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Elle Andrews
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

I ask you to reconsider the system of habitual domestic photography by describing the photograph as a 'stage' upon which we play out familial roles. My examination of this area of practice reveals much about the psychology of the human condition and the position of the family, while pointing to what is so often lacking from this type of image production. Throughout my critique of the domestic photograph I maintain that the practice of family photography is both crucial and endearing, I am interested in revealing both the obscurities, the poignancies and the quirks of its contemporary use. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lærke Feld Andersen
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The photographic work addresses the viewing process as it engages with the surroundings, it activates the room and offers the spectator the opportunity to mirror the present space in the images, or even reach further down and relate the reflecting spaces to those of the spectators memories. Through this realisation the viewer is no longer occupying the removed position of the spectator, but is given the opportunity realise the work through the personal associations provoked by the work, and become aware of their physical relation to the space occupied. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thea Baddiley
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work seduces your senses and invites your imagination into an alluring world of mystery and intoxicating beauty. Within which I aim to transform the enigma of obscure fantasy into a reality in an evocative manner. The imagery questions what is real. Drawing you into a place where anything is possible and leaving you lusting for more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesca Centioni
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Through revisiting significant locations, retrieving and reengaging with my past, the images evoke an emotional engagement, which responds to the human presence in landscape. My images often display a strong diffusion of colour, almost turning to mist. This reminds me of memory over time, and how the past becomes gradually fragmented. Framing, perspective and changing viewpoints all play an important part in marking boundaries, and revealing dialogues. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keith Nim-Yan Chan
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The signs of photographic construction in this series are made explicit through lighting and composition, which generates a heightened juxtaposition between the banal and theatrical. My idea comes from my experience of staying in different cities for a period of time - from trying to know more about a new place and feeling excited, insecure, frustrated and eventually indifferent. My work concentrates on portraying the mundane places and moments to which we normally pay no attention. By creating pictures of the everyday surrounding, I am able to bridge my imaginary space with the real. I am seeking to redeem the ordinary and insignificant, and construct a distinctive visual language of my own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daria Danowska
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My recent work has been exploring a relationship between people and beliefs based on every day surroundings. I have been staying in various convents photographing every day rules and habits as well as private spaces of members of those communities. Their daily practice of religious life is reflected in their cloistered existence. Each of them has a little, private space, which appear to a viewer as an ordinary room. When we look closer we notice little signs of spiritual obligation, which they chose to live in. That reminds me that religious and secular life cannot be compared. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikki de Gruchy
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

With my interest in photography rooted in its juncture with art and science, my exploration centres on the materiality and physicality of photography and celebrates its inherent alchemy. Photographic prints are reduced to pulp, erasing the photograph's innate representation. Reforming this raw matter into sheets of paper creates non-photographs that hover between objectness and an imaginative space. Reproducible photographs are rebirthed into a form which, although visually homogeneous, is totally unique. Reminiscent of Walter Benjamin's writings, the end result also questions whether the aura of the photograph survives fragmentation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Giuditta Del Vecchio
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My imagery originates from contemplative reflection into the nature and essence of time and how it relates to our existence. Through the use of extremely long exposures, extended over hours, sometimes days, my work addresses the passage of time and evokes the theme of impermanence. The primary element in my work is time at its slowest, at every step of the process, which is amplified by using large format cameras and sometimes hand-made glass plate negatives. The result is reminiscent of the aura of 19th Century photography. The camera's long gaze slowly renders visible what is otherwise invisible to our naked eye. And this tension between visible and invisible is the foundation of the contemplative reflection evident in my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Billy Easter
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

I work with photography, installation and video and have produced a body of work investigating the dynamic that develops between the artist, the work and the viewer. Often expressed via an aesthetic framework of scruffy formalism, my images employ the familiarity of the everyday yet restrict the viewer either mentally or physically, triggering a natural urge to know more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Una Hamilton Helle
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work is born out of a desire to understand social and historical events through photography. I build on the concepts and visual language that already exists within the approaches of documentary and aftermath photography. My interest also lies in the landscape photograph and the idea of the landscape as a container of memories and histories. Intrinsic to my work is a question of if a photograph of a place can reveal to us more than the immediate visual information it contains, and how this is communicated through to an audience, for example through text. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Linington
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This selection of images is culled from an archive of family holiday snaps taken throughout the late '80s and early '90s by myself as a child. Re-scanned and redisplayed as a version of the original negative, these images address the rise of digital culture and what it means for analogue image production, whilst simultaneously questioning distance, nostalgia, loss and materiality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benedict Morgan
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

I work to a process where I photograph a space then re-shoot the resulting image in a different environment. The use of a large format camera highlights the subtleties of light and surface, this brings forward the character and altered perception of the space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Brighitta Moser
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work is directly informed by the problem of the real and the theatricality of belief. Photography has masked our understanding of reality with it's uncertain credibility - the line separating the real from the imagined has become increasingly indistinct. I am often deconstructing religious beliefs by using symbols to create my own theater of the absurd. Most recently, my series of cult suicides serve as a metaphor for the everlasting tragic romance that is religion - a dream of utopia followed by eerily repeated nightmares of self-destruction. These images act as a shadow of something existing entirely out of the frame. They reference what can not be seen, the beliefs that led up to the event and the outcome of postmodern spiritual craving. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rhona O'Brien
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Photography's success and appeal to art institutions relies heavily on its materiality, when in fact the medium's explicit form hinders its potential for a full conceptual identity. My work establishes an affiliation between content, form and presentation and moves through various methods of spacial representation, always aiming to return to the photograph's definite 2D form - highlighting its inescapable material nature. First generation conceptual art is an important point of origin when analysing photography's function/acceptance within art historical discourse. The work from this period relates directly to the ontological concerns that are contained within my own photographic practice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Page
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The family portrait is a loaded subject area, a subject well known to all. Freud offered a description of the feeling of the 'uncanny', as a well known or homely item or atmosphere that somehow unnerved. This is something I have brought into my investigation; it is juxtaposition to emotions commonly linked with the family portrait. My work looks at identity and ones identity in the family. Visually layering my family onto me, to look at genetic identity, as well as creating performances to show an identity of environment. I become a passive ventriloquists doll to the ideas and movements placed on me by relatives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabella Pitisci
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work attempts to collapse the boundaries between image and object. For me the surfaces of photographic images are not transparent, and if images have meanings, they also inevitably occupy physical spaces and exhibit their own materiality. Throughout my work, and often using found material, I have explored the way the materiality of the photographic image and of the apparatus can affect and contribute to the meaning of the work: from the material on which I print through to the positioning of the image and the apparatus in a three-dimensional space; from the physical traces and index of time, scratches and dust, on negatives and prints through to the uncanny physical absence of the photographic image itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Reid
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

With my work I aim to create Film Noir like images of everyday suburban domestic life. I am interested in the idea of restricting what the viewer can see to both suggest that something possibly sinister is occurring out of the frame, and question the notion of photography being a representation of the truth. Photography is almost by nature voyeuristic; by limiting what can be seen I also aim to utilize this sense of voyeurism to create a feeling of tension in the narratives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ida Riveros
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

At the edges of the city, space is in continuous transition and change. The natural landscape is being artificially constructed and remodelled, and added to the city. Photographed by night the land is presented in a state of ambiguity, as a space that is at the same time familiar and strange, and invites a closer examination of its realness and context. As such the images are an exploration of landscape as a mental construct, a space to be interpreted and determined by the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Renata Szur
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work explores conscious and unconscious, visible and invisible. I use space as an ambiguous transitory device - an extension of the body and mind. Communicating through simple shapes and forms my images reflect the clash between the child - 'now lost' and the adult I have become. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chen-Chih Tan
Camberwell College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work explores the opposite of 'home'. I have been documenting deserted houses, looking at misplaced objects and have eventually taken the idea of rearrangement to create portraits. For the series, I have removed my subjects from their original contexts to the dwellings of others. The unusual engagements between their bodies and the new environments reflect the unhomely experience of displacement. By imposing a new order on things in my photographs, I wish to question the notion of belonging and to illustrate the performance of identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon T. Dixon
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Working mainly in structural and mechanized environments, my imagery examines this and the landscape it encompasses. I have always been fascinated by mechanical things. I grew up around farming machinery and construction equipment. I still get a buzz out of photographing tractors, earthmovers and bulldozers, in fact anything with tracks or wheels, especially the much maligned JCB. In my work there is usually some element of construction or transition, as the urban environment makes way for new structures. The images shown here are a small sample from my interpretation of 36 views of Mt. Fuji, a documentary project informed by Japanese artist and print maker, Katsushika Hokusai. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirstie Handley
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Getting away from the traditions of housing in Britain, thinking outside the box, there is a large minority of people who choose a different box to live in. There are all sorts of reasons why people choose different environments in which to live, being self-sufficient and respecting the land around them is one thing that these people have in common. These photographs represent a wide cross section of people who choose to live in less traditional accommodation. My challenge was to represent this life style as if you had just stepped into it, an invisible presence observing curiously. It is another aspect of British life that should be valued and it's my way of understanding that. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Hogg
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This body of work was based on a study of a modern day extended family. I wanted to look at how new larger families form through remarriage and how the step-parents and step-children interact and cope with living together as one family unit. This project examined the everyday lives of a family of 8, a mother and her 3 children and the father and his three children, all living together, capturing the problems and the pleasures of this family as they adjust to their new lives together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Howell
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

These images represent an investigation of colour, space and shape within design and architecture in the urban landscape of Rotterdam which is the 'City of Architecture 2007'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jason Hynes
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

These portraits are from a series called 'Faces of Teesside'. I wanted to explore the variety of cultures and personalities in the Teeside area. From Artists to shopkeepers, to Councillors to T.V. Personalities, all are from, or have strong links, with Teesside. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jill Lamb
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work reflects the way I communicate through the camera. These images are taken from different bodies of work exploring the High Street, phone boxes and modern architecture. They show my life and the things that I like to capture, whether that's a British icon such as the red telephone boxes which are slowly disappearing from our streets, to the modern buildings sprouting up in every city as part of regeneration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Neil Millward
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Situated on a former no mans land between Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees the Tees Barrage on the river Tees is a public space with water sports, picnic and play areas, riverside walks and nature reserves. It is a quiet haven in the centre of the busy urban and industrial sprawl of Teesside. This work shows how I interact with such an environment and indeed with the world around me in general by portraying the place as I see and experience it. With themes such as solitude and isolation I experience the calm and quiet stillness of such public spaces without the people around that they were designed for. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Delphine Ruston
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The phrase, 'EarthBound/AirBorne' anchors my current photography. This theme relates to dichotomy within the human psyche - the desire to be released from earthbound preoccupations and yet finding stability in the earth; and the desire for release in the air at the same time as knowing this is unattainable. Working in both the urban and rural environment, I aim to create images that suggest these metaphorical connotations when put side-by-side. My photography is influenced by my work in a therapeutic setting and I am developing the use of photography in this way. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Sanderson
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

For this project I photographed homes. I explored a large range of people from different ages and areas: looking at the elderly, young, single parents, children, large families and couples. I wanted to discover how homes have changed and are constantly changing over the years. I got close into the corners that most people ignore and I believe it shows a clear distinction between class and society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Smurthwaite
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

I am a Final year student of BA Hons Photography course at Cleveland College of art and design. My work has mainly been based on portraits and documentaries, I like to catch a look or a sense of drama, I like my work to create a mood and have often used additional lighting to strengthen this notion. I feel my latest work is becoming more than just an image and has more of a filmic feel. My final work is based around the casino world and the customers, being an ex-croupier myself this gives me great insight and a point of view to work with. A poker competition is the focus in this series; I have tried to give the viewer a little insight into the characters and sometimes surreal environment, which remains undiscovered by many of the public. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Sudlow
Cleveland College of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work lies within a social documentary field covering cultural subjects such as music, football and youth culture. I enjoy working with people and trying to display their diverse characteristics and social views. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Norma Collins
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Ireland is considered as being in stage five - the 'bubble stage' - of a property boom-bust cycle as described by Charles Kindleberger. These images not only represent actual experiences of the struggle to climb the 'property ladder', but the incongruousness of the scenes depicted also evokes the current anxiety regarding the property market in general. After all, as everyone knows, bubbles inevitably burst. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen de Lacy
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

'Play is the work of a child' (Maria Montessori). A recent report published by the American Psychological Association warned that young girls exposed to sexualised toys such as Bratz dolls can develop depression, low self esteem and eating disorders in later years. This report has prompted a number of newspaper articles which blame Bratz dolls and pop groups such as The Pussy Cat Dolls for their over sexualised appearance and song lyrics and advise parents how to stop their pre-teen girls developing into sex objects. Like the Barbie and Sindy dolls before them the Bratz dolls are blamed for making girls want to grow up too fast and embrace adulthood. However other toys exist in the marketplace that promote adult behaviour, such as cleaning and cooking sets, make-up and vanity tables and baby dolls. The aim of this project is to explore how these objects not only mimic the traditional roles of womanhood but also prepares young girls to accept these duties. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert Ellis
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This body of work explores the idea of 'home' for a large community of Brazilian people living in Gort, Co. Galway, culminating in a documentary that challenges and re-negotiates the media's representation of that community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ramona Farrelly
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The Garden of Virtual Reality is a set of images depicting imagined environments representing man's evergrowing desire to create and control the natural world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angel Luis Gonzalez
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In the 17th-18th century aislings, the island of Ireland appeared to the poets in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, lamenting the current state of the Irish people and predicting an imminent revival of their fortunes. What if she appeared nowadays? What would she be concerned about? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kerstin Hamilton
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

What components are necessary for a successful birth? One could argue that nothing is needed; women have given birth since the dawn of humankind without little or no assistance. Times have changed and the modern-day western society has more or less restricted the process of giving birth to the delivery ward and delivery itself is part of global medical discourse. This work offers an insight into 24 hours in the delivery ward at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin. It reveals the transitory space that mothers inhabit for the duration of their stay and situates the often-overlooked figure of the midwife as a key social actor providing a critical source of knowledge and care in the institution. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Norabeth Hogan
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Torsion investigates the body in movement and expression within the realm of contemporary dance practice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria de la Iglesia
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The book Cubans in Ireland portrays the experience of different characters from Cuba living in Ireland. This work illuminates the enduring markers of Cuban identity and exposes the changing face of individual experience. All the images are made around Ireland capturing moments of the personal within the political to illustrate the particularities of people living outside an Island where the struggle for identity is imminent even beyond its frontiers. These people, these lives, these experiences are extracts of an integration process in an advance capitalist society showing different ways of seeing things, different perspectives on life. The pictures combined with transcriptions of interviews made with the subjects provide an insight of the complexity of human adaptation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deirdre Keaney
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

An observational documentary that explores the lives of the people working in an Irish travelling circus. It tears a hole in the Big Top that is just wide enough for us to peer through and see what goes on beyond it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Levy
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Julie Lynch
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

To dress as a woman is to adhere to what society deems as being feminine. Feminist theorists have long argued that much of the social construction of the feminine was built to uphold male patriarchal dominance. However, what of a transvestite male who feels empowered and emancipated through dressing as a woman? Aldie Flores is a 37 year old Filipino man. He is an economic immigrant living and working in Dublin. He is catholic, openly gay and a transvestite. He came to Ireland seven years ago to support his family in the Philippines. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niamh Marron
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project exposes comedians through portraits in their off stage persona. Each image is accompanied with audio from their live performances on stage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura McGovern
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Inspired by the work of Japanese author Haruki Murakami this series explores the physical and psychological aspects of the solitude of the male. The feeling of despondency and isolation from the society in which they live, is a major issue for the young male today. In the darkness something lurks. This darkness encapsulates the feelings of despair and isolation, of fears and obstacles. What is not seen is as significant as that which is. Fears regarding social and sexual inadequacies are played out in the dark. The eerie sense of foreboding is dominant and the filmic nature of suspense is played out through the still image. Shot using a digital video camera and then pulling single frames, this series thus becomes a true reference to the film still. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miriam O'Connor
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

There are endless types of forecasts, today's, tomorrows, or the three-day outlook. Those for the short-term or the long-term, for Leinster, Munster and beyond. 'Making Weather' journeys indoors, East and South, observing weather conditions of a particular nature presenting elements from an unfamiliar terrain, concerned with drawing attention to how weather is 'made'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Randall
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

By taking experiences from my own life and translating them into images, the landscape that surrounds me becomes an important point of focus. Places that are familiar to me provoke sentiment. By placing a figure within such a landscape, this work explores the conflicting emotions aroused when forced to make choices. Every action has a consequence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Séamus Sullivan
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project examines the idea that there has been a shift in the way contemporary Irish urban dwellers experience time. The images were exposed for one hour at selected points around Dublin city - with each hour corresponding to the 24 hours in a day. By giving every situation a standard 60 minute exposure regardless of the time of day or night, human activity is rendered visible relative to the speed at which it occurs. Traffic delays on the motorway or the lengthy queue for a late-night taxi leave little or no trace while worshipping, studying or sitting down to eat with friends or family leave a more lasting presence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Ewe
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

From the slide projected series 'Sex Positions for Singles'. Philip Ewe will be exhibiting at Big Shed, Suffolk and Totalkunst, Edinburgh from July. Please get in contact for further information or to join the mailing list. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Gibson
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

'Show Homes' questions the functionality of contemporary minimalist interiors and how the media promotes this lifestyle as a target we should all be aiming for. By creating scenes similar to those found in lifestyle magazines I aim to suggest that these spaces lose their appeal when they are lived in and the boundaries between what is real and fantasy become blurred. The images from 'Edinburgh At Work' are part of a commission for George Watson's School in Edinburgh and represent the different areas of employment that support the cities economy. In 'Family Portrait' I have asked my family to choose the books that are most important to them and that have influenced their character and the person they are today. In a society that is dominated by technology, reading is becoming a declining activity yet books have always been integral to our family and I felt that it was an ideal way to demonstrate more than just the physical attributes of my family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hye-Jung Lee
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

As a photographer, my interests have always been concerned with capturing character and narrative. In the Picture is an attempt to bring these concepts together in a fun and interesting way with a series of film-like images in which the story is open to the viewer's imagination. The narrative and chronology of the scenes are deliberately ambiguous but use the clichés and conventions of a particular film genre to help mould the viewer's interpretation. The so-called 'Asia-extreme' film genre was a perfect source material for combining bold visuals with bizarre content as it is characterised by the strange and unpredictable, stories that are essentially allegories and expressions of suppressed emotions and dark desires. Having this genre as the foundation to this project meant I was able to present a collection of images that contained more than one possible meaning; both individually and as a whole. The viewer can see that the scenes are, in some way, linked but the individual determines the correct order and circumstance. This 'open-narrative' theme was largely inspired by the work of artists such as Gregory Crewdson, Philip Lorca DiCorcia and Anna Gaskell whose images force the viewer to consider the surrounding circumstances of each scene. 'In the Picture' is an attempt to take this concept a step further by involving the viewer in, not just one image, but an entire series by presenting a story in its most open form. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph K. Massey
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The role of photographer encompasses many aims including providing opportunities for the audience to reflect and consider the impact of images on their own behaviour. The work displayed in 'Sunbed subject A and B' shows the harsh truth of what happens to the body when subjected to the UV tanning bed in an attempt to enlighten people that abuse this bizarre culture. Millions of people across the country use sunbeds in their home or at tanning studios, for what is essentially a vanity driven desire to enhance self-image and attain better well-being. There are many detailed medical journals and public health warnings about the dangers of ultra violet light encountered through prolonged sunbathing, nevertheless people still feel that a bronzed body is desirable and the epitome of good health. The following pieces 'Six 2 minute interval's' and 'Vo2 Max' are documentary images of amateur triathletes and the gruelling training the put themselves through in search of improved progress and peak performance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lyndsay Paterson
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In today's society and culture we are constantly being bombarded with images of the perfect way to look. The obsession of the media to continually show us images of the 'perfect figure' makes us become more aware of the way we look, and obsess about how we can improve our appearance. The truth is we all have attributes that we are not happy with and would change if we had the chance. However it is these attributes and differences in ourselves that make us individual and yet it is these attributes that make us unhappy with our own appearance. My works from the series: "10" (My Worst Physical Attrribute) takes individuals least favoured part of them and shows it in a more attractive light. Farming is a decaying and changing industry and with little or no government funding the industry is falling apart much like many of the farm houses and buildings that we see scattering our rural landscapes. This image is from the series: Farming - The End of the Seasons. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mariah Skellorn
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project is a response to our current methods of acquiring food, and their increasing lack of sustainability. In the future our food supply could incur serious problems as there may be competition for farm land. The world's population will rise and currently governments plan to increase production of bio diesel crops. Scientists have been experimenting with cloning and genetic modification of many foods in order to further intensify the productivity of farming. Growing combinations of food on the same tree is an imaginary solution to the lack of farm land that we may experience in the future. These images may at first seem comical but if we continue our current consumer habits these trees could become closer to reality. Processed foods growing on trees may seem far fetched but they serve to emphasise the question of what is going too far. Methods of food production that may have seemed ludicrous twenty years ago are becoming more and more common place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christopher Teasdale
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

We see the news and learn of conflict within other countries. Never do we presume that it could come closer to home. The attacks of 9/11 have dramatically changed the sense of security within our country. In September 2006, in response to potential threats, the airline industry brought in new and stricter guidelines of what one is able to carry onto aircraft. Items such as liquids, scissors etc could not be taken on board. Everyone was treated as a suspect. These items are day-to-day objects but in the view of the government have the potential to cause mass attacks. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Damian Ucieda
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Simualcrum is a project consisting of a series of photographs with its theoretical base in the work of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard and other authors influential in contemporary photography. In this series, the photographer analyses the difficult relationship that photography has had with the theory of reality from its beginnings. "Every photograph is a fiction that can't be presented as true" (Fontcuberta, Joan. El beso de judas: fotografía y verdad. Gustavo Gili, 2002). Through staging characters the photographer tries to construct a narrative in which the key idea is to copy reality so the photograph becomes in its own right a parallel truth, a simulacrum or a hyper-reality. Most of the images are composed with digital treatments in the same manner as other mediums such as painting constructs an image. With a strong cinematographic presence, the images are invaded by enigmas and questions without answer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebekka Unrau
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"Everything you can imagine is real" (Pablo Picasso). Set entirely in my bedroom, the sculptures photographed are symbols of exploration, ingenuity, and inspiration; all creative forces. Alone in my room I used only what was available to me in my room to investigate the potential of the materials, space and of myself. These photographs speak essentially of the universes we can create for ourselves. Set in a confined space they reach out past the limitations of the room to become metaphors for unlimited potential. I see the restrictions of the room represent those we see in our own lives, but like the room our own limitations are opportunities for creativity and discovery in our attempts to transcend the difficulties. The quietness of the images reflects the private nature of discoveries one makes on one's own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eoin Carey
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Identity is defined by those around us, what society wants us to be and how that society reacts to our visual existence. In an attempt to be myself, I end up trying to be someone else, reflecting the people I know and who I look up to, or enviously desire to be. I cannot identify which of these disparate personas define the real me, nor can I determine the collective affect they have on my individuality. As a consequence, neither I nor anyone else can determine if any of these images can be me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Doubleday
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

I love you. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lesley Ann Ercolano
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Through the visual language of photography, a viewer is given the chance to project into the lives of others, and to contemplate and compare those lives with their own. Stages explores human bonds within spaces of everyday life; of where we meet, live and share particular relations. Family life, friendships and partnerships are at the centre of this project, just as they are at the core of our social life and vital to our human nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Glynn
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In this piece of work I am using specific colours to define aspects of nationhood, religion and culture. I have coupled this with the concept of identity of the individual by using a pixel taken from an electronic digital image of the eye of each of the London bombers of July 7th 2005. By using the elements of colour and shape I am questioning the relationship between the individual and the State as well as from individual to individual. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Hoyle
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

'Amaranthine: adj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling the amaranth. 2. Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting. 3. Deep purple-red.' This work presents a universe wholly constructed by human intention, I have attempted to unearth the patterns of order, logic and disruption imposed on these spaces by their now absent creators and inhabitants. In doing so the spaces have become divorced from their original function, becoming something more than asphalt and concrete. This work can be viewed as a tribute to the phantasmagorical endeavours of human kind whilst at the same time an actualisation of the permanent mark left by man. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morwenna Grace Kearsley
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work began after discovering an Italian side to my family that I had previously known next to nothing about. I listened to stories and anecdotes about these strangers that I was connected to by blood. I also received images of them, of their parents and children. Fascinated by this wealth of new-found knowledge, I began to construct characters and flesh out the stories I had been told - fact has merged with fiction, truth with fantasy and a new story has been created. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicholas Lawrence
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work investigates the interaction between humans and computers and the (often blurred) point of contact between physical and virtual worlds. Our culture is becoming increasingly digital; the computer increasingly ubiquitous. In this context, I am concerned with creating spaces in which the viewer is drawn into a reflection on the necessity of contextualising virtual narratives within the 'real', or physical, world. Through a combination of audio, visual, textual, and physical elements I aim to guide the viewer through an experience which raises questions regarding the digital experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lina Löfström
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"This is the way the world will look to the last man before he dies. There is something about this landscape that is awful in its beauty; part of the awfulness is the fact that you are completely irrelevant to it." (Admiral Byrd in his diary after being left behind on the Antarctic due to injury in 1934). These landscapes represent a future environment caused by human intervention, a void left on the world which has outlasted us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Archie Macfarlane
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In a globalised world of cultural homogenisation, minority languages often find themselves facing an uncertain future. These images examine the spaces in which the marginalised language of Scottish Gaelic is currently spoken. Feelings of both hope and despondency are portrayed within each image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ned McConnell
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work examines the presence of an absent past. It records traces of objects which remind us of people or events, becoming a symbol of absence. These absent things in life fill us up. Their presence is retained in the beautiful melancholy of the past. They can bring forgiveness and guilt. They can reveal truths and lies, both in equal measure and as real as each other. And they can create a confusion as elusive as the shadows we try to escape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caitlin Morris
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In an examination of the mother daughter relationship, my work guides the viewer through an exploration of the effect that time has on the delicate narratives that infuse our memories. Concentrating on the metaphorical association of belongings, this piece combines a fragile, tactile element with evocative visual imagery. The combination of these elements provokes a contemplation of relationships, loss and memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Stuart Porter
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

A vast amount of the urban environment which we pass through is taken up by spaces that are repetitive, unrecognisable and disorientating. The disorientation created by these spaces can be responsible for anxieties in individuals that are either agoraphobic or claustrophobic in nature. Although these spaces are almost non-entities in our conscious minds, they are by no means neutral. The spaces have a direct effect on our sense of belonging as they are designed to be functional rather than inviting. The concern of this work lies in the expansion of this unidentifiable space and our sense of belonging diminishing completely. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Åse-Marie L. Soldal
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Death is one of the modern day taboos. The reluctance of talking about the subject matter of death has, I believe, resulted in a loss of identity when we die. When we die we just become another corpse. We are surrounded by death throughout our lives. Death doesn't necessarily have to be something horrible, it can also be viewed as something beautiful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tara Stewart
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

A found collection, dusty remnants / full of life but frozen in time. / Shadowy world of uncertain consciousness, / littered with scenes from our childhoods. / Assembled objects obsessed over / and stories harboured, / part of who we are. / Hidden histories, an Age of Discovery, / of distant past lands and present ideologies, / and stories to remain half told. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen Watt
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Throughout adolescence, external influences surround and affect our rapidly evolving identity. By making portraits of groups of teenage girls, I have endeavoured to explore the relationships between the identity of the individual on their own, the individual as part of a group, and the combined identity of the group. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ariadne Xenou
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

For years now these saintly figures - concoctions of Orthodox Christian imagery - have infused my imagination and dreams, becoming visual obsessions and invisible companions. They are as constant as the abjection caused by their Orthodox counterparts. They embody fear, pain and the need to belong, all themes of Christian iconography and driving forces behind the existence of the Christian religion. These saints, although still full of divine oppression, stand ambiguous, a trait more widely evident in humankind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy J. Barkley
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This was what I was doing when I was supposed to be taking photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kristina Bengtsson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

As a child I used to watch a children's programme called 'Five Ants Are More Than Four Elephants'. It tried to answer the fundamental questions of how our world is connected and where the human beings belong. These questions still remain unanswered, and probably always will. It is part of the search we have to go through to be self-realised as humans. The search of understanding our contemporary society is constant; it is a part of our time. But rather than being a search to understand, it becomes more an understanding of the search. The construction of modern society is fascinating. Sometimes it gives me the impression of being a secret arrangement. I used to strive for clarity, but realised that it only appeared as haphazard moments, so therefore I started to follow the small things. In my observations with the small, I am not trying to rearrange or document, but rather make a suggestion of a new possibility of understanding relations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lotte Fløe Christensen
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

I find it strange. This existence. But somehow it seems that if I capture the strange, the attempt, the search, I understand it better. I come to terms with it and befriend it. My practise evolves around the attempt to make sense of - or understand the world and my position within it. As much as it is a personal quest, I see it as a comment on a fragmented world, where each individual have to try their best to create a sense of meaning for themselves. Making pictures is a way of making sense. I do not use photography as a mediator of emotions, but rather a tool of examining the conditions that create emotions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Saskia Coulson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Images of mass culture transfigure under my vision. I create these collages to recontextualise the world in which I am under heavy influence of. Celebrating the beauty of image making and using a baroque artistic style with contemporary found magazine photographs I create a critique on the society's obsession with the illusion of luxury lifestyles. Yet the work says as little as the magazines they are torn from, concentrating on repeat patterns and styles, they lure the audience with their glamour. Falling short of having a strong critical voice they appear only to remind us how easily we can be seduced by exquisite images, allowing our eyes to trace over perfectly placed curves and lines and them be left with the emptiness of having loved but not comprehended what was beheld. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Hughes Devlin
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The sites I choose to photograph could be part of any post-industrial city. I focus on spaces that seem mundane, the kind of spaces overlooked in any conventional search for visual beauty; my work concerns the skin of the city, its flaws and scars. I am interested in the post-industrial residue of earlier times, signs of a collective forgetting. I believe that by illuminating such fading geography, the past is allowed to revisit the present and to allude to some kind of future. Often the places I photograph are non-places; in-between places where history is preserved behind bricked-up windows. My work seeks to draw attention back to this disappearing every-day landscape, to illustrate the depth behind the ordinary, to liberate the familiar. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patricia Gibson
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My photography explores the idea of the garden (and by extension nature's landscape) as a personal Eden - a paradise, a spiritual connection with nature. I study how we relate to nature through our gardens and what that evokes. With the flower's blooming comes the knowledge of its impending death as well as its eventual renewal. Working the soil provides a spiritual connection with the mysteries of life that we find difficult to understand. The ethereal quality of what we find in our relationship with the garden, the visceral pleasures that await us there, awakening all our senses, exposes us to a surreal world of lush colour, growth, challenge and chaos. I visually seek to find stillness, astonishment and beauty within that world which at close inspection appears alien and never ceases to amaze me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosalyn Gomersall
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Simen J. Helsvig
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

If someone spends a month digging a hole in the ground, then there is a certain value to that hole. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ross Ireland
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

At night as I walk through the same familiar spaces and places I find myself lost in the world created by artificial light. The quiet, still, air surrounding me is overwhelming. What lies beyond the light, in the vast dark spaces left behind? In daylight all is exposed under the suns blanket of light, but at night artificial light gives certain things an importance not granted by the sun. The world is a very different place at night, one in which I feel most comfortable. Powerless by day, artificial light commands the night. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kjetil Karlsholmen
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

With interests in music, video games and drawings, I found it a matter of course to work with materials such as tapes, floppy disks and video game cartridges after making work in and around abandoned, industrial buildings. Although all of these means of mass-production were once regularly used commodities, are perhaps now more a part of the previous past of our technological era, whereas big businesses such as video game consoles seems to be replaced maybe too soon after its release. Furthermore, nowadays we store huge amount of songs on portable players that are even smaller than the revolutionary audio cassette!, maybe suggesting that technology actually might make what is better even better and not only being another instrument for consumerism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gavin Maitland
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Quo Vadis, Baby? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Salome Oggenfuss
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Katherine Rose
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Artists' differing ways of using words succeed not in the accurate and successful description or explanation of an idea. They succeed in their eloquent confusion, their ambiguity and childish arrogance. The words themselves wont describe. They search for rhythm; they want to confuse. This is because life holds something which words won't describe, because it doesn't need to be. Art creates questions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Colin Tennant
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

We'll be coming we'll be coming we'll be coming down the road when you here the noise of the tartan army boys we'll be coming down the road . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Wicker
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This series of landscapes is based on the perception of the photograph as a visual field, separate to that of the images in front of the camera. The images suggest layers of flat surfaces, with a lack of depth that does not entirely abstract the image - these are still visibly landscapes - but allows the eye to move beyond the subject and consider the colour and form of the two dimensional field. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alan Williams
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My 'lost horizon' series is an attempt to reconcile the connections between, experience, memory, abstraction and documentation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Wismayer
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Before you can gulp down your next breath you must destroy the last. Ruth Wismayer's images lie in the moment between breaths. They are the skin on the water not liquid, not air. Moments of contemplation out with motion that are universally experienced, never recorded and rarely articulated. (Statement written by Leanne Hopper.) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darragh Basquille
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This series of portraits depicts young men experiencing moments of inner turmoil and reflection. In masculine hegemonic culture displays of emotions are often thought of as weakness of character and are a major threat to perceived notions of traditional manhood. This series explores the idea of men's self imposed isolation during their attempts to manage their complex emotional issues unaided and also investigates the void left in society caused by the fact that we no longer have any definitive rites of passage for men. The work explores an emotional vulnerability in the subject and is voyeuristic in nature giving a view into a private disposition of masculinity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jeffrey Bright
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project examines if it is the actual event or the visual that is the spectacle. In the moment of looking to question our curiosity what brings us to stare with guilty fascination at photographs of suffering and death? To challenge ones blasé response in viewing fictional suffering and death as opposed to reality. In terms of photographic representation, what is seen is merely a representation a construction the photograph stands for something somewhere else, what is literally represented is not full seen at all. Secondly, in representing fabricated scenarios the viewer is challenged to dismiss the photographs as a reconstruction and question if or why the spectacle still exists. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Callaghan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work explores the stages between life and death in todays society. With so many medical breakthroughs, the criteria for death has had to be reevaluated. A new definition-Brain Death, has had to be adopted, alongside the traditional criteria of heart/lung failure. This legal definition was set to accommodate organ donation and doctors who believe patients are being kept alive by machines, but without hope of a meaningful recovery. This stage has been described as a 'hybrid of life and death', a dubious point in which a patient's body can show signs of life while their brain does not. What has traditionally been a philosophical debate about the dualism of the body/mind seems to have been settled by medical-science. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darren Campion
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This series of pictures is about trying to find a certain visual logic in fragments of the landscape. They explore what the landscape, a particular landscape, is like as a photograph. These images do not relate to any kind of 'view' as such, but are more like abstractions, showing only what is necessary. Yet, the landscape itself is still very much the subject of these photographs, searching for the relationships between different forms in the landscape - a matter of appearance, of surface. These are explicitly visual relationships, which are apparent only in terms of the photographs themselves. Making these photographs, then, is about making these relationships obvious - making them visible. In this way, these pictures are a kind of dialogue with photography itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patrick Clarke
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project is a pause, a series of images in quiet contemplation, a reflection on life, the choices we make and the events outside of our control. The Polaroid images represent those quiet moments that we all experience, staring into space in the hope that somehow some sense can be made of it all. Focusing on anything in view that allows your consciousness to escape, if only for a fraction of a second. In these flashes one does not really see, it's a fleeting moment, a snapshot, gone before we even realise it was there. In contrast to this the larger photographs create a paradox in which they are a more direct search for answers but end up asking only more questions. The photographer turns away from the domestic and toward nature hoping to find his path. When no clear course is found a kind of uneasiness is discovered in the blurred shapes that dominate these disturbing yet, enchanting, landscapes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorna Fitzsimons
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"Archives constitute the memory of nations and of societies, shape their identity, and are a cornerstone of the information society." - International Council on Archives. For the purpose of this project I have photographed and recorded every material item within my possession during the period between 12/10/06 and 24/04/07. As a less traditional archive, this work attempts to look at issues such as provenance, authority, memory and evidence that are affected in a variety of ways once photographs are detached from their original settings. These images hold clues to my history and thus may be considered a kind of self portrait. My objective is to take stock of my own existence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fiona Hackett
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Throughout history, gardens often presented desirable environmental qualities missing from the everyday lives of people. In dry climates, they were rich with vegetation and flush with water. In forested areas, they were primarily cleared areas. Gardens offered an alternative to the everyday, a form that embodied an aspiration for physical need, or social and metaphysical striving. Adopting the term 'Topophilia' to describe the bond between people and their environs, Yi-Fu Tuan suggests that our perceptions, attitudes and values - in effect, who we are - come to be reflected in the space around us. What is it, then, about human nature which drives us to search for this perfect, ideal world, while we seem to have lost our conscious awareness that this search might ultimately be destroying us? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gary Loughlin
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Rapid Eye Movement (or REM) is the stage during sleep where we dream. When woken during this state we are more likely to remember our dreams. The accounts that inspired these images were written directly after waking from REM sleep. This work is in no way an attempt to analyse the dreams shown, but simply a look at them, a documentary if you will. Sigmund Freud believed that it was impossible to analyse dreams through imagery, in the ways attempted by the surrealists. Freud believed elements such as the background and surrounding influences of a person are vital in the attempt to understand their dreams, otherwise they are taken out of context. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Barbara Mac Nelis
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work represents Killybegs in Co. Donegal, home to one of Ireland's largest fishing ports. Communities like Killybegs exist all over Ireland; single economy towns with no alternative source of employment. The decline of such industries in these places has severe consequences. The problems now facing the inhabitants of the town of Killybegs are not being acknowledged, as the Irish governments attitude towards the industry is largely one of indifference. Recent controversies surrounding over-fishing have hugely damaged the industry in Killybegs; even those who did not participate in over-fishing are facing the consequences. The artist hopes to initiate a debate on whether or not the coastal communities are being supported in the appropriate way to ensure their work in the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Don McNeill Healy
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project is about the humanity that exists amongst Rosie Maughan, her family and the traveling community in general. I have spent over a year and half photographing the lives of the Maughan family living on Pigeon House Road. My aim was to develop a close intimate relationship in order to capture the loving, caring nature of the family as well as the chaos that exists in their lives. This family live in difficult circumstances, however my intention was to create a new vision, a new way of seeing the obvious chaos, that is the humanity in Rosie and her family. In everyone and everything, there exists a new vision. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Moor
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

When cannabis is discussed as a social issue the emphasis often tends to be on the criminal aspect of supply, whilst reasons for the drug's demand in Irish society receive scant attention. This project seeks to initiate a discussion on the topic whilst engaging with the genre of portraiture. It proposes that there are three people involved in creating photographic meaning: subject, photographer and viewer. None can lay claim to the meaning of a portrait; all three enter a transaction and negotiate their own place in the exchange. Using a collaborative approach, the subjects filmed the photographer during an interview on the topic. The piece consists of eleven portraits with text and a video showing one minute of each interview. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Róisín Morris
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Many people today find it difficult to face the pressures of modern living, increasingly afflicted with a persistent sense of social disconnection. So often, it seems that the only option available is to turn away from life itself. The question in this case is whether or not this experience of discomfort and isolation is a result of the human condition, or if it is merely a symptom of how we live today. These images are constructed scenes inspired by my own feelings of alienation and loneliness. In exposing my own vulnerability, these photographs endeavour to give name to the sadness; the inner turmoil, which plagues many people in today's society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siobhan Ogilvy
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work explores the way the forest acquired cultural meaning through an oral tradition of storytelling. In folklore the forest was unknown territory, a space of possibility, adventure and fear. It became a metaphor for the psychological development of the protagonist, often a child on the road to maturity. Our perceptions learned from fables and fairy tales still carry an emotional impact because these stories were rooted in practical, real issues - the child who strayed from the path would not survive. By exploring this connection through time to stories that have shaped our ideas of the forest, the images aim to communicate how culture is deeply inscribed in the natural landscape, even when human figures or man-made elements are not directly represented. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gary Somers
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project has been a journey, in all senses of the word. Travelling is beneficial, and the journey towards emotions, real emotions has a profound effect and value. The aim of this project is to somehow express this journey. What is it to be really you? Are you ever really you? And then how do you capture the real you? The answer was never going to be easy. It has been said that through meditation the essence and true nature of a person is revealed. 'The Absorption of Light' is a project based on capturing a person's true nature, a state in which in western society we rarely exist; yet, it is always there. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dianne Whyte
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work deals with the effects of institutional enclosure on the person confined. Are they ever free from the inflicted rules and suppression? Once freed from the enclosure itself, the remaining scars have embedded themselves into the very psyche of the person involved, forever holding, forever tightening its grip. The loss of identity and loss of innocence become etched within the soul, resulting in the realization that all are reduced simply to a document or scrap of paper. Shanganagh House, the only open prison for juvenile offenders in this country, was closed down in 2002. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Ainsworth
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Within this photographic series, I have been working with art handling technicians from the Tate gallery. The technicians are directed to work within the landscape as if they are in a gallery space and are depicted ordering objects that refer to works of early 70's conceptual art e.g. Carl Andre's, "Equivalence VIII", or Robert Smithson's, "Mirror displacements in the Yucatan". Set in the landscape of the sea reaches of the Thames, at the edge of London the photographs are a response to the marginal spaces of urban life. They are an exploration of how we view art both in the context of the landscape and in the gallery space and point to the behind scenes labour that goes into the creation of an art object. The photographs have a dialogue between human intervention in the landscape and notions of institutional critique in an investigation of the nature of artistic creation, the language of photography and how we view recent art history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christian Alegria
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Suspended forever in what seems a moment in time and space, these everyday found objects have been given a life that transcends their once mundane and pitiful existence. Through the careful detachment from their surrounding world, they gain reverence and are elevated beyond their physical self and have become martyrs. For these objects, the real word no longer exists and they are given a second life within the void that exists between our real life and our memories and experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martin Bardell
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Social interaction lies at the core of my staged tableau photographs. I am preoccupied by how people treat one another within society, especially strangers in public. In particular I find the generic roles that people adopt in various social situations fascinating, and thoughts about how such skills may be learnt, rehearsed or inherently acquired even more so. The analogy of 'Life as Theatre' offered by some sociological approaches resonates within my work and the aesthetic of an ambiguous rehearsal refers to our 'stage-management' of social situations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Debby Besford
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Manuel Capurso
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In a big modern city it is quite difficult for older people to keep social communities, while it is very easy for them to find themselves utterly alone, and abandoned. The drop in centres represent a valuable opportunity of sociability for lots of retired persons. Some users found themselves in poor economic, and health condition, and without any kind support, while others have family support and social contacts in the outside world, from whom they bring stories for those who are more isolated. In the images the surroundings are almost banished, while the bodies and the faces of the subjects emerge from the darkness creating a tension between light and darkness revealing suffering, mortally and life, and depicting them intimately. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicholas Chee
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Fashion*Portraits*Illustrative*Editorial . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ania Dabrowska
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

For all people home is a psychic state of belonging, with varying degrees of a need and ability to find a physical place that reflects it in their lives. Hundreds of thousands of people in London, like myself, are migrants. This transnational belonging creates a state of negotiation between the past embedded with memories, and a sense of fantasy we bring with us about what life could be in the present. This sense of being 'in between' is what I searched for in these portraits of people who find themselves feeling at home in different moments and places. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Dakin
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

These works are illustrations for a cerebral space; those vague images we summon up when recollecting the past. This process of 'imaging' has been described by J.B. Watson as 'Talking to oneself beneath one's breath'. To me this is an unconscious stream of thought that manifests itself as language - always being connected to the visual, thus creating 'imaging'. We are forever processing information, but not always in a coherent or precise manner. What I am interested in is that thin line between fact and fiction - the subtle interplay between past and present - and I believe it is memory that facilitates the merging of the two. My practice involves the use of the photograph as object and is, therefore, interested in exploring the limits of surface, texture and visibility within the medium. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darren T. Elliott
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In a modern western world where photographs bombard viewers, we are asked to address hidden visual and cultural understanding, tirelessly sifting through tides of meaning, aware and yet sometimes ignorant of the inherent personal ideals that are attached to the deciphering of artefact discourse. Eighteenth century dialectics have heavily influenced our aesthetic and scientific system of knowledge, which forms a major part of our everyday judgment, influencing our ability to see object truth. By making folly referent, my hope is to challenge our collective prescribed ideals, whilst exploring an understanding of the photograph as artefact and its status within a British class structure. 'The Praise of Folly' (Moriae encomium) taken from, Desiderius Erasmus 1509 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susana Espana Amed
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

'Waiting for more than Thirty Years' deals with the paradox inherent in the action of waiting as a vehicle to meditate on conflicts and changes. Having a documentary approach and staging, I create interior portraits of Spanish and Saharawi people (ex-colonizer and ex-colonised), both in the same stage of limbo. Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa, located south of Morocco, in NW Africa along the Atlantic coast, is the only territory in the region that was not colonized by the French and instead was under Spanish rule for nearly a century. When Spain withdrew from its former colony, known then as Spanish Sahara, at the end of 1975, it sparked a long-standing territorial dispute. More than thirty years is the period of time that the Saharawi country has been waiting for the U.N to hold a referendum on their right to self-determination. My work reflects on the idea of waiting for something that never happens which materializes a failure. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Furneaux
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"Everything Around Us Is Culture": Regeneration In Margate is an inquiry into the nebulous and politically charged term "culture-led regeneration". The decision to build a contemporary art gallery in Margate to rival those in St Ives and Bilbao has triggered both investment and controversy. Using still images and sound, the work explores what this investment in culture means for Margate. The photographs seek "evidence" of culture-led regeneration in the landscape, while the audio - a mixture of interviews and ambient sound - reveals the conflicting responses from the people living and working there. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vron Harris
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

During March and April 2007, I photographed six men at the exact instant when I said: "You look like a good fuck." I particularly chose these men so that I could say the statement truthfully. April 2007 Vron Harris. This work was inspired by: 'VARIABLE PIECE #34 Bradford, Massachusetts. During November, 1970, eight people were photographed at the exact instant when the photographer, or his assistant, said: "You have a beautiful face!" The eight photographs, and this statement join together to constitute the form of this piece. December 1970 Douglas Huebler. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Holden
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The portrait is a trialogue of subjectivities: The photographer, sitter and viewer's voices all audible to differing degrees depending on their desire to be heard. With 'Portraits' my aim is to remove the photographer from the portraitic trialogue; leaving the sitter an opportunity to communicate directly with the viewer. After entering the studio and being positioned in front of the camera, sitters are given the following information: "The camera is going to photograph you every 5 seconds for next half an hour. The resulting 361 images will be displayed unedited and in chronological order". At this point I leave the studio. By relinquishing my control over the shutters point of release and the editing of the final images, the sitter alone decides how they portray themselves. (Actual Image Size: 1.12m x 1.12m) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jesus Jimenez
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The inspiration for my images comes from the personal obsession with order and objects. Within these images I intervene and stage absurd situations for the camera to create not narrative, but descriptive images of a particular reality. My intention is to leave imprinted within these spaces my ideas and physical trace. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jochen Klein
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My interest lies with nature's forms as represented within a genre, which is in danger of being captured between Kitsch and sentimentality on the one hand, and metaphysical or spiritual associations on the other. Contradictory feelings which seem to be initially opposite to each other, can indeed become unified through their very conventional character. This body of work deals with my relationship with nature and the visual experience of the tension between illusion and disillusion: my longing to hold on to these un-rationalised sentiments and the wish to break and rationalise them. Therefore the images are constructed and built-up in the studio. My question is - is it still possible to experience them as beautiful landscapes, although they are obviously constructed and artificial? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katarzyna Lason
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

A film created on video from playful university times was the source of inspiration for this project. Looking at changes that have occurred in the lives of my contemporaries poses the question of how they imagined before hand that their lives may develop? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carol Sachs
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

These pictures are a small portion of a forever ongoing project, which is to photograph my friends and our life together. I see them as keepsakes, of people I love, whom I only see a couple of times a year when I go back home and miss deeply. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marianna Saraslanidou
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The fast pace of contemporary urban living is driving us one way or another in search of the best, the biggest, the prettiest, the fastest and the happiest. We have become slaves on the constant search of yet another perfect...ism forced in our lives. We never live now. It always slips smoothly away from our hands with the excuse of tomorrow. We label our time with important or unimportant tasks, people, events, while loosing all this mundane at first glimpse, moments that are the very essence of life. Ordinary details of the everyday that we are used to watch as if it was a movie, never participate. Dirty dishes are some of the endless ephemera. As their existence in space is very limited still their presence can bring perhaps another aspect of beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hee Seung Chung
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Within this project, I explore the representation of authentic and staged emotion. I photograph the actors' mask, especially the moment of absorption into the persona's emotional state, however, what I truly tried to capture is the moment of the slippage of the mask and the moment in which the actor's authentic and staged self are entangled to each other. By doing this, I interrogate emotional authenticity revealed in the actors' face and the nature of photographic representation of human subject, questioning what do we recognize from the portraiture, is it the mask or the face? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alan Shepherd
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Over a period of time my work has evolved and thrown up some recurring themes which are more deep set in my mind than I had realised. What started out as a study of a bright new gay life has increasingly transformed to reflect darker thoughts of scrambled relationships and of an approaching dread of going off the edge of the life plan I had once assumed, into uncharted territory as I approach my 40s. Through images of myself and my friends I am trying to examine these feelings of release and of freedom which are ultimately coupled with feelings of instability and isolation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rita Soromenho
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Setting out on a journey without defined destination I walk across the city's back gardens and wastelands picking flowers. Moved by real and fictional wanderlust, each walk is a meditation on its sites, sights and on the passage of time. Continuing a photographic camera less approach, using a scanner, each still life subjectively illustrates a journey. Nature's fragility and beauty, Human struggle and strength, Victorian Women's past-times, progress and urban regeneration, Life, Death and Loss, are some of the thoughts I hope still live in the pictures. Reminiscent of the flower painting tradition and the theme of vanitas, the project echoes the situational derive and other contemporary practices engaging with urban space and the act of wandering. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nick Stonehouse
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

An exploration into the subconscious; exploring the area between opposites. The seen and unseen, conscious and unconscious, dream and waking, present and past, fantasy and reality... imagination and verisimilitude. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susan Truseler
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Gill Vaux
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

In my work I am exploring the potential for narrative within photographs, to expose notions of love, loss and longing, not in any explicit way but by means of formal qualities such as space and light. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kevin Bardsley
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My practice is fundamentally concerned with my own interpretation of the male and the relationship I have with my own identity as a male. in my work I primarily look at my childhood because as a child I did not have a father figure in my life. From this lack of male role in my life my representation of what a man is came from various childhood influences such as the toys I played with, the comics book I read and the television programs I watched. I believe that these male orientated comics and toys offer an insight into the modern male in society and exploring them can help me to develop a deeper understanding of our own false expectations about the role of the male. I look at this personal idea about false male identity through self portraiture, through this I express my ideas of wanting to be an iconic hero figure which inevitably is a childhood fantasy that is in reality unachievable. Utilizing photographic techniques, I aim to create alluring imagery, which provokes the viewer to question the representation of the male figure in my imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Berry
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Ryan Bonner
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"The destiny of a nation is created in the classroom." Makkale, Ethiopia. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Davies
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My work started as a documentative piece on my family farm as my Dad decided to give up his dairy herd due to lack of profit. I was an end of an era but as I continued with my project, my work became less about that and more to do with atmosphere and personal spaces. Having first hand experience gave me a different approach to my subjects, as someone from outside would view. My images portray quiet places on a busy farm, some are quite evocative, while others are slightly abstract. I admire Ruut Blees Luxemburg, her work captures beautiful light, and have an almost magical sense to them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michelle Huggleston
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This project began by exploring the space of different hotels in a variety of places from London to Dublin. The more I photographed these spaces the more the project developed into a study of isolation. I pushed myself to go on a journey for ten days, travelling to different hotels. The ten days represented both a literal and metaphorical journey. I discovered a whole new world in the space of a hotel room. The hotel room became an odd space the bed my haven, with it also being a focal point for my photographs. Within the images I wanted to capture a sense of yearning and a feeling of ennui; to put myself into another world. The work also reflects a gendered space. A woman waits, alone, vulnerable, isolated, and yet connected to the world outside via mobile and broadcast technologies. She waits and watches . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Donna Jones
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This ongoing series of time based work deals with the subject of depression while questioning what we perceive as reality in everyday life and also in regards to the family snapshot. Within these self portraits I am asleep both physically, as a means of escape, and metaphorically, in the sense that I am of no use; consumed by my own thoughts and imagination, unable to open my eyes and see our accepted reality. In each image the camera is left to expose throughout the night yet it only captures the time around when I am about to wake up. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Kirk
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

With my work I have attempted to create a personal response to the systems within which we operate. My images contain a hooded figure who travels through society learning about these systems and attempting to escape them, occupying the liminal spaces to do so. And yet this figure is not only a wanderer, the figure is also essentially a part of me. Where the figure appears it is always played by myself. As well as observing these systems from a distance I, disguised in a black hood and with the aid of long exposures, break into the frame of my own images. Through my work I hope to gain an experience of the world that is not mediated by images, but of personal encounters whilst encouraging others to do the same, all the time whispering 'you can do this too'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jon Lewin
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This collection of images is designed to show intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary people all over the world and provide an opportunity for us to reflect upon, and understand their personal struggles and triumphs. I am trying to reveal a common humanity, allowing the viewer to see a bit of themselves in other human beings, on the other side of the world. I was looking for the experience and wisdom etched into the faces of my subjects whilst also seeking out innocence and naivety. By taking close up portraits, I was trying to see if the experience of the recent disasters that these people suffered was present in the facial expressions of the subjects. In a way, I suppose I'm trying to bridge the gap between cultures. Are they looking for a degree of human understanding...? Or am I...? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Loosemore
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My current photographic practice explores how memory is used in the reading of photographs. In the form of a still I visualise metaphorically relationships between personal and collective memory. By combining and re-visualising photographic imagery I explore the past, the present and the boundaries of the conscious and the subconscious to create imagery that is infused with emotion and intensity. This particular group of images are from a project that investigates the affects those diseases such as Alzheimer's and Dementia has on people in society. I created imagery that attempts to describe the intense emotional turmoil a sufferer experiences. The images reflect ideas about memory loss as a universal occurrence and ideas about the fragility of the human memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tifanny Michel
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My practice is about the dehumanization due to the new technologies in our society. We, humans, are now considered as a data. We are all classified, registered, referenced as a number. This is the lost of humanity. To make that project work, I have been researching in different areas within several mediums like newspapers, TV series, books, videos, etc. I have also written a dissertation about surveillance and the control resulting of it. This work is made of 99 pictures of people wearing a white boiler suit. The idea of the boiler suit is coming from the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, which actually makes the classification side even more powerful. Those are see through boiler suits as we are still individuals even if we are losing our humanity. I have left a blank image for the last one symbolising the universal aspect; this could be anyone in that space. Also it shows an on-going project. It could be realised with people from all over the world. The title symbolised by a barcode reinforces the picture in the different aspects: classification, reference, data, control. The actual question is: why are we a data? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Montana
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Sophy Mutch
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Chris Peach
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Holly Stirling
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Mark White
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Sarah Williams
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Someone looking through our photo albums would conclude that we had led a joyous, leisurely existence, free of tragedy. No-one ever takes photographs of something they want to forget. And if these pictures have anything important to say it is this: I was here, I was young, I was happy and someone else cared enough about me to take my picture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Wincott
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Phil Worsley
Swansea Institute of Art &Design - BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work has developed over the last 14 months from a series of studies of urban areas in Swansea during peak and off peak times. This was originally presented in slideshow form. The idea to produce multi layered images stemmed from this work as an experiment. The choice of subject and place was determined by my investigation into the topical issue of photographer's rights and the right to shoot in public places. The work has combined the above ideas while questioning the validity of photographic practise within public places when capturing a person's image. The technique has produced a layering of time that has created an indistinct reality akin to one's memories of our everyday environments. Within the images anonymous individuals are recorded as a homogenisation of human existence within the urban landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Serena Andreini
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

As soon as the performance was over, the dancers entered the backstage and posed in front of the camera still sweating and out of breath. That is the moment when the dancer is finally discharged from the role on the stage and the body together with the mind is still involved with what just happened but in the same time it relaxes offering to the camera the authenticity of its present moment. The dancer who seconds before was at his/her peak representing the object for public entertainment is now simply present again in the "real world" out of stage as him/herself as a person. Now that the audience has left, he/she is conscious that the show is over. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mi Jeong Baek
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

My interest in the photographs was not really in transgression but rather in the traces of human inhabitation that are left behind at the sites, and what role photography can play in documenting this memory and loss. In my photographs, I focused on the remains of fire and its effects on interior spaces. I wanted to create a sense of emptiness which is haunted by memory and traces of something which has been lost. I did this by focusing on details in the interior such as toiletries in the bathroom which had been left behind after the fire, suggesting a previous human presence. I wanted to create an effect of two different contradictory meanings; sadness combined with the beauty of the image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jelena Blagovic
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"...we must leave the realm of facts behind, we know perfectly well that we feel calmer and more confident when in the old home, in the house we were born in, then we do in the houses... where we have only lived as transients." Gaston Bachelard 'The Poetics of Space') A place of refuge and rest, bounded by doors, windows, gates and fences that give us a sense of stability and security, a space that should reveal our soul, enfolded with the uneasy sense of the unfamiliar within the familiar and the unhomely within the home... . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Antonio Cardoso
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Antonio Cardoso's urban photographs examine the dynamic of the streetscape. He uses the invisibility of the city as a vantage point to, in a voyeuristic way, photograph anonymous pedestrians going about their everyday life. The strong geometrical lines in Antonio's compositions highlight the abstract component in a familiar everyday sight - the city street. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Creighton
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." (Diane Arbus) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ivan De Maria
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Once I moved to London I felt the urge to get to know more about the new and extraordinary reality I was living in. Since images have such a powerful effect on me, I decided to carry out this exploration visually. I looked for people, dozens, hundreds of them; I needed people to satisfy my curiosity. I neither wanted to talk with them nor to let them know about my presence; I thought that this would spoil their spontaneity, their charm. One day I caught a bus and sat in the rear seats on the second floor. I had my camera with me. I started shooting and my project began. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Raymond Alv Kristiansen Egge
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

City night is a never ending, poetic, contemplative and still project encapsulating the quiet side of night life. During the night action and activity tones down giving way for ephemeral energies, which during the sun light hours are overpowered by the day to day doings of urban dwellers. The images open a space where one can take time to inhabit other questions than those with practical solutions. They ask the spectator to find the meaning, the images themselves being the spark for an internal and personal narrative, or random strain of thought. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carole Evans
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

'The Queen' documents the demise of an old Victorian pub in South London. The daily photographs are interspersed with text; a kind of diary of the artist's life at the time. In reading the text, a theme emerges; the searching for a partner through internet dating and other means, and the subsequent failure. The act of demolishing this pub brick by brick soon becomes a metaphor for the breaking down of relationships and communication, in a world where both these things are supposed to be made easier with new technology. Only snippets of the work is shown here; the texts can be read in full on the artists website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Lindsey
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

The clear and frontal photograph has been widely used in art as a way of having direct access to the referent depicted in the photograph rather than being distracted by its pictorial conventions. However this definition of a straight photograph is often challenged when pictures that are about photography itself use this construct. These pictures have a strong self-reflexive element as well as utilising a form of photographic objectivity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denise O'Brien
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Denise O'Brien uses photography and video to examine the relationship between people, the everyday and popular culture. O'Brien is interested in notions of collaboration between photographer and subject and the performative aspect of the portrait. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Stott
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Maria explores the existence of 'we' within a globalised world where 'we' is unproblematically used to convey a sense of unity in diversity. Yet, 'We' can also reflect a dominant perspective of what 'we' should be and should look like. As a result, 'We' may have meaning to some while remaining meaningless to others. Maria uses the snapshot to challenge the concept. She explores the possibility of 'we' becoming as chaotic as the technique. She enters one of the most diverse spaces of all in Western Culture - the undergrounds of London, Amsterdam and Toronto - to explore notion of 'We'. In this space, 'We' is captured in transit, close and distant, at the same time and in the same place. On going project initiated in 2005. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jan Stradtmann
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Weekly paid rent, no contracts, fast subleasing of small, furnished rooms - in London there is always a flow of motion, move-in and move-out. A restless nomadism within one of the biggest cities in Europe. All of a person's belongings can fit into a car, a move often takes only one or two hours. I have used this situation to help people move with my vehicle, in English: Van. JanVan is a portrait project about people in transition. I am interested in this fragile moment between one place to another. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vita Upeniece
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

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Russell Watkins
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

Throughout the history of photography's existence, the book has been one of the primary means of disseminating photographs. But books are slowly disappearing, at least from our consciousness, if not quite yet from our bookstores. So where does the library sit in this increasingly digitised age? Required to provide access to books via the Internet, to collect books and journals in only digital form, even to protect the book as if it were in a museum, the roles of both the book and the library as social institutions are undergoing a quiet revolution. Through this series of images of the British Library, one of the world's largest (and greatest) libraries, I hope to at least ask, if not answer, some of these questions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mayuko Yoshida
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2007
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:48:41 EDT

This work is the result of exploring forgotten memories, trying to see how ambiguous the border between 'personal' memory and the general act of remembering is. The project attempts to demonstrate how an individual keeps going back to the past in the form of memory with conscious or unconscious work of imagination. 'Now' is built by the stratification of memories. There is no present without the past, but neither there is a past of any time without the recognition of the present. These images aim to show how humanity is living through a loop of ever-changing imagination between past and present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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