islam gives to women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frances Baker
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work focuses on the desire of the subjects to offer themselves to the camera lens while exploring the relationship or lack of relationship between the photographer and the sitter. By separating the subjects from their personal belongings it creates a forced sense of awkwardness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Bedford
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This is a selection of images from a body of work focusing on a local group of Sea Cadets, a voluntary organisation for young people aged twelve to eighteen with a uniform and rank structure similar to the Royal Navy. These photographs explore the strict structure and discipline of the Cadets, who treat their building with the same respect and rituals afforded to a Navy ship. However, the Sea Cadets like any youth organisation also provides a fun activity for young people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carly Cressey
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My images are based on three briefs, the first explores a number of women and what they believe makes them feminine through what they wear, how they present themselves, and study how their opinions change through generations. The next brief is based around Vogue magazine, recreating images that would fit into a series of work by Steven Meisel. My latest brief studies people that attend sport sessions at a Martial Arts club helping people and children make friends, keep fit, learn to defend themselves and build their confidence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anneka Goodyear
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

As a documentary photographer I concentrate on the finer details within my chosen subject. The cigarettes show detailed shots displaying the ugliness of human flaws within a gritty yet beautiful light. They could also be perceived as historical documents due to the banning of smoking. The project showing two girls either drinking or smoking was aimed to show personal weaknesses, which is a theme running throughout my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Graham Hallam
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Graham Hallam’s photographic practice currently looks at the relationship between human and animal and the anthropomorphic nature of this connection. The work presented below is a selection from Graham’s recent series that looks at the relationship that exists between humans and dogs, in particular working and trained dogs. His work explores the idea of a relationship that exists for practical reasons, as opposed to a relationship with a ‘pet’. The images comment on working relationships in general regardless of species, these images show the connection between two beings with one purpose and the way this manifests itself as a relationship. For more information on Graham’s work contact us on the link above. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Haydn
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Victoria Haydn is a documentary photographer; her practice focuses on ideas based around contemporary anthropology. Currently Victoria’s work looks at sections of society that focus on helping others, in particular organisations and people who help children. The images on show below are a selection from her recent project ‘Dream House’, a project that looks at a charitable organisation in Blackpool, which was set up as an oasis for children and their families dealing with terminal illness. The project looks at the spaces that are created for these children, analysing the motifs that Victoria found to comment on morality, which juxtaposed the way that they provide the children with a friendly place to be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linda McLaughlin
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Sex has become an everyday part of our culture with strip clubs and brothels in many town centres; buying sex is becoming a common and widely accepted practice. This project uses prostitution as a tool to examine the sex industry on a face-to-face level. Focusing on the experience of people within the sex industry this project explores the sexualisation of our culture and what effect this constant performance has on its participants. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brian J. Morrison
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work is an exploration into the social aspects of British Gun club culture. In 1997 a firearms amendment outlawed all but muzzle loading and single shot pistols, the membership to British Shooting clubs dwindled. As with many things within contemporary society the unfashionable quickly becomes lost and the traditions of old soon turn to nostalgia. The walls of this club speak of a time gone; the faux wooden panels and the photographs proudly displayed offer an insight into “the good old days”. However to me this club spoke as much about an acceptance of their fate as it offered a reminder into the past. The unfashionable has already become nostalgic whilst still in existence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Rusling
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

We may feel that the multicultural diversity of the UK would allow all followers of any faith the right to worship. In the small town of Clitheroe however, this seems not to be the case. For some three decades or so the tiny Muslim community of the town have fought for their right to have a place of worship, and yet they have failed. That is until now. The community was finally granted planning permission to create a Mosque in the centre of the town recently, in what was once a Methodist church. The community still face opposition from local nationalists. The project documents the people involved in this struggle from inside of the Muslim community and outside of it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Scrivener
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My final project for my degree is a collaborative project with a designer, Daniel Welsh. I am photographing his handmade accessories in a way that is influenced by Dutch paintings, focusing on lighting and technique. As the project continues, I am going to commission him to make garments for me to photograph and I am going to take influence from Elizabethan paintings. I wanted these images to be very formal, and quite beautiful, but to have an element of shock once you realize what the accessories are made out of. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leah Simone
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I like to work with fashion and portraiture, mixing the two. I take photographs of interesting people, and interesting faces. I like to push boundaries with portraiture capturing different angles and styles. I like to make beautiful images of people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aimee Spinks
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

With an interest in fashion, I create work that takes inspiration from cinema and the surreal to create dramatic and often unsettling images. I often incorporate movement into my work and particularly like working with dancers and martial artists to create dynamic images that balance beauty with power. I enjoy working on large scale projects that continually challenge me technically and conceptually. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laimonas Stasiulis
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Buckshaw Village is a large scale re-development site located near Chorley, North West England. In 1998, British Aerospace has begun demolition work on previously situated Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), 928 acre site that supplied ammunition during World War II and after. 11 years later it remains in a paused state, with the majority of commercial warehouses closed down, houses still for sale and other land unused. In this project I wanted to show the sense of solitude and emptiness that you feel when travelling through the village, usually bombarded with billboards pitching the dream life and a great space to work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Wilson
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The Station is a place for moving, travelling and reaching destinations. It is a transient place with a constant flow and unrelenting activity: a commodity for roaming. A public commodity such as a large inner city Bus Station, which works to provide such a service could not exist without constant upkeep, maintenance and surveillance from its many members of staff. Each employee has a designated job or role, whether that be to clean, drive, manage or act as security; and without these roles the whole system itself would collapse and cease to function. This project explores Preston Bus Station and the many people that work within the building to create the efficient machine for travelling that it is. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karl Wootton
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Throughout my final year of work I have discovered a great interest in animal captivity and the controversies that surround it, specifically within the area of zoological parks. This interest has aided me in producing a series of photographs for my final year briefs that comment on the relationships between humans and non-human animals within this environment. During my final year I have endeavoured in my progression to a final body of work that illustrates my opposition to the keeping of captive animals within institutions such as the zoological garden or any of it’s close relatives (safari parks, petting zoos etc.). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melanie Clark
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

1 in 8 women in Britain are devastated by a breast cancer diagnosis. This body of work arose due to my own experience during university and evolved through collaboration with members from my local support group. Although we may share myriad emotions regarding the disease, treatment and ‘survivorship’ I have attempted to express the diverse feelings of the individual within the portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Gaiger
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work pays meticulous attention to a specific piece of land which was so attached to my experience of my formative years that I consider it above anywhere the instrumental landscape in my perception of 'home'. As a re exploration of this space, the work considers the sometimes difficult concept of home through evidence of habitats and traces of human activity within this small piece of land, my interest prompted by impending developments which threaten to turn the space, ironically, into a new housing estate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bryony Good
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These photographs taken from my home town explore my want to both recreate my memories from each landscape, as well as represent the mixed feelings I carry from my homeland. They convey both a sense nostalgia and claustrophobia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Axel Hesslenberg
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

After many years in the corporate world, I followed my heart and studied photography. These images are from a body of work made at an East Sussex vineyard. Within a broader context of climate change, contributing to more favourable conditions to grow vine in England, I was particularly interested in exploring a local environment. During my regular visits over 12 months it became apparent, that at the heart of Breaky Bottom, landscape, personal lives and business merge and become one, giving it its distinct and rich character. My images aim to express that. They are visual traces of my experience, an invitation to look, see and reflect about life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christine Hurst
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work takes a glimpse at the forgotten folklore and treatment surrounding Tuberculosis in the early 20th Century; in particular looking at the union between patient and nature in a woodland sanatorium. The sanatoria are no longer in existence, therefore this work seeks to portray a trace of something that is imagined rather than seen; making sense of a history that is invisible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yasmine Hussain
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Having grown up as half British half Iraqi with the majority of my family living abroad, (their location frequently changing), I have never been able to align myself with the restricting label of just one nationality. The location we come to call home may not be the one we are born in. We fall in love with places, and with people from places and these events all come to create our idiosyncratic nationality- a geographical identity. This idea is explored in this work ‘resettlers’ a collection of portraits, still life, landscape and found family imagery. The completed project and a much wider view of my work can be found on my website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sinclair Jaspard Mandy
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The works included here illustrate the range of styles and methods which define my approach to contemporary photography. In these works I have tried to combine traditional photographic and artistic working methods, with experimental and innovative ideas and processes. The resulting works are as varied as the methods: The project ‘Still Alchemy’ is an alchemical investigation into chemical based photographic techniques, the focus of the project is to interfere with the meticulous chemistry of the photograph, and to insert some direct human intention into this alchemical world. The project ‘Populous’ utilises more conventional photographic techniques to record a process of construction of structures in landscapes, where the photographs will bear witness to the relationship between the structure and its spatial surroundings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Laycock
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Motor Neurone Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, that creeps beneath the surface, slowly attacking the upper and lower motor neurones. Like a chameleon MND disguises, and mirrors other diseases. No way of knowing if that is what it is, or when it started. Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light is a project that explores the emotional terrain of my parent’s life as they come to terms with the pronouncement of my father’s Motor Neurone Disease. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vic Lentaigne
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work is about past decisions made by the young men photographed in regards to the selling of ones body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Marks
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Drawing on my own personal experience of adoption, this project explores the relationship between the people, places and objects that have become of importance in my life. The resulting combination of images create a portrait of who I am now and my life as it has become. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chelsea McCollum
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A body of work based on the location of my mothers ashes. Exploring the life found from the space and also the experience of growing new life from the existing soil. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lolly Orbell
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are taken from a body of work that explores the relationship between the documentary and constructed image. How can we differentiate between fact and fiction, truth and lie within photography? Every day living is putting on an act to some degree. "All the worlds a stage and all the men and women are merely players" (Shakespeare). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Sinclair
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The strained portraits are from a series about constriction of breathing and loss of control over my own body. My models experienced physical disempowerment as they hung upside down, held their breath for as long as possible and, at the very last second, I captured their involuntary response. The images themselves are displayed upright, giving the illusion of a traditional portrait. But subtle clues - expression, redness or a wisp of hair - reveal the truth of the model’s situation. The metaphor for my own feelings is revealed, drawing the viewer towards the underlying conceptual intention. Red Indian portraits are the end result, of a playful series about childhood and inherited memory from my father, through objects, stories and games. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Louise Taylor
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Missing you’ is a project between myself, my mother and my grandmother, three generations of women coping with the loss of my grandfather one year on. Each experiencing a different kind of love we are aiming to celebrate his life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Portia Webb
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series challenges and explores the romantic conception of the birth process. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Whiteman
Brighton University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Tower Colliery reopened in defiance of the large scale pit closure programme under the Thatcher Government following the year long miners' strike of 1984-5. Tower is the last deep mine in South Wales and the only Colliery in Europe that is owned by its workers. Its closure in 2008 marks the end of an era of hardship and bitter struggle but ultimately it tells a story of the strength of community spirit. The objects left behind have a narrative of their own which provide a glimpse into its proud history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sahed Ali
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Within my work I am interested in exploring ideas to do with migration. I draw inspiration from both personal experiences of individuals that I have known and people that I have not yet met. The tension between presence and absence is a strong point of interest for me, as well as considering the legal quandaries behind photographing immigrants, without compromising their identity or exploiting them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ilenia Bombardi
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My interest rests on the things that are overlooked. I take the ordinary and intensify it, trying to fix what would ‘be lost in time, like tears in the rain’. A range of different mediums is employed in my work; I use the tools and the tools use me in a sort of open collaboration, where the boundaries of control and surrender are dissolved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Valerie Driscoll
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work draws on Barthes frustration at the perception of photography as having a deictic function only. He says that a photograph is irrevocably linked to the subject being photographed, while a painting is often linked to the artist as it could solely be an artist’s construct. In re-examining personal domestic photography that is my means of shaping historical narratives and family archive, the referential relationship between photographer and subject is explored. In this construct an interdependent, co-dependence is revealed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Ford
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My practice revolves around relationships between the photographic image and historical events. A wide range of subjects and activities have an impact including cinema special effects, military camouflage and re-enactment societies. The work itself is imagined, constructed and destroyed within a garage which functions as both a source of materials and studio. The constructed sets are not intended to fool the audience or even hold a possibility of believability; instead they act as referent and invite the viewer to recall images or events, corresponding with what is being seen, often blending fact and fiction. Working from a single image and building the sets without reference, my actions are a working example of the influence photography has on memory and knowledge. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nanna Gudmundsdottir
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I make photographic work that explores light in all its form, from experimenting with artificial light to studying natural light. Concerned with the very basics of photography I aim to make work that is about looking and perception, and uses light to form images. My work is non-narrative, focusing on the instant, or gap, between the seen and unseen. Previous work includes studying the interaction of light and water; the way water can camouflage light and the different ways water reacts to light. My current work investigates the aspects of light through the effects of artificial light on the night sky. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Hammerl
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work evolves around intimacy and proximity and the seemingly opposed notion of presence and absence. 'The Best Kiss. 18°C. 3 am. August' addresses the intangibility of intimacy and the inevitable failure in describing an intimate moment. The documentation of the installation as a photographic work is as much part of the piece as the process of building, the effort of the re-construction itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Szabina Horvath
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is experimental of the image space by means of intertwining the subject of the photograph with the formal properties of my chosen presentation of it. By producing a highly controlled visual language, I am interested in the two poles of the literal and the poetic. These artworks communicate by means of installation, signifying visually created and observed space; or in other works indicating various aspects of representing an object. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Iacovou
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The focus of my work is how dreams act as a liminal space between night and day, and how the dream experience is said to be echoed in death. Some images allude to a sense of transition from one place to another, whereas others focus on how the self can be split between waking and dreaming. This is highlighted through the use of 'undead objects' – which the viewer initially is undecided on whether is real or unreal, dead or alive. The transformation of a domestic space is also an important element to my work; the every-day is presented together with the unfamiliar, creating a space which was once homely, but is now closer to being the opposite. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carita Laamanen
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work often starts with walking and wandering with a camera. I see being a traveller on foot as a microcosm of a mode of existence in the world where one is essentially homeless, where one is a stranger and a mere passer-by. The world, whether having turned into a landscape or cityscape, is experienced as something separate and both hostile and wonderful. The reoccurring theme of my work is the distance from people and the world alike which is reinforced by photography itself as a medium and as a way of thinking. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nandita Lovage
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images attempt to transcend the physical, the everyday, instead challenging the camera to capture a psychological journey. The photographs explore the relationship between a strived for ideal and reality; recording individual’s mental and physical struggles to meditate. Through photographing domestic as well as communal environments of prayer I have been keen to investigate the role space has on the subconscious. I am interested in attempts to photograph and video acts of prayer because of the seemingly unattainable nature of recording an internal world through the physical sphere. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karoliina Partanen
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am interested in exploring the physical possibilities of a photographic image and questioning the reproducible nature of the medium. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Searles
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My current practice explores the notion of Foucault's ‘heterotopia’; those spaces which exist within the everyday yet are somehow disconnected and disparate. Using London's canals and rivers as an example of 'other', I aim to highlight the tension between place and non-place, public and private. In particular, I am concerned with how the identity of these spaces shifts with changes in light. Using photography, film and installation projection, I use reflection and mirroring to explore the identity of the space, and to convey this sense of ‘other’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Smith
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The Faces in these photographs emerge from daydream and figures are suspended and contorted as the camera immobilises them. They are caught up in their own internal states of distress or loss of control. Alongside the psychological appearance of my work, the cyclical nature of time is also a subject that I return to. I draw similarities between the generations within my family photographs, in turn, creating a dialogue between past and present. I am interested in the idea that a photograph depicts the present that simultaneously becomes the past. By capturing figures in motion this idea is emphasised. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon White
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this project I’m exploring a number of interior spaces in their most simple, minimal, form. I photograph empty Darkrooms, because these are the most silent of all spaces. There is no sound of colour here; it is hushed, consumed into black. The only echoes that exist in the Darkroom resonate from the walls and floors, the subtle traces, scratches, dents, markings of a previous state that has been washed over by a thick black matter. There is little sense of time in the Darkroom, as light cannot move here, it is absorbed and locked within the walls. Surrounded by such states of suspension one begins to contemplate, simply on the sense of their own being. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Maria Wren
Camberwell College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Mixing the biographical with the constructed, the work explores the authenticity of photography’s role in capturing the ‘everyday’. The interruption of everyday moments through different means of artistic, theoretical and technical methodologies produces an effect and stillness that often makes apparent a connection with death: the reminder of what has been and what will become; what is or what will soon be no more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Baldwin
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

On arrival in the UK, Zimbabweans who have fled a country which has no respect for human rights and with thoughts of a new life end up with similarities such as unjust imprisonment and Government Policy. This can sometimes appear to be impenetrable. From one prison in one country to a detention centre in another. From a society where one is discriminated for their stand in politics to another where they are shown intolerance and misunderstanding of their origins. Often it is the media obsessed culture which creates an idea between 'them and us' leaving no room for 'them' to integrate into society. This is a documentary giving Zimbabweans a voice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kay Ashford
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

'A photograph is a secret about a secret' (Diane Arbus, 1923-1971). This series aims to explore the complex nature of self, the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. The appearance of the landscape can be illusive, obscure or confusing, unsure of whether you are heading into the darkness of night or waking into the freshness of a new day. A parallel for the state of mind; the realisation that emotions are just transient. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shameela Beeloo
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Concerned about the way that most food is now mass-produced. I chose to document a food production factory that used food produce grown locally to the region. However, the photographs show no evidence of the food product. Nor is there much evidence of human activity onsite. This is because the majority of the factory is fully automated and engineers are only called out if there is a problem with the machinery. My concept developed from documenting food production into realising what the world has really become. We have moved away from working directly with human beings, from using locally grown food produce, into a world where machinery and industry has taken over. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Curtis
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Escalating urbanization, commercialism and detrimental pollution continuously remain prominent in the involvement to devastate the rural idyll. Contemporary societal alterations resulting in less aspiration and desire for natural areas, form the growth of urban development culture. I have studied the land that nature still claims as its own, where human intervention has not yet taken it in greed and the landscape has sculptured its own form. From the winding and protruding branches of decade old tree formations, to the gentle soft seascape of a coastal nature reserve. The message remains underlying in each image, capturing the views that may soon be found only on photographs and held merely in memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Jasper
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work reflects my thoughts on life being a certain ‘passage through time’, I see life stretch in a string of stories, and I create photographic stories to demonstrate my thoughts and experiences. My work stretches from my childhood and how I interpreted life then, and how the interpretation has changed now I am an adult. I enjoy working with medium format colour film, but I am not prejudice to working with digital as well, and most of my recent work has been digital based. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Kingsnorth
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am an experimental photographer and digital artist who enjoys working in a broad range of media. This project, 'We Shadows', captures the ghostly fleeting forms of travellers on the London Underground; a world in flux where everything is moving or in anticipation of motion. These traditionally printed multiple-exposures freeze the ethereal silhouettes of the people we pass, but know nothing about: shadows of people. My current work has evolved from this idea, how would my subjects have reacted if they had realised they were being photographed? The outcome of this major project is 'SEE': a new media installation exploring 'interactive photography', the image-spectator relationship and our culture of surveillance, through creative computing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Meyland
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this series I wanted to investigate the relationship of a place and our connection to it, be it the child, youth or adult you are today. I wanted to reinvestigate places that I find significant, places that I went as a child and remember. It is in that remembering that this idea was formed, to tamper, alter, add to a landscape and change its structure and form by installing something into it. This makes the viewer question its purpose and try to understand further its importance and relevance to me as a photographer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola Ann Naylor
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt" (Susan Sontag, 'On Photography', 1971). Through my understanding of the photograph’s ability to capture moments that will eventually be lost to the past, I have created a body of work that appreciates the unspectacular moments of the everyday. Due to my constant awareness of my own mortality I photograph to express my appreciation of life and of those closest to me. My images explore the human as an organic form and express the fragility of this condition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Naomi Peel
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work explores the relationship between autobiography, the family album and memory. By utilising imagery of places that have been of particular resonance throughout my life or that have provoked the subconscious alongside existing family images allows me to explore the fragility of life and the ways we hold on to the past and try to preserve the present. My work is a visual autobiographical account that interprets my childhood dreams and memories and examines both the historical and social aspects of photography within a familial framework creating a dialogue with the past and a connection with the present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Rowney
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Since their murders, the Romanov royal family have been the subject of much debate. They are often viewed as romantic figures, and many people are inspired by their story. My concept depicts each member of the Romanov family in their final moments. The series is meant to be symbolic and beautiful. I do not want to create a historical set of images, but rather I want to partner the historical elements with a more contemporary nature. I want each character to be viewed in the prime of their life, strong, beautiful and elegant. I want there to be no fear or uncertainty. I want strength and pride to show through. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Silk
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘The Last Panorama’ focuses on locations where people have taken their own lives. Presenting these images as large panoramic’s encourage the viewer to immerse themselves in the scene, allowing the opportunity to imagine the perspective of a person considering suicide and to get a feel of the landscape in front of them. However, I didn't want to show the landscapes as being bleak and lonely, instead I have tried to present them as they can be seen by any passerby. Viewing the images without prior knowledge of the sinister connotations, the locations allows us to question why an individual makes the decision to step off the edge whilst surrounded by so much natural beauty? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joy Stacey
Cambridge School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work documents the Gandhi influenced non-violent protest movement in the occupied West Bank, focusing on Bethlehem. A 12-foot concrete wall, built by the Israeli’s to control Palestinian movement in the name of anti-terrorism, surrounds Bethlehem. On Palm Sunday a group of around 150 protesters marched through the wall, through Bethlehem’s Checkpoint 300, which had been left unguarded. They marched towards Jerusalem in protest of the heavy restraints on access to the city for worship; this was the first time a protest group had broken through since the wall was built. 15 people were arrested, and this work documents the experiences of 9 Palestinians who were detained for 4 days as a result of their involvement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marie Galanti
University of the Arts London - Central St. Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The human is primarily an emotional being, who occasionally uses reason to his/her advantage. Throughout history, emotion and rationality have been seen as opposing forces. Emotion being regarded as a less worthy condition in the rational world. Concepts like gastronomy, eroticism, and body care have emerged and tended to sublimate the fulfilment of our primary needs and transform them into rituals and cultural objects. In addition, technical innovations and virtual communication have been inserting the whole common life and been playing an important role in how nowadays, humans manage their emotions and desires. While our way of life is increasingly complex, my work seeks to reveal the vital essence of humanity in connection with our primal and animal needs and instincts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kristina Kostadinova
University of the Arts London - Central St. Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Pantheon Buzludja 1981. Built in memory of two heroic epochs: 1878-Liberation of Bulgaria after 5 century slavery and 1944-antifascism victory. The House Monument of Bulgarian Communist Party is the biggest ideological monument in Bulgaria. 16 million levas (8 million euro) were collected from the nation as "donations" for constructing the monument. In 1991 the monument, which still belonged to the ex-communist party, was surrendered, abandoned and left to self-destruction and not only. In Bulgaria, there are more than 150 monuments built between 1945 to 1989 by the Bulgarian Communist Party. Most of the them, dedicated to the Soviet Army and the Communist rebellion. Some have been taken down to pieces by bombs and fire guns. Used to be front-and-center, giant remnants stand out still spectral but ownerless and invisible. No evidence of memory... . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martina Langschartner
University of the Arts London - Central St. Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The series ‘absence/presence’ is part of a bigger body of work with the title ‘Hackney Shoots’. The whole project deals with gun crime in my London neighbourhood. Absence/presence is about my anxiety towards hidden guns carried on the streets. Hiding in my natural environment is an attempt to get out of the way of any trouble happening outside my doorstep. These images are combined with shots in which I try to visualize the feeling of knowing that there are guns out there but it’s impossible to pinpoint them. The whiteness of these pictures reflects the fact that most shootings happen in broad daylight. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eva Napp
University of the Arts London - Central St. Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In my work I am exploring the private/intimate and public/commercial aspects of sexuality and relationships, previously investigating the world of swinger clubs and brothels – places that are created and used for sex; places that offer frames for a fantasy world where everyone can play and live out their secrets. For my final project I travelled around Germany to visit various sex trade shows where everyone – amateur and professional photographers alike – can come and photograph the striptease and live sex shows that are happening on stage. While it’s not a critique on the objectification of women it’s about documenting the fascination that these men have with naked women and their vigorous ways of capturing and collecting these performances. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gosia Nierodzinska
University of the Arts London - Central St. Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In my practice I am interested in re-using the existing photographic material, like family photographs, or extracting still images from the films. I am interested in the sculptural potential of photography. To realize the project 'My Father Lives in the USA' I used the original photos from the years 1986-91, which my father was sending me from the Unites States. I chose the ones, where my father was portraying himself on beaches, ships and bridges, as water is something, which geographically lies between us. By cutting his figure out I am stressing his absence in my life, but also his status as an illegal emigrant. The title is derived from a mixture of pride and longing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eva K. Salvi
University of the Arts London - Central St. Martins - MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is highly autobiographical. I like to tell stories that leave room for interpretation. By leaving some clues here and there in my images, I like to think of those images as visual riddles that one would like to solve. I am very much inspired by the unconscious and the strange. By exposing myself in these images and by hiding behind the symbolic of the image itself, I give the viewer enough insight to see right through me as if I was giving them all the elements to get into my intimacy, deliberately knowing that they do not have the code necessary to translate and understand all those elements and fully solve this visual interrogation. My images could be stills from a film you start watching half way through. I strive to recreate that feeling you get when you have missed the beginning and try to figure out what the story might be all about, you just want to press play to see what happens afterwards. What if you cannot? You are left with those images with no past or no future, those isolated moments that tell you a story with no beginning and no end. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alison Axworthy
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am fascinated by the exploration of forbidden spaces. I photograph abandoned, derelict buildings. ‘No Entry’ sign? Doesn't bother me. Beauty is there to be enjoyed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cherelle Dutton
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My photographs are the result of my exploration in and around the city of Liverpool. I document areas of Liverpool that are soon to disappear due to the ever-changing cityscape, my intention being to build up a collection that can be used as a historical reference. I try to capture representations of weather-worn buildings that were once used and populated but are now left to decay in advance of regeneration strategies. As well as capturing these places I am also attempting to hold onto the memories which they contain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kimberley Haggis
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as a snail leaves its slime.” (Francis Bacon, 1955) I believe this quote by Francis Bacon applies to my work as I am focused on capturing movement and the patterns and traces that movement creates within a specific space and timeframe. I am concerned with how we perceive movement. To capture sequences of movement I use long exposures. Without the camera and the use of long exposure we would never see these forms. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Hayes
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is involves un-posed portraiture, almost snapshot like. I wanted to capture a person’s natural appearance: the way they move, facial expressions when they talk, mannerism’s etc. Initially I photographed strangers. I set my camera up in the town centre and photographed people as they went by. This resulted in the subjects being blurred in movement - abstract almost. I then went onto document a people a little more thoroughly. Later I set up a number of different cameras in the studio with multiple points of view of the same model. These images work collectively and also in their own right. In the contact sheets it shows the repetition of our movements and the slight differences. I used black and white so as to not detract from these details. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Howell
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I’m not only interested in creating photographs that tell some kind of a story but I am interested in provoking a reaction in the viewer. My photographs show a young woman who is lost. Lost can mean many different things and there is no clear story behind them. It is left up to the viewer to imagine what may have happened. My work is meant to create a feeling of unease and maybe even confusion as to what is going on. Taking the photographs at night was crucial for me, also using studio lights to illuminate the lost figure. I am strongly influenced by Film Noir, and psychological horror films. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikki Kelley
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is a collection of found objects from my grandparents' house, and also the photomontage of some of their old family album photographs. Photomontage combines my original ideas with the latest work I have decided to focus on, and follows the intervention of someone else's photographs. It is something that intrigues me to look at because the photographs originate back to the 1920's and obviously being a time when I was not around it is interesting to see what was created back then. However, being a medium I was able to get my hands on, and reproduce in a more artistic way, I could say I have put my own stamp on old family photographs, more than anything that was performed when my grandparents originally took the photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Knop
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work has constantly involved architecture and my fascination with the urban environment. The built environment consists of the construction of the social spaces which are defined by architectural forms. These spaces can change a person’s sensibility. The forms for this impact I believe are the shape, materials and colour that make up a structure. Understanding architectural space can lead to a deeper understanding between architecture, art and experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Lockhart
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In my photography practice I have become interested in the notion of nostalgia and the suggestion that life and death are related to the everyday. For me it is interesting to think about longevity and whether or not there is a purpose in how long an object should last in life. I have shot these images on a Holga 120 camera to give the feeling of an aging or dreamlike sensation. It is important to get that emotive connection in the photograph, which also adds to the coarseness of the environment in which these objects are situated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Merrick
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Privacy, protection, voyeurism and the representation of youth are recurring themes within my work. The transition between adolescence and adulthood is a period providing protection from responsibility whether it comes from another person, place or time; or more conceptually, concealed by the darkness at night, or sequestered by being submerged in water. Liberation is also key, embracing spontaneity yet not being able to escape the feeling of being lost in an ethereal state. Intrigue and ambiguity is encouraged through the restriction of how much of a body the viewer can see, disembodying the human form draws the viewer into the narrative, questioning the line between the factual and surreal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Ann Morgan
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The main aim of my work is to inspire people to be imaginative. My interest is to develop some sort of narrative in my work. As I am highly interested in crime scene photography, I would like to think the audience would imagine a chilling story where something has happened at the location of my images. The fact that something chilling may or may not have happened at the location is all down to what the audience believes and how imaginative they are. I chose the Holga as my means of photography because I love the uniqueness and dream like effects, which give the image a mysterious feel. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth A Morgan
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My fascination with using photography to capture forms and shapes created by light, has inspired this body of work. These images are a series of experimental pieces on the theme of light. How it interacts with people and objects, to capture passing moments created solely for the camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Faye Parsons
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In my photographic practice I have found the portrayal of women and the depiction of mental illness especially significant. Inspired by those who create narratives with the use of constructed sets, and also by the Freudian theories on women and object affection that I researched in the theoretical side of my work. These photographs have been made through a personal understanding of psychological disorders. Each image represents a different illness and the concepts derive from exploring the juxtapositions between the strength and dominance in the fashion industry and the fragility and poor health of many models. Alongside this, they also make reference to a broader context of mental illness within women, even if not overtly obvious to the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Riches
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Architecture can be viewed from a multitude of different angles and in my work I have chosen to show this and take my photographs from unconventional angles. I’m looking less at architectural buildings as a whole and focusing more on specific elements, such as the more formal aspects of the image, which includes the linear geometry which characterises them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Sheerin
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Reflection and contemplation are processes of memory in everyday life. Most often we think of memory as constituting our consciousness and one’s self-awareness, as the means by which we identify our history and define our past experiences. In the images for this series I asked each subject to think of a memory; I do not ask the sitter what they have reflected upon, as it is their past and personal memory. It is therefore left to the viewer to imagine what the individual is remembering whilst being photographed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kimberley Tucker
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is concerned with the moments of contemplation when waiting whilst travelling. These situations and experiences sometimes reveal emotions and loneliness. This ongoing project consists of a range of photographs which concentrate mainly on vulnerable individuals isolated in settings amongst crowds of strangers. In recent photographs I have staged scenes, which form the latter part of my project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Turner
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My documentary images depict a disused Birkenhead docks which is being reclaimed by nature. I have highlighted areas where buildings are becoming engulfed by plants and the floors were being overrun by grass and roots. I am also exploring compositions which highlight a social division between what remains of the Birkenhead docks and the parallel skyline of the city of Liverpool. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Timothy Weeks
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

'The Life of Chainsaw Joe' is an installation documenting something that no longer exists. My work reveals the life of a reclusive character known as R.B Stafford. Somebody who barricaded himself within his well defended scrap yard, segregating himself from society and forced to endure a life of hardship and discord. In the summer of 2008 Stafford committed suicide; my work is an attempt to understand the reason behind committing such an act. Through the use of photographs and other ephemera and artifacts, such as general belongings, poetry, letters and newspaper clippings, I have created an overview of an individual’s history. A personal history that would have otherwise been lost and forgotten to the regeneration of our ever-changing environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Birkett
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Dead letters are letters that cannot be delivered to the addressee or returned to sender. These photographs come from a body of work, which is essentially a dead letter in itself – a piece made by myself for my grandmother in an attempt to come to terms with her death. Through a series of self-portraits and photographs representing memories and thoughts I struggled to let go of, ‘Dead Letters’ comprises images and text in a piece that is both about the process of letting go of someone close to you and accepting their death, whilst simultaneously being the means by which I achieve this end. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Burke
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Meeting Again is a body of work documenting landscape overlooking the Western seaboard. A personal response to revisiting the home of my grandparents, the work seeks to demonstrate how the landscape invokes a reconnection with the past, using the changing colour, direction and patterns of light to relay the passage of time. Photographing the landscape in its illuminated beauty unearths further themes worthy of interrogation. By utilising a pictorial method of stepping back from the landscape the audience are invited to reflect on the contradictions that such a land offers; ethereal beauty, loss, and decline. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lena Cronin
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Journey into Image is a combination of image and text. The work explores the lives of four people and attempts to interpret their defining interest or passion. It focuses on the interplay between desire, meaning and creative expression, the meeting point of the conscious and unconscious, inner and outer reality. It rests on the supposition that there is no one portrait of the individual, but myriad images wherein we may glimpse the complexity of the human condition. The subject’s use of space and colour are key considerations in this portrayal of the inner dynamics of the psyche and its external representation. The photographer’s journey and the complexity of photography as both a challenging and generous medium form the underlying narrative. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eoghan Cullen
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project aims to put into practice the theories of Laura Mulvey especially her identification of a Pensive Spectator, who through the use of new digital technologies and their ability to disrupt the flow of traditional narrative cinema may reveal more than is possible at twenty four frames a second. The exposition of the photogram enables cinema to re-establish its link to photography and to restore some of the complexity that writers such as Roland Barthes felt were lacking, especially in regard to its forward drive obscuring the possibility of a cinematic punctum. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christina Ebel
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work is an intimate interrogation of a mother-daughter relationship, its past and present through the process of taking photographs. The artist has been affected significantly in her personal development by the loss of her mother for an extended period during her childhood. The slow process of reconnecting with her mother has lead to a delicate new relationship between the two women. Photography has always played a part in the recreation of their bond. In the images the performance in front of the camera is a re-enactment of significant emotions and thoughts in visual form. In the self-portraits the artist puts herself into an intense emotional state in order to convey these feelings through actually living through them again. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Haugh
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"I had forebodings of all the separations, the refusals, the desertions to come, and of the long succession of my various deaths" (Simone De Beauvoir, 'Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter', 1958). I have become increasingly interested in states and sites of change and transformation particularly in relation to gender and sexuality. In her influential book Gender Trouble (1990) Judith Butler describes homosexuality as a state of un-liveable passion and un-grievable loss. The implied cloaked immediacy of homosexual passion and the melancholy and nostalgia associated with loss are at the heart of this work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rob Hunt
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Joining the Scouts is, for many kids, the first big step into a wider, wilder world than they previously knew. Taken from the comfort of their homes and placed into relative wilderness and discomfort, the Scouts are forced into a position of responsibility and independence not usually imposed until a later age. This work focuses on the challenges faced by the kids by integrating them into a wider landscape to provide a visual representation of the mountains they must climb in their journey toward adolescence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Johanne Keane
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Species endeavors to explore the relationship between man and animal in relation to man’s dominance over animals. This work is researched and produced in a series of interrelated projects, which explore the human relationship with animals in two ways. The first is our close relationship with animals as a result of evolution, how we are in fact animals ourselves. The second part takes a contemporaneous look at our relationship with animals and at how humans have so much power over the animals we are related to. Man is the weaker species, yet because of his specific journey in evolution he has better adapted to this world. Man has distanced himself from his animal-self and has won the battle of brain over brawn and dominated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Conor McManus
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is based around the idea of the empty spaces in new residential areas. The spaces allude to an alienation of the areas because of a downturn in the housing market. Some have become “Ghost Estates”. The majority of bulidings are empty. Analysts have determined that Ireland would have many vacant buildings coming into 2010 due to the massive amount of construction work being undertaken and the lack of purchasing. The National Asset Management Agency has now taken control of some of these empty or unfinished estates and plan to demolish some of them due to the fact that people can no longer afford to either continue building the estates or people cannot afford to buy a new property. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rob O'Connor
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘The Uncanny’ presents images that are, at once, familiar and strange. At first glance, the photographs appear real but on closer inspection, something is most definitely awry. This uncanny feeling is a product of viewing the images as a whole but these images are themselves a product of complex capturing, staging and editing techniques. People were photographed on the street, over a three week period, then composited into a suburban enviroment. The repetition of that familiar quality of the subjects reminds us of our conformity to societal norms and expectations and that our cultural existence is actually a complex defence mechanism, protecting us from our repressed fears. The images demand further scrutiny and compel the viewer into a hermeneutic relationship with them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aoife O'Donnell
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Art and science are moving towards each other, enabling both disciplines to discover common issues and methods. While the outcome of studies in art and science often differs, the creative imaginative processes are similar. Micro Portraits locates connections between the arts and science through borrowed methods and collaborations. The project is concerned with alternative imaging techniques used in laboratories and the element of non-human intervention in creating imagery. Consequently the photographer is using microscopes to specifically record images of cells, tissue, hair follicles, DNA, and various other microscopic elements that make us distinguishable from each other. The images prompt the viewer to consider the transformations and changes occurring inside the body at a microscopic level. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christine Redmond
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The aim of this project is to inject some humour into the banality of everyday life. Twenty-six words have been chosen from urban dictionary and will be visually reconstructed in a visual dictionary. The words chosen are representaive of today's consumer culture and the daily practices that are intrinsically linked. The project primarily is about engaging with the viewer and creating a new meaning for accepted norms. The project is also concerned with educating the viewer on new words and activities that evolved from digital communication. This project pokes fun at the white collar worker, the couch potato and the academic achiever, all in satirical, good humour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brendan Ryan
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project explores the areas of bog located in northeast Tipperary and documents there current state, while some areas remain places of industry, evidence of the lands extinction is never far away. Current figures estimate that this landscape will be totally exploited within 15 years. Proof of My Existence engages with the current issues facing this contested landscape, as its total depletion is imminent along with its placement in history. As the landscape is depleted along with its attached myth this series aims to question the temporal nature contained with the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gillian Carey
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"We cannot negate subject, it is everywhere so we must be lucid toward what is going on in the world and honest about what we feel" (Henri Cartier Bresson). A quiet collection of moments and places that will loosely tell you about waiting and the vulnerability that comes with youth and naivety. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Crichton
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I began the project ' I started to laugh...' in sept 09. Working in a loose, subconscious style with the intention of capturing raw, intimate and sometimes spontaneous moments in time. Experimenting with different subject matter as I'm interested in the relationship between people, objects and nature. In terms of the aesthetic, the physical and the emotional. The images I have made for this series are nostalgic. I am photographing people that I want to hold on to, who are important to me, who have had an effect on my life and who I can't be with all the time. The colours I use in my images are extremely important. They are soft, muted and quiet. For me this feels comfortable. The other elements I have photographed such as still-life's, animals and landscapes for me are all related to one another. However these images also when viewed singularly are symbolic and the still-lives and landscapes are representations of the human condition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amelie Fowler
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work titled “A Vague Resolve” is a collection of images portraying the complicated uncertainties that take place behind every decision that I make which are accentuated by the freedom to choose. The images are a personal representation of this, which is intended to be a journey through my mind presented in a dream-like manner. This piece was created using narrative concepts combined with subtle symbolism to represent the physical thought process that takes place in the brain. As an example, the trees are symbolic of the neurons from within my brain; these lead my character through the images as a journey of choice and possibility, and at times become chaotic and unresolved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katy Gallacher
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work usually surrounds themes of a personal nature because the images that I create happen quite instinctively. I am drawn to the experimental techniques that can be used in photography; therefore I tend to focus more on an interesting aesthetic rather than subject matter. I am inclined to pick out details in places or objects that I find interesting, using the natural light to give the images an atmospheric quality, the compositions of which tend to occur naturally around this. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Jay Harvey
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I believe that my photography is grounded in what it is to be human. My piece, 'Finite', is concerned with the space the images occupy and the experience of witnessing the work. My book project is a series of 5 diptychs that are a direct response to my partners ongoing recovery from cancer and the uncertainty of the future our family faces. It tackles the relationship between being betrayed by our own body and the landscape we are forced to inhabit within it. My final piece of work this year deals with belief and how it can be influenced. In doing this I have procured 100 U.F.O. images that are presented along with their negatives to re-enforce their authenticity in a digital age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirsty Reynolds
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Var Var Vunderschfar’ (Life is wonderful) David Reynolds Var Var Vunderschfar is a personal project that explores the many sides to my dad’s character. Using snapshot photography I aimed to capture life as it happens. The snapshot style exemplifies the raw, spontaneity of the work; this is real life encapsulated. The work addresses themes of maturity, relationships, happiness, loneliness and routine; themes and emotions that are universal. The work is to provoke a contrast of emotions; I wish for the viewer to laugh sometimes and reflect at others. Will the audience come away thinking Var Var Vunderschfar? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Reynolds
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Two snippets - The first work is from 'Moss Garden' - shot in Croatia, I take multiple pictures in the same space and arrange them altogether to posit relations between people estranged from each other by their pursuit of leisure. The second work is called 'This is not a Bank' and is a comment on the bizarre expansion of Scottish Financial institutions. It is also influenced by the work of Adnan Haaj (my favourite photographer) and the postmodern relation to 'truth'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Waddington
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Typology of 24 baths with audio interviews. The same place I bathed with my cousins and brother as a young child is the same place I shared with my teenage sweetheart, is the same place I lie hung over in my mid-twenties. That is my parents bath. A similar vessel can be found in most houses, providing us with the curious opportunity to be held in water in a private space. Special things may be facilitated here. If you are small enough, the sloped back becomes a slide. If you have a bleeding wound, the bath will help keep things clean. If you hold a cup in the right place, you can catch flatulence. If your muscles ache, submerge your self in warm water and that might help. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzanne Delaney
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The notion of portraiture has always been a driving force behind my work. By taking multiple approaches I am aiming to capture and represent stories of everyday life. Within one series, the portraits are taken of people in their homes, surrounded by their belongings, offering the viewer a glimpse into their personal life. My other approach involves the figure in the context of a staged setting, using multiple subjects and placing them within unfamiliar surroundings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zhenwei Huang
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I believe that artists view the world differently, and photography is about much more than just taking pictures, it’s about showing people your way of seeing the world and having something to say. Photography for me is a way to express, communicate, reflect and imagine. I am fascinated by chance and experiment in photography. Poetry, experimentation and emotion are important elements in my work. They are from my inner world, and I try to create my work using a way that is implicative, metaphoric and symbolic. Art is a passion to those who choose to study it. I believe that I really do put my heart and soul into my work and push myself that extra mile. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Polina Laposeva
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This is a small scale project on publicity and privacy. Nowadays it’s very easy to “look” into another person’s life and hard not to be “looked at”. Where is the border between what’s public and what’s private? Or is there one after all? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mido Lee
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Jessie and I are both 22 years old. We are both adults, but we are not mature. We are the girls with dreams. She wants to be a model and I want to be a photographer. Girls are beautiful but complicated. Girls are easily wounded. When people look at this girl they feel like they are looking into a mirror. In the world of girls, everything is inverse, like living in Alice in Wonderland. Try to treat a girl as gentle as picking a newborn flower. That was what we want and what we desire. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marcel Pedragosa
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The photographic work of Marcel Pedragosa presents reality from a distinctly personal point of view. With his sense of aesthetics and ease for formal composition, each of Marcel’s pieces maintains a balance that allows a leisurely exploration of the relationship between people and their direct environments. Such a broad artistic orientation accommodates a constant scrutiny of the immediate world and brings the fleeting moment to the forefront of Marcel’s photography. Barcelona born and raised, Marcel possesses an innate understanding of cities and the artistic opportunities they present. He has captured images in varied settings around the world, though he is most drawn to urban environments, where his photography unfolds with considerable richness. Marcel currently lives in the UK, where he is developing his photography in relation to urban spaces and culture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Stentaford
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A constant state of change exists in our everyday environment. The built environment reveals many of the changes brought on by economic recession, changes in how communities come together, loss of industry and varying population. The commonality of the effects that transition has on the built environment and remnant landscapes intrigues me. The increased areas of disuse, re-invented space and efforts of regeneration all present me with a vehicle to explore the idea of transition. I am attracted to the classification and investigation of change, absence and place via comparisons and associations. My intention is to use these ideas to examine the existing state of everyday subjects in transition and present the viewer with something out of context, less familiar, and new. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Qi You
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This group of photos was taken for my beloved. However, for reasons, we are not together now. On the day when I knew this was the end of our relationship, she and I sat drinking wine. The sudden message made me sad. I cannot forget the scene. I wished she would move to the city where I lived. I wished to promenade on my favorite places with her and drink wine with her, together. Therefore, these photographs represent the places I wish to share with her. Although the wish may never come into true, I want to tell her “wherever you are, or who ever you love, the place in front of me is left just for you, forever.” . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chihiro Yuasa
Edinburgh College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

At ordinary times, you unconsciously look at objects or people around you, but this may involve the subconscious gazing at the world. It could be said that sometimes people gaze voyeuristically at others in such a fashion. I am in this image. You, the viewer, are looking at me. I don’t believe people look at anything without some curiosity. My work must interest you, simply because you are looking at it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzanne Boak
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Focusing on bridging the gap between photography, craft and art I have used a number of objects or scenes to express my current feelings in regards to my future. Communicating a series of options or situations in life that may be available to me as a young British woman, these images deal with notions of journeys, routes, containment, restriction and expectation. Each photograph depicts what I feel may be available to me, from graduating university to getting married or having children. The images are faded to enhance the fragility of the objects and the uncertain future that lies ahead of me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elspeth Gunnery
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The concept of Marvelling was inspired by Martin Heidegger who wrote Being and Time that deals with early theories of what place is. Marvelling is Heidegger’s term for Wondering, with doing a Landscape based project and being on the road the term fitted the project title. The website documents the journey taken by myself along the North Northumberland Coastline starting at Cove, Eyemouth, Tweedmouth and Alnmouth. Whilst marvelling through these places I felt I was following footsteps of history laid down by Smugglers through the landscape. The purpose of the website is to open up a wider audience, not only this it will allow the project to expand in the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yoshi Kametani
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I have been working on a project called Plastic Spoon that began in September of 2006. This project is a documentation of my relationship with the people and the landscape of Muirhouse, a working class scheme in Edinburgh, UK. Plastic Spoon consists of a collecting of video and audio recordings, artefacts, along with the photographs. This method gives me a greater understanding of the moments that I have been involved with. The material also allows me to recreate my reality in a more precise way. Plastic Spoon is a subjective representation of my reality that dose not claim to convey any absolute universal truths. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tessa Kerrs
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Positive self-representation is a desirable attribute that is increasingly rewarded within modern society. As individuals, we have a great deal of pressure to appear publically acceptable and untarnished. Trying to live up to these expectations conflicts with what it is to be human: our animal instinct versus social propriety. The results of this conflict are detrimental on both physical and mental health. For this reason I believe it imperative to express emotion and stop wearing a smile as a mask. “It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.” (Nietzsche) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aleksandra Kocela
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My body of work focuses on animal instincts of women. It illustrates various instinctive activities, for instance, feeding, animal fighting, and animal courtship behaviour. I am interested in conveying behaviours that are unlearned and inherited but also these patterns of behaviours that are placed upon women by the society. Women are being heavily identified with animals within our culture. It leads to objectifying portrayals of women. Symbolical associations of women with animals assist with their oppression. My images question this societal order and its hypocrisy. Moreover, these photographs comment on a staged photography and its artificiality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sumieya Kouser
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The western media is often seen as a source of information for the public on everyday world events. As the industry has grown the institutions resemble the entertainment businesses that are focused on keeping their ratings and profits high whilst maintaining a heavy influence on the publics opinions on current events. My work comments on the aspects of the media that is not highlighted often enough through combinations of still life objects with the aesthetics of commercial photography. The empty space around the objects is left for the viewer to add their own caption, however they may read it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rowan Lear
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

One morning a thin envelope containing several old black and white photographs dropped through my letterbox. In one, a girl and boy smile at the camera, the boy cheekily; the girl shyly. I recognise myself and my brother. The cat clutched in the girl’s arms was our cat Merry. The field in which they stand is close to one of my childhood homes. My father is just out of sight fixing a fence. Looking closely I realise that the girl is also my mother... Rowan Lear is developing a language with which to explore the relationships between photographs and people, and investigate photography as a means of recollecting, relocating and reconstructing memory and identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kristina Milic Thompson
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Last night I finally packed. I was leaving for two weeks. In my bag was my journal with some photographs and a map. The map was of Belgrade and the photographs were of my father. Growing up in the states, my father would tell me stories of Belgrade. Where he lived, what he did, his friends, and why he left. He lived there almost 50 years ago… I went to look for his stories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Nanson
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

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Mateusz Noniewicz
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Where is my home? Where do I belong? These are the questions that have been troubling me most since I left my home country in 2003. In my final project I approached two groups of people: those that had left their country for financial reasons and those who have spent most of their lives as emigrants due to the WWII. The war made the latter group leave their homes and the development of the political situation made it impossible for them to go back for many years. I asked them all where their home is and where they belong and each one of them had a different answer. And these are their portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan David Smyth
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

When we were kids and the weather started to improve in the early summer months, my family and I would have our Sunday lunch in the back yard. Although the weather was pleasant, there was always an annoying breeze, so my sisters and I would complain how cold we were and ask to go back inside. My Dad would get angry, saying how lucky we were to be able to sit outside and have lunch. He’d look up into the sky and say, ‘with weather like that, you wouldn’t need to go away’. This body of work investigates summertime at home in Britain and how the good weather can affect and change our lifestyle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mike Steven
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The equal fragility of both the built and natural environment fascinates me, and focusing on the Palladian ruin of Mavisbank House, I am exploring the building's long and intriguing history. From a beacon of wealth, art and music at the height of the Scottish Enlightenment, to a burnt out shell used as a car dump, and frequently vandalised, the building and its grounds have faced many changes over the last 285 years. The house has, however, remained a constant in the valley it sits, with small traces of its history remaining. It is these traces I am exploring, recreating glimpses into its past. ‘Long may the honours of thy age, Be reverenc'd in decay!’ - Inscription upon Mavisbank. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Taylor
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is based on the island of Cumbrae, on the West Coast of Scotland. The cafe documented is called The Ritz, an institution on the island. Having opened in 1958 and keeping the same decor for 52 years, it is thought of fondly by residents and visitors alike. With retirement looming, the owner has somewhat reluctantly decided to put the cafe on the market. The project plays with the juxtaposition of the cafe waiting to be sold and places of waiting and moments of pause around the island. As the cafe is full of bright, garish colours, the images of other areas around the island include bright colours to help emphasize the connection between the cafe and its location. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Wong
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography & Film
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is based on conceptual ideas playing on interpretation and meaning of the image. Adopting the ideas of dreams and fantasy from surrealism, I like to explore the edges of interpretations and how the images are received by viewers. These ideas are conveyed with abstract ideals and which are both created and staged either in front of the camera or after the shutter and closed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Aiken
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“We are only human in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.” David Abram ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’ Back Home to Adamah questions the relationship between humanity and the animate natural world, the collision of man and nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander Baliey
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." — Charles Bukowski I do not believe that I am good (whatever that means), its just that they are so many bad people in the world, doing bad things, producing bad things. Many, many of them can be seen here. I look at them and some days they get to me, other days I get to them but most of the time I feel numb so I don’t care. Forgive me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Balmer
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Why as a society do we feel no responsibility towards the waste we produce? We buy so many things we don’t need and have no regard for where it came from or where it goes. The way we personally deal with waste seems to be ‘out of sight out of mind’, so through my images I am trying to bring the subject of waste back into sight and try to encourage people to think more about how much they produce and how they can reduce it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Banks
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series of images acts as a comment on our attitude towards nature. As a society we sit on the brink of a turning point for the future of our environment; we have the capabilities to either save it or destroy it. I am particularly interested in showing a contemporary view of our power over nature, which through my typological approach to Cornwall’s plant industry I aim to emphasise. This has also led me to Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank project, an underground bunker currently containing seeds for 10% of the world’s plants and acting as a lifeline to protect endangered species. Through the contrast of both consumerism and conservation I wish to emphasise that we, as a whole, must act. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Barrett
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

An exploration into the world of surveillance and how we are captured on CCTV cameras almost everywhere we go. A CCTV monitor can be still for a long period of time, its very emptiness becomes a form of suspense, a source of unease waiting in anticipation for a crime to be committed. The pleasure from gazing at these monitors becomes a hypnotic trance like staring out of a window. My previous exploration into the world of film has led me to combine these two subjects, discovering new ways to emphasis the reality of public surveillance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Naomi Bergau
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My project is a reflection on my migration from Germany to England as a young child. Through revisiting the country I come from and the places I have memories of, I am exploring my cultural identity (or lack of a defined cultural identity) and the memories that I have of my ‘home’ country. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Bunt
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“Everyone of us is born to greatness, called into existence for nothing less than intimate participation in the life and love of God.” Sister Mary McCormack The Sisters of the Carmelite Monastery in Sclerder, Looe were each individually chosen to this comparatively rare vocation to live their life solely for the ‘Beloved’; God himself. This two-part body of work explores the aesthetics surrounding enclosed Convent life, but also intuitively questions the vow of obedience and relentless struggle that is intrinsic in a devout religious calling. Essentially, the use of sound provides a central underpinning, revealing a deeply personal and intimate dialogue that sensitively highlights the reasoning for following the chosen pathway where strength and love evidentially prevails. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Chilton
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A stuttering attempt to explore the tension between the visceral surge of the impulse, and the melancholy found in its shrinking and suppression. As a series the space between the disparate images of Love Vigilantes can be stitched together with a tenderness that reveals the potency of the individual. “The old energy returns” (Edgar Allan Poe - The Imp of the Perverse) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Davide Coffman-Munisteri
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I have been told I am a fashion photographer but I feel to label anything only traps it and then prevents it from growing. My work style has been siad as Blending rennisance imaging with the pop cultur i grew up with and applying it in the fashion world it is how I have worked for years. I am not the best I am always learning more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenny Cowie
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Our lives are framed within a series of rooms and buildings and yet we pay very little attention to how they affect us and equally how we can affect them. Within my work I aim to test our engagement with the frictionless non-spaces we pass through on a daily basis; so called ‘function’ spaces that are usually empty and therefore functionless. Concepts and aesthetics have been developed to imply an ambiguous use and subtle construction within the space. There is a level of construction within every image but I wanted to question the boundaries between what is a document and what has been intentionally constructed to alter you reading. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Cunnane
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘The seductiveness of art lays in its capacity to create an artificial reality that is both an expression of narcissism and through self knowledge a release from it’ (Jeremy Holmes, 2001). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lena Dobrowolska
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Lena is using her work and practice as a sort of reality check. Currently, she is researching different ‘states’ of reality and our relationship with modern visual representations. She is working on narrative driven project, using materials found on the Internet, as well as other technological sources. She sees her work as empathic documentary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Evans
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"The claim was that it [the zoo] was another kind of museum, whose purpose was to further knowledge and public enlightenment. And so the first questions asked of zoos belonged to natural history; it was then thought possible to study the natural life of animals even in such unnatural conditions." (John Berger ‘Why Look at Animals.’) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Flanagan
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series entitled NSA (no strings attached) aims to document an online world that revolves around sex. It looks deeper at current issues such as technology, modern human relations and sexuality by talking and photographing willing people whom use adult dating and swinging websites. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Imogen Freeland
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is an exploration into urban isolation and the solitary moments that can be found between a subject and a private space. I am concerned with the production of space and beautifying negative space. I am fascinated by our ability to disconnect from society and my work attempts to understand the nature of the distances we create. By capturing this sense of isolation I am trying to understand my position within contemporary culture and on a larger scale my perception of how women connect with urban environments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca George
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

#1. Both happy and sad #2. I knew you better before you said the first few things/ before you said anything. #3. Something is killing us a little each day #4. The gap between one thing and another is getting narrower #5. Dull taste of magic . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Freddy Griffiths
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I look at my work and want to know what the real narrative is, yet I know that it will never fully reveal itself to me. The work I have made moves only on the surface yet in all directions on a lateral plane. This movement is apart from me and defined by the subjective viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yancy Hilton
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

With the demographical landscapes and the turbulent weather of the mind, who am I and what do I want? There is a conflict happening, a conflict of interest and lifestyle. Technology advances with traditional crafts persisting in the shadows. Is it a question of how one connects with the place one occupies in life? What is it you cherish and what would you rather just disappear. What is acceptable and what should be punished? This is a time for contemplation, a deep questioning and deep commitment. Let us be inspired by the simplest of things and rise to the impossible with a love for trying. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Jenkins
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

And so we’re born into this world / We exist for a time / And then it stops How do we cope? / What do we do? / And does it all matter? Probably not / I suppose No . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Langford
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is located in a protected area called Goss Moor. It is a location that is enjoyed by many as a recreational area. Yet paradoxically it is also a space that contains heavy industry. The moor includes a power substation and a mainline railway and is located next to quarrying, industrial estates and the A30. In order to experience the moor as a recreational space you must enter via heavily engineered pathways which incorporate part of the old A30. I seek to explore how these different elements come together and interact within the landscape. For me the space creates a strangeness and a beauty that represents our relationship and mental perceptions with the natural landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Mackay-Roberts
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Lollie//Zoe is a project encircling ideas of curiosity, self – exploration and human relationships. The photographs are poetic expressions of how I feel when immersed in somebody else’s world. In this case it was a same sex couple Lollie and Zoe whom I have been getting to know for over six months. I have tried to be present for subtle, quiet moments in their lives which combined with the discreet use of colour and natural light have created a mood which helps to reflect my own feelings of being in their private world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Marie Hill
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

At a point of transition my feelings of uncertainty and the unknown have led me to stand in front of the sea, a dynamic living subject matter that is in a constant state of change. Like life it is an on-going pulsating movement, a struggle and an effort. It is here I try to find me, contemplating my projection forward. Throughout this body of work I photograph in Triptych’s photographing me, the sea and sky. These three images have been selected out of a much larger series of photographs which reveal the many changes and moods. I hope the work expresses both a physical and psychological experience. To see the full series please go to my website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Blake
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Stories of the American west have influenced my imagination and thus inspired me to tell my own enigmatic story of the horizon and the journey beyond. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aidan Montgomery
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The relationship between camera and photographer can be a meditation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Mucklow-Price
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I sit hear amongst all of this; pulsating bass bins and a ray of golden light beaming through the fabric that hangs like a rotten apple from a tree. Bontempi sitting to one side with its gleaming keys chipped and battered, rude rhythm resting, Cassette Tapes and Vinyl - there is no better sound. Cursor blinking; waiting for the next letter, word and paragraph. Why? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Teo Ormond-Skeaping
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I wish it were that all that I had found were fiction. We have destroyed in all that we have created, and it is beautiful. To have imagined this place was for fiction to become reality and reality to have become intolerable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matt Parfitt
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is about the surreal and how people tend to remember things as a video rather than a single image, so i am trying to capture strange moments in time and landscapes that make the veiwer want to wonder how it happened or the story behind it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Rose
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Our space evolves as we constantly construct the everyday. This work questions what it means to inhabit space, shifts and patterns are created as objects move in time. With angular viewpoints and alternately arranged objects i hope to form a new perspective through the medium of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christophe Pierre Suant
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The project is about my relationship with the coastal landscapes of Cornwall. Coming from the City I find myself drawn to the coast, as a place I can sit, reflect and ‘just be’. Thoughts and feelings flow over and around me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Taylor
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These photographs are part of and attempt to contextualize and reflect an inner impression on what surrounds me. They are evidence of a search for something that is left undefined yet saturates everything. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Craig Tregonning
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work looks at the human position within ones environment; I use photography to suggest both physical and psychological relationships with the world. My imagery comes from a reality created within the imagination merged with the reality of true nature. “It has never really proved possible to separate the things around us from ourselves. Our links with the world, and vice versa, are so strong that it is not particularly odd to conclude that they are inextricably connected and that the world exists only because of us and within us.” (Marcel Feil) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Trett
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These bodies of work for me are an exploration and an adventure. The black and white images are in-between spaces which are inhabited on a day to day basis but never get appreciated unless you are told to look at them, through photography this helps it to happen. The colour images from a different body of work which are places where I go to when I need to escape everyday life and the constant struggle with addiction and everyday pressures. These places are essentially just a release for me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Trotter
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work is concerned with the idea of time travel. I wanted to try and combine the past, present and the idea of the future in my photographs. This work is also about the distance light travels to reach the earth and how, when looking at the sun or stars, we are looking back in time. Seeing the stars as they were millions of years ago - and the sun as it was 8 minutes ago. The incredible thought that if we were on a far away star with a strong enough telescope we would actually be able to see dinosaurs walking the earth! . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Webb
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Good evening/Good morning/Welcome/Tonight in/Your listening to/Your watching/Your reading… Volcanic ash, thatcher, media, vote, conservatives, bully, china, labour, china, bank, brown, volcanoes, vote, landslide, south Africa, calls, flight, strike, delays, vote, earthquake, boat race, diplomacy, chilli, madrid, ship, gordon brown, airways, government, election, crash, pilot, chilli, landslide, pageant, factories, nuclear, snowdrops, strike, vote, calls, cabinet… Ok were going to have to leave you there/Join us tomorrow at/That’s all from me for now/goodbye… . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Wicker
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“I have fallen from a great height into this pudding but don’t worry I am OK” (David Shrigley ) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jackson Wise
University College Falmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The value of 'the image' is at an all time low. and its going to be even lower tomorrow, much like the value of money. The role of texture in the history of representation has become my main concern and reasoning for this visual crisis. It seems our materialistic nature increases in harmony with the rate at which the quality of every day images is improving, and so by exploring texture I believe we can visually explore and understand the current concept of value. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nik Adam
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The series Fade In Darkness, is an exploration of the unfamiliar and the encounters experienced while within the environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Bruce
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know one is mortal” (J.L.Borges). A photograph is said to be a tiny piece of time that brutally and forever escapes its ordinary fate, some may even say that a photograph immortalises a moment. Maybe my motivation for taking on such a project was to try and gain some control over time passing, life and death. However when I finally stood in front of the dead animals, the moment I clicked the shutter I felt that I had not immortalised the moment, In that moment death was more present than ever. 3x 47x60” C-Type Handprints. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Esme Campbell
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I like to use photography as a tool to explore relationships between places and people, particularly those close to me because for me, photography is all about engaging and relating to your subject matter. I am interested in studying the nature and conventions of domesticity and in this work I attempted to capture my own family, faintly surreal and bemused through portraits that raise questions about the relationship we have to our pets and anthropomorphism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth George
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Ruth George creates constructed narratives that work through personal and complex themes. The narratives explore the notion of personal experiences and anxieties. By doing so, it allows the artist to understand more about herself and the feelings that she is experiencing: almost in a self-therapeutic approach. As each narrative has a lot of depth to them Ruth wants to engage her audience by creating visual and creative journeys and in a way of communicating herself to an audience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Haynes
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Countrified is a photographic documentation of the Rural Life Centre, Tilford, Surrey. This woodland haven comes alive once a week when groups of volunteers descend to their work sheds, restoring old machinery and reliving their personal memories of a time gone by. Becoming disillusioned by attempts to explore the inner workings of this community lead to a process of creating sculptural forms of my own. These personal exhibits and false documents built purely for the camera in a location created purely for the visitor. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Hughes
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Since attending university my understanding of photography has changed dramatically, giving me a better awareness of the associated industries and practices. As a result, over the last two years my photographic work has developed technically and conceptually, has become more ambitious and is inspired by a large variety of artists and publications. My work often has a strong focus on culture, character and communication, with a particular interest in ‘Britishness’ and domestic photographic traditions. Whilst I would consider portraiture as my primary interest, I also enjoy exploring projects that include social documentary, fashion and editorial shoots, travel photography, landscapes, architecture and alternative photographic processes. My work consists of both film and digital media. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Kenny
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Eight Second Walk attempts to pictorially represent the anxiety and anticipation of growth, and specifically the tensions in defining linguistically the transition between adolescence and adulthood, focusing attention towards subjects that are aged nineteen. In this work I made use of the gestural body, staging a static and extended walk with various individuals. Through approaching the human form with intentions to capture a physical transition I hope for the body to be re-approached, for psychological states in regards to growth to become visible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Long
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are part of a series about young people and their faith. Exploring spaces in which they feel close to God, away from church. This idea of a space creating a feeling, whether it be a religious moment, or a moment of inspiration, is an ongoing idea within my work, often incorporating text to explain what visuals cannot, and using the images to convey what words lack. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Mallett
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My passion for photography is shown in my diverse aim of interests I represent and photograph. I aim to show the viewer how I feel by what I see. I feel that I am truly able to capture theses categories; music, sports, fashion, nature and also portraiture. I aim to show the viewer how I feel by what I see, using staged productions within fashion and portraiture for example. I try to give the viewer a different outlook on what is considered a simple picture and integrate it with a part of myself into my take on the subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roberta Mataityte
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The photograph has often been described to entomb time, acting as a reminder of the imminence of death, a memento mori. The project ’80 Hours’ investigates the photographic darkroom as a site on the verge of disappearance. The darkroom alludes to both the past and the present as it is both, the backstage to the history of photography, and the poignant reminder of death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christina Panayi
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I have a passion for photography and enjoy exploring all aspects of it, from portraiture to landscape, but my work tends to be documentary, focusing on aspects of family life, friendships and culture. This is what inspires me most to make work, along with the work of photographers, such as Sally Mann and Larry Sultan. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keira Parish
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Keira Parish is a stylistically driven photographer visually concerned with the natural and everyday. Her images are the product of an exploration of the purpose of photography and it’s informative limits, alongside its value as a tool to aid human memory and device to create pre-emptive objects of nostalgia. While visually concise, her images when combined with text create detached narratives that demand inquisition from the viewer. The work has a personal undertone; the source of which is ambiguous, lying somewhere between the subject and the photographer, this indistinct aspect being in contrast to visual content that, although familiar, is of an overt personal nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tviga Vasilyeva
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

To me photography is a means of visualising the invisible, by giving material form to those things we can sense but not see: in particular, sound. Humans have long been intruiged by visualising sound as we are, supposedly, ‘better’ at seeing than hearing. There are more neurons in our brains devoted to the visual than the aural, and so we might think we are more able to analysize data when it comes from a visual realm. For this body of work the structure for visualising natural forest sounds had been developed, using light and varying recording devices. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jillian Dudziak
University of Central Florida - MFA Studio Art and the Computer
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Each person has their own unique view of the world. 'Look Up' is a series that documents my view of the world based on my physical height of five feet tall. My view drifts upwards in order to avoid claustrophobia as the world towers around me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sherri Nienass
University of Central Florida - MFA Studio Art and the Computer
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Daily, I apply cosmetics onto my face. I’m at my best when my makeup is fully applied, and I feel “natural beauty” is not for me. By reflecting on the small items in my makeup box, I am reminiscent of the memories I have while purchasing, wearing, and discarding these items. These photographs are documents of my life. These photographs are part of a larger body of work entitled "putting on today". . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patricia Nuss
University of Central Florida - MFA Studio Art and the Computer
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Patricia Lois Nuss’ work investigates the comparative territories of human emotion as it relates to the many facets of culture and family. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C. and the Florida State College Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee, FL. Nuss’ estranged relationship with her mother heavily influences her work. As is apparent in the images attached for this exhibition, Nuss often searches through her work to create a female role model. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Rupp
University of Central Florida - MFA Studio Art and the Computer
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A landscape photograph needs to be full of emotional appeal. For me I use all form of light and subtle color to portray the melodramatic mood that I enjoy creating. I am intrigued by the cinematic landscapes found in movies. Landscapes in movies are often full of dramatic lighting and shot from grandiose locations which heighten the viewers’ senses, thus, evoking the mood for the scene. I strive for my photos to have that cinematic impression. I achieve this by cropping them with large graphic black bars on the top and bottom to enhance the cinematic ambience of the photo. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Walsh
University of Central Florida - MFA Studio Art and the Computer
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I photograph my 90 year old grandma during her usual relaxing around the house in the mid-afternoon when she is singing her favorite song Unforgettable, telling stories, and listening to political talk radio. I utilize natural forms of light in order to capture the specific feeling of a lonely afternoon. When photographing, I set up my camera and wait in the atmosphere that I am photographing in until a I capture a distinct expression from my grandma. As my grandma is legally blind she doesn’t always know that I am photographing her. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ida Arentoft
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

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Eva Barton
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work deals with the creation of imaginative landscape. There is an element of mystery in the photographs that excites the imagination. I look for a point where clear forms are no longer understandable, where the viewer has to use its own imagination to be out there. The photographs raise the question: where am I? … Because you can be anywhere. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Douglas
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is concerned with the innately human need to both order and understand the world around us. This archival impulse has resulted in the formation of man-made systems of organisation that attempt to define our role in the world and in some cases, the universe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annette Hepburn
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My current project has been dealing with the idea of using a camera to record the passage of time. In this project I have used a pinhole camera to make a series of images each of which records the passage of time and the trace of an urgent journey. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hanna Hewins
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am searching for the feeling of being far away and not knowing where I'm going. My work is preparation for a journey into the real unknown. It is discovery and exploration. Pausing to notice things along the way but always moving forwards. It is the journey rather than the destination. Transient and drifting images that can’t quite be pinned down guide my path, chasing, just out of reach. Like seeing faces in clouds. My materials and process counter this and ground the work by remaining tangible and object based. “Although night and day seem at odds, they both have the same purpose, each seeking the other” (Cat Stevens). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gitte Hoetbjerg Hansen
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

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Thomas Horak
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The photographic image can be a frozen moment or the duration of many. Several flashes of a thunderstorm combine themselves to a glowing cloud over Cape Canaveral, the night lights of Boston blend together during a long exposure. Governing time is also the subject of my sculpture and installation pieces. Portraying the moment of glowing glass pears (Glühbirnen) falling from a tree; the everlasting struggle of Sisyphus and Tantalus in a broken bowl or letting confetti deceive it’s death in the joy-promising womb between two pint glasses. All forever caught in an electric dependent life, yet all destined to fade away with a flick of a switch. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mette Jakobsen
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

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Therese Kellner
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

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Emilia Muller-Ginorio
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

1. (there is no 1, it implies dominant order) / 2. everyday an exploration in the space between experience and language / 3. to-do lists are to be written and then lost / 4. Play (in many forms and materials) / 5. chase etymologies / 6. the correspon-dance, exist-tense, and adventure-sense / 7. the substance and process of imagination / 8. mundane, as in ‘of the earth’ / 9. dream, as in ‘music, joy, minstrelsy’ / 10. towards the ocean is a way of life / 11. momentummomentummomentum / 12. in search of the impossible creature that is a writing desk / 13. the patience to bake bread / 14. remember that endings are necessary for beginnings (this list is decisive, but subject to the whim and knowledge of the future). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanna Waclawski
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

There is a moment in between disappearance and emergence where something is visible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anthony Barrett
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My photographic subjects, technique and style are extreme: Many industries in the UK have disappeared over the decades or rapidly in decline. This has been well documented. My work explores outdated working practices surviving the modern technology of automated efficient: My street photographer explores the essence of our culture and to encourage or provoke the viewer to think beyond the image that leads to multi-narrative interpretations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deborah Coleman
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Wiltshire. I am driven to capture the energy and honesty of what happens daily around us in a truthful and considered way. For further information about my work please do not hesitate to contact me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christopher Collins
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“To me, my car is a Rolls Royce. Other people may call it something else but to me, it’s a Rolls Royce. To me this is the centre of the earth…” My Car is a Rolls Royce is a piece of work that looks at the condition of small town Britain and explores a once industrious region, now redundant and decaying, where both its people and environment try to retain their identity as a new Britain rises from the rubble of the old. Chris Collins is a documentary photographer based in Birmingham, U.K. His work explores the concepts of identity within social discourse from a subjective viewpoint; with a curiosity that aims to raise questions more than answer them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keely Everson
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I have a real interest in documenting real life issues which surround family life, I get close to my subject so that I can understand the issues that my subject is having, and then try to communicate this to the viewer in my photographs. This series of images documents Liz, who suffered from Meningitis as a child. The series looks at Liz’s lifestyle and how she lives her everyday life despite the obvious trauma and disabilities that Meningitis has caused. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ade Fishpool
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Bletchley Park was one of the best kept secrets of World War II. The Government Code and Cipher School was moved to the Park (also known as Station X) from London in 1938 as the threat of war increased. It’s role was to decrypt messages sent by the enemy that were thought to be unbreakable and is credited with shortening the war by 2 years. In 1992 the Bletchley Park Trust was formed to save what remained of the historic site (some parts had been demolished in the late 1980’s). These images give an insight into the size of the ongoing task that is faced by the Trust today as many buildings remain derelict; awaiting funding. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christopher Hughes
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These are a selection of sport themed images captured by Christopher Hughes. His work is mostly inspired by his passion for all sports and the culture that surrounds it. He is currently engaged in his personal project, Labour of Love. This large body of work consists of portraiture and Documentary photographs that document aspects of ex- professional footballers lives and to what extent they are now involved in the game. Labour of Love looks at the addiction his subjects have towards the game of football and the reasons why they can never let go of the past, when they were once at the top of their game and at the peek of football careers. They are now out of the limelight and many have to settle for a more mundane lifestyle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip McIntosh
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These 5 images are a select few from a book I published titled “Just Another “A” Road” The Book documents modern day Britain with a journey along the A40 / M40 which is a 256 mile long major trunk road. In places it has been superseeded by the M40. It travels through Southern England and Wales, Through urbanside and countryside. The aim of the work is to give an objective view of the Britain I see before me and let the viewer make their own judgements. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruaraidh Monies
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

From a 'work in progress' series entitled "Barely a Scrape", these images set out to explore and attempt to capture the social, historical and geological landscape of West Cornwall. Exploring the tensions between natural forces and human presence, bringing together narratives of climatic turmoil, atmospheric changes or primordial evolution and erosion. There is a sense that an ambiguity has always existed about this land - the contrast between the picturesque and the harsh reality - the visiting photo-snapping tourists in their open top buses and the day-to-day grind for farmers eking out an existence from fields whose boundaries have not changed since the Iron age. Here the earth is a mere scrape barely covering the hard granite lying just underneath its surface. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Poole
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Sam Poole is a documentary photographer based in Portsmouth and is interested in social and medical photography. He focuses on those areas of our society that have little known about them and bring them to the spotlight. http://eloopphotography.blogspot.com I visited the Fertility Unit at the Princess Anne hospital in Southampton to discover the processes which couples who are having trouble conceiving have to go through to create a child. Those who find it difficult to conceive and depending on the severity of the couple's infertility would be offered intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment. IUI involves a laboratory procedure which separates fast moving, normal sperm from sluggish, non-motile and abnormal sperm. Using a catheter the fast moving sperm are introduced into the uterus at the time of ovulation when the egg is released. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Roberts
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

RAF Broadwell, in Oxfordshire, was full of activity on June 5th 1944. At 11.23pm 1000 men of 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment boarded 52 Dakota aircraft as part of the airborne invasion of Nazi Europe on D-Day. Today, 66 years on RAF Broadwell stands empty and deserted, returned to agriculture at the end of the war, the airfield buildings have been left to the elements. Few remain and those that do are close to collapse. After parachuting on the Merville Battery in Normandy, 150 of the Broadwell men assembled for the attack. After the attack 70 of that 150 were dead. The attack was deemed a success. No memorial to the fallen stands at RAF Broadwell today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Sharp
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This documentary project is on a small coastal town called Seasalter. I was very interested in the flat, marshy landscape which is bare and barren. In 50 years time the whole area will be allowed to be covered by the sea, as the sea defences will no longer be repaired. The sea wall is a major factor of the area and this is an empowering feature. In my images, I have tried to show the bleak outlook for the area and the fact that nature is taking over, no matter how hard man may try to stop it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charles Taylor
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Charles Taylor is a documentary photographer who is looking at a specialism of food photography. His methodology centers on the simple fact that life, particulary in a western society, revolves around the practice of eating food, from celebrity chefs to cook books to dinner parties. Charles would like, through his photographs, to challenge that and bring food forward through his lens, portrayed simply as it is. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Teague
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The work I have chosen to show represents projects that I have worked on over the last year. They include the aftermath of the Gloucestershire floods two years on, photos here are of Tewkesbury Abbey and Gloucester City FC. Another project I did was on a football fanatic who loves everything to do with football which reflects his status as match day Chairman; here he is celebrating a goal. The photo of the matches represents a project I am currently doing on the state council properties are left it. The final photo is of former referee Graham Poll who I photographed at the CII awards dinner. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Woods
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work tells the story of Colour Sergeant John Ley, Late of the Northamptonshire Regt, and now In-Pensioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Aged 90 years old, John is one of the most remarkable men I have ever met. With this series, I have tried to peel away the uniform of the Chelsea Pensioner and reveal the man behind the scarlet, and show that behind all the pomp and ceremony is a man in the twilight of his years. I see my work as documentary with a fine art approach; as to me it is the details, which form the bigger picture therefore the details that should be investigated in order to properly convey the sense of a person. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katy Berry
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work concentrates on portraying mundane anonymous places at night which are often overlooked in any conventional search for beauty by day. The world is a very different place at night where with the use of light I am able to give certain things an importance which is not given when exposed by the sun. By photographing at night with light as my main tool, I have created nocturnal images offering only glimpses of light in an otherwise pitch black void, hiding and revealing textures and details within the image. By using light in this way, the images I have created are almost film noir, portraying bleak, austere feelings generating the build of tension and drama. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Dunn
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Over the last 12 months or so I have begun to turn my attentions more towards the landscape and my surrounding environments. I have focused upon the everyday and often overlooked and have begun to search for the beauty within these sometimes anonymous and often banal places. These spaces are often unremarkable and undistinguished; they seem familiar in some way but become abstracted by the framing and composition. By framing these spaces in such a rigid manor and using a keen sense of balance inspired by Minimalism and the work of Mondrian I hope to transform these spaces into something more curious and intriguing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vikki Ellis
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Going away to university made me realise the unique aspects of life on the island of Guernsey, where I grew up. During World War II the Germans built hundreds of bunkers and tunnels which local people now use for a variety of unusual purposes. I am interested in their transformation from military to innocent and multifunctional spaces. From the outside they are intimidating concrete forts but inside they are home to an aquarium, a religious shrine and a motorcycle group clubhouse among many others. While exploring these bunkers I started to feel comforted by their increasing familiarity to me. My photographs are a personal response to these unique subterranean spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Francis
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Things change, things arrive, things disappear and stay the same; things pass us by, they don’t happen and sometimes they do. The habitual nature of life can be banal, uninteresting and uninspiring, yet what happens when we consciously stop and observe the aesthetics of the everyday and take time to look? The Lost The Found The Overlooked contemplates the ephemeral impermanence of everyday life by exposing and revealing the nature of the commonplace through photography and words. Searching for moments unnoticed, obscured vignettes, unseen patterns and repetitions, this project has evolved into a continuing dialogue with the everyday. The aim is to explore how the ordinary can be transformed by artistic intention and interpretation into something revealing, something strange and something extraordinary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cameron Jack
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My working practice is concerned with the abstraction of photography. I utilise a process of manual deconstruction and construction to create composite images. Within this process I retain a certain amount of control over the composition; the patience I employ in piecing together the image is an important part of this. By editing and manipulating the position of the photographs manually I am able to recreate a scene to my preference. Taking multiple photographs also puts me in the position to appreciate subtle changes in shade and tone that occur because of variable light conditions. I find that these natural elements add to the realism of the piece as a whole. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Lloyd
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work has recently been about showing a true representation of a situation or event that has taken place. I have done this through self portraiture because I feel that the more personal a situation is then the harder hitting the photograph becomes. My work is currently about a bad relationship break up. The series of self portraits are very truthful in the fact that I took them without thinking about how I looked, what I was doing or where I was at the time. This is because I wanted a true representation of the situation that I was in. I like the fact that I am able to show raw, truthful emotion through my self portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Antonio Milevcic
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"I believe in the photographer's magic — the ability to stir the soul with light..." (Amyn Nasser) At its heart, photography is a science of light, and the photographer is a crafter of this light. While this notion can be perceived as being overly poetic and not very relevant, especially in regards to contemporary photographic practice, it’s this core tenant of the medium which perpetually enthralls me. My current practice, 'Of Light & Shadow' has been a personal and inward one. While producing pictures which I hope have been aesthetically successful to viewers of my work, I have essentially been on an exploration of various themes in order to full comprehend my way of 'stirring the soul with light'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Roswell
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My passion for photography began nine years ago with a particular interest in portraiture and an insatiable love for darkroom printing techniques, old-school cameras and film. Each portrait is printed on Japanese paper using Liquid Light. As the paper goes through the darkroom process, I discover the fragility of the strong fibres. In this series I am exploring how masculine identities are perceived and interpreted - ultimately there is a fragility to any type of visual representation of what is considered identity. This series, ‘Fragile’, is part of a larger body of work that also addresses perceptions and meanings in visual representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Diana Smalldon
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I have always been interested in people and bringing one’s personality or feelings out in the photographs. I love to do portraiture, model portfolios and close studio work. My latest work – Body lines – joins the human form with nature by presenting body shapes as a landscape. I also enjoy experimenting in the dark room and often try to push the boundaries of the photograph into painting or sculpture. I also take many travel photographs, but consider it more of a hobby and just recording of my surroundings rather than photography work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elisabeth Turfrey
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A series of work borne out of my parent’s divorce and the subsequent breakdown of my sense of family, which has left me feeling displaced in the world. Through the appropriation of family slides I have been able to reflect on my personal history and travel back to my childhood homes which have become symbols of who we were and what we have lost. This journey has taken me back thirty years to project the slides and enabled me to replace the ghosts of who we were back in the contexts of where we came from. Dealing with loss and homesickness is an integral part of this work. The medium of video helps to illustrate the passing of time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Bosy
Governors State University Illinois - MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My images were created as a photographic exploration using light and focus to simplify items to arrive at their true essence. In dispersing the light on these objects in this series I call “Diaspora”, I am able to define shapes and shadows to accentuate segments of various objects realistically or abstractly. These transitions that form from the blurring of the boundaries between a clearly detailed object and one partially recognized inspire me to explore how the mind perceives images. Viewers are treated visually by interpreting and discovering imagery in fresh ways either by seeing a portion or the whole through partially recognized forms, shapes and designs leading to new personalized experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Catania
Governors State University Illinois - MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am currently working with applied digital technology. I explore documentary photography in the digital world. In addition to High Dynamic Range imaging, I am challenging photography's ability to recreate reality, and adapting a sense of personal reflection. Shooting in the backyards, side streets, and neighborhoods of Chicago, I look for irony and paradox in today's society. Imagery that combines multiple images into one photograph supports a paradoxical paradigm. Literally meaning to compare a pattern, the spaces we live in emanate an energy that says something about the paradigm of who we are and how we live. The buildings we build and the spaces we create, will tell future generations who we were. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Ciosek
Governors State University Illinois - MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are from a larger group of work called The Illusion of the Phenomena We Perceive. The main theme of the work is based on the questions of our existence, the basis of mental and natural realities, and the meaning/purpose of our lives. Also, how the inner world of mankind is reflected by the world around us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Candace Paige
Governors State University Illinois - MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

With these body landscapes I wanted to create a series of abstract photographs that challenge the viewer to study the image rather than taking a quick glance and draw a quick conclusion. By using the unique curves, body marks, skin tones, and harsh lighting to create strong highlights and shadows I was able to create ‘lunar-esque landscapes’. At a first glance they may look like a scenic landscape, but at a closer examination of the photograph, the details reveal the body’s characteristics. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Smith
Governors State University Illinois - MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project only came to me through the need to loose myself in the creative process. After recently loosing both of my parents due to prolonged illness, I felt lonely and disconnected from my past. I used the nostalgia of my childhood home to bring back memories of my time growing up in the suburbs of Chicago. The use of a toy camera has allowed me the freedom to play, combining multiple exposures as individual thoughts in the laying of life that made up my early years. As I made my way through the process, I started using my son in some of the images, often using exposure to create a ghostly effect, and tying the past to the present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Stephenson
Governors State University Illinois - MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The work I have done, in putting together since January 2010 is the fruit of reflecting on life for the past two years, I have been documenting the environments of family, friends and the surrounding county I live in. The work contains elements from ordinary life, being at school, a store or just taking a walk in town . If you think about it there are metaphors in our surrounding environments if you just stop and look around. An old decaying building can represent a story that has been forgotten over time. The work is a reflection of current times, how things change everyday and we might not know or acknowledge it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karan Clifford
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am currently working on an assignment which is a 14 piece visual of the 7 deadly sins, and the 7 Heavenly, or contrary, Virtues. My idea was to represent them with photography and people without being too literal, more of an implication to the sin. It was important to me to have people in these shots as the sins and virtues are human traits. Gluttony is the desire to consume more than that which one requires. Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body. Sloth is the avoidance of physical effort. Wrath is intense anger. Humility is a disposition to be humble. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Cronin-Neilan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Cornelscourt is a small village situated on the N11. My project centers on photographing the young men of Cornelscourt as well as the area itself. Each of these young men still lives at home. With current house prices and lack of work in this current economic climate many will still live at home for a number of years. The recent developments with NAMA also means that each of these young men already has a debt of €27,000 over their heads. While efforts had been made in the past few years to rejuvenate the area they have since ceased. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aaron Dempsey
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In the stillness of the night they creep into your mind. Dreams. Terrifying, nostalgic, fantastic or hauntingly beautiful. Are they manifestations of fear? Can this fear perhaps relate to a positive aspect of one's life? Are they the 'Via Regia'’ to our inner self or are they simply the mind’s process for organising the daily events of our lives. In this series I am producing a visual representation of the female dream. These dreams focus on various stages of a woman's life and the changes encountered at each of these junctures. These accounts are all initially lined with fear, however when related to the contributors stage in life these dreams could perhaps be construed as being positive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Dillon
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work deals with the issue of mortality and the subsequent inevitability of being forgotten in death. As each generation dies, the connection to the previous one becomes less tenuous until it finally disappears. Nowhere is this more evident than in graveyards. Visiting at night in complete darkness increases this sense of disconnection. This project concentrated on a selection of forgotten graveyards throughout the County of Kildare. Many gravestones carry an epitaph, an inscription in memory of the dead. But as time moves on this inscription fades away just like our memory of the dead. When we visit graveyards we are reconnecting with the past. We are reminded of the predictability of death and how we will eventually become one of the forgotten. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathaniel Doyle
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Starting this project, I wanted to document a group in society I knew nothing about. The project is an investigation into a sub-culture know as 'Rockabilly' and focuses on the Rockabillies in Ireland. Rockabillies live in the style of the 1950's: they wear clothes from that time, listen to 50's music and drive cars that were popular in that time. Items like a Double bass, big sunglasses, old vinyls can be found in a Rockabilly’s home . The music plays a big role, which opened up a new world to me. Most importantly, I documented the people 'on the scene', how they look after each other and how this small group of people in Ireland are very much a community growing in popularity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Neil Fanning
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series is part of a larger work originally published as part of an album sleeve, it revolves around people's interpretation of lyrics and music and how these songs effect their imagination, desire and self expression. It's shot and edited to be semi-real, to encompass the individual first and the feedom of thought when alone with music. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niall Griffin
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work is an exploration of the relationship between the romantic vision of rural Ireland and reality. Focusing on motorways, the designed and planned spaces surrounding these pieces of modern infrastructure run counter to the traditional portrayal of Ireland as a place of idyllic beauty, while also reflecting the wider changes and progress the country is experiencing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Albert Hooi
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is a documentation of my life over the last 6 months. Each image is merged together from thousands of seperate photographs taken in sequence as a timelapse over several hours. The final project will be presented as a short film. The project reflects how we interact with the space around us and how everything in the world is in some way connected. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Jordan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My name is Amy Jordan, I just finished a BA in photographic media in Griffith College Dublin. This project was shot on a farm in Wicklow. The house and grounds are owned by Lord Meath. I am intesested in fashion photography, that is why there is a model in 2 images. After shooting the model I thought it would be interesting to document the surroundings. The series is called “The Game Keeper” . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rich Lambe
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

As technology develops and becomes integral to our daily lives, are our human instincts becoming devolved and are we becoming disconnected from our natural environment? Throughout evolution, we have honed our verbal and non-verbal communications skills in order to share the human experience with one another. With ever-advancing modern technology, younger generations are now “nurtured” in a vast virtual world where online activity is entertaining and educational but similarly, also has the potential to be damaging. Through ‘Wired’, I question whether we are at risk of blunting our higher level brain skills due to a dependence on an online-communication where falsification of information is rampant and where the sincerity of written text is unknown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denise Lynch
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series explores memory in its various guises, both personal and collective. Our family albums provide us with highlights of fractured moments we deem worthy of remembering, being reinforced in the ongoing creation of memory. But what of the other infinite moments that are gone as soon as they began? How do we retrieve and reengage with our past moments that we did not capture.? These images examine how the collective memory of a specific culture can often appear similar to the memory of an individual. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brendan Maher
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

November 2009 brought persistent and often heavy rain to Ireland and is recorded as the wettest month on record. With the land waterlogged and no cessation to the downpour, rivers throughout the country saw rising water levels, no more so than The River Shannon whose catchment area of 15,000 squared kilometres drains roughly one fifth of the area of Ireland. This rise in water levels, in conjunction with regional geography saw widespread flooding in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, a major crossing point on the river and its surrounds. The making of this work commenced in January 2010, a time when the return to normality was starting for some, ongoing for others and near completion for a few. Through this work I have attempted to capture traces the flood has left on the environment and on the people effected . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frank Malone
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

All of these are taken in Phoenix Park in Dublin. Once a symbol of British power in Ireland, the Phoenix Park is a wonder, and has many beautiful areas. It is a mainstay for many people and there is never a time when it is quiet. I wanted to capture some of the more serene moments in the small selection of shots. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Martin
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is a collection of controversial images created to form a magazine which aims to push the boundaries of what is acceptable in contemporary fashion and advertising. By taking my inspiration from current and banned advertising campaigns and creating situations that are not normally associated with fashion, I hope to construct a body of work that is aesthetically gratifying while being morally questionable. The final magazine will feature several fashion editorials as well as many independent advertisements for various consumer products. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jason McGarry
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These sample images are from a body of work related to the recession. We all have heroes in our lives, a parent, family member or friend that we look up to, respect and admire. If the hero in your life lost their job or has fallen on hard times, how has it affected them? How do we view them? Do we still see the hero when they stand in front of us? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe McGovern
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Here are five portraits from a series of 27, of those who have committed themselves to the space in which they spend their 9 - 5 working day in Maxol HQ, International Financial Services Center, Dublin. Bare, cluttered or personalised, each has made it their own. A home from home for some, family photos are present, while others strictly keep it business. These photographs are here to give a small insight into the people who make up such a successful business. Director to Service Station worker they all work for and keep this company standing, regardless of their title." . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pascalle Meijer
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Like any family, my family is unique. Now three generations of immigrants, they arrived in the Netherlands from Indonesia in the early 1960ʼs. They brought with them a colonial history and all the habits that come with that. Passing along these cultural traditions to later generations, they have almost become celebrations of their identity. The Indo-European identity is becoming increasingly diluted because of the success of integration, the Indo-European habits that were passed on have become so ingrained they are almost not recognised as such. However, they are still there, influencing the identity of later generations. Itʼs not until you stop and look at it that you realise it. Ultimately, this project is a self portrait. What started as a documentation of a family between 2 cultures has become a search for identity. For the first time in my life I feel I understand my identity, my true identity. I accept I am a product of my family and their behavioural patterns, fuelled by a colonial history and multiple cultures. I am Indo, I am Dutch and I am my family. And it makes me feel senang (happy, relaxed), more so than ever before. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma O'Brien
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are from the series “The Bedrooms” For this project I produced a series of portraits of single people in their bedrooms. For single people the bedroom is where we are truly alone. This can be an enjoyable experience or a lonely one. It can be a sanctuary or a prison, depending on the mood and disposition of the person. These images aim to convey an ambiguous mood and atmosphere, hinting at but revealing very little about the sitter. The viewer is likely to project there own experience into the photograph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lydia O'Connor
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This is a selection of images from a larger, ongoing body of work entitled Derry Road. It is a study of a community of people living along a 6 mile road that runs thorough the bog in Kildare. The central theme of this work is how a community shapes the landscape around them and how this landscape shapes them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kieran O'Donoghue
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work has taken me from an abandoned hospital in Dublin to an old RAF base in Oxfordshire and finally to the city of Pripyat in Chernobyl. It looks at the traces of people who inhabited these places and what they left behind. The aim was to capture the presence of these people without them being in the photographs. This work is part of my final year project and is also a work in progress. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David O'Leary
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Whether we like it or not, we are stereotyped in society by what vehicle we choose to drive. When a car zips past up on the street, it is the car we see first and the occupants second. This project takes a peek through the windscreen and invites the viewer inside. From this vantage point, the car takes a secondary role to the people and as such allows the viewer to make up their own mind as to where they sit on the social ladder. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jill O'Meara
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The project is based on Fashion photography with a strong link to the fairy tale world. As a little girl growing up I was always fasinated with these tales. I loved the images of each story as if they were true. These series of images were formed on that thought and I introduced the fashion photography element as alot of fashion shoot have a strong concept. Fairy tales are dark tales andare riddled with symbolism. Each scene was planned well before each shoot. Models were carefully selected, clothes and venue and also what props were important to give the viewer a clear understanding of the tale been told. The style is a more contemporary. A poem is necessary to link the little points that are being made in the image and ties it all together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alejandra Pavez
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The Mapuche people are indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and south-western Argentina. The Mapuche successfully resisted imperial advances in the past and in 1641, the Spanish recognized the territorial autonomy of the Mapuche nation. During the 1880s much of the Mapuche territories were absorbed into Chile, resulting in the demise of the traditional agricultural and economic systems. In 1990, the ‘Mapuche conflict’ began, aligning a reorganized Mapuche group against a consortium of industrial resource companies in a battle over the control of land. Today the Mapuche nation grows in population and resolve, getting stronger and continuing with more vitality than ever. They persist in demanding respect for their rights as a people, the return of their lands, justice and freedom. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kathy Silke
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

'Last Scene' is a gallery of photographs relating to unsolved cases of missing and/or murdered persons in Ireland. The images in this collection reflect locations at or close to where people have gone missing or where bodies have been recovered. The photographs attempt to show how these locations are often unassuming or even beautiful places, though they also evoke feelings of fear and sadness from the terrible things that have occurred there. In that sense they have a terrible beauty about them and it is this idea of something terrible being hidden behind something normal that I wanted to explore. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hanne Kjersti Skjevelnes Iversen
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I decided to make a student Cookbook, not only about the recipes, but also based on my own experiences of living healthily. I have changed my lifestyle and now want to inspire others. It is not so easy to have a healthy lifestyle in a college dorm, and it becomes even more difficult when you find out that the kitchen has no cooker. Much can be done with the help of a roll of tinfoil and a fork or two. It all lies in your imagination. These images represent a few of the dishes from my book. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabell Strande Kiil
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In the beginning of 2010 I went back to my hometown with a camera in my hand. I wanted to create something from the place I grew up. My home is a tiny village on an island in the northernmost part in Norway and about 1000 people live there Focusing on the wild nature that I have seen and experienced so many days in my life and the people I have meet a thousand times before was hard. But after working on this project I have learned that I still love and appreciate my home. I want to show how the hard nature shapes the people through generations. This is how I see my home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keshet Zur
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Nuclear family: a term that was used since the 1950's, defines the family as mother, father and 2.4 children. Over one third of births in Ireland are now outside of marriage and 18% of all families in Ireland are single parents While homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993, it’s still not legal to marry your partner .The reality of family life in Ireland and abroad today clearly no longer reflects the nuclear family definition. The family unit has changed and broadened. In this project I photographed nine families that are the 'new' nuclear families. The 5 photos represented here are a part of a large body of work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Derek Bermingham
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“An Eye for an Eye only makes the whole world blind” (Gandhi). The image of Dublin’s fair city has vanished. The carefree, prosperous outlook of our nation’s capital has been blackened. Criminal underworld killings have reached record levels in the Republic. Splashed on a tabloid newspaper for us to recoil yet again in horror. Sadly it’s become routine, almost expected in this new Millennium. By documenting the locations of gangland murders across Ireland my aim is to conjure up questions about society, crime, the economy and the media. I hope to create aesthetic beauty in locations tainted with gangland violence and to show a unique representation of Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Blaney
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The desire is to remember and to be remembered. This project focuses on small everyday objects that often go unnoticed. But it is objects like these which are often, for individuals, triggers for deeply embedded memories of people/moments from their past. The images are framed in dark wooden box frames, this is reminiscent of how we put precious objects away for safekeeping, storing them away in boxes for protection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kieron Boyle
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These photographs investigate landscape or more accurately habitat. The habitats in question are zoo enclosures. Without the animals presence the enclosure becomes an example of a completely man made space, a landscape or habitat which is carefully constructed and controlled . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brian Brady
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Grand Canal Dock has undergone a number a drastic changes over the last decade. From been the centre of the neglected area that ran from the Matt Tolbert Bridge to The River Dodder on the south bank of the River Liffey and further to the south from Pearse St to Ringsend. Since 2000 the area has undergone significant redevelopment as part of the Dublin Docklands area redevelopment project. At one point in the housing boom described as the most desirable place to live in Dublin City. Though the shock of the financial events that have taken place at the end of the first decade of the new century, brought progress to a near standstill. That been said it can now be seen that while a number of large scale projects have been deferred indefinitely, completion of others continues and work on a number of new projects has begun. As a resident of the area for over 6 years I have been in the unique position to experience and record these eventful times. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Evan Buggle
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This installation comprises a collection of handmade objects which mimic the mass produced products found in discount stores. Some of the items are practical and others are new products created by the artist. The work is a humorous critique on consumerism and the reproductive nature of photography. Commercial photography is often unintentionally hilarious and this project satirises the way photography is used to create a set of connotations. Through the context of the gallery these products take on new roles and pose questions that might normally be overlooked. The concept of 'use objects' is concerned with the theory that our view of commodities depends on place, time, etc. Social meaning is conferred through each purchase, the act of buying has become more important than the possession itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Cawley
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work performs within the intimate setting of material memories defined through the traditions of the family photograph. It also embraces the notion of dress-up, an everyday performance which has become the focus of child’s play, a harmonious game nourished by the practice of potential roles. The nurtured child becomes the desired adult yielded through the tradition of certain aspirations unveiled through the whisperings of the expectant family unit. The mother-daughter relationship is an inscription of past-present engagements which expresses a certain emblematic regurgitation. The daisy of (he loves me... he loves not) becomes the idol of future desires but through blossoming age the individual realises the connotations of the fairytale, stepping into and out of the complexity of it all. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dave Conlon
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Sourced from family photographs, these images explore the layered meaning present in an image. Often our experience of an image is not that of something tangible. It exists as a visual experience eliminating the sense of touch that brings us in to contact with the image's surface. However with this contact and the effects of time, the surface of the image takes on a meaning of its own. Each tear, fingerprint, crease or stain is evidence of an event, of an encounter with the image. Whether accidental or intentional, the purpose obvious or obscure, these markings don't necessarily taint the image but change the surface of the image into an additional source of meaning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Earl
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Modernal Street Photography aims to challenge the conventional theories of ‘Street Photography’ while also addressing the contemporary concepts of ethics and representation within this genre. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Irene Farrell
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The idea for this project came from my thesis topic, which was the therapeutic value of photography. I decided to make my grandmother, Maura Foley, the main focus of these images. Four years ago she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In dealing with her illness and ageing I wanted to have photographs representing her for a time when she is no longer with us. I also aimed for the process to be therapeutic for her. The images are presented in a ‘family album’ style. They are all different sizes, styles and formats. Included are old black and white photographs which represent granny’s long term memory. Recent snapshot styles of portraits denotes being content in her short term memory. A more documentary approach to photographing my grandparents house represents the life she has left behind, the events that led to her being hospitalised and my grandfather holding their fractured life together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Finnigan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is based in Northern Ireland and draws on the troubles by voicing the minority members of the public. It was shot in the heart of Belfast and the town of Maze, areas which are well known for their art, murals and cultural material left as consequences from conflict. Writings from local people were traced from the Peace Wall and projected onto the landscape, embedding their thoughts and words on the land, creating separate voices echoing throughout, thus creating murals on the land. This work draws upon a change within Northern Ireland but also on the fact that the land is still scared, visible or not. The exhibition will consist of various projections onto images . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Flood
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"The care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the 'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage." –(Max Weber) Based on continuing research and personal experience, these images represent the corporation as an individual attempting to create and control facets of the modern experience. Each image represents both modern and historical methods employed by the corporation to accumulate and control knowledge while creating empirical realities. Influences include the corporation’s history of using developing visual technologies to further control the workforce and enhance profit as well as scientific discourses such as eugenics and physiognomy, which were once applied to corporate applicants. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Kearney Wolnik
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

39-19-33 deals with society’s obsession with the thin ideal. In recent years women have become increasingly fixated with physical appearance, dieting and weight loss. This can be observed in girls as young as seven, as by this age most children have assimilated society’s idea of beauty and in this culture beauty mean thin. We are taught this with the aid of Barbie. Barbie is a role model for young girls as she can be everything from a doctor to a ballet dancer. However she is also attractive and thin, subliminally reminding girls that to be a success they too must appear this way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Kendrick
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"However, Fatherhood, as historian John Demos observed, 'Has a very long history but virtually no historians'." (Anthony Clarke, 'On Men: Masculinity In Crisis'.) For my final year project I wanted to explore the Father/Son relationship due to the passing of my Mother 2 years ago. I felt that I needed to make the most of the relationship I had with my only surviving parent. In my research I found that there was a lack or minimal amount of work done on Fathers and Sons and this further interested me to make works of my own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Lynch
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project brings to the attention of the viewer an aspect of Dublin City that seems to have been forgotten in the upsurge of new development. As we rush through the city’s streets, we no longer seem to take heed of the beauty environment. By isolating these scenes, the viewer is forced to actively see, instead of the mere passive glance afforded these buildings in their natural surroundings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul McKenna
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This piece asks a very simple question, 'why do we look at photos?' To do this I decided to use the two most common forms of visual imagery, portraits and landscapes. When confronted by 'fake' versions of both we are asked to question what we value in a photograph. A portrait is a one-sided view of a persons face and tells you little about them, by viewing a portrait of a 'fake' person we learn as much as if the photograph were of a 'real' person. I am exploring photography's power to decontextualize an object from it's original use and meaning and reinterpret that object as a sign, representing so much more than itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ethna O'Brien
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) is rare and occurs in less than 1% of the population. AVMs are thought to be due to abnormal development of blood vessels during foetal development. This project explores the realms of where the mind of one man fixated during his hospitalisation for AVM. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise O'Brien
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“What lives in images is very difficult to define... it finally becomes a thing beyond the thing reflected... some sort of selection of the soul of a person that gets detached and comes out to one from the image” (Inspired by Francis Brugiere). The ambiguous nature of these self portraits allows the viewer to interpret their own meaning based on their own personal experiences and hidden emotions. Within these images I use my body as a vehicle of expression and a tool to challenge the concept of the gaze. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark O'Shea
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Pictures of the Polish community in Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Powell
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work aims to draw attention to decling bee populations. It is estimated that honeybees are responsible for the pollination of a third of the crops that we eat. Without honeybees the future of humans is uncertain. By utilizing the aesthetic qualities of the bumblebee, this project aims to raise awareness of the immediate plight of the bee. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I would define myself as a sociologist who uses art, specifically photography and text as my medium of investigation and research. Much of the work I produce is rooted and inspired by the 'banal'. It fascinates me how meaning and significance can be drawn from the smallest details of everyday existence. My work is directly inspired by aspects of my daily life: travelling on London public transport, my place of employment, conversations, and random encounters. I am interested in producing work where the outcome is defined by the process itself, that is, where the conceptual development happens over time and is an expression of how I live my life in real time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Anthony
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this series -'Pristine' I have photographed new builds and well maintained areas; places that have no human trace, banal 'non-places'. These everyday scenes will inevitably accumulate dirt and mess from human use, and are rarely seen in this condition. Void of humans but lit as if ready for our arrival such places exist as a utopia which we create from fabricated materials and ideals created from the media and the celebrity world - a world which many aspire to. In this series I hope to tackle these issues of contemporary society and public spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Barnett
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My interest in photography has developed alongside a life long love of animals. Throughout my work I have sought and also critique what I understand as a highly sentimental, anthropomorphic view of the animal world. My photographs resonate the idea of human solipsism in a natural world using images of animals in unnatural and often uncomfortable situations. It is as though our intelligence gives us the right to impose and control other species despite biodiversity being a delicate balance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Madison Brooks
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My Mum at Work. 2010 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hanna Downie
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The upstairs residential landing becomes an impromptu studio, photographing from different perspectives with varying lighting set-ups, examining the myriad ways in which an ordinary familiar setting can be transformed into an alternative dimension. I only work using fragments of the body. I conceal the model's face, using them as figures rather than portraits. I am less concerned with the identity of an individual and more about revealing a certain kind of psychological state. I use the body as a form of sculpture, in a performative manner, giving an ambience of anxiety, neurosis and claustrophobia. A woman emerging in the domestic sphere, trying to define a realm between the dysfunctional and the empowered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fiona Farquhar
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this body of work I am interested in how we as humans try to capture and contain nature, a world that is in constant flux. The ‘green house' series not only looks at the contrasting abstract forms between the structured beams and the unpredictable patterns of the silhouetted plants, but looks at the importance of space and the idea of being in an interior looking out. There is a delicate balance between the abstract and the real, provoking a sense of memory and daydream. The ‘night' series stands in opposition to this interiority. Nature as chaotic, dynamic and uncontained is depicted against the mystery and obscure stage of the night sky. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jade Farr
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am interested in working with the staged tableaux, often referencing the ‘cinematic’ through the construction of atmosphere and narrative. Working with both interior and exterior spaces, as well as the figure my photographs often employ darkness, reflections or water as motifs to partially obscure meaning. Principally staging the female figure in various landscape set-ups there is a suggestion of narrative that is ultimately denied to the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Harris-Taylor
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Drawn, not to the momentous or to the significant but more to the spaces in between, I document the minutia of everyday life, scrutinizing the details that surround me that are so often overlooked. Moments of familiarity, vulnerability and ennui - these are moments of nothingness, which punctuate the ‘somethingness’. Through this I aim to reveal something of the quiet intimacy between myself and my subjects. I am interested in the documentary process as a self-consciously subjective one; one that taps into, or seems to illuminate my own obsessive desire to see more – as a way to reveal and indulge my own subjective interests, preoccupations and concerns. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Hughes
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

As an artist working with photography and performance I am interested in the role of the media in today’s society: its role as political lobbyist, arbitrator of morality and perpetrator of myths, most notably those linked to gender, race, beauty and appearance. I am interested in how these ideas are played out, reinforced and ultimately normalised by being perpetually repeated. Perhaps through my naivety to the media’s powers I feel pulled in different directions. I am both an ardent critic of the media’s obsession with beauty and youth and disappointingly, an avid consumer of it. Through my work I actively seek to resolve these two opposing positions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steff Jamieson
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The work references Sontag’s terminology of illness, with the photographs exploring feelings of isolation and lack of control. An interest in the relationship between femininity and hair drives the series, with the hair standing as evidence of loss and change. The images represent the diverse emotions, felt not only by the individual, but also by those closest to them, and how often, the most pain felt is not a physical one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shabina Lateef
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work centres around the theme of alienation. By concentrating on the alienated figure I engage the viewer and invite them to explore the reasons behind self inflicted alienation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Laurance
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In my series Underwear I chose to work with young men and women, each at home in their own private domestic space. Dressed only in their underwear their expressions are ambiguous, with them seeming to exude simultaneously a sense of confidence and also of awkwardness. Some of the sitters are students, recently left home and whilst they are ‘grown ups’ their environments still bare traces of youthful innocence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah McCarroll
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The idea of family is the starting point for my work. We take for granted that we know everything about our parents. The series, ‘Homeland’ has been as exploration into my father's life before I was born, using my camera to document my findings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phil Mowbray
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Through my practice I have sought to reconcile, in practical terms and also conceptually, my love for travel and my fascination with photography. I am interested in developing a visual language that combines some of the conventions of the ‘travelogue’ with the rigors of a more objective almost archeological approach. In my recent project ‘Azərbaycan’ I explored the dynamics of a contingent yet pre-planned journey; by using the internet to ‘meet’ new friends beforehand, my route was guided by the virtual connections that I made. The photographs represent the resulting encounters via a network of landscapes, interiors and spaces. The images explore the human aspect of fleeting relationships created during a journey whilst scrutinizing the wider, cultural geography of place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Powell
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I use my camera to capture the marks and smudges of the everyday. By getting up close with my camera to the subject I use focus and smears of colour to document a process of transformation that is uniquely photographic. I am interested in the small details of domestic life; focusing on the intimacy found in the domestic spaces which so often occupy our memories. I document continuously, often obsessively, making sure never to lose these memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sean Wyatt
Kingston University London - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The photographic project ,‘Wander’ is a series of self-portraits. Becoming almost a performance, I use the character of myself within the photographs to create slightly absurd and seemingly banal images for the viewer. I revisit locations from my childhood in an attempt to explore how my relationship with them has changed. These places seem to have altered little since that time, though my feelings are now mediated by the person I have become and the world I now inhabit. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gale Battye
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Victoria Project: An intimate look at my younger sisters life, what it feels like to be growing up feeling a generation younger than me. Taken using 35mm black and white film. About Time: Mum and Dad: Regarding my earliest memories of my parents, their motorcycle rally badges, especially my fathers. Taking these old and forgotten relics of their youth and building up a portrait of how I remember that time. Taken in studio using medium format colour film. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leanne Clark
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The intention behind the Traveller project is to remove any preconceptions the viewer may have about the subject and allow them to view the individual rather than making a judgment based on their surroundings or stereotype. The portraits achieve this by using a plain backdrop and thereby presenting the subject with as little context as possible allowing the viewer to respond to the subject wholly rather than making an assessment based on their surroundings. I am interested in work that connects people through their social and environmental situation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Crane
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The project itself is a visual diary of a transition from child to adulthood. Memories and experiences fade from the mind, but they hide in locations and senses. This is a personal study into personal memories, making portraits through visual landscape capturing a very important time of life. Using long exposures at twilight it plays off the idea of “being home before it gets dark” and also explores the transition of time where everything changes, a metaphor of growing up and new experiences explored. All photos are taken mainly around the village of Castle Donington, and within the locations hide the secrets of a teenager. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Crossley
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Daisy ultimately explores the relationship between an elderly woman and her homeless son Glyn. It challenges the assumptions that those left homeless and in poverty are unloved. This project suggests that no matter how much love and help is given to an individual, sometimes it is not enough. Daisy also explores multiple ideas within this such as memories, relationships and archival narratives. It also looks at the relationships between people and their personal space and daily routines. The day her son came knocking on her one bedroom council flat, with nowhere to live, Daisy welcomed him with love. The 86 year old woman, recovering from stomach cancer, gave up her bed, and slept night after night on her cramped living room floor, ensuring she was up at 5am every morning to make her 50 year old son breakfast and see him out the door to work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesca Depledge
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The series explores the idea that many of us experience our daily lives not fully being aware of our surroundings. I have intentionally photographed the space alone playing on my personal fears of being in this concealed environment and very few people knowing of my presence or the place’s existence. I have photographed the remaining foundations of what lies directly under the current Leeds train station. The station as it is today was assembled on top of the old station creating a physical timeline in history. The works consider how our modern day society readily disposes of the old, introducing the new, yet contradictorily we strive to hang onto the past, resulting in spaces left dilapidated and open to deterioration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonny Finch
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Jonny finch, a photographer from Godalming soon to be based in London works with 35mm film cameras and produces work along the theme of idols, influences and heroes. These themes are hinted at rather than handed to you on a plate in order to allow the viewer to draw on their own experiences and make up their own stories. The final piece culminates in a slide projection within a suitcase and an accompanying book meaning the piece is very hands on and interactive. Jonny is currently working with fashion designers in an attempt to transfer his style that he has developed over the past 4 years into a more commercial environment with the intention of eventually landing editorial work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corrine Lesser
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These are a few of a series of photographs that document what people leave behind without realising. People always leave traces of themselves behind, showing that they have been there, even if they are the smallest of things. These photographs are picking out those minutiae things that have been left behind, but are not even noticed until they have been looked for. These photographs bring to the attention that there are traces of people being left everywhere. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Lewis
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images, from a larger body of work, explore the aging process, addressing issues of vulnerability and loneliness in the elderly. A range of emotions are explored and expressed within the imagery, relating to the aging process and death. The final piece combines photography and audio in an intimate space so the viewer can experience the emotion of a close personal relationship between photographer and subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Morris
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are a selection from a project exploring empty spaces on the edges of towns and cities. The project investigates how the nature of these environments may change during transitional periods. What happens when people leave, all human activity is devoid, do these places take on a life of their own? The project aims to convey a response to these questions and inspirations, hopefully provoking the viewer to similarly question their own interpretation of spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Power
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These environments society rejects as neglected wastelands, which is essentially what they are. Yet to me they offer not just hope in the re-birth of nature. But a feeling that is collected from many experiences and it’s the idea that this experience is built up over time. We see so many of these spaces that they become redundant in our conscience. Its the realization that we need to maintain the urban landscape rather than the natural one, that’s where I feel the real beauty of these spaces lies. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Reaney
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Homelessness has been a huge problem in the UK for many years and was recently compounded by the world wide financial recession. As a society we tend to harbor a stereotypical view of the destitute and occasionally seem to automatically judge situations based upon our own experiences. Over the past three months I have orchestrated regular informal photographic workshops at a homeless drop-in center in Birmingham called Sifa Fireside center. Every other Monday we meet to discuss and continue work on our collaborative project. By challenging conventional representation of homelessness, and empowering my new acquaintances with cameras of their own, we are aiming to create a positive and vivacious collection of portraits . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanna Ritchie
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Inspired by imagination and the unconscious mind combined with myths and stories of the past. These images show a glimpse into an unseen world of a creative mind. Mixing fashion and portraiture, Joanna creates conceptual imagery to be interpreted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dean Schofield
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Stephen Neall Interior furnishers’ is a company situated in Harrogate that has recently been under construction and redesigned making it one of the most leading and most modern showrooms in the North of England. My intention was to capture every major aspect of this reconstruction, producing enough images to create a book that would let audiences observe the success of this powerful company that has been thriving for the past thirty years. As well as focusing on the construction of the company I have also captured the people involved in the development of the complete building process, as I felt it was important to include not only the showroom and the objects surrounding it but also the workers involved in the production. The final images have been taken on both Digital and Medium format film, they will be presented in a book and there will also be one large print of the medium format, presenting it to its highest quality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sian Thody
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project, 'Holiday home', explores the nature of weekend or holiday homes and draws on Thody's own experience of having spent childhood holidays in an old cottage in the village of Great Strickland, Cumbria. These images, shot on large format, using colour negatives, evoke feelings of fond nostalgia tinged with the slight melancholy of a property which, without full time residents, is filled with items that would otherwise have long since been discarded. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Vo
Leeds College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My main inspirations for this body of work are the stories about my father’s journeys. As a young Vietnamese man he embarked on a massive life changing journey which took him through life changing decisions. “Dreams and nightmares from heaven and hell” is the title of the project; this is also a metaphor for all the good, the bad and the poignant memories in which he felt during his younger years. I am proud of him and his journeys. They are his stories. A lot of my work is to do with the idea of identity, culture and memory. This series tells stories through a fine art fashion route. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Brooker
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Sheffield’s developing industry and structure of buildings really interests Ruth and therefore was the main topic of Ruth’s final photography work at University. Sheffield is known for its famous steel industry therefore the project is called Steel Squares. These images are from different projects which explore the dangerous signs of the industry, the structure of a new developed Sheffield and man-made compared to nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elliss Connolly
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The images i have submitted are a sample from the projects i created within my final year. These pictures show things that are great interests of mine, this sample of images come form the projects, memories, dance and relics. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Cox
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The kitchen can tell a lot regarding who the person is. It is often considered as the heart of the home, one of the most social rooms. You can also tell a lot from one photograph about what kind of people they are. With this in mind, my aim was to photograph who the person is within the their kitchen and to capture a little regarding their class they fall into and cultural background. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Evason
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These set of images are part of a body of work around the theme of Time. These images are representing the Victorian era in a Diptych format to show a period in time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rich Hurley
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Who/What/Where is the modern man? This project examines the main attributes associated with the Modern Man as expressed by present-day culture and from examining aspects of my own masculinity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jo Longley
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

An exploratory look into how faces can be disturbed and distorted by the art of make-up, as well as the various abstract angles of a camera lens. Creating an almost surreal effect making it unclear to establish what this creature is. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kingsley Tudor
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This is a selection of my work from the last few years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dean West
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Media Production
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images look to dispell the negative stereotypres associated with those who take an interest in aviation. With minimal editing, they aim to make people look at the aircraft in a new manner, appreciating the graphic beauty of these amazing, gravity defying machines. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karl Abbott
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am young and creative image maker working mainly in the commercial advertising and fashion industry. Having already produced work for several large British companies including Hewden Plant Hire, Thimberly and Shorland PLC auctioneers, St Marks Shopping Center in Lincoln, and Ibson Fashion Ltd. I believe that working for such a wide and varying group of companies stands me in good stead for working in the photography industry. As well as working for the commercial industry I also produce my own fine art photography currently focusing on social photography in peoples homes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carl Bingham
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Carl Bingham is a up and coming image maker who is currently working in the advertising and fashion sectors of photography. Having working with many British Companies already this will help him to flourish in the industry after University. His private work is mainly focused on structural and portrait photography, this is helping widen his involvement in many aspects of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dominic Clark
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This piece represents the guttural exploration of the Venetian ghettos. This ghetto was a large Jewish community, and area of severe oppression, and is still a hub of activity. It wasn’t until I travelled down the back streets that the chaos and energy of these events came across. Combining this with an equally energetic choice of camera a portrait was created of an area that has known great depression and liberation. Much of my work deals with exploration and infusion of different atmospheres into contrasting environments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Naomi Cording
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My current work reflects an exploration of photography as a form of fine art practice. As such I have employed my abilities as an artist to create experimental sculptures utilising a wide range of materials including plaster, resin and clay; ultimately finalising their documentation in a photographic form. I have included a selection from two series; the first investigates the role of objects as triggers for memory. As such I have created delicately toned photographs where plaster cast objects appear to slowly disappear into their minimalist surroundings. They reflect the transient nature of our early childhood memories. The second series deals with loss of function, allowing the viewer to witness the objects in their simplest, sculptural form. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leanne Donohue
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Beautiful Filth is a series capturing small, untouched areas in a domestic house no longer lived in. The images are taken from a sensitive aspect to depict the absence of human activity in a previously well kept, beautiful dwelling. The concept of the series is to create juxtaposition between the content and the aesthetic. The content is designed to show the build up of dirt and the inhabitancy of insects that have settled in the house due to the absence of human activity. The desired aesthetic of the image was to create a romantic, poetic mood to the images to create something beautiful from something filthy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tonya Louise Glennester
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Often we walk through a park taking the root that is laid out for us, rarely do we venture into the unknown, we apply the same standard to our lives. During this project I aimed to capture the things we don’t appreciate and frequently walk past with out a second thought, there are so many Phenomena around us. Other organisms and life cycles, besides our own, but we don’t stop or stray of the route laid before us to explore them. You can’t see were the path leads to or were it ends, it is said that life is a Journey and not just a walk in the park. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Gott
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Some of the works I have produced to date have included myself impersonating my immediate family members and high profile celebrities. My family portraits were shot in the studio using flash and a white backdrop, giving a passport portrait look to the work. I wanted to keep the backdrop and surroundings unobtrusive, as I solely want people to concentrate on the individual family members. My celebrity portraits were shot on location also using flash. Location and the surrounds were key to this project. I wanted to capture the essence of the celebrity in the everyday doing mundane activities. My portraiture works are not self-portraits but portraits using oneself to imitate other people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Grigg
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The images presented here are from the series 'Self Summary', which is built upon the conceit that our usual external image, as given by clothing, is a mask; a carefully controlled persona which emphasises parts of our character while hiding others. The series explores identity by getting my participants to literally strip away their usual external image and, after more actively considering who they are, re-presenting themselves in the form of a single word. The photographs are the result of a session with each participant discussing initially what the word means to them, but then using that as a window to explore who they are; the poses and expressions of each participant are a reflection of this dialogue. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cassandra Henau
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are a collection from four different projects. ‘The Critic’ is a photographic exploration of representing well-established art movements. Depending on personal feelings towards each movement the image could either be an expression of anti art or a celebration. Anti art is demonstrated with the use of burning the subject portrayed within the photograph. Celebration of art is simply shown in a contemporary exploration of it. The ‘Matter’ series explores scientific theorems upon a plastic bag filled with water and how its shape is affected. The ‘Womb’ project explores the concept of sleep positions being linked to the foetus in the womb. The ‘Id [Ego] Superego’ project explores the idea of alter egos within people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jen Slater
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project began looking at rock formations such as caves and mountains created by the earth over millions of years. These beautiful structures are formed from what are essentially faults in the earth. This led onto exploring the notion of erosion of caves, the material construction of coastline rocks and how caves have been shaped over time by the tidal flow. By focusing upon the negative spaces created by the caves, it reinforces associated ideas of depth and voids. The empty space itself creates structure, and echoes the texture by the outline of the arch. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Inigo Taylor
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

'Dedicated to God' explores Votive offerings on the Maltese island of Gozo. Gozo’s almost entirely Catholic population display their devout faith through the consecration of everyday objects and places. Holy images and symbols appear on every street and in nearly all local businesses. In an increasingly secular world it is interesting to observe faith in this small act of devotion; the often incongruous placing of Votives for example on the back wall of a car garage or on the supermarket shelf illustrate how everyday this level devotion is in this small Catholic community. I intend to continue working on personal projects looking at faith. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kathy Wilkinson
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are a recreation to the Art Nouveau movement but in reaction to the 21st century, modernised with photography and graphic design. It is a balanced combination of Art and photography in a new style but with strong past influences. Body and Colour: These two images explore how colour and expression affect the viewer’s emotion. The silhouette effect makes it asexual and the colour combined with the movement expresses the emotion clearly. The waxy effect on the skin also gives an extra affect of human body not a manikin. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ana Escobar
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Why do we take photographs of our loved ones? The chimera to conserve, to posses them with the camera is the seductive lure of photography. In ‘The Urge’, I explore this concept by exploring my photographic and sexual desire. “I want to take a photograph of you” is what I say to my partner every time I desire him. This sentence leads us to our bedroom where I photograph him repeatedly. No matter how many times I do it I can never be satisfied. The urge to possess encourages the urge to photograph. However, photography is a tromp l’oeil, we cannot have the subject, but only a mere representation of it. (28 c-type color prints) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Harvey
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In the late nineteenth century, female hysterical patients were repeatedly photographed, captioned and categorized. Meaning was inscribed on their bodies and behavior by a supposedly objective, scientific, male rationality. These photographs take as a reference original ‘documentary’ photographs taken in nineteenth century mental asylums. In consciously restaging these images, this body of work questions the authority of the documentary photograph. In re-presenting the gestures of hysterical patients outside of their original context, my aim is to validate these as a logical form of mental and bodily expression at a time when most women had no other way of communicating distress. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzie Howell
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This piece of work acts as a visceral response to the quiet and peaceful moments I have often felt beside the River Severn, Avon and Frome. These rivers surround and run through the city of Bristol where I grew up. The work is also about my desire to try and take hold of something so transient and impermanent. Every movement within a river is unique; each ripple that is seen exists for a short space of time and will never be seen again in exactly the same form. I have attempted to capture, preserve and archive fragments of these incomparable moments I witnessed beside these waterscapes. I find rivers to be a powerful reminder and metaphor of the fragility of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benedict Nicholas Jonhson
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This is the suspension of a man and woman by their ankles, displayed inverted. We are placed under self- restriction from sight, and most importantly physical contact from the hands, thus placing an emphasis on receiving audible stimulus. This series of pieces brings together and is a shared moment between two artists. It aims to look at the human as a psychologically unstable being that in times of weakness can often find its true strength. Brought together are the two naked bodies to take part in an emotional and physical experience that transcends an end goal of sexual contact. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Koffman
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The 18th Century Romantic painters and writers were already voicing concerns about the environment, arising from the impact of new scientific ideas, which argued for and justified the domination, interference and controlling of ‘nature’. The series Silent Spring, a triptych of digitally constructed panoramic landscapes, created from concrete, explores the impact of this continuing interference and control. Landscape, in painting and photography, has historically signified more than the land itself. As well as reflecting political, cultural and spiritual meanings, it has also revealed the changing relationship between man and nature. It is this capacity of landscape to communicate ideas and symbolic meaning, as a metaphor, that are engaged with in this series to contemplate possible futures and future landscapes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Damian Kruhelski
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Soft toys are designed as sources of comfort and security. They are rigorously tested to ensure that they can safely withstand the acts of affection meted out to them. But what if such a toy is subjected not to love but to acts of exploration of frustration, anger or even violence. In this series, photographs document a series of such encounters. The resulting images invite the viewer to reflect upon the relationship between the subject, the process and the photographer and in so doing open up a space for reflection and interpretation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maciej Markowicz
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

7:56 min, 3-channel video installation. H:110 x W:73.75 inches. Color High-Definition back projected video triptych mounted vertically. The theme for Maciej Markowicz's piece Everyday Imago is Gesture. Gestures in the reality of everyday life are temporal, they come and go in time and are often fleeting. We are capable of noticing, understanding and reacting to gestures mostly unconsciously, and in addition we produce gestures to supplement our speech and to express what is not possible in words. This work is based on observation of everyday behaviour on the street. The subjects are directed to freeze a gesture at which point they are filmed from different angles. The subsequent films are presented as triptychs to investigate the sculptural quality of the image. In this series of film-based portraits Markowicz is seeking to expand the connection between stillness and movement to the extent that they almost merge. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Moynehan
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Dadford, is a study of landscape, memory, and sense of place. The work addresses the idea that landscape, far from being only a formation of land or indeed an image of a formation, is a way of seeing, a telling construction of personal and collective memory and human relationships with place. The work looks at the city of Bradford in the North of England through the eyes of a local, the artist’s father. The play on word suggests that place and person are intrinsically linked, as are the functions of landscape and portraiture. The title also makes known the relationships that are fundamental in the production of this work, the relationship between artist and dad, and dad and the city of Bradford. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Saulius Patumsis
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Kind people of Puodiškiai walked me through the village. Only several lonesome trees now stood in a bare snow-covered field. “Here lived Antanas’ family, and here, in Stepanija’s home, was the library. And there, by the forest, the neighbouring villages would meet to celebrate Žolinės”… These trees weren’t sawn off only because storks nested in them. But when people left, storks left too. -- Some say that families had to leave their homes so they could live in the new modern neighbourhoods with asphalted roads, modern schools and cultural centres. Some say this was caused so the future children would not hold sentiments about their fatherland and therefore be more agreeable of the Soviet regime. -- Families carried on, they made the new places home, planted trees around them. They welcomed me, and through storytelling and making of photographs we revived and, once again, at least symbolically, got together the community and remembered the life of Puodiškiai. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heleen Peeters
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

South Africa has an estimated 5,2 million people living with HIV and AIDS. Together with unprotected sex, mother-to-child transmission is the main infection route. There are currently 1,5million AIDS orphans and the proportion of maternal orphans, those who have lost their parents by AIDS but are not infected with the viruses themselves, is over 70%. The “amandla” series gives an insight into the life of children who have been effected by the AIDS epidemic. The photographs demonstrate how the orphan’s positive attitude, along with the help from charities have been improving their future. However, it should not go unnoticed more aid is needed. This project aims to create awareness and continue inspiring many others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luca Ponzetti
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“Re-framing Pilgrimage” is a three-dimensional expressive framework, a mixed-media construction that involves various materials like images, lights and sound. Based on long distance and exhausting walks and by following the Via Francigena (a medieval pilgrimage pathway), the installation is the result of a personal experience given public form, which, thereby develop the potential of wider meaning for its viewer. Where the three-dimensionality of the installation is a physical act in which the physicality is its most obvious and expressive content and where the color, surface, texture, and shape only emphasize the physical aspects of the work. The picture of the installation will be available on the website www.lucaponzetti.net from the 15th of June. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phillip Reed
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“The city, as the largest and most complex human construction, could be regarded as the signature artifact of the species, like the web of a spider, or the hive of a bee.” My images are a visual exploration of the relationship between ourselves and our chosen environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicholas Bayne
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work explores environments created through choices we make as individuals and out of necessity as consumers. Giving insight to our character, as it does in environmental portraiture, our surroundings give us clues to a person’s identity. I intended this to ask the question: how willing are we to accept these clues, and how can they be misleading? The placement of a solitary individual within this space is intended to create a feeling of intimacy and connection between the viewer and the subject, an exchange allowing entry into a normally private world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brian Daly
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work completed this year in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin consisted of various forms of portraiture. My first series was shot on 35mm film, where I captured unstaged events in the setting of an old hair salon. My second series was an environmental portraiture project where I photographed, artists in their spaces and studios. For my latest (ongoing) project I am using social issues combined with familiar consumerist imagery and text to illustrate how happiness is not a byproduct of materialism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Monika Fabijanczyk
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The presented series of photographs explores the Dublin coastline. The project concentrates on the thin line dividing the land and the sea, which is interesting not only as a space where open and natural meets terrestrial, often transformed, sheltered space, but also as a landscape expressing the main issues of human activity. Coastlines show the world’s global trends by representing the constantly changing relations of humans to the sea. The series signals these changes through the obsolescent, in the era of the airplane, view from the sea towards the land. Different types of Dublin coastline touch on issues of recent demographic trends, mechanisation and movements of ports, revitalisation of waterfronts, recreational aspects of the coast, and ecological matters. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Barbara Galvin
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Bog landscapes are the workplace of a community in the midlands of Ireland. The bogscapes are empty and remote, providing a way of life to the surrounding community who choose to work in this environment. The freedom and open bog reflect the mindset of the community who live along its margins and work in its industry. This is an impressive landscape and quietly commands to be viewed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jeanette Lowe
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series explores some often seen night views of Dublin city as a painter might see them. Using Edward Hopper as inspiration the photographs are de-cluttered digitally to remove signage, advertising, street markings, rubbish, wires and people. The result creates a calmer and more engaging picture, almost painting like. Names are removed causing the viewer to feel they know the location but also unsure. The use of light through windows also creates a voyeuristic interest. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hugh McCabe
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The photograph is usually assumed to represent a snapshot of a brief moment in time. This series uses extended exposures to explore how photographs might instead be used to represent longer periods of time, and how actions and events that occur in front of the lens over these periods might manifest themselves visually. Each photograph was taken in a Dublin music venue using a large format camera, with the shutter opened at the start of a song, and closed at the end. The results show how the performers unconsciously create visual patterns by means of repetitive movements, with faces and other body parts occasionally emerging. This contrasts starkly with the static nature of the stage they are performing on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca McGetrick
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work is a documentary of the final month of my final pregnancy. These images are a small portion of over 30 images. The work is presented in a book as a diary and my aim is to question over the top medical interference that pregnant women are subjected to, the restrictions on food and drink, the testing and analyzing of bodily fluids, but its also an honest and personal account of a month of my life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chandler Grant Munroe
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In the context of environmental portraiture, Grant Munroe explores the identity and motivation of gay hill walkers. Through the setting and composure of the subjects, the project strives to convey the tranquillity that hikers seek in their treks. The landscape and weather is typical for the Wicklow Mountains which is the home base for the group. Clothes and gear illustrate the hill walkers’ dedication to their sport, hint at the physical challenges they face, and subtly challenge stereotypes of appearance and sexuality. The work takes particular inspiration from Nadav Kander’s landscape-portraits from Beauty’s Nothing and Jackie Nickerson’s landscapes in Ten Miles ‘Round. The portraits were made on 13x18cm transparency film with a large format camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon Murphy
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am interested in the camera’s capacity to reveal the hidden histories of places and the interior selves of people who are connected to them. This series, taken at Airfield House, Dundrum, Dublin, focuses on the juxtaposition of old world Airfield - once home of the Overend sisters -with its contemporary urban frame of apartments, steel, glass and motorway. In the Overend archive I discovered that the sisters were keen photographers and this added a further layer of interest and emotional resonance. The full series comprises some forty images and interleaves black and white archival photographs (taken by the Overends); images of contemporary Airfield and images of the overend archive including archival photographs, photographic equipment, picture frames and family albums. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Juan Miguel Novoa
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My photography project aims to bridge the gap between the current world and its original Creation. In a world in which Reality has been taken for granted and therefore isolated from its original meaning, it is my mission as a photographer to rescue and show, in an aesthetic way, the genuine sense of all things we are surrounded by. Through this fascinating process, the camera eye will transform the objects into symbols, turning them into a key which will open the new ‘Pandora’s box’ where the Essences were hidden. In summary, my photography is just an attempt to rebuild the lost step between Reality and our Ideas, nothing more, nothing less. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fiona O’Donnell
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Presented here is work from two projects. ‘To Thine Own Self Be True’ looks at gender and identity - how we see ourselves, and what we believe is normal. Should our sex be the defining part of our identity? The more our culture becomes accepting of multiple genders and sexualities, the more likely the media is to portray them and so, the see saw continues – the media reflecting what society sees as acceptable and the culture accepting as ‘normal’ what the media produces. ‘The Tanneries of Marrakesh’ portrays workers who carry out the twenty day long process of turning animal hides into leather. The tanner’s skills are passed on through the male line and apprentices spend years becoming master craftsmen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Scott
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Within this project I initially wanted to explore the space around me through impaired vision, but by doing this it evolved into perception through the medium of photography and how we have been traditionally taught to interpret things. Thus by deliberately distorting these images, the viewer is made to re-evaluate how one perceives and recognises objects and surroundings, therefore re-assessing the way things ought to appear. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Scott
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am a contemporary photographic artist based in Greystones, Co. Wicklow. I target various themes in my work but most are governed by an exploration of the relationship between fantasy and reality, of what it means to know 'truth' and how we experience such notions. I aim to raise social and political issues through the visual arts, to challenge and question meaning, to analyse what it is we know to be 'true’ or 'real'. Through constructed sets I consider a piece with great care but always allow spontaneity to propel a piece into a new sphere of visual communication. I was recently awarded Urban Photographer of the Year 2009 and accepted into the 180th Annual Exhibition at the RHA, Dublin. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Connell Burke
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Boston based photographer, Connell Burke isn't the type of photographer that finds his shots in day to day life. He builds the scene, emotion, and character of his images. With every image he creates, he aims to trap the essence of the moment, from sight, to smell, even the temperature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joey Jones
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This is a portion of work from my Architecture portfolio. I use models to create mood and show how people relate to a space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matt Lucio
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These are a collection of photographs from my advertising/product and architectural portfolios while attending New England School of Photography in 2010. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elena Ricci
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Home exists on two different levels; physical and mental. People and objects become the foundation of home in the physical sense. Based on these elements, a firm understanding of how people live can be inferred relatively quickly. Conversely, comprehending a home on a mental level takes time and patience before it can be truly understood. The unique energy within any individual home will slowly bring about a sense of restlessness, calm, anxiety or relief. This series of images was intended to unite the physical and mental state of five different homes. The photographic interpretation of this union has captured a harmony between the physicality of a space and the energy it truly possesses. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chelsey J. Rosengrant
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

If past to future is on a horizontal line, the present moment is not in time- it is a vertical movement- transcending time. -Osho 'Out past Lumberville' is an exploration of small moments in my everyday life. I set out to make a make a body of work that shows individual glimpses of time in the day-to-day that can get over looked. By taking a second to stop and appreciate how strange and beautiful life is, I have been able to create permanent and tangible memories that I can keep forever. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bridget Tivnan
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Photography is my journal. Places I have been and moments I have been a part of. A way of expressing how I truly felt at a given point in my life. Growing up in a home where the sentimental did not exist, I constantly feel compelled to create my own memories and pass them on. To prove that sentimental is not kitschy and saccharine; but crucial and meaningful to one's life. Through various processes and use of color I have the ability to more clearly communicate to an audience about a moment in time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jaimie Varasconi
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This ongoing body of work revolves around concepts of age, time and decay. I am concerned with use and dispensability and voice my opinion through freezing individual moments of fleeting time. This work is serial and captures the life of a body of ice and what that body captures within itself. Each piece is considered a document of that instant and cannot be reproduced. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jocelyn Vassos
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Jocelyn is graduating from NESOP with a major in portraiture/wedding and minor in editorial. Post graduation she will be staying in the Boston area to build up her wedding and portrait business. Her objective as a wedding and portrait photographer is working with found locations that create unique and interesting backdrops. Emphasizing bold colors, textures and dramatic lighting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morgan Ione Yeager
New England School of Photography Boston - MA Professional Photography Program - Fine Art, Editorial & Advertising
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images are selected from my Editorial portfolio. The photographs portray my personal interest in and respect for small-scale agriculture, artisan food makers and cooks. My work also portrays my fascination with the elements people choose to make up their kitchen and how they go about their cooking process. I seek to capture the “realness” that surrounds food and the people that produce it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Corcoran
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The economic downturn that has swept across the globe is souring the hopes of millions of young people in their teens and early twenties. The recession has had a major negative effect on the level of youth unemployment in the South Wales region. The portraits presented here are an attempt to communicate the varied feelings, attitudes and emotional states of unemployed youth. The interiors, taken in workspaces left idle as a result of the recession are an attempt to capture the space where these feelings and emotional states stem from. The work was a selected finalist in the Document 2010 award and has been exhibited at HOST gallery in London and other venues across the UK. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Gascoigne
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project explores the life of a female escort. The photographed objects and gifts explore the roles that this woman takes on in order to become a woman of fantasy in her professional life. The photographs aim to provoke a sterile and clinical sense that signify her great effort taken to perform safely, and they act to separate objects from their intended meaning as they are used sexually; yet they can be identified as household objects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrea Griffiths
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is focused on one ecological community and their lifestyle; they live and work together in order to reduce their carbon footprint on the universe. The photos aim to romanticise this way of life so as to be a lifestyle to idolise and take aspects from, proving it is possible not to be overcome by the advancing mass media and technological society that we live in today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Harrison
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The Industrial Revolution brought about the rapid increase in the production of vital resources such as coal, iron and lead that lead to the movement of mass populations to areas such as South Wales. These areas were previously rural and isolated, therefore not equipped to supply the new founded communities with places of worship or schools. Using corrugated iron as a temporary measure until more permanent buildings could be constructed, these infrastructures were created. They also had the ability to be transient, as these communities moved from place to place, the church flat-packed down like convenient furniture. Although they were only intended for short-term use, many of these Tin Tabernacles still exist today, some hundred years on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kaylee Hillier
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there is an organisation set up to support single 18 – 30 year olds known as Young Single Adults or YSA. This group provides strength and gospel centred support for young adults starting out into the world with the prospects of university, careers, and marriage. This investigation gains an incite into this small religious group and how faith is maintained and practiced in a world where belief is often seen as outdated and foolish. As the raising generation of the church we will see how faith is grown, knowledge is extended, and hope is exercised. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anastasios Ktistis
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

After spending three year in Caerleon, a small village on the outskirts of Newport, I have strived to capture this place in the way I see it. The outcome of this process is a selection of landscape photographs, presenting a very subjective topography of this area which also portrays strong evidence of my feelings and character . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isla Martin-Abel
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Rivers have possibly shaped our lives in more ways than any other natural force. Battles were fought, borders formed and whole cities built around the locations of rivers. Once respected as mystical forces, they had the power of giving life but also of taking it away. As the river once shaped us, we now shape the river. Flood defences, dams and an increasing amount of river management are not only destroying its natural beauty, but also making it more dangerous. Our futile attempts to control the power of the river not only show our vulnerability to nature’s forces but how inevitably any changes we make are in vain against the constant, never-ending motion of the river. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John McLoughlin
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The A470 runs the length of Wales - from Cardiff in the South, to Llandudno in the North. This project examines the impact of humans on the landscape we live in, using the A470 as the means to move through that landscape. Whether it is traditional industries such as mining or modern ones such as wind power generation, or leisure activities such as rugby or motor cycling, all can be found along that road. Humankind leaves its impression wherever we dwell, some lasting many years beyond the life of those who left their mark. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robin C. Mitchell
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

One of my interests is the nature of performance, both on stage and in the wider arena of modern life. Through its ability to freeze the moment, photography offers us the chance to explore otherwise-unnoticed aspects of human motion. The series Runaways is about movement, skill and persistence. It is also about the lure of the Big Top and our enduring fascination with the life of the circus performer. Superficially glamorous, exciting and free, the appeal of circus lies in the fantasy it sells. The reality for circus folk is something else. The people photographed for Runaways have found a way to bring a bit of that circus fantasy - and the hard work it entails - into their lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charley Murrell
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project aims to look at the impacts that the Internet (specifically virtual game websites) and computer games are having on children. Children are increasingly using the Internet and getting more and more absorbed in the virtual world. These virtual worlds allow children to create their own ‘ideal’ body appearance, build a house, a car, and a virtual life that they desire. They create aspirations for possessions, success, profit and commodities and generate unobtainable ideals. They are helping to shape boys’ and girls’ perceptions about their future roles as adults. Evidence suggests that children go through considerable anxiety about their bodies and find it hard attaining the established norms of maturity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Nolan
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“They tell me I need a job, to be more responsible, grow-up and be someone important. Here in Russia at 25 a woman is supposed to have a family, home, good job, everything sorted out. Sometimes I start to believe them and then I meet someone normal like you and it changes.” Irina - Not Russia, Not Europe is an exploration into the hearts of the new generation of post-soviet Kaliningrad. Locked into dreams of a future that their homeland cannot recognize or fulfil they look afar. Searching for their identity while trapped under the weight of their history and isolation from both their motherland and the new Europe. They are lost in a land that both overwhelms and underwhelms their desires with no ability to know their future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bartosz Nowicki
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Anti-Muslim prejudice has been a growing staple of media coverage and establishment politics since 9/11, and the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq. Such rhetoric has been used to demonise those Muslims who have protested British and US foreign policy, as well as tarnish non-Muslim protesters as supporters of fanaticism and terrorism. - In October 2009 a series of rallies were called by the “English Defence League” in Leeds and their welsh associate, “Welsh Defence League”, in Swansea and Newport. The group first appeared in Luton in April and initially claimed that it was responding to a protest against British troops returning from Afghanistan organised by a fringe Muslim organisation, but its “Support our troops” demonstrations were used as an excuse to attack Muslims. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Powell
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The built heritage of the UK offers a tangible link to a shared past, as such, many examples have become visitor attractions. We temporarily inhabit these spaces with a view to experience some of the mystique that surrounds them, a mystique that arises from longevity that often spills into the realms of the iconic. The sense of protected permanence that pervades these heritage sites contrasts with our own short lived relationship with them. Their original purpose is subsumed by their function as a tourist attraction, which often renders the reality of the experience more ordinary than extraordinary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Rodgers
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The word stunt means something to everyone. Action films and not so obviously many shots in everyday TV series, also require talented stunt performers; the faceless, fearless, highly trained professional risk takers. Their newest recruit is Tom. Skill requirements for acceptance into the Stunt Register are tough. Tom selected to qualify in Wushu, Gymnastics, Trampoline, High Diving, Scuba diving and Rock climbing. To achieve the required qualifications usually takes many years but Tom completed this gruelling task in 2 years and at 19 is currently the youngest registered stuntman and has already undertaken film and TV stunt work. These photos follow some of his training and look at the single minded determined man behind the dangerous side of movie sets . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matilda Saul
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"A flower-like body fashioned all of light, For the speed of light, yet momently at rest, Balanced on the sheer knife-edge of perfection; Perfection of grass silver upon the crest Of the hill, before the scythe falls, snow in sun, Of the shaken human spirit when God speaks In His still small voice and for a breath of time All is hushed; gone in a sigh, that perfection, Leaving the sharp knife-edge turning slowly in the breast." (From 'The little white Horse' by Elizabeth Goudge) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Thomas Smith
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Anthropocene’ suggest something of the complex structures that make up the centres of global capitalism in transforming aerial views of key sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture, information and excess. Questions of photographic and economic realities are further complicated through the formal use of patterns that potentially have their origins in ancient civilizations. This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the order of things and the potential for photography to question and disrupt this. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laurence Stephens
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

From a study of the current social and economic condition of the people who populate the city of Newport, these photographs are part of a larger ongoing project, which aims to give an insight into working class consumerism in the United Kingdom. Focusing attention on the stress felt trying to survive in today’s consumer driven society, the images presented were made in and around the discount shops in the city centre. Where customers who rely on cheaper goods are offered ‘more for less’, a proposal of abundance that acts to draw upon a demographic, which arguably lacks in material wealth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christopher Thomas
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

An inability to relate to the suffering endured in wars past obscures any type of identification that lie’s within the perceived function of these war memorials. And yet despite great loss, time cannot be stopped from progressively eroding away a whole generation and countless others from an appreciation of wars past. The monument is far from a way of remembering; it is in reality, a way of allowing you to forget. It takes a memory that exists only in your head and, in the case of war, the collective social conscious, and transforms it into a single visual object, consequently allowing you to forget about the memory safe in the notion that the monument shall remind you of it when necessary. It offers an alternative to memory. This project focuses on the effects of time on remembrance as well as the decay of consciousness that ultimately removes the actuality of war from the mass. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chiara Tocci
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In the early Nineties when I was a teenager, streams of Albanians arrived in boats on the coast of my hometown in Southern Italy. Running away from a future they couldn’t dream of, they spread all over Europe to distant shores and faraway places in an unknown world. The stories of these people crowned my nightmares and dreams. Who did they leave behind and what were they longing for? My fascination for Albania and its people became a photographic journey in remote areas of High Albania. For the people of these lands time has almost stood still. A land of the living past is an exploration of an enchanting place inhabited by people who share the land with their ancestors’ ghosts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rajan Zaveri
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The traditional way of life for the Jebeliya tribe is becoming extinct. They are nomadic Bedouins living and moving from place to place in the Sinai Desert. In recent years there has been a mass influx of tourists, and the attraction of profits in tourism has enveloped the area. There has also been an increasing of government control and checkpoints making it harder to move. Almost all of the Jebeliya tribe have ceased their traditional nomadic existence, opting instead to move into housing and sell goods and services to tourists who pass through in droves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jocelyn Allen
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Søren Kierkegaard said that life begins and ends with the individual. During a phase where I could not think of anything other than the meaning of life, I thought that a person’s existence is generally made up of seven major stages. Reality of Youth Going Backwards in Vain visualises this concept and my own potential past, present and future by making myself the protagonist within the photographs. By following the colours of the rainbow and a numerical pattern, this signifies the importance of the number seven within this theory and my own personal connection with it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Bevan
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Social anxiety is the third largest psychological problem in the world today. In public places, such as work, meetings, or shopping, people with social anxiety feel that everyone is watching, staring, and judging them. The socially anxious person can't relax when they take a step outside of there comfort zone. They can never fully relax when other people are around. These series of my images are based upon a certain fear or phobia an individual suffering from social phobia has etc; a busy supermarket, family event or even a quiet library. The series of images could take on a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy as the individual has to face a situation they have found them self's anxious in before. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Bullock
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work was initially inspired by the Grimm's fairy tale of Brother and Sister, not wanting to narrate the fairy tale, Amy Bullock has removed the connectivity of narrative from image to image and revealed elements of the story in their most basic form to uncover the weighty layers found within fairy tales and folk tales. It is her intention to use the lens of the camera and the surface of the photograph as portals into her perspective to unveil the beautiful within the ugly and the extraordinary within the common place, and for the images to carry the spirit of 'the fairy tale', rather than to depict one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Cole
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Due to the growing number of MRSA outbreaks many doctors are using maggot therapy to fight against the ‘superbug’. As a result institutions are researching the enzyme secreted by the larvae of the green bottle fly as it has the ability to kill microbes. These abstract images of data depict the possible enzymes responsible for this healing power. The images also comment on the relationship between art and science, and how the ‘product’ for the scientist which usually consists of a number of charts, graphs and diagrams are destroyed once they have been analyzed and published. However by cropping the data and enlarging it beyond recognition the images of science gain a new function and concept. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Combellack
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Reviving Ophelia’ a phrase used by psychiatrist, Mary Pipher, describing young female’s false sense of self. My work is influenced in understanding why as a society we obsess over the way we look. I feel that there is an emphasis on the female body needing to be perfect, thin and young. But is this a natural need or something that has been formulated by our culture? Certainly advertisement along with the age of PhotoShop, perfection seems to suggest normality. Is normality imperfection and is this natural? In my opinion make-up is as false as plastic surgery, and needs to change ones appearance poses similarities with child play. I wanted to mock modern ideals of femininity whilst suggesting entrapment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lavinia Drake
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

“Celebrity is a mask that corrodes the face” (John Updike). A visual exploration of the physical changes undertaken by fans to transform themselves into a tribute artist. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rob Durbin
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Rob Durbin’s work questions photography as a true tool of representation. Can the camera ever be used to truly represent something? What steps should be taken for show a more cohesive view of the subject. Presenting his work as a modernist Anthropological study of an Anti-Tesco squat in Stokes Croft, Bristol. On the sit of the Cities planned 32nd store. Durbin also explores the role of the photographer as the observer. At what point does the photographer change from watcher to activist? If this change takes place how the representation remain fair? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathan Gamlin
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Nathan Gamlin explores the notion of mazes through the medium of photography. Using a specific viewpoint, a photograph is taken of every path from start to finish facing the direction of which one is travelling. These images and layered on top of each other in the order that each path would be encountered. This technique suggests a depth to the image but also creates confusion. The viewer can see from the start to the end of the maze in one image but the image does not create a solution to the maze. Symbols are then added creating a possible solution to the maze but neither the symbols nor the image fully provide a solution . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Gibbs
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Pathetic Fallacy, a concept coined by John Ruskin in 1856, is “The anthropomorphic projection of human feeling or volition on to nature” when strong emotions “produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things”. It is a false appearance induced by an overpowering state of feeling that makes us, for a time, irrational. This body of work negotiates the fine boundary between artifice and reality; simultaneously exploring the relationship between internal experience and external actuality through the fabrication of fictitious environments. It also contends with the fictitious and fluctuating nature of emotion, hinging on different interpretations, as the images are not created utilising an explicit emotion, but using varying weather conditions to interact with a staged scene. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Goldblatt
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work explores the possibilities and limitations of photography. I am drawn to the concept of ‘reality and representation’ within photography and how photography, as a visual language, is both produced and decoded. Vilém Flusser suggested that to be a photographer in a society in which anyone can use a camera and produce photographs, one has to go against the conventions and traditions inherent to the medium. “Freedom is playing against the camera” (Flusser 1983). Those photographers who do challenge the camera’s program are “in pursuit of possibilities that are still unexplored in the camera’s program, in pursuit of informative, improbable images that have not been seen before” (Flusser 1983). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Gough
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project looks at the issue of children 'playing' with guns and their exposure to violence. Many people believe that children should not be subjected to guns and weapons as it directly encourages violent behaviour. However, others believe that it allows them to explore boundaries of their imagination and creativity. The images are taken in a utopian bubble. The children are playing with these weapons, but are unaware that these acts are taking place for real in wars across the globe. It could be said that violence is made and constructed into a child's mind and that at a young age a child does not understand the value of such an act therefore it holds a degree of innocence . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Howell
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The project deals with the idea of scale in relation to space. Made from hundreds of individual made torch created images that put together create something with the intent that from casual viewing resembles the stars but close up is seen to be these tiny light scribbles. The idea for the project comes from a fascination with scale. The intent was the work is hopefully to get people thinking once again about space and the distances involved when viewing the nights sky. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Ketteringham
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This video consists of an adolescent girl being interviewed on a turntable that rotates slowly which is powered by hand. The rotation represents the cyclic nature of consumption; embodying display systems and the hands represent the workers that enable consumerism to exist. Whether they are McDonald’s employees, or other workers in developing countries that produce goods for our consumption. The questions look at the relationship we have to food as an example of consumer society and also about issues that are synonymous with teenage girls such as body image, popularity and attractiveness through the contradiction between the prevalence of fast food and being thin and attractive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie King
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Futures’ is a series of images that considers the longevity of the out-of-town Business and Retail Park. By treating these spaces as contemporary ruin, the series makes reference to the use of the ruin within art practice as a means of dealing with inevitable entropic change. Unlike the historic depictions of ruins, these spaces reside in a timeframe where society can no longer sustain their activity at current; the digital manipulation employed here evokes a sense of the mitigated sublime, which in turn questions our relationship with these spaces and the landscape in which they reside. A recognition is found between the images and the apocalyptic films of Hollywood; by creating a hyper-reality, we experience a heightened sense of tension due to our visual consciousness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Lock
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘6304 Spray’ is a project based around a set of original boat blueprints, found in an abandoned attic. The images touch on the romantism of the sea, by capturing the essence of mysticism and intrigue. Their individual aesthetics demonstrate the unpredictability of the sea, as it rapidly changes its apperance and temperament. This aims to present the sensual experience of the sea, also investigating the impossibility of reaching the horizon, this emphasises the vastness of the sea and our inability to conquer it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Napier
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work looks at an area of Penarth called the Billy Banks, a council estate from the 1970’s overlooking Cardiff Bay. Which is due for demolition and re-development, creating new accommodation fitting the style of the new Cardiff Bay. The work focuses on four people who have all lived on the estate, recording the loss of it’s community and telling part of it’s diverse story. It does this through a series of portraits, still lives, found photographs and extracts of interviews of the people photographed. I avoid creating or conforming to stereotypes of the style of estate and the people that we often assume to live on them. It honours the estate, respecting the people and their rich life stories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Sinclair
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘Plumage’ is a celebration of the chicken form. By capturing large, intimate images of their feather’s I hope to highlight the beauty of an often overlooked animal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katy Star Stocker
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

How must it feel to watch someone lose their memory? To watch someone lose who they are, but be unaware that they have disappeared. How must it feel to mourn for a person who is still alive? Alzheimer’s is a progressive and fatal brain disease. It is the most common form of dementia, its major symptom being memory loss. This series works with my father and I as we recall our memories of my grandma, who suffered from the disease. Post-it notes are used on which to recount these memories, and these then become part of the photographs. Maybe one day these photographs will act as reminders for my father and I, when we begin to forget. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Wrench
The University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Clare Wrench’s work takes an interest in the public displays of private affairs. Often taken from the voyeur’s point of view, her work takes a cinematic approach to social taboos. Using the medium of lens based imagery, Clare Wrench’s work is sensitive yet thought provoking, creating beauty in a conventionally sordid situation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melissa Channe
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is titled Waste. It is about looking at just how much food is thrown away in supermarkets . Over a period of 6 days I photographed food that had been left out of the fridges and freezers for too long and had to be thrown away. This was due to customers not returning the items to their original shelf in the store. My project highlights the amount of food that is unnecessarily thrown away by consumers who take food for granted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Chiswell
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series reflects upon themes of souvenirs and collections, both at the time of the ‘Grand Tour’ and modern day. The diptychs shown are constructed using photographs of traditional holiday souvenirs within the home and foreign artefacts now housed in Museums. These images; designed to compare and contrast, show how tourist behaviour has led to stereotypical views of other cultures and how, despite the perceptions that travel imparts knowledge, the souvenirs that we bring home do not necessarily show that we understand or even take great interest in what it is that we are travelling to see. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Colpus
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series of work is exploring how replicas of popular tourist landmarks have nearly as much intricate detail as the real thing, which can be often overlooked. Each photograph features European landmarks which were player pieces from the Euro version of Monopoly. By photographing the pieces in this manner it gives them back their importance in relation to the actual object. Furthermore, the landmark pieces featured in this series were scaled in relation to the real landmark. This gives the viewer the opportunity to see the landmarks alongside one another; which could not happen with the actual monuments. The work demonstrates a new way of viewing the iconic landmarks and the everyday objects within our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Justin Feck
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Cinema of Life dives into the role that identity plays in society and within sport, football in particular. It looks at the role of the supporter within football matches, and how when seen on their own they are still part of a much larger collective. I wanted to show the power of looking, both from the subject’s viewpoint and also the audiences. It is important to realise the power that images have over the sports fan; how they transfer their consciousness from themselves into their idols. They want to be seen as a certain player or supporting a favourite team. The work plays on the notion that once a fan supports a team, they will never be truly alone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katrina Henderson
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

For my final year at University I produced a body of work which focused on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. I combined oral history interview abstracts, alongside Portraits, landscapes and archive images; my aim was to look at the cultural identity of the Barra community. The images that I am showing are the landscape element of the project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chantal Kingswood
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I was lucky enough to travel out to Afghanistan early this year to stay with the Afghan National Army on the newly built Kandak Base in Helmand Provience for one month. During my stay there I was aware of the constant feeling of being imprisoned. Of course this is for security as beyond the exterior walls lie the Taliban, but these fences and walls are what also separates the Afghan National Army from the US Military. Keeping an obvious barricade with these over powering walls and barbed wire fences between the two nations in a country that the ANA are from. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pauline Lees
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Aesthetically beautiful and intriguing, these ambiguous images present an element of the human body in a way we are not used to seeing it. Through the use of an Electron Scanning Microscope, these images strive to merge the world of Science with the world of Art to create visually captivating work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tracey McEachran
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"You would think wood sellers must hate us. We are the pickiest buyers; only the very best is good enough for us. When we arrive, big bundles of precious wood held together by steel bands are piled up in front of us. We ask our poor host to open up the bundles and we pick out the top quality pieces." (Ton Amir, harpsichord builder). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siân McIntyre
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These photographs are from my project 'Rosewood Care Home' and were made into a projection piece where you can watch and hear the time tick away. For elderly people, time is very important, especially at a care home. They have set times for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as tea and coffee and they may also have visitors, doctor’s appointments or entertainers. However, there is also lots of spare time, time spent waiting for the next activity. Time can also signify memory, the memory of their lives, what they did before they moved into the care home, all the changes they have witnessed in their lives, or even the memories they have lost through age and illness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola Muir
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The New Burlesque community allows women to live out personal fantasies by offering a platform for self expression and escapism in an era of recession and cut backs. Feminine identities can be portrayed, ridiculed and parodied as a direct ‘two fingers up’ to a society that imposes a one-size-fits-all attitude towards normative beauty. In this body of work the viewer is confronted with a series of portraits of confident, sexually empowered women adorned with corsets, stockings, sequins and glitter. The modest venues where they appear are in stark contrast to their own glamorous appearances. The photographs celebrate contemporary, local burlesque and pay great respect to the people who take to the stages around the country for our titillation and enjoyment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan O’Dea
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘The Convent’, a series of images documenting Entally Convent of the Catholic Church, located in Kolkata, India. The black and white 35mm photographs capture the environment of this historical city space and the people whose lives are connected to this structure. By incorporating observational shots that explore the inner boundaries of the convent’s rooms, focusing intimately with the subjects encapsulating the true nature of this holy building. ‘Under Construction’, is an ongoing project documenting the marvellously chaotic scenes at construction sites around the world. My main focus for the project is to encapsulate the atmosphere of the location, the dominant presence of the workers and the overwhelming terrain that these men and women are essentially working in. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Pullar
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The title of the work is ‘Second Skin’. The work focuses on the objects that prevent sports injury and how they become a second skin to protect the body. ‘Second skin’ involves a cricket glove, weight lifting glove and a pointé shoe. The objects are photographed in a way to focus on the everyday objects and give them status. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Rhoades-Brown
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Airport 2010 is a set of 40 x 30’’ C-Type prints, mounted on aluminium. The series explores the unusual sight of what is usually a busy place, transformed into a surreal urban landscape devoid of all human life. Each print portrays an empty space in the terminal, lit only by ambient light already in place. When placed into the context of today’s world of tight security and the threat of terror, these images of the empty terminals portray the impression that something could be wrong, when this environment would usually be bustling and full of people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pietro Rocchiccioli
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My images are all from North West Spain, 125 kilometres from Ferrol to Santiago de Compostela ‘Il Camino Ingles’ My objective was to convey visual scenes reflecting the subject matter, emphasising the people that I encountered. Creating a visual record showing the actual details of the journey marked by the ordinary everyday people that I stumbled across during my pilgrimage. It was the un-dramatic nature of these meetings which when photographed and recorded became significant. The style of my photography is documentary. It is concerned essentially with the subject, to communicate significant facts about them and their surroundings. My work deals with a defined process at a specific location. In selecting each image, the intention was to strike a perfect balance between texts and photograph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Staveley
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Old age is a troublesome and unknowing time. I have witnessed this through the developments my grandparents have suffered at the hand of degrading body and mind, especially my granddad. He has seen his wife of 58 years move to a nursing home through frailty and dementia, while slowly suffering the failings of his own body. My intention of using these spaces and locations that my granddad has taken me to, and enjoyed to walk, was to suggest his position in life. My interpretations of this man’s existence is not through representing the ‘cycle of life’ as important as that is, but to focus on what many people choose to forget or put at the back of their mind. We will all grow old. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Faye Annabel Wears
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Arrivals/Departures is a factual piece designed to make the viewer consider the importance and frequency of commercial air travel. Recording light patterns left from aircraft landing and taking off around Heathrow Airport from within an hours’ time period, builds an idea of how intrusive to the sky air travel is, yet also creates an aesthetically beautiful scene. Correct flight information is provided to give the series an added depth – the light trails are seen as no longer just ‘lights’ but rather ‘traces of a aircraft from a particular airline, a particular flight route, complete with particular passengers and staff’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dylan Knapp
RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) - BFA Photographic Illustration/Fine Art - Photography Concentration
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

For approximately the last year and a half, I’ve been photographing a two square mile neighborhood known as the Hough that is situated on the eastside of Cleveland. I am interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the ways in which current socioeconomic conditions embody the neighborhood’s unique and troubled past, and its unpredictable future. Over the last year and a half, I have observed some drastic transitions affecting the housing stock. So many systemic problems remain here. Through these photographs of the Hough, I hope to effectively address the substantial transitions taking place in front of my eyes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Ohl
RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) - BFA Photographic Illustration/Fine Art - Photography Concentration
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this work, the idea of the tabletop plays an important role acting as a platform or stage from which chosen objects perform a narrative. On a fundamental level it represents the artist’s hand in the process of re-working the genre through the manipulation and placement of such objects. Each object, although mundane in nature, is re-contextualized and takes on a narrative quality that goes beyond color and form inviting the viewer to speculate as to its meaning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Pierotti
RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) - BFA Photographic Illustration/Fine Art - Photography Concentration
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images were made in the public libraries of Monroe County in Rochester, NY. USA. I am interested in these locations as public space and desire to create beautiful images out of them, despite their institutional aura. My photographs are carefully composed constructions that visually order these scenes. These photographs show signs of American culture, the passage of time, and the characteristics common to institutional spaces; pointing out the unnoticed aura to the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Guy Atkinson
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I have spent a year photographing at underground night club and music events in Sheffield, working closely with local promoters and Soundsystems with the aim of capturing the essence of what makes the Sheffield scene so exciting and vibrant. For many, running events in Sheffield has truly become a labour of love and they feel part of a great community of likeminded people who work with a do-it-yourself ethos. The events remain uncommercial and range in size from a handful attendees to many hundreds. These images reflect what makes the Sheffield scene at once the same and yet completely different from anywhere else. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Barnes
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Natalie Barnes's images involve notions of vibrancy and accessibility, using fresh approaches and bright colours to explore her subjects. Her background as an artist is clear in her work, influenced heavily by high street fashion. Natalie lets her imagination dictate her engaging yet unique concepts, conveying her fascination with light, shapes, colours and tones. Here is a selection of images from a broad body of work concerning fashion and beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Will Boase
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I work mainly within photojournalism, editorial and documentary photography, covering a broad range of subjects and situations and with a particular focus on East Africa. I aim to produce images which function equally within galleries or print media, and have had work placed within both contexts. I derive a strong stylistic influence from the tradition of documentary photography, making work which is engaging and informative. The driving force behind my personal practice is a spirit of adventure, and this is evident in the work I produce. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dave Day
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I use vivid colour to create seductive memorable imagery and evocative scenes. I feel my signature photographic style is defined by a distinct dramatic shadow and intense creative light with energetic melodramatic and sometimes humorous elements, which serve to illuminate the subject’s personality in front of the camera. It is for this reason I enjoy working with familiar models, so over time the personality of the subject can permeate the lens. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Dziadulewicz
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Lucy Dziadulewicz's photographic work captures emotive moments in the form of still lives and landscapes, with an emphasis on colour and texture. Dziadulewicz produces work with an intimate feeling to it, which is reflected in some of the themes that run through her work, such as: time, memory, journeys, personal feeling, life, death and change. Her interest in diaries and storytelling also inform her practice. Fine art photography and text are often combined by Dziadulewicz to strengthen the narratives in her work. Drawing inspiration from the world around her, Dziadulewicz finds within the natural, expected and everyday, the stunning and exciting, producing from this beautiful yet subtle imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suleikah Haybeh
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Photography for Suleikah is about conveying reality and revealing aspects of human nature. Suleikah uses her camera to make sense of the world, and its inhabitants. It’s her way of highlighting issues, such as homelessness, which affect our society. Suleikah is deeply interested in people, their environment and the stories they have to tell. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Lewis
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Sarah Louise Lewis is a contemporary fine art photographer using objects to delineate personality and interests by using possessions and everyday objects. Her work encompasses aesthetics and explores the ideas of identity and materialism within today’s culture. Her images have a distinctive style which can be described as vibrant, effervescent and fascinating. Sarah captivates people with her ability to see the invisible; the details that are missed and she uses this to capture stunning images of close-up objects. The beauty is within the detail. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Morris
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Dissolution/Disillusion is a photographic study of Britain, its land and its people, on the cusp of political and social change. Set in the election year and against recession and a tired government, the images are muted, static and tinged with a sense of dissolution about the world around. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amie Parsons
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this series Amie explores the portrayal of women within the media, challenging the conventional notions of beauty. This series questions to what extent that the fashion industry controls the female image. The controller could be seen as the dominant male, in that women want to look and feel attractive to please the opposite sex in order to feel acceptance within society. This suggests that men control women merely by their presence, but also that woman are allowing themselves to be controlled. The women are dressed almost identically. This reflects the way women look at other women and aspire to be just like them to the point we are all clones of one another... just like dolls! . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Pearson
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Catherine Pearson is a contemporary art and documentary photographer. She explores feminism and aspects therein including gender stereotypes, sex and inequality. Her work focuses on portraiture and the documentation of the positive and negative aspects of womanhood. She is currently engaged in exploring modern feminism and the challenges of the modern woman. There is a conflict of emotions, on one hand wishing to be a perceived notion of 'beautiful', whilst also believing that trying to be beautiful is the behaviour of a lesser person; which inevitably leads many women feeling confused and dispirited. Her current work involves working to document the modern Women’s Institute, and the WRVS; both organisations could be perceived as working against feminism because they include traditional women’s roles. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anne Philp
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In my still life photography I am inspired by the beauty to be found in unexpected places. I use strong colour and detailed patterns to create vibrant and interesting images. The subject of my current project is family heirlooms with their symbolic connection to the past and the personal feelings of nostalgia, memory and loss. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Barrett
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My interest in photography was sparked by film and television; originally I was curious what went on behind the scenes. But after a trip to Madagascar in 2006 I then got into photography and now I would like to get behind the scenes of film and television and act as a ‘documentary’ photographer of the fictional world. In September 2007 I started to study at University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich and will finish in May 2010. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Przemyslaw 'Jetski' Bezdziecki
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My project is trying to challenge the boundary of a document, however the project could be read on many different layers. My pictures have their roots in the stories that I have heard from different people throughout my life time. The stories are as true as I can recall them. Can I be sure that my memories are true? I am not sure if the images constructed upon these stories can be called documents, even if they still have the main features of a document: the pictures are related to certain points in time. However this definition brings the next question: where is this certain point? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fran Dale
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Inspired by journeys and exploration in the physical sense of travel and also into the subconscious, I used perambulation as a tool to connect with and conduct a study of a small seaside resort on the Essex Coast, Jaywick Sands, now ranked as the third most deprived area in the UK. Visiting the area during winter and early spring, I explored the environment by following the whim of the moment, wandering without any real direction but sensing and influenced by changes in ambience. Whilst remaining sympathetic to the poignancy of the setting, I used my intuition to capture what seemed natural at that moment, finding patterns, geometric elements, visual clues and coincidences within the commonplace matter around me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Deere
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work focuses on audience members wanting to keep a moment or a memory alive, by photographing an event using their mobile phones and digital cameras. The events are tribute band shows, which in themselves are trying to keep a moment or a memory alive via a copy. I find it interesting that the majority of people now have a camera with them at most times, on their phone or as a compact camera, how everyone sees themselves as a photographer and that almost every part of life is now visually recorded in some way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tracie Falcucci
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

During the mid 1800’s the beginnings of the police force overlapped with the development of the photographic process. As photography made technical advancements, its documentary qualities were used within the British judicial system as a method of identification and classification. This aspect of photography became rooted not only within the institutions of law but within the institution of the museum. Anthropological displays; composed as though subjects before the camera lens; construct a narrative of culture and power. My current work takes an anthropological approach to the documentation of police cells from various stations before they are restructured and become idle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Wendy Hicks
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The title of my work is ‘Fashioning Aspirations’. It consists of a series of photographs that attempt to ask the audience to consider how media representations of extreme thinness might impact not only on very venerable young women but also on all women, and increasingly young men. I hope to provoke some thought about the issue of eating disorders, specifically anorexia, and the contributory factors that cause it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Scott
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

92 is a body of work documenting the architecture or nuclear deterrence within East Anglia, these once top secret and heavily guarded sites are now benign having been recycled back into the fabric of the local community who once shared their secret. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brendan Wilson
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

We spent a fair amount of time on the photography degree looking at, what for me are, impenetrable theoretical texts – texts I refer to a kind of pseudo, highly intellectualised philosophy. The work for my Final Major project came as a reaction against this and against life in general. I wanted a sense of daftness and fun. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philippe Wrigley
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The collection of portraits focuses on the role of technology being used by young people, who are distancing themselves whilst being socially engaged. This series explores the invisible connection of technology within the security of their heritage. I have used natural sunlight to capture the essence of the portrait to expose what exists within us and connects us to the outside world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shana Yarnell
University Campus Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This piece of work is primarily about transition and identity. All of the individuals represented are on the verge of positive changes in their lives. You see them in one area of their lives today but tomorrow the barmaid will have her full plumbers licence and the gardener will be teaching young people music. Much of what we see in the image world today is accepted on face value when the reality is an alternative rich narrative just waiting to be told. This work is part of a series exploring our temptation to make judgements on what we see, or think we see without exploring a little deeper through visual enquiry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ami Barnes
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Ami seeks to investigate the discrepancy between the lived experience of the photographic act and the resulting photographic document. Through performativity and collaboration Ami attempts to question the role of the camera or image in photographed reality. Alongside this Ami is interested in questioning notions of self and other and the shifting positions these states inhabit within the photographic act. First date is a series of collaborative performed realities in which Ami worked closely with number of individuals to enact or live-out their ideal first dates in front of the camera. The photographs were taken using a remote, the control of which shifted back-and-forth between Ami and the other individuals involved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Bell
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A combined video and stills piece, Projection of self focuses on the vacant gaze and its traditional use (within the history of art and photography) as a communicator of complex emotion. Primarily as a reaction to violent sexual scenes found in the fashion media, Bell aims to question the complex social construct through which we are urged to narcissistically identify with authoritative figures and associate ‘the brand’ with power and self love. Utilising tropes of both photography and cinema, she marries the climatic head shot (a tool for narrative development in cinema) and the decisive moment (of photography) to create a unique tension and evoke empathy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Cantellow
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work is about the relationship between good and evil and seeing if there is a middle ground or is something (someone) one or the other. In the quest to answer this I was drawn to the shadow in terms of the object and the background weather the shadow becomes part or either, or is just a shadow between both. To represent good and evil I choose to use black and white paper. Reason for paper is it is so taken for granted as for the two apposing shades this is because of the saying “things are or are not just black and white”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danielle Charles
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The adopted title for my most recent photographic work has been ‘Rage against the dying of the light’, which is quoted from the Dylan Thomas poem ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’. The title refers to the prolific imaging making my work entails; the dying of the light is symbolic of the brief fleeting moments and fractured glimpses my photographs capture. I have recently published photographic journal with the same title featuring images taken over the previous 12 months (from 2009-2010) available from Blurb.com. The work will also be featured in the Swansea Metropolitan degree show at The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London in June 2010. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Crooks
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

West Park (opened in the 1920s and closed in the 1990s) was, as David Cochrane has said, envisioned as “the last great asylum built for London’s insane”. Housing over 2000 psychiatric patients at one time, it now lays abandoned, awaiting redevelopment, a favourite destination for the contemporary pastime of urban exploration. Forsaken medical apparatus and ex-patients’ personal items bear witness to the history of this once complex social space. The viewer is invited to contemplate the metaphorical implications for both mental health and institutionalisation in a broader sense. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rory Duckhouse
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In this body of work, the photographer adopts the role of the flaneur, a person who experiences the city at leisure, as Charles Baudelaire noted "The crowd is his domain, just as the air is the birds, and water that of the fish" . Through this framework, the photographic documents become the visual equivalences of emotional traces, that ripple out from the original experience. The work aims to question the objective view of the mapped environment. The map represents an autonomous view from above, detached from the streets of which it portrays, and what this tells about what it informs? To fully understand the city streets it shows as a code of rationalized information that we must translate into experience to participate in the city. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stewart Dunwell
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work concentrates on institutional critique - analysing the gallery space’s effect on our understanding of art. The gallery’s tradition of aesthetically annulling the outside world and its place in time has adverse effects on our perceptions, which are situated in a world that is in a constant state of flux. Attempting to re-animate the space, my work: The Instance of Duration aims to show a progression of time through the gallery, collapsed into a singular frame by use of mise en abyme. This forces us to question the significance of a space that is otherwise overlooked and photography’s validity as a representational medium, which similarly collapses an external reality into a spatial instant, having no relevance to temporal experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dan Leek
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Making all of my work on a 1954 Ross Ensign Ful-Vue gives it an antique quality aesthetic which brings this idea of past and present together, splicing them into one and representing mans ability to channel through memory while existing in the present. My photography represents Man’s isolation from all other things in his conquest for ultimate understanding. The antique aesthetic of the photograph enforces ideas of timelessness and unending material existence. The trees and wildlife are a representation of the world which moves through time with us, without the consciousness or self realisation to worry about why. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Mackenzie
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

‘A Girl Walked By’ is a dark fairytale for our times, created around twin girls, isolated in a room. Kept there for our curiosity, to look at and watch. The girls are photographed in and around their home transforming them from the reality in which they live, to a place of darkness. There is an intimacy in these private moments that are being acted out for us. The photographs create an underlying tension in a domestic space, within the girls presence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Preston
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"Amorous absence functions in a single direction, expressed by the one who stays, never by the one who leaves… It is to say: 'I am loved less than I love" (Roland Barthes: A Lover's Discourse)'. My work is based on a performance in which I invite men to embrace me and then walk away, leaving me left alone. The idea of the static female and departing male are something which have been adapted from the concept of a relationship break up, of which I ask the male to think about whilst in the act of this performance, I hope to show this thought in their reaction towards me in these images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tomos Bell
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Most artists have a specific subject matter that will be of particular interest to them; I am of no exception. For me it is the human body and how fragile we are. For this piece of work I decided to focus on something we all need and could not live without, BLOOD. When we are faced with a life threatening illness or injury that results in a loss of blood or the need for specific blood product, e.g. Platelets or FFP it is the Welsh Blood Service that supplies these vital life saving things. I was granted special access to go behind the scenes and photograph what happens to these blood products in the labs at the Welsh Blood Service. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirstin Binding
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This piece of work focuses on the idea of the nightmare and the lack of focus one might experience when waking up in the middle of the night and feeling unsure about their surroundings. Childhood nightmares and horror films have been the main inspiration, incorporating such ideas as the monster under the bed stories and unwanted intruders coming in to ones home. The dark and unfocused images aim to bring an element of discomfort to the viewer and remind them of the feeling they have during a nightmare or while being alone in their own home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Coffey
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

As one grows older some memories of the past start fading while others flood back. This autobiographical documentary recalls the memories of my life as a boy. Revisiting Romer Road in Liverpool after 40yrs and renewing friendships with people who used to live there has been a liberating experience. The 'being there' in the place which is still there but has changed has reminded me of how my parents shaped my life during my formative years and has awakened painful and joyful memories that have helped me 'unforget' them. These photographs remind us that memory has little to do with recalling the past; it is always about the future in which we ourselves will have been forgotten. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesca Denega
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Francesca’s body of work plays on the relationship between the artist, and the viewer observing the photographic image. The aim of her work is to please, shock, humour and provoke opinions from the audience. She plays with the idea of the snapshot, using the female character to impose the landscape and the scene. This work has been produced in a variety of different locations since the project began in August 2009. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Kurpaska
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My personal project is concerned with issues of relationships within family. It revolves around the dynamics between my mother and her brother, who have been living together for most of their lives. I am mainly interested in the ways the subjects react to me as both a family member and a photographer, how they offer themselves to the camera, and how all these factors come together to form an image of the relationships within our family and them as individuals. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Powell
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The series ‘My beautiful Girl’ is an exploration of the relationship that I have with my Grandmother following the death of my mother two years ago. I started photographing my Grandmother after the death of my mother, as I began to re evaluate the relationship that we have. Having always been a very close family, my Grandmother is my maternal Grandmother, the loss of my mother had a profound effect on my family unit, it will never be the same again. The work has been a cathartic process for both myself and my Grandmother, a way of dealing with our loss. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Veronica Sanchis Bencomo
Swansea Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Children in Latin America suffer each year burn accidents due to the bad operation of fire or domestic accidents. COANIQUEM is a non-profit institution based in Chile since 1979, and was established in order to prevent, treat and research everything related to this pathology. All of their services are free of charge for Chilean citizens and other Latin American nations helping thousands of children through their rehabilitation, psychological and medical assistance. In October 2009, I visited Santiago, Chile in order to document the aid that this institution provides to thousands of children from toddlers to young adults. During my stay I truly admired all the diligent and courageous work that all the children go through from young ages. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fabio Barbato
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Continuing from my exploration with my relationship with illness I am exploring in this project illnesses within the confines of a domestic environment; though to shudder the boundaries of comfort and safety. Viruses and genetic mutations invade and penetrate the exterior walls, projected as if intercellular communicating our symbiotic reality that goes on beneath our skin. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Brown
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

At its peak the coal industry in Durham employed over 165,000 people at around 240 collieries and produced more than 34 million tons of coal per year. It dominated the local economy and landscape. But coal is no longer king in Durham, and the pits have long since closed. A New Topography of the Durham Coalfield is inspired in part by the classic Victorian social and geographic surveys and seeks to chart this disappearing landscape. The work is also a personal journey through a family history inextricably intertwined with coal. The migration of entire families, the deaths of young men, trade union activism, and the realities of life in a mining community form the loci of this new topography of the Durham coalfield. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darren Chan
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Four Seasons is a project which observes the photographer’s parents’ work environment in a fish and chip takeaway shop. The book of images is a documentation of everyday routines and practices for the two shop proprietors. The insider’s perspective focuses on what would be considered the mundane, but also draws heavily upon family history and personal identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorenzo Durantini
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project was born out of an acute frustration with the relationship that photography has with figuration. The most liberating thought that lead out this impasse was that a photograph doesn't necessarily have to look like anything; it is simply a medium like any other. This work is dispersed around the legacy of modernism, yet at its core maintains a childhood fascination with taking things apart. These layers stratify on top of each other, leading on a rambling path from memories of videos and violence through to abstract expressionism via Marcuse's idea of repressive desublimation. If anything, it is an attempt to discover precisely where the limits of the photographic reside. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Gervay
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Vietnam. As the train travels up the dragon-shaped country, it leaves a trail that demarcates the vertical fauna from the endless expanse of water. The heartbeats of the machinery melt into mine and the visions that unfold before my eyes rehabilitate what I had always perceived as vertical, authoritarian and rigid. Vietnam is an unknown place that lies between memory, imagination and geographical reality. Only it can allow the process of identity. "Epiphanique-ondée" is a short film made of photographs narrating an encounter with Vietnam. Half-Vietnamese, I intend to tell of the journey through which I reconciled myself to my long-neglected origins. Sound: Leo Bettinelli. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jade Gough
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

There are spaces that we occupy and there are spaces in-between. Our seemingly private lives are played out behind doors and within walls. These domestic spaces provide platforms for living, in its most basic of forms. We sleep, we wake, we wash. We love, shout and cry. The places we occupy bare witness to the most mundane of moments and provide the backdrops to our daily routine. We invest in surfaces every time we turn the same tap or wear down the fabric on our favourite chair. These spaces are impacted upon by us and show traces of our presence, tell tale signs of living that reverberate for moments after we have gone. But just as we effect these spaces, they too effect us, and within these portraits an honesty is revealed by subjects who can trust in their chosen environment, as though partners within the same moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clive Guppy
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Legacy: A Post-War Landscape of England is a documentary project that explores the phenomenon of unexploded Second World War bombs in England. Across Britain there is believed to be no fewer than 21,000 unexploded bombs that were dropped on the country by the German Luftwaffe during the years of battle, resulting in a legacy that is both potentially deadly and a reminder of the conflict’s truly significant and long lasting impact. The images in the series, taken in locations throughout England that are suspected of containing vast numbers of unexploded devices, aim to bring attention to this widely unknown and largely unpublicised issue, representing the inheritance of a sixty-five year old war through a contemporary portrait of England. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Howe
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am interested in how narrative is formed in the single capture of a photograph. Something which seems especially true when taking portraits. There are unlimited perceptions and realities of any given sitter, reasons behind how they came to be on the other side of my lens. It may have been a chance meeting or a response to something they have read, but in all cases I introduce my own idea and then wait for them to respond. The photograph then becomes the end product of an exchange of ideas, a willingness to cooperate, that moment in which I infiltrate the narrative of a stranger’s life, sharing an idea that is then relayed in an image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Kelly
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This body of work follows the river Korana from its source at the travertine lakes and waterfalls of Plitvice Jezera, a UNESCO world heritage site. The first fatalities of the Serb-Croat conflict of the 1991-1995 War of Independence occurred at Plitvice on Easter Sunday 1991 and the reclamation of the area by Croat forces from the Serbian population in 1995 marked the official end of this devastating conflict. Vražji Vrt is the ancient name for this region. Its outstanding natural beauty has provoked many myths and legends surrounding its histories to be passed down from the first settlers to the current generations who have returned to rebuild their homes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cassandra Lane
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Removed from reality and placed ambiguously into the studio, Audition depicts the familiar ritual of listening to music through headphones. The subjects choose their playlist, sit in front of the lights and simply listen; free to express whatever emotions that are stirred by their song choices. They become increasingly unaware of the camera as they get lost in their own world; absorbed in the rhythm, lyrics and mood of the song. Some tap their feet, some sing along, others shut-off completely, reflect on their thoughts or weep. The photographer and viewer watch the interpretation of the sitter’s chosen music; like a type of karaoke that has no words or sound. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Nedza
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project tackles some of the issues surrounding climate change, and questions our attitudes towards established photographic methods. This series of arboreal landscapes have been photographed in an effort to highlight the unnecessary and unsustainable methods for creating images; and ultimately asks the question: Can a photograph be totally environmentally friendly? Initially an attempt to achieve what Fox Talbot deemed ‘nature painting herself’, the works explore a myriad of methods in order to try and produce an image that has been created in the most environmentally friendly way possible. By doing so they highlight the almost futile attempt to be fully ‘eco friendly’ as every attempt undoubtedly produces some undesirable side-effects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathalia Ophele
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Driving the Icelandic Ring Road West to East led me to the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon and an unforgettable feeling. It seemed I was witnessing the eruption of a landscape that was in constant motion. My project is a challenging and artistic interpretation in view of investigating on the awareness of water resources. Therefore I visited the same place in the glacier for a few days in order to be able to take pictures in accordance to my imagination. It attempts to present a different stance from the way the mass media usually addresses it. Alienation is an allegory about the manipulation of nature and allows the viewer to experience something beyond the usual representation of landscapes. The photographic work results in surprisingly futuristic images whose degree of abstraction adds to the real landscape revealing its enigmatic side. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angelica Robinson
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The Perimeter series by Angelica Robinson is a time in between. It is neither before or after the London 2012 Olympics as the construction is commencing and the sacrifices have been made. There is a theme of neglect in the environment, traces of working class industrialism, the gradual invasion of modern architecture and the unexpected beauty found within a strange and exhausted area of London. "Angelica Robinson's photographs take on an amazing journey around the new Olympic site in a voyage of discovery just before this world is lost forever to the developers, diggers and cranes. It’s a real visual treat" (Tom Hunter) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tereza Zelenkova
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Photography is an automatic process, and the act of taking a photograph is, for me, a very impulsive and immediate reaction to something encountered or seen. I believe that this imparts photographs with a certain mediumistic value and I see the creation of them as a ritual that begins with finding my subject and pressing the shutter, and ends with the alchemic process of developing the film and printing in the dark room. Photographs can then reveal our subconscious perception of the world, which is often centred around repetitive themes (perhaps some sort of 'psychological landscape'). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Ellis
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 This work is part of a photographic manifesto for constitutional reform in this country. It explores democracy in a system presided over by a non-elected, hereditary Head of State. It is a multi-format piece and the work included here is from the ‘Weapons’ series, with each image representing a significant event in the history of struggles for democratic freedom. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikki Gibbs
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This project is a reflection of an inner landscape and in particular the emotions experienced through panic attacks. The strong sense of foreboding, the panic building into overwhelming feelings of disorientation, being out of control and a loss of self are all expressed through the uncontrollable power of nature. The darkness is not a natural place for us to be and without some kind of light we are at our most vulnerable. These images of the sea are reminders of our vulnerability and our mortality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Jarméus
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

During the 1960s postwar era a new brutalist style of architecture was introduced in cities around Europe as a mass solution to the sudden explosion in urban populations. Enormous council estates were built promising space and comfort for everyone. Unfortunately the good intentions of the councils failed in many places and soon the estates came to represent the negative aspects of the public sector. This work explores these spaces, and the coexistence of the cold anonymous buildings and the human presence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Monika Marion
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Representations of young men in contemporary society are overwhelmingly negative, while young men themselves tend to be highly protective of their image. No group in society is both so guarded and guarded against. The works in this series aim to present the subjects in an unselfconscious state which re-calls their youth, innocence and hope and captures them on the cusp between the realms of childhood and adult life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Smart
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

On the 7th of November, eight years after my sister Harriet died, I wrote a letter to both of my sisters. Katherine wrote back to me. Her reply, in which she talks about a number of schizophrenic episodes, has become the foundation to this project and acts as the script. The project consists of a book, exhibition prints and a video art installation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gosia Sobieszek
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

There is something magical about destroyed or abandoned places which I did not understand until I entered one of them. EC-1 is the oldest power plant in Lodz, Poland. It was opened in 1907, and served the people of Lodz until 2001. Today the vacated building, which was left to ruin is still sitting prominently in the middle of the city resembles the glamorous and hopeful times. For years no one knew what to do with that relict of the previous era. Now, it has become the inspiration for the New Centre of Lodz project which is economic, cultural and social revival of the central part of the city. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lena Aliper
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

In Lena Aliper’s 'But More Often I’m Reminded That I’ll Never Be Nan Goldin', the urban space is perceived as the scene for permanent mutilation to which the human body is involuntarily subjected at every moment. The yellowish golden cast, which could be suggestive of both decomposition and sensuality, was used to create a visceral feel, triggering a range of associations, from rotting paper or metal to golden skin, warm to the touch. The hand-printed image is experienced as a tangible surface sharing its frailty with the human body and asserting itself, with all its imperfections of texture, against the progress of time and eventual mutilation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marzia Bianchi
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

'Far away, so close' aims at exploring Marzia Bianchi’s experience as a migrant in England. Being abroad, Bianchi became absorbed in her own feelings of solitude, temporarily distancing herself from the people she left behind dealing with her absence. Until her mother and her fiancé wrote to her, creating an intimate meeting point. The images are her answer to their words, questions, doubts. The simplicity of a dreaming reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon Boothroyd
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This work is a recreation of remembered conversations between separated fathers and their children. After gathering memories from separated fathers of words spoken to them by their children, Sharon Boothroyd produced visual possibilities for these words. The interplay between the isolated memory and the images, which operate like film stills, create a confusion between reality and fantasy surrounding the pertinent issues faced in these families. Boothroyd began her research by photographing the empty spaces that the fathers and their children frequented. In their abandonment the venues evoked sadness and loss. These images then progressed into set locations for the mis-en-scene of the final project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Brown
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Caroline Brown’s practice deals with the irresistible forces of man and nature, and how they shape our world today. She is interested in the psychogeography of place and by Utopian visions alternating with feelings of entrapment. Brown’s most recent work deals with half-buried tales of death and destruction and with malevolence just under the surface of an idyllic landscape. The work reveals something deeply ambiguous and unsettling within the edgelands of coastal Suffolk. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Colin Coutts
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Disruption was created in an urban, London garden from high-resolution stills and low-resolution mobile phone video footage. The cultivated garden could be considered a civilised representative of the natural world, upon which we attempt to place a semblance of order and control. Situated within this culturally layered environment, this work questions our comfort in nurture, idealisation of nature and fear of the wild. Drawing from his architectural practice, Colin Coutts explores light, space and form through photography. The possibilities of digital capture triggered his transition from creator to recorder of environments. Coutts works and consults in photography, video and digital technology. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ignasi Cunill
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Ignasi Cunill is intrigued by spaces of elusive categorization and depicts the landscape as a repository for psychic, rather than merely physical qualities. He examines traditional conventions on the literary and pictorial landscapes and integrates them within a contemporary context. The resulting images present liminal spaces full of subtle contradictions where ideas about the natural and cultural overlap. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Debra Fabricius
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Debra Fabricius nature is as a Flaneur wandering, observing the world around her exploring themes of temporality, memory, and the everyday. Her current work situates itself on the transitory liminal space of Regent’s Canal London a 9-mile journey from to east to west - a place of histories, memories and meanings, of patterns, the accidental, of the unconventional and contradictions. This evocative piece reveals the reality of a city fragmented of fragility and resilience of everyday life, and the scars left behind from the social, cultural, domestic and industrial forces that have shaped our urban fabric. These images are the day to day photographic rendering of an archaeological way of seeing and the process of a journey within the city. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessa Fairbrother
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Yearning explores the construction of female identity through the experience of multiple cinematic clichés. Long film exposures allow for more than one position in the self-portrait. The sense of movement is incorporated to suggest the seductive yet ephemeral nature of the superficial – replicating the ambiguous relationship between the photographer as ‘author’, the woman as ‘subject’ and the spectator as ‘participant’ in this construction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bob Farrer
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am interested in History, Politics and the environment. I like to include an element into my work that will bring a engagement with an audience at a number of levels. My nature is forensic but my heart is lured by the romance of the poet. I make constructed documentary images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pedro Guimarães
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I remember very well my last visit to Brazil, specially the ride from the airport to my friend's house. The first impact is usually the strongest, and this initial contact with Brazil was no exception. As my friend was driving me to São Paulo, I remember looking out the window and seeing an impressive view of a favela (slum). I asked her what was the name of that place, and she replied "Paraisópolis". The sound of that toponym, that literarily means "paradise city", sounded too mysterious to be forgotten (I often visit places simply because I like their names). Some days later I went there again and exposed my first plate in Brazil. The image on the ground glass showed me that chaos can sometimes become a synonym for peace. That was a wonderful introduction to the Brazil that would follow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Geoff Hodgson
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Under Threat is a study on how the lives of residents in the rural landscape of The Lenches, Worcestershire, might be adversely affected by the building of a farm of five, 125 metre high wind turbines, some of which may be only 600 metres from their homes. The sombre tones and heavy skies ominously suggest that something untoward, alien, noisy and probably inevitable is going to blight the lives of these unfortunate people and also change this idyllic English landscape for generations to come. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vicky Hodgson
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

This series involves portraits of women aged between 50 and 65, working, often hidden from view, in supportive office roles. Within visual media images of older women have become the unacceptable face of contemporary society. In this work they are photographed to reverse this discriminatory attitude, to expose and celebrate the dignity these older women deserve. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kossi Kunakey
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

A social documentary that explores the complex relationship Blacks and Asians have with skin lightening and hair cosmetics, where anxiety, aspirations, identity and image fuse. An issue that exposes the vulnerability of the individual trapped in an endless state of ambivalence in this media-driven global village. ‘Make me...’ seeks to offer a different take on a very emotive and tabooed subject that has seen a resurgence among the 21st century Black and Asian communities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nichola Mew
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Over 1.5 million Poles were deported to Siberia during WWII. By the end of the War only 500,000 were ever accounted for. Nichola Mew’s work is based on a journal written by a survivor, her grandfather. She travels 1000s of miles from Siberia to the Middle East and back to Europe to capture the landscapes he writes about. Her work creates an uncomfortable contrast between her modern day experience and Edek’s narrative written 70 years previously. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mike O’Toole
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Mike O’Toole’s interest lies in using photography to comment about the shrinking horizons of childhood. In this series children are the subjects of his voyeuristic observations or the willing participants in some kind of performance. Part social commentary, part fiction, part autobiography, O’Toole’s work plays with the underlying tension and the culture of fear that surrounds childhood. "Never have children been more restrained and watched-over than today," says O’Toole. Photographed using a large format film camera and natural light,he uses post production film techniques to create large c-type prints. As a Father himself, he believes that children need unstructured time away from adults, as an important part of growing up as engaged, self confident and resilient people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olena Slyesarenko
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Slyesarenko’s latest project examines quickly changing commercial landscape of Ukraine and its working force. By moving indoors of the corporate supermarkets and malls, it is turning Western and homogeneous. She is creating an archive of the street vendors and other small, unlicensed businesses, that are permanently disappearing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elliott Wilcox
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Wilcox has always been fascinated by constructed indoor space, specifically space that is used for the purpose of leisure. The distinctions between object and representation, the entity and idea are no longer valid. Referring to Jean Baudrillard, Wilcox is intrigued by internal space constructed out of models and simulacra which have no reference or ground in any reality except their own. In photographing the empty climbing walls, absent of the human activity we are so familiar with, these environments become estranged pointing to that which is neither exterior nor interior but which reveals the romanticised space of the real. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Baker Prindle
University of Wisconsin-Madison - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Mementi Mori is a body of work that seeks to illumine the sublime within stories where sex meets murder. The quotidian look of these representations belies the horrific events that have taken place at sites I visited from California to New York. These photographs are of locations where biological men were murdered because they were gay or transgender. In most cases, murder was preceded by consensual sex. These images hint at the fleeting nature of life and call attention to the speed with which hate can bring about death and oblivion. They affirm that a life cannot be fully memorialized. Art can whisper at the awesomeness of life, but it is that whisper that reiterates the volume of the wonder. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrea Brdek
University of Wisconsin-Madison - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These photographs are part of a series titled 'For Your Entertainment...' which takes a look at the culture of fireworks in America. These images deal with firework retailers and packaging. Through these photographs, I want to expose viewers to the effort, creativity, and humor in the packages, designed to get people to spend money. The retail spaces, indoors and out, create a potential for experiences to come, those that stay in the memory well into old age. Fireworks create the possibility of elation and awe mingled with an apprehension of the danger presented by the explosives. With all this there is that element of consumerism that pervades much of American society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linda Friend
University of Wisconsin-Madison - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I often produce films and photography that are documentary in style. Two projects are Style and Grace, featuring the oldest African-American barbershop in urban Madison, Wisconsin, and Crowned, which documents beauty pageants and parade queens in a small rural Minnesota town. Both projects, though dramatically different in location, are about gender identity, sense of community and generational connections that are common to both communities. I also produce abstract work like Surface Tension about water, ice and air. Their common chemistry, which includes the chemistry in our own bodies, and how they constantly change state and appearance, is what fascinates me. There is no sense of scale in these images to focus on their transparency. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patricia LaPointe
University of Wisconsin-Madison - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

The way we arrange our belongings in our living spaces creates a visual representation of ourselves for others to see. Some arrangements are intentional, such as pictures hanging on a wall, and some unintentional, like a stack of papers on a counter-top. I find objects and arrangements within these living spaces that may have been previously given no formal consideration by the home’s occupants or guests and depict them as a window into the life of the occupant. My intent is for viewers to find a connection to these images – I want them to see the beauty and the individuality, the function and the chaos, of a space that is truly lived-in. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tyler Robbins
University of Wisconsin-Madison - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

One of the most important elements of a cookout is the food. It is what puts the ‘cook’ into cookout. Cookout food is not fancy. It does not need to be on fine china in seven courses. Nevertheless it is universally understood as something special. Much of it can be enjoyed with minimal utensils. These are everyday meals that probably should not be enjoyed everyday. Once in a while though, it is acceptable to indulge in excess calories and alcohol in the name of celebrating friendship and the weekend. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Justyna Ptak
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These images have been taken from a project ‘Untitled fragments’ undertaken to query day-to-day experience. The theme of this series is concentrating on everyday objects and how people accommodate themselves to everyday conditions using those objects in a very personal way. Photographer reflects on different ways people personalise their surroundings, to make themselves unique and special. Potentially banal and trivial scenes are brought in by Justyna Ptak, who presents vital part of our existence, which is easily passed over. Every item completes the frame like the owner’s signature – under the cover of prevalence; it reveals hidden uniqueness and individualism. Every photograph is a fragment of someone’s private space, just as everyday is a fragment of everybody’s life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jon Crump
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

On the urban street I find a beauty that is forever fleeting by, ephemeral, elusive. As indeed is the subject at the core of my work: the ongoing question of the need for continual movement. The powerful presence of the camera I avoid, working in a style without intervention, recording the exchanges and relationships between others, rather than the reaction others have to photography. With my image capture and presentation techniques the scenes are articulated through the concept of the two opposing extremes: black and white. In addition to the creating of striking and contrast images, the chosen medium allows the intent behind each piece to be emphasised, through shape, form and texture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sian Griffiths
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Both series of images explore the self-portrait, and concentrate on the notion of identity and confidence, and issue of being observed by others. The Hidden Portrait series explores my own identity and self-confidence in front of the camera. Each image shows me present, but in some way not fully in view of the lens. This choice to be partly hidden explains a lack of confidence I have and the fact of not wanting to be observed by the viewer. The Untitled series is a development from The Hidden Portrait Series. This series concentrates on myself not wanting to be observed by others. Each image is blurred, taking away all detail of my face and body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mike Hedges
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

I am a fine art photographer specialising in Urban Landscapes. My work varies from the newest tower block to the heavily decayed derelict eyesore. I also have an interest in photographing motor-sport. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Merrick
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

My work centres on the recording of isolated spaces; these are either personal to me or developed locations devoid of all human activity. By recording the passage of time in a location either using myself as a performer or through found sources of light, I aim to draw the viewer’s attention to the monotony of routine existence as well as the wasteful nature of human development. I am intensely concerned with the details within photographs and the absorptive power with which they can enchant the passing observer, scale plays an important part in the process and I always aim to produce imagery which reflects this ideology. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanne Morgan
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

'The Forgotten Negatives Project' collects film that has been shot, but not developed. That film is then processed and the resulting images are examined for a narrative or thread throughout these 'forgotten' photographs. Every image is uploaded to a dedicated Flickr account and selected photographs from each film are featured in an article on the project website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olee Morris
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

These two series examine different issues within the urban and rural landscape of Britain. The first series ‘Ebb and flow’, concerns the river Coln in Gloucestershire, and examines how factors such as inadequate maintenance and management of the river over time have caused a marked increase in flooding over the last decade, as well as highlighting how the resultant increase in water levels is profoundly altering the surrounding landscape as a consequence. The final image ‘Sod off close’ is a commentary on the growing urban phenomenon of gated residential communities. By photographing a number of such communities and layering them together en masse they take on a collective appearance which is arguably more akin to one of incarceration than habitation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Colette O’Donnell
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Photography is a means by which to edit the world. Were your life to be recorded in a story book, what aspects would make the final cut? Aim for great structure and beautiful form. The edges of an image are not its end but its point of beginning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Scarle
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Andrew Scarle's documentary practice challenges the conventions set out by pictorial imagery. To highlight the divide Andrew has taken pictorial images and juxtaposed them with the documentary reality. He deals with the landscape and explores how it is managed in order for us to achieve the ideal. We as viewers only see the surface of the photograph which mirrors our view of the landscape. Andrew Scarle's award winning website www.theclassof2004.moonfruit.com is an online anthrolopogy of social networks. Andrew has tracked the members of his high school class using these social networks and then brought them together to create a modern anthropology. The site is able to evolve alongside the society it is dissecting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mairi Turner
University of Wolverhampton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2010
— BA / MA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:45:02 EDT

Project deals with the cameras ability to isolate and cut out the world’s coded surface for interpretation and reflection probing the artistic creation inherent in photography. Traces of a past with the presumption that something exists or did exist since time moves on we get an interpretation of it. Combining and re-visualize photographic imagery and how personal and collective memory can affect the reading of photography. Through 35mm slide projection I create ephemeral installations which also documents the Highland Clearances. The use of layering makes you want to look below the surface to show not just the process and ability to evoke but also the cultural elements within the meaning of the image in relation to the Highland Clearances. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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