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Fu-An Chen
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

May Your Heart Be the Map is a manifesto for my way of photographing: it has nothing to do with sophisticated concepts or painstaking research; instead, it belongs to the domain of irregular physical movement, animal instinct and unforeseeable chance, and is, most importantly, a means to pour out my heart and soul. I believe one thing shows up repeatedly in these images: me, a person who is always uncomfortably perplexed about himself and constantly feels insecure, anxious and hesitant. Thus, this body of work not only conveys some thing that I want to tell the viewers, hoping that they can read it by following their inner voice, but also some thing that I should always keep in mind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rich Cutler
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The urge for humans to classify is instinctual - a need to arrange the world around us into patterns, to form order from chaos, compels us from childhood to death. This desire became formalised in the sciences, and especially in taxonomy - the placing of creatures and plants into groups. The scientific collection so painstakingly created is traditionally seen as hermetic and privileged - akin to the archive: a repository of preserved knowledge and authority, often institutionalised in museums. But in actuality all collections are unstable, and time dissipates that which has been so carefully hoarded. These creatures have died twice, first poisoned in killing jars, then turned by time into ruins. What remains are cul-de-sacs: their stored knowledge dissipated, their context lost. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Finlay
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Referendum is a photographic series that explores the tangible and intangible border along the one hundred mile geographical stretch between England and Scotland from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Gretna Green. Referendum contributes to the ongoing political and economic debate on the Union between these two countries. This landscape is considered in three ways: the sweep of grand romantic vistas; the minutiae of border ephemera rendered through the scientific gaze of the microscope; and the accumulation of political rhetoric within the historical and media documentation connected to this space. On 18th September Scottish residents vote on the Referendum, 'Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes or No.' Landscape is ever present and ever constant: whatever the political outcome, the landscape will always remain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mu-Tien Ho
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The windows in our houses demarcate a permeable boundary between inside and outside. However, the boundaries of our 'castle' can be somehow crossed by simply looking through the windows. As a foreigner, I am fascinated by the big street windows on residential buildings in Brighton. They are very different from my city, Taipei, which reminds me I am far away from home. But at the same time they also offer me clues to British everyday life which I am very curious about. By cooperating with local residents (who are mostly strangers to me), I try to straddle the line between snapshot and staged photography, and express the everyday from an outsider's view. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elin Karlsson
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

For the series Prologue I visited places that are tightly linked with memories of an early experience which shaped my expectations of intimacy. The cathartic series explores the locations and testifies to the significance of the act of photographing in order to make events actual and real rather than just accessible through something as fragile and unreliable as human memory. The work is underpinned by explorations of trust within the family and is loosely political in how sexual assault is approached within the culture we live in and by the immediate family. It explores the notion that families can be full of love but still unsafe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kayung Lai
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The concept of the Orient as 'Other' has been vivid in the western imagination since the beginning of global trade. Historically artistic license has been taken in romanticising the Orient, depicting it as a world filled with mystery and difference. This representation has dominated the western expression of the Orient, a fantasy fully expressed in 18th century material culture. By documenting various Oriental gardens found within southern England, this project reveals the continuation of this mythical discourse by oscillating between the fantastical features of these Oriental gardens and the telltale signs of their British location. By presenting the dominance of binary thinking between East and West within this Orientalist fantasy, the work attempts to reflect upon the cultural hybridity present within our globalised world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon O'Neill
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

My work draws from the sphere of social documentary photography and concentrates on people and places that from the outside seem unexceptional and, by the very nature of their everyday-ness, are overlooked. I explore the ordinary, observing the fabric and details of a place or community. Flats centres on a council block constructed in 1956 as part of the massive post-war house-building programme, designed by Sir Leslie Martin, principal architect of the Royal Festival Hall. Drawing upon archive material from a book he wrote in 1939 entitled The Flat Book, the work explores the idealistic vision of the young architect, using the building and current inhabitants to illustrate ideas of his 'modern world' today, in essence the realised future of his 1939 vision. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Pengilly
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

White explores the observation of light and the colour white. It addresses ways of seeing and is influenced by the practice of the 19th-century painter Whistler. The work aims to reveal connections between the observation of the effect of light and the way an image of a place can be conveyed. The work explores not the representation of a place but rather an experience and emotional response to the act of seeing. The work builds a sustained sense of the place from a series of abstract white representations that aim to convey an impression of modernist architecture and place. in the photographic form it highlights the disparity between what the observer and the camera can see, making the photographic painterly. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alastair Rodgers
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Over the geological epochs since their emergence, birds have adapted, refining in form in response to the world around them. Birds thus provide a glimpse into a world that is now lost to time, and now share a very a different world with mankind. And, as part of our world, birds have become ingrained in various cultures as symbols of such themes as life and death. Birds evolved to dominate the land, air and water long before humans appeared, but in our short existence we have taken inspiration from birds and have strived to be more like them, creating machines to emulate their mastery of the landscape. Aves is an attempt to visually capture the landscape of birds. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yuxi Si
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The differences between Eastern and Western cultures provoke ongoing debate. The English sit at random on patches of ornamental grass in parks and other public spaces. Urban areas in China are often very densely populated, so, to protect the environment, people are not allowed on lawns. The Chinese advocate collectivism and are accustomed to considering the impacts of their actions; they place the needs of society above their own. This contrasts with the English - who seem to me a people with a casual attitude to authority, in fact to life in general. I make no comment on which is the better culture. I am simply sharing my own feelings on the Western world as I see it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charles Morgan Smith
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The dome has been a significant way in which cultures have depicted the heavens. From mosques to cathedrals these spaces have been transformed into representations of the ideologies, discoveries and aesthetics of religions and cultures. The Planetarium continues the lineage of depicting the cosmos on this surface. Exploring notions of temporality, indexicality and the fantastical within these heterotopias, the planetarium transports the viewer through time and the space; immersing them through light projection, sound and visuals. Using conventions and aesthetics derived from astrophotography Planetaria is a series of astronomical observations set in the confines of the dome structure. This work shows the limitations of attempts at observing the cosmos, both personal and at the cutting edge of image technologies. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joy Stacey
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This work consists of a two-channel film installation and a pair of images exploring the relationship between Palestinian antiquity and cultural heritage, tourism and political resistance to the Israeli occupation. The Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities was created in 1994, and antiquity and traditional culture are specifically promoted in order to attract tourism. As in many countries the economy is heavily reliant on tourism. However, uniquely, the millions of visitors who pass through the Palestinian West Bank every year come with the potential to witness the impact of the occupation and leave with an altered understanding of Palestinian identity. Consequently, tourism and the subversion of tourism's objectifying nature are considered by many Palestinians as central to political resistance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Stephens
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Photography appears to be both material and spatial. An architecture of air. Four photographs are titled Paper Mirror: reflection on reflection, 120x80cm, C-type prints. The diptych is titled Erased Poem. My research addresses the gap between representational and non-representational theories of photography through the work of Laruelle. I am, perhaps, unwriting paper by pushing the A4 piece of paper to its limits in this first part of my Variations I: Paper (2013) series. The full series includes sculptural objects made of prints of both scanned light-sensitive paper and dosimetry film, not shown here. My work is speculative: can photography ask itself what it is? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ksenia Burnasheva
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

My work explores the relationship between space and objects. By installing a foreign - 'third' object I attempt to create a new interpretation of space. New narratives are born through a playful approach to the staging of reality in front of the camera. This creates a fresh lens through which we perceive the day-to-day scenes of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Berta De la Rosa
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I spent most of my childhood in a historic Moorish fortress that had been converted into a country estate called La Alpízar. This place was relevant in my childhood and had a great impact on my persona. Having lived in a rural place rich with stories, it encouraged me to look at the landscape as a source of narratives that stands between reality and fiction. Alpízar. Irás y No Volverás (Alpízar. A way with no return) is a Site specific project that explores and reveals traces of history that belong to Tartessos, Roman, Visigothic, Arabic and Christians civilizations as well as my personal memories located in the South of Spain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shirin Fathi
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This series looks at the representation of gender identity in relation to 18-19th century Iranian painting. The men and women in the images of this period have very similar facial and bodily features; at times it is only the style of headgear that distinguishes male from female. Through photography and self-performance, this work explores the notion of gender ambiguity and draws a connection with the Western European painting of the same era. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The project traces back the history of the Armenians of Diaspora while settling in Greece in the 1920's. The fundamental referent of the project is the artist's family archive. Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari recreates images taken from her family's collection and places them in specific locations related to the settlement period of the Armenian refugees. The archival images offer a perspective to knowledge and history and at the same time function as components in the picture. The project consists of photographs of fragmented moments with references to the historical events and links to the traumatic experiences of the Armenian Genocide. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Taylor
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The digital is progressively becoming an extension of our body and mind. As technology advances we entrust more information to digital systems, but we rarely question these systems. Receiving an error code when backing up my data, the computer bruised one of the photographs from my archive collection, transforming it into a new reconfigured composition of its own. This exposed vulnerabilities of the digital medium, whilst also revealing a more humanistic side to computers. Beautiful Madness is the first series of photographs that have been hacked, and reworked though their algorithmic constructs. Each photograph is an evolution of the previous work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fedor Toshchev
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Having nostalgia as a starting point to his research Fedor investigates the treatment of personal history and influence of collective memory upon individuals within the context of post Soviet Russia. Restorative mania of the nineties and more recent turns in the political course of the country caused him to examine reappropriation of symbols from the past and reconstruction of national identity. His approach to the subject includes observation of the landscape and derelict villages along Russia's 'Mother-river' Volga where he collects abandoned family photo archives to later articulate found personal histories as valid alternatives to the unstable official history that has silenced individual memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikolas Ventourakis
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In my praxis I deal with contemporary social issues by focusing on the seemingly mundane. When a situation is too complicated the most unremarkable parts can sometimes hold the information that we need to further our understanding of it. In "Leaving Utopia" I use photography to create a document of a fluctuating and hostile environment, in which past rules are overturned and new realities reveal themselves. My intention was to create a visual narrative as a reaction to the social crisis in Greece and to an extend Europe. The work records a newly discovered continent that is Europe of the 21st century, where billboards advertise no new and brighter lives and the people are offered a multitude of dystopian futures. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Humphreys
Central Saint Martins - MA Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I have been recording my parents' life for over ten years; a fertile and dynamic bond has formed between them, the camera and myself. It is within this realm, through research, artistic experimentation coupled with the skills gained from my professional practice, I develop and clarify concepts. One of the major documentations has been filming every single goodbye on my iPhone, the camera became complicit within the rituals of departure. The intimacy and accessibility of the iPhone enabled me to explore further unobtrusive documentary techniques, shot from the hip with a knowing of chance. I present selected stills with transcribed text that illustrates dissolution of a family home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zac T Lee
Central Saint Martins - MA Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The central focus of my practice centers on abandonment and isolation, from youth to empty and derelict spaces. The aim within my work is to look at spaces and objects differently, removing from their context and translating them to a wider contextual understanding. My photographic study of plants in Chinese takeaways aims to produce a similar effect with the plant/subject taking precedence over the space and allowing for the mundane and the individual to be questioned and highlighted through the main focus of the plant. The plant project came to be representational of portraiture rather than my previous work of architectural spaces. Through this study I was able to introduce the concept of 'the overlooked', taking a mundane and universal environment, such as the takeaway shop which can be found all over the world, and focusing on the overlooked items within the space, so that the unnoticed becomes the subject. The employment of abandonment, melancholy and isolation is ever present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kyu Park
Central Saint Martins - MA Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

My work is inspired by observing my family, particularly from my father. I am interested in the multiple identities of people, especially the coexistence of childhood ego and adulthood ego. A starting point for this interest was the animosity I felt towards my father in my youth. However, in my early 20s, I realized that my father is just a normal person like me and there is not a single perfect man in reality, they only existed in my ideal utopia. It was starting point to understand him and I sometimes can find myself in my father. This is why I want to study about him. It is not only a story about my father or my family but also it can be a story about other people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Peña Bray
Central Saint Martins - MA Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

When we search for an image online the images retrieved will have been seen by countless others worldwide. Yet while we may all be looking at the same images, we are seeing different things. Crowdsourced via the Internet, One Thing Leads to Another takes image search results and traces the associations we make with them by collecting photographic responses from the public to select Internet source images. The result is a story of connectivity in which we find ourselves and each other echoed in every image. The photographic image develops its power as a social currency reframed and reiterated by the viewer according to his or her own social, cultural and political framework. Total: 300 submissions from over 30 countries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Saunders
Central Saint Martins - MA Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I explore the established compositional language of the painted landscape and cinema, to create spaces that both absorb the viewer and generate suspense. I choose to photograph spaces of transition, which are often points of passage, partially discarded and overlooked. This status is often due to the displacement of our spatial movements through the city to other routes, and so they reveal how the cities networks, and flow of movement has changed. Rich with debris and traces from previous inhabitants, and the take over of nature; these elements are re-configured to trigger narratives in the mind of the viewer. Whilst there is a wealth on which to draw from, nothing is certain, buildiing on the inherant ambiguity of these transitonal spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ang Song-Nian
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

We own the things in our homes, but they own us as well. Objects carry the burden or responsibilities that include acquisition, use, care, storage, and disposal. The magnitude of these responsibilities for each of us has exploded with the expanding number of items in our homes over the past few decades. Having all these possessions has caused a shift in our behaviour away from human interaction to interaction with inanimate objects. Towards A New Interior serves as an experimental study of space and situation which explore and exploit the conceptual space between presence and absence, drawing out relations between human beings and the things around them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marianne Bjørnmyr
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The project Shadows / Echoes II was conducted over a two-year period where the artist travelled around Iceland to research and document a system of believes where the existence of elves and fairies is not seen as marginal. Through a rather 'naive' attempt to document the existence of elves the artist has collected and transcribed conversations with clairvoyants, photographs from the archive at the Reykjavik Photography Museum, testimonies from the National Museum of Iceland, as well as her own attempts to photograph places with assumed elf populations. The archive may seem arbitrary and incoherent; with no 'valid' proof of this hidden world the material operates as a link between the existing reality and the possibility of another. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joachim Fleinert
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Photographic Monuments is a physical investigation into how we interpret the scale and content of a memory, by the shapes and the perspectives a memory may have. Furthermore the project is seen as a continuation of an earlier installation; Time Fragility (2011), that was an investigation around when a photographic memory is worth preserving, by putting what could have been my whole collection of glass negatives on risk. All the monuments are made of a selection of broken pieces from Time Fragility and thereby from one of my many collections, which I managed to ﬁnd and recover in these restaged sculptures. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathalie Joffre
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

He told me that his garden... is the result of the artist's subjective exploration of the archives of Bethlem Royal Hospital, Europe's oldest institution for mental illnesses and more specifically of a collection of patients' pictures, taken between 1857 and 1859. Whilst studying them, she became more and more interested not only in the documents themselves, but also in the relationship she was building with them; with the place where they are located and the people on the pictures. The photographic archives then became a living and travelling body that one can access and appropriate physically and mentally. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Federica Landi
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

According to the philosopher Merleau-Ponty, both the surface of our body and the textures of the objects that surround us are part of a same 'extended flesh', where all the elements intertwine and remind each other. The work Res Extensa explores the connections between the body and the space through traces of rituals, weather they are religious or simple and intimate daily actions. The bodily quality of the religious space, as place constantly marked by bodies that perform and repeat rituals over and over again echoes the spatial quality of our skin, a surface that 'records' the signs of our daily rituals. Rituals that we often unconsciously bring on ourselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesca Marcaccio
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The project Floating Nest focuses on the notion of transition. Transition is always, somehow, related to the notion of movement. When the transition is personal and implies a dislocation, it is nomadic, contrapuntal. It reveals the idea of nostalgia, the feeling of absence. In a world where location is increasingly becoming fluid, people constantly move from a place to another, in a constant state of geographical and psychological shift. Using portraiture the attempt is to capture these individuals and their nests as a cohesive unit, a portrait of their identity as a body and as a sum of the objects in which they surround themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anaí Tirado Miranda
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Something happened in the bed before the picture was taken. Someone was sleeping there, but who? In this project I interfered with my neighbours' most personal space: their beds. Encroaching with my presence, tainting their room, intruding with my camera: observing and scrutinizing; recording their intimacy. The series questions the power of the camera in the quest for breaking privacy barriers and invading personal spaces; but also the camera as an obstacle in the formation of a relationship between photographer and photographed. In After sleeping, the role of photographer allows me to go inside the homes and beds of strangers. Documenting this satisfies my voyeurism and my eagerness to intrude. In a strange way these images become my personal trophy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Logan Riehl
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

My primary body of work is an ongoing project documenting leading West End Performers in their dressing rooms. I approach this project as an archive, with the accumulation of over two hundred portraits of performers over the past five years. The dressing room images document the construction of femininity and within them, the nuances in shifting aesthetics of gender are where my interests lie. The images become most interesting to me when the performer photographed begins to blur the line between female and female impersonation. Whether that be the exaggeration of feminine qualities in overt makeup and costuming bordering on transvestitism, or subtleties in posing whereby a potentially delicately placed hand reads not as uncharacteristically female but characteristically drag. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bianca Salvo
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Exploiting the correspondences between science and art, the project explores the dynamic interaction between creation, preservation and destruction, and the struggling between primitivism and civilization. Embracing a series of combined practices, from collage to physical interventions on the photographic surface, the whole work has to be consider like the transfer of a physical experiment into the picture context with the aim of rediscovering the flaw that characterized human species as and revealing the primitive nature we all belong to. Suggesting implications for the past, the present and the future of a mankind involved in the accomplishment of eternal endurance, the series eludes to the petrified, preserved, and permanent impression of the fossils as a challenge to human temporal registers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Tkachuk
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This catalogue of industrial relics is looking forward from the past inviting the viewer to place their own theory of what this post-apocalyptic bricolage might be. Re-reading the familiar in an unfamiliar territory making our own assumptions of what these purposeless tribal sculptures of reconstructed fragments might be. These carcasses of machines have outlived their original use instead drawing our attention to the materiality of the forms; they are shadows of the past given a new future. They are a readymade art object that only exists in the photograph. They are re-invented to provide a new function, they are a contrast of a dream world and the objective of the machine. They have become an apparatus of the imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sonja Trabandt
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In Sweet Rebellion Trabandt explores the joy of violence in contemporary capitalist democracies. Her images aim at the viewers' strong attraction to destruction and rebellion by making them forget their disgust of the evil other and their fear of imminent change. Sweet Rebellion plays with the temptation that one has with rebellion, with the romantic idea of rebellion, and implies that it is something soft which supplies pleasure to those that follow their ego's instinct to rebel wether for the greater good or just to live out held back aggressions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philipp Ammon
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The spread of global industry is supporting the growing employment of Morocco's Berber women, which has until recently been uncommon. One of the sources of employment comes from an age-old tradition: the hand-extraction of fruit from Morocco's argan tree, an extremely rare plant that grows nowhere else in the World other than Southwest Morocco. It takes 30 KG of fruit and 15 hours of labour to produce just one litre of argan oil, an expensive commodity in the West. What social impact does this industry have on the country, and how is the employment of women being received in patriarchal Muslim communities? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jane Baker
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Haydn Hill, 48, the fifth and last generation of Jesse Hill Gunmakers, established in 1921. His business in Stirchley will close when he retires, as his machinery no longer meets employee health and safety requirements. Birmingham's gun trade, concentrated mainly in the city's Gun Quarter, reached its peak during the Napoleonic War when 14,000 guns were produced every week. Today its artisan workshops and rich heritage is facing extinction. Before turning to freelance documentary photography Jane spent five years working for Oxfam commissioning international photography assignments and doing press work. Whilst she continues to work with NGOS, she has also begun to turn her interests to the UK, documenting stories about traditional manufacturing, heritage, urban regeneration, poverty, faith and forced migration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Bush
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

War Primer 3: Work Primer is an appropriation of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's War Primer 2, itself an appropriation of Bertolt Brecht's Kriegsfibel. While Broomberg and Chanarin updated Brecht's original to comment on the War on Terror, I in turn update theirs to comment on their problematic transplantation of Brecht's work and rhetoric to the elite, expensive domain of fine art, and their use of unpaid labour in the production of their book. Overlaying their images with photographs of economic inequality and adding text from Brecht's poem A Worker Reads History, I aim to draw attention to the exploitative working conditions that exist in all industries, from sweatshop workers in Dakha to arts sector interns in London. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Will Clarkson
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Game is a deliberately ambiguous title. In urban areas it is frivolous, only a game, ultimately inconsequential. In rural parlance it is business, a matter of life and death (for the wildlife), a matter of employment and of pride. This is the first of many dichotomies to reveal themselves during the course of the project. It is a portrait of a gamekeeper, Mark, in his environment, following him for three months towards the end of 2012. With such intense attention on the gamekeeper, limited accurate depictions exist in the media - this is not the conservational debate it seems, more a socio-political and an ideological one. Mark lies at the centre, but has never had his story told. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bernadette Keating
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Ireland's identity in the 21st century, as promoted by the state sponsored tourist board, is based on clichéd and iconic images. Hidden beneath this official portrayal is a multiplicity of confused experiences: life in the aftermath of the so called celtic tiger economy, the contention of authenticity and national identity in a globalized world, and an attachment to a romantic past. If we avert our gaze from the officially sanctioned narrative this subtext becomes more apparent. This series of images of a re-imagined Ireland is guided by history, poetry and my personal memories. Each recorded moment is raw and unscripted. Presented in book form, and combined with text, they question the uncertain future facing the people of this country. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Noriko Takasugi
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Soma Nomaoi is an annual celebration of Samurai warrior culture in Fukushima and more than 1000 years old. In 2011 approximately 2,000 people died in Fukushima due to the tsunami and earthquakes, 80% of whom were from the area where the Soma Nomaoi is held. The Samurai portrayed here were once residents in the area close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They are no longer allowed to live there but they can now enter the area during the day. I took each of their portraits in places that had a personal meaning to them, reviving their memories of home. The images form part of my long-term project 'Fukushima Samurai' which explores Japanese identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Deane
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This is a project about a community. It is a project by the community. And it is a project for the community. A comprehensive collection of documentary images of this area of Manchester led to visual and textual portraits of community campaigners. Work is collated in a zine, distributed in shops and cafes in the locale. This is echoed in a blog, accessible to a wider audience. The work was inspired by motherhood. By a sudden relationship with a place. By a realisation that this place will always be significant within a family history. Embrace your community, give back to your community, and you will discover your community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andy Glynn
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Mamiya RB67, Fuji 100c instant film (negative/positive). Brunswick is a council housing estate on the eastside of Chorlton on Medlock. The series of photographs, The estate, focuses on the social housing and urban planning of the area and the sub-standard housing issues that have arisen through the neglect of the buildings since its development. Andy Glynn is a co-founder of document collective and dc studio. A Manchester Photographic Studio and analogue Black and White darkroom available for hire, based at Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patrick Handley
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

There was a time when Ancoats was all fields. Later the area played a key role in the Industrial Revolution. It is now struggling through a post-industrial identity crisis: some see it as a potential site for a trendy new suburb, I see Ancoats as an oxymoronic landscape of 'urban planning' and 'private wasteland'. This project is born of a more general concern for the relationship between our economic system and its impact on our natural and social environment. The images seek to frame the visual contradictions that are largely unseen when a spectator's attention is encouraged only to focus on: a sympathetic new-build, a sensitive re-development, or the speculative acquisition of a disused building or an empty space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julian Harris
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

My work is an exploration of visual messages and the manipulation of their meanings. I have taken images from the BBC News website on a daily basis and altered them from images of war, famine, malice and political unrest, to representations of the components of medicinal plants. The medicinal value of these plants can help towards healing the pain of the original message of the image. As well as the medicinal reference, even just a virtual representation of the natural world can have a positive impact on our mental stability and rehabilitation according to new research. Just as botanical specimens require a closer inspection to reveal hidden detail, my illustrations hide news headlines within the folds of petals and leaves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Howard
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This project focuses on constructed landscapes found in modern urban environments. These landscapes are strangely manicured and carefully thought out representations of the natural world. I want the images to reflect the consideration that goes into constructing these types of spaces. The photographs are composed to emphasise the containment of these minimalist and formal arrangements, that at times create an almost stage-like effect. Each image is absent of people to portray the transient nature of these types of spaces. They are spaces that we don't inhabit but pass through daily; they are familiar to us and yet strange and unknown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Morris
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Utilising digital and analogue technologies I explore the urban landscape looking for aspects of beauty in the banal and overlooked town of Stretford. I take my inspiration from english landscape painters and the work explores transience and the sublime in suburbia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Parnell
Manchester School of Art MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

An exploration of familial memory through a specific place, using varied medias to inspire and inform the work, I aim to explore how we attempt to forever retain a sense of place that focuses us upon our attachments to the space. In many respects Rose Hill is reflective of my own reluctance to move on, a refusal to accept the change forced upon myself, clinging onto what I feel is my last spatial domestic connection to childhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Odeta Catana
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

'Mother ROMANIA' depicts the state of the nation in relation with nowadays migration phenomenon, portraying three generations of women. I have chosen as a reference the community of my hometown, Calarasi, situated in Southern Romania, which is affected at different levels by the migration in the European countries, just like the whole country. The project features three generations: the elderly and the High School girls, who are at home, in Romania, and the adult generation who has left the country reaching for a better life. The mother-child bound, which is one of the most profound relationships, can be interpreted further as the bound with the country itself, with Romania. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hugo Feio Machado
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In 2009 I started the project 'Requiem to a Dying Planet taping in to the idea of subsistence and the necessity of free farming. I have been photographing people and the landscape produced by them, for their own keep, Subsistence farmers. The project has been documenting different methods of farming when applied to different landscapes. In 2011 I started My Own Plot Project that observes the different aspects of urban farming. I chose a particular way of shooting which is Helping me to create visually the dialogue that exist between Urban Subsistence farmers and the landscape. The project followed for 12 months four couples and their home vegetable plots, creating a portrait of the landscape and making a record in 12 images per plot. I am showing at Source four images that represent the four seasons. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catarina Fontoura
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Invocations is an exploration of a series of particular encounters between humans and insects; an intense journey to capture the unfamiliar and to understand Nature's grand fleeing from Man but also to comprehend Man's attraction to other forms of life. Violence and grace are constantly present in Invocations and pursue the observer as he walks in dark. Flight and restlessness are paired with moments of vulnerability and enlightenment. This series of photographs is the result of numerous visits to moth trapping sessions in the British mainland during the period two years. Moths and people are portrayed long side with the dark nocturnal landscape that involves them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jiwei Han
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Launderettes are classical and fascinating. More ordinary if I compare them to supermarkets, pubs, libraries and similar places and spaces where people meet and socialise. Launderette is used through necessity, and the only real motivation is to clean ones clothes and in essence there is no reason why you would want to socialise, relax or unwind in the space. This awareness that you are not pressurised to engage or socialise creates a special environment. Like a bus journey, you have to wait. Nothing can be helped to speed up the driver nor to make the spin cycle go quicker. This can be a very therapeutic process. Users of launderettes quietly enjoy this ritual of literally ironing out ones life laundry, whether it involves talking to others, people watching or relaxing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Hilling
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

What are the current and potential roles of various types of photography within consumer culture? How can documentary photography acknowledge and respond to the intertwining of commercial imagery and our lives? AND CARS is an ongoing project with the overall aim of visualising the wider visual, conceptual, and physical systems connected with cars. The images presented here are taken from various series' in Part 1 of the project, which addresses existing consumer-car interfaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesca Magistro
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Lucus a non lucendo is a Latin sentence whose meaning describes a non-lighted grove. To be pointed out is the etymological contradiction in which a modern word is derived from an older word of a contradictory meaning. The illogical explanation is generated by the words from their semantic opposites: lucus (grove) from lūcēre (to shine, be light) because a grove has not light. From this paranomasia can be traced the origin of the region's name, Lucania, where photographs have been taken. It has often been used as an example of absurd etymology given by contrasting elements such as light and dark. . According to the language as conventional and not logical, this project describes the geographical and metaphorical visible darkness of the area where a huge quantity of petrol has been extracted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrei Nacu
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In the Forsaken Garden Time is a Thief is a subtle insight into my parents' daily life in contemporary Romania, examining their struggle to absorb and cope with some of the traumatic political and social shifts of the last 50 years. Their relationship becomes an analogy for the disillusionment and dissatisfaction that marked these decades and hopefully this percolates around in all the aspects of the project. The context, the environment that my parents are in and the history that they have been subjected to is really important, and the challenge was to tell a story that is simultaneously personal, and general in relation to the social and political context. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Hofmann
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Good Nature is a collaborative project between myself and Zac Gates. An exploration of the British landscape through journeys to Bothys. Bothys are free shelters situated in the most remote areas of Britain that are open to anyone who puts in the effort to get to them. Old cottages or small buildings, they offer no amenities, just a wooden platform to sleep on and a fireplace. What is so unique about the buildings is not just their history and the remote landscapes they are situated in, but also the communalist ethics of how they function. Our documentation of the journeys involves hitchhiking, trekking and an exploration of the wild places of Britain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Duke
University of Wales, Newport - MA/MFA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Walk around the English town of Corby and you could be forgiven for thinking you were 90 miles from Edinburgh rather than London: there's Skye Road, Rannoch Way, Nevis Close. On the street corners, kids drink Irn Bru and on rugby shirts it is the thistle rather than the rose that sticks out. Thanks to an army of Scottish steel workers arriving in the town during the early 20th century onwards, Corby has until recent times been dominated by economic migrants from north of the border. 'Wee Corby' aims to investigate the attempts made by the Scottish community in Corby to retain their identity as Scots and maintain their heritage in a modern, multi-cultural town. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Cross
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

METAMORPHOSIS is a collaboration between the photographer and the artist to highlight the amazing talent that tattoo artists possess. It's also about changing perceptions of stereotypes; changing ideas. For too long the tattoo artist has been ignored by the mainstream art world. The tattoo artist is seen to inhabit a twilight world of criminality and the underclass, but these artists are true masters of their craft and talented artists in their own right. The original premise is to take a photograph, give it to the tattoo artist and allow them to draw over the image in his or her own style. This should represent the technique of tattooing they would normally create, allowing the portrait to show through the work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Larina Fernandes
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

As a photographer, I seek to identify myself through my photographs and subjects. By using my camera as a window between the viewer and my subjects, I attempt to capture them at this point of transformation, what Arbus describes as the 'gap between intention and effect'. 'RePose' is located within my research on 'absorption' and 'theatricality'. In this series the subject is both present and absent in the image. Even though the subjects are asleep, and therefore unaware of the camera's presence, their conscious effort of selecting the clothes they are photographed in shows that being seen by the camera, and by extension the viewer, still dictates the way they appear within the frame of the lens. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shuntaro Hosokawa
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I am strongly interested in the 'Face.' Man cannot see his own face, so people feel the need to live with a fragile self-image constructed by fragments of photographs, prejudices, and reverse images in the mirror. It is frequently idealised as to 'how I should look', because our face only exists in our own minds. This is often influenced by ones personal idea of what the 'ideal type of face' is- those from actors, models, even our neighbours. In this project, I want to depict the gap between the ideal face and the real face, so I have taken portraits of people and retouched them in Photoshop to get closer to each of their sample images of their 'ideal face.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carl Tschudin
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The first time that man tried to explain how the world is put together and what is needed to make it work through a scientific theory: The four elements - fire, water, air and earth. My photographs are a series of images representing these elements in such a way that is part science, part art and part wonder. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesca Wilkinson
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

'Illuminations and Paper Studies,' is a photographic installation challenging the uniform depiction of space that we have become accustomed to seeing in photographic works. I have photographed blank pieces of paper by using the scanner as a form of camera-less photography- the scanner is unable to distort space in the way that the lens of a camera does, but it has the ability to capture the paper in great detail, highlighting unseen spaces such as those that are created through its manipulation. I have used a layering technique in the installation whereby I have hung transparencies from the ceiling over the framed images on the wall, creating depth and a sense that the photographs extend the frame. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kevin Dowling
University of Sunderland - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

It was thinking about how we might connect to each other in unseen ways and an interest in the work of Carl Jung which inspired this MA project. The work is an attempt to evoke a sense of the unconscious potentialities of the mind as Jung described them, and in particular the idea of a Collective Unconscious and Unus Mundus, or universal mind, from and to which all existence flows. The majority of the images are of plant roots, used as a metaphor for networks of psychic connections quietly developing in the fertile darkness of the unconscious. These ambiguous and perhaps unsettling forms suggest contact with the 'wholly other' which Jung believed to accompany any interaction with the inner psyche. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elaine Vizor
University of Sunderland - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This work is a series of portraits (representations) of women of 'The Invisible Age'. That is, women over fifty years of age, who exist but are often unseen or overlooked. Using the term 'landscape' generically to encompass city, sea, urban or rural 'scapes', the women are seen in the landscapes they inhabit. Drawing from the 'Deadpan Aesthetic', the women are central in the frame and are visible, even if only momentarily. Standing out from their familiar landscapes, which are imbued with personal meaning, the women appear to be more powerful, dominant or visible in those places, whether the places are small or vast. Each woman is purposefully photographed in the landscape orientation to extend the metaphor of space and visibility. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Ward
University of Sunderland - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

'I long to have such a memorial of every being dear to me in the world. It is not merely the likeness which is precious in such cases - but the association and sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever!' Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1843. In 'Every Being Dear To Me' I photograph my children and the spaces we inhabit together. It is a long-term venture, the motivations behind which are complex, tangled and difficult to name. Fundamentally the compulsion to photograph my family is rooted in the promise photography makes, of taking a moment and holding it forever still. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gordon Ashbridge
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Sometimes faith which was at one time strong and significant can become weak, even splintering. Whether we are sure of what we hope for, or a little uncertain of what we do not see, we are often surrounded by fragments of a fragmenting faith. The brethren movement of the Christian church had its beginning in Dublin, Ireland. In the 1830s, John Nelson Darby, a curate in the Church of Ireland, and others who had become disenchanted with the established church and its rituals, began to meet with a desire to return to a much simpler form of worship. The radical rejection of sacramentalism, symbolism and ritual in worship was also apparent in their personal way of life, conduct and behaviour. This work examines the people, places and paraphernalia of a once radical movement now struggles for relevance in a post christian society. This is an on going project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Corcoran
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The experience of contemporary Ireland is one marked by the enormity of the changes taking place on the island. This post-boom landscape is one burdened with the legacy of past failings and challenged by unprecedented and sustained levels of erosion economically. This work explores the landscape image as a site of expression for ideas about place and experience. Adopting the coastline as a metaphor for transitional space, it presents a landscape that is exposed, eroding and fragile, a space where uncertainty abounds. This allegorical series questions modern Ireland tentative future prospects as a place that is increasingly defined by its relationship with the sublime space of globalized economics. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jean Curran
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Neither Here, Nor There is an exploration of transition from one culture to another. Centered on a group of young students from Malawi who all moved to Dublin to attend college, they soon realized that the playful fantasies they had conjured up of what life in Ireland would be like, did not match the harshness of the reality of everyday life on the north side of Dublin. The feeling of being outsiders, of being culturally and ethnically different began to take its toll on their spirit and as a result, they began to regress, back into the sanctuary of their imaginations and into a world of the familiar in a place so unfamiliar. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Gaffney
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

During 2012 I walked over 3,500 kilometres throughout Spain, Portugal and the south of France with the aim of creating a body of work which explores the idea of walking as a form of meditation. My intention was to create a series of quiet, meditative images, which would evoke the experience of being immersed in nature and capture the essence of the journey. The images seek to engage the viewer in this walk, and to communicate a sense of the subtle internal and psychological changes which one may undergo while negotiating the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chai Weston Green
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Liminality of the Numinous examines tensions found within the thin place at the joining of earth, sea, and sky. It documents the motions of forces within that convergence: the currents rushing out to sea, incoming tides, and winds. My interest is not so much in the motion of these forces in and of themselves, but the way their motion is revealed by the introduction of a light allowed to float unhindered in their currents. This revelation is a brief pointer into the unseen, a hint of the numinous. The images are themselves created during the liminal moment at sunset - - the time when day stands on the threshold of night. The photographs are brief moments of meditation looking into the numinous. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Hussey
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In 2011 I began to document my mother as she underwent treatment for bone-marrow cancer. As the initial threat began to retreat and our fears as a family became less immediate, the focus of my attention also shifted. I now needed the images to serve a different function and to stand as more than just documentation. These photographs mark the beginning of a collaborative endeavour between myself, my brother, my mother and my father that I hope to continue for many years. What started as a project about an illness has become a body of work about my family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma McGuire
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Smallacre's time is almost done. It began life as an idyllic family home and ends it's existence as a rundown edifice. The house however retains it's own inexplicable essence, refusing to accept the changes that have been wrought upon it. These pictures depict the house and people who may or may not live there as they both undergo their own phase of transition. The more I looked, the more I learned, and I watched and it watched back. It is me, it is my friends, it is its own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanna McNulty
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This work is a study of the complex relationship we have with the places we inhabit, of the fear and anxiety in moving beyond the familiar. The domestic and suburban combine to underline an embedded history of place and space. The landscape of the home, in reflecting the shaping and construction of identity and memory, becomes an archaeological excavation: fragmented and mundane, melancholic, sinister and obscure. Home and our sense of place exist on a liminal boundary between real and imagined. Wrapped up in obscurity the psychological effect of instability and insularity is revealed through light. The familiar becoming alien as an architecture of the self is uncovered in the architecture of the home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yvette Monahan
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This photographic body of work is a portrait of a place, a landscape of possibility. This project is based in a small region in Southern France. It centres on the story of Bugarach, the 'magic' mountain. Bugarach was somehow connected to a Mayan prophecy which indicated that the world as we know it, would end on December 21st, 2012. The prophecy claimed that this date would mark the beginning of a new and sublime future for humanity. Bugarach was to be the first bastion of this modern Arcadia. Nothing happened last December, which was to be expected. Despite this, I realised how attractive it was to believe in the possibility of an idyll, even if it only existed in my mind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eoin O'Conaill
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Sway focuses on a recurring physical and psychological environment that exists on the outskirts of many large towns and cities. Photographed on the periphery of cities that had once been the heartland of Industrial Britain, this work traces a growing generic landscape of indistinct housing estates, vernacular architecture and periphery businesses that stretch out to the city limits. This work looks to a landscape that is detached from the centre of modern commerce and industry, where the consequences of current and past economic, political and planning decisions meet with human lives head on. Sway sets out to explore this familiar landscape, tracing the patterns of everyday life that are often overlooked. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rory O'Neill
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

This work seeks to examine the complex system that is 'Direct Provision' (DP). DP is the name given to the practice that governs the lives of Asylum Seekers applying for refugee status in Ireland. £19.10 is the weekly sum of money that Asylum Seekers receive while in the care of the State. Asylum Seekers typically wait between four and ten years for a decision on their future. During this time they live in an institutional limbo. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francis O'Riordan
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

'ah much the same' is an exploration of the repeating moments of the everyday. Engaging with the spaces that make up my daily existence. Spaces that have shaped and controlled my passage through time. Each of these spaces carries with them their own functions and social perceptions. The power of these spaces is always active but not always apparent in ones consciousness. Only by staying with a space over time is it possible to gain a sense of this influence. Observing a repeated experience across time allows me to come to terms with where I exist, instead of trying to escape from it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dilara Arisoy
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The ritual of traditional fortune reading from coffee grounds, and believing in the promises given by the fortuneteller, work as a medium to deal with an uncertain reality, and called 'future'. The idea of our past, present and future is tied to each other, giving this ritual a more effective role in Turkish people's lives. I search for the subjectivity of each Turkish person in this project, who temporarily lives in London. From the moment one is told their fortune, they become someone else, a new person with different expectations and dreams. The semantic dialogue between the individual and the practice of fortune reading from the black residues of coffee grounds, renders the coffee saucer to a respective secondary portraiture. Yet Every saucer is qualified to denote just the next 3 MONTHS In other words 3 'AY' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mia Cuk
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Series of portraits endeavouring to capture psychological states of anonymous passengers on public transport, where nothing of note ever seems to happen. Yet these places of temporality - which we experience with detachment, impatient to get somewhere - are the places where we find ourselves at our most off-guard and vulnerable. As passengers, behind the glass, we acquire the delusion of a certain privacy, drifting in and out of our own private journeys; oblivious to the outside world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nhung Dang
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

How does a person respond when their mind is invited to explore a 'past life' under hypnosis? Are the individual experiences products of fantasy, repressed memories or metaphors for themes occurring in the subjects' everyday lives? Reflecting upon a personal lack of historical narrative arising from displacement as a refugee from Vietnam in my early life, this work sets out to discover whether an 'autobiographical memory' or traces of a person's origins could be revealed from within the unconscious. Presented as a series of videos, this project witnesses from the outside, signs of the vivid internal narrative taking place within the unconscious mind of the subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frida Edlund
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In this series I am focusing on the encounter between an older generation of women and the city. This body of work represents how these women are moving within the metropolis, thus being a substantial part of its pulse, and the way in which they inconspicuously take on the urban environment, owning the streets with their vitality, pride and individuality. In a time when youth is idealized, women belonging to an older age group are not often represented in the contemporary image world. 'Urban Lady' aims to make these marvelous flâneuses visible. To me, these women are a metaphor of strength and inspiration and this is why they deserve to be seen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luba Kozorezova
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Uncertain is a project about reflections. First, specular ones, as the people from these portraits did not see the camera, when being shot. They were looking into the mirror that was placed between them and the photographer. Initially, it was an attempt to observe their behavior in the situation, when they were faced with their own gaze, the gaze of someone behind the reflecting surface and finally the mechanical gaze of the photographic apparatus. In the case of the viewer it is a reflection of another sort: on the differences and similarities between the natures of the still and moving image. The technologies of film and photography that have been tightly bound together throughout the history, here are juxtaposed. Their coexistence in one piece allows to explore the two ways of our perception of time, showing something that has once happened and something that is happening right now, when we are looking at it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roy Milani
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Now You See Me began as a project considering the way in which older people are represented today and positioned within our society. Hearing older people speak of feeling less visible and less relevant as they become older, Roy Milani wanted to understand this feeling of growing irrelevance and invisibility. He wanted to challenge the tropes commonly used when representing older people and, in effect, make the 'invisible' visible. The photographs explore notions of age, gender, the body and beauty but also, in working closely with and co creating this work with his models, it became more personal - two people revealing the emotional space they inhabit at a singular moment in time bounded by the continuum of a life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katarina Mudronova
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Technological progress, ever-increasing interconnecte-dness and economic interdependence serve to compress, to constrain, to cut, to displace and to heat. My work shows simple domestic objects taking on new and unexpected meanings. I am using the subject of food and its preparation to create a dialogue about changes to the fabric of everyday life, on both a global and local level. Through the use of a playful metaphor the domestic objects appear in its context as the products of an increasingly homogenised world. This series is neither a critique nor a description but rather my reflection on the impact of globalization and how humanity is dealing with this phenomenon. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon Mutch
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Young women all over the world are being solicited by a multi billion dollar industry to help infertile couples have a baby. Egg donation agencies are advertising via college campus bulletin boards, social media and online classifieds, promising large sums of money and assurance to the young women of the safety and nobility of the cause. However, egg donors are not tracked and monitored for short and long term risks that are associated with the powerful drugs taken to boost ovulation for harvesting multiple follicles (eggs). 'Girls who donate eggs, after they are done with her: there are no numbers. There is nobody asking - How many of those girls have gone on to have complications or problems? - She is nameless, she doesn't appear anywhere. She doesn't appear in the medical literature, she doesn't appear in any kind of tracking or oversight. She is gone.' (Suzanne Parisian, MD: 2010) The Harvest is not only a place for us to hear the moving stories recounted by young female donors but it is a memorial wall for the stories that may never be heard. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Olmetti
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I started this project gathering people that were experiencing some sort of transition and I soon realised that what I was actually creating was a piece of work about me through them. Identity, gender, sexuality are not fixed but in fact something fluid, they cannot be forced in strict boundaries but they exist as a cultural construct. The real self cannot be revealed through portraiture but only projected through performance. This series is a succession of self-portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Beatriz Perez
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Misshapes is a critique on the media misrepresentation of the female 'social' body in contemporary society. The commercial campaigns of the beauty and dieting industry in the 1980s and 1990s imposed unrealistic standards of thinness and beauty on contemporary women in first-world countries. There is a relentless focus on the body parts; as if identity is defined as being the body. Symptoms of this malign narcissism include the incidence of unhealthy dieting, a myriad of eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, and depression. This cult of thinness generates body anxiety which in turn has opened up a market for self-esteem that is being exploited by the image driven mass media. Thus, there is a circularity where women are 'sold back' to themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ochi Reyes
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I have gone through the traces my mother left behind since she passed away almost a year ago now. In this search I have been using different lenses to get closer  and closer until I finally used a microscope through which the referent disappears in what appears as a series of deserted and abstract landscapes, mirrors of my feelings. This process has been nothing other than a way to both understand her absence and to try to grasp onto whatever could hold her presence; a way to forget and to remember, a way to let emotions go as well as a way to constantly open the doors of these emotions to be able to feel. 'these fragments I have shored against my ruin' T.S. Eliot . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ilektra Stefanatou
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In the series Hestia, named after the Greek goddess of domesticity, I explored the idea of home. For many people home is associated with a warm and inviting feeling, while for others it is a desirable yet untouchable dream. The depicted domestic architecture also unravels the idea of hospitality, a concept interwoven with Greek cultural identity since antiquity. Still very prominent in the Greek lifestyle, hospitality is expressed through the generosity and kindness shown to the guest by the host. I captured the interiors of two distinct mansions that were built in the 18th century in Siatista, a town located in the northern part of Greece. During this period Greece was under Turkish occupation that led to a redistribution of populations. Despite the subjugation, in the 18th and 19th centuries Siatista experienced remarkable growth on an economical and cultural level through international commerce and transactions. The owners of the mansions, who were merchants, would travel abroad and settle there for a long period of time as they engaged with trade and business. As migration is also an aspect of modern societies, the idea of home is becoming more and more vague. Quite often, the house you live in is not necessarily what you call home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Stretton
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

'We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.' David Abram To engage with what surrounds us is also to engage with ourselves. In phenomenology we are inseparable from the world around us. Events and interactions are recorded in many ways, be it visual, written or through the transformations and changes left in various manners. In negotiating our place and relationship with our surroundings we often seek to find familiarities and connections. We have a human curiosity not just with how aspects of the world were formed but also with how they share similarities with other parts, both human and non-human. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Marshall
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Ron Shuttleworth is the keeper of costumes of the Coventry Mummers, and of the Morris Ring Folk-Play Archive. These portraits have been made with Ron at his house and always in the same location. 'The wallpaper was the only thing my wife ever let me choose. We have been going since time immoral, and there are damn few of us left. Mummers are not pretending to be something they are not. When the public go to the theatre they suspend their disbelief in reality to accept what they are seeing. However in real life there are many people trying to con them. Mummers try not to convince or be convincing.' The custom of Mumming is a rural activity and players perform from house to house, once a year only. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jayne Taylor
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

An affectionate portrait of the dynamic microcosm at London's very heart: Soho. Of all the 'villages' which collectively (yet each with their own distinct 'personality') make up the inner-boroughs of London, Soho is perhaps the most charismatic and hard-to-define. In keeping with Soho's diverse character, this body of work as a whole is multi-faceted and continues to unfold in new and unexpected ways. The 3 images here are from the project's main strand, which goes 'beneath the surface' to represent some of the people and places that, together, embody the enduring essence and rich fabric of Soho. (Parallel images were also made in stereoscopic 3D, for exhibition purposes.) Shot using both new and old technologies, and at a crucial moment in time when Soho finds itself on the cusp of potentially rapid and radical change, this a toast to Soho's timeless verve and to the staying-power of its elusive and irrepressible character. Long live Soho! . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katerina Kremasioti
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

My work revolves around fabricated, imaginary space. The images are created through three - dimensional models which I hand make in my studio using a variety of materials. Viewed through the photographic lens, the sets transform into illusionary spaces where the boundaries between reality and fantasy, fact and fiction, dream and awakening become uncertain. The images emerge from my own conscious or unconscious mind, in the form of memories and dreams. The process, from the construction of the set to the production of the photograph, is a slow, meticulous journey full of revelations and surprises. Finally, I invite the viewer to engage with the "before" and "after" of the photographic still in order to form a sequence of events according to their own perception and interpretation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dafydd Williams
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The series 'Y Lon Goed' portrays the childhood home and the farm in Wales on which I grew up. In many respects the farm is an extension of the home. It is where I worked and played, laughed and cried. The photographs explore themes involving identity and sexuality. My work is strongly inspired by Queer theory, where notions of identity and sexuality are perceived as a performance. They are constructs, fluid and ambiguous, with constantly changing content influenced by history and culture. Who I am today is influenced and shaped by the past.These images serve to chronicle the unconscious through absence, fantasy, memories and forgotten realities. Objects of the everyday reveal the invisible. They are coded with language which defined my youth, in turn shaping my sense of place in the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Newman
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Mutant is a continuing series of self-portraits modelled on gay characters in comic books from the 1940s onwards. In my performances I explore the homophobic and hetero-normative discourse of the genre. By embodying the silly and effeminate, the sinister and perverted, the diseased and contagious I want to challenge the tropes and stereotypes that serve to warn against and to contain homosexuality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Tubbs
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Mythologies of the werewolf abound throughout the centuries and across continents in a myriad of slightly varying forms. The series explores whether modern society's abject rejection of atrocities by solitary persons reflects a similar tradition. Once children were advised not to stray from the path in the woods. Now an increasingly urbanised and isolated population is creating its own myths with news media having a powerful effect on fear in the collective psyche. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nasreen Shaikh Jamal Al-Lail
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

When lost between past and present, time and space take on a special significance. This dislocation in my life occurred at the age of 9, when I moved from Saudi Arabia to England, and my world was divided into two different linguistic spheres. In this work I create an abstracted language to show how I have struggled with this sudden shift. The dots are the linguistic medium, which embody the process of transition, capturing the constant state of change, the position and the feeling of being 'in the middle'. That is, I count to 9 only to realize the gulf between who I was, who I am and who I will become. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Janica Candolin
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

The Finnish Archipelago Sea in the Baltic comprises of 22,483 islands, making it together with the Aland Archipelago the world's largest. This chain of islands has also been called globally the most beautiful archipelago, which the Ice Age and land upheaval have shaped into its present form. I documented the changing landscapes and lifestyles on one of these islands, my birth island of Aasla. As people in the archipelago have lived on nature's terms, the livelihood during past centuries has been earned from fishing, agriculture and cattle raising. In search for peace and quiet, new entrepreneurs have settled on this 16 sq. km island, and therefore the human population is rising again after a lengthy period of decline. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ella Dickinson
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

How do you photograph the past? How do you capture the essence of what a place once was, without undermining its present? Cape clear island is the most southerly inhabited point in Ireland. A place of spectacular natural beauty and character, the once self-sufficient island that depended on the agricultural and fishing now has 62% of its land remaining fallow. Over the past 100 years the population of Cape Clear has declined by 75%. The Irish financial crisis means fewer newcomers are settling on the island. The recession has reduced tourism, which is one of the mainstays of the island's economy, decreasing the viability of life on the island. Cape clear's landscape tells its own story. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denise Felkin
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Resurrection is a revival of the style and technique of artist Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883). Manet's paintings spoke out about contemporary social issues and he was inspired by photography and Renaissance paintings. The context of Resurrection reveals a taste for survival, reflecting current social anxieties about technology, environment, health and corruption. It is a series of portraits of people who have had a long term experience with homelessness. It questions the permanency of the home and incorporates a study of how the current government's benefits crackdown is affecting poorer people. Each person pictured became very close to death, before being helped by local council services for the homeless, and was ultimately given a home - but for how long? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carrie Hitchcock
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I am exhibiting photographs from my self-published illustrated book about 'the yard' self-build, a unique community-led development in inner-city Bristol, UK. The purpose of this book is to make a record of the project and to inspire and inform others who want to study or create similar developments themselves. It will incorporate practical tips and resources. Each home will have it's own spread providing a case study, but also an insight into the person or family who created it. More than just a record, the book will explore ideas of home and community. Eventually I would like to expand the project to create a manual for sustainable urban living. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corinna Kern
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

What does home mean to you? How is the experience of home related to a place or a feeling? How does this experience manifest itself around a life in constant transition? This project explores the concept of home within London's squatting scene. What might commonly be perceived as a shelter for the homeless or poor is often a conscious choice - an alternative and communal way of living. By becoming part of the squatting community, Corinna Kern has embarked on a personal journey through which she discovered homes that extend beyond a physical existence. From derelict warehouses to design studios, from garden centres to fabric storehouses, each place is infused with its own particular spirit conveying a sense of home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adriana Monsalve
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

I am black. you may not know it when you look at me, but it is as much a part of me as the latin roots that are the face of my origin. I am Latina. You May not know this either, because to see me is to see white. I speak with an American accent and my skin is not dark enough to be labeled black or Latina. I am white, but only in appearance. I am labeled by the superficial layer that covers my bones and blood. Puerto Rico is an island made up of a vast hybridity of people including: African, Arab, Native Indian, and European. It also happens to be the capital of the world for Albinism. There are multiple layers that make up how alibinism manifests physically, insde and out. Albinism is not just white on this island, it's black too. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Norwood
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

'Almost the last thing I did in the Air Ministry of any importance was to high-jack for Civil Aviation land on which London Airport stands under the noses of resistant Ministerial colleagues. If high jack is too strong a word I plead guilty to the lesser charge of deceiving a cabinet committee.' Lord Balfour of Inchrye, in his 1973 autobiography 'Wings over Westminster'. By using maps that show current proposals for airport expansion around Heathrow as a starting point, this project takes an oblique look at a blighted landscape, and seeks to investigate the mystery in places through which travelers have passed for centuries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Monica Pedraja
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Filipinos make up the second largest Asian American population and yet little is known about this ethnic group. Exposure to American culture during the early 1900s under colonial rule led to rapid assimilation especially when crossing to the US. Learning English in the Philippines along with adopting American customs gave Filipinos an advantage and by the third wave of immigration, faced less and less discrimination. With an excess of Americanization, the original culture faded and Filipinos walk invisible in America compared to other Asian counterparts. I was born in Manila, but raised in the suburbs of Chicago. Growing up Brown is a personal exploration of how Filipinos preserve our cultural identity and memories while also balancing an American identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luca Piffaretti
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Despite being culturally and linguistically really similar, Ticino, the southernmost region of Switzerland, and Lombardia, its Italian neighbour to the south, have been part of two different political entities for five hundred years. Today, as a consequence of the free movement of persons' agreement with EU members, the physical structures of the border are slowly disappearing. What remains is a sense of insecurity and diffidence, especially on the Swiss side, where I was born. This project aims to explore how the presence of the border has affected the landscape and the way Swiss-Italians perceive their identity in relation to a territory delineated by boundaries that are neither geographical nor linguistic, but purely political. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caterina Ragg
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

In the last ten years 650,000 children have been born in Italy from non-Italian parents. When including those who were born outside Italy, but entered the country when they were still children, the number is higher. They consider Italy as their home, but they are not citizens by birth. Obtaining citizenship means a long and expensive bureaucratic process, which is often not successful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mubeen Siddiqui
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Flâneur is a French term used for a person who walks the city in order to experience it. The legendary writer Charles Dickens was one of the flâneur of his time, who without any aim walked around the streets of London at night which led to the development of characters of most of his novels. This photography project, consisting of portraits, explores the idea of being a nocturnal flaneur in today's time. Just like Dickens, I walked around the streets of London at night to beat my insomnia, and see the characters of the night come out. These are the faces of my insomniac phase. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Naomi Soto
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

It is said in traditional songs and poems that Asturias is 'green and black' - due to its exuberant nature and coal. Now most of the coalmines are closed and their buildings remain silent, quiet like skeletons. For the last two decades this region in North Spain has been immersed in an unsuccessful process of reindustrialisation which has added nothing but another colour to the canvas; a faded grey that gets everywhere. Trapped between a vanishing lifestyle at which they cannot look back and an uncertain future they cannot envisage, people live in a limbo where nothing seems to change; their paths going astray before their eyes as if a dense fog covered everything. A fog that sometimes seems grey too. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Giorgia Tobiolo
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Peter is my neighbour and his life is the same everyday. He was born in East Ham and since 1966 he has lived on A. road, the street I moved to months ago. He loves the colour blue and this is incorporated in all aspects of his life: he dresses in blue, the places where he usually goes are blue and his house is mostly blue. He retired from work in 2000 and since then he follows the same routine every week. Peter says, 'I find that doing the same things and going to the same places gives me a feeling of stability in an increasingly uncertain world... when something is good, why would one wish for change?' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Waight
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Photojournalism has evolved in response to an ever-changing world. While my recent work still reflects the traditional concept of the story telling image, it also aims to take an interdisciplinary approach to visual representation. All photographs are essentially ambiguous documents open to multiple meanings, but through utilizing text and other exploratory devices, it is possible to recall and re-document past events in new ways, in the present. Ghost Paths re traces the journeys taken by American Indian tribes, removed from their sacred ancestral homelands and forced westward across the American continent. The project explores what lies beneath the visible landscape; the sensations of the past and the memories that land holds." . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nadja Wohlleben
University of Westminster - MA Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:47:02 EDT

Lebanon is currently undergoing a silent constitutional revolution. In April 2013 Kholoud Sukkarieh and Nidal Darwiche were the first couple to have a civil marriage on the soil of their home country approved. The French introduced Lebanon's civil laws during their mandate in the 1920s. Yet 18 officially recognized sects reign over matters of personal affairs. L'amour nous unit is a documentary photography story unravelling the relation of love and freedom in Lebanon. Portraying Lebanese couples; tracing old love stories; documenting graffiti artists; meeting the officials behind the reformation - my aim is to cover this silent revolution from the roots of love itself. What develops from this uprising might change Lebanon's future. For now love lies in the present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bradley Archer
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Bradley Archer always felt a connection to photography, however didn't realise his admiration until he started education. Having studied the subject he used his projects to reflect his own feelings surrounding his sexual orientation and how it portrays his life. Having done so, Bradley started to look more in-depth at male nudity. Using inspirations such as Mapplethorpe and Olaf, he came up with his own project 'Adam', which contained personal photographs portraying the connection between the photographer and his partner. Bradley is developing his artistic approach to photography, concentrating on his history and coming to a conclusion of how he became who he is today. Most recently by revisiting his childhood home of Ramsgate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenni Ashford
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Jenni is a photographer producing gritty, conceptual fine art imagery. Some of her previous projects have been focussed on the heavy issues of self-harm, obsessive compulsive disorder, suicide and child abuse. She uses a range of mediums and techniques to further illustrate the chosen topic. These have included the use of instant film, digital manipulation, appropriation and using found photography. As well as being personally therapeutic, her work aims to be informative and visually interesting. Needing a change in her work's mood, Jenni embarked on her latest project - 'A Cup of Sugar'. An artistic documentation of her next door neighbour's home; with its vast, eclectic display of possessions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalia Asimi
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

With a conceptual approach, Natalia Asimi tries to explore a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way and sees changes as an opportunity to experimentation. Natalia likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work. Inspired to compose by the contrast of light and dark and by using everyday experiences her works are based on stimulating situations. She explores photography through documentation of current events. In her latest project, Greek "born" Natalia is using related materials combined with historical events to record the ongoing social and political scene in Greece. Objects are depicted that only exist to interrupt the human drama in order to clarify and expose a world in crisis. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Holmes
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Catherine has trained in colour darkroom printing and fine art techniques over a number of years, enjoying the chemical and emotional processes, which are evoked through using analogue cameras and film techniques. She works with elements of absence and memory; her images are sometimes a simple reflection or a documentation of something from within her own life. Viewing photography as a medium without boundaries, she is also beginning to explore applying these techniques to documentary projects around themes of spirituality an citizenship. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Davy Priestley
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Davy Priestley has a deep interest in people, he is deaf and understands how it feels to be in a minority group, and from this background he has investigated the world of Transgendered people, capturing relaxed images of their everyday lives. His positive attitude towards, and close involvement with the models make his imagery stand out as both real and honest. He started interviewing and photographing transgender women to document their journeys of self-discovery. He investigated what kind of women they were striving to become and the stories they wanted to tell. Considering their thoughts on femininity and the influence of society. Davy believes a successful artist never 'captures' a moment but actually 'releases' it to others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dimitrina Sidova
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I don't set out to photograph the visible, rather so I try and seek the invisible,the forgotten. I set out to focus on everyday life, our daily routine, our environment, material gain, poverty, the increasing of cities and population. Of course all this is in order to shine a light on those topics in order to make a change, to show how i see the world around me and what I can do to make a change. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aaron Tucker
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Raised on the outskirts of London, Aaron has always been interested in the suburban landscape. Most recently, he demonstrates his fascination for the nocturnal landscape in the work he produces. His motivation and inspiration comes from the beauty that is revealed when the night falls; when all is silent, and the ambient light shines delicately on its surroundings. Aaron keeps his photographs as natural as possible, without manipulation to show others exactly what he sees whilst he explores. As well as being fine art imagery, he uses his work to show the elegance in a place that would generally go unseen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Collington
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I like many people, wish for peace. But I know that this is something that is unachievable and unrealistic. I want to portray through this piece of work that this is an unrealistic hope, the only way there will ever be mans ideal of peace on earth is if humans didn't exist, but even then their will never be peace between other species on earth. To portray this in my work I want the viewer to get a sense that this (Peace) is bigger than us as the human race and is realistically unachievable. This image achieves this through its post apocalyptic aesthetic and the white orb symbolically representing "peace" being out of reach and unobtainable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aimie Marie Desoisa
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

At the age when a girl is expected to blossom into a young woman my sister got rid of her long blonde hair and stopped the use of make up all together. From the time I have been at university my sister has made a huge transition. When I first left she had long hair and would occasionally wear skirts and dressers. With every trip back home I noticed my sister detaching herself more and more from her womanhood, instead embracing the style of a teenage boy. I strongly believe that women should be accepted to dress as they please and that stereotypes between male and females don't determine someone's gender or sexual preference. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marc Le Galle
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Inspired by the story of Mady Gerrard, a Jewish girl imprisoned in the camps of Belson and Auschwitz during the 2nd World War. Immurement explores the emotions that some people feel when they are trapped in a life that they where not destined to live. That through fate or circumstance the life they had planned for themselves and the dreams they held, disappeared before they had noticed. It explores the notion that the hopes and aspirations they had as a youth can be lost in time, being bricked up and left for dead. It considers moments of contemplation of a life and explores notions of imprisonment, self-confidence, lethargy and consciousness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy McLeod
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Alzheimer's is currently affecting over 800,000 people in the UK alone, Witnessing my Grandmother going through the confusing time of the early stages, made me realise that this may eventually happen to me. 12 years later the fear is increasing. This series of images is a conceptual narrative of the mind slipping away, losing the skills to live an independent life using everyday objects, presented in their normal situations, somehow distorted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Forester-Bennett
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

After researching photography focusing on surfaces and texture, I started to produce images that were influenced by my surroundings. Bath is predominantly landscaped by it's limestone architecture. I decided to study the stone and with that came a series of images taken of walls. I began to notice that a lot of the walls had living things growing in or around them. This saturated my project to a focus on the life coming from the stone. I noticed that the images that I was taking had a lot of beautiful shadows from the living things. Contrasted by the decaying walls, the concept of my images became clear. We are all temporary. We are all shadows. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Fogg
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This fashion narrative is inspired by the classic children's novel "The secret garden". The visual narrative explores the autobiographical nature of the story by Frances Hodgson Burnett. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Dennehy
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This is a series of work looking at bricked up windows. It focuses on the idea behind the legislation introduced in 1696, which was a property tax based on the amount of windows a house had. It is believed that the expression 'Day light robbery' originates from the window taxation. A main theme in the project is the importance of light and the psychological effect it has on oneself. The idea that a window offers natural light, a look into the future, a realisation of dreams, happiness and a desire to explore. To sustain the theme of light and dark the project was shot on film and then the prints were created in the darkroom. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matt Fielding
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project is centered around humanity and the relationship we have with our place in time and space. The images are designed to remind us that we are a minuscule part of the vastness of the universe and they are about how hard it is to find an individual sense of place in the midst of this expanse. These are printed images taken from an installation featuring different optical devices which all related to ways of looking at the images in order to affirm sense of place. The fact that the images are man made by myself links to the ideas of religion and creation that we as humans may have. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Grange
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Drawing inspiration from both cubist and constructivist art movements and implementing these structural styles within fashion imagery, this editorial series aims to avoid the hackneyed 'glamour' of fashion and instead communicates through fundamentals such as form, shape and colour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gavin Li
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As a portrait and editorial photographer I've always been interested in social identities, stories that people have to tell and the lifestyle they live. These selected images are from a series called 'Alternative Therapy', many kinds of alternative therapies and holistic healings are often speculated and questioned to be no more than just a placebo. Through photographing therapists themselves I set out to discover the therapies they practice, why they were drawn to it and why people seek alternative therapy rather than conventional medicine. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Manley
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In these images I wanted to tell my own story and the effect it has on my family caring for elderly relatives with Alzheimers, sharing the pain whilst highlighting the work of carers in society. In taking these photos I was looking for the light within the shadows to represent the hope, but using them also to conceal the pain. The symbolism represents the loss of memory from the present time backwards. I have chosen black and white imagery because of the nature of the subject. This campaign explores the emptiness of daily existence, the bewilderment of passing time, the pain of the family members as well as evoking and empathising with those caring for people with dementia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kezia Tan
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This body of work is an inadvertent cathartic piece, exploring the individuality of identity and unintentional conforming towards the expectations of society. Through the development, a troubling thought evolved from within, about my own identity. Whilst staying loyal to the original reasoning, my transition from schooling to adulthood has arisen upon me, the realisation that I am to become a small fish in a world-sized pond, I fear my own identity is to become insignificant. Through my hand crafted aesthetic approach I leave behind a piece of myself; fingerprints on the surface, my dna on the thread, as I destruct and reconstruct to create a new identity for each person, but mostly for myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sianne Thomas
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work explores the representation of the transgender community. Using photography as my medium I have explored the identity of my subject transgender. I wanted to create images that showed my subjects in an ambiguous light. This has been expressed by photographing my subjects within their everyday life, and in the comforts of their own homes. Alongside the photographs I have used text in order to communicate my subjects own thoughts and feelings on being transgender. The use of text adds a personal insight into my subjects own life experience on being transgender. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Wright
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Shells' explores the world of childhood dens and hideaways from an adult perspective. My own structure is a childlike den made from branches reminiscent of the countryside I grew up in. I could never quite fit inside my structure. Instead my arms would be woven into the branches as though I were about to burst out. Once projected onto eggs the images become fragile globes that reflect the precious, childlike moments still left to me before I leave university. Eggs eventually crack and like a family home there is a time when you must grow and leave their comforts behind. In my images I walk the waters edge and wait for the tide to lift the nest from my arms. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Buckle
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

There is an emphasis within the work of a trifecta of relating themes all rooted in crisis and the slippage between binaries. This is made predominant through the crisis of the body in relation to the human way of seeing whereby we see bodies in everything. It also relates to the human want for change and advance in conjunction with the contradictory fear of metamorphosis, this contradiction interlinks with the crisis of photography (in relation to technological advance) and also the crisis of perception relating to ideas that within abstraction, under the influence of an object pregnant with attraction and repulsion or revulsion and seduction you are hooked in the act of cognition, deciphering and decoding. Through abstraction you are led (like in narrative) forcibly into disequilibrium and through the desire to achieve equilibrium the viewers thinking is forcibly penetrated, the memory of the challenging narrative resonates in the conscious. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Davide Capasso
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'I propose to call the rites of separation from a previous world, pre-liminal rites; those executed during the transitional stage, liminal (or threshold) rites; and the ceremonies of incorporation into the new world, post-liminal rites'. Victor W. Turner (1976) The Forest of Symbols In this seminal essay, 'Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage', the anthropologist Victor W. Turner describes his understanding of the transient 'state' of being, following his study of life with the Ndembu tribe in Zambia. The shifts from adolescence to adulthood or life to death are set out in what he describes as 'rites of passage'. I recognise this in my work that is a series of personal interpretations using the concept of the liminal, which has also been influenced by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale. His hermetic style of writing is directly reflected in the nature and content of my images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Cole
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Photography has succumbed to the digital nature of the contemporary. With progressions within web based media and social network sites the world is viewed through the medium of the LCD screens. These render all information into a strict grid of RGB pixels, displaying different intensities. These technologies have created new constructs for photography, which has led to a metaphoric cloud state, a less-physical existence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victor Dia
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Alicante is a paradigm of the challenges that lie ahead in urban development, a place of fierce economical and ideological disputes, blurring the lines between heritage, conservation and transformation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Helcoop
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is aligned to contemporary staged photography, where I combine two-dimensional materials within a three-dimensional space to create images that provoke the viewer to engage in a more emotional rather than conceptual reading of the work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander Jesipow
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The ongoing body of work should be understood as a visual manifestation of a motivation rather than of a motif. The images try to create an atmosphere of visual clarity by annihilating distractive elements such as distinct geographical, temporal or fashionable identification marks and thus cannot be regarded as a document of a specific event in time. Nevertheless, the works seem to be on the side of reality in their indetermination and ambivalence oscillating between calmness and unease; the viewer has to bring order into the inordinate, attribute meaning and value. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander L Johnston
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The work appropriates images of the ocean from surfing magazines. It attempts to deal with exploitative and non-mutual relationship with the natural world. It reminds us about the seductive nature of idealised imagery, particularly the image of the wave and its capacity for representing fear and the sublime. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eveline Lanckmans
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Do we really believe if there is any life beyond our planet? Surely there has to be some existent form apart from that on Earth? Céleste aims to set out answering such questions in the form of potential imaginings by considering our understanding of the sky and its manifestations variously as a heavenly divine site. Moving in and out of abstraction, my aim is to create atmosphere with my images that touch on emotions and feelings, and while they remain very personal, are sufficiently open for the audience to experience and interpret in their own individual way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Krister Myrlønn
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work considers landscape and how we recognise images of it through the perception of the shapes of different materials. While my constructed landscapes are based on reality, a dream is based on memory and knowledge of the mind and its way of processing our experience of daily life. Worlds of fantasy and reality are challenged here through the ambiguous reading of the appearance of the materials. The construction of these landforms provides me not only with the opportunity to recreate places of memory but those too from an imagined reality - my personal utopias. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Pearson
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work incorporates the vintage snapshot with the creative, rarely seen, combination of drawing with embroidery. The idea involves photographic representation drawn toward the three dimensionality recognised in photo-sculpture caused by the intervention of the thread through the surface of the print. In an act of appropriation, the acquisition of an archive inspired my investigation into the personal and intimate lives of a hitherto unknown family. My creative response develops the findings and expands the potential and context for its reading. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corey Rive
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In modern life, much of the mystery and wonder has vanished due to the wave of technological advancements and ease of access to information. Anomalies that were once inconceivable and contributed to magical or mythical occurrences are now easily explained with a few simple clicks on a mobile device. Largely lost in this technological awakening are spiritual and metaphysical based practices such as the study and practice of alchemy. The base theory of alchemy, the idea of turning base metals into precious gold, was both appealing and elusive. This work is an investigation into the position alchemy would hold in modern life, if it were it still being practiced today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simone Sandahl
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

It is part of our human condition to yearn for well-defined boundaries and clear concepts. Dirt arises as a consequence of categorisation. The British anthropologist Mary Douglas describes it as '... a by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter - a matter out of place'. Dirt is a cohesive aspect of my practice, represented physiologically, symbolically, and in its purest form, expressed through photography, video, installation and performance. The most significant component in this is my attempt to challenge individual perceptions by generating awareness of hitherto unrecognised or overlooked elements within our domestic arena in the hope of drawing us away momentarily from all that we find familiar. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Savage
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

"The deeper the dissolution of 'reality', the more the picture loses its symbolic content. The reason for this lies in the nature of the symbol and its function. The symbol is an object of the known world hinting at something unknown" (Carl Gustav Jung in Man and His Symbols). Breathe considers the abstract nature of human thought and our interaction with the environment. I aim to deny closure and explore our subjective response to things that may have ordinarily been overlooked in our everyday surroundings. Time and place here have no bearing, while the deliberate choice of monochrome negates the layers of distraction that are provoked by the use of colour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jade Hairs
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Were you ever told that you had a big bum? That you were fat? But when you look back, you realize you weren't? That you were, and are, none of those things? Me too. In today's world, we constantly talk about how we should feed ourselves with natural organic food. You mustn't have anything with too much sugar or additives. Yet in spite of this, the media constantly tells us how artificial we MUST look. My work is art therapy. I have taken the human body and created beautiful landscapes. Natural, human forms, that perhaps the people themselves felt were ugly, turned into something bigger and more awe inspiring. Put simply, I have demonstrated that we are all naturally beautiful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Murfitt
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Last year I moved from the country to the city. Throughout my life so far I've made this move several times, in several directions. Sometimes I need to be in a place which sets the pace, which keeps me on my feet. Other times I just need to get away from all the noise, to hear the birds and leaves in the wind. Over time, something essential and fundamental in each environment has an effect on my state of mind. I realise now that I need both - nature and city - while I don't belong entirely to either. My series relates to this duality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Pines
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Love From, Women seeks to challenge traditional visual representations of women, by allowing each woman who takes part to represent themselves in a way they choose. Feminine ideals are constantly being forced upon women by the media and society. This project gives women the opportunity to question what it means for them to be a woman. My work poses as a sociological investigation, exploring how women perceive themselves in the 21st century, and demonstrates that women are more than the roles that the media consign them to. This project is on-going, to see the full collection or to submit your own photo, go to the blog and tell the world what it means for you to be a woman. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Wil Symons
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Portraiture appears to come with certain perceptions and conventions. To define something begins to rip its interest. There should be more than one possibility. The images here where the gaze is not observable become not only a portrait of the sitter but of me and you. Neither you nor the sitter has somewhere to aim their gaze; the broken eye contact of this gaze creates collaboration. Mind takes primacy over the eye. You don't need to see a face when you have your imagination, after all a portrait is an illusion. These images are part of wider body of work investigating portraiture in regards to eye contact bringing into play the idea of the muse and use of historical references. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Tre-Vett
Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Throughout history, minority groups have been sidelined and oppressed. I feel it's time for that era to end and my work heavily reflects this.  This project focuses on the gay community, looking into and reliving their personal experience of going against societies 'traditions'. Each photograph is taken in the location the subject feels is their personal coming out story, whether that be the first coming out or later at a significant point in their life. The images are accompanied by the individual's description of this experience. By providing this platform for expression, it allows the viewer to understand how coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual or pansexual in modern day society can feel. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niki Carlin
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Fourteen years ago an unknown aggressive virus damaged my ability to remember. Things are now easier to recall when my memory is triggered in some way, by people, things or images. Photographs play a huge role in my recollection of the past but there are gaps, for example much of my childhood eludes me, perhaps because no photographs of this period have survived. This body of work aims to provide the 'future' me with a record of the here and now which I am destined to forget. I have lifted the emulsion from images made using wet plate collodion and cast them into resin, transforming the present into the past and representing the fragile state of my own personal archive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mary Davies
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The human body is often scrutinised by those looking on, but often not as much as the individual themselves. We may appear different with idealised notions, imperfections and aspirations. This body of work has embraced these fears and aims to dispel them so the women involved would not consider their body, within the constraints of what society dictates. Shifting the gaze from the idealised and sexualised aspects of the body and encouraging a counter gaze to look in a more intimate, intricate way it can be seen that despite any imperfections the body is a beautiful panorama. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Holden
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In 1992 my father required emergency open-heart surgery, following a ruptured aorta; this was a consequence of having Marfan syndrome, which is caused by a single abnormal gene on Chromosome 15. He was totally unaware of the underlying condition, which, unfortunately, was not diagnosed until it had very nearly killed him. At the time, I had great difficulty coming to terms with what had happened to him, and it is only now that I feel confident enough to confront my father's health. This project is an exploration of some of the salient physical signs and symptoms of the syndrome that manifest themselves in his body, along with his dependence on various forms of medication to keep him alive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Kinsella-Beck
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through my love of landscape and architectural photography, I developed an interest in the imposing gates and screens of the 18th and 19th Century that can be found on the entrances to mansions built on landscaped parkland in the estates of the aristocracy and industrial magnates. I am fascinated by the skill and beauty of craftsmanship of these grand entrances. Wealthy philanthropists often donated gates to churches and parks. Robert and John Davies of North West Wales, who flourished between 1702 and 1755, were amongst the foremost craftsmen of their time and my body of work explores some of their magnificent gates and screens - allowing others to appreciate the beauty and talent of their ironworking within a landscape setting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Glen Leigh
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

There is a place where we all know of, where urban and rural areas negotiate and renegotiate their borders; more often than not these edgelands are places that we don't actively seek out, they are not normally considered to be sites of beauty where we might choose to spend time. Urban edgelands form part of the wider human narrative which emerges from the smallest of changes to our environments, trickling the unconscious into our consciousness. This body of work focuses on the resilience and tenacity of nature and stands as a celebration of these often unseen places; the aim being to capture a moment of flux before a natural order of succession is allowed to run its course. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charles Edward Lyth
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I wanted to expand on the subject of abandonment and abandoned buildings by bringing personal items in to a foreign environment and shooting them. However, I still wanted to keep the mystery about these items so I kept them in the dark; a reflection on the houses being kept, in the dark and forgotten. In one way, the item retains in some form, a memory of the person who used to own it. This could be a physical memory, from a foot impression in a shoe or note in an old diary, to a personal memory, what perfume they wore or the wallpaper that they chose. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon McCoy
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My project focuses on teenage girls in terms of the transition between childhood and adulthood. This is a difficult period in their lives and carries with it all kinds of fears and confusion. My images aim to convey the internal struggle between leaving the ideals, possessions and carefree days of childhood behind and moving on to the next stage of their lives. The psyche of the teenage girl is a difficult one to understand as they struggle with their changing bodies and the hopes and dreams they have for their future. My aim is to capture some of the emotions and insecurities they may be experiencing and convey this to the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachael Murphy
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project focuses on various types of commercial photography. Working with different genres and subject matter has enabled me to develop a simple but effective style for this market. Inspiration for my work has come from a variety of sources, ranging from classic to contemporary styles, to tease out honesty and simplicity in my subjects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jca Servo
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'The Little Black Dress is not just a fashion accessory. It's an institution - an iconic fashion symbol.' -Marigay McKee In a woman's wardrobe, there is but one piece that will forever remain fashionable, flattering and stimulate a wave of confidence whenever worn. This classic statement piece has evolved over the 80 years since its initial launch through the use of a range of styles to being interpreted as a two-piece. This body of work is a series of fashion images based on a woman's individual take to the iconic Little Black Dress. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Roland
Mid Cheshire College - FDA Contemporary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project concentrates solely on portraiture. By researching some of the early pioneers of photography I have attempted to capture something of the essence of the old fashioned technique. By being restricted to methods, such as the use of long exposure times, hand development and the use of period equipment the work is characterised by a one-off quality. The project has documented local contemporary people using methods, which bring out their timeless qualities because of the stillness of the final image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Edward Claxton
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As an artist, my work is influenced by performance and challenges the very essence of photography. I am particularly drawn to acts of absurdity, risk taking and endurance. I read an article in a science journal some time ago. It stated that if a terminally ill patient is given a suicide device and are made aware of the fact that they are able to end their life at any time they feel appropriate, it unexpectedly leads to their life to being significantly prolonged. It seems paradoxical and illogical that a device designed to end someone's life can actually extend it. It also seems beautifully illogical to me, to document a performance that has not yet been performed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Godfrey
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Having always had an interest in architecture it seems natural that the work that I make has an aesthetic influenced by various buildings and movements like the german Bauhaus movement. The main focus of my photographic practice has been the creation of shadows with small man made objects. The objects that I have photographed I have made myself using paper. I then backlit the objects, or directed light through the various moquettes so that I could capture images of the shadows and play around with the depths of focus. The shadows that I have been drawn to focus on the repetitive patterns created by some of the different cut outs within the paper structures and its the spaces between shadows has also allowed me to play around with the depth of field in my images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Henderson
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is a reflection of my interests with food and religion, two disconnected themes which are combined to challenge and provoke you. I consider myself a spiritual person with many questions about religion unanswered. I am intrigued by the many mysteries surrounding some religions. The interest in food has come from personal experiences. I superimposed objects into images that I found on the Internet, they play a key part in my process and are important because of their religious or spiritual associations. Creating these images is a way for me to understand places I haven't yet visited. They have given me new insight into story telling, spirituality and religion I did not have before, and widened my own beliefs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oskars Lablaiks
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My project shows people attending cosplay conventions in Telford and Birmingham. The visitors to these events dress up as different characters from their favourite movies, comics, anime and game culture. My photographs show how these people who have dressed up for a day have changed their identity and became a fictional character that they have chosen or created. Now all we see is the character and not the person as they would be in everyday life and wonder what reaction they are expecting from us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessie Lansbury
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As a photographer, my work is an act of observation of my family album in an attempt to uncover or interrogate similarities and coincidences in outward appearances. Various personal archives are brought together to create a link between the past and present as a way to express a family nucleus now engulfed by loss and absence. The Family Album Observed explores the relationship between family members represented by snapshots from the past and their present day equivalent, arranged alongside my own photographs. Through this process, the uncovering of repetitive gestures begins to emerge, such as the oddly posed photographs in front of walls and the near obsessive use of binoculars by different generations of the family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lizzie McVicar
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The conceptual framework for these images is rooted in the exploration of personal emotional identity and the relationship between the body and the domestic and natural landscape. The portraits explore the notions of isolation, femininity and the ways the external body communicates internal concerns. The elements of performance in this work reflect the push and pull of becoming a woman who is comfortable and established her own identity, and a woman who is caught in the frustration of performing to and measuring up to perceived expectations of femininity. The juxtaposition of the landscapes reflect the contrast between the openness of the natural world, the comfort of the domestic setting, and the haziness of the emotional state they point toward. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Rawlinson
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work reflects on the story of my grandparents who have been absent from my life for around 14 years. They once lived in a small home in Stockport but since getting to know them again after my Dad tracked them down, they are living in a large, extravagant bungalow in a nice part of Blackpool with a fortune that they won from the lottery. The selected images show the inside of their home, the objects that they own and who my grandparents have become now, representing the elements of time and change. Creating these photographs was a way for me to get to know my grandparents again since their absence from our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Cooper
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Lost at sea is a visual exploration of my family's history and how a person's legacy can be distorted by time. For more than 5 generations going back more than a hundred years there has been a tradition in my family, with every trip to the beach there must be a photograph of everyone standing in the sea. In these images I saw strangers, family I have never met, but without them I would not exit. Parts of them have filtered to the present, mannerism, traditions and stories but they have become distorted by time. I created images in a similar style so I could explore the connection between me and my relatives and I also wanted to show how lost the memory of a person can become with time. Someone who is lost at sea will fade from existence until all that is left is their bones and old photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Wild
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

State of mind and perception has been a predominant influence to the pieces I have created, and continues to encourage further bodies of work in which this can be explored. Water has been a key medium for the embodiment of work, for me it is a perfect representation for thoughts and surreal worlds in which our brain navigates us through in conscious and subconscious actions. Water can capture fear, claustrophobia and panic. It can also encourage peace and serenity. The mind can create its own state to cope. As everyday life passes by small details are picked up through the fog and chaos. This body of work reflective on the chaos thought process goes through. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Sheehy
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The content of my work is a collection of images taken at various nightclubs in Britain, particularly in the North West of England. My work began as an exploration of club culture, the nature of it and the place It plays within modern society, this consequently led to the discovery of gay and transsexual nightlife. These images I have chosen to represent my work were taken in a gay pub in Manchester. The people featured are those on the fringes of society, outcasts and misfit, but within the walls of this pub they become their own community, where they feel comfortable to be themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Bowman
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For the longest time it was easier to withdraw into The Room, away from the need to create and to mingle with others, cut off from all but the digital world. This part of the 'Rules for life in hiding' project is a response to my introverted nature taking over nearly all aspects of life. Whenever the urge to lock The Room and hide under covers took root, the camera became the best tool at hand to stave off isolation. It forcefully dragged me into action and to create something that marked progress against The Room's hold. Each image is a compilation of multiple exposures taken over a period of weeks, documenting my long, lonely time spent in The Room. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Bridges
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

We are constantly faced with decisions and choices in our day-to-day lives, most of which we make without too much consideration. Often, it's only when facing 'life changing' events that we are perhaps more aware of drawing on past experiences to help us reach a decisions. When I was younger I spent a lot of time with my Grandparents. Always wanting to know what's going on in our lives, they rarely talk about their past. However, I feel it's important to know about the people who have brought you up. The people and events in their lives helped form traditions and memories that in turn have influenced them and my upbringing. These images are a visualisation of my Grandparents story. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacob Crabtree
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Cobb is a fictional character; a part of my imagination rather than my personality, his existence runs through my head like a movie on a film reel. For me, it was always a cinematic and ambiguous body of work that taps into multiple realities. A surreal dreamlike narrative allows the lines of reality to blur; Cobb's story becomes clearer but retains an element of doubt. The cinematic atmosphere and content provide an ambiguity to the narrative; the idea of not knowing the context of what is shown opens the imagination to different possibilities and ways of interpreting the story. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tania Gibson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is contained within the setting of the fictional Hotel Bonheur and evokes through cinematic storytelling my private anxieties reflected through the stories of random individuals. The only connection being their fleeting stay at the hotel. The complex atmospheres of the 1950's are portrayed through different emotional contradictions that are present through each of the stories, and share a sense of melancholic elegance.  Hotel Bonheur is also a film and book of the same name. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gillian Gilbert
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is an exploration into a chosen way of life that examines an individuals' social identity through the way he lives and the space he occupies. Walter has been a keeper of bees for over 25 years, a woodsman for longer and a kayaker for many years and generously shares his knowledge with others so they may enjoy what he knows. As a woodsman Walter has planted and nurtured a variety of woodland for future generations. Although living a life perfectly in tune with his surroundings, Walter hasn't turned his back on technology, he uses this to his advantage and will happily use said technologies whilst continuing to live a life that is firmly grounded in the land. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Halsall
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

120mm, Black and white film In my latest project I have decided to take a trip into the unknown exploring a different community of people and their way of life. This project is an investigation into the way identity can hold together a community and help to restore morale. These images taken in Mogilev, Belarus depict the way that the Belarusian communities are currently living, 26 years after the Chernobyl disaster. It shows how their traditions have helped the community to keep up hope and carry on through the struggles that they face. This work takes a look behind closed doors, photographing families in their homes and the places that they feel most at ease and connected to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frances Hawkins
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Events in life never go according to plan. They change, evolve and disappear. This is how we learn and adapt to the circumstances that take place. These two body's of work, taken before, during and after my father's death, although ambiguous, these photographs link my life and the history of Northumberland with the identity of my father. This has become a cathartic process. By exploring my landscape, as well as my past and future, this work has become a form of photographic therapy that may resonate with others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Jackson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Sarah's project looks into the life and employment of her mother, who worked for over thirty years for the Ministry of Defense electronics factory in her hometown. The images document factory workers desks, using the desks as a means of understanding the workers and their role in the industry. Within this project she addresses the issues of the decline of industry within the UK. Furthermore, dealing with feelings about her own role as a teenage munitions employee; as well as her awareness of the impact that working in this industry could have in relation to armed conflict. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Nichols
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Today's landscape has changed dramatically. Wind turbines are evident in most places we go. This series of images focuses on Cumbria, travelling around various sites where wind farms are in operation. Showing how our landscape has altered. I work in a panoramic format stitching images together as I feel it gives the viewer a better understanding of the landscape, as they not only see one aspect of the land they see many. These views are a lot to take in; many people find them captivating as the images give you the opportunity to look deeper into the landscape, seeing the surrounding space and not just the wind turbines that occupy them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Ramsey
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Laura Ramsey is a British photographer from North London. Since studying at University, she has developed an interest in making political and social statements with her work. Her current piece of work, 'Amen.' Addresses the issue of sexual assault in relation to Catholicism, from biblical stories to 21st Century cases. Using self-portraits as a medium to express her views and beliefs, this project enabled her to confront a taboo topic. It also allowed her to question assumed boundaries and visually explore a current issue, which tends to be silenced and hidden by the church. Cases worldwide reflect patterns of long-term institutional abuse and cover-ups. This project gives you an insight into what happens behind closed doors. The cover-ups are being uncovered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annika Savola
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Teuvantie 13 is an autobiographical work that explores detail in the photographer's home in Finland. These features were once unseen but became visible when revisiting the place. This work examines the idea of home; where it is and what does it take to make one feel at home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor de Chastelain Simpson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Working in a cinema one of the things you see regularly is little kids running down to the front to gaze directly up at the big screen. That desire to experience the feeling of something wider than their eyes took me back to being a child, sitting in front of what were then small box TV screens and wanting the image to be bigger. Gluing your eyes to the screen forces your brain to retune. In a pixel led age, remastering doesn't always mean mastery: sometimes its regeneration. Terrestrial TV's standards may look crappy now, but that's how I remember them. These images are printed on glossy paper and exhibited inside old plastic TV frames complete with VHS ports and buttons. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Whiting
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The current project Cruel to be kind tackles the issues surrounding endangered species in captivity. Almost every species in the world that is endangered is so because of human actions, whether through hunting or destroying their habitat. This project investigates the human relationship with animals in captivity and the paradox of confining wild animals in order to ensure their survival. The affects of human presence on the animals life is reinforced in the images through reflections of people in the animal's enclosures. The reflections leave impressions of people and their cameras over the animals, highlighting the disappearance of the animals in the wider world and the voyeuristic quality of the zoo. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Christopher Wrightson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Moral philosopher Immanuel Kant told us that we must not see a person as a means to an end, as a 'mere' object, a tool for one's purpose. The problem I find is that the camera can only ever see the person for their objective presence, regardless of my attempts to represent them as subjects. Due to the ambiguity of the photograph, we can only ever agree on the objects within, and apply our subjective interpretation to them. 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe' - Rene Magritte . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kristina Collender
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Sean-Bean-Nua (Old-New-Woman) is an exploration into contemporary Irish female identity. Using self-portraits, the face of the artist is stripped away and replaced with an intervention that interrogates and questions her supposed Irish identity. Using varying modes of intervention the 'new' face within the portrait becomes a strange testament to the artist's beliefs. Stripping herself of any facial recognition the image within the image creates a new narrative, questioning all contexts from which it once came and represented.  Photography becomes one of many mediums of exploration used in this body of work. The portraits result in an intrinsic visual language, which represent the artist's own experiences, hopes, fantasies, memories and fears of being a woman living in Ireland today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ciarán Cooney
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work sets out to record the remnants of the brief railway mania which grasped Ireland in the mid-19th century - an aspect of Ireland's history which has largely been overlooked. It explores the highly competitive environment of railway construction and the influence it had on Ireland's social landscape at the time. Looking at archival material from this period, it becomes apparent that much effort and expense was invested into a growing network of railways, many of which were overly ambitious and failed to meet the expectations of their investors. Whilst these railway routes and the life surrounding them have long since been abandoned, this collection intends to redress, in some small fashion, the abandonment of their memory in post-independent Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Efa Corwell
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Positioned in sites throughout contemporary Dublin that signify the failed capitalist property boom, the current political and economic times are reflected in Reclaim, Reform, Regrow. Questions arise surrounding these areas of dereliction and neglect as this body of work calls for growth and change in many aspects of society. Through menial tasks, symbolic gestures are utilised to represent redevelopment and change within the Irish landscape. The performances demonstrate the role of the citizen fighting back and the accepted civic responsibility that needs to materialise in these difficult times. As inhabitants of these times grow more uncertain about the future, a desire to break away from the anxiety and despair is vital to stimulate change. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Neil Dorgan
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

War Games depicts participants in 'airsoft' combat simulation games, similar to the 'war games' practiced by military forces in training. Through costume, replication of military equipment, and scenario-based combat games, players strive to immerse themselves in an accurate simulation of war. War Games makes use of ambiguous imagery which reflects a deeper reality of historical and contemporary warfare, along with depictions of the constructed environments and costumed participants of airsoft games. Photographing these constructed representations opens an examination of documentation of conflict, referring to familiar debates around the ability of photography to mediate between 'truth' and 'reality'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Higgins
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project is about a raised bog that is now designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), protected under the European Union Habitats Directive. A total of 53 sites fall under this protection status in Ireland. In May 2012, illegal turf cutting brought one of these bogs to public attention. At Monivea in County Galway, turf-cutters have struggled to comply with the new laws. Using the raised face of the bog as an allegorical 'barrier' between the forces of preservation (of the delicate ecosystem) and the long standing tradition of turf cutting (fuel and community). Six Feet Over aims to generate debate on the importance of honoring the country's heritage and traditions but also protecting our landscape for future generations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kasia Kaminska
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Kasia Kaminska's work, Ón Bhonn Aníos / From The Bottom Up, engages with the history of the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement. The movement was established in order to give a voice to an under-served, under-represented Gaeltacht community. The broadcast industries that came about as a result of the movement continue to give a voice to these still under-recognised communities and their past and present day struggles. Tracing the history of the movement and documenting the sites of broadcast that came as a result, this project reveals the significance of this history and industry to the people of the Connemara Gaeltacht and highlights the importance of retaining cultural ownership and awareness during times where there is little else a community can lay claim to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Feena Kavanagh
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project explores the virtual world as an alternative version of our own world, not merely in visual terms but in relation to a kind of everyday life that occurs within these spaces. With the increased role of technologies in our lives, people in turn colonise virtual worlds and spend a significant part of their waking lives interacting within digital environments. The virtual world is not solely a site of fantasy and frivolity however: gaming is a major employer with an ever-expanding global workforce. From the sweatshop grind of underpaid workers to the development of the virtual landscape by property tycoons, the virtual world produces what many politicians argue are the necessary conditions of global capitalism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Barry Keogh
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Shelf Life is an investigation into the ephemeral nature of the objects we encounter on a daily basis in our lives. By removing all branding it forces the viewer to concentrate instead on colour, shape and form and question what associations we have with these products. Similar to the Pop art movement it elevates the quotidian to that of an 'art object' when presented in a neutral fashion. Alongside these images there is a video piece charting the journey undertaken once we dispose of them. It questions our habits as consumers by examining mass production right up to the processing and sorting of each at a recycling facility where we see the endless circle of materials in our modern world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patricia Klich
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Special Treatment is an installation consisting of a number of related works that results from a deep meditation on the enduring presence of a historically contested site: the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. An important part of historical record is the relationship between the material remains and what can be understood. This work focuses on modes and practices of re-presentation in order to attempt to represent that which persists: forms of memory, the activity of witnessing and the relationship between absence and presence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert McCormack
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work attempts to represent the hidden struggle experienced by African migrants who work as newspaper salesmen at traffic junctions on the fringes of Dublin city. Clad in Hi-Vis uniforms, these men weave in and out of traffic from morning to evening as if on a conveyer belt. Their bodies are highly visible in the landscape yet they are hidden in plain sight, forgotten among the concrete structures and road networks built to confirm prosperity and progress A set of invisible barriers make it difficult for these workers to escape from this environment. Through spending time with them, I learned about the reality of their working lives as well as their strong sense of resilience and resistance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deirdre McGing
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'The Last Descendant' explores the dynamic of post-colonial Ireland in relation to the erosion of Anglo-Irish culture, using contemporary photography and archival research to articulate voices of the past that have been silenced, or otherwise forgotten. The work documents a descendant's journey of self-discovery to retrace the lost history of her Anglo-Irish family, the Tyndalls. By placing the ancestors of the Tyndall family bloodline back into the cultural detritus of the Ascendancy - ruined churches and demolished grand houses - the work opens up a dialogue about the issue of Irish cultural representation itself; mapping the intersection between a given historic reality and the imagination, of memories and desires, and provoking conversations about lineage, history, memory, conflict, and loss. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bobi Murray
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Aeon is a body of work focused primarily on imagining the evolution of artificial intelligence and human augmentation and highlights the potential coalescence of mankind and machine. It suggests that the idea of what we currently understand as the 'cyborg' will create an epoch or golden age where humans and AI potentially coexist. This raises a debate over the possible implications for human society and the impact that autonomous AI will have. Current theorists postulate that super intelligent design and growth will reach far beyond contemporary comprehension. This would bring about significant advances in human evolution. These advances could manifest in human anatomical augmentation or a boom in AI to where it could become self-sustainable i.e. evolve, adapt and learn. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adele O'Byrne
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Pound-for-Pound explores the changing world of boxing in Ireland. The impact of Ireland's first gold medal in women's boxing at the Olympics in 2012, the first time that female boxers could compete in the Games, has been the catalyst for wanting to explore what it takes for women to train and perform at this level. This event in turn has created a ripple effect as young women and girls are now joining boxing clubs on an unprecedented scale. The images attempt to document this important moment in women's boxing but also give the subjects the opportunity to control their own image. The women and girls propose a performance of their own femininity while simultaneously radiating intensity and physical strength. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikki O'Carroll
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'tonight we are staying in 14 fairview house' is an intimate insight into my childhood as I grew up with extended periods of time without my father. For months at a time, my mother and I would move out of our family home and into 'Fairview', a house owned by my grandmother that nobody lived in. Fairview was our refuge, however our time there was sporadic, and as a child, I never knew when I would be living there, or living at home. Though the space has not been inhabited in a long time, there are items that remain in the same place as they did when I was a child, and revisiting these bring back certain, very specific memories. Through video, photography and archive images, the work reveals a private story of loss, memory and trauma. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Treasa O'Hanlon
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Lolita is a collection of portraits from a unique subculture emerging in Ireland known as Lolita. The subculture of Lolita originated in Japan during the recession of the 1980s as a means of brief, fantasy-driven escape for young women from the pressures of adulthood and the stress of a dire economic climate. Qualities of self-presentation that Lolita values pivot around ideas of innocence, elegance and poise. The aim is not to fetishise themselves; rather it is a form of visual self-expression which contrasts considerably with the mundanity of their everyday, modern lives where they must deal with school, work, college and the tribulations of impending adulthood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine O'Toole
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project began as a search for the Sika Deer in the Coillte forestry on Lugnagun. With each walk around the forestry, traces of different animals began to make themselves known. This project was made while walking, and follows the transitory movements of the forest inhabitants. This work endeavors to capture the wondrous and immersive experience of being in this wild area. The physicality of the animal as it's glimpsed moving through the constantly changing landscape is only one part of this. The other is the area itself with its sounds and scents. This work attempts to bring that experience to those who have not yet encountered it, and to awake memories in those who know it well. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maciej Pestka
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Slackwater is a project based in the Grabówek district in the environs of the city of Gdynia in northern Poland. This is a region which has historically experienced extreme economic advantage on the one hand but has equally suffered from total economic collapse due to the rise and fall of Poland's shipyards. The tight-knit community featured in the project live on the periphery of this port city. They enjoy the freedoms associated with unregulated urban planning, but at the same time suffer from a lack of municipal services and neglect. It is a place in a state of suspense, frozen in time, replete with makeshift dwellings that are more reminiscent of the Polish countryside than city dwellings. This results in a sense of fragile temporality but also one of fierce independence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niamh Redmond
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Building on Ireland's deep relationship with emigration, Slán agus Beannacht explores the thematic of migration with specific emphasis on the West of Ireland. Subjective realities were formed surrounding the West, foregrounding the landscape as sublime, with little acknowledgement placed on understanding the subtle complexities of the social and cultural realities of life in the West of Ireland. Portraits of imminent emigrants gazing towards the distant horizon are overlaid with letters and emails from the loved ones they will be leaving behind. This collaboration between emigrant and their family adds poignancy to the imagery, acting as a gentle reminder of the journey undertaken by both the emigrant and those left to mourn their absence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Irene Siragusa
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Witness the Nighttime Economy was realised over eight months. It is part of an ongoing long-term project, started in October 2011, when I started to record the aftermath of violence experienced at night by people in the city center Temple Bar area of Dublin that has a high concentration of cultural building open by day and in the evenings but dominated by pubs and clubs at night. Working with the most recent photographs, interviews and texts I have made, one book of images with narrative texts describing actual incidents and memorable events that the narrators experienced, twelve postcards portraying people who have been attacked, and set of stickers on which the public order laws are printed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Burke
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Altering the facture of the photographic surface creates an unfamiliar boundary between the viewer and the image, accosting the viewers perception of what is being presented. Employing abstraction to the portrait capitalizes on the idea of portraiture not being a true representation of the self, but merely a constructed portrayal. *a seldom used philosophical term to describe an internal and subjective experience which is so familiar to us yet we cannot describe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jane Cummins
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is part of an ongoing study of the self. Using landscapes and self portraits to reveal my journey to the viewer. The landscapes are an accumulation of my close surroundings, each containing different fragments of my existence. The self portraits aim to aid the viewer in conveying an expression of my most inner emotions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Gilligan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In the novel 'The Gift' by Vladimir Nabokov, the character of Fyodor poetically expresses a desire to use paint in order to illustrate the visual rapture he experiences as a result of synesthesia. It is this outlandish eagerness to evoke understanding, combined with the dwindling nature of synesthesia over time, which provides the basis for this work. In order to illustrate my own experience with synesthesia, I have merged both painting and photography to defy the conventions of what we see and what we know. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eithne Hand
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Irish constitution does not place one religion over another. There is great tolerance and respect for diversity in religious belief in Ireland. The word 'pluralism' comes from the Latin word 'pluris' meaning 'more'. It describes the existence of a variety of distinct elements within one unified whole. The phrase is often used to describe modern societies where many diverse and distinct threads of tradition are 'woven together into a tapestry of one political system without their losing their distinctive identities' (J.R.Walsh, and Religion: The Irish Experience, p112). 'Faith a Way of Life' explores the development and the expansion and the coexistence of many faiths in contemporary Ireland, by photographing significant people of all denominations of faith in multicultural Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karena Hutton
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

One day during lunch with my father, I passed a throwaway comment about his messy hair. He informed me that after a very long service in the Irish Army, he's entitled to wear it unkempt in his retirement. A little while later though, I noticed that he had combed it, and suggested to him the concept of institutionalisation. Disliking this term, he declared that it was the discipline instilled in him that made him such a proficient timekeeper and all round orderly fellow. This project deals with what remains; having spent a bewildering amount of time with structured days and designated tasks, retirement is a minefield of disorganised time in self-appointed outfits, with perhaps a degree of longing for days gone by. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Jordan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

On the 20th of March 2003, Ireland's Government authorised the use of Shannon Airport by US Military and CIA aircraft for the war on Iraq. This policy has meant an abrogation of Ireland's long-held policy of neutrality, against the wishes of its people. Since then 2.2 million armed troops and thousands of tonnes of weapons and munitions have passed through Shannon Airport. I have used existing photographs of Iraqi dead, military planes and troop carriers to create mosaic images that make a direct connection between the use of Shannon airport and the consequences for Iraq. As with Abu Ghraib, many of the images of victims were shot on camera phones by US troops as 'war trophies'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamin Keogh
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series of pictures is a personal response to the recent loss of a close companion. The work reflects upon this lived experience, with the arrangement of both theatrical enactments, abstract representations and the use of everyday subject matter. The images create connotations, which have an intimate and symbolic meaning. I have incorporated audiovisual elements in an attempt to express the overwhelming effect of a close friend taking her own life. These merged fragments, allows me to work around the limitations of photography to communicate the personal impact of these events. Memories fade as time passes. This project from its formation has been a catharsis for me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niall McCormack
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

An EU habitats directive has recently prohibited the cutting of turf on raised bogs in certain parts of Ireland. The implementation of this ban has led to acrimony and protest from bog owners. This project uses the landscape of the bog as a metaphor for the gradual decline of traditional ways of life in rural Ireland. Through emigration and modernisation, many skills and practices synonymous with rural Ireland are being irretrievably lost. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephen McCullagh
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

"Tinsmith" is a multi-format installation project taking the form of a constructed self-portrait series. The work explores the problematic nature of surveillance archives by taking surveillance footage out of the realm of archived crime and changing its function into an aesthetic practice, with the aim of rupturing the representational power that surveillance has over society. Much like the power the Camera Obscura had in creating new ways of viewing, interpreting and thus representing the world, surveillance practice forms a complex social amalgamation as its effect on society is rarely separated from its mechanical function. This emphasizes the importance in considering the effect every technical progression of surveillance has on the populace under scrutiny. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria O'Donoghue
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Children always have an answer to the question 'what will you be when you grow up?' There is a beauty in children's ability to be so sure of themselves. They let their imaginations drive them rather than fear. They see no reason why they can't succeed. When I grow up is a child portrait series featuring a variety of 5-10 year olds from Dublin. Each image presents a child appearing to work in their coveted future profession. The project aims to reflect the photographer's portraiture abilities while also conveying a positive message. Despite the current economic and employment crisis, this work strives to provide an optimistic look into what hopefully lies ahead for future generations here in Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Viktoria Panik
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'I will spend more time with myself in this lifetime than anyone else. Let me learn to be the kind of person I would like to have as a friend.' Courage to Change: One Day at a Time I have always been interested in self-portraiture and started to create self-portraits at the age of 15 with my simple 'Zenit' film camera. One thing about photography that has always fascinated me is its power to create a 'world' that a viewer will consider to be real. In this project I have been working on self-portraits, showing different shades of myself and experimenting with photography's ability to play with identity. The goal of this artwork is to create the doubt whether it is the same person in every photograph. I want the observer to guess if the photograph represents a real me or just a fairy tale performance in front of the camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Rainey
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My body of work explores the community of Tallaght which is a suburb situated at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Today the area of Tallaght has a population of over 100,000 compared to 1981 when the population was only 56,608. The project is made up of portraits and landscapes. The aim of my project is to represent the character of the community. The portraits portray different characters of people who live in the area and the landscapes portray different places in the area of Tallaght. Each portrait is connected to a landscape and together they tell a story about the person and the area. The project overall reveals the spirit and essence of the community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leann Rigney
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As women we still face many obstacles, we fight many corners and graze many ceilings. As women, we often conform to a number of societally defined parameters and antiquated obligations. As women, we can begin to use the tradition of a male gaze for our own pleasure, moulding it to the will of our self- expression. 'As Women' is a collection of photographs exploring the subversive use of a style of image making traditionally aimed at a male audience, re-appropriated to provide a platform for sexual expression for women. By utilising an existing aesthetic and rupturing it for a new purpose, we as women can begin to reclaim and redefine the visual tropes of represented female sexuality monopolized by the ever presence of the male gaze. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Rose
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is an exploration into the female adolescence. Adolescence overwhelms us and takes hold of every facet of our life and is something, which like nature, is uncontrollable. There are not many years between when you stop being a girl to when you become a woman but when experienced, it is eternal and something that can be revisited throughout your life. It is a time of changes, of adventures and of secrets. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Ryan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For the past year, I have been traveling around the country to make portraits of rag trees. These beautiful trees are relics of an ancient Celtic tradition which has still survived in parts of Ireland to this day. In some areas these trees are believed to have curative properties but the story differs from tree to tree. Documenting these trees has been an important reflective process, highlighting for me the cyclic nature of popiular beliefs and religions, and the stalwarthy relationship of our natural environs to these beliefs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frank Brennan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project involved a year-long exploration of regions of the natural landscape in the southeast of Ireland. It is a response to the experience of modernity within a transforming social demography. I began by using photography as a medium for enquiry, which eventually lead me to work with a visual structure which functions as a metaphor for modernity. The fieldwork was ethnographic in practice, experiencing the environment and spending long periods of time in observation of, and active participation with nature. My practice involved the exploration of form, colour, flora and natural landscape compositions. The final work contains inscribed references to aesthetics, nature, industrialisation, fragility and the sublime. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anastasios Gaitanos
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through my photographic portraits I have attempted to capture the competitive performance of the Gurn, transplanting it from its stage setting and re-present it within the context of the gallery. The series presents the viewer with performers who contort their faces, and as a consequence, appear to contort or change their characters. The contorted face and expression feel like alien phenomena to most of us. It is not an emotional expression easily read or that carries clearly decipherable social meanings, playfully distorting the viewer's understanding of what expression is. These performers are like real life caricatures. The series of typological photographs respects the performative skill and nature of the Gurn, encouraging/allowing the viewer to judge the quality of the performance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Monika Grabowska
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Present day Poland is now shaped by an unprecedented level of outside influences. Massive transformation is underway. The effects of urban regeneration and globalization have given rise to a fascinating interplay of contrasts between poverty and wealth, the old and the new. These events paint pictures of changing lives within a changing landscape, scenes that could have never been captured 20 or 30 or so years ago. The photographer's role here can be to pose questions about a shifting cultural identity, or to evidence stages of a before and after. In this body of work I attempt to capture the defining spirit of a people and place through a period of radical change. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Killoh
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My practice focuses on the overlooked within our daily lives. The amusement park is indeed a fantastic space. One which stimulates us, hyper realises our senses and allows us to escape from the day-to-day. Through the use of colour, composition, and occasional irony, I have explored this fantastic space in a not so fantastic way; I aim to hint at the world below, behind or beside the hot dog stands and looping roller coasters. In doing this I do not wish to hint to the monotony of daily life, but to those little details, shapes and colours that make the space so fun and stimulating; Fantastic! . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lynsay Stewart
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Having been surrounded by hospitals all my life due to having parents that work in them, I have always felt a little daunted by them and their machines. I set out to conquer this fear with these images. The images are primarily based around the idea of plainly representing hospital spaces. This hospital in particular is The Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank, Glasgow; and the areas photographed include catheterization labs, patient waiting rooms, x-ray rooms and CT scan areas. My aim was to take away the fear and uncertainty surrounding hospitals and their equipment, not just for myself, but for others as well. Therefore I kept the photos as unedited and straightforward as possible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Loren Stuart
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My project is a series of self-portraits, which enabled me to use my own tangible form as a means to create a narrative of my own experiences. For this I used a 10x8 camera on a long exposure. This long exposure time captures one moment in numerous different ways, blurring and distorting the mapping of my body. This essentially shows a more natural sense of self and personality. I wanted to find a way to explore my own body and to go beyond a mere detached interpretation of the external form. Within my photographs I am creating a performance of my own identity, whilst also attempting to reiterate that none of us are immortal, even though these photographs are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heidi Voss
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Photographing my surroundings enables me to produce a variety of outcomes that explore both fine art and documentary styles of photography. The subject matter varies from landscapes to portraits, however the use of medium format cameras and natural light is consistent. I am drawn to the 'everyday'; the aim of my photographs is for the viewer to appreciate the things in life that often go un-noticed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katarzyna Branicka
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'-a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.' Baudrillard claims that the image has changed from the one reflecting reality, to one masking the absence of reality. Every photograph, in Simulacrum series, contains a reproduction of a shard of reality within its frame. In the project, inspired by fictional depictions of what being human may mean in the future, I use unnaturally posed figures, juxtaposed with geometric environments to create images of unsure meaning, and even ambiguous humanity within atemporal contexts. Designs: Jacob Birge . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hayley Burnett
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My final year project centers on the analysis of stereotypes within the context of sexuality. I wanted to gain a better comprehension of why stereotyping happens. Is it a natural human behavior, a construction, what defines each stereotype, etc? There are five particular stereotypes within western culture that I focused on: the nubile heterosexual female; the virile heterosexual male; the androgynous bisexual; the aggressive homosexual female and the effeminate homosexual male. These five sexualities create the foundation to humanity's categorisation of sexuality in which sexuality is simplified into a confined nomenclature. I created photographic compositions that fragment and exaggerate the superficial milieu that categorically defines one's sexuality within society. Via this methodology I hope to emphasise society's naïve and orthodox comprehension of sexuality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mat Hay
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series intends to discuss the powers of story telling, hype, and persuasion. In particular it sets out to question the mechanism of religion, the process of indoctrination, and why people believe what others tell them. My motivation for doing this comes from an interest in the selective application of logic, scrutiny, and scepticism within both modern society, and our current understanding of reality. By setting fantastical stories in a contemporary environment I aim to encourage the viewer to take any judgment formed and apply this to real life sources of information, in particular religious history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pierre Lequeux
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The following images are part of a larger series that aims to challenge what we perceive as 'seeing'. By removing the 'directed gaze' a pin-sharp image often presents, the blur allows for an infusion of new life into the image. Influenced by the later impressionist paintings of Monet and the contemporary photographic works of Uta Barth, these images decipher the abstract patterns of soft colour shades flowing into each other. It is necessary to construct the landscape from our own imagination and to work against the lack of visual content. There is a constant swing between what is not seen and what could be there. To 'see' scenery as a landscape is always a projection of the viewer. Here the process goes one step further as the viewer has to constitute the image from incomplete, blurred impressions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Jayne Merrett
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A collection of various fashion photographs. This project was a way for me to place myself within the boundaries of the industry of fashion photography. I approached this project as a chance to expand my technical skills in photography as well as work in collaboration with models, hair and MUA's and stylists in order to produce an array of fashion imagery you would see in current fashion magazines. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ania Mokrzycka
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Underneath the concrete surface of reality and photography lies a metaphor. It drives the reading of a photograph, which is implicitly unfixed. In the process of interpreting an image, it becomes a channel for fictitious associations. Identities are enacted representations, reality loses linearity. The resulting abundance of meanings creates space for intimate contemplation and allows to establish subjective correspondences between images. The audience's projections intermingle with the photographer's intentions, as well as those of the subject. A photograph is an effect of transference of powers.The series is concerned with female identity and its performative character. I contrast portraits with subjective representations of the immediate reality. Both work together to encourage a discourse with photography's limited capabilities of preserving what's in front of the camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jagoda Wisniewska
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Cherry Compote is a project that I realised through the need to document the subject of the everyday, to depict its special kind of beauty. Sylvester and Nina are my grandparents and this is the reality they are bounded within. This is not a sentimental story about longing for home, nor is it just a set of family snapshots from a never-created photo album. It is an exploration of photography's implicit relationship to realism. Through applied aesthetics I borrow and redirect the language of domestic imagery. This candid depiction of the 'non-events' of daily life contrasts the social convention to maintain order and normality in the representation of reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Bannister
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am interested in exploring the narrative within photography, how one image can lead to the next and links between them created, making the edit, sequence and flow of the photographs all important. Shot solely on a 5x4, large format camera, this project is a journey that follows the A30, the road that runs throughout the southernmost counties in the UK and the people who seek solace in solitude that live along it. It covers the ideas of wandering, retreating from the world and a life that is hidden from view. 'I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.' - HENRY DAVID THOREAU . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Edmond Bayne-Powell
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In this project I've been taking waste material such as onion skins and used lemons from rubbish bins to create sculptural forms. When observing my photographs I'd like the viewer to think about the idea of what happens between seeing an object and understanding what we see. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anton Belmonté
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Taken backstage of West End show called Taboo- The Boy George Musical. The show tells the story of Boy George's life and his drugged addicted days leading up to his fame, as well as the stories of the other (as the line says): 'gender benders". This image is part of a larger collection that shows a moment of suspension, a transition from them being themselves and becoming their character. The body of work questions identity and how our personality plays multiple rolls depending on where we are. As Shakespeare says : "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Brown
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Religion and fashion have come into contact with each other throughout creative history. My work explores Christianity and fashion within a context of consumerism. The power of consumerism in religion and fashion are similar in mass production and influence the consumer. My work explores the empowerment of religion within a fashion photography context. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Bruce-Watt
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is mainly centered around portraiture. My inspirations come from many different sources from film to paintings. In one of my projects, I looked at Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', in order to influence me in my portraits. However, in my most recent work I have been looking at creating a 'snapshot of youth', being inspired by contemporary photographers like Tom Wood and Jocelyn Bain Hogg. Ultimately, my style is intimate and subtle, focused on lighting and working with models. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Max Compton
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Breaking the Surface' is a project that questions the tension between the surface of a photographic print against the space within the subject matter. A scratched line into the ink of the print acts as a counter to the perspective and the depth of the image, it draws your eyes to the surface of the print to emphasise its physicality over its subject matter. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Will Cornelius
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My photography utilises fashion and commercial techniques but then change the subject matter so as to give the viewer a familiar styled image that they may see on the pages of glossy magazines but create a sense of unease that may be hard to shake. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Cowley
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is about using fetish in fashion advertising to create sensual images that would attract a person into buying a product. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Theo Deproost
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I pursue the construction dramatic scenes, charged with aesthetic and thematic stimulation, that retain enough narrative ambiguity to invite speculation over the 'true' narrative of the images, both individually and sequentially. I employ a cinematic style, often low key lighting and close cropping, to bestow a greater sense of significance on my subjects. The viewer's own experience and associations will lead them to write a unique story around the photographs, filling in the blanks and enriching the plot. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Garner
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Fruit for Thought' is a self-exploratory project of my unusual relationship with fruit. Through photography I have explored my phobia of fruit and the illogical barriers I construct between myself and what repulses me. By containing and partitioning the fruit, I worked through my own emotions of what has been a lifelong battle. Through experimentation and exposure to fruit, I have gained more control over my phobia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Greatorex
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Isolation' is an exploration of male vulnerability before the camera. Imprisoned between a translucent barrier and overwhelming darkness is the depiction of a solitary, isolated male subject. This theatrical performance highlights the contradiction between the male subject's physical strength and his emotional vulnerability, thus questioning existing preconceptions of male representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leanne Healey
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Dreams are the Royal Road to the Unconscious' - Sigmund Freud. This body of work explores how photography could be used within psychoanalysis. It draws upon common emotions, symbols, archetypes and experiences in dreams, with the purpose of making the viewer recall their own; working like a projective test would. A photograph allows us time to confront this otherwise fleeting experience and question it. Dreams offer us encoded messages from our unconscious; by being more aware of their significance we can better understand our behaviour, fears, desires and even cure depression or anxiety disorders. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meesha Holley
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

An in depth exploration into the relationship formed between man and water through the eyes of aquatic athletes, who spend the majority of their waking hours submerged in water. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tamsin Hughes
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I have become very interested in sculpture and have been looking at the connections between these classic ideals, beauty and the human form. Throughout my final major project I have been exploring ideas of classicism from the Renaissance, taking influence from both the Pre-Raphaelite era as well as aspects of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. I have been emulating as well as questioning the conventions surrounding the sculptural form; working both in the studio and with natural light transforming my subjects into these majestic, god like figures. A living statue. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elliot King
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Exploring ideas around perception and memory of space, and the way in which we read images of domestic environments, this project has been an attempt to use the photographic series as a medium to combine fragments of architectural spaces into a new, more intimately beautiful form. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Roberts
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My images are a culmination of my passions and ideas, both visual and theoretical. Over the course of the year I have experimented with varying techniques, aesthetics and genres, however the ideas informing the work has stayed constant. The stylistic traits of my work have been intrinsic to what they express, the lighting which is usually soft and the use of blur helps create the atmospheres of the images. These ideas include: transitory states of being, feminity and the portrayal of gender, and exploring the idea of the tension between the man made and the natural world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Rosser
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Photographed in this contorted fashion, the body becomes inhuman. It is a mindless mass of flesh, a growth. The image intrigues us with its peculiarity and soft lighting, while its grotesqueness repels us. Here, what should be intimately familiar is transformed into an unfamiliar sculpture. The work speaks the human condition and our increasing alienation from our own bodies. The forms photographed are far from the ideal bodily image and hold a sense of the cadaver about them. The grey walls surrounding the bodies are bleak, allowing no escape from the space, while the marked surfaces mirror the imperfections visible on the anonymous bodies. These unsettling images are an exploration of how we are situated within our own skin. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jodie Tapping
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Jodie Tapping intends for her photographs to create a narrative; something the audience can relate to and apply their own emotional interpretation. Her recent series of work named 'The Silent and Unseen' explores the world of voyeurism and human behavior, as she gathers photographs of a woman living an ordinary life, but allows her intimate but intrusive photographs to test the fine boundaries between fear and the unknown. Some are taken in public spaces, others in personal ones, but all aim to examine the existential anxieties for a female in modern society. The audience is guided into the narrative as they are instantly placed into a 'peeping tom' perspective. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martyn Windsor
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

These images investigate and question the ideas of definition, meaning, translation and loss of meaning through translation; to 'unmask' the transient and fluid nature of language. We understand a word by etymological definition, not through the living thoughts around that word, at that time. By examining the seemingly instinctual process of interpolating words, symbols and images we can begin to question the assumptions made in our culture and how they construct 'truths' we take for granted. These assumptions affect our interpretation of the world around us which shapes our actions and behaviour in life. Using the philosophy of Wittgenstein, these images seek to deconstruct the origins of our contemporary definitions of identities, using their representations in both image and language. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Saxon Witbrock
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Words are beautiful. Representing our desire to communicate ideas to each other, words span the entirety of human knowledge and experience. An individual can transfer his or her thoughts, beliefs, knowledge, and experience from their own mind, into the minds of others, using nothing but a simple selection of sounds or shapes. Not only is the concept of words in itself beautiful, but some words have their own personal beauty. This beauty may stem from the sounds they create when uttered, or their representation of wonderfully unique concepts. My images represent the extrapolation from word to understanding, and thus the inherent beauty in the human desire to communicate ideas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Wright
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Preconceptions influence our interpretation of a photograph. We attempt to make sense of what we see. With a lack of information within a photograph we are left to make our own conclusions. The Untitled Series examines this process and challenges how and why we interpret a photograph in the way we do. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Fawcett
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

An Eye for an Appetite is a study into the path through a food chain encompassing themes of natural perception and human dystopia through photographic and cinematographic mediums. I have focussed my area of study primarily on the presentation of food chains literally and theoretically through the visual narrative of an isolated food chain to illustrate first person perspectives, and used this secondarily to inspire and encompass answers or at least a warning on the ethics of, and the potential future of mankind's biomechanical energy source to find answers for the hypothetically very realistic future crisis of over population to the point of starvation, without this cruel event being the solution to the overgrowth of such a vast species. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Antoni Ferguson
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Arthur Boyt is an eco friendly member of society. He has always had a keen interest for the natural world from an early age. Arthur is well known for eating roadkill however he doesn't eat it all the time but only when he gets the opportunity to, as his wife is a vegetarian. He makes is very clear that he does not go out looking for roadkill but is always on the look out and would never harm a living animal in order to eat it. He doesn't like to see good meat being wasted along the roadside and cannot help himself to pick it up in order to add to his outstanding collection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gina Goodman
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Gina Goodman is an avid underwater photographer who has spent much of her life in, or surrounded by, the ocean. Her recent work has explored captive marine species and their environments, weighing the pros of aquaria for education and conservation, against the impact captivity has on not only the species observed, but their sustainability in wild habitats when battling the lucrative aquaria trade. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lydia Harris
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A year-long photographic and film study on a small family-run Cornish organic farm. Looking at the unique community which has been created within the farm and the way they relate to the issues and debates of current society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abbi Hughes
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Abbi Hughes is a photographer and filmmaker, who has a love for documenting the natural world. Her recent project explores our intricate and mystifying relationship with the ocean. Its unique sense of isolation and capacity has drawn us to the shorelines for so many different reasons. Abbi's work challenges the audience's personal perceptions and expectations of the ocean, its captivating qualities and unusual contemplative power, producing diverse emotional responses dependent upon individual experience. This mercurial state invites people into its vastness, to witness and become absorbed by nature's ephemeral beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Jay
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'das Es, das Ich, das Über-Ich.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Henry Osman
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Form, an experiment with the visual construction of the natural object, challenges our traditional relationship with the natural world and its representation within contemporary photography. Through the abstraction of structure and the consequent implementation of pattern, shape and tone, Form is both a study into organic matter, as well as an exploration into the assembled image itself. Henry's work often experiments with varied, concerned and observational views on environments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Oxley
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself' - Henry Miller Fragments - A cerebral and liberating series, giving space, time and above all, thought, to fragments of life never before seen or represented in such a way. These photographs, all taken from the feathers of a single European Starling, are transformed into abstract catalysts to be interpreted as freely and individually as the subjects themselves once were. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosy Prowse
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Rosy's work looks at the relationship we have to the natural cycle of decay. These images are silent memorials to the living beings they once were. She treated them as if photographing a person, taking intimate portraits, trying to capture the stillness and silence of death, attempting to eliminate the 'disgust' towards dead things. The images presented are at times graphic, ambiguous, and beautiful representations of a respect and acknowledgement of the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Looking at human reaction to animal decomposition, and plant reaction to man-made decomposition, shown within subjects found around South Cornwall. "In search of Horse corpses fuelled by the scandal Sat in a stone circle, surrounded by ghosts of the moors, and doors to the past." . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elfinn Sambrook
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Elle Sambrook's series 'Our Landscape' is a delicate documentation of our metamorphic environment. It presents the subtleties of our grip on the land; historically, industrially and socially. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annemarie Bala
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The photographic project is a study of the China Clay area, in Cornwall, which is witnessing the fading power of the extraction industry of the British Clay. The images present the inherent connection between the residents and the landscape, and question the impact that the space has had on the people, their sense of identity and their consciousness. The story portrays the endeavours of individuals in the development of their communities that are faced with the uncertainties of the post-industrial era, and represents the global dilemma of the human values in the relationship between man and nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daisy Atkin
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Gender-identity is something most people go their whole lives without thinking about. It is integral to our identities and often the first aspect people notice about us. However some people feel uncomfortable within the gender-identity set for them at birth. Some go their whole lives without ever acting on this but many others choose to challenge societies views on the set gender binary of male or female. This project looks at different identities within the transgender umbrella, finding similarities and differences between them, and looking at opinions around the subject. Daisy Atkin is a documentary and editorial photographer working in Dorset with a fascination for minority and misrepresented groups and a passion for telling stories in honest and sympathetic ways. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nia Collier
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Stithians is a small village in South West Cornwall. Close to two of Cornwall's largest towns and only city, Stithians sits in the centre of the Redruth, Falmouth and Truro triangle. Despite its proximity to these larger locations the village has retained a rural feeling. History books exploring Stithians' past boasts the community's ability to entertain themselves. When transport wasn't as widely available this was a necessity but in today's modern age the villagers still pride themselves on providing plenty entertainment within the village's boundaries. This makes Stithians a lively, vibrant and diverse place, with a strong sense of community and welcoming atmosphere. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua-James Cunliffe
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Hidden away on Cornwall's River Fal lies a ferry; a ferry bereft of hundreds of passengers that should be filling the lounges, the canteens and the dormitories. In their place is a quiet emptiness, only occasionally punctuated by 6 individuals - the skeleton crew. A shifting smorgasbord of British nationals and Europeans are assigned to maintain the ship, keeping it safe and ready on the chance of being called back to service. Bound to the English language by the vessel's flag, it is for some seafarers a lonely pursuit. Often their best bet for a good income, grinding through the silent monotony, rarely able to touch land, it is worth supporting themselves and their families. This is the ghost ship. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Glazebrook
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Samuel Glazebrook's project, Stacks, is a journey across the circumference of Cornwall via bicycle. His aim was to create a body of work documenting Cornwall, and it's inhabitance through the use of simply composed portraiture and landscapes. The work speaks about sense of place, as well as personal experiences with the county. The pictures make up a selection of encounters with people and places along the way. The name refers to the mining era, when hundreds of stacks where erected, which still line the Cornish landscape, and remind the inhabitants of its past. Samuel is in the process of creating a book which will become available to purchase. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aaron Harcourt
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My key focus in the documentation of the alternative community living at Chyan was not only to illustrate the idealistic and gratifying side of this lifestyle but also the challenges and dedication it takes to live in this fashion. Many onlookers seem to be enchanted by this subculture and their way of life and although there are many fulfilling parts of this existence, such as the close proximity to nature, nomadic practices and low living costs, there is also a great amount of hard work that come along with it. This can include anything from rebuilding a toppled caravan awning to fetching water, keeping warm to finding a sufficient light source. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Mayrick
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Education Act of 1996 states that parents are responsible for their children's education, "either by regular attendance at school or otherwise." Otherwise means to educate your child in an alternative way than the mainstream institutions the UK educational system is based around, this can be anything from educating round the kitchen table, to traveling the world, or simply learning in natural environments. There are up to 80,000 families in the UK who have taken it upon themselves to educate their families at home. This project aims to educate those on home education. Following different families aged 4-15 all with their own interpretations and practices, this project aims to show the many variations of what it means to Home Educate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siril Monteiro
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'An Unfamiliar Home' is a project about young refugees that have fled from all over the world to Trondheim, Norway. Some came on their own, leaving friends and family behind. Some have been through a long and traumatic journey that they will never forget. They have all had their life turned upside down but has taken the challenge and have created new lives for themselves. Through giving an insight into the everyday lives of these refugees Monteiro aims to show that these strong teenagers are not only victims: they are survivors. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Piper
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Urban Utopia' looks at London's inner city farms and the social, economic and environmental benefits they offer to local communities. There are eleven farms open to the public in the Capital, each providing an oasis of calm and a chance for escapism from the entropy of everyday life. Many of the farms are charities, and therefore heavily rely on government funding and public donations for their survival. In return, they offer educational programmes and a place for therapy for underprivileged members of society, as well as for people with learning difficulties and mental illness. For many people living in depressed areas of London, this is the closest they might ever get to experiencing the countryside. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hamish Roberts
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Buguruni School for the Deaf, is situated in Ilala district of Dar es Salaam. Pupils often begin learning at the age of six or seven, and for the first few years learn sign language. Occasionally students may learn here up until the age of 18. Rejection from their families and persecution from others are all too common, for many of the students and their deafness has been a direct consequence of a childhood illness and poverty. However this haven for deaf children, carries the motto that 'Education and love is our right'. Children from all over Tanzania and the Zanzibar Archipelago can be found here, as it is one of the few deaf schools that offer an education for free. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josie Wooderson
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Press and Editorial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

FORWARD is an African diaspora women lead charity dedicated to safeguarding women and girls. One of their campaigns is against Female Genital Mutilation, which is illegal in the UK, and yet each year there are an estimated 20,000 girls at risk. FORWARD is one of a number of charities across the UK that exists to support girls who are at risk of being mutilated, or women who are living with the damaging consequences. It is important that the services and advice available to women and girls are highlighted in the coming months, as this is the run up to the most high risk time of year for young girls to be cut; the summer holidays. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Brocks
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is culmination spanning a two-year period. It is an attempt to document my relationship with members of the Irish Traveller community and explore their identity. This particular set of photographs is and an excerpt from a lager body of work on The Ward Family. The work draws attention to social observations harking back to tradition, where religion and family values are a prominent theme of the everyday vernacular. These photographs signal my own acceptance of what might be seen by some as stereotypes obscuring individual identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Farram
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through walking the various footpaths and photographing the trees and animal tracks, I found myself unintentionally exploring my own emotional attachment to this place. However, during these visits I was confronted not with the sentimental nostalgia I had expected, but with the realisation that this place had changed for me. Suddenly i felt the isolation, the loneliness and the unrest this life here can provide. The woodlands determine the way I perceive myself, these are self-representations of the person I am in this place. My existence here is just a blink of an eye to the longevity of the woodlands, when I am gone, they will continue to grow and outlive generations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Freeman
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Although it remains the name of the ground of one of England's most famous old football clubs, since 1989 the word "Hillsborough" has more strongly evoked Britain's worst sporting disaster. I visited Hillsborough with a view of documenting the stadium, but it became apparent that the memory of the disaster was something I couldn't ignore. Consisting of Twelve images, the work is not me passing judgment, but simply informing through photography, quotes and facts, an event that is still widely discussed in the footballing world even today, by footballing fans, and people in the city and one that led to improved safety in all English stadiums. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Ioannou
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Now Entering is a body of work based upon circus performers from John Lawson Circus, that portrays a quiet juxtaposition to the ordinary circus environment. The acts are secluded into a peaceful state inside the Bigtop; a visual of stark contrast to the circus's familiar surroundings. This leaves the viewer questioning the act's presence and identity; searching for an explanation as to why they are gazing back into the viewer's eyes. There is an unnerving connection between the viewer and the subject, as though we are glimpsing into prohibited territory. The photographs were captured over three different locations spanning over South East Kent, from Paddock Wood, Ashford and finally to Ramsgate. The full body of work consists of eight portraits with accompanying informative text about each of the subjects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bianca Tuckwell
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Growth That Is Our Own Cradle enquires into the form and make up of a selection of British bird's nests. Nine nests from different species of birds are carefully studied and documented in order to heighten the appreciation of each construction. They are so delicate in design. A nest might have a thousand pieces to its make up. Each piece taken on a single trip. Not only that but the birds have to find each piece, and find a place for it in their nest. It's like a builder building a house. Their construction: unbelievable that they never fall out and are so safe. Built for strength but also for comfort. Amazing really, that birds can make these homes like they do. (Fred Mills, nest finder) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgina Labban
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin'- William Shakespeare My work explores the notions of beauty and aging within nature, through my own representation of Mother Nature in a contemporized human form. The basis of this project was inspired from the work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood whose visions and ideas on beauty combined with nature created an idealised beauty with which people could aspire to. The brotherhood had specific ideas on how they should be working in order create artworks that were true to themselves. The pure forms that were being represented are a theme that I was working with in this body of work. These two images represent the two different sides of Mother Nature, her age and grandeur as well as her beauty they show the human form but also display nature at its finest. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgie Mason
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Death Row is an exploration into dog abandonment, following the experiences of Niall Lester, an Animal Welfare Officer and charity worker living in South East London. Death Row is a term used in animal rescue when an animal has been deemed unsuitable for rehoming, due to either their breed, behavioural issues or from simply having not found a home in time. After that time, the animal will be destroyed. The project revisits the locations in which Niall rescued these dogs, putting both him and the animal back in that situation once more. If not on Death Row already, Niall saved these dogs from the inevitability of being on Death Row in the future, either due to being in the hands of an abusive owner or from simply being unwanted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bobby Mills
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Completed in 1986, the M25 travels only in a circle. At 117 miles around, and without a destination, the road forms an endless orbital highway. 'The Road Not Taken' was made as I walked around the edge of the M25 with a view camera. In a sense it felt something like following a river. The project explores the connections between place and non-place, and the practice of walking and photography. In a historical context the road leads somewhere, or onto another road. In contradiction, the M25 travels in an inevitable circle. A view camera was the photographic means of communicating the heightened state of awareness I walked with, and stilled the transient landscape of the M25 with a sense of quiet and clarity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olivia Newstead
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My practice explores light and transforming the perception of an image through exploring the cameras own limitations by using a soft focus. Light is one of the main themes that threads through my work and plays a big part in how my photos turn out and definitely dictates how and what I shoot. Most things that surround me even the mundane inspire me. This work evokes intimacy and invites a sense of the mundane. Defamiliarizing interior space creates a different perception to what we expect to see, through the notion of abstracting the ordinary. The relationship between subject and object is questioned, leaving the viewer to meditate on what the images mean to them, during an ephemeral moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Pearce
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is focused on the relationship between nature and the man-made, how they exist separately or interact and conflict within a space. This is something that has interested me throughout my time at university and is a study I plan to continue there after. For 'The face between' I took my field camera and travelled a stretch of the South Coast. The subject of this study was the cliff face, capturing moments of co-existence and decay between the cliff face as well as the man-made structures built onto it. Shooting on 5x4 allows me to slow down, to take in a space before firing the shutter. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christopher Yiannis Pelekanis
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Christopher Yiannis Pelekanis is a practicing street photographer, whose work often revolves around the theories behind identity and how they inform space and place along the framework of a journey. This topic led him to his latest project titled 'On The Ward Line', which delves into his displacement and detachment from home and place. Photographing from the tangent of the ward line allows him to look in on the space where he grew up as a boy, and travelling across it symbolises his transition and evolution out of the space itself. The subjects and spaces he photographs on the journey are the psyco - geographical triggers, which show the resulting reflections of the past and present self - the traces of the distant familiar. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Porter
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As I was just about to leave the house one morning my Mum offered me a lift to my destination on the opposite side of town. In my usual fashion I gratefully declined. 'But it will take you ages to walk there.' was my Mum's reply. 'Nah, it's alright, I'll just go straight through.' Going Straight Through is a series of photographs created from the realisation that I know how to navigate around my home town far better than my parents." . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Rowsell
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Introspection is a body of work which looks at young people's relationship with religion and spirituality, and gives an individual time for deep reflection, in an increasingly fast paced multi cultural world. Each sitter is placed in a pitch black studio, devoid of light and sounds, except for those outside the studio environment for 10 minutes. They are asked to reflect on the relationship they have or don't have towards the subject of religion and/or spirituality. An image is taken at two points during this period which captures their body language and facial expressions whilst contemplating this subject. The resulting images show individuals who have come, or are coming to terms with what their own beliefs really are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Symons
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As a photographer it is important to be emotionally involved within my work, and therefore I am interested in personal matters of everyday life. My recent project 'Effaced' shows childhood struggles of identity shown through manipulations upon family album photographs. These defacements, such as burning and cutting out, done directly onto the photographs, draws attention upon this struggle, being unable to completely efface my own representation in a satisfactory way. Yet the attention from the viewer is very much drawn to the unfamiliar markings upon these family photographs and are left to try to understand and connect with this little girl whom they see faceless within the photographs in front of them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chelsy Vaney
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Using collected photographs from my own travels exploring unfamiliar landscapes, I began interfering with the physical photographic prints. The intrigue that provoked the initial intervention stemmed from my desire to revisit the snapshots, and feeling dissatisfied when the photographs didn't show me the landscapes as I had originally experienced them. I began altering images with cuts, folds and scratches in the attempt to match the memory I had, in order to relive the landscape experience. With this I am enhancing the material qualities of the landscape representation to bring the snapshots to life and mimic the experience. The interventions act as a physical form of retouching to the, now printed, digital images. The act of the intervention is an attempt to recapture the memory of the experience through the photographic representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Wareing
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Exposing the disposability and the temporality of individuality within the medium of photography and photography's artefacts, Jack touches onto how little an individual is noticed due to the overwhelming mass of information we, as connected peoples, are bombarded with. Many of his works wish to bring about a new sensuousness and a desire for the photographic object. 'A Bunch of Zeroes' aims to create a prized artefact from a temporary necessity; thermally printing directly onto train tickets, objects which are given value, both personally and monetarily for very short periods of time and then discarded, becoming worthless. 'Embracing the Void' explores the inevitable fade from memory and the eventual destruction of image through light, the creator and destroyer of the photograph. The images are printed onto receipt paper and exposed to ultraviolet light for the entirety of their existence, fading into nothingness; the images are consumed by the object but have gathered up the experiences to become solid memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nat Yau
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The exploration of ink and water has created fluid shapes and patterns that represent water pollution through abstraction. The stillness of these images allows us to examine the bold colours and shapes created by the inks within the water. This exact moment is the moment between the water being pure and when the entire body of water has been contaminated with foreign pollution. With previous experimentation of layering these images over domestic areas in order to demonstrate the impact of wasted resources, the final outcome of presenting these inks on acrylic, creates the impression that we must preserve the natural and to stop before all is toxic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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M-J Archibald
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

We are told that life is a journey; from birth to death with all the various life stages in-between. For some, the journey is a literal one, moving from place to place in search of a sense of belonging. For others, the journey is a spiritual one, a metaphor for the search for the authentic self. In my work, I'm interested in both the figurative and literal journeys we make in life, the spaces we move through and the things we leave behind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elaine Barr
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through my work I hope to offer a new narrative of our changing landscapes. By exploring ideas about my trace as a maker on the landscape, through walking and 'free association', ideas become connected and using the materials of the landscape itself all becomes encapsulated into the work creating an experience of place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tine Bek
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

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Susan Boyle
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In my work I examine the notion of relinquishment of personal autonomy for the security of imposed rules and regulations. I explore whether we wish to escape the confines of control structures and the rules they impose, or if we readily accept instructions and directions that afford us stability and allow us escape from thinking for ourselves, and offer freedom from ultimate responsibility for our decisions and actions. I am interested in the anxiety of the realisation of limitless possibility and freedom of choice, and the escape from the weight of responsibility to make decisions through following the dictates and permissions of others. My work often incorporates and subverts the forms of standard rules and instructions we encounter regularly and explores the apparent need for instructions to dictate our daily existence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Cameron
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

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Ross Finnie
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The digital image is very much the photographic medium of our present time, and has greatly affected the way in which images are made, distributed and viewed. Choosing to switch to digital photography from a purely analogue film-based way of working brought up as many difficult questions and challenges as it brought benefits, particularly around the notion of value judgements. Questions of value were raised both in terms of the photograph as physical object and the subjects depicted by the cameras, and attempting to investigate the answers to these questions provided an interesting stimulus around which to create work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Hinson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

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Kenneth Law
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

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Anna Lennon
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

"Artists are in some way neurologists, studying the brain with techniques unique to them..." - Professor Semir Zeki. My work tends to deal with concepts of psychological conditions and particular melancholic experiences of isolation. I am interested in how these experiences can manifest themselves in bringing an individual to a state of numbness. I use concepts of 'aesthetic experience' and theories of 'the sublime' to enhance the idea of the communicational difficulties surrounding these conditions and explore how communication or interpretation of this may exist in metaphor and imagery when using photography and video as a tool or device. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katarzyna Litarska
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For the last years Katarzyna has been fascinated with the idea and form of the human habitat and the repercussion of architectural spaces to identity and memory. Through a very focused body of work that considers the architectural form as a metaphor for the passing of time, she makes oblique references to the human condition. In Katarzyna's pictures and videos the buildings are central to the functions of the work. Whereas at first glance they appear to describe the architecture, soon one discovers a poetic that suggests that they stand in as surrogate for the human presence. The often derelict facade of the buildings - uninviting at first soon becomes apparently and surprisingly humane. Each building functions almost like a portrait - but one that has a multitude of occupants and a multitude of meanings . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brogan Ramm
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Statement: We walk around our day-to-day lives ignoring that which is around us. Not the obviously beautiful, but the mundanely so. The cracks we walk past on the street; the silence that surrounds us at night; the beauty of an empty, but lived-in room. As a collective we ignore the simple beauties that surround us. Embracing it is a key element in my practice. No matter what medium I choose to work within, or the work I intend on making, the fundamental aspects all come from this appreciation - in fact, I would be inclined to go as far as calling it an infatuation. I am infatuated with the mundanely beautiful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cecilie Nicoline Rasmussen
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

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Charli Botha
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Off The Beaten Track' is a series entering into the homes and lives of four 'Intentional Communities' in the UK. Often considered to be 'alternative', their numbers equate to just a small percentage of the one billion people living collectively worldwide. At a point in my life where I will be making decisions to ultimately decide my future endeavors, as trust in politics and the economy falters, the communities featured in this series have heightened for me the importance of retaining, or indeed regaining autonomy over our own lives, and working together to leave a legacy for a better, more sustainable future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Douglas Hook
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

When looking at the greyhound racing industry one thing stands out above all other aspects of the sport, the fact that in five to ten years it will have changed for the worse unless revisions are implemented at a fundamental level. Dog racing was once highly popular with 80 licensed greyhound tracks in the UK governed by the self-regulating Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) but this has fallen to about 26 although there are some unregulated racetracks too. By focusing on Peterborough track this photo essay highlights the impending demise and attempts, by a few, to change old attitudes and attract money back into the industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kerrie Palmer
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project focuses on a Middle English village and examines some of the visible changes that have occurred to the suburban landscape and its people in recent decades. Hampton Magna is situated just outside of Warwick. It was extended from the parish of Budbrooke in the 1970's and has steadily grown to become a small suburb serving England's East and West Midlands. English village life has moved rapidly away from its pre-war agrarian past. With few exceptions villages have now become service economy commuter suburbs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Phillips
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Documentary piece about a retirement home for Clergy's and widows, questioning the meaning of Life and death within a small Christian community, Capel Court. Within this project I aimed to discover what it means to live and die spending time with residents, developing relationships and questioning their thoughts. The portraits portray the happiness of a full Christian life and their excitement for a life after death, including contextual shots of personal spaces representing their personalities and Christian values. A consistency of simple, basic, living spaces which residents value and are very content with. During my time spent at Capel Court I learnt an incredible amount about Christian values and my eyes have been opened to a different way of living. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Giedre Virbalaite
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'We have never lived better than now' - is a social documentary project of a family of eight (two parents and six children) from the small hamlet of Kurkliai in northeastern Lithuania. The photographs depict a family, living on the edge of what could be described as 'modern' poverty, which itself is shaped largely by the social, economic and political aspects of Lithuania. This piece of social documentary - is a celebration of a family unit, where members are held together in a 'golden age'. But the inevitable economics are looming and within a few short years the family will inevitably split as the teenage children look for work outside their country and away from the family home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harry Williams
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

There is an old Hindu proverb that says 'you are not a man until your father dies.' As an audiovisual piece 'Life is a Terminal Condition' documents the beginning of a journey I have had the opportunity to travel with my father, since the age of twenty-one. Capturing the realisation's, reflections and regrets that have stemmed and been shared from the knowledge of a terminal illness. Prostate cancer affects tens of thousands of men, sons, brothers and fathers every year, with over eighty percent living for at least five years after diagnosis. With a dialogue of honesty and hope, this project is for those who are living each day with the knowledge of the life that's left. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Batsford Rosie
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Having always been captivated by the weird and interested by alternative cultures, Rosie loves to capture everything she finds aesthetically intriguing. Her photographic style falls under many umbrellas such as Travel, Social Documentary and Portraiture. Whatever the style may be her work predominantly involves people as she finds everybody's individual characteristics, personalities and mannerisms extremely fascinating. Rosie has a way of creating a great rapport and solid relationships with people, strangers or professionals and it is evident within her images. Ever since she was a young girl Rosie has made notes of her dreams and nightmares. After recently finding some of her old notebooks the project 'Perpetual Reverie' was created. Using her dreams as narrative inspiration Rosie has created some extremely interesting images. "The earliest noted dream i have dates back to when i was 13 and even i'm shocked at myself for how sinister it is. I dream vividly and nightly so i can only imagine this will be a long ongoing project. I am having a lot of fun creating it." . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Erin Bowman
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

After undergoing Cognitive Behavior Therapy, I learned about the power of negative thinking and how these bad thoughts have a detrimental influence over our behavior. This inspired my last project, which has become one of my most reflective and yet abstract photographic works. Though these pieces, I'm expressing my frustration myself; putting in some effort and having potential only to undo it all in one foul swoop of self-destructive negativity. It is a project about the waste of time and energy rather than the destruction of the actual items themselves. For me the whole process was therapeutic and through my interests in mental health, I'm passionate about art with a psychological statement (I have hopes of becoming an Art Therapist) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Conlon Patrick
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Scream is a study of the human mind driven by appropriated imagery with minimal interactions made by the artist. This body of work consists of 56 separate images making up what appears to be a woman screaming in anguish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorna Pilkiewicz
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Lorna never got the chance to meet her Polish Grandad, however she carries his surname, and with it the regularly asked questions of 'How do you spell that?' and 'That's unusual, where is it from?', which acts as a constant reminder of his existence. With this body of work she has been photographing places and artefacts that were once of importance to him. For her, this is one of the few ways of establishing some kind of connection with him as well as communicating to others his amazing and somewhat tragic story during the Second World War. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Price
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Encompassing photography, video and site-specific interventions, my work further develops what could be considered my interest in relationships between man, nature and our surroundings. I often attempt to assimilate, connect with or emphasise the distance between the individual and their surroundings. Such exploration of spatial relationships is a recurring theme, my on-going work explores the slippage between our experience of, and the photographic representation of our immediate surroundings. The tenuous link between seeing, feeling and understanding is a theme that runs through my work. I am constantly exploring my response to objects and spaces, alongside challenging my chosen medium's boundaries and imputations. The camera raises questions of perception, which is why photography is such an intriguing tool to engage with. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenny Stone
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams For me, the joy of photography is having the privilege of creating still narratives for others to explore. I strive on the power of using the camera as a unique means of drawing attention to certain beauties, which are often overlooked in reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Gannon
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through the aesthetics and objective qualities of photography, I am beginning to explore my autobiographical past, experimenting with the camera as both a barrier and an insightful device. Whether through text, object or the immediacy of the image, I am creating pieces in which I am attempting to involve memory, artist and viewer within the same instance. By portraying these emotionally intimate memories and moments using the tangible and conceptual elements of art, I am cathartically reconnecting with my psychological past, in ways that I would perhaps not have the courage to otherwise. Continuing this cathartic work, my current project Sixteen houses is a personal process of revisiting the places I have lived in, and confronting the emotions they evoke. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nadine Watson
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Home is a project which explores the issue of living with depression and mental illness. It is a personal study of my family and the effects their depression has on life within the house. By photographing traces left by my Mother, Father and Brother, I documented their absence whilst capturing the constant presence of a claustrophobic atmosphere created by their illness. Alongside these images are videos which record three rooms for three hours to document their situation in real time. It shows their reluctance to communicate or socialise and works in conjunction with my images to portray a family suppressed by their depression. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanna Casey
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Travel. With a camera. With an empty memory card and a curious eye. Revealing the beautiful and the everyday and also aspects of my own identity. These images are taken from 2 projects undertaken in 2012-13. The first project was a detailed observation of my children in Mexico whilst they were trying to reconcile after years of discord. The second shows all aspects of travel using a candid street photography approach. I aim to reveal the essence of a place and to give the viewer the feeling of being there at my side. I am also interested in the idea that the act of taking photographs can be as integral a part of the experience as the journey itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Balteanu
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Under Surveillance - The Modern Panopticon' explores how surveillance cameras have slowly, and in an unobserved manner, forced their way into our daily lives. We have become almost unaware of their overwhelming and omnipresent power. The photographs invite us into an ongoing debate about the conflict between invasion of privacy, and the importance of surveillance when it comes to understanding, and making a stand against criminal behaviour. In recent years, surveillance cameras have proved vital in solving crimes. This practice raises important questions: where do we stand on individual privacy, when did it become accepted practice to have surveillance cameras in a constant gaze at us, and could this omnipresent surveillance mechanism be considered Jeremy Bentham's modern version of the Panopticon? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Derville Conroy
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A vessel is a metaphor for the dichotomies of solid and space, of inner and outer, of what is seen and what is unseen. These 'found' images are made from light and glass; nothing has changed them from when they first appeared in the camera lens. They appear as surreal, luminous and mysterious - Gestalt landscapes. A tangible landscape is produced from an intangible space; a macrocosm is produced from a microcosm. The image construction is meditative, almost ritual. Each image evolves ephemerally in a way that cannot be duplicated. A vessel also stands as a symbol for transport and voyage. Let 'The Vessels' bring you on a journey to experience a reality that is both foreign and familiar. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anita Curry
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Versions' explores the representation of women in visual culture. The series examines the way women have been presented in classical paintings, and attempts to come to terms with the affect these visual motifs have on contemporary women. These motifs persist in visual imagery, and have come to dominate the representation of women. Each subject presents their version of the original painting; a figure unknowingly observed, a redressed nude, an inviting glance. They are at once all and none of these things. There is a disconnect between these female archetypes and the real women pictured. Many versions of the same motif are presented to the viewer, encouraging comparison and heightening the artificiality of the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Duggan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Prospects documents the potential of empty and unused spaces in Dublin city centre. These spaces have become time capsules, relics of an era in which it seemed impossible to slow down. However, among them, there still exists the potential for growth. Clouds can part to reveal blue skies; light can fall where once was shadow; hope can grow when it once was stagnant. This work aims to capture the potential of these spaces - and their prospects for the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aga Kowalska
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Every band and musician is unique, yet on stage they become one multi-legged, multi-headed organism breathing in air like anyone else, but releasing back to us something much more precious - MUSIC. I always give my all to trap in my camera the music flowing from stage and the energy of the crowd. These special moments, captured throughout Dublin, Ireland, make up the project 'For the Love of Music: [a]Live in Dublin'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas McGauran
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Offside explores a combination of sports and hobbyists, and how multifarious this combination can be. This selection of portraits of competitors garbed in the regalia linked to their sport identify them as individuals, and as part of a collective group. The Offside invites the viewer to explore the subjects and their environments, which until now may have been completely unknown to them. At the same time the work also raises the question, just what drives people to compete against one another? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael McGrath
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Steadfast' is a body of work focusing on the Military Police Corps of the Irish Defence Forces. This work depicts Military Police duty personnel performing a range of police tasks. It focuses on the individual, allowing the viewer a personal insight into the lives of the people that make up this unique branch of the Defence Forces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cindy Morrissey
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Wittgenstein once suggested that 'we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and powerful'. Volunteer follows the Irish Coast Guard around the country and shines a light on the most striking element of rescue work - the individual. Volunteer is as much a reminder of our potential as individuals to make a difference in our community as it is an intimate portrayal of a humanity which deserves renewed visibility and engagement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Urszula Nowak
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Collide elaborates on the method of employing the element of chance at the centre of the creation process. The images are created out of random occurrences and frequent chance rather than predetermined intentionality, embracing the unexpected and allowing for the freedom from conventional thought patterns. The photographs are formed by the overlapping of multiple layers of images transforming them into a chaotic resemblance of the initial object. The nature of the work produced is a chaotic arrangement of random spaces and times making every photograph a unique construction. This construction is not only a formation of randomly positioned elements within an unspecified span of time, but rather an individual arrangement made out of them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ramune Plauskaite
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In a world filled with illusions of glamour and luxury lifestyle consumerism for some people increases. There is so much going on all over the world and she is out there chasing the trends of fashion like her life depends on it. She fixates on consuming things and the worse life gets the more she spends on it like this would fill the void. Eventually she find herself isolated from everyone else and cannot understand how she got here in the first place. With millions of people around she could not feel more alone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Przybylo
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Rathmines Photographs' is a series of observations of the everyday life in the area of Rathmines referencing to the history of photography and reflecting on the essence of seeing. It explores spaces, things and people through noticing, looking and documenting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karla Shevlin
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Absent is a body of work that represents mans lack of respect for the forestry in Ireland. The colours give a post apocalyptic feeling, this is to show the un-natural part that is played. My project took on a new meaning to me as I learned more about the forestry in Ireland. When I heard that Coillte forest harvesting rights were being proposed for sale, it made my project worth more to me. It made me more determines to document the forestry in a way that represented what I wanted to communicate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Agnieszka Wypych
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Transience'. In today's dystopian world, nature becomes a refuge, a place for contemplation with a sublime power to transform. The change of the seasons turns into a never ending spectacle being played out just before our eyes. Employing traditional photographic tools I seek to capture the cycle of nature's transmutation in the form of an abstract landscape. I don't capture every detail but frame the nature of each season by altering its sense of reality. My photographs only exist in the flow of time and are defined by it. As a result, matter becomes fluid and shapes become abstracted, their proportions redefined. The well-known world transforms into a distant, intangible dreamscape. Movement is slowed as though to be savoured. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jade Clemens
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Jade's work encompasses various social aspects. This work, 'Periphery', is shot with the intention of representing how humans really see. Nothing is focused all of the time, even when in our path of sight. We know things are there in the edges of our vision, and not everything is in focus. They are set in pairs, so that your attention is drawn to a detail of one image, whilst the other image sits comfortably in your peripheral vision. Published as a book, only one can view it at a time. The intention is for the viewers to focus on themselves, rather than on the many peripheral roles they have to play throughout their lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Conway
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Sophie spends a lot of her time documenting her late grandmother's house where she spent a great deal of her time growing up. The majority of her work is about preserving the memories. 'Things should stay the same' is a body of work documenting the things throughout the house that have been the same since she can remember. Since the passing of her grandmother things are slowly starting to change and through her images she wanted to preserve them so that they couldn't be changed, using the camera as a glass case. The concept and grounding of her body of work originated from the quote from J.D Slinger, Catcher in the Rye 'Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those glass cases and just leave them alone.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Coralie Datta
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Living The Dream is a documentary of the seaside town Newquay, Cornwall. It is a place which many thousands of people experience temporarily through their holidays, which is common to many locations throughout the UK. The body of work considers how Newquay transforms itself from a place where people live and work and how this community, population and environment changes through its transformative stage in preparation for the tourist season. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Eyre
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Scott Eyre is a self-portrait photographer who generally specializes in the female identity. Using his photographic persona called Eva, he finds his personal and created understanding of the female identity, including issues and influences that females may encounter. These images are based around digital manipulation to the female form. By the use of manipulation the media has created an ideal, which is unrealistic and generic. The photographs show this ideal and how much of a visual false appearance this is. This is because even someone of the opposite gender can look like that too. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jedd Griffin
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project by Jedd Griffin is called 'The Fears Of Onishchenko' and is based on a quote from the Russian chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko 'In Ukraine, powers to control food and nourishment, including the organizations for children have been handed to the vet service, citizens are taken for animals'. The images created by Jedd are to show how easily humans are manipulated by others through his physical manipulation of the subjects identity and environment, Jedd has created a very surgical feel to his images and through this captures our thoughts and forcing an experience which is very cold and un-nerving, creating an empathy and appreciation for each subject such as the feeling we have when seeing animals that are being mistreated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa-Marie Halliday
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Lisa-Marie works with still life elements and layers to create complex visual structures. In this body of work she has taken the vintage postcards of relatives she has never met and used them to tell her own story by combining the handwriting on the postcards with places that are important to her. Her work contains hidden meanings that are created so that others can experience and relate to her work, as well as finding it visually appealing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Herron
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Ben Herron is a landscape photographer exploring the British landscape considering what is natural and how people interact with and impact on nature. This work focuses on an area in the Peak District - Padley Gorge. This work is experimentation with the equipment and process of 'raw' photography, working with Harman's direct positive paper and a pinhole camera the simplest illustration of light reflecting off the landscape. He is trying to make an image with the minimum amount of manipulation to give a pureness to the images. There are now only two steps in the process that he has control over, - The initial exposure of the paper and the time spent in developer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Higgs
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My ideas touch upon my own experiences within life and my perceptions of the world around me. My photographic work is intended to portray atmosphere within my imagery which visually relates to the senses we experience everyday. Transcendence; Capturing the city is a photographic book based around the idea of fleeting moments. The book is a visual record of the city, built around the idea of memory and the beauty of transient moments. The work is based around evoking atmosphere within different environments. Particularly the loneliness that can be felt within our towns and cities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachael Hopkins
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Corpus Callosum' considers the physical connection between the photographer, the place in which she photographs and how this environment changes and influences her thinking. Connection to the Forest of Dean enables her to create images, which reflect the essence of escapism that she seeks so conveys through her image making. The connection between place and photographic practice is reflective of corpus callosum, which is the area of the brain where the logical and creative parts of the brain are connected. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Lewis
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Oliver works with the constructed image, as he believes photography is in fact constructed or manipulated in some way to make it fit specific requirements. His visual approach and reason is to be obvious about this manipulation. ‬‬ ‪Consideration of the environment is at the center of his practice from the perspective of its degradation and how collectively we should work towards sustainability, through how as consumers we interact with it and contribute to our 'throw away' society. ‬‬ . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Marty
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Sarah Annina Marty is a Fine Art Photographer exploring emotionally based concepts. 'Neither here, nor there. Fading memories of being between places' is a body of work which expresses her emotional response to leaving a home, but not finding a new one. The dislocation through reality, memory and desire is explored through this work where recalling a road to home, not being able to really grasp a clear image of it, as it has been too long to clearly remember, is visually interpreted through the making of this work. The atmosphere within the work expresses the seeking of comfort of finding a way home, even in darkness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rose Morrow
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Exploring relationships with family is a very interesting and demanding process. It raises questions about the future and the past for both people. The project Sylvia is about exploring a relationship between a photographer and her subject as two people who are related, and seen as being quite similar with the way they view the world. It's also about the preservation of Sylvia and immediate aspects of her life. As a woman who is quite unhappy within herself, the challenge was not first and foremost about the images. With this project, the process became the focus. This has become the way Rosie Morrow works with in her photographic practice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Pearson
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Throughout my work there has been a continuous tendency to photograph that which surrounds me on a daily basis; due to this I found myself becoming interested in and creating a series of photographic studies of the urban area I grew up in and around. My work became a study of a particular part of The Black Country and as it is quite personal to me I felt it was important to attempt to capture the atmosphere I feel is attached to particular places, in an almost nostalgic manner. My work emphasises the relationship between light and shadow often determined by the structure of urban areas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cara Seaborn
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Many of Cara's projects are a response to the breakup of her family and her feelings about the subject of divorce. 2-Part Return captures the feeling of the calm in-between the chaos of constantly moving between houses at 'home'. By combining photography with collected train tickets from journeys between her university residence and her 'home', she creates physical and visual keep sakes of her journeys. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heather Whitehead
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This body of work is concerned with exploring the feelings surrounding grief and pain associated with suffering loss. It is a comment on the fragility of emotion and the instability of life, the seeking of something to reflect the unbearability of losing something close to you. The aim was to explore the timelessness and trappings of grief and the way in which it can warp ones view of the world and the life you are living. Heather's work is always emotionally focused and personal, yet still strives to be easily understood by a wider audience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Williams
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through using advertising techniques and interpreting original advertisements on TV and in magazines, this work parodies the originals to create a campaign to promote alcohol awareness. Focusing upon the negative impacts of alcohol abuse in young people, she highlights issue related problems such as violence, illness, drugs, drink driving and pregnancy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jayne Worthington
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Response to environment informs Jayne's photographic practice. She questions perceived understandings of landscape as both physical reality and visual representation. Landscape is mainly understood in our consciousnesses as an environment which offers a sense of freedom and escapism. Through this work in the South Wales valleys, an area rich in its diverse history encompassing subtle elements of human habitation, past and present, Jayne is questioning the notion of freedom and escapism in the landscape, that the open landscape does not always offer what one might be seeking to gain through being in that environment. Dead ends created through human interaction within the open environment are present, creating a subtle visual contradiction between the idealized landscape and the reality of place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Rees
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series follows the A465 road which connects England to the South Wales Valleys, known as 'the unofficial border between rural and industrial South Wales'. A road trip from the photographers' border town home of Hereford, England, this series sets out to explore the environments linked by this road, considering redevelopment and the continuing tie to the fuel and energy industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Horton
Hereford College of Arts - FDA Commercial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Hereford race course had been running for 241 years, with the first race appearing in 1771, until its end on December 16th 2012. During this final meet I wanted to take a look at the people who shape the atmosphere of the venue and who contributed to the legacy of sport at the grounds. For me it was the people who created the event and the characters they brought to it. It was a chance to observe and explore a very British tradition which has been a part of our culture since the 17th century. The images have a feel which does not tie them to an era but spans the entire lifetime of the racing venue. Joseph Horton. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meghan Hopkins
Hereford College of Arts - FDA Commercial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Meghan Hopkins' work is what can be described as documentary work with elements of landscape and photo essay entwined within it. Often looking at issues that are topical, she attempts to photograph the harsh realities within the rural community. This piece of work was completed at the time of the milk strikes in the summer of 2012. It aims to show some of the aspects of milk production invisible to most consumers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jason Carden
Hereford College of Arts - FDA Commercial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work focuses on seriality, the accumulation of knowledge, taste structures and the consumer choices we make everyday. It also aims to explore the authority of the photographic archive and the bureaucratic integrity of the society we all ascribe too. Taken together my work can be seen as anti-hierarchical and non-judgemental. It concentrates specifically upon the aesthetic sensibilities of our modern Industrial Age, ideas of habitus and importantly the reliability of images we are confronted with ad infinitum. Jason Carden. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Mason-Rawle
Hereford College of Arts - FDA Commercial Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project is about self-image, perception and mine and others struggle to accept our own body image. By creating video portraits (which can be seen on website) both viewer and sitter are confronted with a multiplicity of emotional 'confrontation'. Inspired by phototherapy, it became 'self-helping' to the sitter as well as the viewer; it boosted their self-esteem and helped except themselves for who they are. Nicole Mason-Rawle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Bengochea
Kingston University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My pictures are taken out of compulsion, Its important to keep an intimacy that can only be caught with sincerity, this honesty comes out of the affection I have for Liverpool's Huyton estate which I grew up in. Looking inwards my photographs are of the private, but outwardly often read as political due to the societal context. A click of the camera in a stolen moment transforms into a gesture of kindness captured as love letters. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemella Binns
Kingston University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is inspired by my personal experiences of family secrets. I found that my family's photo albums and videos failed to represent what I actually experienced in my childhood. They do not reveal the stress or pain felt within this lifetime, neither do they reveal the truth; they simply offer a note to say 'I was here and I existed', nothing more and nothing less. The family album is the evidence of our existence for when we have moved on. Due to this discovery, I have made it my mission to observe and document my family and my peers through key journeys of their lives, producing physical evidence not just of their existence, but also as a document of the real story to be recorded for posterity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cleo Glover
Kingston University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I use my work as a way of capturing my own existence and to express the intimate relationships I have with other people. I like to take images that emote feeling and sensitivity, photographing my subjects in a way that is intimate and in some ways romanticised. My work leans towards an aesthetically emphasized view of the world through its use of colour, light and subject matter. I do not wish for my work to focus on the mundane but rather to take the mundane and translate it into something more beautified. I want to capture the beauty that everyday is capable of. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alisa Gokoeva
Kingston University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The project is not about blind people, but about the desire to live, grow and love. It is about zest for life in spite of everything. I have met active, ambitious and socially adapted blind people in different countries. They have the same general feature, but completely different fates, background, courses of life, hobbies and interests. I am very proud to know my heroes. They inspired me to move, because they are moving in the dark. "There's none so blind as they that won't see" - Jonathan Swift . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Leonard
Kingston University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work examines sexuality and the prejudice that surrounds it. As a gay woman I have been confident in my sexuality from a very young age but I often still experience hostility that makes me hide who I am. This project is a reflection of the ongoing struggle between our natural desire to conform and the need to be who we truly are. It is an examination of homophobia from an internal as well as external perspective. This body of work is a journey from barbaric aversion therapy to sexual liberation. A journey that millions across the world are on today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Bailey
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Throughout my practice, I am a strong believer in showing that gender and sexuality shouldn't change who you are. For this particular exhibition project, I have explored into using photography paired with three dimensional structure, to represent how young, homosexual males, have been made to feel due to the societies idealised perception of normal. My current work features subjects based in and around the Preston area, their identity remaining anonymous in order to represent how they have been made to feel in their lifetime. Resembling how in order to be accepted, they have had to act like someone they're not, fading into the crowd, not knowing who they truly are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Cappy
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work centre's around issues to do with regeneration and the changing landscape of the city as well as historical architecture. I use a combination of both digital and traditional photographic practices such as cyanotypes to create large scale montage images. Drawing attention to political and economical issues centering around the urban landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Wayne Daniel
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Dr Walter Verbogden - Questioning the boundaries of science and art, this body of work focusses upon the little known pseudo scientific practices of 1960's fringe science, rich in theory yet devoid of any such practice. The imagery presented is taken from a slowly amassing archive of the photographers curation in an attempt to create a certain truth of these decades old ideas within the modern era; harnessing the supposed authentication of traditional analogue processes to harass a viewers modern preconceived ideas of evidence. In a world saturated by easily manipulated digital imagery the tangible nature of the traditional printed photographic image is surely unquestionable? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Haley
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The uncomfortable nature of photography can often cause subjects to create caricatures of themselves, working almost as a barrier to the camera, which ultimately draws out subtle reactions that might otherwise go unnoticed. This project explores my interest in performers' heightened ability to create these caricatures; suppressing their own identity in place of a fictional, performed one. Working specifically with emerging female performers, the images explore the subjects' use of personal experience and emotion to inform the performance of characters and question whether this can work conversely, with the characters in turn influencing their own 'true' identity. By photographing the subjects as they speak about themselves, each subject is caught in a moment of uncertainty; is this truth or performance? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Hewitt
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Looking at women in magazines, it is clear to see that a model is defined by their appearance. I have taken away the constructed identity and re appropriated its purpose. Making decisions to take away particular faces, eyes, mouths, in order to construct a face built from faces. This face isn't recognisably one person, but a collection of parts used to build a new constructed fashion identity. The compartmentalizing of faces creates a new purpose for the cut out features. Both the photo montage and original pages from fashion magazines work together to show the relationship between objectification of women and the magazine as a physical object. Keeping the origin of the cut outs, allows the audience to understand where it came from and the journey from its beginning purpose. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenna Hollis
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Chasing Captain Hook has evolved over an eight-month period. Focusing in my hometown, Wigan and the surrounding areas. My study aims on the alternative way of living this group has adopted, apposed to the certain stereotype that protrudes for young adults of my generation. The lives of these people are immersed with ideas and traditions of those who take a naturalistic approach to their everyday life. Harnessing reclaimed materials, music and making use of homegrown produce, creating a revival of the forgotten art of self-sustainability. My time with the group revealed truths that seem to be against their ideals. Although this group tries to comply with certain values, modern day necessities creep into everyday life to help aid this lifestyle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Johnson
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am a conceptual photographer who uses the medium of photography to challenge the nature of our existence and ask if there might not be something more. Recently I have become interested in self-portraiture and how identity can be manipulated in the creation of a self-portrait. I have been investigating if it is possible to completely efface ones identity, or if in fact as I have argued, just by creating the work our true identity is inextricably linked to it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lina Kadyrbaeva
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For my final project I have taken photographs of the landscape in the North West and Yorkshire areas. By using the land as a focusing point I'm looking at how the nature and humans have adapted in this world. I also record the everyday changes that are made to the landscape, exploring environmental changes to the land and its surroundings. As a landscape photographer with a passion for architecture, I also capture the man-made within my landscape photographs to include the architectural aspect of the land. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Llobera
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

By using images from three different sources, a dating website, a missing persons website and the FBI most wanted website, the resulting appropriated imagery explores the use of the internet as a tool, the performance of identity online and the removal of privacy in the digital age. By revealing only the sources but not the matching images, the viewer is then set on a journey of creating their own narratives for the images. Distinguishable from a distance, the images grow more distorted the closer the viewer gets. This draws the viewer in and invites them to consider the issues at hand. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corina Pickering
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In China it appears that waste collectors are in abundance, largely due to the need to create jobs for its vast population. Despite their widespread presence they, like the waste collectors in the UK, are a typically invisible group of citizens within their respective society. However, if these workers in this trade vanished, the general public would almost certainly become very aware. In contrast to the British waste collectors earnings, the Chinese workers wages are a small fraction of what the British workers are paid. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gary Woods
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Little Merman revolves around the theory that Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' was inspired by his unrequited love for another man - suggested by the forbidden romance between man and mermaid featured in the tale. Merging this notion, the original story and my interpretation of the relationship, this series becomes a modern adaptation; exploring the clichés of fantasy and reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adriana Mitrus
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Crimes of my enemy' is a personal, beauty-based documentary project depicting self-portraits and still life objects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abi Kempen
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Throughout history, Birds of Prey have enjoyed a special relationship with mankind and have been revered as possessing extraordinary qualities holding a unique place in ancient mythology. Anthropomorphism, describes the attribution of human characteristics, behaviours and emotions to these Birds of Prey propelling them to a position of deity, captivating an audience by a mythical, magical, mysterious, ethereal command. These astonishing birds are bestowed with sacred virtues of exquisite beauty, wisdom, power and insight. They demand a God like status. This series of photographs documents the eminence of Birds of Prey within the setting of their sanctuary home in Turbary Woods Rescue Centre, capturing their enduring undeniable, majestic, poise, dignity and splendor. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Reo Bartosz
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I specialise in Fine Art photography and particularly focus on themes exploring identity, the body and distortion. Surrealism is a major influence to my practice and I always aim to achieve a sense of ambiguity by incorporating this genre in my work, mainly with the use of prosthetics. My current projects explore perception of the ideal form with the aim of presenting an alternate body. In the development of my concept I have undergone in-depth research into disorders of the mind which inhibit the ability to perceive body image normally, particularly a condition known as Body Dysmorphia. The aim of my recent projects has been to exaggerate human flesh in an attempt to magnify contorted thoughts associated with the body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tish Greenaway
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A foot too short to be a fashion super model, Tish Greenaway takes her signature simplistic and fresh approach to photography and relaxes the stiff poses found in fashion imagery. Her refined yet unpolished style has opened up opportunities to work with fashion designers and brands to produce work for magazine editorials and showroom lookbooks. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Johnson
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In 2014 Scotland will have a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom the result of which may have significant consequences. At the same time, very little is actually known about what the future will hold for an independent Scotland. What some citizens fear are the repercussions if Scotland votes no to independence- that the English government will come down hard and leave them worse off than they are now. Either way, my experiences of travelling the borderlands between the two countries are mixed. Feelings of apathy and uncertainty, a time pregnant with possibility but little understanding of what that means. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Mayers
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series stems from my own personal understanding of the world we live in; a society conditioned by science, technology, consumerism, globalisation and multiculturalism. A chaotic amalgamation of realities that seem to determine everything we are. We find ourselves thrown into a world already fully formed, in which our parents and time have been chosen for us. The specific situation we find ourselves in is the burden around which we must shape our lives. Through this project I have brought into question my own reality and existence, bringing to light existential points of view. The lucid and ethereal aesthetic of the images reflect a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Morris
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Here, I have created a collection of pastiches, using postmodernist concepts to recreate classical and contemporary car advertisements through the female's perspective. The car industry is mostly a male dominated area, but with my work I have tried to break through these social norms and gender roles within society. I have used the female form to recreate adverts and by recycling the past I have used the same poses and compositions that would have originally been seen. This gives an authentic feel to the photographs and allows a wider audience to enjoy the work. The photographs show skills and depth of passion within each image and inspire me to produce more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas O'Neill
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For this project I have taken the opportunity to build a portfolio that demonstrates a variety of different skills that relate to the portrait and fashion genres. This series is a small selection that I feel reflects my strong photographic style, in terms of composition, use of ambient light, location and also the relationship with my subject. These qualities all coincide to create a natural serenity; an aesthetic that I feel makes the work my own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Pilgrim
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

"The Jubilee Tall Ships Sailing Trust is a registered charity whose mission is to promote the integration of people of all physical abilities through the challenge and adventure of sailing tall ships on the open sea." - jst.org.uk    As a result of the Trusts' impact on the life of his uncle - and with a number of voyages sailed himself - James began to capture life aboard with the JST, just as their tall-ship Lord Nelson began her inaugural circumnavigation in October of 2013. The work has since been published internationally, and has also led to the production of a video. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Schofield
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Being in place is not temporally static. Rather, our memories pursue us as we pursue place, both forming and ambiguous zone somewhere in between' - Dylan Trigg Beginnings and endings, looking backwards to allow yourself to move forwards, we are forever in the here. 'The original landscape' is as a place where memories reside. Connections are made between apparently unrelated places in time. Spaces become backdrops to incidental moments of our past, all connected to the present ongoing moment. The instigation for this work revolves around loss, but equally a desire to find oneself again within moments in time that can keep us rooted to the spot. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Tanser
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project is the exploration of the sublime in industrial spaces. The project is meant to query what we class as a beautiful landscape; with images inside the quarries hole being so ambiguous it is hard to tell if they belong among a coast on a sea front or inside a quarry. Instead of exploring the effects it has on the environment, the images wanted to explore how this artificial man made areas affect the visual senses. Making the viewers question there own definition of beauty when linked to a process that destroys the natural beauty around it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annie Tobin
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Dubai. A place obsessed with prestigious image and associated with astonishing skylines; this project explores the reality behind the façade into the living conditions of the workers that transform this desert. They are exploited, subjected to barely acceptable living conditions with minimum pay, thousands of miles from home. They are the slaves of Dubai, slaves to the system and these photographs explore an over populated lifestyle which holds an isolating existence. With women restricted from entering the camps, the work represents the distance I experienced as a female photographer whilst observing the Labour Camps. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Turgel
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Celebrating the Noughties and the Teens, Turgel photographs and interviews reality television stars that have made a memorable impact on television over the last decade. From X-Factor to Pop Idol to Pop Stars the Rivals, Big Brother to Britain's Got Talent, Turgel shows how these televisions shows affected their lives in positive and negative ways. Turgel photographs these ultimate reality stars as they are today and how they were portrayed in the past. Turgel uses his talent to tell a story how it really is through the eyes of the lens. Through his extensive networking and relationships developed with clients Turgel has produced this unique project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bianca Wallis
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through the blending of images from my parent's albums, I have explored the affinities and differences between their past lives, collaging time and location in order to establish links between them. The construction is informed by the personal qualities that my parents find within each other. My father's images are predominantly used as the base image, as stability is a quality my mother finds within him, as she had a very disconnected childhood. The archetypal family snapshot is changed, by the merging of two separate collections. This union reflects the idea of Simultaneity, two separate events happening at the same time, brought together within one frame. My parents become illusory yet rational beings within the snapshots of each other's lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yasmin Grove
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Happisburgh is a small village situated on the north-east coast of Norfolk. It has been battling with coastal erosion for many centuries and, although many attempts have been made to defend the coastline, it is still shifting faster than anywhere else in Britain. Through my images, I captured various points along the coastline that visually described these defences as well as a general overview of the location. When processing my images, I used seawater from the location. The seawater has dried on the film and this is visually evident in the final image. The marks left by the seawater have somewhat damaged the film, similar to the way in which seawater has damaged the village of Happisburgh over many centuries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sigourney O'Brien
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project delves in to the inner workings of Marston's Brewery in Burton-Upon-Trent and documents the un-thought about features and processes that go in to the art of Brewing. The project was intended to be a straightforward documentary, however as I developed an appreciation for the process and for the different components of the location, my intentions for the series transformed in to a documentary that resonates with the beauty of fine art. My photographs take the interior mechanical structures and allow them to stand out by using symmetry and carefully composed framing, as well as using the beautiful monochrome tonality created by Ilford's 120 film and the right amount of contrast produced by the factories ambient lighting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jodie Osborne
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is variable and I enjoy many types of photography. This is a documentary project which was developed from observing local allotments. It became a broad overview noticing the unnoticed. It was very interesting to discover the objects that make them what they are. The British hobby to many is just a vegetable patch, but to allotment holders it's a home from home. Allotments are becoming small communities and owners build highly individualistic outbuildings primarily through recycled objects. They become a place for people to relax and escape the hustle and bustle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jordan Stebbings
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project gave school children the opportunity to experience analogue photography for the first time, the majority of them had used or knew of a digital camera but not 35mm film photography. 10 children were given a 35mm disposable camera each and were asked to take 24 shots over a two week period. The results were incredible, I then took the children's portraits on 120 Kodak Portra film, these are the results. The idea of this project was to bring photography back to the print world and off the screens we all own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mirela Vulaj
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This is a series of photographs born from my desire to explore landscapes from all around the world that have been forgotten. It's a project that celebrates the beauty of landscape through the concept of the sublime. Through an observational study of texture, colour and form, this project investigates how these properties appeal directly to the emotions of the viewer. Understanding the subject's historical context by means of drawing together influences from 18th century landscape paintings and blending this with knowledge of contemporary approaches to the subject, this series of work encourages us to question our individual ideas of beauty and invokes a strong emotional response within the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Wones
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Gothic Chic: Incorporating classic gothic style with a contemporary stylish twist. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mandarava Bricaire
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A chair is a thing that performs its function when someone sits on it. When we see it not as a thing with its practical qualities, but as an abstraction of our mind, we experience only its potential function (we feel the potential of its usefulness). Its immediate and universal availability (anyone can sit on it) determines its democratic rendering, its public taste. The phenomenological experience of it alone is socially moral. In the absence and presence of man, the chair is always available. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sadaf Chezari
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work offers an exploration of the fractured and disorientating experience of migration, the cold and sterile spaces engage with a sense of 'un-belonging' and 'in-between'. Centering on Iran, England and elsewhere the isolated and disjointed locations resist the imaginative construction of a narrative, and thus any suggestion of logic implicit in their chronology. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stella Consonni
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

When I moved to London four years ago I met a group of friends. They loved to push the limits, to get high on disposable happiness and drunk on chemical love. They wanted to feel more, to be more, hungry for a beauty that they could not see with sober eyes.They became my family. Then once, one of them was found dead, on the same couch where other friends were partying. Cold as marble. -Chemical Process is a reflective piece that exposes the vulnerable self of these friends of mine, their beautiful yet horrific appearance and their love for the prohibited. It is a series of portraits and photograms made with their blood, saliva, mucus and tears. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Davenport
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A lamentation in three acts' is a ritualistic exploration into the journey of the childhood performer and the consequential hardships of adulthood loss. The work acts as a lamentation, but also a form of catharsis where the childhood costumes of a younger self become disembodied substitutes for the female body. Split into three acts, the work represents a life cycle and each piece within the series plays its own part. Act 2 is a triptych of images that sees the costumes reincarnated beyond their original form. The sculptural draperies act as monuments; dead yet alive, the photographic image provides the costumes with an existence beyond their physical one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Ellis
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The project explores an adaptation of reality. Within the context of Pie Town the audience is presented with strange impressions of hallucination, distortion, animalism and even a sense of dysmorphia. The camera captures something from within the subjects, stealing the metaphysical and presenting it as the physical.  This work is part of a larger body that has been collated into a book - Pie Town, New Mexico.   . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Gauthier
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Mother Dough' explores my emotions on being a childless mother through substituting baking for a pregnancy. Through acting out this imagined maternal experience, I must face my deepest desire to have a child and my deepest fear to never have one. Focusing on the creation involved in the baking as well as the artwork itself temporarily relieved my mind of the unbearable yearning for a pregnancy. Through kneading the dough or mixing ingredients, I unleash my frustrations on the baking process. I drive all my anger, hopes and anxieties into the baked goods. My baking is pushed to its limit in search of a flesh that can be created with an oven. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Silje Lovise Gjertsen
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Looking at the body in pain, Silje Lovise Gjertsen explores the topics of mortality, temporality and human relationships. By juxtaposing her parents' scarred bodies with fractures in the landscape where she grew up in Norway, she draws parallels between human and nature, both affected by the passage of time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Glibbery
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Adam Glibbery works conceptually through photography, sculpture and performance with an inquiry into the temporality of the photographic medium. Creating referential structures built from repetitive use of objects. They exist through a delineation of a solitary performative process, drawing on themes of the primitive, violence and perception . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Junnan Li
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In his work, the photographer speaks of the frustration of possessing male body features, such as Adam's apple, body hair, and male genital, also the desire to transform himself to female, as well as sexual encounter with heterosexual male. He often appropriate other photographer's work, such as man ray, Sophie Calle, Integrate his own experience and desire with other people's life. As a transgender, I am not me, I am the other. Thus, it seems only through others, that I can recognise myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Oates
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Born out of memories of making childhood dens and time spent exploring and creating things in the natural environment, this work explores notions of nurture, the maternal and the haptic. It is often said that photographs have the ability to replace personal memory however my work has adopted a kind of roll reversal in which memories are the informer of the photographs: they make the intangibility of memories tangible, creating contact between thought and things. These ambiguous forms become monuments of dwelling and process. The stitching creates a space within the image of the unknown. These spaces are not empty, but rather a reflection of the self, a miss en abyme. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenny Welton
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Jung and Freud believed natural unconscious sleep to be a place for the mind to heal from the days residue of unresolved problems. Disturbingly Similar were the attempts to cure homosexuality through the use of the unconscious mind. Drawing upon personal experience Dark Paradise invites the viewer to journey into a silent land where the cures for homosexuality are played out. The work performs a critical study into past and present forms of homosexual cures. The cures I present, some true and some fictitious, all so ridiculous they begin to display humor. The subjects within their peaceful and serene environments display the irony of the minds natural healing process combined with the forced, unnatural curing of homosexuality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Wheeler
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Chaaaarlaaaay... what would you rather eat, a worm or an ant?' -Jack Townend, 2011. Over the past five years I have been documenting the physical transitions that my three cousins are undergoing as they approach adulthood. When I first began photographing these boys, Harry had just turned nine, Charlie was seven and Jack, five. The age gap between them meant that neither boy had ever been at the same 'stage' of maturity, allowing my photographs to tell three separate tales of adolescence. Alongside the photographs, I write down phrases and odd little sayings that they say, letting these quotations become titles for my individual images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luisa Whitton
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Contemporary technology in Japan has blurred into a realm that was once thought to be science fiction. A niche of the Japanese robotics industry is pursuing technologies ability to imitate a humanness it lacks. The philosophical crisis it has provoked is; if a machine can perform so many functions and appear life like and yet it was a machine; what exactly is life? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yuanyuan Yang
London College of Communication - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A mini Great Wall covered in graffiti and stickers under the sunset- It was this timeless and bizarre image from my childhood memory that leads me to the project of "In-Between Places," to revisit the most quotidian of public spaces: the shopping centers, chain hotels, zoos, aquariums, planetariums... places at once familiar and strange, belonging to our time but also of an indeterminate age. The title 'In-between Places' suggests a mental image that only exists in the viewer's mind. Hopefully this project could evoke an image that relates to each viewer's individual experience, memory and imagination, but also one that is intricately connected with the time and social space we are in. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew John Barber
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Sellafield nuclear complex is situated on the coast of Cumbria in northwest Britain. Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 recorded incidents involving off-site radiological releases into the surrounding environment. The Lake District is an area of astounding natural beauty in North West England. Recently the area was designated as a potential location for an underground facility for the disposal of nuclear waste. Analogue cameras, materials and processes are combined with digital technologies to create a hybrid process enabling the involvement of the environment as a creative tool. Samples taken from both areas are used to manipulate the images by exposing the unprocessed film to the samples. This collaboration with the environment allows the spirit of the place to leave its own individual mark. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Brandolani
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I developed an interest in the idea that a picture of something can be compelling in its own right. By exploring a variety of papers using folds and light, I realised I could create illusions. I have endeavored to produce a 'trompe l'oeil' with my images and whilst attempting to fool the viewer's eye I hope to retain a sense of ambiguity in my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Cookson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As an artist I like to explore time as my subject matter with an aim to capture the unexpected. One way I do this is by using film and long exposures, allowing my work to take on an unpredictable nature. This unpredictability is found both in the image making process and the subject matter itself. The uncertainty of the final outcome interests me as the result is subject to various external factors which lend an element of chance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucie Crewdson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I have always been fascinated by the constructed fashion image. My approach is to create photographs that express my own personal view of beauty that draws from the strange and the surreal. I experiment with elements of blurring and obscuring the figure. My images intend to be raw, dreamlike and to intrigue the viewer to look closer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Cusdin
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This is a self-portrait. It is not a portrait of women in general. It is not a representation of a type of woman. It is not a collection of women that represent different stages in life or different walks of life. No, the portraits I have taken are a picture of me. They skim the surface of who I am. They are who I've chosen to be my face, my image, my façade. This is how I have chosen to present myself as a woman. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kelli Foley
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through the use of analogue photography and the methodology of image making, I aim to visually express the emotions experienced by individuals battling with conflicting ideals within society. Using ideas behind space, texture and sequence, and visual relationships between figure and environment, I aim to communicate visually and make tangible an abundance of emotions to form a visual representation of my chosen theme.     . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Foley
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Using a camera to create ominous narratives for her subjects, Natasha's use of portrait photography has left something askew. The stories often leave the viewer with more questions. Her style has been influenced by fashion and documentary photography and deals with feelings of loss and self. The tension that is felt across her work can only matched by a distant sense of otherworldliness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Heaton
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Traditional landscape painters from the 19th century have heavily influenced my practice. I have incorporated some of the notions and themes from the Romantic era into my own photographic work and discovered that by choosing to work with traditional analogue cameras, that I myself am able to paint and capture the light. Working with colour negative film means that, rather than attempting to manipulate my surroundings to create an image, I allow the natural changes in light to inform how each piece will look. This is an on going personal collection, exploring the relationships we make with one another throughout life. Whether it is a close friendship or just a brief encounter, that one-day we may not even remember. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashlea Smyth
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project has essentially been born out of the anxiety surrounding loss, a desire to 'steal' time and freeze it in an instant. It is based on archiving a series of photographs and writings documenting the life of my mother's uncle who recently passed away and the hostel he ran for 20 years on the West Coast of Ireland. Finding all of these things after his death, it felt important to preserve these memories because it was obvious that he had meant so much to so many people. I became fascinated by the web of strangers who had become intricately linked by their shared experience of staying at the hostel. Through Photographs taken by visitors and sent back to him from all over the world, letters left in the visitors books and Photographs which I have taken in the aftermath of his death I hope to create a portrait of the man he was and a study of memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Renata Stonyte
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am investigating the relationship between fashion, art and photography, which, when joined together, create images full of story, narrated through beauty, expression and imagination... I have been exploring this connection throughout my years studying in MMU which has led me into many exciting projects and collaborations. Most fashion photo shoots are prepared carefully which involves make up artists, hair stylists, models, clothing stylists... The challenge for me as a photographer is to define and express my point of view within a team who all become players in the mix. And my task is to bring together all these talents and to create persuasive images that are undeniably artificial constructions yet which have the ability to seduce and inspire . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Thompson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through my photographic practice I explore aspects of the self by creating preconceived imagery inspired by personal memories and emotions. By stripping away means of identification through material possessions and facial recognition, I intend to create an anonymity that disturbs the presentation of the self. Using figurative visual language, I aim to form an evocative and poetic narrative within the image that allows it to be read and related to subjectively whilst retaining a deeper personal significance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julia Tucker
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My style of photography has always been influenced by my lifestyle. Documenting my social circles, focusing on people I am close to and the environment they surround themselves in. Keeping this idea running through my work I want to open up a new and interesting take on the culture that surrounds skateboarding. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Walker
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

With up to fifty public houses a week calling last orders for the very last time, taking with it a tradition and social environment like no other. A Friday night with friends in the local has made way for a night in front of the TV or Xbox with cheap supermarket drinks. Hampered by this, the recession and the smoking ban landlords are forced to close the doors. The project Last Orders documents the buildings that have been left behind, empty and lifeless, sad shells of something that was once integral to local communities and our society. The intention of the photographer Paul Walker is through the photographs he creates will give these places a voice once again. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Becky Wren
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is about mapping and documenting the open, unexplored landscapes within reach of our urban lifestyles. The sprawl of nature and how we connect with it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Barbour
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

David's Passing Visions series explores and engages with the unique spatialities and juxtapositions encountered during travel - in a car or on foot. The project seeks to discover and express the aesthetic force and narrative value of signals appearing in landscapes, be they urban, rural or highway. In this sequence a magic road is investigated and questions unfold from the mysterious and complex labyrinth that has been entered. What happened here? What is going to happen? Frightening and comical metaphors are present in every direction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Geraldine Coakley
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Sound in motion is about the visualisation of sound and the challenge of capturing sound in an image. We listen to music every day of different styles and genres to suite our personal tastes. Music triggers our senses creating a mood, a mood which can also be reflected through colour. Thought-out this series I have specifically chosen different genres of music, from Classical to Metal and tried to echo the drama of each by selecting colours reflective of each piece. Through a combination of audio & visual the series is brought to life for the viewer by accompanying each image with its related song. Each piece has been titled according to the piece of music used to create it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michelle Dempsey
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series of environmental portraits aims to portray the lives of the sons and daughters of today's farmers. The ones who chose not to stay at home and farm but chose to carve their own path in life, a path that inevitably would return to run parallel with the land. This generation of sons and daughters; an army captain, architectural designer, bartender, carpenter and prison officer struggle to balance full-time and part-time careers with working on the family farm. They've returned or remained close by to help elderly parents, or to carry on the legacy of parents who have passed on, coming to realise the importance of the land being farmed by the family and the significance of handing it on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sally Graver
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For this project, using old family photos, I went back to the place where I was born and reared, Cambridge House, 41 Montpelier Hill, (once the residence of a Royal Prince), and took photos of it as it is now. The house which dates back to around 1770s, is still intact, with the exception of what was our kitchen, is being restored by the present owner Patrick Casey. Using both the old and new photos, and my Mother's old empty photograph album, I made a Photobook, giving the old album a new lease of life. As photographs are said to leave a trace of our lives, I printed the old photographs on tracing paper creating layers between then and now. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John MacMenamin
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This recent photographic work, evolving through project series in the PDI course modules, is concerned with identity, both the personal identity, and the ways societies construct and project identity. The work completed for the above course relates to earlier work exploring similar ideas and will be further developed along these lines in an ongoing process. The images are diverse in terms of their making, ranging from a casual point-and-shoot approach to a more constructed image using multiple light sources. I worked on various threads of enquiry for these projects, the images selected for inclusion here are examples of one such strand. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niamh Moloney
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions." DH Lawrence, Women in Love This work was created in response to the prevalence of digital photography and online digital archives. The images are an expression of the personal nature of examining the physicality of the printed photograph. The work was made to seduce; arousing a haptic response in the viewer to reach out and feel what they are seeing. The image object however is out of reach. It has been distanced from the viewer in space and time via a recurrent photographic process. The tension between image and object is palpable eliminating the ease of pure visual consumption. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brenda Quinn
The National College of Art & Design (NCAD) - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Life of a Wedding Present explores what happens to wedding gifts over time. Do they end up as clutter or adorn the home in full glory? Lots of gifts were found languishing in presses for decades, some never used, some loathed, some with a strong sentimental attachment that prevents parting with the unused item. This project was part social documentary, part view of the typical Irish home decor but mostly a humorous account of a bride and groom's relationship to a gift. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eugenijus Barzdzius
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In 2002, frustrated with the long journey to legal allotments on the outskirts of the City, a self-governed space was established by a group of pensioners on a piece of wetland in Siauliai city, Lithuania. The 15 elderly people occupied the land, built demarcation lines, erected buildings from scrap materials and dug out a drainage system to create a working allotment. Homeless people would sometimes devastate buildings and greenhouses, only for the pensioners to quickly rebuild them from anything they could gather. Jars of self-cultivated products are a huge supply for their tables, as a supplement to the meager state given pension that fails to fill stomachs. For others it is kind of a therapy...to escape from four flat walls, to keep the connection with Earth.. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Doran
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

After a deterioration in somebody's mental health, there is a struggle to get back on your feet. There are issues that people cannot comprehend, understand or even realise. For me, it was wanting to feel physical pain to overwhelm the mental hurt. There was a feeling of isolation, I was alone. I did not want people to help me, I was trapped. My photography has always been an attempt to understand myself, and the world that I have placed myself into. The project 'Untitled' combines and juxtaposes two unique elements as a comment on the sense of community from my own eyes, and from the eyes of a Christian congregation. I blurred the lines between my personal and photographic lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katrina Forey
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Kosupure is the Japanese term for Cosplay, which is a portmanteau of costume and play. Cosplay is an aspect of popular culture whereby people dress up as characters, mostly from anime, manga, games and films. The portraits in this project show individuals dressed as their characters. I wanted to explore the fascination that people have with these characters and way they choose to portray them. Each costume has been hand-made, which shows the dedication and time that people have put into them. I wanted to allow tender link between the persona of the individual and the unique character they choose to inhabit to be shown in the photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christian Fowler
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Homelessness figures in the UK are rising and with Night Shelters starting to close down, there will be more people on the streets trying to take shelter. But for the Grace of God looks at the spaces of where rough sleepers take shelter in the UK. In the fleeting moments of everyday we catch the remains of where someone has taken shelter for the night. These intriguing spaces are often dark, strange and sometimes threatening and all we have is the objects left behind as to understand who inhabits there. This occupancy is separate from our consciousness operating below the surface in cities and is only recognised peripherally by our racing society. The objects photographed are from other known locations of where rough sleepers take shelter. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Grimley
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

It's not down on a map. The location is irrelevant. Its the physical and mental isolation of being nowhere. The conscious relief of being lost within nature and the natural environment, gives some what meditative emotions. Being alone in an environment that you feel calm in. Escaping the structure of the modern day, buildings, traffic, noise. The release brought on by silence in space. Everything being lined up mentally. Thoughts flowing into a stream of conciseness. Today there are spaces of every kind every size, for every use and every function. To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to bump yourself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Owen Harvey
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This photographic project is a celebration of the current UK Mod scene. Mod is a subculture that began in the late 50's and through the years, it has seen many variations to its original style. From the influence of Italian Jazz music through to the fashion influence of bands such as 'The Who' and the Vespa and Lambretta scooters, mod is still very prevalent. Initially as a photographer I was visually attracted to the style of this interesting subculture. Alongside this I have been interested in socioeconomics and after seeing this subculture described as 'Clean living under difficult circumstances.' I knew I wanted to document this subculture in the UK as it currently exists. I have become very interested in what the term Mod actually represents. The word Mod is short hand for modernist, which would indicate something new and exciting, although this subculture is based on something that first existed in the late 1950's. Due to this the images try to hold a timeless quality to them, with no real indications to a time period in which they were made. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Jewitt
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This is a personal project in which I hope to demonstrate my perception during the last few months of an addiction to opiates and heroin. It was important to me to convey this experience from a conceptual level as opposed to the hard-hitting reaction grabbing pictures that are usually made on the subject of addiction. I wanted to focus on how it feels to be in this kind of situation rather than what it necessarily looks like. It has been my aim in this collection of work to reflect the mood and emotion of the individual addict and how the details of their environment can come to represent the experience of addiction itself.. Some of the images I have created, for example, are evocative of heroin itself and represent triggers in the environment for its user. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Jinks
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Cranbrook is a new build town currently being constructed in Exeter, North Devon. The development of an independent settlement has not been attempted in the region since the Middle Ages. The area's peaceful and idyllic landscape hasn't changed much since then so the placement of this new community will see a reshaping of the old natural landscape replacing it with a new artificial presence. The aim of the construction is to create the highest code for sustainable new homes, to try and become a leading example for low carbon mass open market housing developments, which promises to build up to 2,900 homes, along with two primary schools, a secondary school, train station and a bustling high street. Their vision is to produce a colourful and vibrant town that reflects the rich urban fabric of a classic Devon market town, with all the needs of a 21st century lifestyle. It will be a town that responds to its setting and landscape and can be described as being 'of Devon' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dimitra Kountiou
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Mother Ganges is considered a sacred river and every year thousands of Hindu pilgrims visit her to bathe in the waters. They call her Ganga Mata (Mother Ganges). She is the giver of Life, the one who purifies from sin, the one who cleanses body and soul. The myth tells us that Ganga, who was a beautiful young Goddess, was sent to earth to purify people from sin, as a punishment, and that, when she descended, Shiva opened his hair to catch her, as her force was so ferocious. Until today, she continues to be adored and her value is precious. Dimitra Kountiou travels along the Ganges, visiting important pilgrimage sites. She is exploring the relationship of pilgrims with Mother Ganges, capturing with her lens their traditions, their affection and feelings and thus revealing their devotion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olivia Martin
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

For this project I travelled to Freetown in Sierra Leone, to discover more about the place of my fathers birth. Since childhood I have been intrigued by this country and over the years yearned to learn more about where my father grew up. Often disappointed by the stereotypical photographs that have emerged from West Africa over the years, focusing on the suffering and plight of its inhabitants, I wanted to photograph Freetown's residents in a positive light and give a glimpse into the interesting and proud people I met whilst there. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Martin
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series of pictures explores the varying and complex relationships that owners have with their exotic animals. The keeping of such animals has been gradually on the increase over the past few decades as they have become more affordable and the knowledge of their upkeep has grown. But where 'traditional' pets such as cats and dogs provide the owner with a feeling of companionship and of being needed, many exotic animals cannot. With this in mind, there must be other motivations to keep such animals. For some owners, the low maintenance nature of keeping animals such as reptiles offers a welcome opposite to the keeping of cats and dogs and better fits their hectic modern lifestyles. For others, they are drawn to their animals simply through curiosity, fascination and sometimes as a means of one-up-manship. Some of these owners perhaps see their pets as a collection, a form of living top trumps between friends or the exotic keeper community. To others still, it is about conservation, caring for and breeding species that are under threat. Some even attempt to have the 'traditional' relationship of companionship, despite their chosen animals lacking the ability to reciprocate their love. This project aims to share a few of these individual owner/pet relationships and to reveal something about the exotic pet community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denise Marie Myers
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'I wandered out/ into the meadow/ I buried my face/in the grass for a while/ and wished the earth/ was you.' All England Waits was made in response to love letters from WWII housed in the Imperial War Museum archives. Written by women, the letters were sent to husbands, boyfriends and fiancées serving overseas. The work combines prose poems, archive ephemera and contemporary landscape images made at locations of relevance to the writers. My photographic practice is immersed in the landscape and is predominantly concerned with hidden histories. All England Waits articulates something of the experience of women in wartime, yet also transcends this context to speak more generally about love and the fear of loss. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Briony Oates
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Over the past 40 years the mobile phone has rapidly developed into a technological device that lets the individual connect to the rest of the world in more ways than one. Communication has been transformed through this small, handheld device that offers the user capability to telephone, text, email and with the ability to access the internet - social network. But how social really is this form of social networking and what effect has the mobile phone had on our consumer led society? In any social situation, no doubt somebody is on their phone, either posting a tweet, uploading a photograph, surfing the internet or being engrossed by Facebook. This portable device has created social atomization through compulsive addiction. The evident engrossment absorbs the individualís concentration, disconnecting him or her from the real world. Their attention is channeled solely into the mobile device; creating an isolated presence for the user whereby they can become oblivious to everything and everyone around them. Anti-Social Network addresses the sense of isolation and lack of empathy observed in others by their use of the mobile phone and the ubiquitous transformation of their engagement with the world around them. The project poses questions about how the intrusive, obsessive and almost embedded epidemic influence of mobile phones is effecting the nature of society itself, especially considering phone phobias such as Nomophobia that are beginning to exist. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabriella Rose
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

We do not walk the earth alone; we share our home with many. We live alongside the trees the animals and the plants. Together we breathe, we grow and together we die. Man has chosen power over responsibility. We have destroyed our home through our lack of touch with nature and the lack of understanding of ourselves. Anima focuses on the relationship we have with animals. One can easily ignore where our food comes from. Thus we have become totally detached from the reality of our situation. Lifeless meat packaged in plastic sterile containers, on bright supermarket shelves, helps keep us in the darkness of our denial. Life has been taken, but that is not considered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Santilli
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The project focuses on the paradoxes of Dan's life, juxtaposing the worldwide potential of his fledgling music career with his traditionally British upbringing in rural Shropshire. Dan is situated between two worlds: the world of his day-to-day-life in the UK, and the world of celebrities, musicians and pop stars, of which he could become a part. He has attracted the attention of numerous high-profile individuals and corporations, such as Mick Fleetwood and ZZ Top. Dan had never left the UK until this point, and so this project attempts to chart his path into an unknown world - from a farming community in Shrewsbury to the American bluegrass landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cathy Sharples
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Cathy Sharples work often concerns itself with documenting decline. Previous projects have included an intimate portrayal of her elderly aunt, and the portrait series Extended Family which examined the cultural identity offered by membership of local groups and clubs. For her graduation project she has turned her attention to the small town of her grandmother's birth, and a family of subsistence farmers. Drawing on influences such as Sanguinetti's On the Sixth Day, the work is intended to be far more than a straightforward portrayal of italian rural life. The Leader of the Carnival documents a fragile existence. Antonio Senes lives in the small Sardinian hill town of Bonorva. A lifetime ago he led the annual horse parades at Carnivale, now he leads his family through turbulent times. Life revolves around the family smallholding, where the dance of life and death is played out daily. It is a fraction of the size it was in Antonio's youth, the decline of the farm appearing to mirror his own failing health. As head of the family, Antonio's influence is palpable, but it remains unclear whether the latest generation of the family will continue his legacy. The submitted images form part of a larger series and book. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mandy Thomas
University of Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'For the soul, the house where it lives is nothing but an expansion of its own body... The surroundings become a museum of the soul, an archive of its experiences.' Mario Praz 'Independent Annie' offers a glimpse into the day-to-day life of Lindsey a forty-nine year old single man who lives in his deceased grandparents home. On visiting Lindsey's house for the first time I was struck by a profound sense of nostalgia and realized how reminiscent of my own grandmother's house the environment was. She, like Lindsey, had been a hoarder of precious objects, which for him hold the past. The work explores the treasured nature of personal possessions and how a house and its inhabitant can become reflections of one and other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martha Anderson
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'We look at people in the street form a protected vantage, and they are unaware they are being seen: we invade their privacy' -Sandra S. Phillip - Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance, and the camera (London: Tate, 2010) My work is predominantly moving image, and through the cameras lens I expose everyone's natural voyeuristic tendencies. I entice the viewer and provoke this human instinct we all have to watch and invade. On the street, the urban landscape enables me to survey and capture people without their knowledge. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katrina Barkes
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am fascinated by light and my ability to manipulate it in order to create physical impact on an environment, thus producing a unique setting. Through carefully selecting a location, rural or urban, I formulate a situation and atmosphere that is personal to me, and my reactions to darkness. Selective compositional decisions and long exposures are essential in creating these images, which are produced using medium format slide film. Presenting the results to the viewer, they can then respond to what is illuminated before them, filling the dark spaces with their imagination and personal experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Bilbrough
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The experience of Architectural design is normally associated with the direct encounter of space and form. For that reason in theory the experience encountered within an architectural space cannot be copied or reproduced. Despite this view most people's understanding and knowledge of architecture is through photographic representation. My practice looks closely at this important relationship through close examination of the Northeast architectural firm Ryder and Yates; their post war architecture is celebrated by the RIBA. Yet local authorities have failed to realize the beauty of these buildings. Like many great examples of post war architecture worldwide they have been overlooked as heritage sites, and many are threatened with demolition or have now sadly gone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liam Cox
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work is very much a documentation of the quotidian landscape. Within the process of colour film, I as an artist combine layers of aesthetic and conceptual qualities. I aim to capture the everyday land that is 'overlooked' and turn it into something visually beautiful. By doing this I am sharing with the viewer my own experience as well as sharing my appreciation of the unremarkable. It's difficult to process the landscape as a whole, so I believe fragmenting, cutting, and limiting is a good process of referencing the difference. By aiming the focus and the shallow depths of field, I culminate in creating abstract images that merely depict the landscape, permitting the viewer to gain their own experience of my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgie Gill
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'The past and the present, what was once, yet is now. Exploring the space of a location, that raises narrative questions; the forgotten of society. Subtle yet obvious changes, allowing the viewer to develop their own interpretation, a journey through reality I have only experienced' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liam Hall
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A dystopian vision of the world we inhabit captured via the medium of 35mm analogue film stills and an aesthetic taken from post-war Japanese photography. Through using the Are, Bure, Bokeh (Rough, Distorted, Out of Focus) aesthetic that emerged through the devastation of Japan during World War II the films take on a haunting, psychological nature that is intended to disturb and intrigue the viewer. Spontaneously captured on location, the films take on the role of animating the photographer's movement. The use of unpredictable analogue technologies the image captured has become a fabricated reality through the material quality of the film surface and the choice not to remove dust and scratches from the negatives avoiding true documentation of the location. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Murray
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My main focus within my work is to tell a story and using my images show the audience an event that took place and affected the life I live today. I aim to make work that others can relate to so when looking at my images they put themselves into my memory and relate it back to memories of their own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Singleton
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move" - Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'Ulysses', 1833 By unraveling experience, perception and memory through photography my work transcends time, exploring forgotten locations and unknown faces - acknowledging the art of being lost. The beauty in the unknown and the discovery of the banal join together in order to allow the viewer to experience this tangle of art and life through the presentation of my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Cobbin
Northumbria University - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This is current work from a series of photographic fictions shot on a 4x5 plate camera. Carefully constructed, they display a series of everyday, private and public moments in which the protagonists are wholly absorbed within themselves. Subtly cinematic in style, they conjure questions and assumptions of the subjects' narratives; implied, yet always ambiguous. Objects and environments symbolically reference the psychological state of the characters, suggesting a separation between interior and exterior existence. The figures become isolated, fragmented lives, unaware of the other like individual parts of a machine, each as in/significant as the next. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Bell
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Utilising a visual sensibility that is dynamic, ordered and geometric, Simon Bell's work electrifies the visual senses. Applied to the ordinary objects or situations of everyday disregard, these become appropriated and re-contextualised; enhancing the plane of the normal to a new plane of curious interest and endless visual investigation. Obsessed with capturing the visual traces of humanity, these traces contain endless narrative possibilities. This approach is also applied to the likes of topologies, cultures and architecture, mixing these to create dynamic and multifaceted images. Not only is Simon interested in this semi-objective, archival like recording method but also in creating abstract work that plays with our perception of representative objectivity and its inherently flawed nature within the photographic medium. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Bryant
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As a practitioner I am interested in the lives off different people. Since dogs were first domesticated, an affinity has developed between them and people. I believe when you look for a dog at some level, largely subconsciously, you look for something that is a bit like you. Someone's choice of dog could reveal hidden personality traits that do not immediately come across from watching them or listening to them speak. In this series, by capturing the manner in which dogs emotions and intentions are suggested in their posture, it reveals the uncanny way body language and appearance of dogs, often reflects and provides an insight into the personalities and identity of their owners. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kellie Colby
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series of colour photographs stems from my interest in colour palettes and textures and how the two interact to subtly communicate a narrative to my audience. I am inspired by an eclectic range of artists ranging from my favourites, Vermeer and Rembrandt, to Yasunari Kikuma, Paolo Roversi, Nick Knight and Tim Walker. The colours and the textures of fabrics in the background set the scene, where the models' poses and styling strengthen the narrative to lead the viewer into narratives ranging from reverent to woodland princess to Hollywood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Howard
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The series 'Grand and fatal movements' considers the violence humankind inflicts upon the earth - and consequentially, upon itself. Mirroring this, splintered and distorted nude figures are found enveloped in an inky blackness, often unnervingly transformed. Severed limbs are presented for inspection, arms and fingers left flailing and grasping. Reminiscent of classical religious paintings such as Rubens' 'Fall of the Damned', 'Grand and Fatal Movements' forebodingly provides a warning for more modern - concerns - that the only hand we now ought to fear is not that of God, but of man. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denisa Ilie
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Denisa Ilie is an emerging fashion and portraiture photographer, who has recently graduated from the BA (Hons) Photography course at Norwich University of the Arts. Denisa's interests relay and transact between photography, minimalist art, contemporary design and fashion. Her photographic aesthetic combines simple, clean lines and geometrical forms with a sense of abstractness and ambiguity. Her work employs perceptions of fragility through a close study of the subjects she photographs. Always looking to expand her creative network, Denisa is currently assisting established photographers in the industry. Denisa is based in the UK and Romania and is available for commissions worldwide. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Kirby
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Lee Kirby's photographic practice is exclusively aimed towards creating Fashion and Beauty imagery for editorial publication. Bringing together technical skill and conceptual ideas to create industry standard commercial photography. Lee's Fine Art background has led to a body of work that has a conceptual depth in addition to a technical expertise. Lee's style focuses on the interaction between shadow and light that produces sculptural forms, highlighting designers and make-up artist's work within the basis of his visual style. Currently working at Philip Browne Menswear as their employed photographer, Lee is surrounded by fashion which has led to a focused approach towards his image making. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Leonard
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

With a strong interest in the complexity of memory and nostalgia, these images ask when does something become a memory, and what part does a photograph play in memory? To answer these questions I focus on the minimal and ordinary. There are parts of the everyday that would have no importance to a stranger but holds great significance to the owner; every object holds a memory. Natural elements are at the core of my work, creating a serene mood and striving to make the mundane become meaningful. By mostly shooting on film, this strengthens the idea of a memory becoming fixed in time. It is a personal process that involves patience and persistence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marianne Manfredi
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Marianne Manfredi studied BA Photography at Norwich University of the Arts. Marianne developed her passion for photographing people through portraiture, indulging in the similarities and differences of everyday people by capturing their personalities. The human form has always fascinated Marianne and how through images she can highlight every detail and uncover the inner depths and true nature of her subjects. Marianne uses a mixture of techniques, approaches, lighting, subjects, forms and traditional photographic methods. Through her influences she has produced a body of work that not only emphasises the elegance and delicacy of certain subjects or ruggedness and strength of others, but also their inner being through her attention to detail and tonality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aimee McCaskie
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

McCaskie's current work explores the fragmented memories and disconnection with regards to her younger self. The most recent images from this on-going project represent the struggle to unite her past with her present, the understanding that a longing to relive something from her youth was not possible. This process had led to using analogue photography and chemical printing; the realization of using these traditional methods supports her visual representation and artistic journey. McCaskie concludes that photography is the most appropriate medium for her current practice as a photograph has the ability to document reality, yet the photographer is given the power to alter this realism subsequently creating something surreal and conceptual. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Miller
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This editorial is looking into the revival of fashion being redefined through styling. It is reminiscent of the 90's, mixing high and low fashion with a snapshot element, capturing the in-between moments of the 'pose' to covey an intimate element without pretence. Shot against an urban backdrop that is either in need of reviving or has been revived, with an anti-establishment feel. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Jane Morgan
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Emily Jane Morgan is a Fashion Portrait Photographer based in London and the East of England. Her passion lies in creating imagery with deliciously vibrant colour palettes. Emily explores ideologies and envisions alternate realms; in a manner slowly extending its way towards hyper-reality, yet still maintains an essence of authenticity and emotional resonance. Her photography is an expression of escapism, romanticism and yearning. Emily's journey with Photography began in 2008. An underlying illness that challenged her physically led her to find an outlet of healing; creating imagery, beginning with self-portraiture in rural environments, putting her mind and her body literally within the frame. Pushing boundaries and consistently determined, Emily maintains these values today through both her fashion imagery and portraiture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kasey-rae Passfield
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The aim of my work is to convey the footprint of man on the environment by creating collages of landscapes and nature, corrupted. By using collage as a discipline for my photography I am able to achieve the atmosphere of damage, chaos, and destruction, which juxtaposes beautiful natural surroundings with imagery of found rubbish and man made components. For my finals I have developed several images to produce my own polluted landscapes made up of photographs taken from sites around Southern England. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cassandra Savage
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Cassandra Savage is a photographer who has many interests that enable her to create her unique images. Influences of pattern making for fashion, screen printing and texture in the natural all spark her imagination. Cassandra looks closely at the surface pattern and texture that can be created with reflection and subject itself. Flower arranging with a camera, Cassandra creates unique patterns that are printed not only as wall decals but also onto fabric for fashion design garments. Cassandra focuses on surface pattern of a photograph and abstract imagery, finding beauty in the natural. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Traynor
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am a BA (Hons) Photography graduate from Norwich University of the Arts. I have developed a portfolio of fashion and beauty imagery that is focused on a clean and polished aesthetic. I have a meticulous eye for detail, which has fueled my interest in postproduction; I enjoy the journey undertaken from the capturing of an image to the final polished result. I am a strong believer of getting it right in camera, and making it perfect in postproduction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Max Yorke
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Japanese phrase 'Mono no aware' describes beauty as an awareness of the transience of all things, and a gentle sadness at their passing. Using a scanner, I have recorded ephemeral objects at the limbo stage, between death and decomposition. This moment, frozen in time, eternally preserved for the viewer to behold. The process of shrouding in plastic, then laying objects on a bed of light in a final act of preservation becomes a ritualistic exercise. The wrapping of the objects works as a visual metaphor depicting this moment of preservation. The bold use of negative space within the image represented by the encroaching darkness, portrays the inevitable end of this cycle, finally resulting in a gentle disappearance into nothingness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Hains
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Based on recent landscape enquiry by John Wylie, this project seeks to explore the idea of landscape as a reoccurrence of presence and absence; presence as a form of materiality, which, we can engage with visually or tangibly and absence as the immateriality's, which haunt ideas of landscape. This is drawing on ideas form Derrida; the notion that presence must always follow absence. Therefore we cannot fully 'know' landscape without also referring to the indiscriminate absences within it. This principle can be reflected in the notion of photography itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Fleming
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

At first consideration, sculpture might be thought of as the most willed of artist media, which necessitates serious physical commitment. What happens when sculpture ceases to be quite so controlled, when it lets itself be dictated by principles of change, determined by its environment or by the circumstances of its reception and documentation? This project depicts the transient the world of the useless and pointless, where insouciant constructions, bereft of function, play out their final moments before destruction, a world that does not exist outside of the serendipitous photographic image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Kliskey
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Within my project I have explored the peripheries of the vernacular through instantaneous analytical observation of people and the places they inhabit, exploring the exceptional and the absurd within everyday life. The decision to use a snapshot aesthetic is a vital aspect within the work, dissecting fragments of peculiar behaviour and surprising circumstance. My editing process has as much weight in terms of importance as the photographs themselves it plays an important role regarding how meaning is created adding another dimension to the work. Encompassing wit and dark humour, objects are represented as metaphors of human behaviour. This project aims to explore the how social dynamics change in situations where darkness, alcohol and promiscuous behaviour unfurl. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Grace
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The China Clay industry, imperative to the history of South West England is fast disappearing, likewise the photographic industry's analogue traditions, are being dominated by the digital age. Before these traces of industry become extinct, I have attempted to record some of the geological sores left by the china clay works using analogue photographic techniques. I have then manipulated the films by soaking them in clay and water native to the sites I photograph, before processing. This is to emphasize the tactile elements of a photographic print, a rarity in the digital age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Becky Mead
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In this project I asked myself- 'what is it that each of us spend our lives searching for?' While we drift through time seeking anything more than our routines, we build our lives alongside our quiet dreams and aspirations. Unspoken and still, we forage for a meaning in what we do or who we are, searching deeper and more desperately, but simultaneously drowning in the norm. We are left floating in a state between raw existence and preeminence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Norris
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Visceral image maker Samuel Norris uses photography and moving image to explore the transformation and notion of time in photography - both in the split second of image making, and also the images' and subjects' perceived change[s] over time. As well this, his work explores the way in which people react to the presence of a camera and the act of being photographed and details these feelings within the process - we have our pictures taken many times throughout our lives, but how do our feelings change with different situations? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie O'Callaghan
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My work stems from a variety of points of interest, but particularly the concept of time and the ability to freeze it through photography. In her essay Genii Loci Karen Knorr writes; '...photography, which arose out of an impulse to preserve or freeze history, to stop time, decay and death, is at the same time a putting to death of the thing itself...' In the style of Dutch Vanitas and portrait paintings I am trying to question our ongoing relationship with nature, time and symbolism, something that has been apparent in art for centuries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Phillips
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Within this final term I have been considering the issues of identity and nostalgia. Having been directed through education for an average of 18 years we now stand on the prospect of leaving to enter to the wider world. 'We know what we are, but not what we may be.' This project has been an investigation into the representation of nostalgia and the unknown that seeks us. Focusing primarily within the realms of portraiture I have worked with nature as a tool for the representation of feelings of the abyss, flowers such as blossom hold symbolic references to new life and regeneration, a state the new adult can relate to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Twitchett
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My project is an idiosyncratic response to the questions that arise from our everyday lives. While wondering around Plymouth I have photographed and collected small fragments of writing, and by putting them into a new context, created a narrative about our day-to-day existence. Sometimes nonsensical or boring, it's the little stories that come to define our lives. 'We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.' ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Vezmar
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

One thing I have learnt about being in the South West for three years is that Cornish people are so proud to be who they are. This work is an exploration of tourism looking at coastal businesses in and around Cornwall, stemming from my fascination with the sea. This work touches on the hardships of seasonal employment, and how out of season, these little villages and towns are so quiet and desolate, yet in peak season they are thriving tourist destinations that never stop. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Graham Wheaton
University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The objective of the project was to go beyond the 'decisive moment', to follow the subject and document their passage. The aim was to be inconspicuous, for if the person were to be aware of my presence it would shatter the one sided observation. Multiple threads of narrative intertwine across the series, separate lives, connected by only the city they live in. The project is separated by a collection of ten A5 Books, each capturing a different path. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oana Damir
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The series is a set of portraits depicting a few individuals in their natural environment, usually their rooms or their place of study/work. The mood is set by using natural light, often around twilight. The action is set in a quiet place and two people are having a relaxed conversation. You hear words like employment, economical crisis and graduation; ambition, personal drives and possible obstacles that might stand in the way of that. You don't think of much of it until you see the microphone and the recorder in front of the sitter and then you realise it is an interview. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Noemie SCHACKMANN
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

While we no longer need to leave the house to do our weekly shopping, Smithfield, Billingsgate and New Spitalfield Market are unable to sell their stock. According to a report by Transport for London over 700 000kg of unsold products remain weekly between three main wholesale markets in London. 'Forgotten Portraits of Mass Consumption' is an exploration of the consequences of modern life on traditional industries. These large-scale spaces were created for mass consumption but are now being replaced through even larger supermarkets. Displayed as a book, this project's intention is to restore awareness of markets that have supplied local shops, schools, Buckingham Palace, restaurants, hotels and prisons with food for centuries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Wallis
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The original idea behind my final piece of work was to show the size and scale of the ExCel centre. This building was chosen because of its architectural design and the different shapes formed from the original structure. I found the artificial light elements in the building work well with the natural lighting, making it an ideal location for an example of my technical development using classic 5x4 film photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Billie Cawte
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Scenic Tourist' explores our relationship with the British seaside holiday. Using found photography and projection it presents an image on the location during the seaside's heyday and as it is now. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Shell
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series focuses on photographing pet dogs which are now seen as a member of the family, sharing the environment with their human counter parts. Using portraits to display the shared home space along with the dog, the audience are able to understand the relationship and their position within the group. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Whatling
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project is a revisited one as when my Grandparents passed away in 2011, I created digital images of their garden, representing a place they had loved and to represent time passed, documenting the overgrowth of their garden. I decided to revisit the project as I wanted to perfect on it, by using the Shen Hao Large Format Camera and taking care in each image I produced. I had not visited the garden since 2011, so the change within the garden was vast. The plants had overgrown, pots had been broken and the garden possessed eeriness and spookiness to it, which Large Format Black and White gave across very well. This was also the last chance I could photograph the garden before new owners took it on, so I felt I created documents of the space that could be shown in years to come to other owners of the house. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liliya Ivanova
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'A Modern Tale' is an investigation into human-animal relationship and the progressive separation between the urban and the 'wild'. The animals in the series are strangers in their new environment, forced to enter it as an only option for survival after the loss of their natural habitat. The clash between the two is apparent but there are interesting questions being raised as a result. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Hilton
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I designed and hand built a 20x16" ultra-large-format camera that exposes onto direct positive black and white paper. It came about through a determination to find a far more involved way of creating photographs, inspired by the craftsmanship of early photography. It is also an exploration of trying to create a unique object, each photograph produced is individual and un-reproducable . The photographs themselves are inspired by early romanticism, exploring the inner thoughts of an individual through an expressive portrait rather than trying to create an accurate representation of the outer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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SAM CHRISTOPHER CORNWELL
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Who is in control, the photographer or the females depicted? On first glance given the crude manner, subtle choices of composition lend their style to the voyeur. Look deeper and presented are four strong, independent women, alone or in charge of their surroundings. Once the marriage between the image and the photograph is disconnected, the meaning alters significantly and the artist's illusion vanishes. Linked by a single hand in each scene this body of work raises a paradoxical question about photography's relationship with the female sex. Presented are 4 x 35mm disposable camera negatives enlarged larger than life to 60x48" darkroom prints. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Justyna Kloch
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'From Fine Art to Body Modification' 'Every man and women is the builder of a temple, called his body... We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones' H.D Thoreau (1854) This project examines and explores history of Body Modification. It focuses on the newest and the most ancient modification which is Tattooing. The models positions were deliberately arranged in a distinctive manner, referencing to the Old Master Paintings. 'Bodies' I use naked body in my photography's to present the connection between arts, nature ad human being. Human create the art and nature create the human. Art is accompanied by people from the very beginning, and it was born thousands of years ago. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Viktorija Zelenkova
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Viktorija Zelenkova was born in Vilnius capital of Lithuania. She moved to England in 2010 to live and study at Portsmouth University BA (Hons) Photography Course. Latest works of Viktorija Zelenkova are concentrated on exploration of documentary photography. She travels to Ukraine and attempts to piece together details of her grandfathers past which has involved living in USSR under communism,emigrating and dealing with his disability. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Johnny Horgan
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am interested in the individuals use of visual culture as a tool in identity construction and social gain. In particular I look to explore the relation between self and group identity. By constructing social spaces stripped of visual clues, I hope to capture moments of both group interaction and self reflection, unburdened by pre subscribed stereotype. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauran Vohmann
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My Place is a re-projection of original video footage onto stills. The footage is projected onto photographic c-types, framed up and then filmed. My Place 49.4°N, 2.58°W is a visual study of place. A sense of Place in this sense is built and defined as the interaction between an individual or group with a location relating to social memory, history, personal memory, emotion, reaction and remembrance. The idea of place is built by the coming together of disparate elements, things that our own selective vision and experience pick up on. This has been utilised within the final piece by overlaying still and moving images. By consciously choosing not to overlay a still and video footage from the same location, we also create a sense of place, by combining separate sites. Wave movement from the video footage moves within a still image to light up areas of the landscape. This "light" picks out positive areas and almost directs a sense of place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Abraham
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The following work is an exploration on a fashion editorial appropriation of the different archetypes, which are associated with the female in gothic literature. We see many popular stereotypes of women portrayed by many authors. Examples of this are Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' with the characters many wives, who are vulnerable and trapped by the dominant male. The writings of 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre' include passionate, feminist characters that attempt to subvert and escape restrictions of the female entrapment within the domestic space. Sorrow and mourning is also a common theme amongst protagonist roles as is the archetype of the powerful woman with control over the man and the environment, the writings of Rebecca do this with an eponymous femme fatale character, dominating the entire plot even though she is deceased. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robin Albrecht
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The series Explored examines man's relation to nature. Even in the most remote parts of Great Britain there are clear visible hints and signs of humanity in the landscape. How far do we actually need to go to reach a place where we can rid ourselves of all signs of mankind to be able to connect with ourselves on a deeper level? Explored is a series of photographs that Albrecht took passing through the British countryside contemplating this notion of getting to know oneself better on a different plane. The series takes the viewer on this journey in search of a landscape that is untouched. However, is there still such a place? The photographs were taken around Wales and Scotland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Cook
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In this particular series, Robert Cook sets out to find the foreign wallabies brought over by Lady Arran Colquhoun in the 1940's and document the obscure beauty and presence of Inchconnachan island, an island set in the middle of Scotland's infamous Loch Lomond where the wallabies still reside. There are debates in Luss Estates and the local community to consider culling the Australian species from the island as there are concerns that the marsupials are destroying the existence of Scotland's native, rare and endangered specie; the capercaillie. The wallabies are said to be consuming the capercaillie's food, therefore resulting in the black grouses decline but Cook's experience finds controversy in this statement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Todd Hickey
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Todd has explored the growing concern of the struggles young people have to go through to get a job in the current climate. In this project Todd has looked at a range of different people who have or are pursing their dream job. From research and discussions Todd has taken portraits in an area where the subject feels relaxed and able to speak about the struggles they go through in pursuing their ambition. He has seen that there are still young people in today's society willing to follow their dreams. Interviews have conducted alongside his portrait session. The full series and interviews are available on Todd's website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Hocking
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, described the movement as 'Psychic automatism in its pure state'. Through dreams, automatic writing and drawing, he and other Surrealists sought to explore the unconscious. These photographs result from Emily Hocking's personal application of this process. Documenting dreams and automatic writing as starting points, Emily Hocking creates a series of photographs to illustrate notions of the unconscious state of mind . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Huhta
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The London Development Agency has proposed a 'Masterplan' for Crystal Palace Park - a protected, Grade II* listed Metropolitan Open Land in South London. In summary, the redevelopment plans include remodeling of ground levels and landscaping, the removal of a number of existing features, the construction of new visitor attractions and, controversially, some residential development within currently public parkland. Over the past few months I have photographed the park and the people who use it. I felt drawn to the big green urban environment; how it is woven into the suburban landscape between main roads and sprawling housing estates. I set out to document this extraordinary space - hovering between past and future, preservation and regeneration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Henna Mattila
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Appreciation when missing; imagination drifting to certain colours; daydreams wandering to certain landscapes. The craving for images, when living in a city. Beauty is in the details and in the small objects often ignored. The photos challenge the viewer, as the two dimensions create calm mindscapes that seek for harmony within the image, the objects from the landscape representing the present. Blue tinted images, conveying glimpses of emotions from distant memories of moments and places. The tones of light interest me as they change everything. After thousands of images during the years, the childhood landscapes deserve to be shown as precious as they are, portraying the relationship to nature in a new light, trusting in intuition when creating the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samia Meah
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This is Tharabanu and her sister Sheju's family. They live in the inner city slums of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Born in to poverty, they are daughters of a rickshaw driver and a house servant. Tharabanu's husband walked out on her to marry another woman, leaving her while she was two months pregnant with his daughter. Sheju's husband passed away. They had to come together in order to survive as best they can. Tharabanu explained that her life was full of hardship and sadness. She feels that her life has now passed her by, but she has hopes for a brighter future for her and her sister's children; that they may be able to stand on their own feet in this world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Proctor
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The use of vernacular imagery and covering the moving lines between intimacy, personality and connection. Presenting the chronological build of a relationship beginning from internet communication. My output is neither a statement nor a final outcome but an attempt to show levels of comfort and understanding between photographer and subject unachievable with models through a continuous personal documentation. During my time with Danielle I photographed the moments we shared. That is how Danielle was at that time, how she was personally and how she felt towards me. Through trust and the integration of our separate lives we began to understand and notice each other. Our habits, moods and routines. Capturing the mundane, emotional, personal and the spontaneous moments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anton Reenpaa
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

CRIME PAYS is a series exploring the subculture within the confined spaces of the prison walls, how the space and the environment affect the inmates and how they behave. A person who has been stripped of his freedom and has to pay for his mistakes with something that we can not get back, time. The project concentrates on the atmosphere of the prison, it's architectural features as well as the people within it. 'it´s very different having people working in you´re home' (inmate). Living under these circumstances is very different to what most people are accustomed to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Simpson
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The project 'To Sheila' explores Simpson's Grandmothers life while dealing with Vascular Dementia, the images revealing the evidence of her Grandmothers mental state as it slowly deteriorates. Simpson draws her audience in by using truthful, hard hitting images and offering a personal insight to this intimate subject; she achieves this by using a soft focussed and calm coloured collection of heartfelt and delicately shot documentary images. Photographed in Sheila's home Simpson shoots with an insightful purpose which documents Sheila's ever changing normality, which is both honest and painful to witness. Simpson has achieved this emotive and relatable feel to her work by choosing to shoot from an observational viewpoint. Simpson's images take the viewer on a journey of progression through the illness, and the deterioration of Sheila. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pamela Jane Wheeler
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Pamela Jane investigates ideas of presence and 'life' within photographs with the study into the David Knights-Whittome archive. Housed in The London Borough of Sutton Archives are thousands of his photographic glass plates c.1907-1917. Animate is the result of Pamela Jane's investigation into the plate negatives and the people they present. Using a personal photographic process, varied outcomes are created that seek to portray the emotional and theoretical journey the collection has taken her on. It is combined into a fascinating collection of new imagery and insightful theory - capturing the magical notion of photographs, their subjects and their place in the present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Wiles
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Samuel Wiles has captured this photographic essay titled 'Know your Quarry' and is a documentation of the vast variety of raw materials being quarried in Kent, United Kingdom. The essay documents three specific sites which are being quarrying and that also distribute these materials. The work shown here are a few selected images from the full series on Wiles' website. Wiles chose specific genres within each site and stuck to this, in particular the workforce who operate the sites and in addition detailed segments of the quarries. The aesthetics of the work have been shot in a topographical form which creates a very static and detailed documentary photo essay. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siobhan Brennan-Raymond
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I am a social documentary photographer with a keen interest in the concept of psychogeography, my work explores the enduring relationship between man and the environment; it is a visual description of the interaction between humans and the spaces that they inhabit. I am drawn to the often unconsidered and frequently overlooked aspects of everyday life, the ordinary and the mundane, but also the banal and sometimes quirky evidence of human intervention in public spaces. The more we interact with our surroundings the more we risk becoming disassociated from them. We begin to take space for granted; this becomes obvious in the way that we connect with it and also in the way that we eventually perceive it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Clarke
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The majority of my photography work is focused on music. I tend to shoot in the performance area where I feel that the music is at its best. I look for the energy where the musicians interact with each other onstage, their movement as they perform and their facial expressions, which may signify their emotions as they play. I look to freeze the action by capturing a moment that includes as many of those things that I have mentioned above. As well as musicians I have tried to include the audience, as they are also an important part of live concerts and react to the music as well as the musicians on stage. Lighting is an important part of my work as it can be used to help give the performance an atmosphere and creates photographs that can give it a great visual appearance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Dascenzo
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

New Colonial explores the seemingly innocuous world of tourist souvenirs. By documenting a wide range of such items, I wanted to reach an understanding of how tourism impacts upon indigenous cultures and to question whether this can be seen as form of colonialism. Souvenirs typically represent a narrow, preconceived view of a culture. Consequently, this collection allows us to consider not only what these items imply about the host nations, but also what they reveal about the worldview of Western tourists. Accompanying texts detail the material and socio-cultural origins of each object. It is thus possible to see how tourism might fossilize, misrepresent or trivialize the cultural practices it purports to celebrate. Visit www.newcolonial.co.uk for text and image pairings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Milly Futter
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Conformity is defined as matching beliefs and behaviours to what is perceived as normal in social groups. Conformity ranges from small groups to entire societies and may result from unconscious influences or direct social pressure. This apathetic self-portrait looks at the resulting issue of conformity within our modern society, inviting viewers to attempt to engage with the blank, expressionless figure they see before them. I aim to provoke viewers into questioning their own levels of conformity in everyday life, as we all conform one way or another for fear of rejection. Within the wallpaper print, I appear to disappear. Faded and unmovable from my wall, I have become aware of the choices we have, but with nothing to choose from. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eve Hopkinson
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

These images are an observation of both culture and human behavior, I am intrigued by the way a person places an object on a window sill. Through photographing these mundane spaces and presenting them to a viewer, I aim to give significance to the elements of everyday life that are often ignored. The images aim to provoke a viewer to take the time to observe the smaller details as they begin too imagine the personalities of the anonymous occupants that live behind the glass of these windows. The artistry is in the unseen as much as the seen and the extraordinary within the ordinary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanne Jones
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Considering the importance of form and colour in relation to our psyches and emotional states, I focus upon formal elements within imagery to produce the undisclosed series 'Untitled'. Through aesthetic aspects, the possibility of a connection between the viewer and the image is enhanced, with formal elements acting as the trigger to personal and unique responses. Using the camera to capture the ephemeral and the prosaic, I distort and enhance subject matter through the technique of slow shutter speeds to produce minimalist form and emphasise colour. Through engagement and open thought the influence of formal elements aims to project an overall aesthetic experience with associations to our mental states of mind and memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Lynn
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The passing of time can be a meditative and reflective moment, which can also be abandoned and discarded. I embrace and celebrate the absence of activity within the interior setting. Commenting on the phenomenology of a space, I create a romanticised memoir of the melancholy, quietly nestled within the domestic setting. I focus on the solitude and comfort found within my personal interior, a diaristic journey from shell to home. A strangeness lies beneath and between the passing of time, which acts as a silent and uncomfortable undertow. Isolating and extracting the beauty within the banal, I commemorate these moments in diary form and attempt to arrest the fleeting forever. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harriet Naylor
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Beaches are an ever-changing landscape; morphing shape with every high tide, creating a new experience for the viewer with every visit. I have established a body of work that is itself a changing entity evolving over time; mimicking the transformation the beach goes through every day, hovering between a delicate beauty and inevitable mortality. When the print eventually deteriorates the beach is still ever present with the embodiment of the seawater concealed within the very fibres of the print. This body of work directly engages with the landscape and strengthens the indexical link that photography has with its subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosy Nesbitt
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Specialising in portraiture and social documentary, I am interested in the physical state of human beings, the human form and how fascinatingly different our lives and we are as individuals.   In my current series, A Portrait of Recovery, I have documented the lives of individuals who are trying to reclaim their lives from drug and alcohol abuse. Accompanying my images are voice recordings of my subjects' life accounts, to allow them personally to inform the viewer of their experiences.  The project concentrates on including the excluded, and reveals the often-overlooked issues that such individuals have to face. Covering subjects that are frequently unseen, my work presents reality through informatively providing the viewer with thought-provoking imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marcus Sarko
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My photographic practice involves creating images that examine the complexities of the human condition, through an exploration of light and its emotive power. This piece, entitled Alone, investigates the notion of seclusion through the medium of male portraiture. Each image contains a single subject within an environment that has direct correlation to the narrative of each tableau. The staged narrative, which is woven into every image, builds a distinctive visual look that are characterized by the gaze that we see throughout the work. The use of light is key in the series; it illuminates and separates the subject, allowing their solitude and isolation to be seen by the viewer. This sensation that we see through the individuals posture and stare aims to examine an emotion that we all inherently feel. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Sturgess
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

My practise interrogates the genre of still life photography, highlighting how the medium reinvents itself. Utilising the photographic studio as a space to create and construct, I produce graphic imagery to explore the innovative qualities of the medium. These abstract photographs seek to create an illusion, whereby they appear to be computer generated imagery, acknowledging the digital processes that both threaten and confirm photography as a medium, fundamentally developing the way we deal with images. These works explore the moment of encounter, asking the viewer to question and challenge the veracity of the photograph, at a time when digital technologies have heightened a crisis of faith in the medium. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Turner
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Concerning the issues surrounding the rural landscape and the vigorous nature in which the landscape alters through natural erosion, my practice outlines the effects caused and developed by man and nature. This is a fine art project exploring the contours and formations developed, and how they appear within a landscape. My rural upbringing and been raised on a farm is the inspiration behind my practice. The gathering of the visible features within an area of land through the combination of the physical elements such as landforms and the indigenous vegetation, together construct the idealized view of a landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Alys Ward
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series explores violent representations concentrating on of the female as the victim. This has allowed me to explore a sensitive subject matter with the challenge of keeping my own aesthetics within the work, without the intention being to offend. The idea is represented in the context of fashion and portraiture that embraces a darker aesthetic, deviating away from stereotypical norms within this area. I want to create a reaction within the viewer, and make the experience of viewing the imagery thought provoking. The use of unsettling composition and framing in the work allows me to mimic the uneasy content this in turn allows the difficult subject to be explored more in-depth rather than rejected for the subject matter itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Wellstead
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Within my work I have always been interested in exploring the human condition, how we behave and how we interact and understand the world around us. In this series of work I have been exploring the narrative themes of loneliness, alienation and existentialism. The aim of this series of work is to provoke the viewer to form their own narratives for the images presented to them. The way in which each individual person reads and understands the landscape and subject within the image in fact can often be seen as a reflection on our own lives and expectations and how we have come to understand the world around us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Williams
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

These photographs represent the physical and emotional expression of the body in movement. The gestures in each image that signify elevation, trajectory and gravity create a sense of continued motion beyond the fragment of time that is represented. The subjects use their chosen medium of dance to capture the emotional release of the body in movement, revealing a momentary vulnerability of the human form and creating a still of a passionate episode of self expression. The fragmented motion captured in each photograph reminds us of its former assertion; it's original state of grace. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Archer
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Just Breathe' is a series of portraits exploring the genetic condition Cystic Fibrosis through a close friend and sufferer. The work draws attention to the condition, but also the people involved who are affected. The friend lost her battle and sadly passed away during the development of the project. This had a profound affect upon the project's unfolding, shifting from a series on future hope to one instead memorialising and offering one of the last representations of a young woman. Shot on medium-format film, the images are of high sentimental value, with the negatives also existing as objects that bear testimony to a life too brief. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethan Arundale
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

An estimated 1.85 million CCTV cameras watch over Britain. London is, reportedly, the most spied-on city in the world. I want to be a Spy comments upon the nature of surveillance in our lens-based, image-obsessed culture. With the mass consumption of smartphones and tablet cameras over the last decade, 2013 has also seen the development of wearable cameras capable of taking 2000 photographs a day. This series uses a camera embedded into a pen to reflect upon the increased ease of personal surveillance. The images are of commuters on the London Underground, photographed in a manner whereby CCTV and voyeurism become inseparable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Bronze
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Different cultures use and inhabit space in very different ways. This project began after moving to Germany, living in a shared apartment with strangers, and without understanding the language. However, it was the uses of space that became interesting, particularly different engagements of space and cultural signification of space that was occupied and private. Although the notion of 'private space' is a relatively abstract concept, it is one deeply felt and intensely personal - silently acknowledged by all. Yet, what emerged was a realisation that although there were differences, there nevertheless still remained a very strong and cross-cultural sharing of social awkwardness, public barriers, and need for privacy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cassie Chadbone
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

No one can ever be fully prepared for the loss of a family member, especially a cherished grandmother. Re-Connection is a project that explores the personal connection between granddaughter and grandfather following a traumatic family loss. The camera both explores and reconnects this relationship. Photography is a passion that photographer and grandfather share deeply, one that brought them together amidst the grief. The images belong to a small series, one enriched with memories, emotions and conversations - both concealing and revealing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Greg Childs
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project takes inspiration from the writing of Edward Thomas and his walks in the Hampshire countryside. Thomas was a manic-depressive, claiming that walking relieved the symptoms of this depression. These walks inspired Thomas in his writing, and, later, his poetry. The series follows the eight-mile walk Thomas regularly took around the village of Steep and the two homes in which he lived during his life there. The images also depict some of the landmarks mentioned within Thomas's poems such The Path. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Else
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Literary fiction and photography both have a void in the information that they provide. Indeed, every medium has a limit in its ability to fully represent its referent. Novels plant a seed from which readers must build their own aesthetic world; photographs provide a visual stimulus, depending on viewers to construct meaning from the signifiers of the scenes depicted. Borrowed Landscapes appropriates signs and symbols from both literature and the visual arts, using theatrical settings, to explore the relationship between author and spectator. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susan Everett
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Untitled connects past and present through family relationships. The series considers how the photographer's childhood has had traumatic consequences, but also reflects upon the lasting family relations that were once very nearly destroyed. Each photograph is accompanied by text, enabling family members to express their feelings about the events. What transpires is that each person clearly focusses upon could have been, rather than not what was. Ultimately the series considers the depth and difficulties of relationships, the strength of family bonds, and the tensions between past and present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brogan Low
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

At Home is a series documenting pets in their home environment, but shifts normal photographic conventions by showing the use of the space in relation to the animal and how it negotiates the domestic environment. The work is framed in a particular way to create unique compositions, whilst camera techniques suggest a sense of uncontrolled madness. With loosely cropped shots, the photographer attempts to empathise with the behaviour of pets at home. The series has a slight, honest humour: pets do get in the way, jump on sofas, and play-fight in the background. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bikrant Maharjan
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series reflects upon Western society's endless exposure to advertising and branding. In our hyper-capitalist era, branding has evolved through continued and sustained advertising via the power of images - to the extent that buying a branded product has become a purchase of self-identity. More specifically, the project demonstrates the impact this exposure has on society, which itself becomes complicit in a cycle of perceived need, desire, and consumption. This ultimately has a number of consequent issues, from environmental damage to economic problems through capital accumulation. The work deconstructs the logos that signify current major brands to their most fundamental colours, whilst placing them in a grid with the implication that brands 'own' the colours. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennie Malone
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Between Us' explores personal relationships and connections through domestic space and individual family portraiture. The photographs, harnessing both portraiture and documentary styles, create a narrative of negotiating the intricate difficulties inherent in personal independence, closeness, and boundaries. The relationship between the photographer and their parents is a reflection of the changing nature of interpersonal connections and a shift in need for private, intimate space. The series blurs the line between past recollections and current needs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Parker
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series explores the intimacy between two people: the photographer and her boyfriend. The work is a portrait of this relationship, rather than being portraiture in the conventional sense. The images are of one person, revealing the close gaze of the photographer upon the other. This intimacy is generated within the series through attention to the details that characterise a relationship. The photographs are not posed, but are instead an insight into the feelings and ideas when one is alone with another, showing a glimpse into the personal, private, and intimate aspects of a relationship in everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashleigh Spice
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Paramnesia is an expressive study of feelings of isolation and seclusion after the photographer was diagnosed with Neurocardiogenic Syncope (NCS) - a failure of the brain and the cardiovascular system to adequately communicate and respond to each other. NCS causes blood pressure to drop dangerously and prevents the brain sending signals to the body (such as reoxygenating the brain, therefore causing life-threatening problems.) The images represent a coming-to-terms with the recent diagnosis and its effects of chronic illness and memory loss. The process for the self-portraits were inspired by the French philosopher Henri Bergson's ideas around experience and duration, providing the basis for the photographer's own feelings of being trapped, isolated, and alone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Warwick
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Technological advances have revealed previously unknown and inaccessible wonders of the world. Art paintings that were once only accessible within gallery sites of distant spaces are now immediately available on mobile screens. Yet with this gift of unlimited access to knowledge, the information gets diluted and almost lost within the cyberspace. This work is concerned with the dissolution and loss of information that is simultaneous with such technological advances. Mixing technologies of different eras, I present images - taken from a moving image installation - on problematic representations of the world through technology. Details are corrupted, meanings are lost, views conflicted. The audience loses a fixed sense of 'reality', but experiences it through imperfect technologies and thus witnesses their own 'reality'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Willis
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Stranger Tides examines the boundaries created within society, and the concept of the 'stranger'. It is common to ignore others and forming connections is often difficult. The project focuses on individuals across various shorelines, who agreed to be photographed when approached. Through consent, this shifted the person's status as 'stranger'. These portraits give an insight into an individual's life for a brief moment of time, and they obscure and reveal their presentation of self. Portrayed in front of a minimal seascape, we are confronted with questions about who these people are, how they choose to spend their time, and how they present themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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CM Brosteanu
Stockport College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A collection of images that explores landscape and memory, space and time, and also investigates the universality of the liminal. Psychologists call liminal space a place where boundaries dissolve a little and we stand there, on the threshold, setting ourselves ready to move across the boundaries of what we are to be. Similar to the shore it is sometimes watery to swim or fish in and sometimes dry to walk on and discover shells. It is the poetic space that exists outside the physical, logical and rational but also owes its reality to them. The aim of the project is the investigation of these spaces with no fix purpose in relation to the powerful blend of affects triggered by memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Colette Longden
Stockport College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Photography intercepts time, disrupting our relationship between past and present; where the force of each threshold creates fissures on the fabric of perception. Portraiture flickers within the terrain of being and the requirement to become a sign at the intersection of the self and the advent of the Other. Working with Lenticular images, these intense relationships of subject/ spectator, time/movement are offered to the viewer to consider their unique creation of yet to be seen, accounts for the soul. This is participation in the production and deconstruction of images not necessarily of motion and stillness, but images within motion and stillness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angineh Nowroozi
Stockport College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Preconceptions can be both damaging to others and ourselves. Elements of our past can leave stains that or too deep to remove or cover. A countries trials and triumphs don't just effect people world wide, but its own people too. The eye can't always see this; this family has become separated and alienated by the countries events and their own way of dealing with it. Choosing everyday, what they show to others and how they actually feel. There are things we have to do in life to survive, and there are choices we choose to make to fit in. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susie Tsang
Stockport College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

A ritual opens up a narrative of a delicate and intricate relationship between a daughter and her mother. Questioning the role of culture and the influence it has on identity is the catalyst that created a relationship in a constant flux of confusion and clarity, ease and frustration. The work is a re-interpretation of a cycle that is an on-going ritual but it also offers the possibility of hope and making amends. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Wood
Stockport College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As we see an increased lack of support for business across our high streets, so too do we witness a drop in job opportunities and the chance for money to be pumped back into our economy. This cannot be said for those working at the height of our financial sector receiving high, unjustified bonuses whilst making the decisions that are directly damaging the majority of people within our society. This has caused a lack of trust between the two social groups and our depleted high streets are becoming a visual reflection on this lack of care and support on offer. This leaves us questioning... Who will be the next victim in the demise of our high streets? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Brady
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

By looking at subjects that transform their purpose over time, I investigate and unearth the past in order to help make sense of the future. This notion of having purpose, having left a footprint on society is pivotal throughout my work. In the 1800's, Duncan's Dam was the main water supply for Lisburn. As Lisburn's population grew, the council and its inhabitants looked further afield for a larger water source. For a decade the site was neglected and had no real value to the society who, until this point, had overlooked its historical significance. My photographs illustrate the stasis of the environment, which has withstood time, despite the significant transformation it's undertaken to suit the needs of science and society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacqueline Douglas
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In 1952 my grandparents met in Peru while working as missionaries. As they both worked they needed a live-in nanny. At the age of 18, Esperanza Caceres was hired. In 1968 my grandparents moved back to Northern Ireland. Esperanza soon followed, and has spent the last 50 years looking after our family. In doing so she has become more than just a nanny. It has come to a point in our family where Esperanza lives alone. I started collecting images from family albums to form a dialogue of Esperanza in both Peru and Northern Ireland. The importance of this project came to light when Esperanza said to me: 'if you're not here, what's the point in me staying'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ciarán Dunbar
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The Wise was shot in Muirhevna Mor, one of Ireland's largest council housing estates. I have lived in Muirhevna Mor for most of my life. This is my community. Like in most council housing estates, there is a stigma attached to the people who live here. However, unlike those on the outside looking in, I can see the strength of the community within this area, despite its constant struggle to overcome this stigma. Sociologist Erving Goffman divided people into three categories - The Stigmatized, The Normal and The Wise. The Wise are those who have been given an insight into the life of the stigmatized person, which has made them 'wise' to their situation and sympathetic towards them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Leonard
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Motion sickness commonly occurs when one's body, inner ear and eyes send conflicting signals to the brain, this imbalance of signals results in motion sickness. Coming from a family of bus and taxi drivers, having motion sickness seemed fairly ironic. Photographing residual marks and objects which I was both entranced and nauseated with, I was able to show a transient journey and my abstracted viewpoint. The work endeavours to transcend the physicality of motion sickness, and become more universally applicable. It therefore aims to express various emotions such as fear, anxiety, discomfort and nausea. The ambiguity of this work allows viewers to question the origin of these residual markings, allowing a sense of presence and involvement within the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachael Lumsden
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Retention explores memory through long-term uninhabited rental properties in Belfast. Capturing latent signs of domesticity in these often transient spaces, the camera captures an everlasting sense of inhabitance by recording in detail the traces left behind by the last occupants. Laid bare, these interiors present themselves to the viewer, or potential occupant, as a blank canvas upon which to project their own memories of home. Appreciating the beauty and conditions of what's been left behind, these visual clues within the properties also allow the viewer to create their own past and a predicted future existence. Freezing these details permanently and removing them from the continual march of time allows for speculation, imagination and contemplation of previous occupants. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sara Marsden
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

From a young age I would sit myself in front of the TV, put Cabaret (1972) on and watch in wonder at Liza Minneli's mesmerising portrayal of Sally Bowles. A fascination was embedded in me and these women became my icons. Pictured are Burlesque dancers, my own modern day superheroes; sales assistants, and managers by day who don stockings and feather boas, becoming their alter ego and your wildest fantasy by night. I chose to photograph my subjects in domestic settings, performing mundane tasks or posing in their living rooms, to portray the multi-faceted roles modern women fulfil. These women are just as adept at striptease as they are at picking their children up from school, or managing a shop. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marie-Therese McCormick
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Whilst navigating through scarred landscapes and solitary figures, a sense of stubborn survival, resilience and unusual beauty begins to form. Scars are the wounds that have been covered-up but have not yet fully healed, much like the emotional scars we carry around, weighing us down on a daily basis. When examined individually, the images are in themselves documentary photographs, as the people and places really exist, but as a whole, the work is closer to fiction. I create images for myself, to identify with my understanding of reality and to express my own interpretation of the world around me whist allowing others to engage with the work. I identify more with my own awkwardness and vulnerability in my subjects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jan McCullough
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Contrasting a person with a structure as a means of description, Portrait of a Man as a Building is a photographic examination of a person's internal state. Through comparison of subjects the camera is used as a tool for insight and investigation; assessment and abstraction. These images form an investigation into other's lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David McIlwaine
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Belfast's city centre is the heart of the Belfast metropolitan area and as such it performs a very important strategic role as a 'shop window' for Northern Ireland. 2013 is a landmark for Belfast as the city celebrates its 400th birthday. Throughout the past 400 years Belfast has experienced many different changes, which have caused considerable physical damage to the state of the city. "I have photographed belfast cinematically, to replicate the style that was originally used in the re-marketing of Belfast during the peace process. The work primarily focuses on unkempt areas of the city, which show the co-existence of old and new architecture, this reveals a personal visual aesthetic caused by Belfast's troubled past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine McKenna
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Natural Selection is a contemplative piece of work, exploring issues around control and conformity. The work was made in response to commission regulation (EC) no 1221/2008. This legislation set out quality standards for certain fruit and vegetables within the EU. The work is concerned with the exclusion of fruit and vegetables based on their aesthetic value, despite otherwise been healthy this food was destroyed. The work asks the viewer to look at each fruit intimately, highlighting their imperfections, while also showing their individuality and beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare McLaughlin
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Magpie depicts my life and memories through the collection of physical objects that I put into my 'memory box'. Throughout life I have collected items that carry deep personal meaning and memories. Physical memorabilia helps us to never forget. Never forget a key memory, feeling or sense. I can hold onto these memories but now, I feel I must dispose of the physical. Magpie catalogues each item from the box as it was unpacked. By photographing and cataloguing the objects, the photographs take on the physical and sentimental attachment, evoking the memories that were associated with the material objects. By viewing particular objects the viewer is transported to a significant event in their lives, educing their own feelings and emotions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gary Moore
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through combining analytical approaches with photographic techniques, my work conceptually engages and gives voice to one of our waters biggest problems, coastal dead zones. These areas are rendered incapable of sustaining life, an effect of dramatic oxygen depletion, caused by increased intensive agricultural methods. My camera is used as a scientific instrument, recording key affected locations at key times. The outcome, however vague and abstracted, stands as an example of documentary investigation. Only in the most extreme cases can Marine deterioration become visible. With reflection on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, we recall dramatic imagery and perhaps more memorably, a face to blame. This work questions levels of engagement in issues, where visual demonization is minimal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bryan Morris
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Shoulder to shoulder is an exploration of male ageing, photographed within the Dundalk branch of the Louth Community Men's Shed. Working to prevent isolation and promote health and well being, this organisation provides men with a communal space within which to collectively address issues of later life often ignored and not discussed. These images explore the relationship between age, health, isolation and community within our increasingly ageing population. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gavin Mullan
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In the 1960's the 'New City' of Craigavon in Northern Ireland was planned and created from scratch on bog land between the towns of Lurgan and Portadown. The planners intended to link these two towns by creating a new modern urban area with a single identity. Quality housing, high-speed railways, modern leisure facilities and employment were key to this concept. Most of what was planned was never finished and Craigavon failed to develop a sense of place. With this work I wanted to capture the feeling of incompletion and emptiness within Craigavon. The collection of connecting roads between two towns within a maze of roundabouts and bridges seem to emphasise the man-made elements and divisions in the area. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eve O'Connor
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This work is about the role of women within the religion I was raised. I wanted to show a more subjective viewpoint by focusing on the lives of recently married women in my faith who have accepted the orthodox route and chosen at this young age to devote their selves to motherhood. I have often heard people not of my faith using the term 'second-class citizens' when describing what they believe a woman's role is within my religion, when in fact devotion to motherhood is revered. I focused on the everyday aspects of these women's lives within the home because I believe the greatest work a woman can do is within the walls of her own home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clodagh O'Neill
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Excavated fifteen feet below ground, every eight miles, lies a space fifty-five years old, left to remain in darkness for nature and human development to take its course. A fifteen thousand strong network of cold war era bunkers was built in 1958 across the United Kingdom, thirty-one of which are in Northern Ireland. Manned by the Royal Observer corps, a former Civil Defence organisation, these structures were used for the observation and detection of nuclear explosions and their effect on the country. The Observation Posts and their contents exist as living glimpses into an essentially forgotten part of the past. The photographs provide a visual account of the spaces as they remain, twenty years prior to their closure in 1991. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paulina Rachanska
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Secrets, by nature, are meant to be kept private and unseen. Following my discovery of postsecret.com, a website where anonymous people post their secrets by way of a postcard, I began to question the significance of all the things that we try to hide from the world. After all, if our secrets are so shameful, why do we decide to share them when presented with the opportunity to do so namelessly? By adopting secrets that strangers had posted online, and presenting them as my own, I look at what happens when we get hold of information about other people's personal lives. In our hands, this information often becomes exaggerated and misconstrued. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Rankin
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Police Presence is a visual survey of Belfast, centred on the seemingly unabating presence of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's 'Armoured Public Order vehicles'. These vehicles punctuate public and domestic space in towns and cities across Northern Ireland. Pulling on collective consciousness they serve as mobile, sculptural, installations revealing the underlying current of everyday experienced anxiety. Surreal yet intimidating in appearance, Police Presence acts as a record of, and metaphor for, the fragile and tense psychological landscape of post conflict Northern Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pawel Slaby
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Throughout our lives we are surrounded by items. A Majority of them have little or no meaning for us, but every now and again an item becomes special. There are many reasons for this: an item might bring back forgotten memories; might have significant financial value: might be given to us by someone important, or might make us feel good simply by owning it. it is natural thing that we want to keep these items... but what happens when the habit of holding on to the things goes out of control? 'Obsession' explores the subject of collecting, based on my own tendency to collect. 'The Collector' continues this discussion focusing on other people's fixations, covering collections and those behind them . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Watson
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Tumulus explores the way in which mound-like entities have arisen within a particular landscape. Semi-sculptural formations have materialized during a period of intense upheaval and transformation - symptomatic of construction. As the landscape has been altered, matter has become displaced, gathered in piles, and has taken new form within the mounds, which have been both unconsciously and consciously created. There is occasional evidence of man purposefully sculpting the piles of organic matter and debris in an attempt to commit them to the natural landscape. The series of images, which make up Tumulus, transcend the immediate subject of landscape, suggesting concerns regarding concealment, identity, and human nature. The imagery also challenges viewers to place their own subjective reading upon the work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bronagh Wilson
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Looking at my Grandfather, I have always seen a man who is intellectual and strong willed. Not allowing himself to slow down has become a preoccupation. As this work evolved, I unveiled someone new, a man I didn't recognize. There is a vulnerability I may have been shielding myself from, or perhaps never noticed before. Trying to capture the overlooked and mundane of everyday life, this work is a visual investigation into (un)familiar surroundings. Discovering things that I would continue to overlook if not for my camera. Incessantly watching his every move, feeling guilty, as I unearth what I don't want to admit to myself about his ageing, while the images expose the truth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Cunnane
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Coleg Sir Gar - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Photography, as an art form, is a mirage of something real' (Peres. M. 2007) 'A Fabricated Reality' presents a series of images depicting a reality based on a 'truth'. Society today bombards us with stories of untruths and images of exaggeration and manipulation. This fictional character s a creature of artifice, a fabrication, and is staged within melodramatic scenes. These fictional scenes draw us in, not by giving us something we have already seen, but rather something we imagine we have seen. The manipulated scenes interrogate the truth content within the images. There is no reality in these images, only fabricated scenes designed to represent reality, allowing the character to exist temporarily in a world outside of what is real. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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carys haf
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Coleg Sir Gar - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This collection of images is called Transience. Exploring the relationship between the figure in the environment referencing memory and place has become a theme that has captured my interest and challenged my way of thinking about memory. I am fascinated by the idea of mankind occupying spaces for the briefest amount of time and in that fleeting moment creating an emotional bond with the place, a personal connection. When a good memory is created this keeps a person returning, visiting again to relive the experience. Each person chose to be photographed at a place that holds a special meaning. They are all facing away from the camera as if looking back in time and not looking into the future into my lens. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Morelli
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Coleg Sir Gar - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Our society is manufactured to protect existence from any intrusion of events that might disrupt public opinion. We are, therefore subjected to being part of the crowd yet, sometimes in these settings we have peculiar moments that exist only to ourselves whether knowingly or oblivious to us. In these moments perhaps we break from the apparatus of the hive and are able to in some way become more self-aware and reaffirm our own individual existence. This body of work explores this mentality of social structure and examines the moment before the individual returns to the crowd. What happens when we are taken from the crowd, isolated in the same space and faced with our own image? This series of work was made with the intention of exploring these moments of authenticity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Murphy
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Coleg Sir Gar - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

'Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at' (John Berger, 1972). I have an interest in how women are perceived and how the stereotypical gender representation of an 'ideal' woman, beautiful, delicate and alluring, has created a distortion of the true identity of the woman. Feminist theorist Laura Mulvey observed that in film the camera assumes the perspective of the male viewer, a theory known as the 'the male gaze.' Think of any visual medium - film, advertising, music videos; this 'male gaze' is still often prevalent where stereotypical gender representation objectifies women as 'appearing' for the man. I use Barbie dolls as a representation of this idyllic perfection and also to reflect a society, that still exists in some respects today, of plasticity and misrepresentation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Pearson
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Coleg Sir Gar - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series explores the boundaries of socially acceptable responsibilities for children. Emerging from my personal experience, I wanted to create a project that encapsulated how individuals can be negatively affected by the actions of their family through times of break up and divorce. My research led me to focus on children that become carers as a result of a disintegrated family.I quickly became aware that becoming a young carer could affect many children for a variety of reasons and that these situations often go unnoticed. Providing children with responsibilities is said to be beneficial to the Childs development. However, what level of responsibility is deemed beneficial? When do these responsibilities become inappropriate? How does age come into the equation? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Devine
University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Coleg Sir Gar - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The intense beauty of form and colour that exists in nature has fascinated me since I was a child. When I first discovered the beauty and colours hidden within the crystalline structures of rock, I wanted to capture it on film and reveal its beauty beyond the scientific community. For this project I decided to explore the hidden colours and mystical healing properties of the Bluestones from the Preseli Mountains. It is said that beauty is only skin deep, but this work has enabled me to probe beneath one of her skins, to reveal even greater beauty when that skin is drawn back. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caro Boulton
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Uncle Allan had a significant quarrel with his mother who never spoke to him thereafter and cut him out of any inheritance. That was really all I knew about my father's Uncle Allan until by chance I saw that the National Portrait Gallery had a photograph of him in their collection. This photograph was the first of many fragmented clues leading to a quest to unlock the aura of mystery surrounding this man. The work documents the process of such a search as well as examining family secrets and how such secrets of the past impact on the present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Burton
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This series of photographs looks at the artificial luminosity of the sky in the city at twilight, challenging our perceptual experience of the natural. The photographs also relate to my personal experience of the sky at this time, using an experimental approach to uncover parts of this phenomenon that the human eye cannot see. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Valentina Culley-Foster
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project explores the city of L'Derry in Northern Ireland as geographically and metaphorically divided city and paints a portrait of the differences and similarities of its communities, both Unionist and Nationalist, that form it and continues its journey across the old border to scenic County Donegal of the Republic of Ireland. The division is not only an official one through the proximity of the border from Northern Ireland to Ireland, but also a metaphorical one in the mind-set of the people of this town. Hope remains that the city of L'Derry will see the day when one will no longer look back at the Troubles, but instead work together in moving forward towards a brighter future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anand Damodaran
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

The video piece describes the process of an allergic reaction or 'anaphylaxis'. It plays with the intertwined concept of chaos and order using imagery and motion. It was created using a mixture of real camera footage and virtual computer generated imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Renée de Nève
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

"The Lost Generation" is a collaborative project between myself and 11 other young adults who are currently unemployed and/or trying to find a job they are qualified to do. Using newspaper format I have asked each sitter to write about their experiences, to accompany their portrait. I was inspired by the many collective statistics and the general term 'lost generation' duped by the mainstream media, to explore the individual experiences and using portraiture in combination with personal writings to raise awareness of the vast complexities behind youth unemployment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa der Weduwe
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Surrounded by Heathrow, the M4 and the M25, the village of Sipson is never silent with the constant rumble of cars and planes. Since 1998, the community has been under threat by the proposed expansion of Heathrow, which if approved, would see the village and its surrounding areas disappear. With the government currently conducting a review into possible solutions to the 'aviation crisis', the village's future remains uncertain. With a decision postponed until after the general election, many long-term residents have chosen to move away, whilst BAA have bought up nearly half the properties in the village. As houses are left neglected and local businesses close, the sense of community and pride that originally brought the residents together seems lost. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laurence Harding
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As a reflection upon life's fragile ambitions, young people were photographed in front of lifestyle billboards scattered around London. Reminiscent of Victorian portraiture, the draperies, Greek columns and painted canvases have now been replaced by photographs of luxurious homes, creating visual enigmas resembling theatre sets, and projecting pre-packaged and standardised ideals of a successful life and perfect homes. However, these screens, fixed upon temporary walls, become a metaphor emphasising the fragility of our society's economy, and how it could all tumble in a second like a house of cards. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Krasnik
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Photographs are static; a frozen moment in time, fixed on a flat surface. At the same time, a photograph can depict movement and evoke a sense of duration. As Barthes wrote, there is a strange sense of both here-now and there-then in every photograph. Meanwhile, moving images seem far more in the present, because it shows time passing - like a continuous representation of a 'now'. In my diptychs, triptychs and tetraptych, I examine still photography's limits by trying to depict time and movement. Thereby, I put to the test the ability of photographic series to go beyond the limits of the single photograph's representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Lobban
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

British monuments and attractions that compel the visitor to capture them with the camera are in a continuous state of exposure to the gaze. The taking of one of these images allows the photographer to hold unequivocal evidence that they were there, that they saw and that the trip was made. Everything is Borrowed uses photography's basic principles of light reacting to chemistry to explore differing ways of representing these over exposed icons. 5x4 instant film is utilized to capture the very essence of the attraction; the light. These photographic objects subvert and challenge the clichéd concepts of photographing these famous locations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Junko Ogura
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

On the 11th March 2011, the most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan occurred. The tsunami associated with the earthquake caused a nuclear catastrophe in the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant and two years on, the leakage of radioactive materials continues to pose an invisible threat to the lives of the people. My mother regularly sends cartons of long-life milk made in Okayama to my nephews in Tokyo because Okayama is quite a distance away from Fukushima. Much of the milk sold in Tokyo is said to come from the Tohoku area, potentially still contaminated by radiation. I have put together pieces showing the way in which this earthquake had a huge variety of long-term effects, giving rise to a potentially never ending story. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pavla Ondrova
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Bradwell nuclear power station, which is located on the Dengie peninsula in Essex, is no longer in operation. It generated electricity for forty years between 1962 and 2002 and, according to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), it is currently in the defueling phase of its lifecycle. The preparation phase is now in progress at the site ready for the care and maintenance phase to begin in 2027. This will be followed by the final site clearance and de-licensing due to commence in 2095 with a finish date by 2104. The long term planning of decommissioning Bradwell power station will have a profound affect on generations to come, leading to feelings of uncertainty. The fog in the photographs is a metaphor for this uncertainty as well as the unclear future of the landscape. Decommissioned is a body of work, which explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment and it emphasises the fragility and transience of the landscape. It is a visual exploration of Burkean notion of the sublime combined with contemporary understanding of the concept. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miles Roberts
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

In Search of Stillness is about the journey, the running from place to place so prominent, that it is almost genetic amongst my family. The search for something intangible at best or in the most extreme of cases, totally imagined. The fleeting moments of time, so short, spent in any one place that we barely leave our mark upon them, hardly register at all. It is about how we can easily spend our lives in transition, travelling from place to place, running. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rowan Markson
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Through the abstraction of the image I hope to reveal how are perception of colour has stagnated, we are constantly compensating and colour matching our surroundings. As children we have no perception of how light effects the colour of objects and space but education dilutes this innocence. In every stage of my darkroom process something is lost and gained whether it be colour, light or texture. The only colour that does not invert is grey so these photos are in pursuit of an allusive 50% grey. When slate is seen en masse it appears to be grey but is in fact varying shades of grey, purple, blue and green. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Smith
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

As the crow flies is about an ongoing obsession; the continual chasing of something illusive and unattainable, something unidentifiable, that exists within us but is forever overlooked in its pursuit. Whilst this body of work addresses an undeniable and deeply-held fascination for the birds themselves, it is ultimately more concerned with the complex symbolism and metaphor surrounding them and their connection to the transitions and challenges faced. All of the images represent something about an inner turmoil that is always difficult to articulate: the seeping darkness of continued regret and self-doubt; a momentary euphoric suspension of belief; an unshakeable impending fear and acceptance of the inevitable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kun Song
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

I locked myself into a car in transit in China. I could hear the noise of the engine and the sound of the wind. I could feel the bumps in the road, but not the sense of the speed any longer. Speed became part of me and transformed to an entrance, through which I penetrated into an unknown reality where everything was distorted. I continuously pressed the shutter. In every fraction of a second, everything was blurred. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Stevens
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2013
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

This project is about the construction of a residential house. It is a house of great size, quality and opulence. Every dimension is a multiple of normal. At fifteen times the size of the average UK house, it will use 80,000 handmade bricks, and 36,000 handmade roof tiles. The stairs alone weigh 15 tons. The construction provides the stage for over 100 different workers to perform their acts of transformation. Working individually or in small groups, each brings their own particular specialist skills to the overall task. The hard, physical nature of the working environment is set in stark contrast to the elegant structure that will emerge on completion of the build. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Taylor
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID is an attempt to problematize the cinematic representation of violent death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bindi Vora
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

By removing the recognizable aspects of an image and replacing it with a sheet of white photographic paper, where its depth and space are infinite, achieves an overwhelming sense of oscillating scale. The spaces we photograph and flatten through the camera, reproduce as a photograph and keep within albums perceives the photograph as this pristine object. By gently bowing and bending, forming and shaping this image from an illusionary white to a sculpted object transformed its dimensionality. Through sculpting these voids and contours the irreversible marks that appeared upon the surface intrigued me as it depicted the potential for the image. The subtle indications often hidden within the vast spaces of white give the piece an ethereal quality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Wood
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Often described as one of the nicest places in England to live, Bournville was George Cadbury's vision of a model village, in which spacious clean living could co-exist with a prosperous and happy industrial workforce. In its conception, the village attained a very different way of living compared to other industrial towns, intended to 'alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions.' The once revered model of sustainability now finds itself in a position of cost cutting, job losses and in fear of the long-term results on the village and its local workforce after American confectioners Kraft completed their £11.5bn takeover. For many, the feeling of having the village so heavily dictated by foreign visions only predicts a turbulent future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Byoung Joon Yoon
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:55 EDT

Colour is not necessarily affiliated to the 'thing', although it is always associated with 'something'. Colour is an event, a phenomenon; an agency of light, rather than a substantial being. It is a process of 'becoming', not of 'being' - and insofar as it is 'becoming' it is 'nothing' or 'no-thing'. If colour, then, is 'nothing', is it possible to imagine the shadow of colour? This series of diptychs, consisting of a photograph and a photogram of the same colours created with a simultaneous exposure investigates this very question. Colour is a mysterious, intractable yet enthralling and intoxicating 'thing' or 'no-thing'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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