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Jonjo Borrill
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

As a farewell to my childhood home, Summerdale became the intimate dialogue between my family and I, a conversation where words are not enough, and only photographs can express our feelings towards the concept of home. While addressing my long-term absence from England, the photographs taken by my family and I acted as a bridge between the U.K and Korea, connecting my two homes, but also conflicting with each other in what stands them apart. The journey through the images is to fill the viewer with the tug and pull that strikes me daily. Often losing my bearings, then halting to a stop and asking: Where am I? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sofia Conti
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Eight years ago, I settled in Glasgow’s East End with my fiancé who was brought up in the area. As a non-native I noticed significant differences in the environment such as anti-social behaviour issues, limited career prospects, addiction, and poverty levels. Greater Glasgow was reported to have the second highest crime rate of 682 per 10,000 population between 2020-2021. At this moment I believed further investigation was required on crime and other issues closely connected to it, as my collaborative conversations indicated that crime had entered many of their lives. The project’s intent was to spark conversations on themes such as people, place, crime, trauma, representation, class, and memory which all play a part in how the community is perceived. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Greg Vivash
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This project is a collection of conceptual photographs based on my experience of growing up with high myopia (very short sight) and other eye disorders which have challenged me along the way. I created these images as a form of abstract expressionism. These are my myopic visions. The way in which I see the world with my eyes in their uncorrected natural state. I use memories from my earlier life to create images of objects/scenes as I remember them. The work is biographical. It provides an insight into how I have used creativity to overcome an introverted childhood as a result of mocking and bullying. because of my glasses and poor sight. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dawn Rodgers
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

It is the Celtic belief that the worlds are connected, that we leave the earthly realms at the time of our death and journey to Annwn a place of eternal feasting and merriment. Within the landscape portals to the other place can be found. On 11th November 1993, my brother made his journey to Annwn, the other place, he did not get to travel through water, his was not a peaceful journey. This series of three books; Sorrow, The Shadow Land and Stone and Bone explores absence and presence and the longing that surrounds grief. Each book is an attempt to investigate and document my feelings of loss and to create a personal world in which he continues to exist. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sally Hornung
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

By drawing on my own experience and those of the women around me I am concerned with challenging the stereotypes of the middle-aged women and the way women in their middle age are presented. Using a mix of portraiture and close body studies. I encourage the women to look directly at the camera, they are looking out rather than being looked at, they are testament to time passing but are strong. By highlighting the physical scars of the women, I draw attention to the experiences that have made these women. By uncovering these scars, I aim to highlight what is hidden. The images seek to explore how women bodies are viewed and questions the way society dismisses the ageing women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andy Fell
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

'check yourself' is a participatory photography project created with Isiah considering race, sexuality, masculinity and identity, made through conversations and questions, unlearning and learning, challenge and challenging, making images together, responding to a story shared with honesty, openness, trust and joy. As a result of racist ideology, all of us have learnt associated myths and stereotypes about Black people, which, if left unchallenged, can impact our actions. Placing white culture and ideology as 'central' and Black as 'peripheral', our work can unknowingly become tokenistic, covertly or overtly racist. 'check yourself' starts a conversation to examine how these ideologies and their impact result in practices which discriminate against or have negative consequences for Black people - 'check yourself '. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roydon Woodford
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

I wish to revive the memory of the 168 souls or more who were lost to the sea on January 6th, 1786, with the wrecking of the Halsewell. My work shines light on the scale of the tragedy and pays tribute to those lost that fateful night. Some of them will never be identified and have no grave or even evidence of their existence. I hope that my work can help to remember them and give them the respect they deserve and bring them and the event back into collective memory. I ventured to use the sea itself that took the individuals as the memory of the lost with what could be considered the last view of a drowning person. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Damien Williams
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Black Other is an exploration of the response to the question “Where are you from?”. On hearing their othering response “oh!”, an identity fractures, culture becomes only skin deep and fails to account for soul. In that subtle and somewhat abstract phoneme a world of unspoken meaning exists. Black Other employs poetic abstraction, archival images and human accounts to explore how it feels to constantly be that “oh!”, whilst also seeking to understand one’s true place in the world. A conversation on how it feels on the inside to be an outsider. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Marsh
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Occulta explores my first-hand experience with Spina Bifida Occulta and associated back issues. Hidden conditions are rarely understood, especially back issues where many suffer from back pain or discomfort daily. Occulta represents how I deal with pain management and maintenance of my spine through daily walks. Using photographs taken from these walks, I overlaid my x-rays from Broadstairs Chiropractic Clinic to portray the unseen struggles experienced by me, touching upon the medical gaze by making the unseen within me seen and visible for others to see. This is a very personal project, one that has taken me a long time to work towards throughout my projects, and an element of bravery to talk about the condition openly. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Beale
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The Right to This City is a body of work documenting my photographic research into housing inequality in Bath, one of the UK’s most expensive places to live. It also serves as a response to the Henri Lefebvre manifesto “The right to the city” which sets out the fundamentally basic rights to: adequate, affordable housing, schools, public transport and a place to thrive. Rights I feel are undervalued, set aside in favour of exploiting the city for capitalist gain. Political policy making over the past one hundred years has left a physical mark upon the built landscape across the UK, particularly evident in Bath. We can see from property size and density how regulatory standards have been systematically stripped away. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Antonia Chick
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

My final major project entitled ‘Fault Lines’ explores themes of brokenness, loss, grief and generational trauma. This work is a personal exploration of trauma from the perspective of my relationship with my father. His absence from my life when I was just nine mirrors his own childhood, connecting us in a shared experience of a fractured upbringing. My own certainty that I did not want to have children myself has led me to question the notion of brokenness rendering us devoid of choice. This work posits an alternative theory that we instead possess a fracture, a generational fault line that joins us, invisible yet ever present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laurence Cawley
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The child abandoned by a mother is left with unfillable voids. The first is physical - She is no longer there. The second is more subtle: Gone are vital parts of the child’s sense of self, their sense of being lovable and of the world around them being reliable. Other Mothers are those who step in to provide the physical and emotional nourishment, love and trust that has been lost. Other Mothers is about one such child - me - and tells how my personal cast of Other Mothers held me and continue to hold me still. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Kilgallon
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Sabrina is the ancient goddess of the River Severn, Britain's longest river. As part of my project, ‘Saving Sabrina’, I have followed the interaction with the River Severn of people seeking to redress man’s negative impact on the river and it’s catchment. From volunteers to scientists, writers and artists, the shared vision of a better environment for both nature and people is resulting in greater awareness and involvement of communities in the regeneration of parts of the river. In particular, I have followed the work of the ‘Unlocking the Severn’ project, restoring access to upstream spawning waters that have been inaccessible for over 140 years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carly Maling
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Better Left Unsaid is the culmination of my MA research to date, which has resulted in a highly personal and therapeutic fine art documentary project. Where I begin to re-explore my identity and the different catalysts that have contributed towards the development of my anxiety disorder. My graduate image collection contains photographs from a big trip down memory lane to visit the significant places I've lived, to then edit them in a way that portrays how I feel about the associated trauma. The final form of this project is a book that consists of 18 images and 18 pieces of writing. This book is only available at exhibitions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jake Carty
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

A series that visualizes the way I see the music that I enjoy. Song; Darkside - Narrow Road (https://open.spotify.com/track/3vslhuva98JhCYsKUx3rdr?si=c802b0e6420d468c) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark O'Halleron
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

‘A shocking and wholesale disregard for the environment.’ Mr. Justice Jeremy Johnson (9th July 2021) ‘Still Waters’ combines photography and text to explore the threats posed to the coastline and rivers resulting from our failure to deal with raw sewage. Using the location of CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows) in my home county of Sussex, I spent several months visiting and photographing CSO sites to raise awareness of their environmental impact. Rooted in citizen science and citizen journalism, this is a story of neglect, ignorance and illegality, which saw Southern Water taken to court and fined a record £90 million for dumping approximately 16-21 billion litres of raw sewage into protected waters over a six-year period. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danny Burrows
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

‘IN.FILL/GREEN.SPACE’ is a photographic document of the ruin of green spaces on Lewisham council estates by infill building and the negative impacts these retrofitted developments will have on the physical and mental wellbeing of the estates’ communities and the environment of the city of London. In the vein of Peter Dunn and Loraine Leeson’s work, ‘The Changing Picture of The Docklands’, it is a protest piece on behalf of the 70% of resident who opposed the planned developments and on for the world which is facing the existential threat of climate disaster. In the words of one resident on a chat room discussing the planned building: “Building on green spaces during a climate crisis is criminal”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kejin Li
UCA Farnham - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Kejin's work currently focuses on the plight of women and other disadvantaged groups in East Asian culture in particular. Her work is dedicated to the "suffocated" state of women and other vulnerable groups under the oppression of patriarchal society, where their body no longer exists for their own sake, instead, they become "parts" and "pieces of flesh" that can be confined and pried at will by the patriarchy. They are 'gagged', her or his body and vocal cords cut apart, like two distant islands at sea. So "nothing happens here", they can hardly be heard and seen anymore, and they are socially murdered. Only, in the last image, there seems to be a kind of silent starfire. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Xuesheng Ma
UCA Farnham - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This notion of disappearance is reflected in the expression “mono no aware” in Japanese literature. With the retreating glacier, Xuesheng imagines the melting ice within a manmade living space, conveying a sense of poetic sadness. By juxtaposing natural change with interior decoration, she creates an uncanny fusion, questionings the human desire for permanence and the status quo of life separated from nature. A series of abstract ice cubes reference the supernatural animistic notions according to Japanese Shinto. These glowing ice forms are a reminder of the existence of a species and its passing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Frankie Adams
UCA Farnham - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Frankie uses this project to expand her awareness about the meaning of home and displacement, understanding of one’s roots and belonging with the impact of trauma. Frankie’s family have had different experiences, journeys, feelings and perceptions of self and others. In this part Frankie is exploring her parents’ odyssey, the forgotten generation of German war children; the impact this had on her own narrative. All this affects the feeling of home and belonging, impacting our mental health. Frankie is pursuing this project to raise awareness around this subject. After WWII her family were given a series of 1900 century encyclopaedias. This series of abstracts are from the encyclopaedias, reflecting layers of experiences of the forgotten generation. They are an extract of a book in creation: Paper Curtains. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Peter Green
UCA Farnham - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

In April 2021, I posted a message to the Nextdoor website; Hi neighbours, I’m a student studying for an MFA in Photography. I’m working on a project. I won’t bore you with the details about concept, broadly I’m focusing on the representation of “ordinary” people - old, young, male, female, etc to illustrate the diversity of our community. What does this involve? I will come to your chosen location. I will ask a few questions and make photographs. I will give you the photograph to do with as you please. I may submit your portrait as part of my research project. If you would like to take part, send a message. Best, Simon Peter Green . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathan Nash
University of Gloucestershire - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

You would be forgiven to think when strolling through areas such as these that the view is rather plain, yet when the view is changed to one we could not see on our own we are shown sites that challenge our idea of the picturesque. This project poses two thoughts, firstly on how we as a society craft the seemingly natural landscape in a distinctly unnatural way both to satisfy our needs for resources and to mould the landscape to our ideas of beauty, and secondly on how we as an audience and participants to this action respond to its truth. Do we approve? Do we see potential or are we indifferent? Is there gain or loss? We will undoubtedly see more and more of our world shaped by our need so fervently, yet is this the correct course? To take what we need, and suture the wounds and best we can. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikita Ghate
University of Gloucestershire - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

(Don’t) Look Away is my exploration of the visual abstraction that we, humans, unintentionally create with the architecture/landscape surrounding us and how we observe and perceive the same from the ‘inside’ and from the ‘outside’. It’s a (recreated!) documentation of what our subconscious mind observes in our everyday life, and eventually creates our sense of belonging within new/old spaces. The series was conceptualised from my interest in understanding ‘place’ and the inter-dependence of humans with it. I moved to the UK 2 years ago, and this series is based on my personal journey of settling in a new community. When the inside and outside are reversible, anyone can be observed… . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Hammond
University of Gloucestershire - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Photographed using an authentic 1980’s Polaroid camera and inspired by the works of Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980) by Cindy Sherman. We’ll Meet Again (2021) provides various imagery that explores the isolated despair and uncertainty within the world of the first wave of COVID-19 and depict a relationship forced apart by the national lockdown. These images explore the progression of the lockdown, exploring the subject’s state of mind and their desperation to become reunited. The imagery within this project provides a commentary on the rise of a mental health crisis during the height of COVID-19 and the notion of the loneliness we as a nation endured as we were unable to see friends and family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aimee Kirkham
University of Gloucestershire - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Having worked in the wedding industry for the last 14 years, Aimee Kirkham joined the MA Photography at the University of Gloucestershire to develop her Fine Art Photography and explore the connection between people and the landscape. She primarily works in digital format, but has a keen interest in analogue and historical processes and will often incorporate these into her work on contemporary issues. Her current project, Wild Women, has taken her on a two-year journey across the UK; she intends to continue and deepen this project over the coming years. Swimming has always been an integral part of Aimee’s life, but in becoming part of a wild swimming community she became interested in the motivation of other swimmers and the experiences of the individual. She found commonality in the liberation the swimmers felt and the cathartic quality of the water; a place to be lost in one’s innermost thoughts and desires. But it also the acknowledgement of the dangers the waters hold. This work presents a series of images that waver between delicate and threatening; ones that visualise the liminal space that we occupy in water. It represents a journey of belonging, vulnerability, unguarded moments, tension, tranquillity, growth, emotions, conflict and transcendence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Britton
University of Gloucestershire - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The coastline of South Wales has a concealed history. A history of lives lost at sea. The treacherous waters of the Bristol Channel have long been navigated by waterborne vessels and on many a gale driven night or fog laden morning, many of these vessels have foundered on rocks unseen. This photographic work investigates the history of these shipwrecks. The work also inspects the landscape that caused these catastrophes, in particular Tusker Rock and the coastline of South Wales. Tusker Rock is a submerged reef that sits in the middle of the Bristol Channel. The 500m rock is only visible at low tide and is a notorious hazard for ships and as such it is scattered with maritime skeletal remains. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicholas Priest
University of Gloucestershire - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Post-World War two nations wanted to promote cultural and commercial ties; showing new relationships with old; fostering friendships, understand and to communicate culture. In 1980 Bidford on Avon a village in Warwickshire ‘Twinned’ with Ebsdorfergrund a community of eleven villages in the southeast of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. On their 40th anniversary I documented the village of Bidford on Avon. The people, place, and area, meeting people I knew and meeting new people along the way. I am now organising to go to Ebsdorfergrund to document the please, place and area. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aisling Keavey
IADT Dún Laoghaire - MRes Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This project is concerned with female members of the Irish diaspora living in England and is engaged with representational imagery and personal testimony from the Irish community ensuring the collective response to histories of migration. The women were photographed and interviewed about their experience of being Irish in London, their reasoning for emigrating and their thoughts about what home means to them. Interview questions were concerned with traditional ethnographic qualitative interview techniques, using unstructured interviews and prompts. The women were also interviewed about a particular object that had some significance to them and to Ireland. The women were filmed interacting with these objects, to show the haptic engagement of the subject with the object. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daria Lazo
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

‘The Curse of Menarche’ is the first chapter of the series ‘With Her’. This project explores how contemporary visual arts can be used to deconstruct the stigma around the representation of the female body, predominantly through the act of menstruation. Menstruation acts as a catalyst for the start of an honest conversation between the artist and the female participants. These conversations evolved into a photographic form. The portraits of the participants are captured in a dark setting to create a renaissance-like aesthetic, the red fabric incorporated signifies the blood. It is done to challenge the sexualization of the nude female body. The portraits are intended to serve as a source of empowerment, both for the participants and the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liliana Zaharia
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

'Non-Conforming Bodies' examines representations of chronic pain through visual imagery, informed by the artist's own experience. The work investigates the collective experience and how biological, psychological and societal elements intersect and influence our understanding of pain. The participants reinterpret long term physical pain through improvised performances based on somatic movements. Body movements and postures work as a way to explore, re-imagine and visualise physical and mental manifestations that are often invisible. In addition, interpretative gestures where a second person appears in the photographs allude to the intricate relationships between the pain sufferer and people assisting them. Through a performative practice, the series aims to re-think the concept of chronic pain and open up channels for empathy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yuhao Wu
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Yuhao uses photographic confessions to visually analyse his own experiences. The poetic images of his work The Surface of Ideologies present subjective photographic interventions into ideological scenes, to demonstrate ideology as a form of mass consciousness. Sometimes ideological changes are violent, but most of the time there is a silent infiltration. The constructed scenes in his work reveal that himself is a living example of a person being shaped by ideologies: he lives in the Cantonese region that a riverine beyond Hong Kong. Referencing the geo-political context of the Pearl River delta in Southern China, also known as the Great Bay area that also includes Hong Kong, Yuhao's practice responds directly to the current political moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Lucas
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

'Grantabrycge' is an autobiographical study of place. The project takes the reader on a journey through the city of Cambridge, in an attempt to discover the origins of local history. Between A.D. 875-1066 the area was under Anglo-Danish rule. Grantabrycge was the name given to the area, which first acknowledged the modern city of Cambridge on the river Granta. The nordic and pagan roots of the modern city of Cambridge are no longer visible, in a place that has been moulded by nearly 800 years of colleges being founded through religious, and therefore, political ties within the United Kingdom. The University now dominates decisions regarding the development of the city. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicholas Holt
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Afterword explores the scars of the Industrial Revolution on the landscape of North West Wales; a landscape that has been re-shaped by the large-scale extraction of Slate to feed global demand. Transforming the rural environment of mountains and valleys into an industrial landscape of dark chasms, grey horizons and giant spoil heaps. These photographs encapsulate – through geographic and atmospheric details – the psychological impact of a landscape heavy with absence and loss. Inspired by R.S. Thomas’s poem ‘Other’, Afterword builds a multi-layered narrative reflecting the web of human histories that are entangled in this landscape. Nicholas Holt’s fragmentary images use light and darkness, presence and concealment to suggest that past events cannot be represented in their entirety. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annapurna Mellor
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

M is for Mac is a visual representation of grief, the after-grief, and sibling loss. Three years ago I lost my dad and my brother in an accident. Life changed in an instant. Grief took hold of both my inner emotions and the relationships in my family. Since then, life has continued to go on, and this project is a depiction of how life evolves, new beginnings arise, and how we continue to navigate life under the shadow of grief. This is a story about the way grief inhabits us. The way loss is reflected all around us in the shifts of nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tolly Robinson
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

#MoreThanSeizures is a collaborative photographic campaign aimed at raising awareness of the reality of living with epilepsy. It aims to move understanding of epilepsy away from the many misunderstandings that often define it in public consciousness. The project is aimed at people who do not have epilepsy. It is designed to live both in the real and virtual world - namely through online video and physical prints - presented either in articles or as posters. The two elements form a symbiotic relationship where the viewer gains meaning from looking at one, and then the other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Schneideman
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

NO PLACE / LIKE HOME (NPLH) is a collaborative series of witness accounts of life lived in the pandemic presented as a series of interiors, portraits and filmed interviews and a proposal to stage a physical exhibition. I used photography and video to create a dynamic dialogue between the subjects and me. I wanted to preserve a sense of the moment; of stories told of recent life lived in devastating circumstances. The culmination of the project is an exhibition of constructed ‘Corners’ - replicas of real domestic spaces - decorated and designed by each subject and showing their spoken account on a TV screen in the corner of each set. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Wilson
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

100% Julie is a project that continues my work with a group of elderly trans people from working class backgrounds in Hull. Julie is 64, lives alone, and was originally called Dave and had secretly been wearing women’s clothes since he was a boy. During the pandemic, I photographed Julie at her home. Julie was using these sessions as part of her concept of becoming “100% Female”. In this way, the project became a real collaboration. We shared a common background as working-class people from Hull and developed a friendship very quickly. Much of what we did was humorous although we were constantly pushing boundaries. Eventually, Julie became confident enough to dress in public in Blackpool. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jeff Black
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Net: Zero is an ongoing series about the landscapes of carbon sequestration, a technique to capture greenhouse gases by producing photosynthesising plant matter. The science feeds the controversial billion-dollar global industry known as offsetting, which creates financial products that can be used to mitigate the carbon emissions associated with modern life – flying, shopping, driving. This first iteration covers a carbon offset-generating project in the Jura mountains of Switzerland, and reflects the themes of growth, complexity, decay and abstraction. The images, intended to be exhibited in a series of 20 triptychs, begin with an exploration of human intervention in the landscape and progress to a stage where the absence of civilisation can be imagined. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Bryant
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This work documents my search for silica. It is a project that grew out of a fascination with the relationship between our digital and material worlds. The new structures, environments and spheres of reality that we construct online are entirely reliant and built on the foundations of the material world. I chose to explore silica, not only because it is (at present) the compound from which we extract silicon for semi-conductors (the logic gates that mediate our choices) but also because it is widespread in the architecture of the natural world – symbolic of the way autonomous and digital technologies are now everywhere in our daily lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Lewis
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

From medical records to a card of bingo, many details of Welsh life are legally constrained to be conveyed in English. Within dramatic landscapes and towns that appear little more than beachfronts or post-industrial relics, vibrant Welsh communities negotiate their cultural distinctiveness. Still, these cynefin remain occupied: National parks and castles are tourist attractions but embody historic and current political subjugation. Tourism nonetheless contributes to livelihoods within these growing communities. It invariably forfeits the role of the national, minority language: ‘shaped by people to serve as repositories for cultural knowledge…transmittable across generations' (Harrison, 2007). Cynefin explores these themes, a collaborative, intertextual work, resisting a single ‘telling’. Its realism compels attention to the cultural distinctiveness forfeit to quiet erosion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heidi Kawai Smith
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Racing to say goodbye to everyone, questioning what could be brought along and who shall be left behind. An impossible void opened up yet unable to stop, quietly got on the plane yet wanted to shout out on top of the lung. Planning, moving, running, swearing and crying. Didn’t know when the next time I would be here or if I could be here again. Would I see this place again? Memory lapses, who was there? I documented a family’s move to the U.K. from Hong Kong in 2021, and it triggered my own questions about my relationship with this city. A selection of archived images juxtaposition with the new arrival intend to make some sense. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anita Chaudhuri
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

In migraineland, Anita Chaudhuri documents her lived experience of migraine with aura, a complex neurological condition. Using the methodologies of photomontage and hand-colouring, the project offers an intimate insight into the world of an everyday hallucinator. By creating a topsy-turvy landscape of phosphorescent colours and improbable scenarios, migraineland seeks to enlighten visitors about the many other common symptoms beyond headache - from visual disturbances to food cravings, vertigo and anxiety. The Migraine Trust estimates that ten million people in the UK are living with the disorder, a third of them with aura. The hope is that the work will help not only migraineurs but their families, friends and loved ones to better understand the disorder. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tamara Clarke
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

An inquiry into the navigation of belonging that originates in my experience of a dual heritage household, growing up as part of two different cultures and landscapes. The work was produced through repeated walks in Malta where my maternal family is from, and the Peak District in England, near to where I grew up. The process of walking and photographing in the landscapes allowed a means to challenge the barriers of language and geographical distance. To be able to visually present both sides of each country through my perception has enabled me to engage with the land in ways that I would not be able to in the everyday. The work opened a space to engage with family and culture and anchor a place of belonging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Henry
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

‘Concealed’ is an exploration of the lived experiences of black women nurses in the NHS. In the course of their everyday duties, they encounter institutionalised racism, prejudice, and abuse. As stated in 2021 there are 12.6% of board members in NHS trusts were from a BME background, this supports the dominants with white power and the control of the narratives which involve racial inequalities within the institution. With a mother who works as a nurse in the NHS, it was important that this work brought to attention the extent of the systemic prejudice and behavioural abuses they encounter. Concealed’ reveals the overlooked, the silenced, and the erasures of experience that directly relates to their blackness and attitudes towards them by the medical institution. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jaime Tozer
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Who is this person? What was their childhood like? Who do they aspire to be? Uncanny probes the misperception of others that arises from value judgements based on appearance, commonplace in our everyday social interactions. The portraits allow the sitter to present ‘as’ themselves, without stylisation or adornment. This approach seeks to separate the sitter from their online personas, which are often based on distorted versions of ‘the self’ in response to societal pressures. Self-consciously employing the limitations and ambiguities associated with the photographic portrait, the work opens a space for reflecting on forms of discrimination based on visual representation, which still go quietly unchallenged in society and are now manifesting in artificial intelligence software such as facial recognition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mercedes Ridge
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Mercedes Ridge is a Welsh photographer who began her photographic journey as a way of showcasing her interests in fashion and sustainability. She takes a rich editorial approach to her imagery to reimagine preconceived ideas of sustainable fashion, which can so often be seen as mundane in comparison with luxury and designer fashion advertisements. Through sourcing sustainably made and beloved items of clothing, she develops her photoshoot concepts, taking much inspiration from current magazines. These photographic explorations have led to many interesting collaborative opportunities for the photographer and have allowed her to explore portraiture alongside her fashion work, capturing her subjects with this same editorial aesthetic that she admires so much. She often works collaboratively and takes creative inspiration from contemporary magazines such as TOAST. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cody Froggatt
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

‘Clouds Above Sea Below’, examines aviation accidents across North Wales, specifically the Blackburn Botha disaster. This project was created from my passions of aviation and my local area in North Wales. The Blackburn Botha disaster occurred on the 28th of August 1941. The crew were tasked to located German U boats off the coast of Holyhead. The extreme weather conditions caused the aircraft to stall immediately and plunge into the water. Ultimately this project remembers this relatively unknown history and those who lost their lives in these crashes. I personally believe it is vital to remember these stories and give these stories and people another life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Chuang
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Conscious explores the possibility of escaping the constraints of model-centric approaches to fashion photography. Breaking with conventional fashion photography, the work presents products and clothing in ways that seek to challenge normative understandings of the fashion image. The project develops from a need to reimagine fashion photography, particularly in relation to the impact of fashion on the environment and questions of body-image. I hope to open a conversation about how we perceive and respond to fashion imagery, as well as reminding the viewer of the essential beauty of nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Marchant
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

‘Baseless and Self Obsessed’ is about Generation Z. Often stereotyped by right-winged media as lazy, entitled and snowflakes in attempt to intensify a ‘culture war’; its title draws on these labels. The generation feels overwhelming pressure to fix the current socio-economic climate. Despite not being the only generation contending with harsh socio-economic climates, they have not experienced anything close to socio-economic or political stability. The project is born out of Marchant’s concern over his and his peers' futures; as part of Generation Z, the conditions explored affect him directly. Baseless explores this, actively speaking about the conditions surrounding them and alerting the audience to the issues. The work renegotiates the stereotypes given to Gen Z, representing them on their terms. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Wenze Wang
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This body of work originates in the experience of being an international student in the UK. New to the country and culture, I found significant barriers to assimilating and forming social relationships with British students and citizens. The camera afforded a means to challenge me and attempt to break down some of the linguistic, social, and cultural differences that contributed to my experience of loneliness and isolation. This approach forced me and afforded me the opportunity to meet a diverse number of subjects. This revealed extensive social and cultural differences and I established methods to visually represent and interpret all that I encountered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darcey Thompson
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

My practice explores both my project; Beyond Conventions, and my commercial fashion portfolio. Beyond Conventions is a project based on the relationship between women and nature, exploring the female gaze, issues involving the objectification of the female body and how extensions of ecofeminism might intervene in patriarchal relations. My commercial portfolio explores a fashion editorial approach through a combination of studio and location work. The portfolio contains images that were devised and realised by myself, further developing my practice of creative direction, and others that were made in collaboration with fashion students, which proved particularly useful in expanding my photographic approach. I found the collaboration practice with my commercial work particularly insightful and helped aide my photographic approach for Beyond Conventions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yuru Huang
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This is a project about family relationships and photography, based on Huang's deep understanding of the complexities of family relationships and the loss of intimacy. Using symbolism Huang’s photographs explore ideas and feelings about traditional family stereotypes and alienation, conventional family photography and questions of masculinity and femininity. She also works with performance and self-portraiture to help build her own self-image and resolve the psychological trauma caused by her estrangement from her family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mia Curtis-Mays
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

'lizard.schematic.jolt' explores the human instinct to create borders, territories and spaces. Within this work, Mia explores the concept of 'wilderness' and questions whether this can exist in a world dictated by humans. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Akshayaa Bharathkumar
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Akshayaa Bharathkumar's practice combines portraiture and performance. 'The World's A Stage' focuses on young Indian men and seeks to offer a response to traditional views of gender and masculinity commonly encountered within Indian society. Akshayaa's portraits challenge these conventions of looking and desire. Her photographs act as a stage for masculinity in its whole to express itself, which is why her works are based on the aforementioned Shakespeare quote and this is reflected in her work through her perspective multidimensional portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Huma Ali
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The project is entitled 'Motherhood'. As a practical approach, it highlights the importance of motherhood as a support in one's life, and especially my own as an artist mother. The essence of motherhood, and the bounties that come along with this relationship in every aspect of life, are the dominant factors in this project. The imagery is used to depict and showcase Asian generations of mothers and various strengthening parts intact in this culture of care; in a photographic archive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caryl Borreta
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Caryl Borreta's work 'Five Steps Back' focuses on animal enclosures in British zoos. The seemingly conflicting qualities of these environments, combining aspects of containment, simulation, control, observation, and nurture are proposed through a deceptively simple shift in perspective where display itself is put on display. Her inspiration for this project came from volunteering in a zoo in the Philippines and working in the areas that regular visitors do not usually see, giving her a different perception of looking at modern zoos. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zhe Chen
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

'Dreamland' resolves around the recording of a dream of the self; a dream in which things, whether absurd or brave, beautiful and free, are so desirable. Everything I see and feel in the hidden dream world, breathing, running, pain, as well as pleasure, is not without meaning; it is redemption for the heart. I chased the wind, embraced nature, and in the end, I became the wind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Issie Treacher
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Issie Treacher's work 'The Metamorphosis of Daphne' is predicated on the belief that photographic mediation of urban environments might be viewed as a reflection of internal states. Issie's practice is process led and incorporates analogue and digital technologies in order to produce landscapes that are at once familiar and uncertain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julia Albrecht
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Julia Albrecht is a German lens based artist. Her work examines the linkage between sociological and psychological research and is intensively preoccupied with personal experiences. It constantly draws from a profound curiosity for humanitarian issues and cultural phenomena, where it touches the realms of the paradoxical in life. The focus points oscillate between pain and joy to reach the mind and explore the depths of life and its emotions. Her installations form a contrast and resemble a balancing act. The subject matter is found between the wellbeing and discomfort, the thesis and the antithesis of each individual. Finding ones way in society is like walking a tightrope from birth. The spaces between identity and memory emerge from this imbalance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Bird
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

My practice explores relationships between place and man made structures found in such spaces. Multiple approaches enable me to probe shifting sites of building construction, finding potential gaps in such areas of flux, forming structures we inhabit. This fascination extends to how architecture’s portrayal in various stages of completion is used for commodity and expectation. Such acts produce frictions and offer alternative possibilities of expressing these spaces and subverting hermoginous depictions. The print and material alteration plays a central role in my work, creating a physical relationship with image as object. By transforming an image's original intention and space, from shimmering surface to tactile form, it shares the same space as the viewer, allowing interrogation and presence in the now. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Guanling Chen
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The Project Give Me Flowers combines two photo series containing Maybe I Could Hug You and My Heart Beats Another Ten Thousand Times. By capturing my gaze on people, objects and landscapes, I try to obtain something such as a memory of the past, a trace of life, or an imagination of the future to express my restrained and attached emotions towards family, friends, and lovers, or even a loving and hesitant attitude towards everything. I love beautiful and fragile flowers as much as I am addicted to romantic and fickle relationships. An encounter is like a flower, beginning with flowers and ending with flowers. When I leave, give me flowers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zhiyu Chen
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The night might not be night, The day is not day, The sky is not sky, The unclear faces fade from memory, The eyes see what is real, is unreal, The water has a shape, The tree in the queue, The sight is wrapped in boundaries, The hard building appears clearly over time, The heart feels what is lively, is lonely. The work was inspired by my feeling of dreams. Sometimes, when I was dreaming and I met anything strange, unreasonable, and absurd in my dream, I probably thought these things were reasonable and real. So, in the project, the night might not be night, the day is not day, the sky is not the sky. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andreea Chitan
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Andreea Chitan is a Romanian artist living in West Yorkshire. Her practice looks at family trauma, coupled with meditations on landscape. ‘Diary of a Care’ is inspired by the artist's experience as a carer. Chitan chose landscape and the natural world as tools to express her own poor mental health. She experimented with the interaction between the materiality of the printed photograph and that of the natural world. She realised that, similar to landscape, the flat surface of the photograph is also territory. It then became obvious then that the photograph is a space open to intervention, where the natural world, in its physical expression such as branches and tree barks, can spill out of the frame, similar to overflowing feelings of anxiety. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elissa Jane Diver
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Wild is an expression of freedom, it animates the natural world, it is high winds and high spirits, unpredictable and shapeshifting. We rise to meet it with fear, and definitions of the wild describe our lack of control over it. Wild is the undiscovered land, the uncultivated plant, the untamed animal. In my recent work, I resist this being at odds with the wild. My own wildness is in the body and the imagination, it is close by, within, not without. This work was made as a response to the Knepp Rewilding Project in Sussex where I have been walking for the past two years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarabeth Domal
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

I am an American artist based in London. My practice is concerned with reconstructed landscapes, and the capacity of photography to represent collective memory and temporality within the land. Through layers of interdisciplinary research and varied lens based approaches, I define landscape as a space for critical enquiry while abstracting the familiar visual classification of landscape imagery. Each singular printed work consists of 50 to 150 individual photographs, governed by a strict practice of ritualistic shooting and processing. To me, the land itself is a vessel for memory, and the temporality of the memory is a sliver of the layered depth of the land. My photographic compilations and research aim to contextualise landscape photography within current ecological realities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Jenkins
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

My practice explores what can be defined as a photograph in the modern age. The photographs I create are not intended to be understood but to be experienced and Seen. These photographs are an indulgence into colour, which is a fundamental form of visual communication. Describing colour is intrinsically difficult, as a single colour likered can only be described through comparison to red objects or entirely different Colours. These triptychs are part of a performance piece, continually altering and rotating displays. With an ever growing library of colours, the current amount of 20 different blocks results in 1140 combinations. Each combination has its own connection and conversion between the colours while viewers have their own perception and experience of the combination of colours. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Noa Klagsbald
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Noa Klagsbald specializes in photography and sculpture. Her works focus on the connection between art, sports, and community. She is often present in them, either explicitly or implicitly. She utilizes the camera to navigate complex social issues such as coexistence and power dynamics. Klagsbald is a female photographer photographing mostly men. Her practice became a way of engaging with men and presenting a different narrative for masculinity and its role in our society. Klagsbald’s project was selected to be presented at the International Space Station and is currently shown at OOF Gallery in London. Klagsbald was chosen by Forbes magazine to be on their 30 Under 30 list. Klagsbald’s works have been presented in a variety of art galleries and exhibitions and included in international art collections. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lea Lerma
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Lea works on the thin limit in between photography and moving images. She developed an ability to stretch time in creating sequences with her pictures. Montage is a key notion in her work. The way she displays her images always invites the viewer to have an active role in their viewing. She is very close to her subjects, and the long term relationship she builds with them over years permits her to develop her main topic, effect of time. Consent and respect of her model's identity shape the way she is shooting, guided as well by the natural light’s various intensity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ou Lin
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Ou Lin is concerned with expanding the creative practice of maternity in relation to photography. She has created experiential photographs of the gestating body. The collaborative and interactive methods Ou employs with her models draws on ideas from older instructional photography and wider modes of performance. Most of her models are Chinese which shifts the sociopolitical context of sexual reproduction away from a presumed solely Western norm. The photographic studio becomes a laboratory for her to explore the visual iconography of pregnancy, and progress it from invisible to transgressive. Ou links her work with Muybridge, a historical precedent for aspects of her work, which are to do with the narrative drive and an interest in a continuous dynamic process. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Oliver
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Fallen By The Wayside is a retelling of the intimate and cyclical connections between women, the moon and the land. It is an ongoing lyrical exploration into the relationship between the ancient landscape surrounding us and photography's materiality. Within a contemporary feminist discourse, Alice unveils the lost narratives, and visualises the rituals of the sexual and reproductive female body. Abortion and contraception are by no means modern interventions. For millennia, women have utilised a variety of plants as contraceptives and abortifacients, to control and regulate their own bodies. Alice has used this powerful flora, alongside the light of the moon to quite literally shed light on our suppressed histories. Revealing how intrinsically interconnected humans are within the natural processes of the land and the stratosphere beyond. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Til Han Qingshan
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

My practice revolves around the ontological proposition of the unrealised being. I am interested in the notion that our sense of ourselves is completely amorphous despite our physical limitations as human beings. The works aim to create a space and context for this submitted information, a space where biomorph forms are at the fore, are not fixed and rely on the capacity of a human psychological being to be ‘realised’. But how can we empower our qualia or sensibility to constitute other realities and go beyond the phenomenon? Or perhaps, what we are looking for is already within us. How this collective network relates to future memories and irresistible growth is the subject that my practice engaged in. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellen An Su
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

From Elegy To Seeds is a composition photography project of gender, space, nature and myth with literary metaphor and manipulation of self restraint. Within the limitations of photography, this series attempts to explore the relationship between poetics, psychoanalysis and metaphor. The mythology and surface tensions that govern images subjective experience, are fragments of an ultimate, unknowable tension not knowing what waited on the other side, trying to arrive at a widened sense of poetry to swing out over the vastness of possibility. To tell the unexpected, the rupture in the fabric of existence, grow to something of great constancy of spirituality and poetics. The divergent ambivalence, metaphor of unconscious, fear and suppression of trauma echo the inner identity vitality, triggering meditation on spirituality, trace and time. The fragmentary female body, the transcendental experience, inspires a gentle contradiction, representing a container that can swallow and absorb the consciousness of a moment, holding simultaneously what has fallen and will fall. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Can Sun
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Can Sun b 1992. China is a contemporary artist currently living in London and Taipei. His works mainly focus on the absurdity of the world and the relationship between people by taking daily objects that people tend to ignore as the subject of creation. Through a process of recontextualization, Can Sun transforms daily objects into playful and self mocking sculptures. This kind of humour is not only an acknowledgement of the absurdity of the world but also a revolt against it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zhen Tang
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Fetish Island is a new, constructed environment inhabited by an army of girls with their own names and personalities, but all have very strong vitality. These characters are free, naughty and indulgent, like spiritual mischief, representing the fluid, chaotic and dark side of my subconscious mind. I use images from the fashion industry as my main resources, like a plastic surgery, I deconstruct parts of what would normally be considered the ‘ideal body’ parts and reconstruct them with elements of nature, animals, to create some superhuman carnivalesque species. By means of photomontage, I have created these characters to break down the image of women in consumerist packaging and to re examine the fantasy of desire in a consumerist society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jesus Torio
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Jesus Torio is an Andalusian multidisciplinary artist based between London and Malaga. As an artist, Jesus has been exploring the limit of the photographic medium, using as the main inspiration his life, dreams, nightmares, hopes, and his job as a nurse for the last nine years. His last project ‘Lost Memoirs’ talks about the daily fight patients, health workers and relatives have against dementia. Using a broken printer that produced lines of cyan, magenta and yellow, Jesus recompose the images with photoshop, to produce almost a painting, to recover the beauty and find a new one. ‘With my patients, we always lose the battle against dementia. This time I wanted to bring hope. There will always be hope’ . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yudi Wu
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The main research method in Psychogeography is ‘derive’. Derive can be described as a kind of ‘wanderlust’. I am what Baudelaire called a ‘flaneur’, a person who likes to feel the city I live in, the city and the outside world through walking wandering and other physical movements. Everything about the city and the outside world affects my psychoemotional state and I respond to my surroundings and daily activities in response to city life. Using the camera during my wanderings/walks allow me to redigest and reconstruct the visual landscape made up of landscapes, people and objects, and also provide a valuable impetus to my creative work. For these reasons, I undertook to create a series of photographic works on the theme of ‘WANDERLUST’, but I found that using still photography was not sufficient to fully interpret my punctum, prickly point, impulse, emotional flow and interaction between the city and me behind the urban landscape, so I also prepared a thematic video work ‘WANDERLUST’, which is combined with the photographic series to showcase the interpretation. The thematic video work ‘WANDERLUST’ , it’s a beginning to think about how I could really show the process, experience and interaction of my integration into London life. This work is a documentary dedicated to me, recording the moments I experience at home, in the areas I cover in my life's footprint and further afield, reciting the words I write in my own voice to make my story more fully intimate and emotional. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabelle Young
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The Sea Rising, 2017 to 2022 explores the ongoing endeavour to shape, control and preserve the Venetian Lagoon, Italy. The entire lagoon's existence has always been precarious but the water is now higher than it has even been. It therefore takes a lot less for ‘exceptionally high’ tides to occur and for the islands to flood. Although this series began with the historic murazzi walls which extend from Sottomarina along the entire lagoon coast, The Sea Rising is not about a fading past. With the 5.4 billion Euro Project MOSE finally near completion, Venice can be seen as a microcosm of how many cities will need to approach flooding in the not so distant future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jakob Storm
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

As a boy, my Brother and I often went exploring in a forest in Jutland. A forest my grandfather managed when we were children. The forest my great great grandfather established in 1904. We climbed trees and built dents. It was adventurous and the endless forest became the backdrop of many childhood memories. Many years passed and I wanted to go back. Be childish again. But I couldn’t. The place had changed. Into something small and silent. An eerie landscape. A landscape of questions. How does the meaning of nature unfold today? Is it fenced-up private gardens in central London? A forest designed for easy hunting and fast production of wood? For animals? The owner of the land? Ever changing, ever old, ever new. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Poras Dhakan
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This work expresses the taut fragility of existence as perpetually temporary. My family and I are ‘Non-Resident Indians’ or NRIs, having lived in the UAE since 1989. Our right to remain in the UAE hangs on a temporary balance despite all these years. At the end of each limited residency permit, we must justify the right to remain or we are given 30 days notice to leave. Permanent rights are impossible for most. My work focuses on the actual and perceived sense of tension and unease as an Indian migrant. Darker-skinned people find their skin lightened in studio portraits, perhaps in a bid to emulate in the hopes of integrating. Always a migrant, never an immigrant. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Teresa Lyle
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Can we escape the darkness? Can we free ourselves from our own mind – one’s misery? Unshackling our mind from life’s boundaries can we understand ourselves? F I N E confronts mental illness and living with Dysthymia – a long lasting form of depression. Composed of four parts the series turns the lens onto the everyday and the self, to imagine a universe free from the constraints of life. Macro shots of the domestic, and the body creates a world the eye would not normally gaze upon. It identifies that recovery is not linear, but rather elliptical. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shauna Kinchella
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Unfolding is a work confronting intimacy, ownership over one’s body and female identity. The images invite the viewer to look into the person, rather than at them; it is a reflection of the inner makeup of a being, a process of healing and recovery. In the safety of the childhood bedroom, with natural light, the subject becomes tethered to the camera. It acts as a vessel to release and absorb moments of vulnerability. The potential of the printed image is explored using various materials, and physically manipulated with folds. Hiding and revealing, creating new images and tactile sculptural objects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mike Sager
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

For two years I have been photographing the Seam of Jerusalem. This area of division between East and West Jerusalem was created as the ceasefire lines of the 1948-67 conflict between Israel and Jordan. 50 years later it remains visible, a curving thirty-kilometre slice through the city’s heart. Like the seam of a garment, the Seam of Jerusalem both connects and divides two communities. In some places the scars remain, in others they have been bandaged. My work examines the Seam’s impact on topography and people. People are ghosts in this landscape, custodians of Jerusalem’s present, past, and future. All cities have seams where communities are imperfectly integrated, areas left unexamined by those living nearby or passing through. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Blaž Gutman
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

My stepfather is facing dementia. Being a physicist, his concept and understanding of logic are becoming illogical. Within his mind, history and the present collide. Seventy years ago, was seven minutes ago. This project is a series of photographs made over five years of the quiet, tender, and contemplative man, whose life and perception of time is slowly, but steadily turning upside down. Using various non-linear and fragmented visual strategies, such as photography, drawings, and writings, I’m giving voice and visuals to Janez, a voice that would otherwise not be heard. The project aims to visualise the complexities of dementia, but also give a sense that dementia is something that gives, rather than takes away the meaning of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clara Scullion
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Grounded in the perspective of a ‘cease-fire baby’ and as a woman living in a persistently religious society, Clean Slate Kids communicates the tension of what we have inherited in post-Agreement Northern Ireland. The paradoxes of aftermath depicted integrate symbols of maintained territorial codes and religious iconography. When asked if my work is akin to “picking at a wound”, it struck me that the phrase typically refers to a “scab”. A scab forms over the wound as it heals. To heal, a wound must be cleaned –which hurts. A wound left uncleaned, or with dressings unchanged, festers. Clean Slate Kids is a means of studying what is healing or what is festering in Northern Ireland, and by extension, in myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eddie Ryan
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Ambient, transitional light; mutable surfaces; images of the endotic and the anti making. The work reflexively explores the experience of the migrant - the temporal fragility of the lives of those who must leave. It articulates their strategies of survival and assimilation in photographs tempered by the mores, sanctions, and beliefs of the country in which they were made. Located in the march between autocracy and democracy, the images allude to the conservative nature of the host society being explored. The photographs act as both apertures of seeing and archaeological density maps - physical and conceptual ways of articulating being ‘in-between’ - stay or go? Belong here or belong there? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brendan Keogh
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Keogh’s work contemplates our history as written in the City’s buildings. A city that renews itself as it tears down and replaces the old, sometimes pausing to preserve that which is deemed significant, historic, or aesthetically pleasing, and in so doing writes its own diary, a history written in concrete, glass, and steel. Stitching together multiple images to create highly detailed portraits of the buildings that make up our city, Keogh points a forensic lens, not just at the Architecture that surrounds us but also at who we are as a people and a Nation. Presented in stark isolation from their surroundings, the viewer is invited to engage with the building itself as well as the history embedded therein. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roz Doherty
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Between 1968 and 1972 air piracy was astonishingly commonplace in America, with over 130 planes being hijacked during this period. Hijackers sought political asylum in Cuba or demanded money as a resolution to their often-desperate circumstances. The Vietnam war had proved to be massively unpopular, the idealism from the 1960s was a thing of the past, and public hysteria was being stoked by the mass media. All the while politics was seen to be failing to end the epidemic of hijacking, interwoven with this is the psychology of these disenchanted and desperate men who felt that their circumstances were such that the only solution was seen to be the hijack of a commercial plane. A way out. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Laverty
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Unquiet crosses the invisible border in the Irish Sea. Photographed on passenger ferries traversing the contested water between Ireland and Great Britain as boundaries and borders are re-drawn, the work is a meditation on the fragility of identity and assumed freedoms. In disrupting the seascapes with the ship’s architecture, the viewer is challenged to question their own place in the myriad identities that are associated with the Irish Sea, as shifting borders & changing Empires conspire to throw people’s lives off-course. Ports & ferries hold a complex place in our society. The photographs seek to illuminate the Irish Sea as a place between places, vulnerable to change, as political & social forces conspire to disrupt the status quo. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aidan O'Neill
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

When returning to a place you called home you move as if a ghost through the space you once lived. You return from the place you left for; a place you couldn’t belong to either with a fractured identity. You look for pieces of yourself in the landscape and in the memories laid down there, jumping from the present to the past seamlessly with an unease; subtly yet definitively unable to fill those cracks. This body of work is a non-linear, poetic and multi-layered exploration of a place, and how the relationship with space and the experiences associated with it shift after many years of leaving and returning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denis O’Shea
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Where the fringes of the new suburbs wash up against the shoreline of the countryside, space has its own character. The city has spread out like a tide, steadily, inexorably, and in its most recent surge has created these perimeter zones, fuelled by property development, financial speculation and great but unfulfilled promise. The suburbs can be complicated and varied places. Change and stasis, growth and stagnation are reflected in the landscape, like a metamorphosis delineated in a Ballard novel. Against the backdrop of the still visible fallout of the Celtic Tiger collapse, the project has been a personal mapping of the place from the perspective of someone who has spent a lifetime living and working in and around these spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nilupa Yasmin
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

A kantha is an embroidered quilt made from scraps of cloth, intricately hand-stitched. Women in Bangladesh make kanthas for their families, to pass down and as a source of independent income. The British Raj attempted to abolish the Indian cotton trade in 1876, and later tried to police what was allowed to be stitched. This series traces the revival of the kantha in postcolonial India, through the eyes of 10 women from the tales of Rabindranath Tagore. Now these quilts become an emblem of togetherness for these women who, in different times, have immersed themselves physically into every drape and thread. Each of these women are walking their paths in life yet share a bond created through this everlasting running stitch. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Qi Ruoyu
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

When you have a box of tacks, matches and candles, how do you nail the burning candle to the wall? Through these psychology experiments, every object has been given its own meaning and the functional fixedness is always on a subconscious level of which we are not even aware of. We are always trapped in various invisible cages. I try to use photography as a kind of psychotherapy, to get out of the box, to understand my own thought and to explore new possibilities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Boris Dadvisard
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

What do we understand of the ‘real’ world when we look at it? Far from providing us with pure, straightforward information, seeing is a complex sensory and cognitive mechanism. This project explores our over-reliance on the sense of sight when getting to know what is new or unfamiliar. The recent health, political and climatological crises have amplified the importance of navigating the spectrum of ‘truthiness’ that exists between the notions of opinion and belief, fact and fiction, conspiracy and evidence. The images emphasize the mechanics of misjudgment, the fragmentary nature of human knowledge and its incompleteness. A contemporary take on a philosophical question that invites us to see beyond appearances. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Xiayi Su
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

As twilight approaches, the division between day and night becomes hazy and ambiguous. With the night and darkness covering the earth, the moon takes over, and a mysterious force begins to rise. This series of dark and abstract images to recreates the moonlit landscapes when the world shows a subtle profundity. Between conscious and unconscious, visible and invisible, ephemeral and eternal, known and unknown, the world returns again to its initial state. A lingering memory and after state, this project evokes a strong sense of existence and awareness of the universe. An irrational passage, through which the truth of life steals into one’s heart, like glimpses of a forgotten dream, a door opens to another world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carmen Li
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Have you ever imagined how will you die? I was, and still am, very afraid of facing death. So I used selfies to dissolve the seriousness of it, depicting it in everyday and surreal ways. I created a circle of characters in this group of photographs, all of them are me and none of them are real me, they have their own stories and experiences. Death is indescribable, however, not in my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alessandra Di Ronza
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Domestic environments are usually considered to be as personal safe zones in our daily life. But even these places are also affected by plastic pollution. Its presence here has different sizes, in fact it is more common to talk about micro and nano-plastics. Seeing as how they are invisible to the human eye, it is more difficult to become aware about their presence. Our private spaces are overwhelmed by the quantity of plastic, even our bodies host it. This material with its additives is toxic and can cause diseases. This project aims to represent the different ways in which plastic can be present in our domestic environments and how our intimacy has been permeated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Diogo Ferrari Santilli
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Born within institutional walls, Factory Boy sheds light on the camera functioning merely as an apparatus in a production line framework. Over two years, I worked for a well-known fashion retailer in London, producing around 100 images a day for their e-commerce. Performance allowed me to tap into a childhood fantasy, navigate this oppressive environment, and claim authority over it. In addition, I used it as a springboard to investigate the commerciality of the image. Its role and agency in a power mechanism that is regulated and sustained by heteronormativity and fuelled by phallogocentric principles. To what extent does this machinery subject bodies as it objectifies, rearrange as it exploits, and embellish as it commodifies? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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AJ Perez
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

This project started with my own need to clarify what it means to belong somewhere, and not somewhere else, and to be labelled a Spanish, or English, or Galician. How to Build a Nation explores the multiple dimensions that compose our national identities: national myths; how the view of The Other shapes us; conflict, inside and outside the nation; geography as shaper of national identities; the role of the state and other power institutions. A realist approach is put in opposition to the constructed nature of nationhood, aiming at showing the contradictions, at surfacing the structures and beliefs that make possible for most of us to take nationhood as a given, a transparent, obvious yet unseen reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Chen
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Driven by mystery, this multi-layered body of work questions photography’s ambivalent status between fact and fiction within a narrative of imagined crimes, investigated by protagonist police detective DCI Dean Wilson. Presented as real evidence as part of a serious inquiry, photographs intermingle with collages, ransom note-inspired documents, newspaper clippings and archival materials in a dossier-like structure. Exploring the visual and dialogical properties of the overarching crime “genre” in relation to the mechanisms connected with looking and describing, I aim to make visible the similarities between artistic practice and criminal investigation by outlining the critical and stylistic abilities of the crime scene photographer to construct compelling observations from seemingly meaningless details. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yi Zhu
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

I try to find my place between the Utopian and Dystopian to create a fictional landscape full of metaphors. I transform the dissonant elements of life, and I dream of creating a wonderful world, like fins and sails made of plastic film that can generate energy through natural forces, automated wings made of aluminium material. In these ambiguous images, I try to move away from exquisite beauty and explore the edges of the fields of installation and fashion. It is a visual scene formed by heart and exploration, now and future, human and environment. The images hint at a speculative possibility for existing materials, allowing them to be an intimate interface between people, the environment and the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adrian Lloyd-Thomas
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The potential construction site needed to build two nuclear reactors at Sizewell in the Suffolk Coast and Heath Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty will consume up to 200 hectares of forest and agricultural land. This open resource, which lies next to the internationally important Minsmere avian reserve, will become inaccessible for 15 years, after which the developers undertake to restore that which has been lost. This sublime area is recorded in this project to facilitate recall, thereby enabling the developers to be held to account in its restoration for the greater public good. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tarang Bharti
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The project explores our physical and metaphysical relationship with nature and the temporality of the multi-layered aesthetic experiences of the Sublime (physical, perceptual, experiential and the space in between) while investigating the transitional instabilities between the process and the materiality of the photographic medium and Iceland's volcanic landscapes. The work acts as a metaphor to the body’s open exchange of energy and matter across ecologies. Rejecting traditional pictorial systems of representation in landscape photography, the work embraces the ideas of time, place and relativity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yige Huang
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

I see the murmuration of starlings constantly change shape, while the group maintains its integrity, the individuals within it also produce fluid changes. Navigating the social activities of the crowd, I feel a sense of fragmentation/separation between the activities of the individual and the group. I have difficulties with group activities but I’m also looking for a way to live in this social order simultaneously. Is there an unchartered territory between the order and disorder I haven’t found? I use common objects as imagery for the changing combination of order and disorder in social life. While I was constantly searching and finding disorder in these groups, I try to establish order out of this chaos as well. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Agata Winiarska
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

The project lays on observation of work life in a modern office in Central London. The space that is filled with qualities of a fast-paced corporate lifestyle is being challenged by my perspective of strong appreciation to ‘the magical phenomenon’. Those serendipities exist around office workers but and often go unnoticeable. Inspired by theoretical concepts of representation, and fascinated by the ‘photo eye’, my aim of the project is to lead viewers’ attention onto extraordinaries found in a daily life and to handle those situations with care, compassion, and dedication. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Dundon-Smith
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

A multimedia documentary project that aims to describe the experience of the perilous twenty-one-mile journey across the English Channel, made by those desperately seeking safety and asylum. The video installation uses a single photograph taken in the middle of the English Channel and combines it with over 400 smart phone audio recordings taken from actual Chanel crossings, and the artists own recordings while out on location. In addition, the photographs portray the physical and emotional traces this demanding and terrifying journey leaves behind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Unveilral _
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Although, mostly forgotten a significant protest took place on June 18th 1999 the Carnival Against Capitalism. It brought the City of London to a halt. The police failed to prevent protestors from destroying properties and were vastly outnumbered. The police had used this footage to retrain and develop tactics to prevent protest this disruptive happening again. This may sound familiar with the introduction of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the new Public Order Act. These laws are an attempt to prevent legitimate protesting, stop direct action and violently suppress any opposition. Footage from ‘Kill the Bill’ protests that opposed this legislation are juxtaposed with the archival footage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amin Yousefi
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Zāl is a legendary Iranian king and one of the greatest warriors of the Shahnameh, the epic written by Ferdowsi in the 10th century and the longest poem ever composed. He was born in the eastern province of Sistan to a family of legendary warriors who served as generals in the Persian army. His snow-white hair led his parents to name him Zāl, the Persian word for albino. Due to this characteristic, he was immediately rejected by his father, who blamed the evil spirit for the appearance of his son. It was ordered that Zāl be abandoned in the Alborz Mountains. Zāl is a symbol of both demons and fairies in the ancient culture of Persia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julia Neal
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

In 2012 I was knocked down at the curb as I waited to cross the road. I spent 6 weeks in hospital and many months being cared for at home. I was informed later on that the driver was a police officer. 33 Minutes re-visits the period preceding this life-changing incident. An exploration of dystopian themes of surveillance, censorship and disinformation questions their relevance to this seemingly inexplicable event, which took place minutes after taking the last picture. The merging of documentary content and unrealistic, otherworldly post-production and redaction is intended to enable a documentary project to transcend its reference to the real world, nudging the boundaries between perception and a reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucia Hrastic
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

I was invited to photography the subject’s personal space over a period of 11months. This work in progress shows a selection of images documenting the individual and his relationship to space and organisation within his home, Charlton South East London. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Farra
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Banger racing is possibly the most accessible motorsport attracting people from all walks of life. Worn out machines are bought, restored and modified. Turning them from scrap into powerful racing vehicles. This series of images focuses on the Stansted Raceway. This place is the heart and soul of the Essex Banger Racing scene. A sport that can only be described as Lord of the Flies on four wheels. The dirt track is the Island, a space where there are no laws only Anarchy. The racers are the shipwrecked boys violently wrestling with one and another for the position of leader. In a society increasingly concerned with the burdens of masculinity this is a temple facilitating the expression of life’s frustrations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carli Adby-Notley
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:45:34 EDT

Underpinned by feminist narratives; this work explores themes of identity, memory, agency and the inherent expression of female as body. Originating from an autobiographical position, these concepts are interrogated through the mother daughter relationship and remembered gestures. Childhood anecdotes form our construction of self, our personal experience shapes our expression and performance of our present choices. We are forced to consider the cyclical language and obligations of our surroundings, of our interpretations of the naked body, political and historical references, our ancestry and, how these notions truly separate us as an individual. The uncomfortable line of familiarity between mother and daughter antagonises the unspoken distance, asking where does the individual begin and where does it end? Including photographs, sculptural installation, archives & sound recordings this project examines the coexisting familiarity and nuances, to challenge the internal and external understanding of the ‘me.’ . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Empson
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Young boys become young men who look back into a recent past that feels still attainable. They can see their childhood in the children’s football games; recognise a parent figure in the lone silhouette of a stranger. They have kept memories of a woman, captured time and time again in their core memories, standing alone on a country road. Forever standing still with the familiar background they call home. Their place is a memory that is always with them, a memory that has built them, constructed them. A man made of fields, streams, trees, and old memories. Their land has been engraved as a map in their brain with every ramification of their home’s footpaths. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brittany Mumford
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My photographic practice consists of alternative processes and abstract imagery. Creating fine art prints that address the self- and mental-health issues. Due to finding it difficult to articulate how I feel and finding comfort in making images, I use photography as a tool to communicate my thoughts and emotions. Although some of my images are abstract, I am mainly interested in the feelings that they can evoke rather than the image itself. While also being intrigued by the idea of pushing the boundaries set within the photographic genre. Non-alignment is a series which explores everything by looking at nothing. Using spaces and moments of silence to reflect on those small insignificancies that amount to so much more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emmeline Ansell
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In October of 2021 I nearly died of a sudden illness. I was released after 2 weeks and have spent the months since recovering. A part of this recovery was to go and see my sister in Australia who I hadn’t seen in 3 years because of the pandemic. In the 5 weeks we were together photography was used to create new memories to replace the fading ones of our childhood, to explore our new relationship as two grown women, and to understand how living half a world apart has brought us closer together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Erin Towns
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Hamswell House is a documentation project located in Bath, exploring the idyllic, grand, gardens of the country manor Hamswell House. This project is an exploration into a world completely away from my own, a world where I could completely immerse myself into knot gardens, orangeries, and orchards, among just a few aspects to this beautiful location. The images are printed as Lith prints. A process that is time consuming and slow, but every time creates individual pieces that are not easily repeatable. It holds unique imperfections, easily made by processing in the darkroom, and produces such sharp details, with an almost grainy and textured finish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabriella Tigoglu
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Force That Drives The Flower is a series exploring the life of a young family in the south of England; with a focus on the matriarch, Grace. It depicts her life, alongside partner Tom and their 6-month-old son, Billie. Documenting their everyday routine and domestic landscape, also sharing their physical journey from Brighton to Bath, transitioning from an alternative way of living to a secure and family-centric lifestyle. The work represents the complex experience of motherhood whilst also challenging societal expectations and prejudice imposed upon women who decide to have children at a young age, with themes of care and relationship at the forefront. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace May
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Farming and agriculture is something I have a magnetic pull toward, prompting the thought ‘what if ?’. What if my grandparents carried on farming? What if I grew up on a farm? The following images highlight a key aspect of my project, where I explore a world I feel I might have loved. Alongside recent photographs, I have made I have used my family’s personal archive of a farm which I feel together convey a “fake” nostalgia. As you look through my images you’ll see a romanticised perspective, a child’s gaze and a metaphor for the rubble of the past. Lastly, you’ll see an experience that I feel defines a farmer's life be that of care and passion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Ensell
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My Father Told Me Not to Wander Through Woods is a personal exploration into how my perception of landscapes drastically change as night approaches. Spaces take on a completely different atmosphere and energy. Growing up a young woman I was always taught by my single father that being out when it was dark was dangerous and this warped my perception of the places around me rather than the people I may encounter. On walks home from school I would not focus on the beautiful landscapes I walked through and would be solely focusing on getting home. Through my photographs, I’m challenging and understanding this intimidating feeling, reclaiming the night, and looking for beauty in places I perceived as once scary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phoebe Costard
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ongoing is a project focusing on the young adults who are growing up in the world of expectations, inflation and a global pandemic. It focuses on different people who are between the ages of seventeen and thirty, showcasing them as individuals but also knowing they all have very similar worries of the future such as growing up and managing financially. This project highlights individualism and how you can be your own person, but still have the struggles as someone completely different to you- it brings people together as a community. I wanted to highlight that we are a generation and a community of people who have a sense of drive, ambition and love, I’ve embodied this community through this project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Saffron White
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

By the Gorge is an exploration of childhood memories and the familiarity of a place that I visited frequently as a child. After a day trip down to the beach, my family would drive back through Cheddar Gorge where we would stop for fish and chips or ice cream, look out for ‘billy’ goats, and climb up the cliffs. Some days we would stop on our way to the beach and explore every shop that was there. It was always a happy time and I have fond memories of it, so as an adult now, I wanted to go back and explore the gorge on a more intimate level, venturing further than before to re-live and augment my childhood memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Poppy Winter
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

What began as an interest in a complicated and non-maternal dynamic, very quickly transitioned into two women, the photographer and the photographed, trying to understand the impacts of emotional trauma. This project uses experimental imagery and the family album to begin to understand how we shift through life, evolving into new, more protected versions of ourselves. This new type of interaction has enabled me to relearn who my Grandmother, Margaret, is as a woman, independent from all familiar connections. Margaret’s life has been burdened with the wounds from love, loss, family and time. The repercussions of her experiences have reframed how she interacts with those around her, thus transforming her ability to love and be loved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Beeusaert
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ich Weiss Es, which translates to ‘I knew it’ explores the loss of memory through Dementia. My grandmother and I do not speak the same language, by mind or mouth, there is a divide between us. Our relationship is a line of memories being held by a delicate thread. Through the documentation of landscapes and archival imagery, I have left a trail to explain our dynamic and the warmth of her presence through my life and those close to her. From all the memories that have become fragmented, her vivacious personality shines continuously in this piece of work. We evolve, we die and all that is left behind are our memories with feelings that remain imprinted on those around us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zuzanna Rapinska
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Korzenie is a Polish translation of the word ‘roots’, this personal project explores my emotional attachment rooted to my home country. Identifying old childhood memories and capturing them years later through my camera and exploring my relationships with family members I have left behind was the process I had in the back of my mind during this confusing and nostalgic journey. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Allen
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project is a tribute to my mum and her equestrian life in which she leads. A documentary series that explores the routinely day-in-the-life schedule of an equestrian lady, but an opportunity of getting to know this side of my mum’s life which contributes to her identity and passions. A passion that has lasted over a 30 year period, this series also includes past archival images of mum in her early adult years when she fell in love with horses and the equine lifestyle. This collaboration with my mum has not only opened my eyes to the hectic lifestyle in which she lives, but this process has allowed me to learn and develop a deep appreciation for the equine world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Freya Chaplin-White
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This is a personal journey following the lives of my friend and I’s struggles we face in our twenties and how we are trying to navigate through life to figure out who we are, where we belong and what we aspire to be in the future. The portraits document the subjects in the comfort of their own home or in a space they visit when worrying about the future. We have been made to feel like we are behind in life and social media has played a huge part into this as we begin to feel inadequate. This has opened up a discussion between myself and the subjects about the struggles we all face whether they be similar or different. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Angwin
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Fixating on my fascination for alternative processes, I used a technique that was conducted in complete darkness, only seeing what will be captured on the paper for a split second evoked thoughts and feelings of space, time, magic and connections. Inspired by cave dwellers who spewed crushed materials from their mouths to make a mark to signal their presence. Through the relationships between one another and natural matter, there is a sense of these timeless sensations that produce something magical. What you see is what could be, what is and what was. The truest form at that moment is captured on the print, fixed on to the page. What is there and what is not there is open to interpretation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isaac Law
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Every year, there are over 2000 alleged sightings of non-native big cats in the UK. This project explores the places associated with these sightings as well as the people who research, track, and try to prove the existence of big cats living wild across the UK. The use of the mundane and the unspectacular allows for the phenomenon to be presented as completely factual and true, whilst accepting that conclusive evidence is yet to be discovered. Ideas of invisibility and how photography can be used to represent what cannot be revealed, allows the viewer to decide how much, if any, of the phenomenon to believe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Armindo De Matos
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project explores the psychological and physical traumas I acquired as a double victim of patriarchal culture, which guides men to be emotionless and incapable of displaying vulnerability. Abused by my father, a firm believer in this attitude, I was forbidden from expressing my emotions or pursuing the life I chose due to it being "emasculating". Those experiences and the peer pressure from the heteronormative culture led to multiple emotional scars in my later life. It is a form of self-therapy since it allows me to revisit the negative experiences and express myself in ways I was never permitted. Reliving and reflecting on past situations become an outlet for voicing my displeasure with the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Asha Angus
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Back Row Concert 'is a project created for my Final, at the University of Bedfordshire. As I am looking into music photography as my medium after University. I have realised that not many people have realised about this being a job. So, I wanted to showcase the beauty of capturing images and memories whilst at concerts, even from the back row. Being able to photograph at concerts and gigs is unimaginable, but being in the back row and being able to capture the colours and lighting of the stage sets, as well as from the crowd. Is incredible and I wanted to showcase it in an exhibition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gladys Sarfo
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The fashion industry has come a long way since the supermodel era of the 1980s and '90s. Back then, the vast majority of models were thin, and young, with a few exceptions. In recent years, we're seeing more models of colour, more plus-size models, and models of different ages embracing every aspect of themselves. As a fashion photographer, I want to explore ways these “unrealistic” images impact the ‘real image ‘of women's bodies. My current project named The body – The clothing focuses on how body image and body positivity in women are portrayed in today’s world. How we see ourselves in certain clothes and how others see us may affect the way we perceive ourselves. By collaborating with a fashion clothing line Stush Apparel which emphasises empowering women to love the skin they’re in all shapes and sizes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hugh Kuberski
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Alcohol and drugs in today’s world have slipped unnoticeably into our social lives. Controlling our lives and decisions. Destroying families, causing financial problems, ruin our health. Also, taking lives or leading to suicide. Are stimulants our God? ‘Alcohol my God’ is a series of photographs depicting scenes from the life of intoxicated people. Images manipulate the viewer to create confusion. Scenes leave the audience with an open-ended story. This results in the fact that viewers can easily imagine their own interpretation. However, the images try to focus on absurd situations we have to deal with while under the influence. Additionally suggesting religion is the solace. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Irena Gil
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Since family albums are often the sole physical reminders of long-gone people, places, and events, their cultural significance comes from their inclusion in everyday rituals. They provide a link between the past and the present, even if that connection is merely a figment of our imagination. Inspired by this concept, this work consists of a series of self-portrait collages that incorporate personal mementoes. The project focuses on the significance of artefacts and images in constructing "familial identity" by using photography as a lens to examine the link between past and present. Additionally, it examines how our current life choices, behaviours and societal standards are influenced by looking at family photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iulian Ciolac
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Motherhood – The most powerful period in every mother's life. An extremely important part of the life of every mother and every child in the world. Motherhood is complicated. It’s filled with love, joy, struggle, beauty, and sorrow. Becoming a mother, being a child, the struggle to conceive, the exhilaration of birth, the delight in watching them grow, and the drive to protect them, this is the true art. It's not just a simple act, it's a lifetime commitment and calling. We lay down our bodies, self-interest, and space to fill it up with a precious new life. Motherhood is more than just giving birth to a child, it’s loving and caring for them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jules Pratt
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

London By Night is my ongoing project which explores the prominent architecture across London’s nightlife and aims to create a body of work which is technically accurate, it focuses on creating an immersive experience which transports you to each of the locations. Having vibrant and saturated colours along with bright lights which flare out draws your eyes to certain areas of the images. By also having small details around the image, it captivates the attention of the viewers and keeps you looking. Using long exposure has enabled me to show the peace and silence which is present in an urban city, but not commonly seen by someone who is a tourist compared to someone whose there more frequently or a resident. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Blake
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Bloom Town is a children’s board game, unlike most board games Bloom Town is created from a series of digitally manipulated photographs inspired by my own admiration for games. Digital manipulation and post-production software has allowed me to enhance real imagery to bring my own imagination to life and visually produce the characters of the game as a photographic series. In the photographs, we see the residents of Bloom Town showcasing their professions where they appear to be fantasy-like and cartooned. Through two contrasting sets of imagery we see the residents of Bloom Town in their joyful everyday life, but we also see them full of gloom when the masked man casts a spell across the Town. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Monica Florea
University of Bedfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

David suffered from visual impairment. For 11 years he struggled to perceive and integrate into the world. The project is presented from David’s perspective, and the narrative images show the storyline of the mundane. Based on memory and imagination, Blind illustrates not only the physical vision loss but also an inner journey involving the fear and emotions about becoming totally blind. The blurred images are accompanied by David’s text and transport the viewer toward specific moments of his life. The experience of these series is to expand this conceptual expression within the visual realm. Blind illustrates a synergy of the physical experience framed within the context of a metaphysical journey to form a unique vision beyond sight. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Max Southern
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My practice centres around the production of single photographs that each have their own individual starting points and set of questions. Within each work, the photograph is viewed as a space of intention and as a set of decisions that create a coherent picture, able to host an extended period of looking and be displayed as an autonomous work. In approaching the photograph as a constructed space, my aim is to bring an engagement with the form, function, and nature of the photographic to the forefront of the viewers' experience with the photograph on the gallery wall. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Skelt
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Autonomy is a collection of images extracted from film and moving images that document my feelings, thoughts and experiences during the duration of the making of the work: a period of exploration of self-governance, self-sabotage, heightened anxiety and newfound fears of failure and success. The images are both products of intuition and intention, visually demonstrating ubiquitous elements of psyche and utilising my own compulsions to create order and connection. The work highlights the way in which we, as viewers, recognise, construct and understand ourselves through the images we consume. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Stirrat
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I have not so far refined my work down to one specific photographical practice as I find my preferences continuously changing. For this reason, my work tends to lean towards the theme of ambiguity, allowing such freedom, perhaps currently becoming my practice in itself. Elements of humour and futility are prominent breaking down expectations of the photographical language that tends to ordinarily seek a form of meaning and anchored purpose. My works lie somewhere between knowing what I want and not knowing at all, explaining both the visceral and deliberate nature of my work. The contradictions are satire, and the lack of anchorage intends to present open ended image for the viewer to relay their meaning onto, making the interaction between the viewer and the Image the forefront of the work. This creates a sort of vessel asking for active viewer participation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joy Bews-Pick
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘A View of London Green’ is a visual and auditory exploration of experience within the Urban Forest. Conceptualised in reflection of my own love of natural spaces, and modern discussions around tree planting and climate change, the project examines how the Urban Forest can be experienced through a juxtaposition of visual ‘beauty’ and the auditory clamour of the city buzz. The images themselves lack explicit references to London, and instead opt to present the tree as a fragmented entity – a direct reference to the fragmentation of Urban Forests. The accompanying sound piece immerses the viewer into the city, utilising sounds recorded within the parks of central London and the streets surrounding them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Pike
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Blending the art of photography with performance art, Unearthing The Wild Self is a poetic body, piecing together the experiences and discovery as the body and self engages with the natural world. The work is a journey of encounter and reflection, exploring outer experiences alongside inner development.. Taking reference from artists working within the realms of capturing self from August Strindbergs soul photographs and Ana Mendieta’s Silueta. The series situates itself in a melting pot of experience, performance and expression, engaging with dialogue around the art of photographing elements that extend beyond what the eye can see. . This work is presented as a handmade fine art photobook, the meditative practice both conceptually and technically flows from beginning to end. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Pearce
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As an adult on the spectrum, I’ve encountered distressing disappointments within education and from those who continue the cycle of stigma. To show solidarity rather than segregation, I’m using this project as a form of art therapy, collecting portraits of case studies to help myself and others overcome trauma and isolation. Clouds and the colour blue are significant symbols to express daydreaming, a visual metaphor of a distracted mind. I wanted to develop on the concept of daydreaming and how it can relate to alternative abilities, double exposing film with a subject and clouds. Using uncontrollable daydreaming to explain the feeling of neurodivergence, while emphasising the invisibility in our conditions. How we still feel unjustified within society, despite our diagnosis. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Mae Humphrey
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My style of photography is digital, working with studios and photoshop. Lately I have been exploring red. My personal fascination with red is centred in self-expression, exploring fashion, makeup, and accessories. During my research, I came across multiple explanations of the colour explaining red in opposing ways: the colour of the devil, symbolic of Jesus’s robes, a romantic colour of love and lust but also violence, associated with anger, blood and gore. The photographs I have produced centre around human existence and life through juxtapositions of red, the disconnect between disgust and intrigue, and contradictions within one photograph. Using red subjects, they are transitional, creating a liminal state reflecting life, an intersect between gore and the visually pleasing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellis Knibbs
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I’m from a proudly working class family who have lived on the same council estate on the Old Kent Road for 50+ years and during that time, inevitably, the area has become subject to gentrification. Despite this, it has, against all odds, maintained a diverse working class population. It’s this, plus the Old Kent Road’s working class heritage, that I wanted to document and celebrate - indicated in the vivid colour palette. ‘Knock’d ‘Em in the Old Kent Road’ is made up of 32 candid street portraits, shown walking in the same directions in reference to the pilgrimage through the area featured in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and an array of artefacts from landscapes to vinyl records. You can visit www.instagram.com/ellisknibbs.png to see more of my work and purchase prints. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Madeleine Humphries
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Over the past two decades, advancements of digital technologies have gradually intercepted every corner of our day-to-day lives. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic only accelerated this and saw many artists adapt their practice to survive, and ultimately, progress the demise of some traditional arts and crafts. Inspired by my own revitalised respect for more traditional ways of working after being isolated for much of my degree, this project is a photographic tribute to those keeping these practices alive. By capturing their process and engaging in meaningful conversation, I am sharing the individual stories and experiences of local artists. In turn helping others to understand the true challenge of being a traditional or physical artist in today’s digitised society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Byers
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Walking along the waterside, the diversity of people the prom attracts became clear. From pirates to ex-locals, dog-walkers and fishermen; each person has a personal connection. I seek to capture a moment of a singular place and time. I gravitate towards those that stand out, asking strangers for their portrait, making the image in that moment before they can think too much. These honest representations encourage stories to emerge. The work creates a narrative and as such the people pictured provoke contemplation within each of us. Each line, blemish, expression is a culmination of life experiences unique to that person. I document an individual working through life’s everyday trials, choosing to spend that moment walking along ‘The Prom’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Whalon
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

By the Seaside is a project based around the decline of British seaside resorts, focusing on the popular tourist destination of Llandudno, North Wales. Through this work I wanted to highlight the emptiness of these locations, in order to document the change of the tourist industry within Britain. As well as emphasising the derelict conditions of these towns and the lack of help and funding they receive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carolina Gorman
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Loud & Queer is a portraiture project about identity, proudness and exposure. All together, I wanted to explore their own identity, pride and exposure. The idea stems from a previous research project on LGBTQ+ representations in early 20th century film, cinema and photography. With this in mind, I decided to explore and get to know the photographers who portray and document people from this community, as well as becoming a part of this new representation. This personal project aims to represent in the most honest and sincere way the people who are part of the Queer community, with a non-stereotypical representation, hoping to show the world how similar the community is to the societal norm. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carlie Flaherty
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work explores the relationship between fashion and nature photography. I decided that I wanted to look at flowers as if they were models and capture them in different settings, such as different locations and in the studio. The title for the series of images is Fashion Flowers. For these shoots I was using my 700D Canon camera with my 50mm lens, so that I was able to capture some up-close and detailed images of the flowers. For the studio shoots I decided to buy a new bunch of flowers every two weeks and take photos of them. For the location shoots I was traveling around Birkenhead and Chester to capture different settings for the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirsty Griffin-Macleod
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This exploration of modern masculinity involved the participation of twelve men, aged between 18-24. Perceptions of gender are becoming more fluid in our society. In 2022 the binary definition of masculine or feminine is outdated and often seen to be politically incorrect. This project is a contribution to that conversation and a reflection on current notions of what it is to be a man. Working collaboratively with each participant to identify a location and personal attire the project explores personal representation in the context of being male. Conversation and reflection on the subject were instigated by giving all participants the same five questions. The objective gathering of information juxtaposes against the subjective notion of identity and gender fluidity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alisha Dunham
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Finding comfort in specific spaces is a common trait for most, whether it be someone’s home, an open space or a location associated with specific memories. In Speaking of Comfort Alisha Dunham places her attention on self-portraits as self-therapy and documents the fields near her family home where she finds this comfort. Dunham references her younger self and her relationship with her mother by tracing back to a particular moment when this relationship was unable to provide the solace she needed and where the land offered succour. By revisiting this location, documenting it and re-inserting herself into the space, Dunham seeks to connect with the viewer on different levels, to humanise a tethering of memory and land and to create an environment for the viewer to relate to their own experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charly Richards
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In Searcher, Charly Richards documents her Grandad, Jim, exploring his dementia diagnosis and the parallels between this and his time as a historian. The title, a homage to the national award he won for finding a significant coin, also alludes to Jim’s inquisitive, searching, nature. The work intentionally holds a scientific motif, with the installation resembling a museum exhibit, acknowledging her grandad's work within the history sector. The inclusion of new images made by Richards combined with archival elements emphasises this motif but also stands to echo her Grandad’s state of being, where we find a mismatch of random memories and unconnected experiences. Ultimately, the work explores themes of identity, memory, and history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amardeep Kaur
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Who she was, Who I am is an exploration of the journey of eight women, sharing their experiences of marriage, ambition, creating a home and rediscovering themselves throughout their lives. A photograph taken on their wedding day creates an anchor point for a transformational event, marriage, which informs all of what came before and after in an individual lifetime. The portraits taken in the present represent a moment of collaboration and conversation between the participant and artist. Accompanied by a transcript of their exchange, these images are a glimpse of who these women are underneath the layers they portray to the world, exposing their hopes, dreams, achievements, and shortcomings. Who she was, who I am is a reflection on womanhood, motherhood, love, family, migration and death. It is a meditation on how these experiences have transformed and shaped the women and their stories, and is an invitation to the viewer to contemplate parallels in their own lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Hadwin
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Chalara Fraxinus’ bears witness to the disease Ash dieback. An airborne fungus that latches onto ash tree’s vascular systems, limiting its ability to draw nutrients to upper branches leading to many ash trees dying or becoming unstable. Hadwin looks at the concept of the Anthropocene and what effect human influences have on the disease’s environment, escalating the spread and impact of the disease by the changing climate and pollution levels. Ash trees provide crucial habitats for wildlife and surrounding ecosystems; therefore, every tree lost will lead to the decline of environmental richness in the English countryside. Plant-based chemistries are illustrated through light-sensitive paper, each of the plants collected are from dead or dying plants from Ash Dieback affected areas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruby Nixon
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Where Birds Won’t Fly explores the history and mythology surrounding the ancient tales of a mermaid that lives beneath the surface of two pools in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Folklore rumours that the pools, six miles apart, are connected by an underwater tunnel. Cattle refuse to drink from them, and birds will not fly over. The stories of how the mermaid ended up here vary. From a sailor bringing her in-land from the ocean to a woman accused of witchcraft drowning in the pool. One theme, however, remains constant: a historical dehumanization of the female presence. In the form of a handbound photobook, the work blurs the borders between truth and fiction, playing with fragmented narratives that investigate misogyny and feminism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Barry
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Grace Barry’s latest project explores her mental connection and growth with the natural environment, as well as the presence of chaos amongst order in and beyond the COVID-19 lockdowns. Barry aims to convey the unique qualities of her own experiences with nature, while also allowing a space for others to reflect. The work is formed both through photographic reflections on experience and the performance of interaction with the landscape via touch and gesture. In this way, the notion of the photograph as record, and its limitations in grasping unique, personal and corporeal connections flickering to life is brought to the fore. In these moments, everything in the universe is exactly where it is meant to be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abby Hardy
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

From a young age, Abby Hardy, has been told by her family that she is ‘The Last Hardy’. This project is a visual explanation of her family history, her surname, and her decision to never change it. Exploring patriarchal norms embedded in society that suggest the relinquishing of female title in the giving over to a male spouse, the works draws particularly on ‘The Creation of Patriarchy’ by Gerda Lerner. Juxtaposing her grandmother’s archive of photographs with personal reflections, the images focus on a nostalgia of place rather than family members. A reflection on the historical and geographical foundations of personal identity, the work offers a melancholic view of family ties, memory, time, and loss. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgios Chatzakis
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Land moves. A slow gradual change, invisible to human sensation. Even so, a landscape morphs under human perception with each visit. Vision, touch and smell are ingrained in our familiarity with nature and bring that connection closer to the mind. Following through the sequential landscapes, Journeys, Roaming deep in lands acts as a guide to a personal walking journey. Viewing hiking as a healing process for mental health, the explorations of the artist are based on the spiritual connections with the landscape. By way of replicating and instigating experience, the accompanying book is itself conceived of as an explorative experience as page turns reveal new vistas, textures and moments akin to the traversing of land on foot. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abbie Brewster
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This work by Abbie Brewster is a statement on the mass consumerism and single use mentality that is destroying our planet and the gravitas of the situation at hand. Her gritty take on the Anthropocene era sparks a much needed conversation of the sustainability of the current trajectory of the planet as it stands today. With plastic production having increased exponentially each year since its invention in 1907 and with a record 8.3 billion tons of plastic pollution in 2021, one thing is clear, the trajectory we are on is not sustainable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjimen Green
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“Brazin refers to photographs as snatching what they depict ‘from the flow time’ and ‘embalming’ the instant, rescuing it from the ‘corruption’ of times past”. This intimate set of still life studies have been created as a eulogy to the photographer’s late father. They are a deeply personal contemplation on the lasting emotional effects that come from losing a loved one. Objects can function as tangible links between the past and the present in the same way that photographs do. They become literal touchstones of memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bettina Reeve
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This series of portraits focuses on the theme of identity, through young women living in Essex. Hairstyles, fashion, jewellery are personal aspects that create the formation of visual identity. From the Renaissance, women had to uphold a self-image and role for the acute appearance of social status. Being in a consumerist society, social media has taken form to create modern-day restrictions with the self-awareness of one’s appearance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ian Kemp
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Over time we have gradually come to realise that we also have a responsibility, not only to those creatures under our control but to all of those that we share this planet with. This series, entitled ‘Dominion II’, seeks to consider multiple facets of our relationship with animals and in a wider context, with each other. This series of formal but slightly absurd taxidermy ‘Bird Portraits’ contemplates the ways in which we foist our desires onto others. Without an understanding of how the world is perceived from alternative points of view, are we destined to continue imposing our own blinkered ideas and ideals on both nature and others outside of our field of familiarity? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacqualine Ford
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Jacqualine is primarily a Macro photographer capturing objects in obscure ways forcing the viewer to redefine an object and the way they perceive it. Working in her home studio, she has learned to control light as her media. Her current work has been an interesting journey for herself as she has been using the light, not in a studio but in a darkroom, to create large abstract and unique Chemigrams in which she has used daylight and obscure objects to create artwork through the medium of light without the need for a camera or a lens. Through years of experience, she has developed her own unique style which can be clearly seen in each piece that she creates. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Rummel
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

NEWU examines the social and self-identity implications and effects which arise when we mask and masquerade ourselves using everyday items such as clothing and makeup. Self-performers of stereotypical characters relating to the chosen mask are displayed to replicate film stills enhancing the performative quality of the work. Inspiration has been taken from beauty and fame driven Instagram posts, from young female influencers and models as well as contemporary photography and art practitioners, Cindy Sherman, Amalia Ulman and Juno Calypso. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Noelani Watson
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Maldon Promenade was built in 1895 to allow the town’s community access to land located on the shores of Blackwater estuary, for recreational purposes. Promenading means to ‘walk’, and it became popular in Eighteenth Century France as a means of ’social visibility’ amongst the middle classes. The promenade, in Edwardian Maldon, would have produced a similarly colourful display of women adorning the latest fashions. Today the ramps and paths are still popular for a summer stroll, but there remains a complex set of interactions between passers-by and their self-conscious visibility within this structured, public space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kelsey Woor
Colchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

These portraits are part of an on-going documentary project to photograph workers in Clacton-on-Sea. All of the workers in these photographs are employed in the service industries, jobs that are an essential part of Clacton's economy as a seaside resort. These workers interact with members of the public every day. They have a high public visibility. We recognise them as a part of the community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Kenny
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The seaside is a place of childhood memory for the artist, for whom it has always been an escape from the realities of day-to-day life. A safe haven for her, the sea brings serenity. We all have memories we choose to forget or are fragmented. The sea is an agent that rearranges the beach as the tide comes in and out, removing imperfections just as our brain removes the bad from memories. She believes that art should be accessible for everyone and is aiming to create work that is viewable to the blind by incorporating braille into her work and printing onto fabric. Using braille to describe the image allows the braille reader to have access to information that the visually sighted can't access. She turns the table so that information is taken away from the visually sighted so they can try and understand the frustration of not being able to see what the artists vision is. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bilyana Petrova
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

It is a contemporary myth that life always moves on. Our minds never cease to wander between different timelines. As a mature student, completing her degree in photography at the University of Cumbria, Bilyana Petrova is also interested in the ambivalent connections to the past. For the first time in six years, she revisits Soho, London where for a brief but defining period she worked at a chain burger restaurant on 15 Frith Street. Through an inclusive series of street imagery, crafted as a pack of postcards, Bilyana builds a narrative which is both retrospective and present. Initially from Bulgaria, she started the project provoked by the subject of migration. Gradually, “I WAS HERE” turns into her love letter to bohemian Soho. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Hinge
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The images in this project act as a study of the water that I regularly swim in at Bassenthwaite Lake. Spending a lot of time in and around the water, has allowed me to create a full and complete study of a particular body of water. Shooting in all weather conditions, at different times throughout the day, and from different points of view, allowed me to show the constant flux and movement of the lake. The project was shot using a typological approach and displayed in triptychs, to document the water in all its forms and conditions. All images were taken from within the lake, with the water acting as both the lens and subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Griffiths
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Hannah’s interest in what it means to be feminine started from a young age, learning and observing from influential women in her life, such as her sister and her mother. She began to enjoy the process of getting ready, putting on makeup and styling her hair. Women have different opinions and ideals of what being feminine means to them. The project focuses on and highlights this ritual that they go through every day, which has been personalised to them over years. This routine will be minimalistic for some and extensive for others, expressing their personal preferences and style. For some women, painting their faces is like an art form, it takes time and care and allows them to creatively express themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Madison Brown
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project is the exploration of the untold Female Love, told through the art of photography storytelling, this love story is told through two Goddesses one representing the Sun and the other the Moon, exploring that fairytale love we learned about as children. Madison focuses on this topic because she has long been interested in mythology and learning about these stories inspired her to write her own. She noticed that the women in these myths did not have as many glories and grand tales as the men. There are some strong women, but in most of these stories, the women are killed, raped, or pushed to the back of the story. It's Time to change that. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Hartley
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In the most recent indices of deprivation, 22 of Blackpool’s neighbourhoods were found to be in the most deprived one percent nationally. In the context of a national agenda of ‘levelling up’ and the recent and disturbing increasing cost of living, the people of Blackpool may suffer the most on the rollercoaster of changing economic circumstances. How will they cope? ‘The Big Dipper’ aims to shine a light on the situation in Blackpool through the use of images depicting Blackpool beneath the facade, behind the promenade, away from tourist hotspots. The images are juxtaposed by statements from people living in and visiting Blackpool, forming a bittersweet but alarming, and unsettling series. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Halls
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘We all want quiet.' – Octavia Hill A snapshot of a moment in time, each image is linked by the artist, her place in the world and how she looks at it. This work invites a quiet look into her world, one which has been upended, one which craves solace. Using expired analogue film, the artist allows a degree of uncertainty, ceding control to the film. In addition, this encourages a slower and more deliberate approach to the whole process. This is where the artist finds her solace, and desires other people to find something of their own within it. She invites you to immerse yourself in her work and experience it in your own way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Gadsby
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This body of artwork reflects upon a time of mental health trauma. It focuses on representing the emotions experienced; such as panic, anxiety, depression. Capturing an area of woodland that became a familiar sanctuary and provided respite when days felt bleak. Using black and white analogue processes, I have used flash lighting to simulate the trauma experienced. When making large handprinted murals, I have used salt crystals to add another surface and visual disruption to the images. The process of salting the prints creates a visual otherness and represents a distortion from reality. The title, Salt Curing, responds to the metaphor of preservation, not of trauma but rather the healing that took place which enabled a sense of closure. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Totterdell
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My interest in the representation of Mental Health originates from our misunderstood history and the expansion of artists using their experiences to produce a physical representation of emotions. Mental Health can cause people to be stopped in their tracks of day-to-day tasks, this can be confusing for people who do not struggle or understand the disease. I created a theatrical stage for my objects to be displayed, these objects are replacements of my emotions. The random objects are to recreate the emotions that are invisible to anyone else, which can be hard to describe. The objects allow the viewer to relate to them, however once combined, the feelings of confusion steps in and then there is the question of reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecka Torvik
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This body of work concerns the repulsive and the experience of disgust from the human perspective. From seeing a loaf of bread covered in mould in hues of green and yellow to the wastes of one’s own body; disgust can take many forms and is a feeling familiar to most in a variety of ways. Through a layering of glass, fabric, various imagery, and decay itself the work explores the reaction of disgust when one cannot define and place that which disgusts safely into whatever categories it may have. I am partially obscuring the origin of the depicted objects while retaining enough for the mind to wander and speculate said origins. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James McLaren
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Sunset Limited Studio is founded by photographer James McLaren, focusing on lifestyle and product photography based in the UK. Coming from a background in digital marketing, with a master’s degree in Film, Exhibition and Curation, I am to tell stories through photography while working with businesses and makers from a sustainable and eco-conscious background. The images included in this set are from my Major Project portfolio; a potential advertising campaign for a boutique hotel, aimed at selling the “idea” of the escapist retreat to its millennial target audience. The project leans on and takes inspiration from two teen television series of the 00’s, The O.C. (2003-2007) and Gossip Girl (2007-2012), introducing nostalgia as a method of escapism within this pastiche. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sally Pritchett
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This series is an ongoing project documenting Scotland’s LGBTQ+ community. Born from research into queer fashion history and some the artists, musicians and performers who cultivated a unique style, these portraits feature creatives from different backgrounds and with different interests, and explore how past queer icons influence today’s generation in how they express themselves stylistically and artistically. Primarily shot in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the project will soon be expanding into more areas of Scotland in hopes to give an even broader view into the beauty and richness of the community. Special thanks to all the wildly talented, kind, and interesting people who gave me their time to make these portraits possible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Rankin
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Hi, I'm David Rankin, my work specialises in advertising & retouching photography, through products, services, and campaign awareness within the creative industries. The aim is to push the imagination, to think outside the box by creating attention grabbing conceptual imagery, focused at elevating public awareness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kasia Sowinska
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I focus my work on issues related to class and social disadvantage. During the early months of 2022 I started to explore the surroundings of the multi-storey flats in some of the poorest areas of the capital of Scotland. The photographs are a result of many expeditions to mostly social housing environments in the suburbs of Edinburgh such as Muirhouse or Moredun. The images are a result of many conversations with residents of the communal flats, investigating the causes of low life expectancy. Many locals such as Grace Ross, portrayed having a coffee break during her shift in the social kitchen, find their refuge in community activities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Beatriz Sanz
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I am a fashion and commercial photographer. Inspired by the world around me and feel that an image's power derives from a precise balance of light, texture, space, and emotion. These images are part of fashion editorials I have photographed this year, both The Handmaiden and Nomad, are influenced by films. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Turek
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Hello, my name is Anna Turek, I’m from Poland. I specialize in corporate advertising and brand photography. When I started my studies 4 years ago, I imagined photography from a different point of view. However, from year to year, I discovered I have many new passions. Now I know where I am professionally, and what I want to do in the future. A series of my photos was created for my Major Project "Healthy lifestyle and sport" at Edinburgh College in my BA Photography studies. By working with many athletes and models, I could learn a lot. Thanks to the project, I expanded my knowledge once again, which I will certainly use in the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lowri Evans
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project focuses on the Welsh mythological character Nel from the tale of ‘Llyn Y Fan Fach’. My objective is to use my photographs to modernise the mythological story and to highlight the out of date issues, particularly, domestic abuse that is overlooked in the story. This body of work is centered on portraying the tale from a feminist perspective by shining light on the danger of glamourising these stories which are found in Welsh children's books. The work does not change the story, it merely tells the tale from a perspective which celebrates Nel's courage to leave her husband after experiencing physical abuse. My images attempt to connect the past with the present, reinterpreting mythology with a modern twist. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phoebe Janes
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Material belongings are a physical extension of the self that perpetuate our identities. Possessions signal to ourselves, and others, who we want to be and where we want to belong. The term ‘Conspicuous Consumption’ was coined to mean the ostentation of wealth or material purchases, but here it is taken to mean the demonstration of something immaterial: ones persona, desired character traits or an association to a cultural clique. The artist encapsulates an exchange between the subject projecting identity through their belongings, and the viewer inferring knowledge about them. Objects are devoid of any recognisable time or location, leaving only the semiotics of each item and the composition to represent the identity of its owner. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ella Moore-Hughes
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Through sets, props, characters, and lighting, I have created tableau photographs that portray young females’ lockdown-related narratives, with a focus on emotions, feelings, and experiences. The work sits in a contemporary context, situated around the covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. The mundane, domestic flat interior acts as a stage where different performances and narratives take place. I create a feeling of the uncanny in my work to reflect the strange, surreal and eerie lockdown period. By combing elements of truth in a fictional, staged setting, the photographs blur the boundaries between truth and fiction. The images act as a window into someone else’s world; a space to reflect one’s thoughts and feelings from the past 2 years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sasha Hatė
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I AM SASHA is an anthropological and visual sociological investigation into individuals who share the same name and current geographical boundary. I am interested in their origin of name, socio-economic backgrounds, interests, and what led us all to the same location - to underpin what elements build up their version of ‘Sasha’. Each subject has their portrait taken in the studio. In addition to this, the photographer and subject undergo the ‘Sasha exchange’; subjects use the photographer’s camera during an experience reflecting their biographical information. This interaction attempts to identify further commonalities and celebrate the diversity of individuals. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Imaani Dar
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Nostalgic places and moments we encounter during childhood embody our most treasured and valued memories which can cause familiarity to be found within physical objects. These objects, in whatever form we are able to recall, allow those who have experienced trauma to gain an elevated sense of calm and balance, essentially allowing brief respite from present worries and stress. Displaced from any one location, my practice represents personal escapism found within the materiality that surrounded me during my trauma. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scarlett Oliver
University Centre Farnborough - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In this body of work, A range of materials has been used to construct and visualize the 'second-self'. In society, we have roles to play and standards to meet which are widely influenced by the media. The focus of this series was the pressures on the female body. To conform to these standards, we present ourselves in a way that can be far from the truth. The process of making this 'other-self' out of casts and liquid latex, has been documented through a series of black and white self-portraits. Performing for the gaze has been an influence on my performance to the camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Máté Harmath
University Centre Farnborough - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In this body of work, Football Ultras from Hungary were documented. The team ‘MOL Fehérvár FC’ also known as Videoton, is located in Székesfehérvár and has one of the most famous Ultras groups in Hungary which competes with other Ultras groups such as Green Monsters, Szívtiprók Ultras Debrecen and Viola Fidelity. The main purpose of this project was to highlight and celebrate the beauty which comes from a passionate group of people that sacrifice their own money and time for the football club. The journey of RBD was followed from 2022 February – to 2022 April. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Reeve Hart
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Reeve Hart's body of work '75,000,000,000' consists of five constructed photographs combining animal portraiture with raw meat. Aiming to address the disconnected and hidden origin of the food that we consume, these photographs serve to influence feelings of compassion toward the 75 billion + livestock animals that are bred into existence for slaughter every year. Inspired by his passion for animals from a young age and informed by Mari Mahr's assembled images of objects on photographs, Reeve Hart has created prints of his own animal portraiture and photographed meat on them in disturbing and shocking arrangements, in order to confront the inhumane brutality which is regularly practiced in animal agriculture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aviraj Rehill
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Working with automotive and portrait photography, Aviraj Rehill's current body of work explores ideas around representation within today's contemporary modern car culture and community. Focusing his work around younger people who feel strongly about the negative representation of their community in mainstream media and news. Within this series, Aviraj brings together his two passions of portraiture and automotive photography, to produce visually arresting images that reveal and examine the individual and their community. Influenced by his own passion for cars and the automotive industry, Aviraj feels a strong personal connection to this body of work as it explores a fundamental part of his beliefs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Cooper-Pedrote
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'The in betweens' is Cooper-Pedrote's first artist book production embroiled with love, vulnerability and nostalgia, intimately exploring personal identity and social relations exposed through capturing social experience within her current friend group during and after the Covid pandemic, and through their last year at university. Including herself in the publication, eight more different people are presented with playful individual and group photographs of them, along with text they wrote introducing themselves. From their favourite books, their peculiarities, their rather personal feelings towards friendship, to their most vulnerable flaws, these nine people allow the reader to get to know who they are in a one-to-one level, accidentally finding better understanding about themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zuzanna Kulczewska
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Zuzanna Kulczewska is based in Reading, England. She is interested in wildlife and landscape photography and uses her work to address the impact of humans on the environment. Throughout her practice, Kulczewska uses photography to position nature as precious, intertwined, and as often harmed by the actions of people. Kulczewska's current work 'Plant care' examines her own connection to nature - studying her own environment and role as 'caretaker' to houseplants. Her plant passion started with one plant and grew exponentially over lockdown resulting in 88 plants in her bedroom. Her obsession with 'nature' and the consequences on her domestic space are shown through photographs of plants and video of her plant routines. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carlos Hawthorn
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'Birder's Notes' is based on Hawthorn's experience as a birdwatcher. The photographs depict the water on the lake, the inside of a bird hide, and the view through a pair of binoculars. They are displayed along with an audio piece containing birdsong and bird, and two of of Hawthorn's personal birder's notebooks containing observations from various birdwatching trips since 2012. This project focuses on the experience of birdwatching as a relaxing pastime rather than the bird itself, but also aims to teach others about how important birding can be to preserve wildlife whilst also encouraging people to go and experience it themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kerry Holland
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Taking inspiration from her love of the Legend of Zelda game series since she was a child, Holland has developed a deeply personal project revolving around the themes of memory and nostalgia. She explores the personal links between the different realities by traversing both the physical and virtual world while incorporating her love and appreciation for the series alongside the memories of her past. Using a mix of found imagery and her own photography Holland explores the beauty between our world and the world of Legend of Zelda alongside a blend of her own texts as well as quotations from the games. This is an expression of love and appreciation for a world that exists beyond our physical reality.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Romero Blasco
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'Togetherness' is part of an on-going project which focuses on the analysis of the co-dependency that was developed during the artist's most recent relationship - which started and ended during lockdown - through the exploration of physical closeness. The constructed portraits and scenes displayed in the project accentuate the suffocating but safe environment that she was immerse in for that period of time, an environment that was shared with the artist's ex-partner during six months during the UK lockdown in 2020/21. This project is a medium for the artist to explore her own experiences, analyse changes in her life, values and vulnerabilities, since emotional dependency has been something present in her life from childhood to adulthood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olivia Cooper
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'A Woman Should' is a project produced by Olivia Cooper surrounding the issues of women's safety, through focusing on specific experiences, and mundane aspects that might otherwise be overlooked. It sees familiar scenarios and unspoken precautions reconstructed, staged with artificial lighting, bold styling, and are theatricality exaggerated to create an uncanny atmosphere. Cooper hopes to address this larger topic to represent and understand how photography can make viewers feel and react. The work speaks to wider narratives and social and political feminist perspectives and her ambitions for the work would be to create useful and important conversations in hopes that it asks individuals to think deeper about the issue. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Thomas
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“femme” is a project which explores the fashion industry’s relationship with gender. Highlighting what is known as “gender bending fashion” this work question’s why clothing is still gendered. This project also calls into question society’s toxic expectations of men within fashion today. Celebrating self expression and gender identity this project hopes to push boundaries. The work produced also aims to turn heads and explore gender fluidity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber Northfield
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

With an Alzheimer's diagnosis, Momma will most likely leave me before she's gone. Although aware her memory and abilities are diminishing, she understands this work, inspired by her beloved gilt-framed flower paintings, is an expression of the beautiful soul I feel she is. The flowers and colours are ones she loves but also ones encoded with meaning that reflect her character. They have been photographed reflected in gently moving water - which represents not only her softness, kindness and benevolence but also her resilience of spirit. Inspired by Impressionism, this work shows that my perception of Momma is mediated by my personal emotion and memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caitlin Wells
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project invites you to take a deeper look into buildings that have been abandoned, left to decay and rot into nothing but an empty shell of bricks and materials left behind. All these buildings once had a purpose: to provide shelter for a family or build ammunition for a world war. All these buildings have memories attached to them. You can't help but wonder... who lived in these buildings? who worked here? I Look into how things change and buildings change and how the elements have such a massive impact on a building that once was maintained and or lived in. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jurga Kalinauskaite
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Invisibles is a photo project about the people, who are working behind the scenes in the live music industry. This includes a lot of different people who are truly making gigs happen and ensuring an unforgettable experience for music lovers. From the venue owner to the staff at the door checking the tickets-only very few are being noticed by the concert attendees and in most cases, easily forgotten. The majority of the workers in the live music industry are invisible. This project is about them and aims to show that appreciation they and their important work truly deserve. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lesley Adams
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This photographic project celebrates the abundance of food and drink sourced from local shops and farmers markets. During the Covid pandemic and resulting travel restrictions, it became more important than ever to shop locally whilst supporting small and local businesses that were negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdowns. In addition to the accessibility of fresh quality produce, by shopping in this way we can support the local economy and help to reduce our carbon footprint. Taking inspiration from the Dutch Masters still life's, this collection of images highlights the rich and varied produce within the local community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorien Barker
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Salt Print. Sensitised and developed in-situ. This body of work considers the transactional relationship one has with the land. What we bring to, what we take from, what we leave behind and what we return with, are considered through this photographic approach. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Shaw
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Elementum’ is the Latin word for element which is what the colour pallet of my series of fashion images are based on. The elements I decided to do were fire (Ignis), water (Aqua), air (Aer) and earth (Terra). The use of the studio allowed me to create some classic and editorial peace showcasing full outfit. All outfits are sustainably sourced through a stylist who uses by rotation or charity shops to curate these looks. My inspiration behind this project came from a Tik Tok video showing house placements for the zodiac signs with the elements. Being able to explore fashion photography with many different creatives has been a highlight of this project through the stylist, hair and makeup artists and models. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie McGarrigle
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project is looking at Scotland’s LGBTQ+ community. I come from ‘the wee county’ Britain’s smallest county, Clackmannanshire. Growing up I saw little to no LGBTQ+ representation I wanted to create a project that people can look at and relate too. Coming to terms with my sexuality growing up was hard and it wasn’t until I started my studies in Glasgow and met my friends who identified as part of the LGBTQ+ community I started to understand where I fitted in.These people in this project aren’t defined by their sexuality but find it something to celebrate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Pearson
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project focuses on young crofters from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. A young crofter is someone under the age of 41, this is important because anyone under this age has access to Scottish crofting grants, without these grants’ crofting would not be sustainable. I wanted to show what crofting is and how important it is to the island and to the community. Crofting Is a way of life here it involves the land and the local language to keep it alive. This is something that is important to me being from the island and growing up with this culture, I want to share it with the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danielle Haynes
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Being neurodivergent shapes the way you see and connect with the world and can make everyday environments and situations unbelievably challenging. In Their Own Space and Time is a mixed media photographic project about being neurodivergent. It aims to face stigma, educate others and allow each person involved to share their own narrative about their experiences, what they want to say about themselves and how they want to be seen. The work itself consists of a variety of three dimensional, vibrant, textured, sensory and moving pieces, that are curated into individual interactive installations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abbey Emm
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Genesis tells us of a grand beginning, the birth of the world in its immaculate form. Earth and seas, plants and light, animals and humans all co-existing, abundantly diverse, perfectly handcrafted. With Christianity having a prominent history of being discriminatory against LGBTQ+ folk, queer people have long been left out of this story. The celebration of individuality, of God declaring things to be ‘good’ for simply being created by Him, originates from the very beginning. If everybody has been “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139: 14), then this assuredly applies to queer folk too. Through intimate portraits of LGBTQ+ Christians and images of the natural world, Queerly Made seeks to show queer people as being part of creation, placing this marginalised group back into the story they have been excluded from. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Poyzer
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Alice Poyzer is a British analogue photographer. Whilst she is interested in all photographic forms, Poyzer’s work looks predominantly on portraiture. Producing projects that focus on people and communities, the driving force of her work is to connect with individuals through photography. As her practice has evolved over time, Poyzer uses the means of image making to convey a sense of gentleness throughout, as a reflection of how she sees the world. The drive to be seen and heard as a female, neurodivergent practitioner fuelled her most recent work ‘Hiraeth’ which captures individuals that visually hold a sense of loss. In the future, Poyzer is hoping to further develop her work with communities, looking at the complexities of human relationships. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber Riley
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Home Safe is an investigative project that uses intimate imagery to discuss themes of safety and comfort, finding familial links within communal friendship groups. The project dissects how ‘home’ can be a feeling and a group of people more than just four white walls and a roof - the emotions you feel when you finally warm your hands after being outside in the cold for so long, that slight sting of adjustment but comforting and warming all the same. Transience and time is explored throughout this project, documenting the minuscule moments of everyday life that would otherwise go overlooked if not for the presence of photographer and camera. Home Safe finds detail within lost moments, acting as a photographic time capsule to document one’s time in a certain location. This project is for all those who have felt so lost for years only to find peace within a short period of life. This project can be home for you when the notion of such feels so out of reach. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Miles
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘As a woman’ is a series of work exploring how menstruation affects each woman differently, aiming to create more conversation and awareness. The work has been approached by collaborating with women who were happy to share their own menstrual experience and each portrait demonstrates metaphorically their own cycle. In addition to the portraits, the project as a whole includes images of nature which accompany each portrait, but also pieces of text written by each of the women, to allow the viewer to gain a true perspective of the experience. ‘As a woman’ has been inspired by several influences including Lena Emery, Melissa Schriek, Emma Barnett and Kiran Gandhi. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ella Vincent
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Hailing from South Oxfordshire, Ella Vincent is fashion and portrait-based photographer. She has just completed her degree in BA Photography at Falmouth University. With a keen interest in styling and dream like aesthetics, she constructs images inspired by film, art, and popular culture. Portraits from her newest fashion photography series “Eclectic Tastes” show a diverse selection of images of her friends and peers, styled by her from head to toe. The images act as an insight into the workings of her mind using different colours, textures, and aesthetics. Ella draws heavy inspiration from her own inner psyche, returning motifs in her work includes the colour pink and juicy couture tracksuits – two of her favourite things. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Cooper
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ellie Cooper is a 22 year old photographer and crochet maker. She has an interest in contemporary art, art history and the process of intertwining different mediums. ‘The World in Wool: Still Life’ depicts still life paintings that have been recreated through crochet. Beginning as an exploration into art history, this project shows how playfulness can be incorporated into a genre that is often perceived as pretentious. The addition of crochet demonstrates the importance of craft within the arts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Felicity Butcher
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Felicity Butcher’s work borders conceptual and documentary practice and her poetic approach to photographing has allowed her interest in the boundaries of presence and absence to be explored in her most recent project. ‘When The Magnolias Bloom’ is about the recent passing of Butcher’s late Great Aunt Elaine. This story of grief, and its process, is told through quiet, reflective, and thoughtful moments and observations in collaboration with her family. The photographs include memories and an appreciation for a life well-lived. They journey from the reclusion to safety of the indoors, where family comes together to reminisce, performing rituals of remembrance, to the beginnings of acceptance and adaptation, and returning to the outside. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Florence Hinkley
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘For Bleeding Sake’ is about the different terms used to describe the menstrual cycle. The word ‘period’ remains a taboo in today’s society and this is highlighted with a selection of terms, in which people use to talk about periods, rather than just saying the word itself. This piece of work, is depicting these terms, in quite a literal sense to show how bizarre and unusual these phrases are. Although everyone’s period is different, people who menstruates can usually relate to others about their experience, in one way or another. The piece aims to help show that the word ‘period’ is not a dirty word, and that it’s okay to say it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peta Bright
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Originally Luminescent was a project was looking at beauty standards in fashion and standing against them, even though the project has this undertone, I don't think that’s what it’s about anymore. The project is now more about self-expression through fashion. Each shoot is a collaboration between me and the model playing around with clothes showing how fun fashion should be and is. It's looking at positive impacts fashion can have personally, environmentally, and ethically. The fashion industry has been known for having a negative impact on subjects such as body image and environmentally. My project is bringing fashion back as a tool used to express ones own identity not a tool to damage it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Bewley
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work focused on individual perceptions of High Fashion. What stands out to them? What outfits resemble High Fashion? What poses demonstrate it? My work aimed to represent an audience that combines style and facets to create an ensemble piece. In a society where brands mean everything, what makes you stand out is being able to personalise your style, to make yourself unique. Being able to reflect your personality through your clothing choices is something we should not take for granted. My mantra throughout my work, while collaborating with my models was; choose to be unique, choose to be yourself, choose to put our spin on it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruben Bowers Storey
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Gwandra’ forms a body of work made up of two distinctive parts: physical-photographic sculptures, and collaged documentations of sculpted rocks. Meaning to ramble, Gwandra is a Cornish word of multiple leanings (to walk, to talk, a rambling of thoughts) all of which inhabit the space my work exists in: established by wandering and photographing, built through rambling with a rucksack of rocks across the landscape, and created in a rambling of thoughts acted out through collage. The work is a continuation of encounters with Penwith’s Granite, which ‘to discover its true nature you must dig into it, turn it this way and that, simultaneously examine it in detail and weigh it as a whole’ (Berger, cited in Cross, 1984, 126). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maddy Baron-Clark
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Maddy Baron-Clark is a British photographer based in London. Her photographic practice uses portraiture to communicate personal stories surrounding the body and psyche through a sympathetic and deeply connective lens. Her current main focus is challenging the frequent objectification and misrepresentation of the the body in traditional western society and how the camera can be used to reclaim these perspectives in a more holistic, sympathetic way. Baron-Clark’s most recent project Gilded explores the usually invisible toll eczema can have on sufferers; not only physically but psychologically when being a young person today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Brotherwood
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

By way of grim whim, fancy, and fortune most foul, against judgements better than those that befell my wretched soul, I found myself duly presented with the undesirable task of illustrating a tome, whose vile and unsanctimonious nature still beckons and calls. A grimoire of sorts, this desecrated and grotesque relic acts as catalogue of denizens in realms that lay hidden, to all but those with a perspicacious eye. Restless Shades, born of misanthropy, contempt, anger, and hatred, seeking material form, oft granted their wishes by nought but our own fractious species. By arcane means, divinations, and bubbling alchemy I set about capturing the essence of these lurking horrors, eight of which find themselves ungraciously imprisoned before you now. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Dawson
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project, ‘As Far As Half The Time Left’, predominantly explores the symbiotic relationship between journeys, landscape and our emotions. Inspired by my late fathers love of the Yorkshire Dales, I undertook a series of walks to try and reconnect with both him and the place where he grew up. Sadly, I never had the opportunity to visit these places with him. Through this pilgrimage of sorts, I hope to collect fragments of the landscape and start to piece together the experiences that lay on the threshold of reality and memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shannon Best
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As a photographer and videographer, my practice combines still and moving image making. Drawing on the natural world, mythology, iconography, psychoanalytic discourse, and gender politics, my work reframes and replaces familiar and conventional concepts or narratives, in order to reveal their qualities and their limits. Using the parameters of the constructed image, I hope to convey the contrivances embedded in our social realities. An environmental approach is essential to my work, and has become a large component of my degree show collection: centralising Gaia, the death process, and the life cycles of the Earth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola Williamson
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In its heyday, Freeport was a prime example of a successful outlet for designer retail. The study and photographs document and demonstrate the outcome of an overly-enthusiastic approach by the retail sector, encouraged by the supportive and economically advantageous policies of government and planning authorities. This resulted in an over-provision of such out-of-town retail space and in a heavily competitive market, the demise of parks such as Freeport. An imbalance in provision between such centres and a local shopping presence in town centres was created. My photographs demonstrate the folly of placing too much focus on out-of-town retail development and the need for a mixed economy of retail provision. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caleia McKennan
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My photographic practice is primarily concerned with documenting my immediate environment and through images and broader research, I try to make sense of the world that surrounds me. This project allowed me to explore the domain of social documentary and portraiture. Through this project I explore the complex situation surrounding the divide between the Catholic and Protestant communities within the Central Belt of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Within this divide I belonged to neither side, but it has been ever-present in my life growing up in Central Scotland and is a subject I have always wanted to explore further. The first part of this ongoing project, entitled ‘Loyal’ primarily documents the Protestant community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Cassidy
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Climate change has become an abstraction that few of us understand and less see as a process that we can influence. Nature doesn’t make a conscious choice about its environment but as humans we have agency to change the ways in which we impact our environment. Current predictions are that swathes of Dublin will be underwater by 2050. Using experimental methods to document this landscape under threat, these images challenge our understanding of what is present and what is unknown. These images reveal the ever-present friction between the land and its inhabitants in an abstract exploration of the landscape at a critical time in our history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elin O'Rourke
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In the last 5 years there has been a global rise in anxiety. Those who suffer from anxiety are often faced with misconceptions about this condition; the most common being that anxiety is something that can be shrugged off. For as long as I can remember, I have suffered with anxiety and know it to be something that disrupts your ability to function in normal everyday life. Turning to street photography, these images are created in a public space where for many anxieties are heightened. Creating a tension between detailed stills and blurred abstract imagery, this work seeks to represent a state of flux often experienced by those with anxiety finding it difficult to be present in the current moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ella Lynch
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In 2018 tinned food products became more expensive and better quality to make them more appealable to consumers. They are, however, still problematic. While convenient in many ways due to their long shelf life, easy storage as well as their affordability; they often have a high salt and sugar content along with other added preservatives. Wonderfully Wrong explores the kitsch world of canned products. Adopting a commercial aesthetic these images embrace humor as a visual strategy. Depicted here in an elaborate studio set up and given a commercial stage they are not used to; these images seek to challenge the audience's usual perception of them. Would you care for some corned beef? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Working with archival material, historical medical objects and personal testimonies, this research-based project examines the historical practice of symphysiotomy and pubiotomy in Irish hospitals from the 1940s to 1980s. The series analyses the circumstances in which the surgeries were carried out and the lifechanging affects they had on women. The procedure, performed before and sometimes after childbirth on around 1,500 women, involved cutting through the cartilage and ligaments of the pelvic joint (or in severe cases sawing through the pelvis) to aid obstructed labour. It was carried out instead of a safer alternative, a Caesarean section, and usually without the patient’s consent. The practice was an unholy alliance between medical authority and religion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hayley Houlihan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“I wanted to die, I wanted to live, I wanted it to be” is an ongoing project which explores themes of grief, loss and memory, an open-ended and unresolved link between the past and the present. Following the bereavement of my mother in 2016, I have struggled with accepting the void felt by her absence and the sheer magnitude of this life altering event. The work seeks to visually open the boundaries of two of the most sensitive topics: death and the subsequent suffering of those left behind. Primarily shot on film, the work is imperfect and flawed in places. A reminder that photography, like life itself, is fragile, and that memories overlap and degrade over time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marina Dmitrik
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Seaweed has been sustaining generations of people as food and oxygen source. Recently it has been proven to be a valuable agent in sequestering carbon along with its rediscovered high protein benefits in the agro ecology movement. By means of photography, this body of work sets out to represent this vital material and translate its visual qualities into the photographic image. Removed from its natural environment, an elaborate studio was set up to host these samples; using minimal d¬¬igital alterations and embracing the transformative qualities of natural light to harness the magic of this crucial to life yet fragile material. The resulting images, like the seaweed itself, are a source of limitless possibilities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Filby
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This body of work explores my pursuit of commercial fashion photography. Working with models in the natural environment and employing elements of high fashion, I like to plan and conceptualise each shoot as much as possible in advance. I also strive to create a playful atmosphere where experimenting with all the elements involved allows moments of chance to unfold before the camera. Working intuitively, while highlighting the beautiful items of clothing, something of the character of the model emerges too. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Orla Neiland
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

From the outside, skateboarding culture can be difficult to understand. Often misrepresented in the public’s eye, skateboarders are commonly associated with anti-social behaviour. Airborne sets out to challenge this view by celebrating the lifestyle and aesthetic that skate culture offers. Spending time in skate parks during the creation of the work, I witnessed first-hand the highly charged atmosphere in this environment. As skaters spend time mastering their hobby and evolving their repertoire of skills, it is clear that this is a form of escapism. Skateboarding is not just a past time or a hobby. It influences the way people dress, how they think. It even changes the way they perceive the world. For many, it’s a way of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Kappel
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Peter Kappel is an Austrian photographer born in Vienna who is currently based in Ireland. With his current series, Life’s Red Kappel encourages the viewer to observe and discover what they have already seen but in a different, unique kind of way. Burdened by the stresses and strains associated with a global pandemic and the materialistic nature of society, the outlook feels uncertain and gloomy. A desire for escapism is present and real. Kappel uses infrared film in his everyday surroundings of Dublin as a means in which to uplift viewers from global uncertainties, offering them an escapism that engages with the colour and beauty of everyday life from a new refreshing perspective of hope. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Navan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My name is Sarah. I am a mother. I work night shifts. I go to college part time. I suffer from a bipolar disorder. Care in Progress is an in-depth exploration of coming out of a bipolar disorder manic episode and starting afresh. Taken with a snapshot aesthetic on various 35mm film. The work documents moods such as depression, suicide idealization, hypersexuality and apprehensiveness, juxtaposed with bouts of euphoria and elation or simply being content with life. In making this work, from a personal perspective, I want the snapshot view into moments of my life to feel relatable. I hope this visibility will help to break down barriers and curb the stigma and myths that surround this condition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shaurya Jung Chauhan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Cosmos simply means universe, but it suggests something much bigger in how we as humans try to make sense of everything. Sometimes we need to stop searching for order or clarity, and instead just accept the infinite possibilities of this universe. These still images might seem to be out of this world, but they are found in macro images of everyday materials. A form of escapism, they embrace and find comfort in the cosmos of our immediate environment. My work is about slowing down, reflecting, appreciating the things we have in our lives and finding the beauty in what we can never fully understand. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephen McPadden
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

From a young age, I always found a form of escapism in the coastal landscape. A space offering a calming experience, a unfixed horizon with limitless possibilities. Possibilities of freedom, of acceptance, to love who I wanted to, and even be loved. Now, as an adult I can return to this landscape and find this escapism within. Just before, just after is a love letter to my youth, and takes place in a landscape I found so freeing while coming to terms with my sexuality. Adopting a fashion editorial style this work embraces queer identity by using gay models while employing a strong sensibility around narrative and place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Finn
Hereford College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“Custodians of the Land” is a collection of photographic portraitures of Welsh farmers in rural Monmouthshire. Farming is the traditional backbone of the rural economy in Wales. The “Custodians of the Land” collection provides a visual reflection of both a description of the individual farmers and the inscription of their social identity. Many of the farmers families have been farming their land for generations. Often the contribution of women farmers has been forgotten in photographic portraiture. Welsh farmers histories are embedded within the land. I wanted to tell their stories in a dignified way, rediscovering the landscape for what it is, capturing this moment in time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danielle Hewlett
Hereford College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I wanted to be able to highlight the female forms curves and sensuality. Predominately erotic imagery has been aimed at the male audience. This subjectifies the woman as she becomes the source of a man’s awakened desire. A female observer and photographer find themselves on a common ground, there is no motive to objectify the model, there are many ways that the classic nudes can be seen, my work takes me towards an oblique angle using the soft subtle tone and a unique perspective. I like to make people think about what they are viewing and to come to their own conclusion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Drew
Hereford College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My Current work is exploring Abstract Reflections within Landscapes. On a previous project I captured some clouds reflected in puddles and loved how it created a world within a world. While walking along the river and I started to experiment with how the different reflections on the side of the water caused different patterns, and ripples in the water can create some mind-blowing images. I named this series Disorientated World because the idea behind these photos is that it means losing one’s self-direction and being confused. My images clearly represent being disorientated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marika Zieba
Hereford College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

An exploration of mind and displacement created by own thoughts. Through a series of self-portraiture. I am exploring my own identity, the entrapment and confusion influenced by overthinking. It's the feeling of constraint, fighting with yourself to escape the ambiguity of the state of mind. It is the uncertainness showcased through unidentifiable photographs of myself, reflecting the liminality of my own identity. An expression of feelings, the fluidity of emotion, the tangible and intangible moments of the essence of my inner self. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nadine Scarlett
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A reminder that we must pay homage and celebrate the beauty of our culture. 'An Ode To' is a series that recognises the presence of black culture throughout British history. It seeks to remind us of where and who we have come from, acknowledging those who paved the way for the birth of black culture today. The series focuses on political discourse of the time and transforms these stories into visual narratives using place, fashion, and style. In its final form, the series exists as a book. Here features 2 shots from 4 chapters of the book. An Ode To: Windrush, Brixton, The Panthers, and The Grove. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ceri Neary
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Throughout this series I have symbolised Dementia through the physical, emotional and social visualisation of the disease. This is done by using Ann’s most used and symbolic areas. The way I have perceived her home is now thought out, viewing the ordinary things in an objective way. Beginning my series, I showed the opening of the blinds, which as a core memory for me, became a task my Nan used to do as a simple thought in the morning. It then became delayed and unfinished tasks were becoming a recurrence. Now the light is on, but the identity is slipping away. The days become short, and the questions become recurring. The memories are gone but the images are still there. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Turner
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Living with a Chronic Condition is an incredibly difficult thing, especially when that condition affects so many different aspects of your life. Roughly 1 in 10 women suffer with PCOS (Polycystic ovary Syndrome) and yet most people have never heard of it. Many of these women suffer in silence from symptoms that include, hair loss, fatigue, fertility problems, hirsutism and more. My series ‘Invisible Anomalies’ looks deeper into PCOS, and the symptoms associated with it. My images are a representation of not only my own experiences but the experiences of many other women who have helped me with the research of my project. My aim is that I can raise more awareness around an undiscussed yet very common chronic condition.     . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Izzy Field
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Being a young adult can be strange and it can be difficult. People around you can be on a completely different path to you. As a twenty-two-year-oldand feeling slightly lost, I wanted to reach out to my peers and ask if they experienced similar thoughts and feelings themselves. ‘Can I Ask You A Question?’ documents and explores how young adults feel about their position within their own lives compared to others, through portraiture which I have then paired with their handwritten responses to the question. Most importantly, the work highlights that no one, at any age, completely knows what they are doing. We are all different, and that’s okay. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Keane
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

When I came to shoot a project on my hometown, I wanted to capture various places from its past as well as mine however, many of these places are now lost to time; knocked down to make space for new developments. The mental image I have of the place I grew up is steadily becoming disassociated with the state of reality, with the soulless new builds taking over the land once occupied by classic buildings from the post-war era. With this project, I felt a personal duty to preserve the remaining slivers of history in my hometown whilst also documenting the new buildings taking their places. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Tunbridge
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work is about using colour to represent individuals and using our bodies to create shapes to tell a story. My love for using colour comes from doing projects on my community- the LGBTQ+community. Each person I work with has a different style or their own twist on trendy looks. I capture people in their prime of feeling confident and strive to help people who don’t feel so confident in themselves. I carefully select the location for each shoot to best represent the individual and their style. By using a different location every time, I create a variety of aesthetics in my images and every shoot is unique. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rhi Shore
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Not Many People Know This… is a documentary series where I have looked into the hobbies and interests of students from Hertfordshire University. I have photographed a wide range of hobbies and interests, some being the course the student does, and others being what they do in their spare time. I wanted to show each student away from their course, so they’re not just represented by their course. But talking to people, I have found that some people's courses are their passions and interests. From talking to people, I made the decision to look into courses too. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Viktorija Rozite
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work explores the 'Rainbow Diet', which consists of different fruits and vegetables sorted into 7 colours of the rainbow. The work also includes digital illustrations that are supposed to bring excitement and happiness to the food products. As a young adult, I understand how hard it is to keep on eating healthy. By making all of the drawings happy, I am hoping to influence a wide range of audiences to start eating healthier. My project doesn't focus on dieting specifically, but on the visual characteristics of the food items. This is why Rainbow Diet is only hinted at in the postcards by the typography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Dee
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The project 'Girls' explores the representation of women within the fashion industry, whilst positively exploring the themes of feminism and diversity. My focus has been to positively promote the way women are seen within the industry and the impact it has on other individuals. My inspiration from this project is heavily influenced by photographer Claire Rothstein and the Euphoria magazine edit for the cut magazine. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Millie Woods
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

What A Drag! is an exploration of the Drag community. I used this project to educate myself on the Drag community and what each Drag queens' identity stands for. I wanted to learn more about this side of the LGBTQ+ community as this is something that I never had a lot of education on prior to starting this project. This project is also my way of showing the fabulous and authentic parts of the drag community. I showed everything from the wig edges to the fake breast. This was my way of getting people out of the reality tv show versions of Drag queens, and show the Drag queens you see in real life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tillie Cannadine
University of Hertfordshire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'GROUNDED' is about capturing my model in a minimal environment, exploring the concept of 'less is more'. The series highlights the idea of having an open mind about the key elements, essentially stripping it back to basics. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cian Lawler
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Subtle Interactions looks at the everyday occurrences that happen between people and nature and how our experience of nature is disturbed by the human presence within the space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ayesha Ahmad
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Water surrounds us, it is within us; it heals us and breathes life into us. 'Blue Hour' is a meditative visual journey of water and the memories it holds. Composed of a series of three photographic prints accompanied by a plaster sculpture of the artist's hand, containing collected rainwater in the palm. This work explores the connection between water, memory and the human body. The water which we embody is the very water that returns to the sea to begin the cycle once again. A visual metaphor of the cycles of life itself. It is an everlasting journey, creating and holding memories along the way. Blue Hour portrays this ongoing act of remembering. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer O'Dowd
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My current work is exploring the theme of Long-Distance Relationships. With this work I want to create a narrative that reflects positively on this subject, The media portrays a negative outlook on Long-Distance Relationships, and I want to create a conversation from my work that Long-Distance Relationships can be good. My work in general is basically an expression of me and my experience but I try to make my personal feelings and experiences universal. My work explores romantic long-distance relationships. I used the media of Photographic Prints and an audio piece paired with an animation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Sullivan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

We fear secrets. They hold a power over us, a dread of what might happen if one were to come out. Just one slip could change the course of your life, those few volatile words changing someone’s perception of you. It is only after the secret is revealed that it loses its sway over you. By collecting and displaying these secrets anonymously, written down and hidden till now with no way to discern who gave which, or if any of them are from the people photographed, puts them in a purgatory. Inert once revealed, yet volatile through their anonymity. Should we fear mere words in this state? Or have they been revealed as just that; plain words on a page. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe McQuillan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Series of image titled Closing time focuses on the once iconic and imposing architectural presence of the Bray Head Hotel that stood proud on the Promenade in Bray built in the mid 1800’s to the booming Tourism in Bray’s Victorian seafront to its current condition of dereliction and abandonment since its closure in the 21st century and a disappearing world of the old Hotel that also boasts a history of famous films. Through the medium of Photography I have focused on a solitary visual narrative of the once bustling and busy Hotel through chosen objects and symbols I had encountered from an exploration of the site that stands vacant and in transition from its glory days to current state of dereliction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kierra Ceanne Gray
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Kierra Gray's work depicts the inner thoughts and ideas of a young woman after growing up in a patriarchal society. The work explores themes of feminism in a contemporary manner using self-portraiture and character development. It reflects the realities that women face, mentally and physically. Taking inspiration from social media, stereotypes, conversations and observations, the ideas consist of beauty standards, mental wellbeing and domestic expectations. Such ideas are the entire reason this project exists, and why it needs to exist. For the women who feel silenced by a patriarchal society and the future generations who I hope to grow up to be who they want to be and not who society made them to be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Becca Dey
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘To Be Northern’ is a photographic project captured by Becca that seeks to encapsulate the existence of mundane living. Becca searches to represent the reality of life in the North from her perspective. By juxtaposing both street portraiture and architecture to depict this northern life, Becca’s images share a warmth that is reminding of home. Using soft colours, she is drawn to the faces and spaces that make the north feel like home. These images illustrate how it feels and what it is like to be northern. It shares images from across Lancashire to piece together the quirkiness that separates it from its surroundings. Placing these together, ‘To Be Northern’ is a celebration of Northern life as we know it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rhianna McAteer
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Rhianna McAteer is a portrait photographer based around Preston; these images have been taken from her BA photography exhibition. This work is reflecting a side of pollution that has been aimed to make the viewer aware of their waste instead of shoving it in their faces. Using black and white images in the work is taking any unnecessary distractions from the images and allowing the key points to be seen, pollution in its rawest form. Rhianna chooses to create props from the materials to give it a second life outside of its original purpose. These images reflect on herself and how this isn’t just a personal problem, it’s a global one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sanam Shah
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

People Speaking Maa is a series of images taken of the Olkinyey Tribe, base in Maasai Mara, Kenya. They have named themselves the Olkyinyey after the Olkinyey tree that the use to build their boma's and use for herbal medicine. The Maasai tries around Kenya are well known and are used within the tourism sector to advertise Kenya as a dream destination. Grouping up in Kenya, I knew the Maasai’s to be warriors and protectors of the animals in the Maasai Mara. This project documents the Olkinyey tribe throughout the day, as I learnt more about who they are individual and who they were as a tribe. This series showcases the key role players within the tribe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shelley Tyson
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Shelley Tyson is a lifelong photography enthusiast, based in Lancashire, England. These images are taken from her final BA Photography exhibition work, entitled, Reflection of Society. Using objects and colours that characterise and dominant the beauty industry, and specifically items that are targeted at women, Tyson chooses to examine and photograph these entities in isolation as fascinating specimens that she doesn’t personally understand. She uses an advertising trope to examine and experiment with them whilst reimagining and playing with their purpose with good humour. Her images are heavily influenced by an inquisitive nature and a love of working with bright, sharp, contrasting colour. The use of reflection, through various forms of mirror and glass, is complemented by clean lines. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abby Richardson
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Human interaction has been heavily impacted by technology. Our smartphones allow us to connect with others in an instant; regardless of time or distance. Despite this, our digital generation feels more disconnected than ever before. Firmly seated in an era where technology surrounds us, hunched shoulders and downward tilted heads have become our default posture. We close in on ourselves and cocoon around our devices, consequently shutting out the world and the people around us. This body of work explores how our smartphone exterior reflects our character, thus becoming an extension of ourselves both digitally and physically, and observes how frequent use of technology is physically changing communication and the human form by looking at changes in our posture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elyse Burgess
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The project ‘Lost in Reverie’ explores the subject of light and colour. It focuses on the natural phenomena that is the cloudscape, as a way of exploring the behaviour of light and how the nature of light and the presence of colour can evoke emotion in the audience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Middlebrook
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Ladies Who Lunch presents the importance of relationships in working-class communities and how they bring happiness in the good times and comfort during the hard times when they come together to provide support. Traditionally in photography working-class communities are looked down on by the way they are presented, which is negatively. Therefore, it was important for me to show working-class communities in a different light, a more realistic light, rather than a false sense of reality. This work challenges the traditions by depicting a celebration of good times between the strong bond of these four women by showing "It's not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts" (J.M. Laurence, n.d). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aislinn O'Connor
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Aim of my project was to explore Sustainable Architecture. My chosen buildings are Certified by BREEAM- Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method. Which is a way of assessing how environmentally sustainable a building is. BREEAM can be used in the planning and developing stage of constructing a building. Throughout my project I have investigated the ways that the buildings were constructed to have eco-friendly features which deem the buildings sustainable. The eco-friendly features included Gray water reuse, efficient heating, cooling and ventilation systems as well as windows simply being placed strategically to maximise natural light which therefore reduces energy consumption. This then led me onto exploring the ways that the structures produced minimal environmental impact. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Coulson
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The depiction of a young girl’s childhood is not the same as how it used to be. Negative sexualisation of women has tainted objects and associations with childhood to merely props in derogative photoshoots; rather, than sentimental objects reflecting childhood innocence. The adolescent image is being contorted within the media and implying the concept that young girls should avoid emulating a feminine perception, as it implies a promiscuous depiction of femininity. Exposure of sexualised imagery is stripping sentimentality from girls’ childhoods; resulting in women avoiding colours and clothing to evade sexualisation. This project focuses on the reclaiming of the childhood female image and how the colour pink is not a colour to be sexualised; but a colour to be reclaimed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lara Bowler
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Discarded consumer waste is a global issue. Everything from fast food packaging to plastic bags and old clothing, all end up littering the streets. Using the capabilities of Google Street View these images represent litter found within a 1-mile radius of government buildings in capital cities. This comparison between countries brings focus on the litter crisis which often goes unnoticed. Pollution on this level cannot go ignored any longer. “There is hope – I’ve seen it – but it does not come from the governments or corporations, it comes from the people. The people who have been unaware are now starting to wake up, and once we became aware we change. We can change and people are ready for change.” Greta Thunberg. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leanne Norcup
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A Journey Home is a personal everyday commute from university to home. In our daily living, humans appreciate their commute less. Many people do not embrace their surroundings often, which leads to missing beautiful destinations to discover. This project records towns and villages on the forty-five-minute route. Within the route, I have stopped in each location every five to seven minutes to evaluate the difference in locations. When stopping, I have investigated the radius of each place to discover the unknown aspects, such as fields, landmarks and architecture. By exploring the different places, I have captured the characteristics of each location visited and have discovered new aspects of each place. The photographs show the difference between the known and unknown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Tuck
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Great Yarmouth has been classed as a seaside resort since the mid 19th century. With the introduction of the railway in 1844, Great Yarmouth saw thousands of visitors from all social classes travelling in each summer, making tourism the main contributing sector towards the local economy. However, in recent years the option to choose cheap package holidays abroad has caused a drop in seasonal visitors, leading to a significant struggle with income. Over the seasons, these historic seaside attractions have been renovated, destroyed, re-built and re-branded in the hopes to entice the 5 million visitors eager to visit the seaside each year. Nature is now taking control of these once outstanding attractions which are getting progressively lost in history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Brett
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Body dysmorphia affects 1-2% of the adult population and has the highest suicide rate of all mental health conditions. Cases have gone up since the pandemic, and the younger generation have been at the forefront with social media being so prominent in their day to day lives. The sheer amount of manipulated images everywhere, young females have been subject to pressure of looking like Instagram models, with celebrities creating unrealistic beauty standards. My project focuses on a personal journey regarding weight loss and the toxic diet culture within this day and age. The congratulations I received for losing weight so fast, rather than concern, and the way this effected my relationship with food. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Reece Finnis
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Light at home illuminating friends and family in different comforting scenarios in a twilight atmosphere showing the reason the subjects are up at night. The darkness captured within separates the characters from the outside world in these scenes. Inspired by Victorian lighting and geometric shapes to show activities on tables in these interior spaces this project has explored characteristics and how these subjects deal with late nights. Todd Hido was a key inspiration in this style from his use of light scenes. The bold striking orange colour used represents the warmth and how the subjects are happy being kept up late which contrasts with the black backdrop to show the lightness in darkness, quite literally in the scenes created here. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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India Knowlson
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

It is widely accepted that the media influences, reshapes, and transmits beauty ideals worldwide. This project investigates the impact of the media on physical appearance and cosmetic enhancement. 50 female participants were tasked with creating the perfect version of their own face, considering how they would alter their appearance if they could. Out of 50 participants, 9 have been illustrated as glass magazine covers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliva Dale
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Religious buildings are the physical embodiment of their corresponding faith and are the first encounter we have with the religion and the distinct features are an indicator of both their physical and spiritual meaning. With the occurrence of repetition and patterns highlighting how their sacred ideology takes multiple forms but still communicates the same message. Taking the time to understand and appreciate their architectural value, even if the viewer is not religious accentuates their religious significance within society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vaiva Botyriute
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In this series called Alienated, I'm exploring the secrecies of the universe and the possibilities of its creations. Using various materials, like milk, lipstick, eye shadows, glitter to recreate still life of galaxies, celestial objects, and other entities in outer space; together with abstracted human bodies on what could seem like a display, I am trying to embody the unknown. Inspired by Ania Dabrowska’s body of work Ritual I: Wax Shadows, 2021, Benoit Audureau’s abstract art, and astrophotography, instead of looking up, I look down and around to find clues and inspirations. With this work, which also includes moving image, I want to create an immersive experience that is beautiful and mysterious at the same time (just like the cosmos). Taking my audience on an exploration of what could be beyond The Earth, but more importantly what capacity our human body and mind has to imagine and visualise the uncanny and still alien to us universe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tristan Jones
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Faitours Forge is a portrayal of the relationship between identity and masquerade, the interplay between always-on connectivity and needy, intrusive technologies, a virtual space represented by the mask, where the meta-self is forged. We, the participants, masked behind the platform, perform for the world to see. Our personas, distinct from those which we carry into the physical world, are virtual, yet we value and defend them and their existence, to the core. My masks are a representation of this manifestation. Wear them in the same way that mythological tropes of Water, Earth, Air and Fire were employed to bring sense to the chaos of identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kinga Gurba
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“Dazed Fairytale” is a fashion editorial inspired by African Gods and Goddesses in a collaboration with Illaria Guerra a fashion designer who created garments specifically for this particular project. My goal as a photographer was to capture the essence of mythical figures and create this fairytale-like atmosphere. In order to do this, I have used projection to achieve a dazed and colourful look. Are God and Goddesses real or just a myth ? I believe everyone imagines them differently, hence why we wanted to portray our gods and goddesses in a fresh, earthy, and lush approach as a team. The freedom to create is unbounded so is our imagination. Credits: Photography Kinga Gurba Creative Direction Abdullah Onipede Styling & Fashion Design Illaria Guerra Model Aaliyah Gyamfi & Jacob Coburn-Blaauw Set Design Mikayla Harris Make up Antonia Yiltay & Heavenly Maria Tucker Movement Director Mice-Ann St-Louis . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gulia Ballarin
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I believe that the place I grew up in has had a crucial role in shaping who I am today. In constant contact with nature, it grew on me the idea that if I was asked who I am, I could probably say ‘the grass you lay on on a sunny day’. In Be that way again, I explore the relationship I’ve built with such a place, and with nature, ever since I left it behind. I delve into the idea of being a migrant, torn between two places, longing for the one I’ve felt the truest to myself in. It represents the way I see my home now that I am far and my altered memories of it, deceived by nostalgia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabella Bosi
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Patternicity & Paraphernalia’ derived from a discomfort within my physical and mental environment, overly stimulated by the thoughts and things that encompassed me. I found myself monotonously attempting to order an anxiety without relief or definitive resolution. There was a tension between initial impression of randomness and subsequent impulse towards a stratification of objects. Therapizing myself through making, I turned to Gestaltian psychology as a methodology, focusing more on process than content, where the immediate experience of the patient is the primary focus. Creating a collection of domesticated paraphernalia and in pairing numerous ‘Things’ with semiotic ideation, I aimed to form reimagined art objects. Achieved using ‘pattern cognition’ and an Intermedia/Fluxus based ideology, the heterogeneous objects as narrative presentations are given a particular agency, infusing such patterns with meaning and intention. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Beartice Lauckner
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project, named ‘Key Queer Communication’ was made as part of my Final Major Project and a visual element to my Dissertation topic. I have been interested in anonymity, in its multifaceted variations, as a component in queer culture and history. After having done some archive researching at the Bishopsgate Institute (largest store of queer-related archives), I began thinking more about visual communication and fashion resistance as a political warfare tactic against cig-straight society norms. I used keys as a nod to my own identity and sexuality, whilst also acknowledging it’s a universal code for queer women. When I first came out, I felt somewhat obligated to express that in my presentation but felt it was slightly outdated. I utilise modern aesthetics in my portraiture, now that queer culture is mainstream, whilst referencing a visual code used when LGBTQI+ people expressing themselves always had an unjust consequence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angela Moreno
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work has recently shifted, taking a special interest in ideas of memory, perception, ancestry, and identity. The frame serves me as my own version of a journal where I reflect on ontological intricacies through self-analysis. You Will Be As Us explores the sort of immortality that is only achieved through ancestry; a cyclic, never ending, ever changing passing down of genetic and collective memory. In this huge history of lineage, I, today, appear as the main character, the outcome of the story, but if we look, or better, imagine further into the future, when I too am gone, only then will I become a key piece to this unceasingly growing puzzle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Bloomfield
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

It’s been a long day and an even longer week. The thought bubble forming above your head begins to morph into an image. You’re lying in your bed; head buried deep in your pillow with the covers drawn up tight around your chin, ready to dissolve into your own warmth and explore the best of your subconscious. If only it were always that simple… Nightmares End explores the relationship between the desire for a good night’s sleep and the scenes that keep me awake after dark. Using the medium of pinhole photography, I reconstruct how it feels to be trapped in a nightmare while remaining hopeful that there is an end in sight. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kristian Stoynev
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

For this work I take inspiration from Graham Harman’s object oriented ontology (OOO), Heidegger’s ‘’Thingness’’, and Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. I create some ‘thing’ that otherwise would be no ‘thing’. I document therefore immortalise, and give a new meaning to the objects left facing the fate of the world. Eventually each one of them goes. Some go quickly, but others like to stick around. I start to accept them as things and not objects, because they get more familiar each time. Then the next day I expect to be greeted once again, however I turn to see nothing but an empty space. For a moment, my head goes silent as if out of respect for this which is now gone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alba De La Cruz
London Metropolitan University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A heirloom and a history of women in my family. We don't know how this object ended up in my family. My grandmother remembers the existence of the shawl when she lived in Chile. A maritime route united Cádiz with Manila for the import and production of the shawl. From 1765 to 1834 this route united Asia, America, and Europe. In a similar way my great-grandmother, my great-grandfather, and their three daughters escaped from the atrocities of the Spanish Civil war to end up in Chile. This thing represents the connection between the displacement of the women in the family whom are united by my great grandmother's (Luz) shawl. Wherever we are, we will always be united by the history of the shawl. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabella Daulby
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work is heavily influenced by the gender euphoria movement and gender non-conforming fashion, where queer individuals express their stories through fashion. Therefore, my practice explores fashion photography within the LGBTQ+ community, as it is renowned for pushing the boundaries on the predefined societal gender norms of fashion. The LGTBQ+ community finds that expressing themselves through fashion invokes a true sense of self as they feel comfortable within themselves. My photography exemplifies this, pushing the gender euphoria movement by using bright colours within my images to exaggerate the gender expression. This aids the subject through creating a safe space, allowing them to be more comfortable within the shoot, which is reflected in my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Jeram
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'Glenyis' is a documentation of the life, my Nan, Glenyis lived. I use documentary photography to promote a long-form narrative to represent my own personal experience, whilst I enter a journey of reconnection through my relationship with my Nan. I use the camera as a means to create a narrative, whilst communicating a dialogue between subject and myself, as the photographer. Interested in how, overtime, relationships can become stronger, I aim to convey a sense of mystery through light. My work reflects growth, as I gradually learn the life of Glenyis. Fascinated by human relationships, and the subtle conflict between families, I look to explore, over a long period of time, how relationships can suffer and grow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kitty McCutcheon
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My practise revolves around the question of what it means to be young in Britain today. I document the clothing, attitudes and connections of the people around me. I’m particularly drawn to the contrasts of hedonism and placidity that play out in the lives of the people I photograph. I search for shifting tempos from the underground music scene to the stillness of moments in the between days. My photographs aim to capture the atmosphere and energy of the communities I find myself in, celebrating ideas of identity and belonging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Papa Nii Akushey Quaye
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Papa Nii Akushey Quaye is a British-Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist whose current practice is centred around the diasporic identity and experience. His practice consists of, but is not bound to, photography, textile and time-based media. Through these mediums, Quaye deconstructs cultural symbols, everyday objects & fragments of his own memory and reassembles them in an attempt to express the tension between combat and harmony that seems so familiar and almost customary to the diasporic experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Manju Lama-Collier
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I moved to the UK at the age of nine. I was born and raised in a small village in the mountain region of Nepal, surrounded by the majestic snow-capped Himalayan mountains. After leaving my homeland, for many years I never recognised why I was attracted to mountains. 'Not at Home' has given me the realisation that I am drawn to mountains because I miss the big mountains back home. I have placed the icons from my heritage within the British mountains to feel a sense of connection to home. The mountains here won’t ever be the big mountains back home. I will always have a place of feeling 'Not at Home'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shivani Patel
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Shivani Patel is British South Asian artist who investigates themes of cultural heritage, diaspora and dual identity. 'Puja' refers to Hindu rituals that Patel explores within the British landscape. She reflects upon how the nature surrounding her emanates a calming presence, whilst depicting an expression of her South Asian identity through performative gestures, hoping to achieve a sense of comfort and clarity. Through this body of work, the artist aims to spark conversation regarding these elements, which can raise awareness of South Asian beliefs and customs accurately within the western community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liúsaidh Ashley Watt
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Liúsaidh is a visual artist motivated by the experiment of photography, ascertaining fresh ways to express ideas, she uses this not only to create a body of work but to investigate oneself. Self-exploration is a prevalent theme within her work, channelling into different subjects and imagery, including video and 3D work. Her practice consists of self-portraiture and landscapes, often marrying the two to create a co-dependent relationship between the figure and the environment. Liúsaidh uses visual codes to expose inner thoughts and past traumas to an audience. Her most recent work and research aims to explore absence, body and place; proposed to be exhibited through inter-disciplinary methods and focuses on her heritage from the Shetland Islands. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aaliah Qureshi
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Aaliah Qureshi is a visual artist who combines digital media with archival elements when exploring her relationship with her family, roots, culture and heritage. Qureshi’s work examines objects that are found within her everyday experiences and uses them as tools to connect this materiality to her bi-cultural identity. She aims to make sense of both elements of her being, whilst moulding a new image of what it means to be part of the South Asian diaspora and yearns to represent this group in a true and authentic light. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jake Robinshaw
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This work presents a series of illusions. Primarily centred on human relationships with the lithic and notions of the sublime, I use electron microscopy to transform lithic matter, as small as the wavelength of light, into microscopic mountain ranges. The strange, lifeless interior of the microscope, an enclosed space separated from the rest of the world, suspends these microscopic objects between our reality and a suggested alternate one. Virtual horizons unfold, where the appearance of light interacting with the objects is an illusory by-product of the imaging process. The images themselves, formed from the splitting of the objects’ subatomic structures, paradoxically appear to stabilise the objects they depict whilst simultaneously recording fundamental change. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tze Yan Lim
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Lim Tze Yan is a Malaysian Chinese photographic artist who makes experimental photographic works with non-photographic materials. He uses performances, writings and installation to seek the boundary of photography. With a background in literature, his works are emotionally sensitive and often touch on personal vulnerability. “Suddenly I had this imagery that I am falling from a tall building……I walked round and round the field, trying to understand what it means. Sometime it feels like I never escape the cycle.” . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amelia Rennison
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Resulting from an interest in influencers and an observation of how influencers are becoming the newest form of advertising in the fashion industry '#sponsoredcontent' is a collection of images shared to social media platform Instagram with tags for the brands of each outfit piece. The images are framed as an influencer's branded post. Having the images in this format draws attention to the fact that we absent-mindedly scroll past hundreds of them on a daily basis, in turn showing the saturation of the influencer market. The images will also be collated into a book, with some written pieces from influencers themselves and other images from behind the scenes of branded shoots, to give an inside look at the industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Cashin
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This recent work explores the iconic British seaside town; from Brighton to Blackpool, Margate to Morecambe, the project focuses mainly on the South East and North West coast. What were once affluent tourist towns, drawing Brits seeking respite from their landlocked cities, have been left neglected in the wake of package holidays overseas, due to the rise of foreign travel. This decline in the seasonal tourist numbers left these areas somewhat stuck in time. Yet whilst some towns have suffered over the last three decades, others have seen growth- with the profound effects on their economies being inversed. This led to the primary substance, research and title of the project. The imagery aims to seek beauty in the mundane. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Saxon Betts
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Saxon is a recent graduate of Manchester School of Art. Within her photographic practice she is interested in capturing the overlooked, investigating new topographies her images consist of the manmade creeping into natural spaces, through the visualisation of composition. Originally from Nottingham, Saxon was inspired to create the series 'I Have Lost My Way' whilst exploring the borders of Manchester; within these areas she has photographed objects of interest which brings attention to the neglected aspects of these places. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Rooke
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Correspondence is a communication between mind, body and spirit. This project explores Caroline Rooke’s innate understanding and expression of this universality. Within the spiritual philosophy of Hermeticism, there is a Principle of Correspondence which states, ‘as above, so below; as below, so above’. It signifies a truth correlating the mental, physical, and spiritual planes of existence, saying that all things between these planes are connected and manifest. An intrinsic aspect of Rooke’s photography is to engage in meditation during the process of creating work. The trilogy of her practice is a focus on the nature of light, an awareness of the passing of time and the physical movement of breath within the body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Evan Higham-Gray
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

It is a fundamental desire of human nature to be acknowledged and understood. Through an expression of visual identity, we as humans hope to project a persona and temperament that conveys who we truly are. Throughout history, young people have been a central driving force in this pursuit of identity and now, perhaps more than ever, an entire generation of young people are experimenting with how they express themselves. Over the course of the past year, Evan Higham-Gray has become affiliated with a variety of young people, who to him, highlight this pursuit of visual expression. Through the use of intimate portraiture, his project Surrounded By Heads and Bodies (2022) documents the many faces of London’s youth, creating a celebration of individuality and expression. As the years pass, he hopes this work immortalises a generation of boundless expression. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Smith
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Thames Mudlarks have been rummaging the riverbed for many years. Historically, they have scoured the river Thames in an attempt to find objects in which they could sell for a living. The modern Mudlark explores the Thames to unearth some of the rich history left behind. They are inter-tidal archaeologists. Matthew Smith explores the modern-day Mudlark through portraiture, landscape and still life. The project depicts the fascination and commitment behind the process of mudlarking. Smith is able through his photography to bring you, the viewer, into their world of treasures. There is a subtlety and depth within Smith's work which defines and expresses the Mudlark's passion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paulo Madureira
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

UnTraces is a project about two subjects: a model and an artist. It depicts the relationship between two people and the camera. Here, the photographer not only takes part in the project through abstract self portraits, he also photographs his partner by exposing glass plates coated in light sensitive emulsion. The use of alternative processes together reflect his experimental approach to the medium and give us insight into his relationship with himself and others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andra Chiru
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This is a collection of images reflecting the artist’s feelings generated by her own wellbeing found in a home from home. Right now, she finds herself in England, which has become her new home. As she navigates this new territory through her work, she has found some of the photographs trigger memories and seems strangely familiar. The images bring back childhood memories, thoughts of her grandparents and their way of life which merge with more dreamlike associations with her heritage and past. Re-establishing connections with objects from her country was at times a sense of belonging, worn over the years is her soul. All these traditional values offer the possibility of reconstructing a spiritual history located in a point of the ethnic universe where it intersects and from which both the past and the present can be seen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mon-Jia Liu
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

When we argue about the future, we trample the present, this pushed polarised distance between you and me. Those nights that we couldn’t sleep, loneliness filled the time. Can’t we just live in a sweet dream and never wake up? In this suffocating reality, what keeps us alive? We have already forgotten our young faces and are forced to learn how to carry weight of the everyday. We complain about being born in the wrong family; the wrong colour; dreaming the wrong expectations. When we are afraid of losing, afraid of being eliminated, we must close our eyes and feel. Give up aiming for a perfect life. Life has no formula, only moments. Sunlight, air and water, the three essentials for human existence. Suddenly, we realise, we already have everything we need to survive. The morning sun still warm. The shining ocean. Dazzling wildflowers. The grass springing from the ground. These things are ordinary but strong, and perhaps they are why we are still here. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eugene McVeigh
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This now ongoing project started with a need to take a break from the busyness of day-to-day life, choosing to wander through these commonplace suburban surroundings and make images whose mundanity carries also a certain uncluttered clarity and simplicity. This wandering led me away from the conventional portrayal of a shopping destination that Dundrum is often shown as to a more human and sympathetic reflection of this place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simona Castelli
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The project is a reflection on the human necessity for gardening. An observation of plants and flowers as metaphors for a bond with the natural, which at the same time contradicts their autonomous existence devoid of serving the human. It is a search for multiple possibilities where the two realities coexist. Each image a magical place, fictional, but because of this, truer than a real landscape; in the words of Neil Gaiman: "real life is not convincing". The use of double exposures in each photograph invites a sense of a liminal space, transient and everchanging. The unpredictability of the final image as an analogy for that search for multiple possibilities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gareth Byrne
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

It Could Be You is an ongoing, experimental image-making project that explores both Irish/British modern life and pop culture relating to a frenzied desire to be rich, immediately, enormously and forever. The project is a visual exploration of how our modern capitalist ideals leave working people captive in a time economy that sees leisure as a threat to prosperity, leaving individuals to dream about inheritance, jackpots and winning at the races. The project aims to examine these ideas through fly on the wall documentary photography and combines and contrasts reconstructed images from a variety of lottery and gambling advertisements using 35mm macro photography. The project has been displayed in a zine format. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niall Cullinane
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Life spends its time sorting and organising, creating boundaries and structures. These processes are not just some side-effect of the Living but are its defining condition. The physicist Erwin Shrödinger described Life as 'organisation maintained by extracting order from the environment'. As all else diffuses into randomness, Life grows order from disorder. Our collective social organism creates machines and structures to build, maintain and extend its boundaries. In The Living's Room, I search for outcrops of the interface between our collective organism and its environment. This process of searching allows me to reflect on my own discomfort with disorder. Questions arise on the sustainability of our urge for growth and its increasing impact on our environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Conn McCarrick
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'Away with the Fairies’ is an ongoing body of work about queer cruising spots in Dublin. The series was made in response to a number of high-profile cases in Irish society and in the midst of Dublin City Council’s attempts to sanitise these controversial areas. ‘Away with the Fairies’ asks questions about what it means to be queer in contemporary Ireland. The project documents LGBTQ+ men in several different cruising spots around the city. The work brings light to personal and private moments that have historically been kept in the shadows of Irish life. Through a queer lens, it explores themes of desire, deviance and the body. The work is a hybrid of documentary, fine art and photojournalism. The series challenges the viewer to consider their relationship with people and places. For some, these sites are important places of radical self-expression and community building – while for others, they are just an abandoned park or playground. ‘Away with the Fairies’ is all shot on black and white, medium format film. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fi McClurg
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Pavilion is a body of work that interrogates the polarising Apollo Pavilion public art structure in Peterlee. I hope that by decontextualizing the whole object I can reconstruct it, piece by piece, into both its original shape, and new and exciting forms. By utilising light, shadow, and geometry it is possible to show hidden dimensions and facets, as each individual image is both a work by itself and a component of a greater whole. This piece has enabled me to work as both a straight documentarian and as a creator, photographing the subject as both a record and an artwork. I aim to see not just the physical properties of the subject, but also its soul. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Ede
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This series of images is taken from my recent book 'Our Mam'. The book focuses on the memory of Mary, my Nanna, who sadly passed away in 2007 and looks at the items kept by her family after her death. To do this, I worked with her four daughters to create a series of photographs documenting the things they kept once owned by their mother and recorded the memories they had tied to these objects. Mary was an exceptional woman filled with laughter and love. I hope I have created a book to honour her memory by exploring the connections between text, past images, and personal items, which will hopefully be something the family can cherish for generations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Butterworth
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As an artist, I absolutely love using multiple mediums within my work to create something beautiful and interesting. I love merging photography with other forms of art, such as paper cutting and digital illustration, to create new and exciting pieces of art that can be displayed. I love adding different elements to my photography to make it more interactive and less 2D. I created this work as a way of adding extra beauty to already stunning portraiture and I would love to continue to keep going with this fashion photography and art collaboration work in the future, so I can create more unique work that I am really proud to have out on display. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Mitchell
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This collection is from my final year of university, when I had fully begun to realise the kind of work that I wanted to create. My aim is to have a career in the fashion industry as an editorial photographer. I want to create images that captivate people. Life is going by so fast and often times we fail to just take a moment to enjoy the finer details. I am very interested in the strange and unusual, and wanted to bring this forward in my work. Horror movies are always at the top of my research when I begin a new project. They create suspense and they hold their audiences’ attention. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Debbie Todd
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

All of my work is centred around people and how our different lifestyles, thoughts and feelings provoke reactions in other people. I like to take portraits that tell a story about the sitter, whether it be documentary, fashion or fine art is irrelevant. My most recent body of work examines the physical, medical, neuro-diverse and lifestyle differences of people in the UK. It looks at how these people are viewed and why preconceptions are made about them as a person using proverbs and idioms that have been used regularly without much thought on how it makes them feel. The work has been created to initiate conversations about language and promote the use of more people with differences in the photographic industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Judith Bach
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The small green leather suitcase was kept in a cupboard in mum and dad's bedroom, inside were their old analogue snapshots and albums. As a child they transported me to another era, to a time when my parents were young, before they grew old. I made up stories about them; I still do. Using the contents of my late parent's archive I explore abstract concepts, temporality, materiality, love, loss and longing. Once removed from their original milieu old photographs might be thought of as silent pieces of paper, but they are also objects that communicate events and experiences. Despite being static objects their meaning constantly evolves, working with archival imagery offers me limitless opportunities to reinterpret the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morris Gallagher
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As a doctor working in the northeast of England, I’ve spent time with patients and doctors talking about the pandemic. It’s been about listening, information, sadness and sometimes anger. In this conceptual work I connect with my feelings and concerns about how the COVID -19 pandemic has been managed. It’s a reflexive investigation, using vernacular objects and medical paraphernalia, to create still-life assemblages that mark the ‘ordinary’ experiences of ‘Amazon’ deliveries and extraordinary TV displays of pandemic briefings. My personal views connect my story to wider social and cultural understandings about the pandemic. Collectively they challenge dominant medical and government readings of the COVID -19 pandemic and ask whether we have been ‘following the science?’ . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola Hampshire
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In Plain Site was borne from a state of despondency over the quantity of discarded litter on Yorkshire's Three Peaks and driven by the effect that countryside litter has on the environment, its people, and its wildlife. Influenced by surrealism, fantasy and optical apparatus, a floating triangle hovers over a post-industrial landscape, reflecting the diversity of waste found at the scene. From discarded coffee cups to an inflatable flamingo, valueless waste is reclassified, addressing consumer capitalism and environmentalism, challenging the relationship between humans and the landscape. Litter is unseen until it becomes a problem, exposing social order and assumptions about the place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kinga Owczennikow
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project presents viewers with photographs of natural and urban scenes in seeming harmonious coexistence. To passersby who choose to pause and gaze, the vegetation appears to be gazing back. I believe that nature is patiently waiting, sometimes in harsh conditions, for its opportunity to evade the human barriers and occupy the place it deserves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amano Tracy
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A Mother's Secret is about exploring ten years of my mother’s life from 1938, when she was presented at court as a debutant, and 1948, when she was married to the man who was to become my father; during this time she experienced the Second World War and romance with a Czech airman. Exactly what she went through during this coming of age as a single woman one cannot say. It is unlikely to have been her “finest hour” as Winston Churchill suggested in a speech from this era, and so it is left to photographs from the era, (manipulated, juxtaposed and rephotographed), to indicate what the real story might have been. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Sellen
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In this project, Anna questions the Cold War legacy through the physical space of the underground nuclear bunker and her family archive. She uses photography, oral history, archives and diaries to examine her own and her family’s lived experiences in the Soviet Union between 1952 and 1986. She is interested in the impact of the political decisions and the state-driven silencing and misinformation on people’s lives and identities, from one generation to the next, and what this means in today’s world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nuala Mahon
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work is influenced by my seafaring ancestry. I embarked on this project to capture the enormous increase in plastic waste washed up on the shores of Sherkin Island where I live. I tried several techniques and decided the work must be created sustainably. I made pinhole cameras from cardboard and tin cans. Outcomes with these cameras depended on the light, exposure times, humidity, the shape and size of the cameras. Results were seldom predictable but often intriguing. I built on my experience as a chemist to develop the negative images in my darkroom. I collected seaweed on the beaches where the images were made and produced my own developer solutions. The images are fixed in sea salt solution. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michele Usher
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Inside the Shell This series has been created around the coastal community of Ngawi (pronounced ënaa-weeí). A small fishing village which is located just five kilometres from Cape Palliser, the southernmost point of New Zealandís North Island. This project scratches the hard-male surface and discovers what is holding the community together, the very backbone under the shell. My series explores this rural community. Through eight women I have explored the relationship between the land, space and the community, showing the hard conditions and the environment which gives a feeling of isolation, hardship, but also the softer side. The women that through their own strength hold the community together by making do and sticking together to support each other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Woodger
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As an artist and a geologist, I’m interested in exploring how landscapes are shaped and how they respond to human behaviour. In order to create the images for Diagenesis, I made a series of conventional photographic prints and then folded them into complex three-dimensional forms. The folds exert an unnatural level of control over the scene, contorting it and re-shaping it, until it becomes something else entirely. The folded objects represent human interventions on the environment. But by returning the forms to the landscape, they are subjected to unpredictable natural forces and that human control is inevitably diminished. Ultimately, Diagenesis explores the relationship between humans and the environment, using myself as both a metaphor and a catalyst. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joan Doyle
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Carmen Raw is a visual essay looking behind the scenes of an Opera production. This project consists of two parts, the first is a moving image piece with video, and sound complemented by a typology of spent blank bullets. These bullets were shot from a prop gun into a sandbox, a metal box filled with sand that was fired through a small opening. Shot each night at the same time, on the same musical note during the show. Most operas have guns involved in the storyline and with the new Health and Safety measures in recent years, prop guns are being replaced with sound effects. These blanks may be among the last of their kind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aarif Amod
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My ongoing work has focussed on life in the soul of Dublin City over the course of the last 2 years. With an increase in homelessness and addiction, the documentary gives up-close insight into the overlooked environments of Dublin city. Through images and interviews, I attempt to achieve a deeper understanding of the narratives of the city. Many who traverse and struggle on these streets are often overlooked, yet everyone have a story. While Dublin seems to be expanding and progressing, many people within it seem to be living in an unbalanced system. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bettina Koeppel
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This body of work is about the megalithic Moylisha Wedge Tomb also called Labbansighe in Wicklow. In Folklore, Labbansighe has been translated to “Bed of the Fairies”. This type of monument is not too common in Ireland. While researching ancient historical monuments and sites I found this wedge tomb and found plans for a potential lithium mine very close to its location. Despite being a protected monument there is potential danger for damage if mining will happen nearby. I felt it was important to document this monument before anything may happen to it. I hope that this can bring levels of awareness to these almost forgotten historical monuments that are in constant danger of getting destroyed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Walsh
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ballet is the only thing I have felt certain about in my life. I gave myself to it fully. There is an inevitability about this life, this career. Since ceasing my professional dancing career I am realizing this. Once a dancer, always a dancer. The work overlaps snapshots from a visual diary of my professional working life as a ballet dancer with recent self-portraits. With this work, I am trying to grapple with and resolve the inevitable nature of aging in my chosen profession of dance, transitions between careers, but also the natural transitions of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Balfe
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

During the 1990s eight women went missing in Ireland in a region forming a triangle stretching from Dundalk to Tullamore and to Waterford and Wexford. They were high profile cases and received significant media interest. There were similar characteristics in these cases. For example, all the women were young (from late teens to thirty-nine years of age). Their disappearances were inexplicable, sudden, and there were no substantial clues or evidence left of their fate. Large scale searches and campaigns followed to find them, all so far to no avail. Journalists and authors have referred to these cases collectively as The Vanishing Triangle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oran Harrison
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Using montage, inversions, collage and elements of surrealism, Orans work presents a vibrant perspective on urban life, . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Doyle
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Earlier this year marked 40 years since the first five cases of what later became known as AIDS were officially reported. My work is a series of portraits and interviews with people who are all are living with HIV. The purpose of this project is to highlight PLWHIV (People Living With HIV) – to offer a level of understanding, empathy, to try to break the stigma of connected with HIV. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tanya Smyth
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The work is a visual adaptation and reimagining of the myth of Alexandra - a mysterious figure from my family’s past. The images generate a sense of antiquity in reconstructing the family lineage connected with her name - which has been bestowed upon a single member of my family through every generation up to the present time. Heirlooms and artefacts handed down from generations of women directly connect with the real and lived heritage of generations of women designated the name Alexandra in my family tree – blending past with present, real and imaginary, to create sense of interconnection between the women of shared family lineage and legacy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kevin Hayes
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Since the Garda Siochana was established as the police force of Ireland in 1922 a total of 89 officers have tragically lost their lives while on active duty. While the majority of these deaths have been theresult of road traffic accidents, many have been at the hands of individuals or groups associated with paramilitary activities. I have travelled to and photographed the locations of some of these incidents in various parts of the country. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Debora Terreiros
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Debora Terreiros is a contemporary photographer seeking to highlight a range of societal issues. Revealing aspects of mental pain and insecurity, Debora uses herself to remember historically and in the present moment her complex relationship with her own body. Pain and Beauty reveals a powerful shift in the artist’s perception of her physical self and a movement towards self acceptance, which Debora found difficult to do throughout her adolescent years as it was a time where she became overly critical of her appearance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harry McCallum
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Harry McCallum is a contemporary documentary and portrait photographer engaging with notions of identity, sexuality, interactions with domestic space and socio-political relationships. He is passionate about creating provoking projects that encourage the viewer to consider alternative perspectives. We, The Queer examines the LGBTQ+ community in the South West, documenting individuals within their immediate domestic settings. The work focuses on themes of queer loneliness and seeks to address broader aspects such as the lack of mental health funding and safe spaces. Alongside the portraits are short statements written by the model, giving insight into their experience and stories. The work acts as both a challenge and a provocation when considering notions of difference. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Irina Silva
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Irina Silva is a conceptual photographer whose work examines themes of gender, body image, and social media pressure. Irina tackles controversial topics and challenges the notion of cancel culture. Woman Pressure focuses on the reality of growing up in the age of social media and its unrealistic representations of the female body. It tackles themes such as mental health and body image. The artist shares her own insecurities and seeks to connect with others who may join her in her protest. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirsty Sewell
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Kirsty Sewell is a contemporary, conceptual photographer whose work examines notions of mental health and identity. As a child, Kirsty sought with difficulty to understand her own mental health challenges which were marked by anxiety and depression. The only way she felt she could express her emotions was through her visual practice. Chaos of Life explores the experience of anxiety. Kirsty works to create a personal narrative and uses her camera to explore both her emotions and her thoughts. Kirsty’s practice also includes aspects of automatism, with methods of automatic writing/drawing facilitating expressions of inner anxiety. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabriella Sorgente
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Gabriella Sorgente’s body of work is a response to her experiences of marginalisation through appearance. Gabriella's body of work is inspired by the historical and contemporary contexts of appearance; she has done this to understand the way that beauty standards have changed in response to societal and cultural expectations. She uses it to raise awareness of difference as well as challenging societal norms, resulting in the marginalisation of women. Her work responds to women's appearance through time and how this has changed. Gabriella feels that she is marginalised in society due to her polycystic ovaries. This results in body hair which even in contemporary society is seen as “ugly”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Tossell
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Lauren Tossell (she/her) is a fine art portrait photographer whose work utilises activist methodologies to bring attention to important topics such as feminism and homophobia. ‘DeClowning’ sees Lauren engage in role play, symbolising the clown who ‘feels a fool’ Examining her own experience of allowing herself to be sexualised in the past and changing herself to fit in with what she thought would make her more desirable to the male gaze. Now being a gay adult, she reflects back on her early teen years and how this has effected her in the past. It is hard to unlearn the teachings of the patriarchy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hayley Bennett
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Hayley Bennett’s project Bennett 04 focuses on ideas of absence and loss around the relationship with her absent father created by the conditions of incarceration. Hayley has personal experiences relating to the themes of the project and a profound understanding of the distress, trauma and pain experienced by families who are affected by the penal system. Specifically, documenting the spaces and items that belonged to her dad such as an assemblage which documents his past life through his everyday objects and the personal effects left behind,In contrast, the project also documents his present circumstances and is co-created with her dad who’s contributions of drawings, letters and conversations reflect the status of their relationship, revealing the impact of separation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie-Mae Burnside
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Oneness of Concrete, a familiar, everyday material that was once independent of any conceptualization or perception by the mind presented through collectively experimenting with metal and wood. Focusing the audience’s attention on different aspects or qualities of a given material, these works hint at the complexity of the most simple, everyday objects. The geometric forms within the Oneness of Concrete suggests a dialogue with contemporaneous Western minimalist sculpture by artists including Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro and Carl Andre. This connection is, however, presented in alliance with my own personal perception. The assemblages do not simply look temporary; once photographed, they were disassembled and today these photographs are the only record of their existence. Through methodology, it investigates the concrete block and its properties by understanding its capabilities and limitations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Elvin
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I Woz Here is an ongoing body of work, focusing on the physical notion of traces left behind by people, whether it be a paint splatter or takeaway container left on the ground. The title plays on the comical element of graffiti that you see all over the place, stating the authoritative presence or spatial claim of an individual. Because of its unstructured nature, the series itself has endless potential to be continued on for infinite time due to the subject matter featured. Photographing these marks that we have come to pass off as the norm, they act as a catalyst for the viewer to realise how they leave their identity whether intentionally or not. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Davison
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Creature of Habit’ explores the small details that we don't notice. These images capture gestures in action showing the subtle nature of them, but how prevalent they are every day. This vulnerable topic is important for reflection and encouraging conversations around our habits and presenting a new way to understand, relate and acknowledge human behavioural patterns in order to find similarities. Using myself as the subject allowed full control of communicating the personal interest in habits I notice amongst people. I specifically imitated the fidgety nature of a habit with the imperfected finish to compliment the imperfect creation of people. Accompanying this work is a moving image piece that brings the habits back to life for conscious thought. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Wathen
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

We naturally have a love/hate relationship with these small creatures. The insect kingdom is a misunderstood world. Initially, the reaction is to be fearful or disgusted by their presence; an everyday pest we seek to eradicate. In reality, we only tolerate these creatures due to their small size. But what would happen if that were to change? How does our relationship with them differ if we were to view them at a magnified scale? Class Hexapoda challenges that question and how we interact with insects on another level, in hope to change the way we view our natural neighbours. This project explores endless possibilities with the use of modern day technologies, highlighting the importance of insects and showcasing their roles within society. The use of microscopic technology captures the fragile structure of insects, an almost unknown alien-like world unseen to the human eye. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ronnie Loten
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Within my project, “As You Were”, I explore emerging gender identities, and how they relate to the camera and art history itself. In recent history, the concept of gender has become more fluid and dynamic as time goes on, with people being able to freely change which gender they identify as, or even to not identify with a gender at all. With art history typically being dominated by male and female stereotypes, a new relationship between the camera is formed when gender doesn’t come into play. Collaborating with two of my friends, who both identify as non-binary, we explore this contemporary relationship with the camera, and how my friends explore this gender identity within themselves too. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Valentine
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The advancement of technology can be a scary subject and it is almost always thought of as a bad thing, especially when discussing the technological singularity. Throughout the media it is displayed as this terrifying invention that could one day be humanity's downfall. This is where ‘AR.exe’ comes in, as it aims to explore the same themes discussed but in a somewhat lighthearted way. The aim of this project is to curate an immersive experience in which the viewer is transported into another world. A world which shows how technology affects our everyday lives and the possibilities it may have in the near future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marie Anna Barakova
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This series of photographs interrogates the transient nature of identity, culture and belonging. As individuals, we go through various changes in our lives, and experience the challenges of adapting to the unknown. Therefore, ‘Domov’ charts the journey from the unfamiliar to the familiar. England has become my second home; the Czech Republic my first. It took me nearly three years to feel a part of English culture. My work identifies different architectural elements as a symbol of ‘Englishness’. Using self-portraiture, it visualises the interaction between the building and my body. To adjust and adapt, the body responds to the environment by echoing the shape and contours of the architecture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shalom Nuhu
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As a deaf woman, ‘Signs of Silence’ explores hand gestures and facial expressions I make when signing BSL (British Sign Language). The gestures I use to express myself become shape, texture, movement, an art form. The self-portraits will be exhibited alongside a video depicting how I react to sound and silence as a deaf person, with and without my cochlear implant. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Hesketh
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Swan Court, a retirement house for individuals with a story. Faces to me that appear as familiar but to you they appear as strangers. With Swan Court I wanted to showcase and juxtapose the stigmatised ideas around retirement homes within interior design that often are referred to as lifeless, dull, and lacklustre. I view Swan Court as a community of people that are full of character and beaming with life. The project is a personal memory for me as I grew up around Swan Court but also to showcase a series of residents who radiate a positive energy that reflects off every individual living there. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thaïs Verhasselt
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Touch me with your eyes is a multimedia project based on Jane’s recent cancer diagnosis. The project is based on 3D portraits and journal excerpts I collected whilst staying with Jane during chemotherapy treatments. I was captivated with the idea that two pictures taken from a slightly different angle could converge into a single three-dimensional image. In this series, the medium expresses that different perspectives must be considered to bring out the depth of a situation. You are invited to observe and examine the photographs in a quasi-scientific manner to reveal medical procedures and intimacy. The title is an analogy for suppressing the tactile element; touching a person with a weak immune system must be done meticulously and with care. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Tugwell
UCA Rochester - BA (Hons) Fashion Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I am a fashion photographer residing in London. I use both digital and analogue to create images that focus on various subjects while bringing them to life with my distinct vision. I also style and creative direct many of my shoots allowing me to have full control over the aesthetic outcome. For this project, I took a series of images about zodiacs and their ruling planets. I did 12 shoots for 12 zodiacs bringing each of them to life with my photography, styling and creative direction. I collaborated with amazing models, designers and a great makeup artist. I chose to do this series because I’ve always been interested in zodiacs and how the planets influence us. Taking each zodiac and bringing their characteristics to life was very interesting and changed my outlook on photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Griffiths
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Photography is a powerful tool of reflection. It helps shape identities and challenge the way we see the world. Visually, greys contrast with traditional filmic golds, greens with the first colours of spring, reflecting the futility of a modern Britain where hope often feels lost under the winter soil. Rural and urban scenes from two different locations shown together allow for ‘45 Minutes North’ to question Griffiths’ own understanding and familiarity of Britain after moving across the country, as well open the floor to others following on from two major changes to modern Britain in the form of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Connor Botherway-Hill
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

We feel most secure when we are oriented with our circumstances. Ernst Jentsch called it “intellectual mastery”, noting how “intellectual certainty provides psychical shelter in the struggle for existence.” The security of knowledge can however be distorted by mistranslation, and ambiguity. ‘(untitled)’ probes unfamiliarity with the most familiar form of all, human form. Drawing from its roots in surrealist theories pertaining to the wandering tendencies of the subconscious mind, and the informe qualities of fragmentation. To “redraft the map of what we would have thought the most familiar of terrains”. It is a dubious representation of ‘self’ coexisting with ‘other’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Kiernan
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

By chance we often come across fragments, hints of a past that once resided. ‘Fragments’ delves into the complex relationship the ruin holds to its environment, living within its own epoch. Taken on expired film they speak of a faint memory, etched with time. We become afronted with our own fragility of temporality as the ruin reveals the true ramifications of time. It fragments further into decay as nature takes a hold of the creation of man. The ruin expresses that nothing can stand the test of time, but instead turn to dust as it once began. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashleigh Goodyear
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'No Words Required' is a phrase many use when talking about loved ones that have passed, especially when the memories are so strong that words simply cannot express the importance of each deceased relative. Through the use of camera-less photography, the series No Words Required utilises archival imagery from my personal family album as a way of connecting with the family that I have never met, yet have vivid false memories about, produced by the stories that the remaining family tell. Grief and remembrance is something that is universally felt at some point in our lives, and finding a way to cope with loss is increasingly important. That is why this series of work unintentionally became a form of self therapy, as with each chemical bath or stitch used to produce pieces of work allowed me to briefly connect and grieve over those that had passed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eve Boydell
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Impressionistic Views is a photographic series that explores the visual aesthetics of both the picturesque and the melancholy through the appreciation of nature. The use of the lone tree draws upon the core melancholy aesthetic of beautiful sadness. Through the use of layering multiple photographic representations and digital technologies builds an entirely new perspective of the lone tree. The method of production builds upon the traditional art conventions of enhancing the beautiful in the landscape while bringing back awareness to all elements in the landscape around us. The impressionist aesthetic brings an enhanced appreciation for the wider landscape through the absorbed experience in the viewing process of the sole focus of the lone tree. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Armitage
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Dreamscapes explores beauty in the landscape through exaggerated ideals of the picturesque. A minimalist aesthetic emphasising space is constructed through a fictitious working of the land, exploring notions of romanticism, and bringing a new perspective to the pastoral. Caught between reality and fantasy, a reimagining of the landscape is created by combining fragments of place, whilst a panoramic perspective excels spatial quality and slows down the act of looking. Our idealisations of land are therefore challenged and catalysed by digital manipulation, used to compose a more ideal and reformed terrain to invoke an emotive response through melancholy. Revealing that this photograph depicts an altered reality, it illustrates our ultimate desires. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cerys Bussey
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project is about my explorations and adventures in the Peak and how they are a memory of my time here. Some memories will fade over time and become fuzzy, but I now have evidence of these memories in my photographs. A collection of scenes, some of which are pin sharp and others that are less so. Sometimes when recalling memories, it is possible to remember a place in your mind’s eye but not to remember the name of the place, this is highlighted in photographs which are not named. The order in the Photo Book is non-linear, but then neither are our memories or recollections of places we have visited. Peaks Memoriter is an ode to my time at university and expresses why I chose to study in Sheffield. One of the main reasons is the Peak and so I have spent my time exploring the landscapes of this beautiful national park. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heather Barlow
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Mirrors are something we see and interact with every day whether we are conscious of it or not but we always find ourselves so obsessed over what we see on the surface staring back. What happens when they turn up in unexpected places, when they show something, you don’t expect to see? Most people tend not to look too deep below the surface but underneath some of us don’t know who we are, where we fit or why we feel the way we feel. We become so focused on trying to conform to a certain image of how we think we should be...that we no longer feel at home within ourselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Novis
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

German Expressionism was an art movement in the 20th century that placed emphasis upon the artist’s inner thoughts and ideas rather than accurately depicting reality. It was characterised by simple shapes, high angles, surrealist sets, and chiaroscuro lighting, which created a strong and dramatic mood. Influenced by German expressionism whilst also referring to the work of Escher with his gravity defying staircases and the impossible Penrose triangle, this work aims to be unusable, perplexing, and disorientating. Through the use of repetition and a focus on formal relationships, the aesthetic impact of these dream-like illusions has been increased and the vertical and horizontal have become confused. Therefore, commenting on notions of authenticity between the real and architectural fantasy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Turnock
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect.” – Franz Kafka ‘Bird like human/Human like bird’ sees humans and birds merge together to create a set of hybrid portraits. The two species have a lot of overlooked history leaving their relationship to be discovered, explored and brought back to life. This series explores the forgotten links that brought humans and birds together. From middle age wall-art carvings to half-human half-bird Ancient Greek mythology. Through the use of studio portraits, digital manipulation and appropriated imagery, this series produces wonderfully strange and interesting creatures that seem so familiar in such an unfamiliar way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cara Lloyd
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Categorisation is a process that helps humans to understand any and all aspects of the world that we do not fully comprehend. The act of labelling and grouping essentially provides us with a sense of control, giving us the power in which we believe we need. In order to be able to categorise, we first need to identify, and typologies help us to do so. This body of work demonstrates the juxtaposition of natural human emotions with the realities of our world through multiple illustrated sets of highland cows. Presented in black and white, these illustrations offer an intimate and emotive approach to photographing livestock. With texture and symmetry, this series emphasises the individuality of each animal by presenting them at all angles, capturing every perspective possible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abi Doctor
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Nostalgia is history, without guilt’ Svetlana Boym. English seaside towns evoke feelings of nostalgia in many of us. From the smell of fish and chips on the seafront to the garishly painted fairground signs, the plethora of sensory experiences allow us to revert to a childlike state. ‘Chish and Fips’ provides a visual insight into four English coastal resorts. By combining documentary-based imagery, still life sets and archival postcards, it explores the importance of English coastal holidays and how they are imperative to working class identity. Although we all have different experiences of these locations, ‘Chish and Fips’ depicts the universal motifs of the seaside and explores how these induce universal feelings of nostalgia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kerry Woolman
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Colour Blocks refers to the explosion of post-lockdown fashion where we rushed outside and dressed ourselves in, brighter, bolder clothing. Unapologetic colours left individuals feeling refreshed, energised and confident. Still uncertain of the future and processing the past, colourful clothing could have had significant psychological effects on individuals, including clothing being used as an outlet for emotional build up and a way to re-enforce self-esteem. This exquisite, exuberance of colourful fashion photography opens up a whole new perspective on how we have collectively built back up the ‘blocks’ to establishing a courageous, bettered self. Colour Blocks foregrounds a new found desire to engage more with the outside world and continues to push us to discover who we truly are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Connolly
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Using my photographic practice as a pathway to step outside a Christian belief, I was able to contemplate how much in fact I was ‘a believer’ and where my issues with religion lay. It’s hard to photograph a concept, a feeling. So stepping away from myself and viewing the home as an artist, not a daughter or sibling, gave me the strength to shoot intimate images and portrayals of my family and our home. This project seeks to aid healing within myself from years of religious influence and ‘Christian guilt’. But also, to raise understandings of religion in society today, usually seen in media in extreme forms, I wanted to present what it is really like. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elliw Higham
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Feast is a project based on relationships between families and mealtime. The fast pace of change has touched every aspect of human life, not least the idea of 'mealtime', once the center of family life. Family dinner is physical, intimate and routine and the project aims to celebrate all that can be gained from this age-old way of eating but is perhaps in danger of fragmenting in front of screens. The use of fast food signifies the lack of connection despite being physically together in the same space. Where food once brought the family and friends together it is shown here in its processed packaged state where one reaches over another without any sense of human connection or warmth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Juliette Colvin
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Women have been compelled to silently absorb controlling, belittling, and abusive behaviour of men. We suppress any retaliation as the least angry response from women has been disproportionately attacked as more outrageous than the offence that provoked it. But that rage remains inside. Rage is inheritance from mother to daughter because there is nowhere to put it down but quietly to other women. Throughout art history you will seldom see the face of an angry woman. What you will see instead an abundance of images of women being passive, submissive and smiling at you. Female Rage makes visible our visceral anger, contributing to truer representations of the female experience and with the objective that empowerment will follow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kaitlin Spark
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Park is a series of abstract and simplistic images of a childhood park. I now use the space as a means of meditation, understanding emotions and relaxation, rather than looking at the park through my memories from childhood which would focus on the element of play. Looking at this space with my adult eyes along with how I use the space as a means to let go of emotions I realised I started to appreciate the nature of the park and the view that lies beyond the park's edge. Also became fascinated by the texture of the plants, trees, shrubs and grass. I found that the different structures and textures remind me of emotions as they can be complex. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karolina Birger
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

"Immerse Denouement "explores the idea of death as a transformation, simultaneously questions a consumerist model of life. Through colourful and vibrant images, the project attempts to highlight the aesthetic beauty of death. Sea animals are accounted for the highest number of animals killed yearly. In many countries without any laws, not treated as living and sentient beings, often killed unnecessarily by the commercial fishing industry, or as a result of pollution of the sea, marine animals are victims of human consumerism. By creating the visual connection to the beautiful and precious thing, I allowed the audience to immerse into an imaginative and playful world. Animals are transformed into extraordinary objects, gaining the meaning of construct symbolising transformation through death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stanley Barker
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

hile the glow left us renders scenes from the emotional landscape of the last two years, a terrain marked by difficulties of lockdown. With the physical distance between ourselves and our loved ones mitigating the difficulty of isolation, our connection to the natural world strained by restrictions and our faith in the stability and security of society deeply shaken, for many the trauma of lockdown remains a black hole in the landscape of the mind. Simulating cinematic depictions of the paranormal in the place of the familiar human form so as to disarm the more sinister cultural implication of spirits and transform them into sympathetic witnesses to tumultuous yet hushed era in our recent history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vlad Morar
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Closest it Gets is a long-term body of work that tackles the myth of Icarus and, specifically, Edward Field's (1963) poem with the same name. Through the use of historical artworks such as "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (c.1560) by Pieter Bruegel and an overexposed and oversaturated aesthetic, this modern interpretation of the myth comes to life. Images from the island Ikaria are combined with studio-based portraiture to enhance the mythical feel of these frames. Myths are pieces of writing aim to teach us basic lessons about our human condition and showcase either a way to overcome it or reasons why our behaviour is not practical. Getting your wings burned trying is better than looking up and wondering. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gwen Pratt
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A Family Thread records and reimagines selected crafted items made by my family over generations. The work explores the relationship between the two dimensional and three dimensional by placing the objects on several different surfaces, showing the transformation of these material items by placing them on objects. Placing the items on different surfaces, shows the variation of these pieces in their structural form. The work asks the observer to look at the pieces in a different light by changing the perspective of the items, highlighting the effectiveness and utility of the items alongside the contemplative nature of fine arts surroundings. I celebrate and exhibit these crafts which until now have only been displayed within a family member's house. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Curtis Hughes
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The way people date and form relationships has significantly changed over the past few years due to online dating applications such as Tinder, Bumble, and OK Cupid. Such platforms have continued to rise in popularity and t is estimated that in 2021, more than 38% of new relationships flowered through online dating, with that figure expected to rise to more than 45% by the end of 2023. Working slowly and collaboratively, Modern Love offers an intimate gaze, casting light on couples in their homes across the UK and Europe and unveiling the delicate nature of love and connection. These portraits reflect the universality of love and how innovation and technology can bring people together through compassionate and empathic exchanges. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ross Gardner
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘This is Where She Left Them’ follows a semi fictional narrative, contemplating a time in which humanity is forced to leave The Earth. Inspired by the new space race lead by private industry and their goal of seeing humans become a multi planetary species, the photographs reflect my own feelings about the idea of leaving our home and the existential threats that may lead to this future. Shot in locations over the UK that will be key in the development of the private space industry, the images ride the line between documentary and fiction, posing questions about the philosophies of humanities place in the universe, both present and future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Sumner
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The images in this work depict the detailed surface morphology of sand grains, taken from locations of conflict. Each a witness, each a testament to that which has transpired. Through abstraction they invite the attendee to explore their surface in search of evidence of those who have suffered as a consequence of conflict. The concept behind the work is inspired by the medium of late photography, a genre that distinguishes itself through its perspective on conflict, and the process of looking at the past in absent landscapes, vacant buildings, and detritus denoting an action or event. To quote Barbie Zelizer, “people have borne witness to atrocity for as long as wars have been waged, bearing witness has changed with technology.” . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Harrhy
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Documentary photography is a form of recording history, and like all other forms of it, cannot be done without biases, The Pedestals We Built for Them exists to create my own history. Looking at the monuments created for the Great Men, the museum’s role in historical monuments being out of reach and the mundane, daily history of wedding rings, gravestones, flowers. The history is not from above nor below, it is lateral, encapsulating the bygone great men, the legacy of Iolo Morganwg’s own attempts of creating his own history and the history made daily, the story tells both new and old at once, not giving preference to one nor the other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Teifi Davies
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Forest Brothers is a body of work on national conscription in Estonia. National conscription is compulsory for boys coming of age. There is a strong emphasis on themes of innocence, adulthood, and patriotism in the work. It focuses on fragility within young men, and the challenges faced. The Forest Brothers is derived from the name of the original resistance at the time of the Soviet Union occupation both during and after World War II. The names connotations surround the notions of comradery, but also the innocence of youth. While at present, the conscripts train in the woods that surround their base. They may one day have to fight in them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laurie Broughton
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Laurie Broughton is a Social Documentary photographer from London. In an age in which Seaweed is being grown to combat C02 emissions, is used in beauty products, and supplements, used to reduce methane levels and is traditionally eaten all around the world. The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future, looks at our new connection with marine algae in a dramatically changing world due to climate change and consumerism. Making images by dressing participants in seaweed to act as a visual metaphor for their connection to the sea, and by souping film in seaweed extract to manipulate the colours to make this ongoing body of work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Bell
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“I walked back to the city - on the way, I met Safet. He was cycling out of Mostar after a long day working - collecting plastic bottles and scrap metal to pay for food. We spoke of how he was subjected to the war and its horrors. He spoke about seeing on the news talk of a return to war for Bosnia. He spoke of love and respect. He said - whether you are black, white, whatever, if you bleed, it would be red. His blood, too, would run red.” 'Pomegranate' is an ongoing project made in Mostar, BiH. In an attempt to understand Bosnia for myself, I have and continue to spend time with Safet, documenting his life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Durham
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Aftertaste is a semi-autobiographical work that contemplates aspects of transition from youth to adulthood in contemporary Britain. It documents persistent and unpredictable emotional cycles of highs and lows, a search for validation, security, and love against a background of self-doubt and eating disorder. It explores coping mechanisms that can control daily routines and the possible impacts of past, present and even possible future relationships on the psyche. Aftertaste is a realisation that in order to find connections in the present, you must confront your past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Billy Hanson
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I had lived in Cardiff for two years before anyone mentioned Splott Beach. Its discreet entrance, barely one metre across, is nestled within a lay-by on Rover Way’s industrial estate. Over the course of three months, I explored the beach and the relationship between nature, industry, and the nearby community. I was constantly moved and surprised; the landscape could present kindness, poetry, normality, and dystopia in a single day. The Tethered Horse was an attempt to capture the feeling of the place, not to convey a linear narrative. Whether studying a scene through my ground glass or speculating about a local horror with new friends, I spent my days in a world that seemed to fall between fiction and reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Connor Doran
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Connor Doran is a documentary photographer from Brighton, UK. Exploring the other side to the traditional war photograph of soldiers on tour, On the patch, the Dandelions Grow looks at the partners and families to those who serve in the military. Working with the Military Wives Choir I aim to highlight the faces and experience of those who have been subject to constant relocation, long periods without their loved ones and those of who have lost people to war. Photographing the people, their surroundings, and their sense of community, I aim to bring together and highlight the military families that often aren’t represented. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Sainsbury
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Katie Sainsbury is a UK based documentary photographer primarily fixated on the natural world, and our relationship as humans to it. ‘Wisp’ focuses on the animated Barbara Warren of Court Bleddyn Farm Wales, documenting her unique way of life as a farmer, mother, wife, breeder and butcherer of Pedigree Tamworth Pigs, Welsh Black Cattle and Badger Faced Welsh Mountain Sheep. Employing visual metaphor, abstraction, and the human aspect, it’s a story of life and death, brutality and beauty, relationships both human and animalistic, essentially blurring the lines between expectation and reality. Deeply personal, this project is a reflection and further exploration, of my own experiences growing up in the agricultural sector. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lydia Kallaste
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The River Taff in South Wales flows from the mountains of the Brecon Beacons into the artificial barrage area of Cardiff Bay. This project considers the complex relationships that occur between the bodies of water themselves, the surrounding environment and the people who work in and around them. The purpose is to underline the importance of environmental monitoring and conservation and highlight the ways society relates to the natural world. Areas of focus include the varied processes undertaken by groups including the Cardiff Harbour Authority, Cardiff Rivers Group, and the Community Rangers Team, such as extracting litter and other pollution as well as sampling and testing water quality, oxygenation levels and flow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Cronin
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Through photographs informed by Plato's cave philosophy, I explore the transience of my own faith. Plato discusses the way we accept enlightenment but then cannot seek to pass it on to others, as they only understand what they believe to be true. First, I explored the feeling of grasping for faith whilst depressed. Furthering my development into the second chapter of the work, I engaged with Benedictine monks. My own faith, as I had begun to understand it, was entirely at odds with the way they saw faith. The final chapter of this work is on the Hebridean Isle of Mull where I continue my exploration in a less populated area, through engagement of a rough and barren landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nate Davies
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A Rat King is a phenomenon formed when a group of rats have too little living space, their tails becoming entwined, the rats slowly starving to death, unable to move independently. ‘Rat King’ explores the deep-rooted effects of late capitalism through the metaphor of the Rat King: through aggressive globalisation and technologization of even the simplest acts, humans have become irreversibly linked to each other. Davies’ work discusses humans’ complex relationships within society through rats, as they are the perfect analogue to human excess: the more waste we produce, the more rats come. We are currently living through one of the most scandal-filled eras of politics, and ‘Rat King’ is constantly aware and inspired by this. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marta Wawrzycka
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I was born in 1978 in Szczecin, in West Pomeranian, Poland, in a traditional catholic, Polish working-class family. As a child, I witnessed political changes in Poland, moving from a Communist regime to a Democratic system. Since 2014 I have lived in Cardiff, where I study documentary photography at the University of South Wales. As an artist, I am inspired by science and contemporary modern world issues. My area of interest is philosophical questions based on everyday observations and life experiences. I work with a medium of photography and installations, experimenting with visual metaphors. My work is mostly conceptually rooted in a documentary and based on in-depth research about the subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tracy Jones
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Burnout, stress and social stratification lead society to seek what Dr Wallace J Nichols calls the ‘Blue Mind’, whereby when near, on, or under water our brains subtly change to incorporate a state of drifting. The project ‘Drift State’ is a product of mental health through burnout, documenting the connection between society and water. It is a collaboration between wild swimmers who, each morning at dawn, connect with the sea. The black, grey and white matter of our brains react subtly to a water environment. By overexposing and using long exposure times, the tonal range of this project allows the viewer a visceral attachment to the subtle changes of the ‘Drift State’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Archie Archibald
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work is mostly a performance piece presented in the form of still images that explores the philosophical idea of the ‘shadow’ that Carl Jung presented in his thinking, as well as my own personal struggle with drug use. The ‘shadow’, as Jung describes it, is the irrational side to the personality. The work itself is a performance of what I imagine ‘the descent’ would look like if you were to anthropomorphise the ‘shadow’. Utilising my body and movements, I am expressing the anguish that I feel when coming to terms with my real emotions, the performance is the culmination of weeks of exploration into my own relationship with my emotions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Hunter
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

"I watch him out of my bedroom window as he cuts the garden grass. He walks differently this time, and I can see his hands waver over blooms and bushes as he moves back and forth. Up and down. He walks to the flower bed, and cuts two handfuls from my mother's patch. Something so beautiful, taken for another. I’m going back home tomorrow. Funny that I call there home now rather than here."8 Images from my ongoing project “Helicopter to 226”. The work explores the internal complexities of my relationship with my Father, who following a recent cycling accident is currently coming to terms with lower body paralysis. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Ellaway
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Countenance a Blinding Sun is a semi-fictional pondering on the apocalypse. Employing visual metaphor, abstraction, decontextualisation, and suspense, the work is a story of both passivity and complicity in catastrophe as the sequence jumps between pre- and post- ‘event’. Photography can help us perceive - as yet - unseen realities through its duality of purpose; it forms a perceptual bridge (Boyle, 2014) between knowledge and imagination. Thus, at once, the known tensions of the fractious political, economic, and environmental climates in our contemporary neoliberal societies are met here with a fictional representation of an imminent ‘end’, or a new beginning, depending upon the viewer’s interpretation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Campbell Reeves
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The New Fancy is about the transition of an industrial site to a scheduled monument; the images hide an industrial past and a tradition of freemining that was once a vital component to the way of life in the Royal Forest of Dean. The images of this tourist site are evocative of the cultural history. This area is now a walking trail which derives its name from the colliery company that used to run the mine. The site was founded by Edward Protheroe through the right of freemining, a tradition unique to the Forest of Dean, giving those born within the area of ‘Hundred of St Briavels’ the rights to the coal and the iron in the ground. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Malachi Francis
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Remnants of the Taff is body of work made around the Taff Trail in South Wales. The trail is approximately 55 miles long, stretching from Brecon to Cardiff Bay. The project looks at the traces and remnants left behind by our previous interactions with the land. These traces and remnants signify our past and our present, as well as our relationship and engagement with the earth. What we leave behind is a reflection of who we are as people and how we feel about the land. The sweeping hills and valleys that sprawl across the countryside are etched with our past. The way each of us interacts with the earth shapes our perception of the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephen Lawson
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

During the last year I have been working alongside families with missing children, helped by the charity Missing People UK. Once the media has lost interest and the authorities have exhausted all leads, the families are left alone, alone to deal with the pain and loss. There is no help to be obtained and if the families want to carry on the search it is at their own expense. Sometimes treated as suspects, sometimes ignored, they are some of the strongest people that I have had the privilege to meet and only wish that I could give them what they long for most, answers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shadow-Jessica Fletcher
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My photos revolve around dogs. I wanted to create photos that would perfectly capture the dog’s personality and show where they are most themselves. My work is always done on location as a way to keep the dogs comfortable and happy. Their owners are nearby as well so that they are able to feel safe. Some of the dogs I worked with for this project are also rescue dogs meaning having their owners nearby helped them to be the most at ease. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Bridden
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The main basis of my work is fashion/ commerical based photography, in my images I use a lot of bright colours whether it's in the outfits the model is wearing or the background, I do this so the images stand out and are intriguing to the viewer. The fashion industry aims to help people feel better about themselves and make them feel confident about how they look. For this reason I chose to use bright colours throughout my work, as there is a psychological link between bright colours and how it boosts self-esteem so I use my work to help encourage confidence through the use of colour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Wood
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The body of work that I have created for the degree show is for the pleasure of viewing, taking from the everyday, to give meaning to food and objects. Food is the thing that brings us all together, it is a way of communicating an idea or feeling; the fragility of life hanging by a thread. To see the title ‘Fine Dining’ would suggest the sole purpose of the work is a commercial one, but this is not the case. Fine art adds a dimension to my commercial work, that would see it sit comfortably in a commercial setting and also in a gallery setting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabe Grindey
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Throughout this project I will be aiming to explore the people who celebrate pop culture and the characters within through the art of cosplaying, as well as celebrate It myself through the narrative structure within and across both a single image and a small series of images. I wanted to explore the ways and depths that people connect to these characters, as well as create images in a style that appears straight out of their respected media type (film, TV or video games). The images will be spread across both studio and location portraits as I explore the ways in which narrative, tones and emotions can be built within the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mackenzie Holt
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Picture Perfect gives an insight into the personal relationships my family hold with one another. After living away from home for the past three years, I have felt somewhat alienated, missing birthdays and weekly get togethers. Creating this collection of work was a way for me to ease back into the family dynamic without getting too overwhelmed with family life. I want these photographs to be with us forever, and I want us to be able to reflect and admire the immense love we have for one another. We all have our own unique family, whether that’s through blood, trust, or shared experiences. Regardless of how we are related, we experience so much love and loss together, and this project is about documenting that. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Birks
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The Brother’s Grimm Fairy Tales consists of 86 stories published in 1812. The first volume was criticized because, even though they were called Children's Tales, they were not regarded suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. They removed sexual references but kept the violence when it came to punishing the villains. Ive taken inspiration from Annie Leibovitz, Rosie Hardy, Laura Zalenga, Meryl McMaster, Anita Anti, and Barry Harley. Ive taken three stories and have made them my own: The Riddle and The Golden Key. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louis Painter
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Exploring the Queer experience of loneliness and isolation through the use of a cinematic narrative, to make people more aware of Queer issues. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heidi Cannon
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Higanbana and Ginkgo Leaves is a personal record of healing from a turbulent relationship, using the teachings of Zen Buddhist philosophies. The belief that trees represent protection, has guided the project to redefine several locations in London that once held negative memories. Through understanding Zen, the concept of wabi sabi reoccurs as it acknowledges life being serendipitous and mortal. These concepts are rooted within the imagery as they show my personal reconnection to life, respecting solitude, and the gentleness of trees. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dylan Winstone
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My Favourites Are the Sunny Days is a documentation of the journey of rite of passage that many students face every year; the completion of formal education. This is a crucial turning point for many young adults as they take a step forward into the next portion of their lives. Dylan Winstone . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Byron Walkley
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
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Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Chaphas, the original Hebrew term meaning to search, is a body of work made as a visual response to the previous year, coming out of a final lockdown, moving back to university, and deciding to seriously practice and act on my faith. My Christian faith has been critical in my life for the many years, influencing and changing how I live in and see the world. Through the pandemic my faith was tested and challenged, forcing me to deal with some of the conflicts I had within my understanding of the Christian religion, this project forms part of my journey to help me understand and reinforce my beliefs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pawel Lubecki
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The title of my project is inspired by a poem titled Jim, written by Jacqueline A. Grieve, written after her brother's death from suicide. At the heart of the poem lies loneliness and invisible signs. The aim of this project is to increase awareness of suicide through the depiction of the ordinary places where people took their own lives, banal and everyday places. In many ways, these locations are representative of the ordinary and diverse people affected by suicide. With my project, I hope to encourage the viewer to talk more openly about mental health and suicide. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carly Guidotti
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A visual series about the entangled history of femininity, the connection between art and the psyche and exploring one's own body, mind and soul. An artistic catharsis for oneself and advocating for all women. “Each time a woman stands up for herself… she stands up for all women.” ― Maya Angelou The series explores the history of hysteria, gender disparities in healthcare, and representing women in art. Art therapy is not about the finished outcome, but the process. Creating this artwork as a purgatory of the emotions and trauma attained from years of misogyny, medical gaslighting, sexual assault and abuse. Through self-portraiture and confessional writing, I want to highlight the importance of helping oneself, as a rule, helping others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bayley Glenn
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

My work - titled 'a wake, before a death' - is a depiction of urban decay in residential areas of Belfast. Based on my own experiences as a lifelong resident of the Shore Road area; I am showing the stagnation in working-class districts of the city, and lingering sectarian tension post-ceasefire. Walking through Belfast's residential communities, I photograph their neglected and abandoned areas. The inhabitants of these parts are depicted through a largely anonymous portrayal, befitting the lack of progress in the places they call home. Coming from a Protestant background, it was always instilled into me to stay out of certain areas with Catholic leanings. The photographs in these places aim to show my ingrained feelings of caution. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Beare
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I’ve been thinking about the pressure to be “man enough”. What does it even mean to be man enough? I pulled myself apart for not being man enough; for being gay, for being trans, for having interests manly interests. Maybe I don’t want to be man enough. Maybe I just want to be the man that I am. Maybe, instead of asking if we are man enough, we should ask more important questions: Are we kind enough? Are we honest enough? Do we love ourselves and each other enough? I explored my relationship to queer masculinity, photographing my body in nature as a way to show queerness as natural. These self-portraits are an honest look at my identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Violet Gaffey
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Sun Spots’ is a project confronting my feelings surrounding my mother’s death in 2020. The main themes of the project focus on light and my home where my mother created every design aspect within. Even now I feel that the house still embodies her spirit. This is highlighted by the suns light filtering through connecting me to her. Consisting of both pictures and text pieces ‘Sun Spots’ explores the many faces of grief. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Allen
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

fathom is a visual diary, exploring my fear of transience in response to witnessing the body’s vulnerability. The slow deterioration caused by my mother’s illness produced an acute awareness in me of how fragile we are: it’s like I’m waiting for the past to repeat itself. I began thinking about the strain of the demands on family carers. My father had to be both parents to my brother and me, with an unquantifiable impact on our experience of growing up into men. I gradually pieced together intuitive imagery that began to materialise this sense of loss and a malaise about the body. By recollecting family experiences through the camera, I contemplate the mystery of my lost relationship with my mother. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Davies
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I naturally gravitate towards people and places that make me feel secure. Home has always been a space where I am not questioned: I just am. It’s where I can see beauty in the mundane. I’m aware of moments of comfort within my day because they can feel sacred: like waking up early to experience the stillness of the morning or cooking with fresh raw materials. Paying attention to these in-between moments helps me to feel more present. The pandemic affected my ability to step outside my comfort zone and the safe spaces I designed for myself, physically and mentally. This work explores the quiet moments at home and how I find a sense of security in my everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eve McClatchey
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Created one year after my fathers death, life hereafter is my way of expressing the confusion of emotions and longing for the past that I have felt each day since his passing. Through the work I explore the complex grieving process that comes with losing a parent, and the emotional reality I face within myself as I try to accept the circumstances leading up to his death. This project looks at the idea of tainted memories to express how, although he was a perfect father, he had his own personal struggles which have altered my recollection of growing up. At its core, this body of work is a collaboration between my Dad and me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cameron Long
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Eye Spy is collection of photographs and video which takes a psychological deep dive into the mind of its viewer. Macrophotography depicting ice melting. Seeing light refract through imperfections creating miraculous shades of colour and shadow, beams bouncing and getting caught within the camera, traversing the mini sculpture. Like applied pareidolia. The work mimics the famous Rorschach ink blot test. Each frame uniquely tackles the viewer, forcing an alternate perspective. No two clouds are ever the same, no two people are identical. Art requires the artist to be laid bare on the subject to which they illustrate, this work flips the proverbial script, the viewer can only see what they know within themselves, their personality, and beliefs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Riddell
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

There is a simplicity yet significance when we gather around the table. It holds a magnetic field for activity, attracting conversation and expression as we come together. ‘… I’ll Save You a Seat.’ is a visual archive, of eclectic memories from moments around tables over the course of my life. I have discovered the many identities that the table can play host to, altered by environment, the activity occurring and the emotions that transpire as we meet. The visual archive creates a narrative, using gesture and sound to physically “set the table of my life.” This body of work also aims to celebrate the universal practices of the table, reimagining the act of gathering, and the vital need for this practice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shannon Ritchie
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Burnt Out documents my refusal to accept tensions and casual violence in a place that should be comforting and safe. Through burning the images taken on a broken and obsolete camera with sentimental value, I attempt to process my push-and-pull relationship with the council estate I grew up in and still live. Despite living here my whole life, I’m an outsider, failing to fit in with the sectarian attitudes and behaviour expected of me. I want the work to feel broken, dirty and imperfect in an ugly way. Weaving together themes of the love and hatred I feel towards my home, desensitisation to violent events, and most importantly, an anger about the politicised landscape and current tensions in Northern Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jason Conlon
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Messengers concentrates on a small group of insects that have inspired myth and lore throughout the ages. Mythology can help bind communities and cultures with tales of morality but can also be used to control the population by exploiting their fear of God and natural forces. The insect becomes the protagonist in a much larger narrative with metaphors of transformation, spirituality, and the ability to communicate between worlds. Working in my understairs laboratory I craft together many disciplines from Victorian taxidermy to computer programming. Like a mad scientist, I use these tools to reanimate lifeless exoskeletons. The result is a visual experience that was once the domain of the entomologist’s microscope. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Graham
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Twenty Something’ engages with the complicated ages of manhood between twenty and thirty. The work consists of intimate portraits of men, accompanied by landscapes and still lifes that represent the longing for childhood freedom, and the search for a sense of home. Becoming a man is filled with expectations; from parents and peers we feel pressure, leading to a fear of judgement which can cloud our sense of identity. It is a time muddied by growing responsibility, as financial issues become a primary concern and relationships become serious. In making this work I attempt to show the complexities of a stage of life that is often depicted in older people’s recollections as the halcyon days. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Sterritt
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A month after my 16th birthday, my father died suddenly. It was a Friday morning. My world was flipped upside down. "as survived by" documents the imprint left on my life and how I have grown and learnt without that guiding figure by my side. "as survived by" was made as a way of understanding and coming to terms with his loss. It explores how important my relationship was with my father and how I have learnt to grow up, from boy to man. "as survived by" is a portrait of myself and my father, the way that I know both of us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Kennedy
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

“We’re not good at that stuff” is about a new wave of masculinity emerging in the 21st century, showcasing the softer side of what it’s like behind the emotional wall that many men build around themselves. By breaking down that wall, this project aims to let men express themselves by surrendering to the camera being open and honest, pushing back against centuries of toxic, oppressive masculinity. This is a delicate, vulnerable body of work with the purpose of comfort and positivity. It shows that change is happening and there are boys who want to share their worries and feelings with others, allowing for conversation and understanding which leads to growth and progress. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shannon Walsh
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Woolgathering: indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining; absent-mindedness. Woolgathering follows my thoughts, emotions and personal experiences over two years, these are the things that overpower my mind and daydreams. The melancholic wistfulness of the work is a deeper reflection of self. I formed Woolgathering by taking my daydreams and turning them into written pieces and images so as to better express and understand them. Nature became a central theme of the work as I found myself resorting to nature for moments of melancholic solitude and its subsequent reflective period. Intimate and vulnerable, this is a journey of self-discovery to find myself as both artist and person. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Molly Martin
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

There is nothing more elusive than not experiencing, knowing or relating to your own body. Unlived experiences occurring through my epileptic seizures have allowed me to explore concepts of consciousness and control, using my body as a performative tool. ‘Misshapen States’ experiments with the sensed boundaries of the body and mind. It explores endurance in intense environmental and physical situations to consciously induce states of involuntary movement, whilst considering the self as a body, an object, an obstacle. This work is an attempt at connection with the most intense experiences my unconscious body has had. Using performance both corporeally and vocally brings a physicality to something elusive in my embodied experience that I have not, and will not, ever reach. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stacey Ashe
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

We are a mosaic of the people we have encountered throughout our lives, both romantically and platonically, along with the experiences we have had. We are those special moments with friends, belting out songs in the car. We are the anticipation of waiting for the person we fancy to kiss us. We are the laughter we share with family and friends. We are the screaming matches we have with one another. These moments impact us and change us forever. They shape our world, our personality, our life’s perspective. Even if the people leave, the memories we make, the habits we develop, they remain, and they become a part of who we are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca O'Flaherty
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project involves a series of performative gestures to camera that explore the impact of the Northern Irish geographical and political landscape upon my body. The five-bar gate is a structural barrier embedded in the landscape which I use conceptually to represent certain divisive traditions and attitudes in Northern Ireland that I find myself struggling against. Each performance involves durational actions that test the fragility and yet resilience of my body. Repeated iterations of the actions have created diversity in the shapes and forms produced whilst transitioning from one movement to another – constantly thinking of where to place my hand or foot and sensing how much pressure is necessary and recognizing the failure to remain connected. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thea Birch
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Collected Comfort is a showcase of people and their collections and how they use them to step out of the real world. This is personal as a reflection on how I used my LEGO shed to escape reality during the pandemic. Through this, I became aware of how the people around me had collections and used them as a means of respite. Being invited into their spaces as a spectator is a special experience, having a deeper understanding of their significance to them. I am surrounded by people who find the same satisfaction in their collections, varying from music, toys, books etc. This is about people and the comfort they find in their passionate engagement with material and collecting culture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Evie Williamson
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

‘Stubborn bodies’ explores the concept of consent in a capitalist, patriarchal society where sex is bought and sold, pornography consumed, and rape culture rife. The work interrogates the parallels between sea swimming and my experience of sexual assault. My body the site of the violence, the trauma enmeshed in me, I cannot define where it starts and ends, it’s in my flesh. My body remembers - it knows more than me. I perform for the camera in an attempt to address the trauma I cannot articulate. I reject shame. I know it does not belong to me. It remains with its ebb and flow and dictates what I give away. I try to maintain control. I try to be visible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Hannah
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I once wondered how acolytes could devote themselves to a cult leader; following each command, participating in harmful behaviours, devoting their very being to those they hold in high regard. During a breakdown in 2021 I came to understand this mindset - I succumbed to intrusive thoughts and justified decisions according to my own preaching, questioning everything from the motives of those close to me to what was real and what wasn't. 'One Man Cult' was born in response to this episode. I developed my own personal cult in which I am both leader and follower. Presented as tableaus with references to classical art, literature and real-world religions, this body of work documents my commune from its creation to its downfall. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dione Jones
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The female anatomy has often been depicted as excessive, destructive and eruptive to the mind. Reflection on death, being and mind, this project attempts to unravel a life at odds with all aspects. A ceremonial burial of the excess felt and the burden of the body to the mind. Portraiture is immortalisation of flesh. By playing with the surface of an image we see the murkiness of memory and the overwhelming emotions that often interfere with our recall to moments in time. A reminder that although the photograph may be immortalisation, flesh will succumb to nature, erosion and time. The melancholy and mourning of life still in motion but with the need to rid oneself of this imposed excess felt. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Wozencroft
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Megan Wozencroft is an artist based in Wales. Within her photography, Megan often combines digital and alternative processes to explore concepts surrounding the environment. Her practice consists of experimenting with new techniques and materials which often coincide with nature and its endless photographic opportunities. Her piece of work ‘Reflecting on the Land’ is a nostalgic interpretation of nature. Through this body of work, she has captured her local woodland, where she would spend many a time during her childhood. She wishes to honour this land through her work as she believes it withholds great sentimental value. The incorporation of the water within her work plays on with the concept of reflection which evokes feelings of the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laurentina Miksys
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The symbolism of the butterfly cycle is like a depiction of life itself. Many cultures look at this flying insect with ample respect and use it as a symbol for many life concepts. As people go through spiritual transformation, they retreat from the outside world to their inner being. Immersing oneself in inner reflection, one often envelops the outside world in a cocoon in which the most significant changes take place. When you become confident in your transformation, you can reappear to the world. Like the recently awakened butterfly, ready to fly after transformation, humans are also being reborn as renewed. Moths are creatures of the night- a flight to the light means a flight to the death for them. For various cultures in the world, the butterfly is an animal that symbolizes transformation, growth, personal progress, a clear direction in life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Sullivan
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Predominantly working with her environment, landscape and personal emotions, Emily Sullivan is a photographic artist who garners inspiration from her surroundings and feelings towards the land. Inspired by Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis that suggests that humans tend to seek out connections with nature, Emily is drawn to natural forms and textures within our landscape. Aiming to transform the viewers’ outlook on their surroundings, she examines her own connections with the land. Changes caused by the deterioration of our environment and geological shifts, mean that these locations, which offer the artist her solace and comfort, will alter over time. Utilising environmentally friendly techniques and materials, this project explores the impermanence of our natural world through a geological and environmental time scale. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Winbow
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As a queer person who was assigned male at birth, my references to women and female form predominantly come from mainstream media. The wig ,taken from a retail store mannequin, is representative of the preposterous standards women are held to. Opting to cover my face, this series is able to transcend the restrictive boundaries of gender and relate to the spectator in a multitude of ways. Moreover, the costume and posing is reminiscent of the traditional hyper-sexualised poses women are portrayed within visual media. Stripping back my images to its basic form, subject and background, and focusing on the poses of the subject instead. The result is an emotive series of images that aim to engage the spectator and critically challenge the heteronormative status quo that reinforces the unrealistic standards of western beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ada Di Palma
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ada Marino is an Italian visual artist based in Wales. Her practice focuses above all on the recollection of past events, memories and traumas that re-emerge, passing by a deep canal of introspection, manifesting a cynical surrealism. Often her disturbing imagery attempts to conceptualise the repulsion/attraction effect and tries to introduce the concept of revaluation of ugliness almost contemplating it, subverting the common way to photograph, see and perceive things. "Paterfamilias" is an investigative project exploring the theme of oppression in the domestic sphere, bringing to the surface the consequences of deteriorated relationships in male dominated households, evoking the sentiments/resentments, functioning to raise awareness of and discuss a deviant cultural aspect which still mortifies the dignity of women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ann Dineen
The University of Wales Saint Trinity David - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ann’s work focuses on older women, once past the age of 50 they almost become invisible to society, youthful looks have been replaced with lines and drooping jowls that photographers sympathetically remove in post-production thereby reinforcing the idea that as we age we are no longer beautiful. In these image Ann strives to show the strength and beauty of the ageing process, without conforming to what has become the 'Norm' by airbrushing away the years, instead age should be celebrated, and we should be seen for who we are, not what a manipulated image perceives we should look like. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gyorgy Englert
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

From time to time, in my relationship(s), I come across situations that cause confusion in me. I find it frightening, sometimes amusing, or even both at the same time. A multitude of feelings emerge and I sense a dazzling mirror of my presumed or real mistakes. From a spectator, I immediately become a participant with an already written role to play out, regardless of my consent. I know, somehow, I have to address the call but whatever I will do, deep inside, I will always remain an outsider. With my series, I try to encourage and enable the viewer to pause and spend time in contemplation, hoping that I evoke similar thoughts I experience at these moments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Raymond Bird
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This work covers the power of the constructed image. How the photographer has the power to take a photograph of an event or situation and manipulate it to represent whatever is needed by governments or media. One such undisputed image released by the American security forces was the image of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle. The image was released immediately after the assassination of President John F Kennedy to manipulate the public into believing Oswald was a Russian spy and the shooter. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tanya Gabriel-Bird
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

A challenging and thought provoking exploration of what death looks like; confront my fears of death through the medium of insects and the realisation that death has a certain beauty. This Major Project has a metaphorical reference to the fears of death and the personal loss of my daughter, this symbolic reference has a psychological turning point as death becomes an acceptance by exposing my own emotions through this tragic process. Technically and mindfully the work was challenging. The idea was to face death through photography exposing all the detail that the eye cannot see. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruizhe Hong
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

So Close When You Look Away explores the intricate emotions one might experiences in a romantic relationship. In this project, I recreated the fragmented moments within a relationship that showcase the intricate nature of love. Love might be seemingly positive and joyful yet painful at the same time. Being a sensitive person within a romantic relationship could be overwhelming, which constantly lives in the complication of supposing oneself simultaneously being loved and abandoned. One always waits for the other, and the other never waits. As a Chinese poem says, “So far away when you look at me, so close when you look at the clouds”. Thus, love is like a pendulum that swings between pleasure and pain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angela Crosti
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Recent events have affected my sense of belonging to this country where I have felt stranded and far apart from my original culture, its values and its traditions. This state of mind combines with a broader detachment from a world that seems to carry with it pervasive indeterminacy and uncertainty. This project, in the form of a photobook, responds as a visual diary to these feelings: images combine with text and poetry in a flow of personal emotions. Familiar and unfamiliar places metaphorically represent mine and my children’s thoughts in a process of observation, of acceptance, and reconciliation with the complexity of our living. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tessa Browne
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

'Pillow Feathers and Dust' is a microscopic series that has been driven by personal curiosity and technical development. Through the use of the microscope, I have been able to observe objects from a completely different perspective and therefore changing the way I look at things, even if at first, they appear insignificant. This project captures subjects that possibly, before, may have been overlooked. From the feathers in my pillow to the dust under my desk, these everyday elements make up a part of my world and it has encouraged me slow down, look closer, and appreciate the small things. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Beth Theobald
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

In this unpredictable and changing world, we are all urged to take action in the face of climate change. But how can we do so when eco-anxiety permeates our consumerist culture? Our current relationship with the environment is strained and unbalanced. This photographic series depicts the interactions between our consumerist society and the environmental damage it causes. It highlights how we limit and control our world using salvaged, damaged, outdated consumer objects and propagated flora. The images are created from organic pigments, viable printing methods, paper recycling and moulding. All components of this work are handmade; each test print is recycled into new paper – a circular approach that demonstrates, on a small scale, that there are more viable ways to live. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Ringrose
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Each Chemigram is completely unique. The concept of creating unique images that cannot be recreated is a theme that runs consistantly throughout my work. It is important to me that my work holds an element of surprise. The closest I get to control with my Chemigram work is the concious desicion I make when pouring my chemical onto the paper. Chemigrams are forever changing. Until you pause the life- cycle of the print. I enjoy the neverending aspect to Chem- igrams and digitising them is the only way to stop them on their journey. I choose to pause the prints at specific times when the col- ours are most vibrant by digitising them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aisling Longbottom
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Aisling Longbottom is interested in how we see. Whether this is biological or psychological sight, these thoughts and theories inspire her and come across in her work directly and indirectly. She is fascinated by colour and light and the meanings these can portray to the viewer. In her latest project, Aisling has been experimenting with printmaking techniques combined with photography. She has been focusing on feminist themes and the colour yellow with inspiration from the novel The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This project represents the direction Aisling is wanting her work to go in, focusing on colour and light themes to explore social, psychological, and philosophical theories to create experimental photography projects composed of mixed-media materials. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Kemp
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Alice Kemp is a Photography BA graduate exploring several genres of photography including; portraits, still life, product and events. She seeks inspiration from her surroundings and often shoots in scenic locations and within naturally lit studio environments. Alice grew up in Whitby, North Yorkshire and encapsulates the minimalist and naturalised aesthetics of the countryside and seaside aspects of her hometown throughout her projects and photographs. Her medium is mainly Canon DSLR, 35mm film and Polaroid. Following her degree, Alice hopes to develop her film skills further using the medium and large formats to continue to create photobooks and zines to add to her growing creative collection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Brookes
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

I have always enjoyed taking photos of landscapes, even before I had the intentions of being a photographer and just took photos of the scenery that I was surrounded by with the intentions of treasuring the memory and the view. As I have grown as a person and a photographer, I have realised the importance of landscape photography and have enjoyed much time surrounded by the beauty of fields and flowers, things that we often take for granted or see as mundane as we are so used to seeing them. I take my photographs with the hopes that the viewer can enjoy them as much as I have while shooting them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brooke Ashleigh
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Since the death of Sarah Everard, I came to a realisation. I, as a woman do not feel safe in my day-to-day life. That be in the light of day or at night. The routine precautions that women must take to feel safe every single day are not thought about enough. The fact that such mundane things like a small alleyway or a parked van or a man simply walking home can make us pull our bags closer or take the longer route home just to avoid a potential fatality is normalised too much in today’s society. This project takes the mundane spaces in our world that some individuals may not fear and turns them into a place of grim possibilities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caitlin Pearson
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Caitlin’s practice focuses on her ambition to become a primary school teacher, so her eclectic practice has shifted to have a community-based focus. She currently uses her photography as a way of giving others a voice to tell their own stories and hopes to one day develop this into a way of giving young people a way to express themselves creatively, giving them the chance to be heard. She works closely with the people she photographs to create a collaborative piece and gives the participants a chance to explore their identity and express themselves through her practice. She teaches her participants about the digital medium of photography, and they learn a new skill which they could transfer into their everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Stubbs
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Charlie Stubbs is an abstract photographer, capturing the hidden details often left ignored and underappreciated. Initially starting with street photography, she shot in various locations around her local area, though as time progressed her project ignited a desire to photograph the areas of her house that she often overlooked, photographing them in a new, more desirable and intriguing light. She often spent a lot of time in one set location, trying to find the hidden gems of details and colours, making us re-evaluate the world around us, bringing excitement to the mundane. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Diane Holt
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Photographs are an important tool in the documentation of environmental impact. They duplicate what can be seen on location at a set point in time that allows it to be used archived for future relevance. Holt has used this idea to explore this ability to be a moments document is analogous to the eye seeing erosion as a documentation of effect within a landscape. This concept has driven Holt’s latest work where they explored coastal erosion along the Holderness Coastline in Yorkshire –the area known for having the highest environmental impact in Europe. Holt utilises analogue and digital photography to create curated installations of their work that enhance the experience through an immersive experience to engage audiences in alternative formats. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Dixon
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Ellie Dixon is a digital artist, largely specialising in photography. Through their practice, Dixon strives to create a sense of realism within contemporary performance photography using visual depictions of self-portraits and bodyscape imagery. Dixon has the ability to create a unique ‘punky’ monochrome aesthetic using a greyscale palette, heavy contrasts, and exaggerated body language in order to illustrate narratives relating to feminist movements, mental health awareness and various other political agendas. Dixon will often experiment with techniques that will depersonalise their model from the medium and their viewer. By doing so, Dixon allows the audience to apply themselves to the narrative that has been presented before them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily-Rose Davidson
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Emily-Rose Davidson (born 2000) is a photographer based in Hull, England. Davidson’s specialised genre is documentary photography. Focusing on her passion she travels around the UK to capture the urbanity in different communities. Creating a context through architecture and nature of life. Davidson uses her photography to present the aesthetic of beauty in uncommon places. Her goal is to project the feeling of tranquillity in her images visiting places which are stereotypically ‘quiet’ like rural areas and places which aren’t like estates. Davidson achieves this by documenting the life around her while she is alone and wanting to find peace within herself through these places. Davidson has experimented using numerous different mediums in her practice but, commonly uses a DSLR camera for the highest of quality images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Burton
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Holly Burton is a creative portrait photographer interested in digital experimentation and book making. Drawing on her experience in performing arts, Holly creates a story visually, by exploring portraiture within the landscape and the subject’s relationship with the world. Through multidisciplinary research, Holly creates concepts underpinned by visuals, audio, and literature, producing imagery that evokes a narrative and pushes the boundaries of the still image through animation. Manipulating light and shadow has become a common motif in Holly’s practice, as well as experimenting with colour and texture both in the subject and the landscape. Through her practice, Holly aims to provide a visual and tactile experience, often producing photobooks of her work to encourage accessibility and interaction with her audience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Lavinia
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Katie Lavinia is a 21 year old photographer from Manchester with an eclectic approach to photography, using the medium to explore what the world offers. She creates an experience for herself as well as the viewer of her images, firmly believing this experience will never end, as long as those images are still being seen. The practice begins with the exploration of these topics, which often surround her observations of communities and societal structures, leading to a lot of portraiture photography. Katie frequently uses a mixed media of film and digital, aiming to authentically capture her encounters and feelings. Her processes offer a platform for expression and understanding, something she deems essential for personal and societal growth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kelly Pickering
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Kelly Pickering focuses on identity and how it is expressed. This is explored through cultural and biological colour and how they can be used to express ourselves. Her main genre of photography is portraiture, specifically self-portraiture as this is how she best expresses herself, depicting her thoughts and experience. With a background in fine art and photography Pickering’s practice is research led involving historical and political contexts. Her inspiration is from artists such as Andy Warhol and inspiration from her everyday experience producing empirical based work. A theme in Pickering’s work is exploring orientation specifically the lesbian identity and depicting the relationship colour has with the LGBTQ+ Community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lydia Carr
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

As a street and landscape photographer, Lydia Carr’s work explores juxtaposition and comparing and contrasting two subjects such as, concepts, people, or place, to emphasize a relationship of similarities and differences between these subjects that we may not have recognised previously. These images explore the topic of belonging through an observational perspective, investigating into questions such as, where is it we feel connected to?, where do we call home? and why do we find ourselves returning to this place? Furthermore, these images also explore the subject of community and seeing how people express their care and admiration for the place they call home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Colls
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

This project is titled “The Colours of Grief” and explores how grief effects the other emotions that we feel through self-portraiture. This project has been inspired by her own experience with grief and how she has been affected. The use of the colours green, red and purple painted on her neck to represent guilt, love and faith through colour theory and the black to represent grief and its lasting impact. Megan hopes that through her images she can influence people to be more open and honest about the way grief affects them and make it a less taboo topic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olivia Walsh
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

Olivia Walsh has interest in photography that lies within landscape photography, mainly focusing on cityscapes and natural landscapes. She prefers to work digitally, photographing the contrasting elements of man-made buildings and the natural environment. The inspiration behind Walsh’s work comes from her surroundings as she learns by capturing subjects in the moment and developing new ideas from these photographs. Walsh always finds herself inspired and fascinated by the natural world as she ventures out into it and attempts to make the viewers of her work feel themselves as immersed in nature as she is. The purpose of nature being the main subject in Walsh’s photographs is to raise awareness and make the viewer’s conscious of the ongoing issues that continue to destroy the world’s ecosystems. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Cleverdon
York St John University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2022
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 27 May 2022 17:31:02 EDT

The work of Ruth Cleverdon is a combination of her photographic and fine art practices which results in visually impactful installations of digital and film created images. The inspiration of her work is founded on her experience with Epilepsy as a child which resulted in substantial memory loss. This ever-changing journey with memory loss is shown repeatedly in her work as she navigates the recreation of childhood memories and her own self-identity. Cleverdon’s work contains inspiration taken from her family home in rural Leicestershire and is sustained with research into psychology and family albums. The aim of the work is to explore her own curated identity which will in turn continue to heal her loss of self and memories through her art. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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