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GRADUATE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ONLINE 2013

Scott Martin

Pets At Home

This series of pictures explores the varying and complex relationships that owners have with their exotic animals. The keeping of such animals has been gradually on the increase over the past few decades as they have become more affordable and the knowledge of their upkeep has grown. But where 'traditional' pets such as cats and dogs provide the owner with a feeling of companionship and of being needed, many exotic animals cannot. With this in mind, there must be other motivations to keep such animals. For some owners, the low maintenance nature of keeping animals such as reptiles offers a welcome opposite to the keeping of cats and dogs and better fits their hectic modern lifestyles. For others, they are drawn to their animals simply through curiosity, fascination and sometimes as a means of one-up-manship. Some of these owners perhaps see their pets as a collection, a form of living top trumps between friends or the exotic keeper community. To others still, it is about conservation, caring for and breeding species that are under threat. Some even attempt to have the 'traditional' relationship of companionship, despite their chosen animals lacking the ability to reciprocate their love. This project aims to share a few of these individual owner/pet relationships and to reveal something about the exotic pet community.

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Current Course:

University of Wales, Newport  BA (Hons) Documentary Photography

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Barking and Dagenham College
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Bath Spa University
BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Media

Blackpool and the Fylde College
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Arts University Bournemouth
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Cambridge School of Art
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Mid Cheshire College
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University of Chester
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University of Cumbria
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Dublin Institute of Technology
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IADT Dun Laoghaire
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Edinburgh College of Art
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Edinburgh Napier University
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Falmouth University
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Falmouth University
BA (Hons) Marine & Natural History Photography

Falmouth University
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University for the Creative Arts Farnham
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Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography

University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography

Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media

Hereford College of Arts
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Hereford College of Arts
FDA Commercial Photography

Kingston University
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University of Central Lancashire
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Leeds College of Art
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University of Lincoln
BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media

London College of Communication
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Manchester School of Art
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The National College of Art & Design
Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging

University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography

Northumbria University
BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practice

Norwich University of the Arts
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University of Plymouth
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University of Portsmouth
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UCA Rochester
BA (Hons) Photography (Contemporary Practice)

Sheffield Hallam University
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Southampton Solent University
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Stockport College
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University of Ulster
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University of Wales, Trinity Saint David
BA (Hons) Photography

University of Westminster
BA (Hons) Photographic Arts / BA (Hons) Photography

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Documentary/Photojournalism

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Landscape

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Urban/Suburban Landscape

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