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Melissa Campbell
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My work considers the value of recollection, and the role that photography plays within that. 'Still Life' is an ongoing project about my 50 year-old car, exploring ideas of collective memory, the family archive, and ideology. "...I bought it 12 years ago from a friend of a friend, an ex-stuntman, who claimed that you can get three 6-foot men in the boot. (I don't know if that's true. I didn't like to push him on it). A big red folder came with the car. It's got all the receipts, tax discs and log books from its 50 years. This work is a more intimate archive, about the ten people who have owned the car". Film and book. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Dobson
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The Thames Estuary is an unresolved and fragmented landscape. The residue of an industrial, military and agricultural past litters half submerged banks, washed by the slow, inexorable clock of exaggerated tidal movements. 'The River Lingers' is the result of repeated walks along the lower reaches of the Thames and is made in response to the relationship (both poetic and literal) between water and land. The work considers how we might confront histories through landscape, how the shaping of these histories might be connected to natural phenomena, and ultimately how these relationships influence how place is experienced and imagined. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annalaura Palma
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

For the series Virginia I retraced Virginia Woolf's steps from her house in Rodmell to the river Ouse where in March 1941 she filled her pockets with stones and disappeared into the water. Between Spring and Summer I took that walk many times and started noticing some bodies of water emerging from the fields: swamps and bogs secretly hidden by weeds and aquatic plants. The water creates crevices in the land that evokes a ghostly body shape. I looked for Virginia Woolf' s presence in her beloved landscape and I found her in the water. In my photographs I imagined her like a water spirit who inhabits the landscape of the Ouse Valley which once she described 'an inland sea'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Lethbridge
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'The Meteorite Hunter' is an investigation into Meteorites, the places they come from and the illusory realms they represent. My interest is in the relationship between the imagined and reality and the parallels that exist. I explored the idea of a Meteorite Hunter - someone who is committed to the art of finding space rocks. Their job entails searching for a glimpse of a translunary guest, a clue to something that tells us more about who we are and where we come from. I use the notion of the Meteorite as a metaphor for the fantastical hidden in the everyday and the work becomes evidence of a hunt to locate the ethereal and sublime in the mundane and banal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Blake Lewis
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

This series of work represents one part of a larger ongoing body of work that explores ideas around the surface, depth and materiality of the photograph. This work looks at the surface of the print as the primary recorder of controlled light infractions. The rigid, structured process involved allows room for the element of chance to play an important role in the development of these images. The apparatus used to create these images internalises the mimetic qualities of photography, eschewing the outside world of objects and things for an intuitive, spontaneous moment of the realization. With this work light is the fundamental compositional material, as analogue photographs they embody the interaction of light with light sensitive material, each print is unique and unrepeatable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Henry Carter
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Understanding the significance of what we are looking at changes dramatically when we have turned it into something fascinating, fetishised or precious. The physical object as in a photo or old diary or old toy or memento, becomes proof of our reality, of our being and our identity. My intention is to destabilise conventional ways of looking at the artefact or image; the remains from our past. By holding the objects and in this case a toy, we recall a sense of childhood curiosity. Looking into these kaleidoscopes, or observatories, the gradual turning reveals fragmented elements of other photographs and other histories; images are reflected in the mirrors, uncovering a sense of illusion, unknowing and uncanniness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pietro Catarinella
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

DATA TRAFFIC - How do we perceive photographic images and texts in relation to the experience of the Internet? Data Traffic presents a paradoxical surface where digital and analog, virtual and real are indistinguishable giving light to a Nomadic Image, i.e., a playful critic of representation. It is an image without subject (in a sense a fractal image) where reproductions appear and collapse in constant circular movement, a continuous renewal of the same tension between concealing and revealing. Even though photography is at the very core of the project, it escapes the standard way of perceiving and understanding this medium: photography is no longer an object, and representing objects, but rather a never ending visual experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Connolly
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'A house which is uninhabited is indeed not really a house.' - Karl Marx, Introduction to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. My work questions the existence and function of Irelands ghost estates. Lingering since the economic crash of 2008, these sites of abandoned domestic aspirations exist between loss and regeneration in a time out of joint. As I move through the estates alone, with only the mechanical click of my Bronica interrupting the silence, I consider the ghostliness of these things, appearing in likeness to a house as a ghost appears in likeness to a body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christine Donnier-Valentin
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

For Liminal Spaces I wanted to explore the disruption of perspective when facing the unknown, a life changing illness. It is not tangible nor is it quantifiable; it is just a sense. Emotions that are exercised from one human being to another via one exchange, confirmation of a diagnosis. Confusion, fear are a few that fill that void. The state of unwellness that looms ever so far, yet ever so near. It is a part of everyday life for so many, yet so many still don't know. What was familiar has become foreign and what was foreign becomes clear, standing at the threshold of the unknown. Confronting spaces in transition, the state of limbo is an inherent interest to me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Galea
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My works stems from the observation of the sea as an online environment. As I traverse this realm, I encounter interruptions in what is meant to be a seamless representation of the Earth's surface; immediate experience is perceived as authentic experience. As I confront these anomalies; a result of the programs' computational algorithm, I find myself alienated, realising that I'm observing a spectacle. I document disturbances in our anticipation of this digital narrative; a Brechtian interlude. Images and time disappear and everything is eventually replaced. What I have captured yesterday may not be present today, in a space where time is flat and as it passes, years are interwoven into this plane representation, this smooth map of time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Hutchinson
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

In my work I look at the interplay of technology, human beings and nature - specifically within contemporary image-making and in the context of the everyday. I am interested in the humanness of machines, the robotic in the living. In order to investigate the borders zones of what is artificial, what is organic, I am drawn to objects and situations in which these two areas merge and almost become one another. And I photograph stars. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas W. Kuppler
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

I am interested in the notion of using methodological experimentation within an image in order to abstract and play with the visible and invisible through obstruction. The need to deconstruct the representational character of the photograph and to expand its conventional limits respectively has been triggered by predominantly German and French philosophers views on "seeing" and perception, which are consciously and subconsciously absorbed to later emerge and being translated into visual language. Ambiguity is leading to abstraction and perceptional puzzlement. [the artist] gives something for the eye to feed on, but he invites the person to whom this picture is presented to lay down his gaze there as one lays down one's weapons. (Lacan, 1998) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark McWilliams
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

These portraits form part of a project that I hope will develop and grow for many years to come. The initial idea was to document people in the hope of ascertaining an identity of a populace, whilst looking at my personal Identity and documenting nuances of life in a post Apartheid society. My subjects are South Africans, strangers and friends. I grew up in the shadow of Apartheid the neighbour I never met. Making these pictures has enabled me to truly engage with the world. I do not plan to stage them; the images rather become interpretations of past experiences and at the same time spontaneous moments that seek to create a narrative about the people I have come across. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sinaida Michalskaja
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Oscillating between sculpture, photography and physical objects, the work refers to the window as a fundamental condition of visibility, a space of exposure and a place where oppositions mediate and become each other. By confronting the camera with the window and by turning the window into a photograph and the photograph into a window, the works aims to question what windows are and what they can be, trying to reveal the complexity of this mundane threshold. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Pace
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

I cannot reconcile myself with the idea of time. I cannot control it, slow it down or speed it up and yet, I try. In the preface to Henri Bergson's Key Writings, Keith Ansell Pearson states that "duration is non-representational, and as soon as we think it we necessarily spatialise it" (Bergson, 2002). Is the achievement of time in art an experiment that is doomed to failure? How can we ever 'capture' time in any artwork when time is an indivisible and incessant flow? Much as I try, I fear the work of art cannot really contain time, at least not entirely. Ultimately, the artist is temporal and time is eternal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Silva
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Born in Bogota, Colombia. My work is based on creating images that transcend the retina. I employ an expanded vocabulary of photography that is not subject to lens based technologies. I am interested in perception and contemplation and often forgot using the camera based on the understanding that a mediated representation [via paper or screen] greatly hinders our ability to perceive images in their full spectrum. My work typically takes the form of an installation of multiple elements that catalyze the interplay of stimulus between the pieces and the viewer. The materials used and the emotive and referential cues they yield, play an integral role in crafting a cohesion that is not led by a fixed narrative. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tanya Zommer
Central Saint Martins - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

I'm lying on the bed. I'm lying on the floor. I'm crying. He's hugging me. He's sleeping. We're in the hotel room. We're looking at the window. At least one picture per day. It's my everyday routine. More than 300 photographs, the raw footage of my life over the nine months. Dailies. In focus are the relationships of a family, between a husband and a wife. Infertility, vulnerability, fear of getting old, lack of understanding, low self-esteem. It's a hard work to be a woman, it's a hard work to be a family. The process of taking photographs is a research and a performance at the same time. The outcome is a story with an open ending. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shiam Wilcox
De Montfort University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

An Unreachable Place aims to explore the feeling of yearning driven by nostalgic memories of the past. The work aims to create a materialization of this abstract feeling and attempts to evoke a feeling of yearning in others by using nostalgic emblems, photographed and projected, resulting in a spectral image of multiple existence, questioning the reality both memories and future hopes. A realization took place through this project that by returning to a place geographically and physically, it is the past for which we essentially yearn, therefore our yearnings will never be fulfilled and we will always long for an unreachable place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Fox
De Montfort University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My approach to photography has consistently used space as both a medium and subject - aiming to explore the boundaries of photography. The Imaginary Time series uses two independent light sources to explore the defining constraints of architectural space. These combined lights capture the movement of time through a photographic sequence; as though a performance occurred for the viewer with the space providing the auditorium. This series articulates to me the fragility of light and space, and their dependency upon one another. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David J. Grimshaw
De Montfort University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The work aims to stimulate reflection and self-questioning about wellbeing in society. At some time in their lives many people experience feelings of being disconnected from family, friends, or life. For most, this sense of disconnection is transitory but for some it can mean a lifetime of anguish and mental ill health. Disconnection can be observed most easily in people who are addicted to their mobile phone or other item of technology. This work goes beyond the literal form of disconnection to explore the emotions experienced behind the metaphorical screen. The gaze is fixed, but what emotion is behind the screen? How do you react to the sense of other behind the screen? The choice is yours: 'connect or disconnect?' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicky Callis
De Montfort University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

We take food for granted, we expect it and we accept it, but we don't always know where it has come from or how it has arrived here. My work demonstrates how every day 'British Food' can be transformed and developed into ambiguous abstract art forms. By changing the colour and enlarging the imagery it shows how these every day food items can become vibrant, illustrative and pieces of artwork in their own right. When I create a photograph I look into the history of each piece of food I take, the relationship that it forms with us and its' connection with modern ethnicities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Buckley
De Montfort University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Aviation has historically changed the world in which we live, playing an important role within the global economy with ever increasing demands to create environmentally cleaner aircraft designs for the future. Aviation has fascinated mankind throughout history with the desire to experience the sensation of flying. The work intends to bring innovative fresh views on a variety of historical aviation topics to environmental issues combining science with the artistry of photography. All the work is created using a variety of traditional and experimental photographic techniques delivering a unique style. The resulting imagery is often abstract, aiming to give an emotional response. Combining science and art is a way to engage the work, with historical and emerging technologies and environmental issues. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Basford
Goldsmiths University of London - MA Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Image 1 Archiving Memory is the still that introduces a continually evolving multiple video installation about negative space and entropy (Length varies dependent on the space, equipment and time available) Image 2 Cafe is the front window of a post-modern discommunicative website Image 3 Milo leaving Image 4 Sid Searches and Image 5 Sid's Search are both from an installation called Tree Felling that consists of a 1min 32secs video, 68 stills projection and collecting cards. paul basford lives in London. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julia Schönstädt
Goldsmiths University of London - MA Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Upon deeper exploration of the penal system, one is swiftly confronted by the lack of understanding and prejudices that exist in society regarding the subject. It is easy to judge; what is difficult is to dispel the stigma of the 'criminal' and simply make the subject human - I aim to take on this challenge. I refocus the attention back to the human element in an unprejudiced way, rather than point the proverbial finger at 'criminals'. The work aims to help create a dialogue between inmates and society, letting them encounter on eye level and prepare a joined path into togetherness.Interviews support the imagery to understand backgrounds and biographies in context with the offenders and their crime. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jocelyn Allen
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The female form is a hotly debated topic; it is constantly under scrutiny. Its naked state is the site of much political debate/contestation, particularly in reference to a woman's choice on the question: to remove or grow body hair? In July 2014, a painting was removed from a London gallery for showing a woman's pubic hair. Though the pose was seductive, the woman was made with oil. If a painting can be deemed as 'too pornographic and disgusting', what about a woman in real life captured by light? These self-portraits are a performance in contorting, balancing and/or leaping the body into poses, aiming to conceal the pubic region. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paloma Tendero Mesa
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Most of the times our body communicates more than our words do. It is a container of energies, organs and thoughts. We live with an internal struggle of emotions and subconsciously, we somatise psychological conflicts into organic symptoms. Some things escape our control. In the same way we inherit the colour of the eyes, genetic disorders and habits are passed onto us. We live the containment of the possibility of something taking you over. This project explores the vulnerability of the body. We all present common characteristics, and even if we are not all exactly the same, a significant part of ourselves comes from others. We all have our inheritance sewn inside us, which influence us throughout our lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liz Orton
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

It is said that no species now exists without negotiation with humans. Yet much photography is complicit in conceptualizing the natural as a separate realm. My ongoing series of work, Natural Idea for the Human Mind, uses an idea of gestural excess to propose an expanded natural history in which the body becomes irretrievably entangled with the specimen. The body is drawn into action, through touch or observation. I often incorporate ideas of force or anxiety to produce disturbances that sabotage all notions of a still, isolated nature. I appropriate a language of display from diverse sources, using the influences of found photos, text and diagrams to produce a new a new ecology of images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrea Seroni
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person' Susan Sontag This project was born by a consideration of the relation among photography, past and memory. Photography is a form of expression but is not strictly a language because every photograph is mute. A photograph with no text is not able to provide any clear information apart from: 'that has been'. With no text the naive observer will give a subjective explanation based on his own experience. A text made of memories of the people depicted in the photograph ( or close to the immortalised moment) can provide the photograph with a meaning (even if subjective) that Photoghraphy by itself would be able to pass on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nick Scammell
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

A project ongoing, Falling Volume examines the place of the book and the space of the page. Interventions have been made within original and appropriated images, involving either the insertion of text into the source code of digital images, or the physical movement of printed images during scanning. Here, the book is a physical manifestation of thought, the page a space for performance. Blending text and image, hand and machine, these actions variously fracture or extend the possible image, revealing technological frailties, as well as the ambiguities inherent within analogue and digital processes of artistic creation, reproduction and permanence. I assert that the image is legion, containing manifold others that may be coaxed into the open by playing against protocol. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ian Samels
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Caught in the Eye is an attempt to know more about the symbiotic relationship between observer and observed, with regard to the surveillance of the now defunkt East German secret police; the STASI. In East Germany power was often distilled into these two units of society. The project was influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault on discipline and power structures and Jean-Paul Sartre on the gaze as well as utilising cinematic and other cultural references. Research was also undertaken at the Stasi archive in Berlin. It considers not just state surveillance, but the personal and social uses and impact of surveillance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Grace
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

We no longer live alongside the animal; the reduction of the animal began in the 19th Century during the Industrial Revolution. During this period, slaughterhouses were moved to the exterior of the city, zoos were created and hunters began to bring taxidermy specimens home. The animal was being recontextualised in the sense that it was being killed and taken from the wild, resurrected by the process of taxidermy and then placed in an entirely new environment be that the home of a hunter or a museum display. By recontextualising the already recontextualised and marginalised animal, the sometimes-surreal images force the viewer to reconsider the animal and how we use and display it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Janes
London College of Communication - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

An exploration of liminal zones, both real and fictional. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Monica Alcazar-Duarte
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Part-time/Online mode)
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The title is a fragment of a response given by a soldier in Mexico when asked for permission to take his photograph. This project documents life in two neighbouring towns on the Pacific coast of Mexico. It tests the charged image of the country offered by mainstream media and popular culture. It is an attempt to photograph the way a place feels. This exploration of the subjectivity of the image challenges an audience to generate their own impressions of a place and its people. The project provides a fluid narrative and encourages multiple interpretations. Images are presented in an installation and a photobook that asks viewers to take responsibility for their own conclusions and interpretations, to take ownership of their gaze. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenny Borgerhoff Mulder
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Part-time/Online mode)
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The Kara, who number only 700, live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. Until very recently this tribe practised the killing of babies thought to be evil, because they were born out of wedlock, without the proper rituals or because their upper teeth appeared before the lower. This age old practice, based on fear bred of superstition, led to the killing of numberless babies. It is an extraordinary testament to the courage and open-mindedness of this tribe, who have neither running water, education nor electricity, that they have dared to make this dramatic change. Their traditional customs may be primitive, their life-style extremely deprived, but these people have made a revolution in their lives which few others have achieved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Clark
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Part-time/Online mode)
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My project is a 'visual poem'; an attempt to convey the feelings of the poems of John Betjeman's 'Metroland'. The term 'Metroland' was coined by the marketing department of the Metropolitan railway in the 1920s and aimed to entice city businessmen into the then rural idylls of the counties north west of London. The project take the viewer neither on an information based tour, nor does it make any socio-political comment on the contrasting fortunes of neighbours of the likes of St John's Wood and Neasden. Rather it endeavours to evoke the quotidian spirit of the suburbs and shires, the duality inherent in the pursuit of betterment and to lend the viewer a conceptual sense of this space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cinzia D'Ambrosi
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Part-time/Online mode)
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Hidden homelessness is a vast problem in the UK exacerbated by a growing poverty and shortage of housing. With nowhere to go, millions are forced to live in temporary accommodations and in overcrowded and inadequate conditions whilst on council housing waiting lists. The project captures these grim realities allowing the viewer into the lives of Britain's hidden homeless: people stuck in hostels, B & B and temporary flats. It represents a dramatic crisis because many are left in temporary, provisional situations for an unacceptable long time. Some have been in limbo for two years or more, and that has a lot of physical and psychological repercussions for all. The impact is profound and lasting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Part-time/Online mode)
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Fragmented moments from a journey across Europe. An attempt to transcend history and reframe the past. I Feel Every Stone of the Road is an installation with photographs taken in Poland, Germany, Holland and Belgium. The route traced Prisoner of War (POW) camps where the photographer's grandmother was held after the end of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. She fought as a teenager against the Nazi occupation of Poland and was a member of the Polish Underground Movement. Diaries written at the time were rediscovered in 2011. The photographs are presented in an intimate installation, accompanied by a spoken text based on the diaries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phil Le Gal
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Part-time/Online mode)
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

In the 1930s the East Tilbury area was selected in the UK to become the site of the Bata Shoe Company. The English Essex county town became the Promised Land for a few hundred Czechoslovakian employees and their families. In addition to the factory an Estate with houses, a community building/hotel, cinema, primary school, training college, open-air swimming pool and tennis courts was built mirroring the design and scale of the Czechoslovakian model town of Zlín. With an architectural style adopted from Bauhaus the Estate stands out in the area. East Tilbury can be considered as one of the most important planned landscapes in England, also known as Garden Cities. Streets bear the names of English Royalty as well as Bata-related titles such as Thomas Bata Avenue. Eighty years after its creation the company with ground-breaking manufacturing practices became itself a victim of globalisation, as cheaper shoe production alternatives were found in Asia. In 2006 the East Tilbury factory ceased production and the local community consequently began to disperse. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrea Allan
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'In the summer we would cycle to the next village over. They decided to relay the gravel path. This time with tar and gravel. That night I sat and scrubbed their improvement out of my knee.' As the city focuses on the idea of community the village starts to fragment. Its boundaries become blurred by the influences of infrastructure, technology and expansion. The work explores the myths created by popular picture postcard portrayals of the English village. The accompanying text refers to personal narratives, a combination of overheard conversations and the personal experiences of the photographer herself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Brandolani
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The crushes, folds, creases and light I employ using paper are an attempt to challenge visual perception by creating still and surreal imagery that could be perceived as maps, clinical imaging, interiors or even portals. My interest in Trompe l'oeil has inspired me to create a series of curious images, which I believe contain more than just illusion. The manipulation of light and paper and the exploration of chiaroscuro have encouraged me to investigate the role of photography as a reliable reproduction of reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Czyzyk
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Harlow is a 'new town' in Essex, population 82,000. New towns were conceived after World War II as a solution to the housing crisis facing many in overcrowded, bomb damaged cities. The plan for Harlow was drafted by Sir Frederick Gibberd and construction began in 1949. The idea was to build a fully self-contained town for the young families arriving from London, providing for all the needs of modern life. Infrastructure, homes, workplaces, leisure facilities and open spaces were planned meticulously, each element overseen by the Harlow Development Corporation. This series of photographs looks at Harlow now, 65 years after the first foundations were laid. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Davies
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

A collection of found family photographs of siblings dressed in identical outfits form the core of this body of work. Through imagery and creative writing it explores themes of identity, memory and absence within the family history, constructed through the family album. In venturing to recall memories from these photographs an overlap of fiction seeks to complete the gaps in the narrative. A deliberate containment of the stories into the same physical area as the photographs highlights the adjustment of memory to fit the visual document. The construction of identity is also explored as being not only dependent upon upbringing but also as a product of the family album, in other words, that which is selected to be remembered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Dickinson
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My practice explores what negative emotions such as anxiety and depression would look like if they were an external human form -- separate, but linked to the person they inhabit - instead of being an invisible mood or symptom. The series shows two figures: one as a solid figure and one as an abstract blur, with the latter representing the negative emotions. The work explores the complex attitude a person can have towards their destructive state of mind through the interaction of the two figures. There is a constant power struggle between the two, but also a sense of familiarity and even comfort in the duplicate's presence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Dodd
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The images are a result of the experimentation and investigation of the image and the relationship that exists between beings and non beings, it shows the vulnerability of the human, using images as illustrations. Investigating the act of searching and the archive of images in the age of the digital, how searchabilty and distribution is transforming and being transformed by archives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oskars Lablaiks
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My photography practice focuses on people attending comic conventions. Relatively unknown events to most people, however they attract thousands of visitors each year. People chose to dress up as characters from their favorite games, anime or shows. My project shows these people and their characters they chose for these events. The work shows them in their chosen costumes and their everyday clothes. Showing the transformation the costume does to them, from an everyday person into their chosen character. They can become whatever they want to be at the event, from superheroes to villains. Everything is possible. And after the event is over they go back to their everyday life and the costume waits for the next event to make reappearance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Merrill
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

"Portrait as Landscape" is a series of monochrome images featuring the faces of middle-aged male neighbours that evoke questions as to the nature of both photography and portraiture. Although the images are photographic (lit. drawing with light), they resemble drawings with pencil. Whilst the subject matter is the face, in revealing every nook, cranny and blemish they have more in common with landscape than portraits in any conventional sense. They explore terrain and not personality, but though superficial they are not shallow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Wilcock
Manchester School of Art - MMU - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

This project explores the many facets of landscape and it's interpretations in community and culture. Where once stood a complete horizon of trees and woodland, only pockets remain. These small sanctuaries at first tempt the walker, visitor and photographer to delight in perfect conservation. However, beneath the unobtrusive surface lies a complex mechanism. As these segments of land develop and become profitable, human intervention also has to mature. These created landscapes now possess a composite of perceptions. It can be tempting to rely on the traditional view that they grew naturally and organically. In other ways it is difficult to not glimpse through the myth and see the hands that set the stage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Arnold
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Tin-can Firmament, is a series of months-long exposure pinhole photographs of the sky presented - in an appropriation of the language of a classic photographic expedition - as a series of semi-fictional astronomical observations. The work makes a play on the problems of indexicality and the position as both art and science that the photographic medium has held since its inception. The environment plays a large hand in the creation of the photographs as the pinhole camera tins fill with water and rust, lifting the emulsion in places, causing the pock-marks, swirls and strange refractions of light in the final works that are redolent of, and come to represent the celestial bodies. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sian Davey
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My daughter Alice, born with Downs Syndrome is no different to any other human being. She feels what you and I feel. However our society does not acknowledge this, and her very existence is given little or no value. Alice has entered a world where routine genetic screening is entirely weighted towards birth prevention. Alice was feeling my rejection of her, so the responsibility lay with me to shine a light on my own prejudices. This series is a witness to the process that I went through in coming to terms with my fears. I wonder how it might be for Alice to be valued without distinction, without exception and without second glance. This project is for her, Alice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marcelo Fiuza
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

For two years I took pictures of the city of Plymouth. Somehow the little side roads of the notorious 'Union street' started to fascinate me. With my camera I explored the narrow confines of its surroundings and of the inner city. I was interested in the material of the architecture, the space, and how the people interact with it. During the process of creating the series I realized that I would need another medium to express my ideas more clearly. In my photobook, that I simply named 'Plymouth', I use prose and photographs separately, allowing both artistic expressions to work on the viewer in their own way, while giving a broader picture to him together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linna Grøn
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'All Cats are Grey in the Dark' is an investigation of the human condition from a metaphysical and subjective point of view, using a symbolic approach in dealing with the subject. It is a confrontation and an exploration of own psychological states of mind and beliefs about the world. The psychological tension present in this work is best described by Sigmund Freud's term 'the Uncanny' in which the combination of the familiar and unfamiliar seem to create great unease. By sending burst of light out into the world a slight alteration is taking place, although these places were clearly already there. The photographs were made somewhere between fact and fiction and take on a journey through the world of ideas. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dave Kent
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

As a student on the MFA Photographic Arts course I have explored walking as practice. My personal work stems from a need to distil my photography down to its basic form the capture of light. Over the year I made a number of walks leading to small bookworks. Each book is laid out in an identical fashion; a brief introductory text on the cover, followed by photographs. The text gives the viewer context, but only enough so they can interpret the work as they see fit. My preoccupation of following light is inherently linked with my own fascination of exploring spaces. I see myself as a psychogeographer, a flâneur, or a urban explorer as much as I am a photographer . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Milo Newman
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My work results from a curiosity about landscape change, with the way that forms and places can be both lost over time but are also continuous, shifting and changing. These images of Pink-footed geese on their crepuscular roost flights are one part of a larger body of inter-relating work based around these themes. What is emphasised in these pictures is that the structure, and hence the identity of a thing remains fixed, despite, or even because its substance is constantly changing. The pattern of the geese shifts, but the containing structure of the skein remains. If this parallel is pressed, something similar can be indicated about the structure and identity of landforms, where a unitary form is maintained while its material embodiment or 'filling' constantly changes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathan Vidler
Plymouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My work explores the themes of social relationships, with a particular focus on the intimacies of interaction and an investigation into the psychological and metaphysical barriers which seem to be placed between each of us; either by ourselves of societies expectations. Presented here is a selection of images extracted from two bodies of work, the first being from a series of portraits of my immediate family. This takes the above theme and places it directly in the context of the family. The second selection of images is taken from a series of seagull portraits, which aims to draw parallels between animal behaviour and the human behaviour, whilst commenting on the fragility of people and the human condition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Giraldo
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Yellow, Blue and Red is a photographic multi-image project that expresses how much I miss my home country, Colombia using flowers new to me, but very common in the UK, that match the colours of the Colombian flag. The flowers were photographed in controlled light and posed in front of same colour backdrops to generate a visual and meaning mix between the flowers and each colour of the Colombian flag. Yellow is for the gold and the richness of my land. Blue, for the two oceans that bathe its shores. Red for the blood, the blood spilled to give us freedom. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iko-ojo Mercy Haruna
UCA Rochester - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Iye (Mother) is a short film that explores a personal experience of motherhood from the perspective of my mother and myself. At its conception, it was a tool for bonding with my mother as a preparation for my own initiation into maternity. Using images and sound, I weave elements of our culture and religious beliefs to illustrate the bliss and struggles of being a mother in a world where various socio-cultural expectations and stereotypes collide with intuition and reality. In the end, it is a cathartic piece through which I embrace all the elements that constitute my identity as a woman and as a mother. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Abraham
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Play with darkness, pleasure with pain, catch him, be caught, or else be caught out, before everything becomes black. Erotically drawn to the ambient light of the full moon, I feel a transient sense of transcending - escaping reality briefly, before merging with the darkness of the night. The tangible yet unattainable qualities intrinsic to photography and film offer an encounter with feminine desirousness and subjectivity. His liquid, which mirrors a galaxy, is it not as Divine as his flesh or as the romanticism of the moon, which casts its gaze upon us? It is an indestructible and ever lasting desire, which is perhaps just like us - just as excessive, sensitive and susceptible to succumbing to the obscurity of the night. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Felicity Hammond
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Blue is the colour of the screen when it is unable to transmit information; it is a miscommunication, an error report, a simulation or substitution. It is the print of future planning yet it is also failure, already redundant. The colour blue is corrupted, duplicitous, and houses a dual space; it is the colour of allegory. The interplay between transitional urban architecture and obsolete technologies forms the backdrop to my practice. Collages refer to a forgotten industry; industrial relics which become urban follies, lying precariously between construction and deconstruction, archaic and futuristic. Works which adopt the blueprint can be read paradoxically; representations of the city have been dismembered whilst at the same time have been carefully reconstructed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dominic Hawgood
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'Under the Influence' has emerged from an interest in trends within evangelical Christianity popular amongst predominately African communities in London. The work is a study into the use of advertising within a specific church, and an exploration of the theatrical practice of deliverance that plays a central role in this belief system. The enigmatic experience of seeing exorcism first hand becomes the inspiration for the series, which engages with topics about authenticity, desire, and the real. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daewoong Kim
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

For Daewoong Kim's life, the subject of loss is very pertinent. Kim's father could not escape the feeling of great sadness not only over Kim's grandmother's death but missed many aspects of her life; home cooked meals in particular. His father's loss made Kim reflect on the connection between his mother and himself. A connection that can be measured physically as well as emotionally as Kim moved away to London and his other lives in Korea. When describing Kim's identity as a person food is undoubtedly a central aspect. In many ways, particular foods establish Kim's identity as a Korean, but certain foods also resonate strongly with Kim as they are reminder of the emotional connection with his mother. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shinwook Kim
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Is blood thicker than water? What kind of meaning is contained within a family photograph? Probably people dream of permanence, love and an everlasting happy family as the picture is taken. Nonetheless, against their wishes, family breakdown is widespread nowadays and is no longer remarkable enough to be a matter of social concern. Personally, I suddenly realised the importance of the family photograph after a series of family hardships which meant I could no longer take any more pictures of my own. After the separation of my parents and my father's struggle against terminal cancer, I felt a strong longing to search for the last picture of our family together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jana Koelmel
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Something to do with my Father exists in three connected parts: a short story, a video installation, and an audio piece. The story, the basis of the project, is a collection of memories and intimate thoughts, a story about love and separation. In a broken narrative, it opens up a mental space that speaks about fatherly love, the passing on of traumata throughout generations and its' influence on our relationships. Together with contemporary dancer, and choreographer Lauren Bridle, I have created a dance for camera, where two dancers translate inner landscapes into movement. Architecture is used as a symbol that sets the atmosphere of the film. The audio piece is a reading of the text by actress Aischa-Lina Loebbert. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Petra Kubisova
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

My practice is focused on the photographic image; I use video, installation and interventions to question and destabilise photographic representations. I scrutinise the relationship between photography and memory and how the process of forgetting/remembering can be captured and translated into visual form. As we dream and remember in fragments, never in full images, fragmentation has become key to my investigation. This fragmentation accompanies innovative usage of light, transparent materials and archive family photographs, as well as projections (on barn, curtain, smoke, etc), reflections, strobe, sound, darkness, interactivity, illusions and movements within stillness. I recurrently question whether the photographic image is capable of presenting a certain truth when it seems impossible to capture the essence of the subject or object being photographed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alix Marie
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The impossibility of grasping a body is inherent to the medium of photography as much as to desire and love, yet in doing both at once, the insatiable is soothed. There is vampirism in this quest, and often images and prints are reused, as the monster of photography feeding off itself. The violence in the photographic take, the impulse of possession develops into frustration with the print, which needs to be digested again, reshaped, crinkled up, rephotographed, reworked in a Sisyphus like never ending task. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helen McGhie
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

(M)other explores an analogy between the body of the Mother, the figure of the 'Monstrous Female' and the interior of a worn English house. Here, the physical security of home is called into question, where leaking ceilings and darkened corners suggest the embodiment of an un-named or unknowable fear. Investigating interiority and the photographic gaze, my practice considers how identity might be represented in relation to the notion of the Gothic, where 'haunted spaces' are affected by a past that disrupts the present. Images of the female protagonist, skin, dust, abandoned domestic rooms and discarded objects, establish fictitious documentaries. Grouping of images suggest a sense of fearful enchantment where flashlight illuminates darkness, and darkened rooms promise security. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hemya Moran
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

During the passing year, I've immersed myself for secluded periods of time, in the lives of people I've spotted in my daily surroundings and approached. I moved in with them, sometimes only for a few hours and sometimes for several days, immediately participating in their most intimate rituals, videotaping our interaction. I then revisit, to reenact frozen scenes extracted from the surveillance material I've collected. This way I was able to facilitate the conditions that enabled me to capture complicity between us. This process constitute another facet of my inquiries regarding the intimacy and authenticity of reenactment, occupying a contradictory position both distant, and involved, repulsed and attracted, belonging and alone; experiencing both empathy and a struggle for domination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Proffitt
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Homo Economicus in neo-classical economic theory is a rational, self-interested, utility-maximising and unbounded model of man. As such he is in perfect control of the psychological entanglements that thrive in Capitalism: hope, fear, promise and betrayal. The photographs propose a reframing of this abstract figure as an actor in a contemporary myth of executive hubris, played out on the stage of the City of London. Since the global financial crisis of 2007-8, Homo Economicus could become a representation of the attributes the public sees in banking culture. This ongoing body of work is a visual study of the performance of power in the financial sector, and the portrayal of banking culture in society today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ida Taavitsainen
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

"Last year two things happened to me: I fell in love with someone. I fell in love with someone who lives on the other side of the world.' 'and most of all I long for your touch' is an autobiographical project about longing and desire, presence and absence, distance and closeness. Rather than a direct documentation of a relationship, the series is a visualisation of the inner feelings of the artist and the longing for her lover's absent body and about the experiences, memories, hopes and fears that have come with the relationship. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Walker
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Someone is hiding or someone is changing. I dress like a tree and I become a tree. I dress like a rock and I become a rock. Now I know what it is like to be a rock and a tree. The photograph proves it. But we know that that is a lie. So I don't know what it is like to be a rock or a tree. I am concerned with existence and identity, but also the desire to satisfy the need to merge, submerge, immerse. There is a trustworthiness in the photograph that is key, for a moment the desire is fulfilled, then looking gives way to truth, and it reveals itself as a game. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Watkins
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Nothing haunts us more than forgetting. Forgetting can be thought of as a form of death ever present in life. My approach to photography begins with studying this particular form of memory; memory as if viewed through smoked glass; memory that has become murky and unstable through the passage of time. In my work objects have a peculiar and innate relationship with the past and together come to form a kind of autobiographical reflection of the self, oscillating between fact and fiction, loss and violence. These are photographs that carry the past with them, that speak of time and memory, but also speak of, and beyond the living - carrying the dead along with them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christopher Barr
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

For seven years Christopher Barr has been photographing the world of Irish horse fairs. The work explores the interrelationship between man and animal, but this body of work has a deeper resonance. The system was inspired by the processes developed by Bertillon for the identification of people. The argot used when engaged in discussing horses with Travellers during fairs has directly influenced the aesthetic and narrative flow of the series. As well as emphasising the role of the horse within the life of the Traveller Community. This body of work also explores the concepts of identity and alienation. Barr's horses are an allegory for the Traveller Community in which he moved, a metaphor for an identity being gradually eroded by the modernisation of a nation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Burch
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'Prospect' is a body of work which considers how the landscape is viewed. The photographs are taken in the Llano Estacado, an area in the south-western United States of America where agribusiness dominates. There are very few natural features, no hills, few trees and an almost constant shortage of water. The wind blows dust, the horizon is flat and the only interrupts are man-made structures. The landscape here shows the consequences of progress more frankly than many, yet does so in a way that is without pretension. I was drawn to the views from inside to outside, how the objective, practical view interacts with the personal response to landscape in such a utilitarian environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Durham
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

After The Fact is the collective name for three separate personal responses to the collapse of the Irish property boom in 2008. Not only did the bust affect the Irish property and construction sector, its ramifications proved catastrophic to the wider economy. These three projects are motivated by a desire to understand what has been, arguably, the most significant event in Irish history since independence in 1922: the loss of sovereignty. The titles of the individual responses are:1/ The Council Adopted a Decision on Financial Assistance to Ireland and a Recommendation Setting out the Conditions for Granting that Assistance.2/ It Was Wonderful; Never In Their History Had The Dutch Seemed So Favored.3/ Thirteen Manors Exempt from Property Tax. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Evers
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'Identity Anxiety' is a foundation for a way to think about the fear that my 'self' may be a construct made from my perception and by rapidly changing social and technological codes. Using that pre-existing capacity within self-portraiture for a critical examination of the self. Is it possible to have a coherent identity in a digital age? Rather than recoiling from the estranged, 'inauthentic' self of the age of surveillance and virtuality the work mimics and contorts the self actualising photographic technologies. Images result from the inhabitation of the digital image by an active, self-analysing consciousness in search of the remnants of a recognisable sense of being. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Des Moriarty
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Society is moving away from knowledge of our food and understanding its origins as many processed foods produced today bear no resemblance to their original form. Convenience also plays a part in this where people are looking for the easiest and quickest ways to have a meal. The grotesque beauty, use of preservatives and unnatural elements used to sustain prolonged shelf-life is what inspired Des Moriarty. By using the still-life genre Moriarty looks at the food as objects and shot them drawing attention to their processed qualities. The images look at why and how these foods can stay in this temporally frozen state of beauty far removed from any decay. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alison Mc Donnell
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The series Transpose is the result of collaboration with transgender people in Ireland. The work has grown over the last two years to become an appreciation of key trans activists and allies in Ireland at a particular moment. This is important to me not only because I identify as a bisexual woman and an activist but because the trans* community is one of the most marginalised groups in society. Therefore I turn my camera to my life and the lives of the people and issues I care about in an attempt to highlight LGBT rights in Ireland. Is it fair to be denied rights, respect and dignity just because of your gender identity? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daragh Mc Donagh
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Sha~man is a series looking at the rise of Modern Shamans in Ireland. After witnessing the dramatic decline of Christianity in Ireland over the last 10 years. I discovered a revival in pagan practices. These previously indigenous practices had flourished in Ireland and globally before the spread of Christianity and other predominant faiths. In an age where many people find themselves endlessly connected, yet disconnected, unable to decipher if they are the consumer or the consumed. A yearning to connect with the natural world, the real, and the genuine has spurred on a revival of older ways, pagan traditions. Shamanism provides methods that enable a reconnection with the natural world, promotes self-development and the healing of past mental wounds. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jim Mc Keever
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Here made visible, is the 'dead time', the daily life of sales people, largely spent in transit or in ephemeral spaces en-route to their targeted all-important 'face time' meetings. Like a parody of the American road trip, promising freedom through discovery, here we see sales people travelling theses routes in pursuit of very different objectives. Where this constantly shifting population momentarily inhabit real, and pop-up virtual offices, feeding off the free Wi-Fi in low cost hotels, motorway services and burger joints in their attempt to conduct commerce, and at the same time, keep in contact with Head Office, and family, whilst endeavouring to ascend the precarious career ladder of this extremely isolating and at times desolate occupation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mc Nicholl Bernard
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Returning home to Ireland after five years, I felt a need to respond to my surroundings and engage being 'Home'. The photographs in 'Portraits' depict familiar visuals of 'Home' and arranging them into conceptually layered pieces with an emotional content which link together to make a 'quasi' family portrait. The images suggest notions of absence and how these melon collie objects or places we see of home remind us of family and the emotions attached. The discomfort of living in this space again is reflected in the works more abstract imagery and is the convergence of my experiences of living with these things again resulted in turning my eye inwards to see them at close range. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kenneth O Halloran
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

These are relics of a once vibrant chapter of Irish life. The ruins of these abandoned alleys bear silent testimony to a feature of Ireland that has perished through time and modernisation. These plain walls were once the thriving open-air theatres of their day. They were familiar meeting points, where people played games long into long summer evenings, and others gathered for simple companionship and discourse.They became prized places of refuge, offering an escape from ordinary, hard-working lives. Some alleys survive - a portion of them intact and a minority enjoying new leases of life. But the majority are disappearing slowly from the landscape to the point where they will eventually become extinct . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jill Quigley
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Cottages of Quigley's Point makes use of photographed interventions in abandoned houses to question romantic readings of the rural Irish cottage. Rather than viewing them as artefacts with nostalgic associations, the redundant nature of these abandoned houses allows the freedom for active engagement and the creation of personal record of explorations made in my locality. The addition of bright colours and movement to these empty interiors is intended to situate the subject matter in the present as encountered and to emphasize my presence in that time and place. As such, the process of intervention subverts a wistful reading of a disappearing way of life, and provides the opportunity to take a fresh and playful approach to familiar subject matter. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Smith
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'Looking for Ghosts' documents the micro communities that develop in the underground dance music scene. People make religious-like pilgrimages into the countryside away from the cities and modern life to party and connect with one another on a more spiritual level. All these shots were taken at the end of the night, the transition between the fantasy and reluctantly starting the journey back to reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Thompson
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'Instance' explores the subjective nature of perception and the consequence of our judgements. The project explores the concept of a momentary truth which 'tests, constructs and confirms a total view of reality'. (Berger, Understanding a Photograph, 1968). Deliberate references to classical culture highlight the continual remaking of history and question the authority of the "definitive" memory. In observing the role history plays in our understanding of self, we witness the relationship between time's layering and the conditioned nature of our own perception. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Johnny Savage
University of Ulster - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Fallout is a series of photographs that considers the modern Irish landscape; a landscape where empty buildings stand like ruins, reminders of another time or place in history. Appearing like portals to a different world, they quietly haunt the periphery of towns and cities, anonymous, the same, in a limbo of dream and reality . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meg Beaumont
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

A little while ago, something quite horrible happened to my family and I. Despite everything, domestic life inside our home went on, in this precarious little orbit around everything else. Slowly, the relics of our daily activities began to take on meanings of their own; and those ancient rural traditions of reading the colour of the sky or the number of magpies and just knowing, and understanding, began to translate into our home. If you are very patient, and you look very hard, and you are quiet and slow enough, homes begin to speak. And in the end they will tell you everything you need to know - you only need to read the signs right. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Max Bwire
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The little things, the little moments we experience and the little decisions we make, define us. Some are made for us unconsciously, building up to who we are, our identity, sexuality and individuality. This work is about individuals who have migrated to this country, their transition into a new environment, emotional experiences and reflections on what is left behind. There is constant change and everything appears ephemeral. These are their most valued shoes which stand in as self-portraits; the representation of an attachment to materiality, unconscious experience, and identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Byra
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The photographic portrait has been a fundamental tool for anyone wishing to identify and control groups of people. With recent technological developments like the internet, virtual reality and the birth of biometric technologies, the nature of portraiture as excercised by institutions has undergone a significant change. It is now possible to cross UK border without facing an immigration officer. Well known smartphones incorporate fingerprint scanning in their latest products, and many private companies control the access to their bulidings and facilities with technologies such as iris recognition. Auto-portrait is a direct inquiry into what the institutional portrait is now becoming, its effect on the boundary between the physical body and virtual self. Ultimately, what does identity mean today? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Falconer
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

(Video HD, Duration: 4 mins 10 secs.) Human beings have always strived to make sense of their existence, particularly coming to terms with one's own death. But it is a paradox, as we cannot truly know death so long as we are living. The best we can hope for is to come to terms with the unknowable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Davy Jones
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Died at sea, flag of convenience, but convenience for whom? The neat power of terminology. She was widowed in 1977: bad year, bad timing, bad luck, too close to the '79, revolution, not ours. Grist to the mill: a former milliner, no longer required as that. Menial labour now: bad year, bad timing, bad luck. Only it's not luck now, it's your own profligate creation. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Take arms against a sea of troubles? That she did, to the end she went down fighting. Большое спасибо, I now know why the people's flag is deepest red. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Inès Lion
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Under the form of a dual-screen slideshow, Affinity examines the fine line between reality and artificiality. Set in undefined space and time, the project flirts with science fiction whilst interrogating the nature of photography as an imitation of reality. Divided into three parts, the video is accompanied by the voiceover of a narrator subject to a fading memory. Lost in a constant state of drowsiness, the male character depicts a world where naturally occurring life has been completely replaced by its replica. People, animals, food and plants are frozen in a realm of exactitude where they are nothing but empty shells and have lost the substance that constituted them. The photographs,taken in various English museums, provide a context to the story that is being shaped . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Marsh
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Neurotpical (Noun): A person with no autistic traits. Social signifiers, determining how we interact with others, constantly rule our lives. When dampened or lost all together, the ability to communicate is compromised. Those on the autistic spectrum will often generate coping strategies to deal with a world into which they do not conform. Darkness can be a healer as hypersensitivity is quelled and isolation form social situations calms an over stimulated mind. 'Neurotypicals' juxtaposes everyday experiences of the socially proficient and the socially anxious. Displaced in the darkness, the feelings of those without autistic traits are mirrored by those on the spectrum when placed in social situations. The work highlights the transient parallels between neurological ability and disability, looking in upon the neurotypical as they come to terms with an alternative way of interpreting the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mariah Skellorn
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

(HD Projection with Surround Sound, 6.30 minutes) How did life begin on Earth? This is a question that is asked in the past tense, but if much of life as we know it were to diminish, how would life begin again? What would be first to appear? All of this would depend on the exact conditions on Earth and the particular changes which had taken place. In The Pioneers, a photographic animation, the artist has created a series of landscapes where life is on the brink of re-commencing. In a set of imaginary conditions bees scour a variety of landscapes in search of a suitable habitat. Bees are an unlikely presence in the barren conditions shown, yet they are symbolic of a species that are required for many other life-forms to flourish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Wilf Speller
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

(HD Video, 16:9, 6 mins, Projection, 2014) Black Box, noun: A device which performs intricate functions but whose internal mechanism may not readily be inspected or understood. Formally borrowing from internet aesthetics ranging from YouTube conspiracy videos to instructional desktop demonstrations this piece uses new imaging perspectives to explore the notion of the Black Box as gesture of power and ideology, gestures founded in faith and illusion. The Black Box has sublimity beyond visuality; by definition it is non-visual, a prosaic non-object, yet it has greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, meaning, imagination and imitation; a vertiginous construct; a hall of mirrors. This is the paradox but also the power of the Black Box. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sunsun Liu
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

'When I first moved to the UK I found living in a new and - to me - alien culture extremely difficult. Two years later, I have started to accept those differences. And now I come to regard this culture as my home.' This project is about cultural differences and social barriers. It charts the self-consciousness each Chinese woman feels as she moves from China to the UK, where she is obliged to adjust to a new social and cultural environment. We are like fish out of water until we find a new home. Sunsun Liu is a Chinese photographer and visual artist who lives and works in London. She often uses water and builds a narrative within her photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Tehan
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The scars within our skin tell stories of our pasts; some are treasured, some despised. Others are of our own choosing, they tell the stories of the wearer's life. These are the scars of self-torture, of self-harm. Tattoos form a new skin, a shell of protection. They are self-made, an inflicted form of cicatrix scarring. Fruits skin acts in the same manner; it tries to repair its self, protecting its seeds from the outside by forming cicatrixes. The skin of the fruit bonds with the tattoo ink creating scars, leathered in texture. These scars form a protection for the fruit, but it also changes it's meaning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Wiklund
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Wanting to be seen and to hide at the same time. Graffiti artists constantly have the pending threat of facing consequences for displaying their work. Many choose to protect their identities and reputation by remaining anonymous, which may be due to various reasons. Some prefer to paint in designated graffiti areas, giving them a legitimate canvas to execute their art. Exposure - a series portraits showing artists from all corners of the world coming together to paint in one place, independently but with a shared passion Graffiti. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alia Zapparova
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Day after day, while we go about our days, in day lit rooms, a day takes place. The everyday inhabits time that passes in the form of stillness and space where light moves but nothing moves. While living, we do not experience the day: we experience actions and events. We do not see light: we see visible things. But the daily movement of light through rooms makes days, composing a setting for a time without direction. The aim of this work is to evoke an everyday that is not about the events and accomplishments of daily life, not even about its habits and routines, but about the rest: a time and a space to the side of activity, where nothing happens. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Umit Zeytincioglu
University of Westminster - MA Photographic Studies
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Her mother was too young, she had expectations and an unconditional love that she was ready to give. It was a struggle that was never understood properly. She wrote diaries about her daughter, addressing her, yet revealing everything about herself; knowing that one day she would read and she would understand. She did but after a painful and very emotional discovery. She thought she was misplaced, didn't remember it quite right. This is a story about reinventing the past. It is about the story that we thought we knew well, until it was told again. Apocryphal is a photographic representation of written diaries. In this personal subject, the artist is confronting her actual past with a fictional alternative. Using photographs to produce fictional memories to replace the ones written in her mother's diaries. Taking an impressionist approach when producing imagery, the work is balancing on the reliability of a memory and in a sense, the discovery of the self. Memories are never crystal clear or in incredible detail, there is always something missing. Each photograph and each piece of text are there for a fraction of memory that we grasp to remember. A passing sight is what we are left with in order to accept who we are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Neil Baird
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

The country along the Scottish border is a place of contrasts, populated by indigenous families, in-comers from England and increasingly, migrants from Europe. Economic prospects are limited, unemployment high, and there is little by way of manufacturing or commerce. Tourism is the largest industry, but local railways were closed in the 1960s. Most travelers to Scotland pass through briefly on their way north. In addition, many locals feel they have been forgotten by Edinburgh and Westminster alike. 'The Forgotten People' explores the character of the region. As Scotland prepares to choose between independence or remaining within the UK, the project investigates the cultural identity of the area and asks how it influences local opinions about the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eugenio Grosso
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Since the ancient times the populations living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea used to move in the Mediterranean basin to sell goods. Therefore about three thousand years ago, Phoenician merchants founded the city of Palermo (Italy). Since the economic crisis hit Europe, Tunisians who lost their jobs converge each Saturday at the port of Palermo to board the ferry to trade in Tunis. As huge container ships move products from one corner of the world to another, this group of people is keeping alive the old routes. Bicycles, scooters, mattresses and stoves are piled on old cars and transported across the sea. Along with their products those people are carrying traditions and knowledge that contribute to the ongoing creation of the Mediterranean culture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thibault Salle
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

In this project, pink takes diverse tones from the darkest to lightest, as from black to white there is an infinite number of shades. It's a rosy life, not because it is easy, but because it's the colour she likes the most, and it is enough to make her smile. It is a 'rose' for fairytales and canopied beds, but behind this Barbie colour, is the red of a battle that has been carried on for 39 years. Edda and the people living around her make themselves visible to the public in order to break boundaries, and give others the opportunity to understand a life with mental disability. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heidi Woodman
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Coveted, revered and obsessed from time immemorial there are few other substances on earth, if any, that have evoked the same timeless passion as gold. Ghana has a rich history with gold. Formerly called the Gold Coast under British colonial rule, it has formed the backbone of it's economy since records began. However, the price of gold has become increasingly disconnected from the metal itself driven more by financial speculators than by actual demand and with little regard for the far-reaching effects on the countries where it is mined. 'Gold Fever' is a journey Ghana, exploring the repercussions of the changes in the price of this enigmatic metal and begs the question: What is the real price of gold? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Gallagher
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

Northern Ireland has a history with fantasy. C. S. Lewis made no secret of the fact he used its roaming landscapes as inspiration for the fictional realm of Narnia. Sixty years after Lewis first children's novel was published, Northern Ireland continues to be a prime location for the make-believe. The television series "Game of Thrones" uses designated spaces known as "Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty" for filming locations. This project aims to discover why Northern Ireland continues to be chosen as a fictional environment, and what separates these "Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty" from others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denise Felkin
University of Westminster - MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— MA/MFA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:09:33 EDT

"More and more people are concluding that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions."' (Tony Benn) Through photography I symbolise a voting system that does not represent its people. Stereotypes are disrupted, to vent a point of view, from a new wave of people. The ideas evolve naturally via the characters on their territory. My passion shapes how to control the light, posture and gaze. In that moment the essence is reversed to enable the visual context to be read from within the negative space of the image. Embedded in this layer, portals are used as a metaphor to reveal the flip-side of democracy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Cobb
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Nicole's choice of subject comes from her inspiration in fashion, art culture and attention to notions about beauty with emotional relationships. By photographing her muses in their environments with very little manipulation to her images, she presents reality and body. Nicole has recently demonstrated in her enthusiasm for shooting portraits and fine art imagery that captures the mood by her use of lighting, colour, composition and edits in her current project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danny Peace
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In September 2013 I began work with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal at the St. Fidelis Friary in Canning Town, East London. During the course of an eight-month documentary study, the community and I have worked together to create a portfolio from which the project Fraticelli has emerged. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniele Pintore
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

TV, fashion stylist, photographers, advertising, images, who is the most powerful of these to decide what is 'beautiful' and what is not? How and when beauty standards were set up? We are all subjected to beauty, and images we see every day are powerful enough to influence our perceptions as consumers. Our vision of beauty is often changing but it is strongly attached to our unconscious memory. This concept perfectly merges with an unexpected encounter with a 'beautiful' guy: a beautiful pianist. Expressed through photography it is one of the most complex contemporary debates. This is only possible if founded on a real story, a spontaneous documentary inspired from emotions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hai Tran
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I find portraiture intriguing as every face can tell a different story, expressions can easily be misinterpreted as viewers can only see what is on the surface. I capture moments that I witness through my own eyes to serve as a reminder of the event that took place at that moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Indre Volskyte
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series documents the intimate moments I have shared with my family and close friends. The familiarity and bond was intended for the audience to emotively respond. Each photograph represents the connection and sentiment at the present time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Madison Whyte
Barking and Dagenham College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"SELF and OURSELVES" are a combined nude project and its body of work became a technical assessment of light and composition. The focus of this developing project was to work with other people, to develop my project into a broader and stronger series and to eventually bring the projects together to produce a solo show in 2015. I used light to manipulate the structure and curves over the body to define the tension and sensuality formed with the subject and movement. The projects also focus on confidence and freedom with ones form, being comfortable with yourself is the most beautiful feature one can have and I believe this has been captured with these ongoing projects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Axall
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I am an aspiring music photographer, specialising in live photography, promotional and artistic album work. I draw a lot of my inspiration from the music that I listen to and strive to be individual in my interpretation and expression of my ideas. Manipulating the world around and into my work is where my skills lie. My art needs to be quirky, creative and interesting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Bridson
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Anna Bridson is a Travel and Landscape Photographer capturing the light and colour in water through its various forms, warning of the threats facing the planet. By removing context and scale, abstraction exaggerates textures and shapes leaving the limited colour palette to caution of the cold harsh climate enduring, despite the threat of warming to the receding ice. Anonymising a well photographed beach, where visitors are warned to never turn their back on the sea, the dominant horizon implies stability. However its unevenness and the revelation of the movement of the water creates tension as the viewer feels simultaneously drawn to the sea, whilst anticipating the next wall-like wave of seawater.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Johnson
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Sam Johnson's passion lies within the Fashion Photography genre. Heavily influenced by cinema and the zeitgeist he is able to weave a narrative into his images thus creating a back story and sense of drama that the viewer must absorb and decipher. His London exhibition work draws on influences from within the neo noir cinema genre which has helped underpin his vision with particular attention paid to frame composition and colour palette. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander Taylor
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The practice of photography allows for great satisfaction, gained from the technical application within a creative environment. Building upon the artistic temperament developed through a passion for musical engineering and production, the work of the photographer is unbounded by genre, style or classification. Instead, each image provides the opportunity to capture, manipulate and present life, regardless of the image content, simply allowing joy from the implementation of technology in the pursuit of quality when producing standing perspectives. The photography produced to date is very much the personal works of the photographer, often motivated by educational requirements, but always inspired by the photographers perspective in space-time. Life is a science; and the analytical hold the key. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Reb Wells
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Reb Wells' passion for photography came from her Father. She was brought up around cameras and always being the model for his pieces couldn't resist but dabble in the art herself. Beginning her education at Pontefract, she then led on to a degree at Batley School of Art and Design. Reb Wells is now a 3rd year soon to complete her education. Her work falls into the horror theme but still portrays essence of fine art. She often uses her work to overcome fears and issues going on in her life. Her phobia of dolls, her food issues, everything she does she is working on bettering herself. Her work is very personal and she has even began using herself in her work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Wroe
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Chloe Wroe started with a passion of dark room photography whilst at college and decided to improve on this by enrolling for the degree programme at Batley School of Art. It was whilst studying here that Chloe moved into digital photography and realised her true passion fell with food photography. The majority of her work is fine art based with some commercial images alongside. Her recent work has been about exploring mold within food and people's attitude towards it. This started with Macro images to show that mold can be beautiful and then developed into room set conceptual Images. All of her fine art work has a meaning or a narrative behind them and they are the main focus of her work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Stewart
Batley School of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Having always held a huge interest for fashion and more specifically vintage fashion, the main focus of my photography degree has been aimed towards this genre. Trying different techniques and styles to achieve images which represent the vintage era but with a modern twist. Working with both camera techniques and enhancing my technical skills in post-production to achieve the final outcome. These images were produced for the Final Major Project at the end of my degree and will form part of my exhibition display at the Free Range Graduate Exhibition in London later in the year. The photographs show clothing from a collection by Valerie Vintage an online boutique shop. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kat Arnold
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The Unexplained Journey' is an exploration of the anonymous or unexplained narrative. It relies solely on illustrative visuals without accompanying text to guide the imagination, meaning that while the images are created with the artist's intended narrative in mind, each viewer receives a totally unique story as interpreted by their personal context, intending that the eventual photo-book will be like a whole library of possibility within the mind. The series shows a progression of seasons, locations and has strong characterisation at its 'heart'. It inhabits the imaginary worlds of our childhood and rekindles the emotions and memories of the fairy-tales and fantasies spun around us as we drifted into the realm of long-since forgotten dreams. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mathew Christodoulou
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Mathew Christodoulou's styles are abstract and psychedelic with topics ranging from social commentary, philosophy, the mind and personal issues. Taking the viewer on a journey to the unique way he see's the world. Mathew has interest in all art forms from painting to photography to moving image to poetry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maxine Da'Volls
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of work was created by folding , cutting and bending photographic books that I sourced from second-hand book shops and charity shops. I am interested in attachment and material possession theories, that explore the way we use objects to tell the story of who we are. Once upon a time these books belonged to someone, sitting on their bookshelf or coffee table, however they became lost or discarded. I wanted to take these books and give them a new life, to make them more desirable and in turn they have now become part of the story of my life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Davenport
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project looks at the environmental issue of fly tipping as all of the items that were sourced had been left by the roadside. The decision to use the historical, and alternative process of wet plate collodion, was due to unpredictable nature of the technique and how Charlotte felt this would complement the faults within her unwanted subjects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Farrell
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work combines photography, collage and still life using organic objects and found photographic imagery. With an intricate use of placing and framing, it aims to subtly draw our attention to the photograph as an object and its power to disrupt how we understand the display of other materials. The interaction between these materials asks questions surrounding the body, femininity and sexuality and creates a heightened awareness of a woman's self and the image of herself that she puts out to the world . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Magdalena Fratczak
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I use photography to create new visual world in which there may be more than one meaning assigned to every object. My photography considers that if we only look at different things from another point of view we will be able to discover new meaning from it. The images explore overlooked meanings or purposes, not only theoretically but visually as well. Alongside to that, my goal is to make photographs that will not only be viewed as art work, but ones that also make people smile. This project is a representation of how sexual sub-contexts are hidden in simple things like food. Natural form like fruits and vegetables are strongly connected visually and can be used as metaphors for sexuality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Manuel Goncalves
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The intention of the photographs that compose this body of work is to explore different aspects of the docks. It is definitely about the landscape of the place itself but it is also about what it represents. The port is in fact a non-place although it is a place of work to many people and a very busy place at times. Although there is a deadpan feeling to the images it is possible to feel attached to them. I would say the work is about the personality of the docks; an area that is the familiar and unfamiliar at once. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Hurt
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project is about the meat industry and how humans perceive and avoid the thought of meat. I have used the animal gaze to try and elicit a response from the audience about the cultural aspects of meat, and the animals that society chooses to eat. Generally animals that are classed in the 'pet' category are seen as non edible in western culture, and to eat them would be taboo. However as soon as we see a farm animal, such as a chicken, we see a source of food, not only for their meat but also for their eggs. This is not the case around the world though. The images are trying to get people to realise how we treat animals unequally. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Keegan
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Dear Douglas is a series of images that reflect upon the history and idealism of a war time romance. I am exploring the idea of such private sentimental objects becoming public knowledge but choosing which parts of the letters the audience can read. Through the words I display I'm shaping my view on the couple who wrote the letters, over romanticising in some moments while showing a cruel sadness to their situation in others. The series is more than just a re-telling of a private love story but a glance back into a part of history that is rarely shared. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Lambert
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The initial concept behind my project is to create photographs that evoke emotions and feelings for visually or sensory impaired people. Colour has played a major part in my project and specific colours are thought to produce specific emotions in people. I was inspired by images from Walead Beshty and Shirine Gill. It is difficult to understand how their images were created and the viewer becomes involved in interpretation. I want my photographs to engage the viewer in the same way. I want my images to stimulate the audience and challenge their perceptions. I aspire to create images which are unique in composition, style and content. I hope that these images may find a market in sensory perception and stimulation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Lund
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In an era where technology has advanced, I wanted to try and show its path, through an object as common as televisions, as ornaments and sculptures of a time where they had an impact on the modern home. Rather than the unsightly items they are now considered. By removing the screen, the main feature of the television is lost and the viewer is forced to look at the television as a form, rather than what is on the screen. Using archaic mediums (large format) to document an artifact equal in character, the whole process began to beautify the objects both visually and conceptually. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Millie McGuirk
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A collage series using scanned images. I have used people who are famous (for the wrong reasons) so people can identify them. I have used sexual imagery in some because some people fantasize about these people. Not all of them have obvious sexual imagery but they have hidden sexual meaning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Pennington
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work is based on of two ideas, both linked to a cinematic theme; the first one is cinematic food. The two images are a fridge based on 'Bridget Jones' fridge in the film, where there is hardly any food. I wanted a slightly cold and spooky look to this image. The second image of the cinematic food images is based on an idea from the film 'Apocalypse Now'. The wooden bowl of rice is symbolic of the interior scenes where Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz is hiding up. The colours and darkness in the image are giving a mysterious mood to this idea. The two other images are stills from an moving image piece of work which is in black and white. The short film is about a woman who witnesses a killing in some flats. The piece reflects the style of an art house/ Film Noir film, using shadows and nightlight. The use of no dialogue and just sound effects and a music score drive the moving image and lets the viewer decide what is going on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jaxx Shepherd
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through my work in found imagery, I want to create narrative and tangible collages that represent the imaginary landscapes in dystopian novels. By using the glass bowl, I have created a separate miniature world, to be viewed from every angle by the audience. Photography and online culture make images accessible and the need for imagination void, and by using this pre-existing photography I can illustrate the landscapes previously locked in text. In general this work is about discovering the new literal dimensions of photography and the new courses it can take in a world of new technology. And the ironic twist of the practically anti-technology views of dystopian novels, the warnings of the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joy Sinclair
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In modern society the amount of commercial and domestic waste is ever growing. Plastic is a large contributor and commonly thought of as a throw away material, especially in terms of domestic and industrial packaging. I created ruffs inspired by Queen Elisabeth I out of various plastic packaging, I was inspired by her as she was a big influence on pushing the globalization of trade, but also by our current Queen because it was during her reign that the use of commercial plastic rocketed. I created a project designed to allow the audience to contemplate ideas of plastic pollution in none aggressive way by photography my subject with an ethereal aesthetic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Thompson
Blackpool and the Fylde College - BA (Hons) Photography / BA (Hons) Photography and Digital Design
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Rural Kids by Louise Thompson brings an honest truth to documenting childhood. She captures moments of interaction and awareness of the farming culture and practices. Growing up in rural Cumbria, Louise is familiar with the reality of life in the countryside, allowing her to focus on accurately portraying the details of everyday life for young people in a rural community. The photographs show children in their natural environment discovering with curiosity and adventure of the day-to-day responsibilities of a farming community. This series aims to enhance the viewer's awareness of this community and engage them in a visual journey through aspects of the children's lives through documenting their encounters with their animals and birds and showing the importance of family traditions being handed on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mike Atkins
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project is based on the contrast between modern urban living and the ancient occupation of the Brigantes, a Celtic tribe of the Pennines, 2000 years ago. The images create a dialogue about progress and if it's for the better. For the contemporary narrative I have chosen to focus on mental illness as a metaphor for modern lifestyles. The increase in depression is symptomatic of modernity whereas ancient living such as the Celtic way of life, was concerned with the basic functions of building a house and living off the land. Using 5x4 film allowed me to print as large as possible and this process gives clarity to the images and brings the project to life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bob Cairnduff
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Fire and the Thud is a Still life project looking at the tools used by my Great Grandfather in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. I am interested in the impact of using the tools has had on the surface as well as the effects of age. It is my intention to use this project to create a larger body of work in conjunction with Harland and Wolff and the Titanic museum in Belfast, to gain a wider representation of the trades used within the shipyard throughout its history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Cairns
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Throughout this degree, I have generally photographed fictional characters from my favourite novels and interpreted them in my own way; usually through a darker theme. But for this project I decided to visualise my own work and not the work of another. 'Horsemen' is the realisation of a dream into a reality. As a creative writer I have longed to see characters that I have created achieve a physical form and step out of my mind for others to see. For over two years I have worked on a supernatural television script focusing on the Four Horsemen as the central characters. To finally give these characters shape interpreted through my own eyes, has been the experience of a lifetime. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Radoslav Daskalov
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Systematic Desensitisation is a project exploring my three-year long fight with anxiety and panic attacks. I employ a technique used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with the same name where I continually confront my fears of leaving my house. Using a 5x4 camera on a tripod and multiple exposures, each photograph is a documentation of 7 days of struggle. The resulting images are printed on paper from my homeland, Bulgaria, whose flawed surface is a reflection of my inner turmoil. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hana EL-Madani
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My idea aims to combine fashion photography with a psychological theme/concept of Jung's Shadow self. To do this I wish to use the context of fairy tale female archetypes with their common enemy to represent the shadow self that will be attached to the fairy tale character representing the idea that our shadow self is always with us, hidden controllers to our actions. For example, Red Riding Hoods nemesis was The Big Bad Wolf. In my concept the Wolf will represent Red's Shadow self that accompanies her in a foreboding way. Her shadow is all of the things she doesn't wish for us to see. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anthony Firmin
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Anthony Firmin's work explores the resurgence of tattoos as body art. To record this he uses a historical photographic process called 'Wet Plate Collodion' which dates from 1851. The wet plate process records tattoos differently because it is sensitive to blue, violet and ultra-violet light and in the resulting images tattoos may only partially show up, or may not show up at all. These images are part of a long term project which will document a wider range of people and their tattoos and will investigate their reasons for both the emotional and physical investment in their body art. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patrick Mulholland
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Patrick is a still life photographer specialising in fine art and product photography. Untitled 1 is a series of photographs that illustrate his journey trying to overcome depression. The series was shot using a large format camera with a PhaseOne digital back attached. The skulls were created by having a mould taken of an anatomically correct human skull, which he then used to cast replicas in a white ceramic material. The skulls were then shattered and put back together using a golden adhesive to look like the Japanese technique 'Kintsukuroi' (Golden Repair) . . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Swinton
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The Collision Sport' is the result of a six-month photographic venture as the University of Bolton's Rugby Union Team photographer. The series documents the rollercoaster of emotions and actions that take place during the 80 minutes of a match. These images not only represent the sport, but the whole way of thinking that is held by the players. The motivation for this project comes from a passion for sports and event photography, capturing the spirit of the moment so that it can be treasured. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Drew Wilby
University of Bolton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Drew Wilby is an enthusiastic young gentleman who strives to be the best at everything he does, including his joint honours studies of Photography and Graphic Design Combined. He will take on every challenge that is thrown at him no matter how daunting this may be. Working for various magazines, Drew has already travelled around the country and also abroad too covering various events, food and drink reviews and also interior and exterior architecture which he adores. In the future he aspires to be a professional photographer and designer or visual merchandiser of a large retail chain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Bacon
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Lately in the UK the media has associated poverty with 'wasted money' and people 'sponging off the state', when the reality couldn't be more different. Foodbanks have seen a dramatic increase in people needing their help, and with the recent budget cuts countless people have been forced into horrific financial situations. I was brought up within a working class environment and I believe having this upbringing has enabled me to gain a better understanding of what is really happening with politics in Britain. I am proud of my upbringing, and I decided to create a project that illustrated my own fond feelings I have for my past as well as showing my audience that the media doesn't always show the whole picture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Baker
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Metamorphosis is defined as a profound change in form, structure or substance from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism. 'Metamorphosis 1-5' depicts a series of organisms created by exposing and transforming scale of decomposing plant matter to light, through the process of the photogram. My interest in this process stems from its early relation to classification within biology and its reference to early photography when the medium was believed to be a form of magic, witchcraft or alchemy. The work considers the role of the photographic medium as an accurate document depicting reality and invites the viewer to engage with photography's role in visually transforming our understanding of the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Fisher
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

We enter and leave this earth nude so why do we hide our bodies in everyday life? It is proven that being nude benefits us. Our bodies are more exposed to the vitamins and elements in which we need. Additionally, sexual mystery and connotations are taken away, building more respect between one another. My intent with these photographs is to show the world how being nude should be a natural thing and not restricted to being behind closed doors. To show this, I have photographed a person/people when they are nude in every day life, e.g. getting dressed, doing the washing, relaxing on the sofa, walking the dog etc. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jay Harrison
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The works featured are from multiple projects, though both explore ideas of beauty, vulnerability and femininity. The first, a project called Existence, is a series of works based around the theme of skin and feathers, and have underlying theories of vulnerability and existence. The second project is Untitled, with two images in the series: Flowers and Ultraviolet. This project explored the theme of temporality, and tied it in with traditional research into Dutch Flower painting (flowers) and the view of bees (ultraviolet). The work often revolves around similar themes of temporality, around the existential crisis of life. It is a philosophical question that I try to answer within my artwork, and will constantly be exploring this theme throughout my career. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lanyue Li
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Walking between the fantasy and reality, mixing the abstract and figurative. This series of images demonstrates the photographer back in his hometown, discovering that familiar and strange place. Not only that, in this project, the photographer also seems contain some deeper thought about the relationship between people, as well as the relationship between human and nature, human-made society and nature, people and human-made society... . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Mason
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A photograph can remind us of a place or a memory and yet, if we smell a scent that we recognise from another time or place, it feels as if we are transported there; reliving the experience if only for a glimpse. The small constructed worlds are reminiscent of those glimpses. They are the visuals of a smell. All four of the globes were based on places I had been to. They are based on memories that were made stronger by the smells of the place. For each photo, I re-created the smell I experienced using natural oils and materials. It is an expression of my memories, as well as an experiment, which crosses over the senses. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Monckton
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Within the realm of image making, Zoe Monckton compiles a visual diary documenting narratives and evidence of human traces. By the recording of personal and collective memories, she invites the viewer to reflect on individual experiences and question the ways in which we utilise photography as an anthropological record. Her photographs reveal her interest in heterotopic spaces and memory of a place. Her most recent work revisits her Catholic school, offering a personal reflection into a nostalgic and somewhat idealized childhood space. This series closely explores Roland Barthes' theory of photography and memory, reinforcing the theme of social interest that runs through her work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Munby
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through straight and stereoscopic photography Hannah Munby documents her childhood home as her family splits and the house is due to be sold. A subject close to her heart, Hannah explores the themes of sense of place and memory. The series juxtaposes the chaos of the family home with evocatively still photographs, recording the human traces left behind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Oldman
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Constructing images through the element of chance and experiment, the work is part of a series which explore the condition of contemporary photography; how we see, what are suitable objects of photographing and what are viable means of image making. The photographs explore the traces and aftermath of the photographer in the studio, revealing the unnoticed and the subtle fabric of the medium. Pushing the parameters between sculpture and still life, the work begins to respond to the material apparatus and underpinnings of the medium itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melissa Reynolds-James
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This on going body of work explores the concept of the public and the private by studying the relationship between people and architecture. Photographed at night, these monumental non-spaces and the people existing within them become vulnerable to our voyeuristic gaze. The large expanses of glass found in modernist architecture create frames for these glowing, exhibitionist spaces we are inherently seduced by. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Rickard
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

2084 explores the emerging genre of fictive documentary, questioning the nature of the real through a constructed narrative. Working from environmental projections, the series envisions a near future where human intervention has resulted in total animal extinction. Mirroring established traditions in the literary and cinematic worlds, 2084 aims to utilise the photographic medium to enhance awareness of the impact ecological destruction is wreaking on the planet. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eyder Rosso
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Eyders work challenges the laws of contrast and balance on flower arrangements on IKEBANA. It works with the idea of using all the aspects of plant life, stem, leaf and flower so that the result or aim of the flower arrangement is to produce a highly idealized living plant The display combines natural beauty, skill and performance, in accordance with vibrant living traditions of Japan. Eyders work attempts to recreate this performance of making flower arrangements using a mixture of natural and unusual materials found in western society and gardens. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber Smith
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I photograph to document my internal state of mind. Art is safe, gradual and non-judgemental. It is often used as a platform to explore past trauma many of my personal discoveries have gone unpublished. Information, emotions and ideas can be deduced from an image for the audience equally the same amount can be projected on to it by the individual viewer helped or hindered by their personal experience, background and circumstances. I am interested in the factors effecting this. My particular interests include the ideas of Freudian defence mechanisms and maladaptive behaviour. My work has a special significance to me; I respect the audience's autonomy and invite people to interpret my work however they wish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Molly Warren
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work focuses on the stigma surrounding the taboo of menstruation and the exploration of the female grotesque body. It combines the shame of women by the male dominated advertisement industry focused on female sanitary products and the shame women have come to feel about themselves and their own reproductive bodies.   The use of blue liquid in sanitary advertisements is used here satirically, combining it with tampons and sanitary towels transforms the items into patriarchal icons of female oppression. This masculine shaming of the female body is then combined with different materials used to hide the products, focusing on the concealment of this bodily function by the user, portraying the impact this stigma has had on the female gender. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lily Wedge
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Lily Wedge is a photographer working primarily in the genre of social documentary; focusing predominantly on individuals and their environments. Stemming from a lifelong curiosity concerning both sense of place and people, she offers photojournalistic images that are unique both in terms of composition and colour. Often focusing on striking portraiture, she also adds a point of human context to large-scale landscape photographs, detailing and exploring the idea of the decisive moment. The underlying political concerns of her work are evident in the way it addresses social issues in a manner that does not detract from the fundamental elements of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Remi Lewis Young
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Having previously practiced candid street photography Remi Young has battled with the tradition of the pose and recently progressed to more controlled shooting environments. This continuing body of work shows sitters in a moment of unguarded contemplation, captured at a point of physical exhaustion, void of the 'pose' commonly associated with Portraiture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kyle Adams
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Deep Camp Sea is a self portraiture project focusing on the social representation of male identity and gender performatives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Blundell
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My photographic practice is consistently connected and centred within the theme of the current female world and media representations. I reference views that exist about women, however controversial or conflicting, in attempt to create an ambiguous line between the theatrical and the personal. The photographs prompt assumptions that exist within everyday society representations. 'The Irremovable Mask' is a photographic study, that concentrates on the voice of women through different and significant transitional periods of a woman's life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pixie Bowles
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Places can act as sites where memories are created, giving each location particular significance. Place can become symbolic for specific experiences and act as visual triggers which evoke certain memories, atmospheres, narratives and emotions. The way a place is photographed, and then presented can govern or alter how the location is perceived. By exploiting 'technical limitations' of photography, Pixie has carried out a photographic exploration which focuses on her childhood home. A picturesque town, like many, of which is often perceived as a desirable location, yet the reality is, it is a place tainted by a darker underbelly. Pixies interests lie within the psychological depths which can be associated with place, as a result of personal backgrounds and experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maisie Cousins
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My approach to making art is hedonistic, colourful, and character driven. I am interested in exploring and celebrating femininity, power, voyeurism, intimacy and indulgence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Delion
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Deptford, London, U.K. 1992 Looking at the politics of place and belonging in the modern metropolis, this body of work takes form in a journey of documentation that incorporates members of the community of Deptford who are both central to the area yet all of personal relevance. My photographs are both a portrayal of a place and a reflection of self, they reiterate an intrigue in the past, a want to preserve the present and a denial of the imminent. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Esme Horne
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is motivated by the potential for manipulation and re-working of photographic processes beyond their indexical purpose. Working in the colour darkroom encourages the chance aspect of engaging with the simple elements of light, a lens and photographic paper. 40.8272222 is the culmination of an extensive investigation into the production of colour through camera-less photography. The images are simply 'photographs of photography'; they are the visual recordings of the photographic technologies by which they were made. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jure Kastelic
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Viral internet memes (an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture) that fleetingly appear on online sharing platforms create important questions about the perception of photography. The particular images in recent circulation employ a variety of optical deceptions that weaken our assumptions of a photograph's ability to sincerely testify. They directly undermine our process of reading a photograph and, moreover, challenge our associations with looking and seeing. Influenced by the internet phenomena, this project exposes the instability of accurate recognition. Through utilising various methods of optical illusion, the produced imagery is aiming to allude to more than what is literally depicted within the photographs and therefore deceit. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Barnaby Kent
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work focuses on the community of a teacher training college in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Holy Trinity Teachers' College is a space where westernised education and development intersect with traditional lifestyles, beliefs and languages. Within the college community, tribal constructs of gender, religion, time and fashion now blend with western influences. This dichotomy between the college bringing education, Catholicism and development but also encouraging students and local villagers to share their cultural traditions, represents this period of transition in Papua New Guinea. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meg Lavender
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My ongoing project, Unconscious Portraits, seeks to reveal rarely seen, private moments. The subjects are photographed over the duration of their nights sleep; they are both complicit in the making of the photographs, and yet also unaware of the camera during the shoot. The project is an exercise in trust, invading the privacy of people at their most vulnerable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aaron Law
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

smokerubbleindex.org is an online interactive database that attempts to approximate the scope of global disaster periodically between 21 December 2012 - 2013. Collating online news photographs of events of catastrophe or conflict, they are digitally compiled to construct a sequence of accumulating formations of smoke, or rubble. While they can be read as allegories of rising devastation and dissent, the work seeks to contest what constitutes an image of disaster. When employing the rhetoric of photojournalism, what visually determines its representation? What degree of agency exists for an image of disaster when it is to be circulated and multiplied? Are these events accurately pictured, or render a ceaseless, virtual flood of indeterminable images? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Reinis Lismanis
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My recent practice aims to question the impact various technological developments related to visual representation have on society, and how this progress is experienced. By focusing on both the inherent flaws as well as the potential, the 'Sharp Edges' project focuses on the Promethean promises of 3D printing and related technologies. Distinct yet intertwined sections of the project include a mixture of mediums and approaches used, which aims to question social, aesthetic and conceptual conventions of visual representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maya Nogradi
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In the years of 1945-1948, fifteen million German people were forced to leave their homes during the Ethnic Cleansing and Expulsion authorised by the winning powers of the Second World War - the biggest exodus that has ever occurred in Europe. The suffering of Germans who were expelled, murdered or transported to labour or concentration camps has been thoroughly wiped out of history books and records. Statements about Germans' suffering in relation to the Second World War are doomed to be ridiculed or considered revisionist. As a Jew whose family perished in the Holocaust, I attempt to shed light on the story of the German civilians from a new perspective, driven by a gesture of sympathy instead of antagonism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lottie Pugh
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My practice is primarily concerned with the relationship between photography, travel, landscape and architecture. When exploring the landscape, I particularly focus on the presence of infrastructure and man's alteration of the environment. This project, Nieuw Land, is an exploration into the heavily constructed reclaimed land of the Netherlands. The photographs draw attention to the relationship and interaction between land and water, and how this is highlighted in the uses and functions of this manufactured space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patrick Raimondi Taylor
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work focuses on the interaction between the mathematical and the visual; exploring such interplay through the creation of digitally manipulated geometrical compositions. My ongoing and still untitled project looks at familiar domestic environments, yet under the close scrutiny of a perspective-less divine viewpoint. My more recent project 'Photographic Machines for Mr. Rube Goldberg' in turn shows us falsified and improbable imaging devices created from an assortment of salvaged components. Both projects seek to look closer at the underlying mechanical relationship we hold to the visual, both in its recording but also in its consumption. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Florence Sharp-Mitchell
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

After closing in 1984, Chatham Dockyard re-opened a few years later the main core of the area as a heritage site. Many jobs were lost due to this closure and affected the area, but there was debate as to how efficient and vital the yard was in the modern day. Chatham Historic Dockyard is today a heritage site in Kent, whereby the public are able to visit and learn about the history of the previously thriving space. This work seeks to explore and understand the original industry based use of the area, compared to the now commercialised, packaged, even capitalist use of the same space. It does not seek to state, but more question ideas of regeneration and value today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cedar Shaw
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'My work documents the lives and stories of people from all walks of life. It is inspired by the close friendships I form through out my projects. My project 'The Reindeer Road' is a record of my trip to Siberia to stay with nomadic reindeer herders in the Arctic Circle. Due to the close friendships I formed throughout this trip, I learnt a lot of the hardships that the Nenets experience. I feel that it is important to capture this moment in time, an ancient nomadic way of life, due to the swift climate change and growing political concerns.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iona Sherwood
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work tests the pre-conceived boundaries of the original photographic print. The notion of a photograph being incomplete is an idea that is explored throughout the practice - whether it means cropping imagery, distorting or destroying it. The work sets out to breathe new life into found imagery, objects or place, conceivably reimagining their past histories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Towner
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My practice explores the connection between past and present, often using archival sources as a starting point for creating imagery. Examining notions of home, identity and relationships, I utilise photography and moving image within my work. 'A Little Girl Called Joy' is a moving image and photo piece that focuses on my mother's past struggles to have children, loss and the mother daughter bond. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex F. Webb
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The Rendlesham Forest incident refers to a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of (multiple) craft of unknown origin in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, in December 1980, outside RAF Woodbridge, used at the time by the U.S. Air Force. In October, 1989 Norman M. Scoggins discovered a set of co-ordinates and undeveloped camera films in the Rendlesham Forest. Upon processing the film Norman visited the specified locations, making several photographs in and around each area. Earlier this year Norman contacted me to assist him in the presentation of his findings.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Craig Wye
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I created a timeline of some of the most fatal attacks on society. It consists of 24 events starting with 9/11 and ending with the Westgate shopping-mall attack in Nairobi. These images seem to be stills from amateur mobile-phone footage, extracted by photo-editors to accompany journalistic text. However; they are in fact stills appropriated from fictional Hollywood films, with release dates that correspond to that of the event. The project looks at the constructed nature of politics and news imagery and raises questions about conspiracy and the theory of synchronicity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Burgess
University of the Arts London Camberwell - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

By leveraging traditional ideas of landscape photography and applying them to the virtual, it offers a glimpse of a parallel universe which has its own traits, features and places, in which the screenshot becomes the photo-realistic recording tool of choice. By exploring out to sea in the technology giants' versions of 'Earth', you encounter the 'default'; an area deemed not relevant or interesting enough to document, resulting in a perfectly calculated fabrication, and a flawless disruption. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Rimmer
University of the Arts London Camberwell - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images of the derelict Soviet-era circus in Chisinau, were taken as part of a project that looked at the remaining buildings and monuments from Moldova's years as a Communist country. The project is also a continuation of my interest in strong modernist architecture and how it can be used to create abstract images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Whitley
University of the Arts London Camberwell - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through examination of editorial narrative, sartorial appeal and physical surface, my practice aims to scrutinise the line between the tangible object and visual representation. Exploring languages akin with fashion and advertising, and using constructed set and lighting, I create static moments that at once exist but could not possibly do so in real time. Approaching the gallery space with a similar sensitivity to the runway or studio, my work aims to create a likeness between flattened texture and physical form, combining object and print to create highly fetishised structures of high production value and finish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Gruner
University of the Arts London Camberwell - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work plays on a sexualised representation of the self to expose the paradox inherent to self-portraiture: the performance of the self as other. The display of otherness, projected through the performative event of the photograph, shifts our conception of self-portraiture. Here, the performative action is foregrounded over the commonplace aestheticised outcome to reveal an exaggeration of the self, pointing to how subjectivity is constructed performatively. The palpable awkwardness of the work underscores this contradiction in its disclosure of something more candid ordinarily buried within the periphery of the performative event of the self-portrait. Here, we are reminded that ultimately this work exists as a succession of small-scale performances executed exclusively for the camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Pankowski
University of the Arts London Camberwell - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work aligns the landscape and myself, where touch is emphasised as evidence of my experience of the place. My interests lie in liminal spaces, the dialect between order and disorder and the idea that anything you do outside is subject to erosion. I concentrate on the materials of the land and the actions and placements they are subject to, working with forms, curves and crevices, the most intimate characteristics of a site. These site-specific interventions briefly inhabit the temporary space where sea and land meet. Chalk drawn onto rock waits for inevitable disappearance affirmed by the tide. My private and fleeting gestures are made for the image and rendered visible in this lens-based process. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Lowden
University of the Arts London Camberwell - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I like to escape the city, I feel free in empty spaces. Away from the noise and the crowd, I am happy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebbeca J Gerken
Canterbury Christ Church University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

K90203 is a project documenting locations of murders, suicides and accidental deaths around the seaside town of Ramsgate, Kent. People who have no idea what has happened just a few metres away walk past these places everyday and the locations I have captured have been sourced from old newspaper reports and genealogy websites. This news is still out there, although it has been forgotten. In my choice to caption the photographs with only the type of death, I am allowing the deaths to remain, to a certain degree, unidentified, anonymous and indistinguishable. Though they have been forgotten by the majority, these photographs are reminders that as live moves on, as the world changes, somewhere, someone will think of you. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Groom
Canterbury Christ Church University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The project chronicles the last journey of the Soham girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. As I walked following their footsteps and photographing along the way, knowing ultimately of their fate, I envisaged every step, every one was a step closer to a tragedy. I believe the landscape retains a hidden history like a scar forms after a wound and when contexulized with the fact that this path was the girls last journey, the landscapes history is revealed. When I arrived at the now empty plot that was Huntley's house, I thought of Soham, and of all the lives effected by one mans brutal actions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Hemsley
Canterbury Christ Church University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Time passes in moments ... moments which, rushing past, define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed. But what if we could stop, pause to take stock of each precious moment before it passes? In their liminal space between life and departure, these images are the lasting reminder of the lives now past. Captured with eyes open we see the effect of the humans; the paths we take although not always avoidable should not be forgotten. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Florence Littleton
Canterbury Christ Church University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Societal views differentiate gender to control our perspective. Gender isn't black-and-white or feminine vs. masculine, yet titles such as male and female assert out place within the world and further expression of genders and sexualities are often marginalised. 'One of the Boys' explores gender association within the stereotypical representation of the male. These portraits are created through fictionalised characters and performance, juxtaposing the essence of male with female, challenging the fundamental expectation of gender and exploring representation. Through exploring performance and creative expression this series see the photographer also become the subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Titherington
Canterbury Christ Church University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A local football club often serves as a hub for the community. This is something that I relay to the viewer in my project Making Friends not Millionaires. The work focusses on various clubs around Kent that participate in the Isthmian League. The community characteristic of these clubs is something that is present throughout the work. As I progressed through the project what became clear was a real intimate feel to the clubs as they are often close to the fans' hearts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sayuri Grace Webster
Canterbury Christ Church University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A few years ago I picked up a camera, and it became part of who I was. I had first started by taking self portraits, wanting more than anything to express myself as a person. This was a scary experience as I often saw unexpected sides of m personality reflected in the photos, but at the same time was fascinated with the results and found myself falling in love with photography. Over the last few years, my photograhs have reflected personal struggles and I have realised that this is what drives and motivates my photography. It is and always will be a medium for me to express things that are private, intimate and painful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Cawdeary
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A performance-based photography which introduces a contemporary reenactment which presents an exaggerated version of the key protagonist from specific scenes in selected films. This work captures the essence of the character through facial expressions, body language and hand gestures. The films which I have based my characterisations on include The Red Shoes, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and Marnie, The Pleasure Gardens, Rebecca, and Blackmail, which were all directed by Alfred Hitchcock. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darren Crawley
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The photographs included here are selected from a series of projects that I have worked on during my studies. My passion for Landscape photography is represented here alongside a selection of my favourite Editorial photographs. The lone deckchair and its solitary standing in the silence of the sunset. A sunset over Morfa Bychan viewed in a panorama. The daydreamer drifting away lost in his thoughts on a bench at Rhyd Ddu. The age old tradition of crabbing seen here outside Conwy Castle. Victoria Pier dissolving away in the rain. The travellers, passing reflections on a lone platform. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fredie Fisk
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

People take photographs everyday but most people photograph the obvious. My series of images explores details of interior spaces, which often go unnoticed. By photographing these spaces in close-up I have focused on interesting lines, shapes and forms in spatial compositions that normally go unseen but are uncovered in my photographs. I have a strong passion in discovering things through the lens of the camera; things that I hadn't necessarily seen with my naked eye. I intend the work to take the viewer on a journey of discovery, so that they reflect on their own experience as they form their own perceptions of my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Hughes
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Following recent events in my life I have been on a journey to discover myself. I constantly find inspiration and solace in nature and growing up on the Welsh coast and seeing Snowdon everyday through my window gives me the motivation to get outside and explore. However, more than just nature, I am intrigued by the influence humankind has within the natural world. It is my intention to capture the invasiveness of this. In a location with domineering landscapes my eye is always drawn towards the people within it, despite the overwhelming impact of nature around them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Lavender
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Home for the Lost is a series of photographs based on a place called Digbeth. This project is personal as I have grown up near to this town and I've seen it deteriorate over time. I have focused on four different ideas that interrelate physically, metaphorically and visually to create a series that focuses on urban decay. I'm interested in the line and form of the isolated buildings and abandoned objects that make up this area. These have been subjected to natural decay and human interaction. I have also collected abandoned objects, and photographed them in the studio, isolating them, and focusing on their degraded qualities. I have also buried photographs of Digbeth which act as a metaphor for economic and social collapse. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lydia Price
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Edge is a project which uses a panoramic film format about our desires and how these relate to landscape and our longing for the freedom that they potentially represent. Along these boundaries we are bound to place by family and work which defines our status and identity. All of the images represent those small moments which we have, yet take for granted in our everyday lives in society. The vast space enables us to breathe and forget whom we are and what we believe we are here to achieve. The inevitable sense of belonging disappears and for that one moment we are unattainable and have the power to feel and be who we really truly are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John-Lloyd Quayle
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

At The Front is a project about the North West seaside resort New Brighton. It started in 2011 based on my playing around with a camera and has turned into an ongoing close observation of people and a place. A place which I have known all my life and that has continued to change over time. I found myself walking around in circles all day with my eye to my view finder. I was gaining a relationship with the people and my camera. The project shows a new, New Brighton. A place which has had a massive amount of money invested into it, full of day trippers and holiday makers, there is always something to photograph and I can't see my relationship ending with New Brighton any time soon. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stacey Radley
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My investigation of Salford, which is invariably stereotyped as an area of high crime, and is considered by many as a typically decaying, industrialised area of the North West. After years of neglect and decay, Chapel Street known to be the former heart of the city, stands as a skeleton stripped of all recognition of its industrial past and parts of this area are undergoing extensive regeneration. This series of work is in part a journey, which I undertook, experiencing at first hand the environment and neglected parts of the city. These photographs feature a combination of unoccupied streets, neglected structures and overlooked architecture. To explore the infrastructure, my inspiration was to represent this lifelessness and preserve part of its former life and history. I wanted to document and capture a variety of all different aspects of Salford, from the elements of sad neglect to the much needed regeneration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emelinda Spolverino
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work records an autobiographical and emotional journey which adopts metaphor as part of its strategy. The work is connected with lived-experience and I have documented the emotions connected with grief, love, confusion, loneliness, vulnerability and contentment, in a subtle way, through the use of body language and settings. The underexposed and high-contrast images act as a deliberate attempt to conceal the finer details as a means of concealing insecurities. Starting from increasingly disturbing thoughts surrounding death I began to tell a story with a series of film still like photographs highlighting the idea that there is always light at the end of the tunnel. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Walls
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I have always been interested in the documentary tradition of photography as a way of exploring the urban landscape. The Book of Squares is an ongoing project which is based on conceptual interventions with maps, in order to set out and explore the landscape in a diagnostic manner. Techniques of intervention include drilling holes in the map book and then responding to those circular areas as specific terrains which link with one another. From this I can devise a way of navigating the topographical landscape. As the project is rooted in documentary practices and I respond to each site using a reportage aesthetic. From these practices audiences can learn something of the social and political contexts which are embedded in the land, such as commercial plots in juxtaposition with residential streets, private housing, or forgotten stores. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewys Canton
Coleg Sir Gar, Trinity Saint David - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

KINGSMOOR COMMON Within photography there are many characteristics that make up Cultural Identity. This project aims to produce a documentary series focused on a Gypsy Travelling Community within Pembrokeshire. Kingsmoor Common is based on the concept or notion of sense of place and how this relates to a modern day community that settles in one place for a particular amount of time. My interest comes from ideas about human experiences, in a way these images are constructed with the intent and purpose to comment on preconceived ideas of what a travelling community is like and undermines this nostalgic pre-conception we already associate towards a travelling community. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sean Clarke
Coleg Sir Gar, Trinity Saint David - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Our society is just now slowly starting to accept people for who they are. People are becoming more comfortable about showing who they are, not to everyone but a select few. Internet group are being set up from people to discuss and come together to take part in role playing activities that were once considered weird, strange and even disgusting. Once we would have looked at a man dressed in women's clothes walking down the street in our towns and cities and thought that they had mental issues or even homosexual. A person dressed as in latex clothing was once considered a disgusting form of sex that only perverts take part in. Sean Clarke . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Fryer
Coleg Sir Gar, Trinity Saint David - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Taken from the Beauty Project 2014, which covered the attainment of beauty in both Portraiture and Still Life, this series, form the latter, centres on the use of cosmetic products as a medium for beauty. This study of cosmetic tools has been fascinating as they are used by the vast majority of women on a day-to-day basis but are never really given much thought. The removal of all branding and bright colours from the cosmetics was essential to ensure that the subjects could be viewed in and appreciated for their shape and form. As a result the minimalist aesthetic developed to achieve this lends itself well to the series, further accentuating the details and forms of the cosmetics. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kayley Smith
Coleg Sir Gar, Trinity Saint David - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My current project entitled: Perceptions; is a digitally-based studio project, using a low key set-up to capture the differences placed upon individuals - by a wider society. The purpose of the project is to enlighten the viewer and the way we perceive 'difference' and 'Diversity' in our contemporary society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marlene Wareham
Coleg Sir Gar, Trinity Saint David - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse's distinctive blend of grace and strength and its sleek beauty have long been analyzed, admired and represented in artistic form - whether through painting, sculpture or photography. Engaging with the equine subject Marlene Wareham proceeded to gain as much knowledge as she could through the handler. Although the animal intrigues her, she felt it important that the images have a narrative for the viewer. There are many layers in the complex relationship, and by showing the presence of the human; the bond between man and animal is revealed. The dedication and passion of the 'Horse Whisperer' achieves reconciliation in our troubled relationship with the equine world. ©Marlene Wareham 2014 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hilary Clarke
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The poor complain, they always do, but that's just idle chatter. Our system brings rewards to all, at least to all who matter. ' Gerald Helleiner, This body of work 'Poetics of Space' is documenting disused commercial spaces in Cork City. These structurally sound, yet unused areas, lie unoccupied and discarded almost haunted. These images explore the economic consequences and desolation that occurred in the Republic of Ireland over the last ten years. I strive to capture the atmosphere of these places, the subtle details of decay, abandonment and I explore without disturbing what I find. All these spaces have been documented in and around Cork City. A censure to the post 'I.M.F.' age in Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caoimhe Heaney
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The day-to-day stress and chaos of adult life has prompted the work to create an alternative reality that is free from such aspects of adulthood. The work lends itself to childhood memories and fantasies of play and fairy tales. Play, day-dreaming and fantasy are all used when creating the images to create a surreal place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miroslava Pavelkova
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My practice explores the effects of self-imposed psychological isolation. The work engages with this issue through the photographing of a constructed, notional space that has been manipulated with light. The manipulation of light and shadow is an abstract representation of the evolving negative process of isolation which distorts the individual's perception of their direct surroundings. The confined and constructed space echoes the created reality that the individual experiences through psychological isolation and by this means the work presents the viewer with a physically realized depiction of this experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Greene-Salm
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of photographs forces an engagement with how we mark time past and future, it questions our reflections and projections, and examines carefully the important time within. My thoughts are explored through the camera lens and I strive to make form make sense visually while allowing the reflections of the past make sense intellectually through the progression of the work. The shapes and subjects that appear here allow the passage of time to be softened without the constraints of its obvious measurements. I have used photography to question the role of time and began by probing the past, examining the present and exploring the inevitability of the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siabh-Nicoleta Wall
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Where there is no light, one cannot see; and when one cannot see, your imagination starts to run wild. You begin to suspect that something is about to happen. In the dark there is mystery and also beauty.' John Alton. My work is about my childhood memories in the rural landscape. Each location that I photograph has a specific memory attached to it from my childhood. From horse riding through the woods, and across the countryside, to taking nighttime walks. I have always found the rural landscape to be both equally beautiful and mysterious, especially at night. I wanted to try and capture specific memories connected to my childhood in my photographs. Setting up a scene in the rural landscape at night, I use artificial lighting to light a specific area of the landscape. I then paint the scene with light, illuminating the areas that are most important and need to stand out in the image. Using black and white photography allowed me to capture the subtle interventions that I made in the landscapes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caoimhe Walsh
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The photographic image lends itself to issues of anxiety as it presents the viewer with a representational image yet separates the viewer from that which it represents. Through the use of soft focus, camera shake and double exposures the work presents a distorted depiction of an interior, basement space, a space that symbolizes the subconscious and subjective experience. The use of these photographic tools serves to further disconnect the viewer from what is photographed. This disconnection amplifies the experience of anxiety as the work demands of the viewer that he/she depends on an internalized, subjective rationalization of the images to interpret the visual information available. This lack of concrete information and objectivity leads to the experience of anxiety. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Cole
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work is with the collaboration of Sabine Skae, curator at Barrow Dock Museum to document some of the collections held. The museum holds a collection of objects related to the town and its cultural past; unfortunately the majority of this is hidden away, rarely seen by the general public. One of these collections is a group of taxidermy cases depicting mostly British bird species. My aim was to create colour correct and archival accurate images, enabling this collection to be shared with a wider audience . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julie Dawn Dennis
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series explores childhood fears, dreams and memories. Each image combines personal symbols to represent moments from different stages of childhood. The artifice of the constructed scenes reflects the idea that outside perceptions differ from life within the retreat of the home environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dale Handyside
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

During the 1960s the British holiday camp experienced a hey day. However, this British institution has suffered a decline as holidaymakers enjoy the increasingly affordable foreign beach holiday. All the visible affects of the camp are a façade, an artifice, a fabricated otherworld to take you away from your own humdrum existence. In the presence of the holidaymaker the holiday rep becomes animated, the lights sparkle and the music pulses like a heartbeat; as the season draws to a close the camp falls to silence. LIDO is a visual documentation of the Solway Holiday Village (Lido) situated in Silloth, Cumbria. This series is a photographic account that captures the monotony and bizarre artifice of the holiday village. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marc Johnston
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Hidden away in an old warehouse on the outskirts of Liverpool lies the United Kingdoms largest indoor skatepark. Rampworx is open to riders of skateboards, inline skates, BMX bikes and stunt scooters. During my early teens I visited the skatepark regularly, spending hours skateboarding and returning home exhausted, filthy and bruised. In this photography series I seek to document Rampworx and capture the gritty underground culture of the skatepark. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Lawrance
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Following on from my project last year about a coalmine that I remember throughout my childhood, I have decided to look into the personal connection yet mystery I have felt about the Pit. I have never been inside the grounds of the Pit but my Dad has always told me stories about the place from when he worked down there. I turned my curiosity to my dad's individual job when he was a 'fitter', someone who services the large machinery down the mine. In this project I look at the tools he used to do his job, even now years after he finished working down the pit, he still keeps these tools as they hold a lot of sentimental value. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Billie-Jay Lynch
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The fascination of identity in the scooter scene has directed this project to truly reveal these individuals. The "scene" is much an obsession for many and seen as a close-knit, unique group to an outsider. Removing the individual from the group allows the outsider to observe the individual's raw emotions and confidence in their appearance and themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Richardson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is one of the most important cities in England. It is a city full of industry and culture. However, these are not the aspects of Newcastle that I think of when thinking about Newcastle and nor is it the side that the vast majority of locals thing about. Through this project I document the aspects of this great city that I remember and think about. The aspects of this city that you see once you step out of the city centre and into the real Newcastle. Through these images I show the Newcastle I know, the Newcastle I grew up with, the true Newcastle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cameron Robertson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

During its lifetime, a building will go through many changes. Some evolve beyond recognition; others are demolished and totally replaced. Some buildings are different and never change. For generations they enter a state in which time almost stands still. Two properties in Berwick-upon-Tweed, until recently, were examples of such a state. Their occupants had resided and done business there for over 100 years. In 2013 time decreed that the buildings had to change. The family left, emptying their home and business of all their worldly possessions. Although there are no longer physical mementos of their existence such as furniture and photographs, a family cannot occupy a certain space for as long as 120 years and not leave a trace. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Scott
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

To become remote emotionally involves putting up mental barriers. Within this body of work I have chosen a physical way to show emotional detachment. Using minimal natural lighting and reflective surfaces I have addressed the aloofness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Thompson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Wind turbines in all forms whether they are land based or offshore, can polarise the opinions of local communities and the public in general. Renewable energy has become an important part of our future energy resources, however individually we would rather they were installed in somebody else's back garden. This project will attempt to show wind turbines from a different angle, it will demonstrate the benefits of wind turbines and how they can be a positive addition to society in respect of energy generation but also how the wind turbines can have a negative visual impact on the landscape including how local infrastructure must change to accommodate them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Trantum
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work acts as a lavish tableau of classical interior space, housing a collection of neoclassical and Jacobean palatial English country homes with cultivated botanical interiors of historical orangeries and glasshouses to narrative effect, encasing the beauty and bourgeois tendencies of the museum institution, high art culture, phenomenology and mortality. In photographing and redisplaying these interiors on paper I am bringing them into a state of repose, both conflicting against and further preserving their restorative and conservative processes through the use of a medium that both mortifies and immortalises the scene that it reproduces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Waterfield
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Brampton Valley Way is located on the old Northampton to Market Harborough railway line. It is a fourteen mile linear park that features the small 1 ½ mile long Northampton and Lamport Trust railway. A systematic approach is used to document the line by looking predominantly straight ahead along the path. The work deviates slightly to notice the River Nene running alongside the old railway, due to the fact it was easier to build the railway next to a river, as it allowed for easier gradients. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren McGuinness
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In this series, I am looking at why plants are gifted. I am interested in how plants become gifts and what they represent. We all have our own default perception of beauty and what it represents, when gifting it is our representation of beauty. My photographs explore our strange human tendencies of the reasons why plants are gifted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Liddle
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series is a reflection of an on-going struggle in surroundings that I have never been able to come to terms with. By dissecting and photographing all areas of my life of the past three years, I hope to put closure on my circumstances by both abstracting and accepting everything around me. These photographs serve as a reminder as to how I felt during this time and that it is possible to find beauty in strife. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abbie Bonshor
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

What is beauty? No matter whom you are or what you know, no person is ever able to define the word beauty. Yet, all around us, there are millions of women striving for sheer perfection and beauty. How can these women strive for something that is so widely defined? This pressure of perfection and the impact of cosmetics on the female identity has influenced my latest bodies of work. Through the use of still life photography and decorating theatrical masks with used make up wipes, I reflect my personal feelings on how beauty cosmetics have impacted on the female identity. My work portrays how this obsession has developed into a protective mask and has explored a subject that all women are able to relate to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Darby
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Gender is a perplexing topic, one that has been carefully explored within this photographic practice. This recent work explores gender identity and the breakdown of gender boundaries and in some cases combining masculinity and femininity. With this in mind, one of many elements of gender expression has been photographed; Drag. Within the series, drag artist 'Vanity Case' is depicted through a selection of images. This middle-aged working-man views the opportunity of drag to explore his gender and enables him to transform himself into someone else. The series photographed in his own home, documents his transformation process from man to queen as well as documenting the feminine characteristics of his home that clearly transcend from his drag. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yasmin Ensor
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

As both a viewer and an artist, I have an issue with the validity of photography as medium used for recording. Before the post-photographic era had even begun, (when the public weren't bombarded with images on a daily basis) staging and manipulation was still popular within photography. I break the trust the viewer has with an image, forcing them the question the validity of other images they come into contact with in the future. I manipulate found images by including self-portraits, to create alternative narratives to the perceived truth. My work challenges the viewer, but also myself, as I explore to what extent I can deceive people. When displaying my work, I explore which processes are the most authentic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Farnell
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photography is intrinsically linked to memory. A photographs ability to awaken an experience seemingly forgotten means that I always tie the medium to feelings of nostalgia, leading to work often concerned with ageing and in particular the transition from childhood to adulthood. My work aims to reignite our memories of childhood using familiar, cross-generational objects of play. The narrative communicates a sense of loss, representative of the ephemeral nature of childhood freedom and memory. My intention is to highlight the value of this lost perspective, as I believe our childhood memories to be instrumental in who we become. My message is speculative: Do we undervalue our early experiences and perspectives? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Faulkner
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

With a keen activist interest in climate change I created this project to demonstrate how knowledge and power can turn to greed, and as a result, damage the planets natural resources, resources we can't live without. I have addressed the impacts of global warming by focusing on the Holderness coastline in the County of East Yorkshire, showing increasing erosion due to rising sea levels and tidal surges. Being one of the fastest eroding coastlines in Europe I have examined the effects of land loss and how it affects residents both physically and emotionally. With underlying themes of geography and geology the work takes on a topographical study, highlighting places of human intervention through the medium of sea defences and other sites, which have simply been left to nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aimée Hill
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Passing through a city my influences emerge from manufactured environments enveloping populated areas; these surroundings feel alien to me. I specialise in the glorification of what may be described as mundane pieces of urban complexities. Christianity and heavy alcohol consumption are not normally two subjects that are ordinarily associated. The Derby Street Pastor organisation nurtures what they name 'street drinkers'. Lending an ear or a shoulder to the city's nightlife, they guide and protect vulnerable people, akin to Guardian Angels, omnipresent and compassionate they follow the words of God. The series 'The Shepherds' illustrates the common spectacles of the street; recurring themes of distress, exhilaration, and hopelessness fuelled by alcohol, they are events viewed by the Street Pastors every single weekend. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jennifer Hooker
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Encountering land and the experience of the journey I make is what drives my image making process. The landscapes that my feet and eyes connect to are re-presented in a form that does not expose the environment in the way that traditional landscape photographs might do. My images aim to challenge the technical and visual conventions associated with landscape photographs. Dis-location becomes the core concept of my work as I aim to challenge perception through the removal of distinct lines and forms, and with that a clear focus point. My images refer to landscape in terms of the genre itself, in how what we have learnt and been taught it should look like, can actually be taken and altered completely. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ciaran Jones
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work is about taking our traditional concepts of photo-making and dispensing with them completely. The images are created by placing negatives inside a pair of shoes and going for a walk. The shoes themselves have naturally occurring holes in them causing light leakages; the physical act of walking coupled with the repetitive bodily movements and friction creates abstract patterns on the negative. Due to the constant friction, areas of the emulsion are worn away completely emphasising the physical nature of the work and an individual narrative for each image. The indexical relationship between the landscape I walk in and the resulting images are clear to see. The images themselves become almost landscape images in their own right. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Kane
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Concentrating on the lifestyles people lead either by choice, misfortune or necessity, I try to reveal their narrative with photography. Hidden Hunger shows the environments that food banks use to carry out their food distribution services. The body of work through compositional and visual strategies refers to the alienation and isolation that the food bank clients may feel within society, as a result of the negative representation the British media has helped give to this percentage of people needing to use such services. Hidden Hunger comments on the government's refusal of recognition and support towards the crisis. Covering various towns and cities I try to give the viewer an insight to the crisis and how it has affected the Midlands. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sitta Kiewpukdee
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

All my photographic works are based on the negative side of feeling for human beings because they have lost something in their lives and feel hopelessness and sorrow, which always happens to all people. I am trying to create work that relates to the subject of death and spirituality, I hope that my work will make people awaken from the illusion of a comfortable life and face the truth of the brutality and uncertainties of life. Death is not something we should run away from or be scared of, but it is the thing that we have to face and live with, the best thing we can do is to accept, we should be prepared for the time when it comes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Langham
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning' Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 1981. My practice explores concepts regarding humanity's relationship with its surroundings. As well as physical juxtapositions found in both the wilderness and our built environments, I also study cultural and social surroundings and how all of these factors can interfere with one another. I am often concerned with the concept of the popular cultural experience in these environments. My most current piece of work deals with the abundance of influential language and imagery in our built environments. Advertising immerses humanity into a consumerist culture, blurring lines between information, meaning and significance whilst also creating distorted, often materialistic, values. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Selway
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Spring is a work that stems from a personal interest in how humans try to design and construct nature. Focused on towns and cities I look at how we build natural space within public urban and suburban areas. Be these parks, front gardens or the flowerbeds that border pavements and buildings. I make the pictures using a hand-scanner, this means I have to physically interact with the plants that I am scanning. Some of the pictures in the series are then built from different scans, emphasizing the idea of design and construction of nature. The process of the work results in 'errors' occurring within the pictures. However the errors are celebrated, a concept of imperfection derived from Wabi Sabi philosophy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Thorley
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

We have reached a point in our society where we continue to box ourselves in with the uniform and congruent built environment. The huge towering blocks present in the civilised world constantly assure us of our diminutive stature, yet, even though we are surrounded by these faceless walls of brick and mortar, the spaces in between them remain free. People define the use of communal spaces, but as pedestrians their presence is transient, and as such, brings to them a human element of personal journey, creating meaningful sites if only for a few moments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niamh Treacy
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work to date has been focused around the central theme of distorted reality. Specifically addressing the natural world, it adopts a surrealist, often abstract approach, aiming to bring attention to features of reality that may be overlooked. Touching on theories from psychoanalysts and ideas of Equivalence and the Surrealists, my work is focused on nature. Creating a distorted view, relating to ideas of the dream and unconscious state of mind, developing visual metaphors for more that what is being photographed. My current work shows a linear continuation to these ideas. Using the male human form, I intend to create an abstract and surrealist inspired representation of the forest, the main focus lying on perception and how the viewer 'sees'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corrina Wade
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My most recent body of work is a continuation from the work 'Regulars' and focuses on the regulars now in the environment where they are part of this pub community. I have become an outsider looking in on them, as they appear to be more comfortable as they are occupied with someone who they connect with on a personal level. By focusing on the more mundane aspects of the British drinking culture, I aim to create images which take this banality and elevate it into something of higher importance.This will make my images look more interesting as the classic and traditional British pub will be transformed, along with the regulars of that location who will be the subjects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Youngs
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The loss of a loved one is an integral part of life. It is something that we can all empathise with and this is why it has greatly influences my work over the past couple of years. Through the reflection of loss, grief and death I combine photography and installation to reflect the many different, personal processes that link with these themes. By using these themes on a personal level I reflect common emotions that are easy to understand. I combine the down played history between death and photography with modern technology in order to reflect personal emotions that can be understood by all. Doing this achieves a sense of clarity in the face of death, loss and grief. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Carson
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of photographs pays homage to the era of analogue cameras and film projectors. Ireland's first dedicated cinema , the Volta was opened and managed by James Joyce in 1909. The dominance of film projection has lasted for over a hundred years. Only relatively recently has the majority of Irish cinemas made the transition to digital projection. The objective of these photographs is to reference and mark this historic transition and to serve in an archival role in preserving the traces of an increasingly obsolete media technology. It is an appropriate time to acknowledge and pay tribute to both the technical achievements and the aesthetic beauty of the cine cameras and projectors of the analogue era. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phoebe Gill
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In June 2013 the Irish government put on hold the proposed sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte for a period of 18 months and asked Coillte to undergo re-structuring. If the land is sold there are a vast number of problems which could arise including the privatisation of the public land, which means public access, recreation and access to the mountains could be taken away from Irish citizens and native flora and fauna could be in jeopardy. These photographs are a representation of the aftermath of the harvesting of Coillte land but also function as a warning of what could happen to the land if our public access is relinquished. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kathy Gilroy Barry
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players (As You Like It -- William Shakespeare) These images use photography as a narrative form, where the characters are actors and the landscape the backdrop. Erving Goffman's perspective of dramaturgy, using a theatrical metaphor to define how people present themselves to each other, has been the main inspiration for this work. It explores the notion of the presentation of self, and the performance given by people to create specific impressions in the minds of others. To explore how people 'perform' they were asked 'How would you like to be represented?', so that they had at least the illusion of control over the outcome of the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vincent Gregan
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Eleven days and a half gone and I have crossed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Instead of a democratic government, I am under a monarchical government. Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man. I gaze around in vain for one who will question my equal humanity, claim me as his slave, or offer me an insult.' Frederick Douglass. This project aims to reinterpret the journey to Ireland taken by the American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, in a bid to gain his freedom from slavery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Hall
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Women with Attitude celebrates the older woman, her sense of style, and zest for life as she continues to manage the physical challenges that come with the ageing body. Nine women, aged between 60 and 90, took part in the project in which they explored, not only their sense of style, but also their attitudes towards clothing, being older, being photographed in a studio setting, and having themselves documented. The collaborative process involved five shoots with the participants being given a choice as to what they wore, and the completion of a questionnaire to gather information on their relationship with clothes, attitude towards style and fashion, and the way clothes express their individual identities, as they negotiate the ageing process. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angela Hayes
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images were made using the RGBD toolkit which uses a depth sensor in addition to a digital camera to create hybrid images. They are stills from a video which aims to highlight the shift in focus from the subject matter of the photograph to the camera itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ciaran Healy
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This Project explores the complex and deep relationships between people and their dogs, the love shared between them, and how these relationships often mean more to people than those with their fellow man. The photographer uses dogs as a medium to overcome crippling shyness and anxiety when talking to people throughout his life. Through this project he gained access not only to their homes and lives, but through the act of setting up each portrait, rearranging their room and their belongings, He was permitted to uncover parts of their lives they may be hiding out of site. These people are willing to push the bounds of their comfort zones in order to be photographed with their pets. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Keane
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work examines the chronicle of occurrences surrounding the difficulties faced by all those directly involved with a road fatality. Fragments sets out to investigate the aftermath of these occurrences by recounting the happenings of that catastrophic day via a narrative, based on the intimate relay of events by a mother of a deceased child and the experiences of a frontline paramedic. Between the lines of tragedy lie the personal keepsakes that families of victims of road fatalities keep in their possession these items along with the personal objects last used by the victim will eventually create incredibly different representations, those of keepsakes and those which through recycling can re-appear as fragments within new retail products. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jason Kearney
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Sandblasting is used to create a worn look on denim. This process produces crystalline silica particles, a deadly dust that cause silicosis, an incurable lung disease. 50 garment workers have died in Turkey from silicosis in the past 9 years. Since sandblasting has been banned there it has move onto places such as Quandong in China, which produces half the worlds denim and Bangladesh which produces 20 million yards of denim per month. According to Trend Council, which forecasts global style trends for retailers, the top denim looks for 2014 include faded and splattered styles - the vert look often created by sandblasting. Thanks to Allison Joyce for the appropriation of her images in these photomontages. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzi Linnane
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series plays on metaphor, symbolism and the theatrical performances of everyday life as challenged by Erving Goffman in, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, in 1959. The images aim to challenge the blurring and shifting boundaries between work life and private life/ public space and private space. By playing on the chaos, busyness and 'always-on-ness' of modern life these images act as parodies of everyday life situations by questioning the effect of hyper connectivity in the information age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emilie Lynam
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Trifecta is a body of work that investigates the idea that the rules and regulations of gambling can change society's involvement in a sport. It photographs the rapidly declining crowds at Irish racecourses in contrast with prospering crowds in Hong Kong and Dubai. Through the photographs and text in the photo book there is a stark realisation that the loss of crowds at Irish racecourses are due to competitive off-course betting companies and below standard racecourse facilities. It is a period of time where there is a huge increase in online gambling, betting shops and gambling addictions, and this project sociologically investigates the effects betting has on the horse racing industry and attempts to awaken the need for change. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marco Novara
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Invisible Landscapes addresses the dangerous and partially unknown threat of illegal disposal of toxic waste. In the last two decades the province of Naples and Caserta, in southern Italy, have been used by criminal organisation as illegal landfill, and is estimated that have been disposed nearly twelve millions tons of industrial waste. As result of the environmental pollution incidence of pathologies such as unusual cancer diseases, leukaemia and autism have raised in the area. The landscape images document both the particular and familiar scenes where the invisible threat is taking place. The juxtaposition of ordinary- looking places with symbols of economic development is confronting the viewer with a threat that is both localised and globalised. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Noel Phelan
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work is a collaborative photographic project between the artist and a number of participants currently serving prison sentences within a detention facility in Dublin, Ireland. This work seeks to explore visual narratives based on discussions held with participants. These discussions were used to investigate how participants might be brought into representation whilst respecting the participant's wishes to remain anonymous. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nina Szymanska
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Vanishing Point documents the journey and the everyday life of European truck drivers as a small part of a much bigger machine, which are struggling to prevail. This project invokes the questions about current issues of the modern Europe and explore the issues connected to globalisation, immigration, global cities as well as the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current international conditions. This work represents the dislocation and social isolation of people performing this job and continuing to exist in this 'transition space'. It explores the growing sense of fragility, as both physical enervation and economic depression in Europe, are mediating in the everyday life, reinforcing the feelings of the flux. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Byrne
Dublin Institute of Technology - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project examines the idea of urban spaces and their functions. Focusing my attention on the constructed space of the man made skate park. Taking in different location across the greater Dublin area. The abstraction of these parks and the calmness created in these images is of a visually pleasing space. Accompanying this series of images will be sounds of a skate park. The audio the viewer will be hearing will be of a full and chaotic skate park added to just the visual experience. The juxtaposition created here between the empty space and the full space can confuse the viewer and make them question the idea of urban space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lynn Atkinson
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Aberration is defined as a deviation from the proper or expected course. In photographic terms it stands for an imperfect image with a defect of focus, while in psychological terms it refers to a disorder in one's mental state. These images form an examination of a personal internal state. With this work I attempt to improve my understanding of my mental aberrations through the therapeutic use of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aisling Cahill
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Night after night we imagine a kindness that we have shared with others throughout the day. We fall asleep, without accounting for any unkind and biased judgments we have made in the past waking hours. Sometimes we are unaware of these microaggressions and their lingering effects on others, and sometimes we simply don't care. This project explores the anxieties which still haunt me in relation to my body and are a consequence of how I have been treated by either certain individuals or by society as a whole. These self-portraits examine how certain acts of unkindness in public have permeated my consciousness and how they still manifest in my private life, years later, even when I am alone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorna Collins
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Emotions are fleeting and the mental state is fragile and sometimes all you can do is hold on by a thread. The project, 'Holding on by a Thread', explores the terrain of personal identity within the realms of photography and mixed media. Through the physicality of the Polaroid image, thread, ink and fire; the work attempts to make that which is intangible tangible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Connaughton
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Having spent my whole life between the Evangelical and Pentecostal church, marriage is not a foreign topic to me; it's good, it's biblical, it's expected. It's been an active topic of discussion since I was 16... The selected portraits and interviews are of young newlyweds within the Evangelical and Pentecostal church who chose to acknowledge and celebrate God through the act of marriage: an act that though traditional calls forth a question: If no longer believing in 'good old-fashioned marriage' is the new norm, then is believing in marriage a new form of anti-conventional thinking? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon Dempsey
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project investigates the idea of the In-between state, to create a real space but not a physical space. It challenges the play of perception between object and space, in turn it creates a capacity that interprets the possibilities of transfigurement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Greene
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'What is especially fascinating to me is the so-called 'invisible city': the urban structure which is lodged in our nerves, feelings, knowledges.' - Alexander Kluge. This project is an engagement with and observation of the metropolis. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Violetta Gorkina
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Empty State explores the shape of factories in the second largest city in Latvia Daugavpils. This project is based on places in Daugavpils that were fully operational but were shut down in the past 10 years leaving thousands of people unemployed and driving a significant amount of residents to immigrate to other countries. Photographs portray desolation and abandonment of multiple locations and are meant to convey the general feeling of desperation surrounding once prosperous Daugavpils. Despite the fact that this series of images depict empty plants and no people, in spirit this subject matter is connected to everyone who has ever worked there and whose lives have changed once doors of those factories were shut. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Janiszewska
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project comprises of a collection of portraits in which each one stands alone and carries an individual message. Each artistic medium borrows from one another and combining them with each other often results in deeper expression. In my artistic practice I'm trying to bring the photographic image beyond the flat surface that it is usually identified with. My work lies somewhere between dreams and documentation. In both photographing and printing, the tools I use are often home made from various found materials including leaves, wood, glass and paper etc. As everybody perceives the world differently, everyone interprets it differently as well. Photograph is a play of solving a mystery. It requires exploration, analysis and interpretation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzi Sue Kelly
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Negative Equity occurs when a homeowner purchases a house using a mortgage and then the economy starts to slow or home prices start to drop. After the house purchase, the value of the home decreases below the value of the amount owed on the mortgage, causing negative equity. This ongoing series focuses on the people and families across Ireland who are now in negative equity with their home. This project began for me at home and has taken me on the roads of Ireland to meet some of the most inspiring people who have become the unseen casualties of the recession. In the end the property becomes irrelevant. The increasing debt and uncertainty of the future is what unites us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Kelly
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) was one of the strongest storms recorded in history, with winds reaching over 315km/hr. It was at its strongest when it made landfall on the island of Leyte, in the Philippines. Tacloban City took the brunt of the storm, with high winds and torrential rains whipping up a tsunami, estimated to be five metres high, causing catastrophic damage to homes and infrastructure. Yolanda killed over 6,300 people with 4 million displaced and 16 million Filipinos affected in all. The UN has listed it as one of the top three global humanitarian emergencies for 2014. These images are a brief glimpse into the chaos imposed onto the people of Leyte, as they try to rebuild their lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sharon Murphy
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Intervals celebrates theatre and the transformations of self and of the everyday that occur in performance through the alchemy of light, space and body. It explores the intersections between stage and auditorium, between actor and spectator, between the real and the marvellous. The child figure is central. Sometimes she is absent, sometimes she is tentative observer, sometimes she moves onstage and finds her light. In the intervals between reality and metaphor the soft wall of the theatre curtains breathes, rises and falls, suggests its secrets, entices. Using still and moving images Intervals asks photography to catch and keep that which otherwise is fleeting and ephemeral. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marie Murray
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the ﬁeld of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.' (Robert Louis Stevenson). To write about my photographs suggests that I can offer some coherence, some certainty, some explanation. But these photographs are really more of an exploration of some of the complexities of being me. Drawing on notions of the duality of the self I have gone slowly from room to room within my mind. In these chambers are housed the objects, creatures and decorative features that fascinate my waking hours and furnish my dreams. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Edel NicCaba
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Where you ever sorry you never had sons?' 'I never needed them with the two of you'. Having grown up in a household where my request to learn how to tile a wall was met with the same enthusiasm as my wanting to learn to iron, I have always been fascinated by how many of my friends where restricted in what they could or could not do due to their gender. Through this project I hope to raise questions around representation as well as generational and gender stereotypes. At what point are these stereotypes placed upon a person? What role does the media play in re-enforcing this? I hope to challenge the notion that these stereotypes are a fixed image we have trouble realigning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linda Plunkett
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series provides a visual metaphor for the notion of liminal space, derived from the Latin word limen meaning 'threshold'. In psychological terms, it describes a transitional place between one state of being and another; a phase between separation and reintegration, where boundaries dissolve and reference points fall away. I have looked to the natural world and the intersections of earth and air to find expression of this in-between state. It is a space marked by ambiguity, disorientation and uncertainty but ultimately a space of potential transformation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aideen Roche
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photographs are in a constant state of flux. From the inception of the photograph the capturing of light on photosensitive chemicals on a strip of celluloid or on a digital sensor - through the processing of that negative or transferring of that digital image. With respect to representation, preservation, photography and the archive, this project questions how images that are constantly changing form can be archived. Likewise, what a photograph represents is constantly changing along with the physical changes. What photographs represent is not constant but is continually being repositioned by cultural progression. Even though these photographs were taken in a city, there are no geographical or temporal indicators apparent, ultimately they are photographs. This is signified by the inclusion of dropped sprockets, light leaks and blurring. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Ryan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In her work Claire plays with ideas surrounding Vision, Perception and the Act of Looking. Photographing spontaneous occurrences from her own personal life, her work explores the relationship between Photography, Perception and Reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ivan Rynn
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The distribution of newspapers by people on the street has a long history. When it began news vendors would have been seen as the key figures required for one to obtain trustworthy printed information. It appears that it is now the news vendors who seek out their customers. Wearing high visibility suits which carry headlines on both sides of their bodies, they encourage evening commuters sitting in traffic to purchase a newspaper. Due to the throwaway nature of the medium the paper is rendered somewhat useless after one day of circulation. As the Digital media accelerates for many reason this may bring fort loss of the tactile object the newspaper and the demise of the newspaper vendor. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karl Sheridan
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Spectacle of Sound is a body of work that tries to capture music using an alternative photographic process. The work tries to merge the meticulous craft of photography with the craft of music, its aim is to change the aesthetic of music photography and create a private experience for the viewer just as the experience of music does. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Thompson
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Between the shadow of tragedy and the light of joy, I found beauty within my trauma. This body of work is an expressive reflection of my physical and emotional experience of being involved in a road traffic accident. The influence of painting and sculpting helped me highlight the textures of the medium in which I was photographing. I would hope that the viewer takes on an emotional experience when viewing this body of work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kyle Tunney
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The word 'Plexus' originates from Latin meaning plaited formation, it is defined as 'An intricate network or web-like formation.' This project, through the medium of photography, set out to examine the intricate network that has developed within our lives and the evolution of synergy between technology and man. My aim is to engage individuals to reflect on the continually developing role of technology in society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Wallace
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This stitching combines two humans, intertwining two individuals. Tethered to a human being, constantly hidden within a pair. My work is about vulnerability and resilience. As a twin you are always trying to establish your identity. Suzanne and I shared one identity as children, we were dressed the same and known as 'the girls'. But now like every pearl, we have our own identities; our own jewellery and the unique ink permanently on our skin. To me being a twin used to be very difficult and my work demonstrates this complex relationship that is being a twin. Our Relationship with the land especially West Cork is very important to us as where you come from influences you and your traditions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Ward
IADT Dun Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The development of the child's personality could not go on at all without the constant modification of his sense of himself by suggestions from others. So he himself, at every stage, is really in part someone else, even in his own thought.' (James Mark Baldwin) This project is a visual exploration of the suburban environment and its ability to construct and shape its inhabitants. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Avery
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The Cloth' is a series of images that explores the notion of self. In these self-portraits I stand vulnerable and isolated against the elements. I withhold my identity, ungrounded and unsure, sleepwalking through my own existence. The cloth, which represents a safety blanket, holds strong personal childhood memories of security and comfort. These images portray a journey of my own understanding of self-identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Corkill
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

From embarking within constant journeys and explorations through the night, the familiarities, uses and closures of our daily surroundings transform towards unknown and mysterious qualities, questioning their dominance and our commitment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Dance
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My photographs centre on the conceptual clarification of authenticity within the context of tourism. By exposing flaws in commonly held values of objective authenticity, my work supports an existential view, suggesting it explains a broader spectrum of tourist experience, far greater than the black and white/true or false definition associated with 'the search for authenticity'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Harriet Ellis
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Rosie Harriet Ellis is a visual artist, primarily working with photography, video and sound to create narratives that challenge the idea of story telling. 'End & Beginning' is a social documentary multimedia presentation and community participatory project that examines issues surrounding addiction recovery in Scotland through the eyes and voices of those trying to remain abstinent; what happens to a person after removing something they have relied on for so long. 'End & Beginning' combines photographs of spaces and portraits with audio interviews, describing the journeys of seven individuals. The piece is presented in an reflective narrative form to challenge stereotypical stigmas of addiction, and to communicate the on going reflexive projects of the individuals. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nadia Luella Ruth Gabriel
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This is a collection of some of the studio-based portraits I have taken over the past few months. More can be found on my website, as well as other projects that were displayed for the degree show. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Luke
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The bings are an enormous set of spoil-heaps comprised from the tailings of the once globally important shale-oil industry which was centered in West Lothian. Since workings ended in the early 1960's, the bings have gradually been re-appropriated as an unlikely leisure ground, site of nationally significant biodiversity and a monumental symbol of West Lothian identity. Although I describe my project as a study of the bings, it's perhaps more appropriate to describe the photographs as a record of my experience of the bings. I eschew the absolute objectivity often associated with contemporary landscape photography in favor of making beautiful images and by doing so aim to challenge ideas about how we perceive use of post-industrial landscapes in Scotland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corinne McDonough
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Professor Emeritus of Library History, Donald G, Davis Jr. describes 'Libraries , or collections of recordable knowledge, [as] the collective memory of the human race.' With this as inspiration, my graduating year project Ordo Librorum, uses the idea of collective human memory and explores its material and spatial qualities; the storage of said knowledge, through photographing both specialist and public interiors of seven different Edinburgh libraries. Through photographic still lifes, each image in this series focuses on the human traces left behind on objects found in different library locations in Edinburgh - both front of house and behind the scenes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katharine Ross
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Portrait of my recently deceased grandparent's home, re-visited through a new perspective. Combining archival video footage shot in the house with my own contemporary photographs. The series portrays internal sentimentality of being in their house again as an adult, while the emotional trauma of death is offset by the structure of a home. I watch myself as a child in the house and connect to the nostalgia we experience from places that are familiar yet changed. The effect of time on a specific place reflects our relationships and comfort from possessions we form around us, all of which are ultimately left behind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kat Abdullah
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Our traditional approach to cognition undergoes transformation as we come to realize how the reservoirs of forces of nature, the earth, the solar system, and the cosmos as well as their objectives draw us into their enveloping complex and circuits, from which are drawn our genetic sources and the directions of our becoming.' Tymieniecka, A.T.  This body of work is a study into representations of maleness. Questioning standards of censorship and limited forms of representation I want to allude to the constructed nature of gender identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cameron Allan
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project examines the people at Hibernian Football Club, who operate behind the scenes, frequently unseen, and unappreciated by those on the outside. The work of these people is crucial to not only the daily operation of the club, but to its legacy, and its continuing success. This project aims to present these people to the public, as not only individuals, but as integral parts of the team. The twelfth man is a term often used in reference to the fans of a team, as their encouragement and dedication towards the team is said to give them the ability to perform like there is an extra player on their side. This phrase, I feel, is applicable to each member of staff who gives their all for the beneﬁt of the club. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jordan Anderson
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work draws focus on personal experiences with education. It is an examination of the institution, the surviving details and elements that cement this physical environment as a space of education, youth, growth, transformation and the passing of time. In observing the building in its vacant state, the images begin to identify the significance of place and belonging, highlighting the countless generations of young people that have passed through during transitory stages in their lives. Experiences are vast and varied, but the vehicle for the experience - the building - remains stationary and fixed within its own environment. The time spent here is ephemeral but the memory of the space perpetuates. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Boyd
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

From its beginning in the 1960s, mod subculture has been the subject of many a revival and re-invention. Over the course of half a century, the popularity of the mod scene has had its effects on new waves of young people, having brief revivals and influencing factors of other subcultures. Many however, never lost the shared love of music style and attitude that makes up the mod ethos. In and around Glasgow today there remains a vibrant and popular mod scene with numerous club nights and gatherings. Many of the regulars have been mods for years and some can even claim to have been participants in the scenes early years. My interest lies in those with a long running association with the mod lifestyle and those who being a mod had always stayed a part of them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ida Blom
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Spiritualism is a new age religion. Although not everyone classifies themselves as spiritualists, searching help through spiritual energy has become an alternative way for emotional healing. This documentary seeks the people who call themselves spiritualists in contrast to the people who might encounter the spiritual experience for the first time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Cagol
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

January 1945: the Red Army is conquering land, Germany fears the enemy and gives the order to evacuate the concentration camps in the polish city of Oświęcim (Auschwitz) while destroying the sings of mass killings. An estimated 60.000 cadaverous men, women and children are forced out of Auschwitz's camps on endless marches in the harsh polish winter, countless will die. The project focus is the 70 km walk from Oświęcim to Wodzisław Śląski. It documents through the medium of photography the route of the march, recording the monuments and memorials that stand along the way, testimonies of what has been. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Blanche Carreras David
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world. More than 92% of the population live in poverty and are surviving on less than £1.20 a day (The World Bank 2013). However, working together as a Cooperative, these environmental portraits show a group of strong, empowered Malagasy women who have overcome their troubled backgrounds and are successfully improving their lives through the income generated by their work. With the help of the NGO Yamuna, these women have learnt skills (farming, handicrafts and dressmaking), and with this a means of supporting themselves and their families. The continuing support of this NGO means that their children are also provided with an education. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carmen Haigh
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Simulacra' n.pl. 1. an effigy; image; representation. 2. an unreal or vague semblance; superficial likeness. Christian iconography, whether allusive or flamboyant, is increasingly prevalent within contemporary fashion and editorial imagery. These commercialised representations, perhaps once seen as provocative and crude, are now generally accepted and perpetuated by mainstream culture. 'Simulacra' is a series of images influenced by iconic visual elements and reoccurring imagery in historical religious paintings. By employing pictorial techniques, I hope to comment on the correlation between painting and photography, and illustrate the influence of faith on fashion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Hofer
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This Must Be The Place is a portrait series of migrants currently living in Edinburgh. I became interested in what motivated people to come to this city and to start a new chapter of their lives here, as I did the same thing four years ago. All of the sitters are people who I have met during my years of study in Edinburgh. Alongside the photographs I interviewed the sitters discussing notions of home, migration and identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Anne Kennedy
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A Lolita could be best described as an individual who follows the Japanese subculture of wearing western inspired Victorian and Rocco style Japanese fashion. The history of the movement began in Japan during the 1970's with fashion companies such as Pink House, Milk and Pretty. This project gives an intimate insight into the colourful yet very complex world of Lolita. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mhairi Law
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of images highlights a new generation who, in spite of the geographic isolation and fewer opportunities on their home island of Lewis, remain on the island and are enriching their local culture with energy and enterprise. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine McCready
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

There Now looks at Northern Ireland in 2013 ; as the country moves forward conflict can still be seen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Chris Parker
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This selection of images is taken from the series, The Maroon West, a social microcosm of a location situated between Edinburgh's city prison and financial sector. The location was once home to Scotland's largest pig farm and lays claims to the creation of the digestive biscuit. Here James explores and records chance encounters along and aside the western artery into Edinburgh, Gorgie Road, whilst questioning the limitations and restrictions placed upon us by urban networks and a cities infrastructure. Produced in its final form as a photographic newspaper. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olya Tyukova
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project has two strands. For several months I was following a number of circus artists: jugglers and acrobats, attending workshops and conducting private interviews. Through these meetings I produced a range of documentary photographs and with the writer Nita Hyrkkänen compiled a photo-book which unveils the lives of circus performers in Edinburgh. Working closely with a couple of performers I observed the relationship between them and captured its essence through the medium of photography and body language. The outcome of this collaboration is a series of photographs celebrating the joy of life, motion and mutual trust. Vis viva (Lat. living force) is the first known description of kinetic energy - the energy the object possesses due to its motion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Wood
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography and Film
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The way in which we perceive our everyday reality is mediated by the images we encounter. I wish to instigate a shift in representational perception, so that the overlooked and ignored, becomes valued. I want to encourage in the viewer a sense of cathexis for the most banal of places, objects, and things. This documentation of domesticity and its essential unimportance is contrary to convention and ultimately absurd. These photographs were captured itinerantly from 2013 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vashti Ballard
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Throughout my final year I have been collecting, pressing and preserving flowers and plants. Using the medium of photography I have explored our connection to their innate beauty and allure, attempting to portray them in a more unusual way. Starting off with a simple approach the work gradually grew into something that allowed me to experiment with light and display, using the sky as a backdrop to my own preservations of a small part of the natural world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sorab Bhote
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Sorab has always been a keen landscape documentary photographer. The Hidden Familiar (January May 2014) includes things within the landscape which do not conform with a traditional picturesque scene. However, they cannot be excluded from the image because of their constant presence in today's society. Encroaching somewhere within the frame are these manmade elements - buildings, shops, litter. The empty land presented around them acts as an archive, before it is inevitably built upon. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rory Blair
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In our increasing digital age, we're losing much of the true value of things, especially real human experience. Through this distortion, we've lost sense of reality, instead using a series of screens as arbiters for a projected reality, one we feel we're connected to but can never actually reach out and touch. This work explores the paradox within our generations collective consciousness; one increasingly distanced from the world around us, while losing more and more confidence in what the future holds for us and our environment. "Projected Reality" merges Analogue and Digital photographic practises, beginning and ending with Analogue, suggesting it's closer relation to the world around us; physical and infinite, not reduced to a series of 0's and 1's. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Crutchfield
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My interest in photography has definitely turned to the construction and creation of graphical, bold, colourful images. I have a keen interest in still life and the composition and position of subjects within my photographs. My work is playful and contemporary with an occasional catalogue aesthetic. My unrealistic diagram like images make the viewer question the intentions and purpose of the photographs. In the future I hope to develop my practice and technique by assisting photographers who have already made their place in the industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Ferris
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project serves as my attempt to explore a culture; one which lingers around my past, present and future. Myself and other young men in Cornwall are part of the next generation that has severed all ties with the late mining and china clay industry. Instead of normally pursuing a career in this sector, we are now forced to move away from Cornwall, fight for jobs, or work within the tourist industry. In this respect it seems as if we have lost a significant part of our identity, living in a landscape littered with the persistent reminders of a once prosperous county. This distinct disassociation with our landscape is something I have attempted to convey through my use of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Foulger
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Lee Foulger is a fine art photographer that likes to do a lot of work with masks and façades in portraiture/emulative self portraiture. His most recent works (depicted with the materials) are about how he feels about being gay in the 21st Century, how he has to hide who he is in certain social situations hence portraying himself as an inanimate object or shielding himself from full view in frame. Lee likes to work with blank and vacant facial expression as not to let the physical emotion distract from the emotions and feelings created within the imagery itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steve Fuller
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My final body of work is my constructed magazine entitled Papka. I found that we essentially consume art and photography depending on where we see it produced. If in the pages of a contemporary art magazine we take it at the value we see it, as part of the canonised art world. To subvert this I created my own artists in which to fill a fictional publication playing with our constructions of art and its place as canon. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Goff
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project is an exploration of the mother identity, and how mothers have been idealised through society; feeling pressured to keep up with such a status. With much influence from my own experience as a mother, and art history of the Madonna and child; I aim to question how the representation of the mother has been falsely and negatively represented through the media, and how the reality of this is not functional or ideal. In contrast to the Madonna, the mother is disconnected from her child, to which the child becomes a fashion accessory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annukka Havukumpu
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I attempt to make photographs that have strong enough identity on their own. By this I mean the viewer don't need to know the concept behind a photograph or any other piece of art to be able to appreciate it or read it. As a photographer I don't necessarily set specific projects to myself. I take pictures all the time and everywhere. I use photography as a tool to perceive the world. These images are my take on the banal yet curious life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cara Heath
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My portraiture deals with the representation of women. My influences come from art history and the current media. I am in no way trying to glamorise nudes, instead it is my intention to question the representation of women. My work tends to be intimate as I build a relationship with my subjects. However I strive for a sense of awkwardness in my work. By addressing how women are portrayed in the media I get a sense of vulnerability for the women I put in front of a camera. I explore this persona they adopt and try to break that barrier. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Hersey
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

During my time at university I have developed my own particular style. Throughout my second and third years I have produced the majority of my work on screen, creating montages. I have honed the way in which I go about my practice and aim to create work that is both striking upon first viewing and yet also has a double-take effect too. For this current body of work I have collected a series of old, unrelated postcards and combined them with my own images. Through these combinations, I have aimed to create montages that convey a sense of time passing while retaining an air of quiet majesty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Jenkins
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project explores the perception of disengagement with reality when people become un-stimulated and choose to escape from the mundane parts of modern life that we often fill with the obsessive use of technology focusing on the loss of doing nothing as a creative process. Being indolent and doing nothing are often seen as negative in today's culture, this work challenges that and explores that escaping modern life to do nothing can lead to a productive cognitive state where creativity thrives. These elements come together to create a poetic diary of a personal experience and perception of doing nothing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Kemball
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My interests in photography have turned towards capturing a delicate moment or an intimate state. I admire the fragility of a fragment of time suspended. In this body of work I explore my relationship with Trichotillomania, an uncontrollable compulsion to pull out oneís hair. In the work I look at my personal struggles but also at the idea that there is beauty in imperfection. By embracing the concept of Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer, I attempt to beautify what I originally viewed as ugly and photograph myself at my most vulnerable. Through this work I hope to recover my self-acceptance as well as encourage others not to hide from this disorder. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Ower Davis
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through using the camera as a way to distort perspective and allow alternate ways of viewing Christopher Ower allows the formalistic nature of his images to shine through, more interested in the absences of know referents he allows the compositional qualities of the image to stand out, removing the viewers grounding he wishes to play with their perception and imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Pomfret
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through using portraiture Sam aims to expose the inner emotions of his models. By using film and digital photography he is able to incorporate both contemporary and traditional styles. This selection of work evokes a minimalist aesthetic whilst using studio based lighting to enhance mood and environment. Contemporary fashion design and imagery is a continual influence in his editorial work. This is also supported by his skills within creative direction, styling and technique. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andy Race
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Blurring the lines between art, science and nature my recent work focuses on a reaction to, and potential solutions for, the psychological effects of current technological change. Using crystal structures as metaphors for natures perfection I use photography to examine the potential of biomimicry for the future and simultaneously explore aspects of the mediums past such as its relationship with science, truth and architecture. The project takes the form of an abstract narrative leading the viewer through the stages of a fictional discovery that natural patterns can be replicated. Architecture can be formed directly from nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harriet Rock
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Harriet Rock is a documentary photographer who explores in depth cultural phenomena and day-to-day life. She creates intimate images that draw the audience into worlds that are sometimes challenging and thought provoking. 'Boys Will Be Girls' is an ongoing photographic documentary project about drag queens and gender culture. The work is a culmination of the last three years of her degree and follows a topic that fascinates and intrigues her. The series explores the queens' transitions, beginning with leaving their masculine identity behind and following the transformation into their drag personas. The series has been formatted into a published book, which is available from Harriet Rock. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matt Tacon
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series is mainly concerned with the idea of abstraction. Similarly to expressionist painting, this work aims to create moments that never physically existed. Whilst the places depicted in the images are referential to the real world; they are in fact fabrications that employ miniature models and tungsten lighting. The images are photographic yet painterly, they are unnatural as well as organic and they are representative whilst being constructs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Thompson
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work predominantly focuses on the landscape, either natural or man-made, and our relationship with these spaces. I am preoccupied with the issues surrounding tourism, particularly with the consumption of tourist spaces, as well as man's physical domination of the natural landscape. I try and identify the play between constructed and natural landscapes within my photography, showing the constant conflict between our surrounding environments. My newest project sees me travel to sites of Renewable Energy Production within Cornwall, as I try and make a comment on the aesthetics and benefits of such locations, whilst identifying the inevitability of change within Cornwall's beautiful natural landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Connor Young
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I am a fashion and conceptual portrait photographer who is largely influenced by the work of great Renaissance painters. I work primarily in the form of tableau with each image expressing some idea or theme, made using a combination of in-camera photographs and extensive digital compositing. After graduation I plan on moving to London to find work in assisting, fashion PR or visual merchandising. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Theo Acworth
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I enjoy being out and about with my camera, we have a great time experiencing existence together. This is a selection of our adventures. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Butler
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images are 5 out of 16 that are included in a personal project about Barbara Joan Butler, my nan. The project documents the 15 houses that she lived in throughout her life, and her memorial tree. The images are the final outcome of a project that I conducted to explore my own fear of death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Carr
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photographing places of significance to the First World War as they exit living memory and transition into a more distant tapestry of human history. Roland Barthes: The life of someone whose existence has somewhat preceded our own encloses in its particularity the very tension of History, its division. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Clements
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Patient number: 40805 is a series of books, which are accompanied by a single print. It documents the artist's long running health issues, detailing his medical condition, severe atopic dermatitis X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and the problems suffered as a result of it. The books act as a documentation of all of his medical records since birth to present day. Each book documents each of the areas that Oliver has received care from and logs each appointment that he has ever attended. The print is a compiled group of images in montage form. The image depicts the artist surrounded by his medications and creams, all of which he relies heavily on to keep his conditions under control. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jake Davis
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Liminal is a documentation of a site that is integral to our daily existence. The landfill site, and more specifically in this case construction and demolition waste landfill, is a key part of contemporary society yet one that we rarely think about as we go about our daily lives. Approaching the landfill site from an external perspective, Liminal begins by looking at the way that the site sits in its surrounding environment, until eventually stepping over the boundary and introducing the audience to an alien, post futuristic landscape that is often hidden from view; taking in the whole process of backfilling, from quarrying at the start to landfill at finish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Willow Findlay
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project discusses the relationship between language and images. In Rhetoric of the Google Image each image is taken from Google on the 16th of February 2014. The date is important as Google categorises images by popularity at that particular time, inevitably they change. Each image is the first one presented by Google for each word from the essay used as a search term. The words are then ordered alphabetically across six catalogues containing only images and page numbers. The number of times an image is repeated is representative of the amount of times that word is mentioned in the original text. The numbers in the index correspond to the page number and position of the image in the catalogues. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harriet Fletcher-Hall
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The book 'John Frederick Fletcher' communicates the investigation into coping methods the artist has used to deal with the death of a loved one. The project explores three different stages in time: starting with her childhood and leading through to present day. It shows the artist's perspective, along with that of her close family members through a considered used of old family photographs, text and scans of relevant objects. It also examines her thoughts and fears in the modern day, in relationship to the emotions this subject brings up. Accompanying the book is two framed envelopes that the artist has found practically troubling in dealing with, containing the last images captured of her late grandfather months before his death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Giulia Greco
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The storage of food and the way it is thought of now are closely linked. Nowadays food is served as a mean to preserve a person, to make them stay alive, not as a pleasure and/or as a gathering. The mentality on food has evolved drastically and this project reflects on rationalization and food crisis in the UK where Foodbanks are in growing demand. The labelling (the handwritten dates) on the cans, the haphazard stacking, the claustrophobic feeling and the quality of the food all speak for the desperation of the situation, people need food and what we are giving them is not usually what our bodies are made to consume. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Luke
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Twenty miles of the coast of mainland Shetland lays Foula. With a fascinating population of twenty eight and not a single shop, it remains one of the most remote permanently inhabited islands in the British Isles. Captivated by curiosity, Jamie Travelled to Foula to discover the island for himself. The resulting project stands as a photographic document of the landscape and inhabitants he encountered. In medieval geographies, the term ultima thule denotes any distant place located at the borders of the known world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily McDonald
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work is exploring the concept of Isolation, with the joining of two conflicting feelings; creating images that appear beautiful, but disturbing. The photographs are shot using 120mm film in Petersfield, Hampshire, where I live. This project is a representation of my feelings about living alone, in that I feel as though I am in a world of my own, as I have moved to somewhere where I do not know anyone. This has caused me to feel and become isolated from the rest of the world. I have included myself within each image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Mills
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project hinges on the intentional ambiguity of whether these photographs are portraits of triplets, the same person replicated or three women of similar appearance. By creating an uncertainty, a tension arises which allows for the exploration of the uncanny and the nature of repetition in photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Nixon
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Social Circle is a body of work to do with the basic human desire to keep records of the people in one's life; to document one's experiences and relationships, and to protect them against the transience of time. Roland Barthes: The photograph does not call up the past. The effect it produced upon me is not to restore what has been abolished, but to attest that what I see has indeed existed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Pitt
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

All concrete supplied by C+H Quickmix, my grandfathers business. In 1965 C+H Quickmix was formed after the joining together of R.G Carters Limited and W J Hall Extractors Limited. 'Quickmix' was produced with geographical restrictions with all of the structures based in my home town Great Yarmouth and closely surrounding areas, and for all of the concrete to be supplied by C+H Quickmix. The project questions the idea of the banal, exploring the subtle characteristics of concrete and its form but at the same time acts as a personal document and family history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kerry Prescott
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images are a selection form the series titled Remembering to Breathe. The images deal with light abstractions as well as reflections and patterns made by varying sources of light. To the photographer, they have become an almost obsessive collection, providing a silent and still space in which to focus and pause her thought process that at times is extremely overwhelming. The intentions for the viewer are to provide that same stillness, and space for personal contemplation and reflection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Scicluna
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Sitotaw follows a teenage boy's journey back to his native home Ethiopia. At 6 years old, orphaned Sitotaw was adopted from a Children's Home in Addis Ababa, leaving behind his country, his family and his culture. Seven years later, photographer Stephanie Scicluna accompanied her young cousin on a journey to reignite his family ties and rekindle his cultural roots. Staying at the orphanage from which he was adopted, they cared for and grew to love the children there, going through what he once had. As his age brings him closer to the stage in life were one begins to question, the search for self identity always begins at the roots. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carla Whittingham
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Parkfield Masterplan is an ongoing documentary of an area undergoing substantial redevelopment in the town of Stockton in the North East. The work examines the impact of environmental alterations upon a particular community and the physical changes that occur. Part one and part two have been photographed six months apart. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jane Beran
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work is based on an archive of photographs and books which my grand father assembled. Against the background of the political situation in East Germany at the time, these pictures tell not only the story of a family, but history. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patryk Bit
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

It is interesting how emotion and experience travel and hide during human life span. We can not predict when unexpectedly future will meet with the past during present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Damian Leitch
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I address the fundamental concerns I have for photographic language, by investigating what constitutes a photographic work or act. Examining the communication of actions and reactions through alternative methodology, I don't believe photography necessarily requires a lens or even a camera, only the photographic properties of light, time and those energies that affect photosensitive materials. I am currently engaged in making work that employs mark making which is fundamental yet ethereal. I am fascinated by the amalgamation of materials that have contextual bearing; it is a vital component of my practice. Informed by theories of abstraction, I endeavour to better comprehend how aesthetic assertions of colour; texture, light and shade convey emotion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melanie Letore
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

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Frank McElhinney
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

More people died in Scotland on midsummer's day 1314 than on any other day in history. How do you make photographs about something that happened seven hundred years ago? A battle was fought, thousands died, no trace of them remains. These pinhole photographs, made in the landscape of the Battle of Bannockburn, stand as a memorial to the dead. They show little, but point towards absence and loss on an overwhelming scale. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bartosz Soban Sobanski
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Mordovar's a place expressly created for extraordinary happenings. The mountains are strange and so are the people. And even the people who come here from the outside have to be the same way and not any other - strange too.' A quote from the drama " Beelzebub Sonata" by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, an artist whose images and texts significantly influenced my creative consciousness and which are for me constantly a source of inspiration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Agathe Weiss
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

When making photographs, I am always trying to vividly render the 'moment in between', in an honest and poignant way. An important condition for this type of rendering is to have an intuitive and sincere relationship with the working material. I am not after the perfectly structured, precise text or photograph. I am trying to depict moments of confusion, of fear, of imperfection. The private and intimate are the starting points for this project. I am presenting the audience with micro-narratives made with a polyphony of media. My fragmented work is like an emotional map of past and present emotions, perceptions and experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Saule Zuk
Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I work with photography and video media and installation. The creative process of making a work for me is a path of questioning and investigating perceptions of body and mind, its limitations and possibilities. I work with the body and raw or organic materials enquiring into their origins. Using the senses of a body, such as touch, hearing and eyesight I want to get in touch with a reality lying beneath the surface of things. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mhairi Alexander
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These manually constructed sculptures explore the shape and form of objects using their imprints. Heavily influenced by artist John Ross, my imagery focuses on the relief within the textures and its object. As the butter melted faster and the flour crumbled differently from the last relief, I enjoyed creating a new sculptural piece, relentlessly, from the same materials. These sculptural pieces, captured in a capsule of imagery, are what I feel give this body of work an extra dimension. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aleksandra Debiczak
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images are portraits of people in front of the TV, and this is the way they watch it. I, as a photographer, became part of this private act. I tried to capture their real facial expressions, body language as well as the natural interaction with this object, all while remaining very discrete. The anticipation, of waiting behind the camera, for the right moment to come was one of the best parts. Here I've had a chance to record the uniqueness of the special moment, when TV as a global icon delivers us, the society, to other worlds. It is fascinating, how people are so easily occupied by TV, even if the program they watch is not even interesting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Gibson
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

For whatever reason I've been more drawn to taking photographs at night. I think initially it was because the quality of light is so different and over time I learned how to use lights to create better photographs. I spent a great deal of time learning how to use a speedlite to create the image with the dam wall, and more recently have experimented working with the light left by passing transport. The Rolls Royce was from a film inspired project and the other two were taken while I was out for a drive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ewan Kinloch
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In this series, I have been all around Scotland, documenting the changes in architecture from one place to the next. Although the parochial habits have been quietly swept away over the decades, and each town in Scotland may appear as just another 'New Town', I have discovered that every place has its own unique impression; however subtle. I enjoy the process of researching and writing as much as I enjoy the photography itself. Although I love portraiture, and public documentary; I find myself always returning to this project. I aim to expand greatly on the project in my spare time and will likely continue indefinitely. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dawn Martin
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The tradition of wearing masks was used in the rituals and traditions that marked a tribe's most important celebrations and transitions. Now, that the tradition of physical masking has all but disappeared in civilized society, the false veneers of social masks have become permanently glued to our faces. 'Persona' is essentially showing how we present a certain face or persona to the world. Lurking beneath the mask we keep our true feelings to ourselves. The different masks that people wear in the course of a day act as a social disguise and help them to get through a variety of situations. Francis Bacon, Picasso, Lucian Freud and Joanna Kane have been my main sources of inspiration in creating this series. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gemma Dagger
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The 'Maryhill People's Group and Community Hall' project explores the breakdown of community and 'collective consciousness'. In the broadest sense I wanted to equate the metaphorical notion of social hypnosis to the human need for a belief system and our unconscious desire to be controlled. Creating my own interpretation of this isolation and secularization of society has resulted perhaps in an unsettling confusion of reality. Setting the images in community halls seemed poignant to the concept behind my idea and the act of bringing disparate people together to form a fake 'collective' has provoked further avenues of sociological discourse. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kim Simpson
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Erupta' is a collection of 18 images which I created to document the reaction between various carbonated beverages and mints. A thoroughly enjoyable exploration, straying from my usual path in portraiture, the reactions produced a series of 'eruptions' which serve to illustrate what human emotion would look like if able to be captured when released suddenly. I would encourage the viewer to draw from their own emotional experiences when they look at these images and relate them to an eruption of feelings that they have experienced at some time in their life. This series has inspired me to further explore still life and fine art as I continue with my career. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gillian Sweeney
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision' - Muhammad Ali. This quote is the basis for the three projects I have completed this year which all come together to form a larger body of work. My 'Going for Gold' project is based on the upcoming Commonwealth Games; my aim was to present portraits of athletes representing the 17 sports involved. I wanted to convey the motivation, focus and drive required of an athlete to reach the top of their sport. The main focus of my project was to connect with the athlete through the determination in their eyes: this was the prominent feature of the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabrielle Delauney
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work explores the idea of light and time, revealing a new way of seeing through long exposure. By using the full moon as a light source the image reveals a type of light which can't be seen in real life. This creates a new way of seeing and captures time in one still photograph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Barbara Dixon
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ordnance Survey grid references and Global Positioning Satellite coordinates are two complementary ways to locate oneself in urban and rural environments. I am using both systems to chart a section of the Ridgeway that I regard as home ground, the route from Liddington Castle, an ancient hill fort, to the more easterly Charlbury Hill. The trigonometric points at both locations act as boundaries between which I have identified points of interest such as objects and structures, both temporary and more enduring, that characterize the area. Through attributing waypoints (electronic pinpoints) to these features, I am constructing a personal map of the space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicky Fordyce
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In an ongoing exploration of personal and family relationships, I look closely at the experiences of being a mother and of being mothered. Maternal experience goes beyond the verbal and I use photography as a way of articulating this. Mother Daughter, Daughter Mother is an observation of the mother daughter dyad. The idealised image of Madonna and Child (male) is an active element of our visual language. I reflect on the intersubjective relationship between a mother and her child (female), granting both roles respect. By photographing the mother and daughter in their familial surroundings I give an insight into the people but make no statements about their relationship, it is an observation of an already relatable subject, family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vicki Haines
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is confrontational, I aim to provoke the viewer to question their own position in relation to the subject. I want the viewer to explore and be a part of my journey towards resolution, with engaging, bold and often controversial work. I have been working on a number of themes that are investigative into the nature of our societies hegemony in regards to self, sex and sexuality. In this project, 'Naked', I am looking at the complexities of the gaze, the self and nudity vs. naked. I am interested in the notion that people are either titillated or revolted by nakedness, because they have to confront something about themselves and therefore feel compelled to make a judgement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Owen Harries
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Thai culture was first infiltrated by the West during the Vietnam War, as American GIs used the country as an escape from the conflict. This coupled with the invention of the Boeing 747, laid the bare bones for tourism to take root. Bangkok has since been declared the most visited city in the world. From the backpacker bars of Khao San Road to the strip clubs of Patpong and Cowboy, tourism and westernisation have dug their claws deep across the city. Through these images we see a city in a state of flux, amidst poverty and civil unrest, caught between the ideals of Buddhist culture and the temptations of the western world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phillipa Klaiber
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Forest of Dean is an unusual, secluded place. A forest of plantation and ancient woodland, rich in coal and iron reserves and home to the Free Miners, who uphold an ancient practice that differs little from conventional mining; it is the traditions of eligibility that make Free Mining so extraordinary. 'Last of the Free Miners' offers a rare glimpse at the working lives of this small community, in the pitch black of their underground world and the forest at their cabin door, as they struggle to uphold their traditions under the pressures of modern life. Mining is in their blood, as they say, a determination passed on from father to son to work freely and proudly beneath the forest. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emilia Nylen
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I look for the raw core of imagery, examining its essence. I constantly explore ways of creating images by using alternative processes. Being in the dark about the end result generates the energy and creativity that enables me to create. I am interested in today's digitalised era and the limitations of its technology. My work examines its flaws and imperfections rather than the presented state that is given to the consumer. The images explore human relationships in a world saturated by digital technique; the glitches that emerge intrigue me. I trust my instincts as an image-maker, and I encourage aesthetic accidents. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Russell
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Someone you might know is a woven collection of my own family images combined with found snapshots. Together, they create an imaginary background for all the lost faces that I come across in a junkshop. By combining the two, real and imagined, I get to erase the negative and am surrounded by the ideal. By distorting the figures I hope they are seen as equal so their own stories can be merged with the viewers. I in no way think of myself as a saviour, but rather they are mine. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Smele
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The River Severn has the second highest tidal range in the world. 'From Aust To Oldbury' examines a stretch of land between the Severn Bridge and Oldbury Nuclear Power Station as it is transformed by tidal change. The effect of the river's tidal strength on this manmade landscape is explored, considering the soil, the Power Station's dependence on the river along with the way it shapes and transforms the landscape affecting the Free Land grazed by local farmers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Treasure
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I did not understand the underling cause of why i wanted to photograph these abandoned buildings, they have no purpose and have been left to rot away. I thought i was interested in the beauty to be found within these unappreciated places, through to the story's and history these buildings held. The truth is i went to these places because i felt comfortable within them, these building related to my own mental state, seeming just as confused and lost as myself. photographing them was not only a comfort but has allowed me to view my problems in a different way, as change not an issue. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dawn Schuck
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Dearest I feel certain that I am going mad again is a series of individual stories that represent everyday moments. They combine to form diptychs that depict the fragile relationship between peace and turbulence within daily experience; at times, they are the difference between madness and sanity. The images exist as a cathartic and personal tussle to live positively; an ethos of which I hope the reader can find a sense of familiarity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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William Ashton
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work focuses on the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. The hospital provides special ophthalmic care to the residents of Jerusalem and is the only hospital offering this service to Palestinians in the West Bank. In the occupied Palestinian territories the rate of blindness is ten times higher than in the West. This is partly down to the restrictions on drugs and access to healthcare services imposed by the Israeli government on the residents of the West Bank. Through photographing the activities of the hospital the project looks at the inequalities coming from decades of conflict in the area. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sean Delahay
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

6 Months have passed since Yolanda hit the northern region of the Philippines central Visaya, people are still living in emergency tents, rubble still lines the streets and there are few organisations helping on the remote island of Bantayan where an estimated 85% of infrastructure was completely destroyed. In April 2014 I stayed with locals on the island that was cut off from the rest of the world for more than a week after the typhoon, which even now has limited access to materials resources and proper long term aid. My intention for this body of work is to tell the intimate story about a specific selection of people, both victims and aid workers, return to the UK and fundraise. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Harvey
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

High speed rail has been expanding across the European Union since the 1980s, with several countries investing heavily in new lines capable of operating at over 170 mph. In 2010 the British government published proposals for a new high speed rail link that would connect the north and south of England, as well as providing faster and more efficient transport for Britain. It caused a large amount of controversy with many people opposing the route. The HS2 rail link will run between London and Birmingham passing across approximately 140 miles of rural England. Traveling along the proposed route I have captured the areas that will be affected by the line to see how the landscape will be altered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas King
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Transient, an on going body of work looking at the unseen migrant trail that runs from Sub Saharan Africa through to Europe. The work explores the idea of this transient notion in which these migrants move from North Africa into Spain after crossing the Straits of Gibraltar. The history of this area in southern Spain has seen this movement for hundred of years. However, it is only now becoming a defining point of interest in regards to the safety of Europe's boarders. These photographs aim to explore this idea of a porous land barrier and what these people face. Belongings are left stranded on the shore and in some cases so are the lives of those trying. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Day
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This collection of photographs are part of a social documentary, titled "Inside the Goldfish Bowl", which focuses on Jaywick in Essex. It has been described as Britain's 'most deprived town' and is commonly used by the media and others as a place that illustrates British poverty in the 21st century. This project takes a step back from the sensationalist aspects of the area that are commonly conveyed in the media. Instead, it looks at the changes in the area and why it has the status it does, through a topographical style of photography. Medium format colour negatives have been used throughout. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Tooke
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This is the start of a long term project looking at the lives of the people who have fled the ongoing Syrian conflict and recording the testimonies. My first trip took me to Lebanon, the country where the most refugees have settled. Looking for safety from a war that has become a hotbed of sectarian violence, they turn their neighbour, a country that only 8 years ago was being bombarded by Israeli planes, and has a history of religious violence. My project focuses on the stories of the Syrian refugees, while also looking at the backdrop of continuing tensions and conflicts in the Middle East since the formation of the State of Israel. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Wilmer
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain; the images in this series of work explore the tidal areas of its estuary. With a personal connection to the landscape that surrounds it, the work addresses present and past form and function of the river, with a consideration of light, tone, weather and texture. The images explore a sense of bleakness in the landscape and bring an understanding of the way in which the river is now used and appreciated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sylwia Bialoblocka
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The project explores the process of creating a narrative within the medium of photography. It plays with a concept of possible multiple meanings coming from a set of images. "Untitled Piece 2014" is presented in a form of a story board with the viewer placed in position of a film editor and left with a choice of what frames to use (or dispose) and in what sequence in order to create a narrative. If we are given elements of a "movie" without a step-by-step script, how many variations and how many stories will result? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oksana Bondarenko
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

By my project I would like to represent different and abstract way of seeing nature's elements.The most important inspiration for me is the natural world itself, I would like to draw the viewer's attention and step closer to the natural beauty of shapes, forms and textures. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aoife Drum-Towell
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Aoife Drum-Towell is a photographer and graphic artist currently based in Dublin. Working with the ethos of creating each visual in-camera, her series 'Exposure' is an unedited examination of the female body; each image using double exposures and an abstracted approach to fine art nude. The strength of dialogue between photographer and model is accentuated in using just one subject throughout the project, thus allowing a woman to see a woman and eliciting her reaction in being seen by a woman. By revisiting the fundamentals of female representation in imagery, these black and white photographs display a sensuous, alternative and experimental view of feminine shape and form . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gráinne Duffy
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Trapped with no escape and being bound, falling into the rabbit hole,having the darkness consume the light. Allowing the black cloth transform into a mask that is never removed. An imbalance and a divide into 'the who' and 'the what'. An empty creature forming within and the feeling for fights, fades. The numbness, the chemical imbalance, the black dog. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sadhbh Garvey
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

We live our lives every day crossing paths with hundreds of people. We sit next to complete strangers on a daily basis commuting to our destinations. Society is obsessed with its connection to social networking. At present we know more intimate details about near acquaintances than ever before and as a society are obsessed with public image and knowledge about others of whom we have no business knowing anything about. Although we live in this ever expanding social networking and connecting world our grasp on humanity seems to slowly be lost and although surrounded in a room by people, No one talks. The people stare into that small device and we are alone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julia Gelezova
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Inspired by Greek mythologies of the afterlife, Entering the Flesh Again is an exploration into metempsychosis. Life continues its existence as if in a metaphysical state of transience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Kennedy
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A rugged, windswept and hauntingly beautiful place, at the westerly edge of Europe. Connemara possesses a fragile ancient landscape steeped in mythology and folklore. The Presence of Solitude is a body of work that journeys through and explores Connemara's topography. Moving from Connemara's coastline inwards along empty roads, from macro to micro The presence of solitude reveals a unique barren landscape, metamorphosed from the deforestation of it's natural forests during the bronze age, resulting in it's vast boglands we see today. It is here in the heart of Connemara, immersed in the raw elemental landscape of bogland and mountains, the presence of solitude brings a sense of place . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Malene Lange
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Words and me are strangers, but from the very first forms of communication, the aim was to forward a message. The earliest form of human communication was a visual language of geometrical forms, shapes and intertwining patterns - a lingua franca. As words can sometimes be difficult for me, I want to use a visual way of telling. Using energy, shape, moods, geometry, light, contrast and poses in photography. In my photographs I like to transform every day sightings into pure visual forms, my lingua franca. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mari Lauvheim
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ever since the first time I heard this song, it has moved me. It is part of what I believe in and has inspired me to create a series of photographs, illustrating the lovely words by Kevin Evans. Aiming to remind the audience of the importance of living in the present and enjoy the little things in life. Just like a tree with all its twigs, every experience makes up the person you are today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ingvild Melberg-Eikeland
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Established in the 1800s The Grand and Royal Canal served Dublin with freight and passenger transport up until the 1960s. As the last barge had passed through the waterways, settlements of people living in houseboats slowly started to emerge along the canals. Up until recent years these communities have existed with little intervention from the government except essential mooring contracts and fees. Currently a new set of legislations proposed by Irish Waterways, threatens to yet again change the life on the canals. This project is a documentation of the canals residents and a community in a time of uncertainty and a prospect of transition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Barry O'Sullivan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Contemporary Irish landscape is shaped by oddities with seemingly little or no significance. Investigation into this space strikes the observer with such importance that this lack of exploration is confounding to say the least. Here we witness the active and mindless construction of inherent contradictions within our landscape and are thus struck with the outward form of thoughtless content, a content of non-foresight. If a Greek temple thought its people how to die, what does a road to nowhere teach us? By documenting the landscape at the moment of confrontation between the subject and their environment the psychological malaise such a contradiction must create is realized. How does a world function which rests out of a surrounding landscape of non-sense? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Townsend
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Bygones is a look at the town of Sligo during a period of change into the hippie subculture. It started in America in the 1960s and made its way over and invaded the town in the summer of 1971. A music festival called 'Sligo Sounds' was born from this. The ethos that surrounded the hippie youth culture embraced freedom from the typical social constraints of the time, give way to the sexual revolution and was more open minded about other religions as well as people becoming more politically active in important issues. At that time in Ireland it was mostly influenced by the church so this youth movement coming to Ireland and consuming the island wasn't welcome by older generations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Zielenkiewicz
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Tourism is a curious thing. It promises escape, endless horizons, sublime experiences. Yet it establishes a territory governed by a hierarchy of signs and linear trajectories, rules and regulations, terms and conditions, producing a commodity to be consumed in the prescribed way, time and space. The promise of authenticity and craic dissipates into a mere simulation of collectivity with an expiry date and a price-tag attached. By exploring Ireland's Featured Attractions, I move beyond this sombre vision of leisure as inevitably embedded in the state structure and draw attention to tourism as a flash-mob of sorts: ephemeral constellations of disparate bodies, all drawn together by forces of attraction, ready to go away from the flock into uncertain territories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pamela O'Donnell
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland caused unquestionable destruction across the country. From an architectural and landscape viewpoint, the aftermath of Cromwell saw forced dispossession of lands and many magnificent historical Castles, Churches and Mansions lying in ruins. The Curse of Cromwell's Conquests and the Aftermath' is designed to capture the architecture of that bygone era and follows some of the locations besieged, surrendered, abandoned and conquered by Cromwell. While some of the buildings have been eroded by nature and passing of time, the remains provide a gentle reminder of the bloody past in an otherwise unspoiled landscapes. Happily, other buildings have been restored to their former glory, providing a representation of what Ireland lost as a result of the Cromwell invasion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siobhan Awati
Harrogate School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Lens Based Photo Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

During times of distress we don't feel like our rational selves and experience acute internal conflict, often surfacing in self-destructive behaviour. In this series I explore the darker side of one's mind; photographing a part of the psyche which is hidden from the public gaze. This project aims to scrutinise those negative feelings through a series of self-portraits, creating a narrative in which I explore my own roll as an alter ego. Drawing on the techniques used in traditional photography to create ethereal and uncanny images. The use of long exposures distorts the face, illustrating the detrimental effect on our identity and self-worth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sorel Hirst
Harrogate School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Lens Based Photo Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Hirst has explored her personal encounter of the impact that her child has had on, not only herself, but also the domestic space in which they share together. Disposition is a series of interior landscapes that has explored a child's misplacement as well as intentional placement of small inanimate objects, within their domestic environment. These objects have then been rediscovered out of their expected context, creating a conspicuous contrast within the cohabitation of parent and child. This indication and presence of a child is subtle yet evident, even within the somewhat less child friendly areas of a home. Consciously captured with sensitive film to aestheticize and add value to the typically unseen and uncared for, intimate perimeters of a home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aneta Lisiecka
Harrogate School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Lens Based Photo Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Aneta is implementing this project as a means to articulate feelings and emotions that relate directly to personal and cultural identity. The photographs capture intimate scenes, within which we find objects associated with the tradition of her homeland. The items reflect Polish culture. They are souvenirs from trips away, as well as items from the family home. Aneta has utilised manipulated focus to emphasis the recollection of memories. The work reveals the passion for nostalgia, which is important to Polish communities. However, the photographs hint at scenes tainted by a melancholic lack of clarity, reflecting a nations feeling towards the past. The environments contain everyday objects, but all are significant to those who have an awareness of polish culture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack McGuiness
Harrogate School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Lens Based Photo Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work is part of a series that focuses upon our cultures relationships with prescription drugs and medications. Here Citalopram antidepressants have been used to create studio still life works that reflect the effects and support that these pills provide to their users. Graduating waves symbolize the slow build up and increase of the users state of mind. Orbital inspired imagery reflects the importance of these pills for the user, acting as the central point in their battle against mental illness, and finally the protective nature of these pills is alluded to, with barriers surrounding and securing the users mind, providing vital relief and protection in which the users mind can start to heal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucia Svecová
Harrogate School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Lens Based Photo Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Within this set of images Lucia explores intimate interior environments. The photographs capture the subtle effect of light on a mundane surface and how its character is transformed. The interplay of light and shadow with it's potential for metamorphosis is a dominant theme within the work. Utilising subdued colour in combination with precise focusing she turns these banal interiors into spaces of serenity and contemplation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Toolsie
Harrogate School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Lens Based Photo Media
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This documentary work is an exploration of identity and the culture that informs the space of a barbers shop in a British African-Caribbean community. This masculine space, in addition to being a commercial space, is a space for socialisation and where popular icons reflect the ethos of the environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dan Bellenger
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction is best known to be one of the busiest junctions in Europe. By looking into this area, it creates a different atmosphere when all is quiet and empty. Using the light provided by street lights and flood lights which is reflected between the layers of the junction it creates an aesthetic that isn't normally seen in this type of area. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Branch
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

With the fading of light, the safety and security of daytime seems to disappear as day descends into the darkness of night. We subconsciously associate the darkness of the night with fear and uncertainty. Uncertainty, what you can't see in the darkness, the idea that someone or something could be lurking in the shadows of the night unseen, and the paranoia which is produced by this is what I as a photographer have based my practice around over the last few years. It is my very own fear of the dark and the quote 'Shadows reveal more than they conceal' written by Brassai that have generated this concept and began my fascination with photographing the mystery of the night. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jason Carden
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Memory is such an insubstantial and prosaic notion, fragmented ideations and chronologies make up my recollections of the people I have met, the places I have experienced and the knowledge that I have acquired. It is a source of perplexity that these memories - as some would say - are the sum total of my individuality; they are, in essence, who I am. My practice is not only a personal introspection on the nature of memory and identity, but it can also be seen as a critical reflection upon the human condition and what makes mankind unique. It exclusively engages photography to explicate socio-cultural, psychological and perceptual conjecture within the western context of post-modernist discourse. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellen Congrave
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These series of images express the subconscious mind, developing the ideas of what is believed to be missing within British Landscapes. The use of hand drawn objects portrays an imaginary childhood scene, creating quirky and idyllic places that allow children and adults to understand. These landscapes allow the freedom to believe in surreal worlds and the impossible, inviting children and adults to explore these British landscapes. These places have been brought to life from creative imagination and interpretation to portray a stereotypical British scene. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Darby
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Withdrawn explores the violent nature of the relationship between man and his environment. Quarrying is an inherently destructive activity, scarring the landscape, leaving it completely unrecognisable from its original form. This series acts as an emotional response to the violent nature of man on an environment that has no choice but to alter. They set out to capture the juxtaposition of a violently altered landscape which has since become a place of tranquillity and calm. All the images were captured in a single quarry in North Wales. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Greg Dunbavand
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Home' focuses on the theme of family history, while aiming to explore, exploit and evoke a familiar sense of fading memory through a period of time defined by each respective image. Constructed using found imagery as a series of composites, vernacular portraits are transformed to the abstract, yet remain sympathetic aesthetically to their original source and purpose. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meghan Hopkins
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Meg Hopkins' work looks at stories that are not necessarily told to the wider public, often looking at local or historical stories. With elements of both documentary and landscapes, her work helps to emphasise and show stories not necessarily visible or known to the general public. Her work is often taken straight one, showing exactly what is at the sight she is photographing. This work is based around the St Dunstan's Hospital (now Blind Veteran's UK) ruined buildings found in Church Stretton. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Macilwaine
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work is based in the idea of the natural becoming the unnatural, how society is turning nature into a commodity by mass producing flowers to be sold to the public. These once ordinary and expected forms have become things which have been flown in from different countries. The project looks at the flowers in terms of them being almost an alien species, like the Frankenstein of the natural world, mans creation. It is a response to our ever evolving world and the strength and stretch of the human hand that has no boundaries. These so called 'natural' forms are not natural at all, they are chemically enhanced and grown, and they are another aspect of the world that is being taken over by the ever expanding clutch of human civilisation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Mason-Rawle
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A Reformed Man - This project is about a man that has turned his life around from a life of drugs, stealing and violence. After serving time for his crimes, he has become one of the most intriguing, influential and one of the nicest men to come across. Originally filmed and made into a short documentary, the use of video portraiture has been used along with a shirt interview with Francis on how he feels now he has 'Found God'. To see the full video please visit my website - nicolemason-rawle.co.uk. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Masters
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photographically, I see myself predominately as a portrait photographer, but have also been quite successful at landscape photography too. I mainly like to shoot documentary style photographs/street work, in black and white, as I consider it timeless, but will do colour when necessary. I enjoy photographing things that are going on in the word, truthful matters. Two of my images are from a project called 'Smoke', which was a project about people who smoke cannabis on a daily basis. I have also submitted two landscape pictures, again in black and white. I consider black and white photography to be my signature style. Accompanied with these is a portrait of my wife, which was taken from a project called 'Why People Have Tattoos', which explores just that. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Parker
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

We often view our family members as simply mothers, siblings, grandparents, etc, and can overlook that they have each taken their own personal journeys through life. Charlotte created this series after the passing of her great-grandmother. She wanted to document who she was as a person, not just how she saw her, as her great-grandmother. Who was Mary? That is what these images aim to discover. These images are a selected few from a larger series of medium format images which have been made into a book. They are also accompanied by colour slides Mary's husband took of her over the years, and other family photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabella Seal
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Isabella Seal's most recent project explores the emotive response one has to a space. A mundane yet common environment, such as a garden can be found all over the world, in many different forms. By bringing this environment into focus, the unnoticed becomes the subject. This project comments on the idea of tranquility and sanctuary of one's personal space. Her project is photographed in a garden she grew up in which enables Isabella to project her own emotive response onto the images and create a deeper understanding of the connection one has to a particular space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Wilson
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work is a simplistic look at how man has used the natural elements to create new structures to benefit man's lifestyle, focusing on woodland in particular. The circular mirrors played as portals as they were placed on either the elements of the woodland or what had been made from them, one reflecting the other, to symbolise the circle of life. Whilst walking through woodlands, it is easy to ignore the little details such as fences and gateways to define boundaries within the woodlands, a pile of branches collected, or the odd sculpture, that happen to be made from a tree that was once standing amongst the environment around them. These creations are man's stamp on the natural landscape and present how humanity has taken advantage of the very elements that help us to survive. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melissa Armitage
University of Huddersfield - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images are themed portraits, designed to emulate the nature of different cultures, clichés and assumptions. Each model within the image takes on board a role in which she partially fills. Whilst making a statement and taking on a character, they become the object. The selling point, and the fashion. Objectified and desired. 'It is not women's inferiority that has determined their historical insignificance: it is their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.' (Beauvoir, 1949, p.151) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Easton
University of Huddersfield - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Acceptable Alterations to the Landscape (AAL) is a photographic survey which pre-empts significant change within the captured areas. Through the use of governmental produced literature reporting on the environmental implications of Hydraulic Fracturing in the UK, AAL's images are sited within designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and National Parkland where licensing rights for the exploration of unconventional oil or gas have been granted. 'Acceptable Alterations' specifically focused on the Department of Energy and Climate Change's 'Strategic Environmental Assessment', December 2013, and it's predecessor (2005). The document is designed as a guide to issues arising from a 14th round of onshore licensing to take place in the near future, it's often vague, uncertain and unsettling language provides a contextual rhetoric within which to consider the images. For more information visit www.acceptablealterations.co.uk . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Richard Jones
University of Huddersfield - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Priced for Quick Sale' looks at property repossessions within the United Kingdom. Using Google maps as a tool to meticulously select and refine visual data, in order to create a conceptual series of images that speaks of capitalisms tyrannical quest for monetary gain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heather Lawrence
University of Huddersfield - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Absorption' is an underwater portrait collection inspired by dreams and the surreal. The natural element of water is a magnificent tool to encapture the surrealism of our dreams. People wear anything from the ordinary to the bizarre, enabling them to become immersed within their own imagination and identity. Exploring the subconscious with different archetypes, individual storytelling images emerge; the people are absorbed in what they are doing rather than posing for the camera. This ontological state becomes quite ethereal where fluid shapes and forms of clothed people are suspended in this space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harriet Pilcher
University of Huddersfield - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"In the single-minded pursuit of a goal, the inherent societal desire to 'be perfect' is more often than not the underlining principle of any enterprise. Interestingly, however, the need for excellence is a double edged sword where the very path to perfection is inherently flawed. In her bid to reach perfection photographic artist Harriet Pilcher made a hundred seemingly identical origami cranes marking her progress in an attempt to create a flawless specimen. The reflective process of her documentation led to a meditation on the far-reaching implications, and indeed consequences of the multifaceted term 'perfection' to the point of questioning the very act itself." (Excerpt from '100 Paper Cranes: Foreword' by Tehezeeb Moitra) . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Rennie
University of Huddersfield - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

E=MC2 is a dialogue of the duality of the photograph and photography itself. By using a pseudo-scientific approach, the inherent technical abilities of the camera, and the inherent unpredictable random nature of the subject, to investigate the optical unconscious within ephemeral events and exploring how chance can influence the outcome. I have ventured to show the 'double edged sword' that the photograph is, in that it has both technological and conceptual connotations. Depending on the viewer's interpretation it can be a document, accurately recording a precise instant in time, or an image, showing an authors' artistic intent, it can even be both at the same time, holding equally an explanatory function and an authorial voice as Terry Barrett would say. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoë Barrett
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Commencing this project without completely understanding her own intentions, Zoe has been unremittingly photographing young females between the ages of six and twelve to create this ongoing body of work. Shortly after beginning, Zoe began to explore the gaze within photography; however, as time progressed it became seemingly obvious that each individual she photographed resembled her own adolescence in different ways. Zoe began to recognise her curiosity for the transition between childhood and adulthood, relating it to her time growing up as a female. Taking her photographs quickly has helped to avoid her subjects posing, evidentially escaping a feeling of pretence and revealing a candid, truthful set of portraits, each of which bring to mind her own childhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alastair Bartlett
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Here We Are is set in the Cambridgeshire fenland. This is a place that, for most, is not a destination in itself. Rather, it is a place that is on the way. I like to drive around the unfamiliar and take photographs. Sometimes, certain places call to me. Other times, I have to look harder. Cambridgeshire is familiar enough so that I am comfortable in its presence, yet it is still foreign. I like the solitude. I just like to drive and take pictures. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melissa Belton
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A garden can be defined as land adjoining a house that is able to be designated with a specific purpose or future, commonly used for growing flowers, fruit, and vegetables. Owners unconsciously place elements within these spaces having been influenced by their religion, culture, or surroundings creating an identity within the community the garden is situated. They often become places of tension where the picturesque lives alongside the uncontrollable forces of nature, therefore taking on an ambiguous role in our everyday. Gardens reflect memories or imaginations and these particular places have become a comforting memory of my childhood within ideas of home, locality, and rootedness. Whilst representing life and death the garden intersects with place as a sense of home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Carter
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This ongoing series of work looks at my grandparents and the home in which they have lived since I was a child. Having spent much of my time there, I consider it to be my childhood home. Captured on polaroid, the small scale of the images creates an intimate portrayal of both my grandparents and the space in which they inhabit. Often transformed by light the polaroids depict fleeting moments which are turned into something contemplative and significant. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lara Humphreys
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The project documents the retail parks and superstores within the town of Ipswich and the sheer amount and enormity of these places. It's the need of these 'parks' and chain stores that build the project, as they are ever growing as the supply and demand of the country increases. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Henry Huxtable
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

An aspect of my photographic inquiry is the topographical documentation of the landscape. Much of my work focuses on how the landscape is transformed. The visual markers of this process, often overlooked or ignored, form the basis of my work. In particular, gravel pits fascinate me and the tension between the visually compelling and the extraction process. This resource material is often used for development projects that also further eradicate and alter the landscape. When this process is finished the pits are left to flood or lie dormant. The place, slowly and over time, is reclaimed by nature eventually absorbing but never removing the remnants of our human presence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Owens
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Owens has been fascinated by light, colour and his surroundings since childhood. The official labelling of designated areas of beauty has made him question what is beautiful in the countryside. Seeing the same places over and over again at either end of the day tugs chords within him and scenes bathed in morning or evening light take on a transformation from the dull and uncared for environment. Mankind has shaped the countryside for millennia yet nature will subsume our efforts to abuse it. These edgelands are a constant reminder of the tension between rural and urban environments where nature will eventually outwit us all. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Parker
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My series of work is based on the book Alice in Wonderland written by author Lewis Carroll. Upon reading the book, I became interested in the other side that the story could portray, being a dream world that is reality but the darker side of fantasy. With this I was able to create work that was based around darker parts of the story with the help and inspiration from a variety of photographers. I originally planned to create images for every character but finally cut the selection to a main three (Alice, Mad Hatter, March Hare) and five (Alice, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Queen and King). I believe that my work captures a different part and side of Wonderland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abbie Smith
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project is a visual response to the pressures that Abbie believes women are under every day to live up to an idealised image of femininity, which is represented in the media. This series highlights the fact that women are objectifying themselves by internalizing the male gaze and making themselves up in a way which they deem men to find attractive, and there is no better manifestation of this occurrence than in a photograph that a woman has approved and put on the internet. The photographs that Abbie uses are found imagery; the importance of this is that these are photographs show how the young women depicted in them wish to be seen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carla Smith
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The body of work 'I Don't Know What To Say' explores the mental representations of the process of mourning after losing a loved one. The link between objects and phenomena is manifest through its symbolism and embodies the therapeutic nature in coming to terms with my loss. The physicality of each of these objects reflect upon the physical and prolonged process of constant grieving. These tissues echo and are symbolic of an external bridge between the representations of the mourner and lost loved one. These tissues appear almost sculptural but in fact are everyday objects that would otherwise, often be discarded and ignored. 'I Don't Know What To Say' makes visual what I can't express through mere words. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kelly Speller
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

War has been a keen interest of Kelly's since she was introduced to both World Wars during her education. Over the year, Kelly has created conceptual Landscapes based on remnants that have been left behind as a result of war. Specifically this series has focused on remnants that have been embedded into landscapes across Britain, where bombs had been deployed. Air forces were used as a main method of attack from British and German tropes. Bomb Craters that are present today represent missed targets by the Germans attempting to hit London and bombs deployed from British aircrafts before coming into land. Without this knowledge, the viewer may not realise that Kelly's photographs reflect traces left behind as result of war. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Voller
UCS Ipswich - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of work has been made during the excavation process at a number of local archaeological sites. The photographs, like the surface itself, reveal fragments and markings of our occupation through different millennia. Overtime they become embedded and hidden. Through the processes of technology and experience, archaeologists slowly reveal layers and shapes which mark and echo past presence, activity and occupation, the traces left behind by those who once lived and worked there. To the untutored eye they resemble abstract markings and shapes with and upon the landscape which offer a faint indication of their purpose and meaning. Like photography itself, things are revealed only to conceal themselves at the same time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Cullen
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

During the start of 2013, I completed a project documenting a Chinese/English family who live in Preston, UK, as part of a collaborative project created by the Confucius Institute at the University of Central Lancashire. From completing this documentation project, I earned myself a place on a UCLan trip to Beijing in July 2013 as a photographer. From both of these different experiences of Chinese culture, I decided to create a photographic series combining images taken in both Preston and China to form a bridge between the two cultures and societies. A theme that presented itself throughout the images is that of interior and exterior, an element that will be developed further when considering presentation methods. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Orrell
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The use of technology integrated into our lives, has began to increase rapidly in the past few years. Meaning screens in many forms, have become an integral part of everyday life. This has had a massive change in the way we as a species express our emotions, in different scenarios. As the amount of time we spend staring at screens, whether that be mobiles or computers has increased. The project is an observation of the emotions expressed while staring at computer screens, while accessing the internet. Each individual recorded themselves for around 30/40 minutes while using different parts of the internet, whether that be social networking, youtube, etc. I wanted to show how emotionally muted we have become, since the rapid increase of screens being used throughout our daily lives, and the need to interact with people has decreased. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Maccrimmon
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I am a lifestyle editorial photographer whose work revolves around everyday art. To accomplish this, I incorporate people into specific environments in order to tell a story, create a mood, or simply evoke an emotion or response from the viewer. Notable elements of fashion, beauty, and fine-art are consistent throughout my work as I believe that my concepts rely on the styling, look, and feel of the subjects in order to convey whatever message I am expressing. My approach to lifestyle photography is often to create staged artistic concepts and combine them with social parallels. Whereas my style is heavily influenced by cinema, from which I try to produce landscape orientated photography that appears as a high resolution, cinematic still-frame. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aida Markeviciute
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I feel that pictures represent reality and after all we cannot imagine our reality without pictures. Therefore, I try to give to my pictures some unrealistic view the same as to make the reality not boring and unusual. I like to combine two different realms: present and memories. 'Invaluable memories' it is series of images which convey my personal experience of a few previous years which I spent wandering around different places. Consequently, home has become a very fragile concept to me. Every time I was changing a living place, I realized that home was people and a place just preserves all the invaluable memories which I have and share with people I used to live with. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simone Trumpet
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Biblical stories such as Adam and Eve are often portrayed by Caucasians, this is due to past representations in western society .Times have changed, and so has society's beliefs. Britain prides itself on being a multi-cultural society, Inspiring me to platform different cultures in art. Using items such as plants, spice and fabric to represent the Caribbean, I subtly reference the story of Adam and Eve infused with Caribbean culture. The unorthodox portraits show the female form as an enigma, the combination of portraiture and still life in this series explores how culture can inform others of an individual's identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isaac Mellalieu
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

What role do you play in a city, Are you a transient being, a tourist just viewing the are in that brief moment of time? Could you be a regular visitor or a permanent piece that adds to the evolution of that city, helping build its character What makes these cities different from each other? Without the people who live there why it would just another jumble of bricks, mortar, glass and concrete. The inhabitants give the city its history, it's character and it's commercialism. They make a city what it is. The aim of this project is to make you think about your role and the role of others in a city and how cute you are, in a small part, adding to the cultural machine that makes a city what it is today. Most cities are not that different from each other, the buildings are just the foundation for the people who make them unique. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ash Young
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

We live in a disposable era, the majority of our clothes are purchased and worn once or twice before being replaced with something new. But what happens when the earth runs out of the resources we depend on so much to produce our fashion? Inspired by George Orwell's nineteen-eighty-four and Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), The future is junk is set only a few hundred years into the future where the human race has used up all of the worlds resources. We have only the stuff that has been thrown out over centuries past, forcing humans to combat our disposable nature and reclaim our discarded possessions and begin to recycle. One of the most available products to reclaim is plastic based material, as it takes thousands of years to biodegrade. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Payne
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I am interested in interactions within society, this project is the documentation of a specific act of kindness that i stumbled upon. The placement of lost objects in notable positions throughout the city is usually a mundane sight, but in fact it is the complete transfer of sentimentality. The subject had become a focal point for questioning the role photography has in the creation of sculpture and also how value can be assigned to some of the most mundane happenings. Without context these interventions become ambiguous in themselves and they then could be interpreted as a sculpture. Due to the fact these happenings have been documented through photography this echoes the persons intention on making the object notable and indeed points to it being credible of having importance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Jo Kelly
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Drag is so much more than what observers perceive as 'dressing up' It's also about expression and escapism. When in drag, such 'weak' traits become sublimated into something extravagantly, flagrantly fabulous. After photographing the Drag Queens transformation behind the scenes, I wanted to understand the process and perception of what it felt like to be them. I felt the only way to comprehend this, was to become a Drag Queen. I created a series of images in the studio where I have turned the camera on myself, as a biological woman dressing as a man who is dressing as a woman. I sought to discover not only about identity but the nature of representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karl Bradley
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My most recent work, Inside/Out, is not only a documentation of the indoor outdoor, but also an experiment in perception and acknowledgment. How do we as a society perceive indoor furniture as it contrasts to its new outdoor surrounding? It's new home? In order to achieve an effective outcome, I felt it was important to edit the images with the intention of gaining an emotive response. This gave the project a purpose, a moment of realisation for the viewer. Attracting the viewer to the decay, however tranquil warmth of the furniture encourages a sympathetic response. The objects, in time, mold to the environment. Is it up to us as a society to notice the occurrence? Is it a problem? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bryony Eacott
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera that is the instrument." - Eve Arnold This series of portraits are from a larger body of work which initially began with a study of Bryony's social group of fellow students working in creative mediums, such as fine art, photography and design. The project focuses on creating informal and formal character portraits of individuals in their natural environment, using an unobtrusive approach. The series also aims to document the relationship between sitter and photographer to create personal and natural portraits. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Hutchinson
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The processing of conflicting subjects within one body of work requires different levels of analysis and understanding, suggesting the multitudes of ways in which aesthetic qualities are assessed. Hutchinson objectifies the multiple layers of aesthetic that can appear through various aspects of visual stimuli - transient light and geometric shape and form. A cultural background is relevant in giving context to the emotive imagery juxtaposed alongside the documents of ephemeral non-space, drawing upon ideas suggested by philosopher Immanuel Kant surrounding the critique of judgement and the subjective definition of beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Platt
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Moving from winter to spring a transition appears. We say goodbye to those of the brief dark days and welcome the beginning of opportunity. Amongst all of the green, blossom blooms and outshines, creating instant beauty to its surrounding. Stemming from a personal quest this project touches on the idea of new life and new beginnings through the symbolism of the Cherry Blossom tree. With blossom trees' ephemeral stay the project captures moments that may be gone tomorrow, a poetic suggestion to appreciate everything in life, don't let things go by un-noticed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karen Rangeley
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Be= f (P, E) examines the relationship between the employees at a textile factory and the environment in which they work and socialise. Photographs of the physical environment are juxtaposed with images taken by the employees, which hint at the dynamics of human relationships that exist in this industrial setting. The work will be self-published as a Photobook journal that combines the images with extracts from social science texts.This approach challenges the traditional role of photographs as supplementary devices in anthropological studies and demonstrates how photography can be used as part of a wider inductive approach to understanding human behaviour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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George Simms
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

George Simms is a photographer whose work encompasses the genres of Landscape and Documentary. Presented here are extracts from his latest body of work, 'The Way the River Runs'. In Britain, waterways and rivers are a part of our psyche; everyone has different emotional responses to rivers, depending on your own experiences. This body of work aims to capture the journey of the River Ouse, flowing through the Yorkshire countryside and the settlements on its banks. These photographs were made in the context of the photographer's own views and experiences of the river. They are to be interpreted openly; bearing in mind any memories and feelings you may have of rivers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Smith
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The re-appropriation of images from a wide array of sources is something that has been greatly explored by photographers over recent years. Emily Smith's work questions how the medium of photography is changing as a result of this, raising concerns about whether one method is more effective than another. Inspired by the rapid growth of the internet and changing technologies, Emily's most recent project utilises imagery from Google Street View in order to explore representations of place. The work also incorporates a more traditional photographic element, making use of film to produce a personal response to each location and inviting the viewer to consider whether this technique can in fact create a more realistic interpretation of a particular space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Whalley
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The everyday and familiar is often over looked as surroundings are ordinary. We do not recognize the aesthetics within ordinary day as it is unnoticed due to familiarity. Exploration of suburban areas is being reflected upon through this series of images and the focal point and common threads between each photograph is neglect within these surroundings. These suburban areas appear banal and mundane and by using the camera these environments are being transformed into interesting aesthetics so the dull trivial subjects can be visualized within a different way. By converting moving matter into stills, this project isolates these familiar, yet often overlooked objects in the everyday environment, and gives the viewer access to Natasha's perspective upon the ordinary. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessie Leong
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Jessie Leong is a photographer whose photographs allows for a visual and narrative deconstruction and reconstruction in a way that illustrates the tensions inherent within them. Presented here are images that explore existing cross-cultural tensions, titled 'Challenging Orientalism.' The previously out-dated concept of 'Orientalism' has been re-presented in a new way for the viewer so the term is no longer deemed irrelevant. Instead, Orientalism has been re-claimed via photography, with each part of the image forming a contrast to each other, in order to conjure up a visually rich world that is both sensual yet forbidding. The model's direct gazes remind us that ideas on culture and fashion are ever-changing, whilst the challenge is presented at the viewer to re-consider their previous expectations of Orientalism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katherine Mitchell
Leeds College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The medium of film provides the opportunity to manipulate and destroy an image in an unpredictable way, creating a sense of fragility. This same process of destruction exists within thought and memory, forming a vague sense of place, person or emotion. Created through experimental practice, this series explores an evocative journey through memory and the visual communication of ambiguity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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J.D. Acton
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work tends to focus on the urban environment, photographing the structures we build and looking at how they affect us as individuals and societies. With a large part of the world population now residing in cities, how do we navigate these dense populations together and build stronger places, better spaces? My work often looks at the paradox at work in the city and how buildings represent the embodiment of individual pieces forming a whole. Whether through abstraction or documentation I like to use the photographic in print and digital form to represent architecture of material and humanity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bradley Chippington
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photography plays an important role in society more than ever before. How our images look and feel defines us as individuals and hopefully leaves the spectator feeling excited by your work. I believe it is essential that my photographs retain a professional finish that communicates visual understanding and ideas. As an artist I allow myself freedom to create anything I desire, this in turn influences my commercial photography specialising in interiors and portraiture. Allowing me to communicate to my client and developing a more poignant and creative piece of work, reflecting what I desire from the image and from what potential clients desire. Photography is the life and breadth of my soul. I live it. I feel it. I love it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aaron Edwards
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Aaron Edwards is an enthusiastic young photographer who has an ever increasing interest in travel photography. His past work includes a project documenting his hitchhiking adventures along the M4, in a cubist photomontage style. The project these images belong to is a photobook-documentary which aims to highlight what our Great British landscape has to offer. The photographs begin in the South-West of England at Lands-End, Cornwall and meander up Britain on a romanticised journey which led to John O'Groats, Scotland. These photographs serve as a reminder that we don't have to jet off to the south of France for breath-taking views and amazing scenery, we have a whole range of landscapes on our doorstep that will leave you speechless. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Gordon
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My interest within photography is exploring the ideals of childhood and innocence. Within my work I attempt to make the familiar settings become unknown to the audience and instead focus on showing the audience a different perspective of the subject. Within this particular project, angles and movement within the image are key parts to portraying the influence the child's body has within a space. The everyday domestic setting essentially becomes the child's play ground. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amelia Hallsworth
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Making of Me is the most recent project inspired by my time as a pupil at boarding school. Boarding school is a paradoxical 'home-away-from-home' that creates a tension between the institution and the individual, a battle of wills fueled by the difficulties of creating a personal, private space within a public, shared environment. The school presents itself in its public facing literature as a somewhat idyllic community of happy, productive, privileged youngsters, and future leaders collectively thriving in a warm and supportive environment. My own lived experience of the school was very different however, and my piece is an attempt to illustrate and examine this disjunction through the use of photography and audio. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maddie Holbrook
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My passion for photojournalism has come from growing up in different countries and experiencing new cultures, growing my desire to travel the world and capture my experiences. The ability to capture a piece of something so foreign to what you're used to, and to be able to share with other people, is one of my favorite things about this art. I particularly like taking candid images of people because that shows them in their truest form. When they do not know they are being photographed, I find that you are able to capture a moment in their lives. The ability for photography to help people understand the way others live, or to experience in some ways different cultures fascinates me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe MacLeay
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is based on access and I like to continuously visit my subject focus to build a relationship with the people and environment. Pram Town is a portrait of my hometown Harlow, which I returned to after time away studying. It has enabled me to see the town with fresh eyes and also taught me a lot about the space I have occupied my whole life. The mixed opinions of Harlow are intertwined within the photographic work in quotes from the community. The images selected for the book also balance the many sides to the town, the good, bad and ugly. From new build estates and the elderly inhabitants. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Rawls
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I am a fine art and documentary based photographer. I make my work because I want to make people think when they view my findings, question their own opinions and thoughts and perhaps become intrigued enough to produce retaliation or an answer. The beauty of the everyday is what constantly inspires me, to capture the essence of the overlooked. My subject choice comes from the persistent questioning of everyday things and people that gets passed by, in the running late and 'why hasn't he called?' of life. Things that are never thought about or questioned until it collides with a to-do list, and I feel inclined to display its beauty and meaning. I love the untold stories that visually unfold. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Storey
London South Bank University - BA (Hons) Digital Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I am a digital photographer from London, making images of familiar things and showing the unexpected within them. I enjoy photographing architecture, and my personal project 'Concrete Copy' featured large, overlaid images of Brutalist buildings in London, portraying how overwhelming the city can be. My project 'Things In Jars' conveys my desire to show beauty in the grotesque; I altered the context of everyday objects to play with my audience's assumptions. Currently I am working with the human form, in a project grounded in feminism, attempting to show more 'real' aspects to being female, than just the objectified, sexualised female bodies we are shown daily. I have also worked commercially for BBC Nature and am an accomplished product photographer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Copping
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photography for me was an initial exciting passion, that turned into a dreaded chore. I've forever craved to make work that doesn't alienate my interest, but utilises a different technique. An exhibition catalogue containing artist Richard Prince's work changed it all, and now all i do is layer, curate and re-appropriate. Humour and Satire are my works basic essences, with elements of social commentary, media responsibility and questions surrounding ethics thrown in. Pictures sourced from publications, other peoples image banks, as well as my own and even the internet all tie together and are presented in a multitude of ways with the intention of entertaining the viewer outside of the context, as opposed to making them overthink. Photography ultimately is no longer my role. I don't picture take, I re-appropriate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Guy
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

As an artist my aspect of photography has changed over the short period of time, which I have been practising, though the common theme that runs through is the presence of people. Over the last 12 months my focus has been on the constantly evolving world of fashion, drawing inspiration from Mario Testino, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton and Tim Walker I have tried to find my own style and substance. These photographs surround the notions of aesthetics and design, working closely with other creative to envisage a concept and bring it to life. These images represent the talent of those involved, who might now necessary be considered directly as the artist. The process of a photograph is just as important as the final outcome, which the consumers of this instamatic society do not automatically appreciate. With this highly stylised shoot I intend to share the spotlight with the makeup artists and hair stylists and that spend hours helping create the images and showcase a section of my work and imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Hatton
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

With an underlying interest in documentary photography, this work uses an analogue process to document the declining tradition of family fishing around Morecambe Bay. The towns of Fleetwood, Flookburgh, Sunderland Point and Morecambe all have a long fishing heritage. I was attracted to these towns as they possess a blatant stillness that suggests a sense of loss towards an industry that helped establish their identity. The few fishing communities left in Morecambe bay continuing to work in a way that is so reminiscent of an older age. The people I have been working with, have for me, come to embody this vanishing way of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stef Parkinson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I use photography as an escape from reality, I use it to create a world where I can let all the ideas in my mind become something concrete and real, sort of blurring the lines between reality and the imaginary. I very often shoot in the natural landscape, and if I'm in the city I am drawn to parks and areas of green space. Somewhere I can escape from the real world, to feel free and let my imagination take over me for a few moments. I contradict the idea that the camera captures what is in front of it, I photograph the world inside my imagination. A melancholy representation of how we perceive our fantasies, yet we never truly posses them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Phillips
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photographs are bound up with our desire to possess knowledge about the world. This work aims to challenge people's perceptions on the role of contemporary photography and explore the visible relationship between object and photograph. These found objects have been used for their intended purpose then discarded where they become unwanted, overlooked and almost non-existent. Through the mechanical process of photography these objects are given a new visual appearance as a two-dimensional surface where the inner truth of the object is lost to a system of un-fixed meanings. I am interested in creating ambiguous images that challenge photography's ability to renew existing objects whilst questioning their significance and suggesting the possibility for an external meaning beyond the visual field. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niki Povey
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

When noted oncologist Joe Jackson first proclaimed that "Everything gives you cancer", I think most people understood him to be speaking about things that most perceive as good things in life smoking, drinking, red meats etc. But a quick look at even a partial list of known human carcinogens proves that he may as well have been speaking literally. Everything gives you cancer, a representation akin to Dutch Vanitas of the 17th century, Evoking the body through a time when the simple enjoyment of food, drink and routine was not yet a morbid overture of fear. Through the butchery of these ostentatious yet familiar images, the object now becomes abject, leading the pieces to then identify as a state of mind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bella Probyn
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Using an interdisciplinary approach to create a tension between motion and stillness, my work addresses the question: is there a field of work which is neither and both photography and film at the same time? My practice explores the relationship of film and photography, working between the boundaries that separate them to find a point where they converge. Often these conceptual ideas materialise in the form of a physical cross over of the two disciplines, shown in a space curated to submerge the viewer. Film has its foundations in photography, in essence film is a succession of single still images. Immediately this invites a comparison: if film is the evolution then where does this leave still photography? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Ramage
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Inspired by Édouard Manet's 1863 painting, Olympia, I was intrigued by the notion that artists traditionally used sex workers to pose for nude paintings which would then come to portray the goddess Venus. I loved Manet's approach of depicting a female prostitute in such an open way, using visual cues linking Olympia to it's own art context. I was also interested in Paul Cézanne's 1873/74 painting, Un Moderne Olympia. I looked at the contemporary context of my own practice and created the following series using models from online pornographic webcam sites. I paid various models to recreate Manet's original in their own homes, and send me the resulting images to be compiled into the series displayed here. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola Thompson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Dealing with the notion of the figure and varying landscapes, my work has, in the past, been overtly concerned with the female figure and her place within such environments. Reflecting upon issues which arise in relation to the landscape, my work is a reminder of the ways in which the rural is inscribed in the domestic. A common theme throughout my practice is a distinct lack of a returned gaze which both disconnects the viewer and invokes connotations of rejection of the male gaze. Exploring the representation of the form within the landscape, with a focus on the anonymity of the subject and importance of the environment, my work tends to shy away from bold, brash statements and revels in the delicacy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Todd
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I have always had a passion for 'the overlooked' and a keen interest in wanting to 'reinvent' a subject by altering it slightly to attract the viewer's eye. This collection of work follows the theme of 'the overlooked' - I have focused on nature by using fabric that depicts a stylised floral print, to enable me to highlight the way in which nature is perceived, juxtaposed with the reality of the subject. In my most recent work I have taken a more abstract approach. This collection tempts the viewer into contemplating what is manmade and what is real within the image. This is reinforced by my editing style which creates an ethereal haze and makes the images seem like they could slip from reality at any moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Frances Young
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I work in most areas of photography, including portraiture, documentary, landscape, and food photography. Mostly I work using digital photography but I also enjoy using black and white film, and working in the darkroom. I have covered topics such as the body, eating disorders, memories, the secrets of strangers, anxiety, vulnerability, love, and loss, and prefer to explore subjects that are personal. I aim to create photographs that are evocative and emotional, and the majority of my work is predominantly about meaning, depth, and emotion. The selection of my work displayed is taken from a body of work called A Delicacy, which is about objectification, sexualisation, disposability, vulnerability, and the breaching of trust. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amaia Arenzana
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

An ongoing series about death and memory. In the aftermath of my mother's death, I was filled with so many memories, feelings, stories... all waiting to get out and take their rightful place. They are all part of an emotional landscape that at times I might dread but I also look forward to the reminiscing that comes with it. In this series I am taking my mother's objects and personal ideas about death and placing them somewhere between memory and imagination, as a way of exploring their presence in my life but also making them part of a bigger context, one that evolves and ultimately one that gives space to the co-creation of new memories for the future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kim Boland
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Grief: deep sorrow, esp. that caused by someone's death. In this series I try to represent the lasting emotional effects which remain after the loss of a loved one. Once we have returned to 'normal life' I feel that we are simply wearing a veil of normality, we still carry this raw abundance of sorrow and grief which presented itself in the immediate aftermath of the death. It seems after a relatively short period of time it is no longer seen as socially acceptable to continue to grieve outwardly. We are pressured by society to move on and accept this loss when in reality we continue to grieve internally. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Brennan
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of photographs resulted from a study of a lawn bowls' club and the male and female club members engaged in their sport. The series intends to represent the essence of the game by a concentration on the lawn bowls' rule that 'one foot must remain in contact with the mat' while the player bowls. All other details are deliberately stripped away leaving the viewer to ponder gender and other aspects of the bowler's identity. At the same time, the constant green background hints at the context. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jim Byrne
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"I don't like dealing with people, and I hate having to leave the house". The Irish Peerage is a series of portraits with members and family of the peerage at their ancestral homes; from the young and isolated to pillars of local community in some of Ireland's finest 'big houses'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Cisilino
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

One of the characteristics of cubism is to depict the subject from a multitude of viewpoints; the traditional representation of perspective from one single viewpoint is abandoned. In this series of digital photo collages or 'joiners' I am applying this concept of multiple viewpoints. The subjects are fragmented and their constituent parts are photographed at an angle of 90 degrees, independently from each other, then the different planes are reassembled to recreate a 'normal' perspective. By using a canvas as a background I attempt to reverse the idea of photorealism, making the photographs to look like paintings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabor Herczegfalvi
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The series features five men, very different characters, but one thing still links them together. When the day passes and the night falls they are not men anymore. They are Drag Queens... My goal was to show the beauty of the drag queens and highlight how their individual personality is reflected through their drag character. I chose the dressing room as location, because I felt this is the place where the magic of transformation happens and yet few people see them there. It can take about two hours to get ready, but the photographs must be taken in the brief moments between applying the final touches and show time when they must leave and appear on stage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kalian Lo
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Suspended in time, homes lie abandoned, shrouded in mystery and overflowing with untold stories, creating a pervasive, unsettling feeling in these man-made spaces. Nature reclaims what once was hers. Exploring these locations gives me a thrill... A sense of magic. The process of decay fascinates me. The passing seasons have changed the colour and texture of everything. Visiting that house felt like invading somebody's past, seeing old letters and a 1985 calendar, covered with dust. Each room has it own personality but a constant is the religious presence, an enduring reminder of faith. A jacket still hangs on the wall... imparting a haunting dimension. This series of Polaroid photographs illuminate a segment of history, Irish emigration since the Famine. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denis O'Shea
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A book lies open, like a specimen awaiting examination. Atop the pages rests a foreign object, a lost thing cutting across the text or obscuring images in a random act of intervention. Yet these forgotten bookmarks have a synchronicity with their hosts. The series encapsulates many of the differences between photography and other artistic practices. These are its ability to record the accidental and the banal; its role as documentarian, cataloguer and archivist; how it highlights the overlooked, the unseen or the hidden, presenting it in a new light, juxtaposing complementary or disparate elements within the frame; and fundamentally its indexicality or link to reality. The traces of past readers have conspired to present a new visual and textual narrative. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sascha O'Toole
The National College of Art & Design - Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Our memory is a powerful, tenacious thing. It can bring us great pleasure or great sadness. It becomes particularly important when we lose someone. We often fill the empty days that follow loss with stories, attempting to conjure up our lost loved one from thin air. Their character is suddenly amplified, as is our memory of them. Through interviews with my grandmother, and my mother and her siblings, I extracted a picture of my grandfather John O'Toole seen through the eyes of the people who loved him the most. Beginning with tender words from his soulmate, "My dearest Johnny", and expanding to little details that were just as essential a part of him, that picture is represented in this project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Bradley
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Since the shift in popular culture within recent years, what was once deemed something for 'geeks' and 'nerds' has evolved into something for a large audience, sprung out through the need to express ones own individuality and homage to their favourite character from various media platforms from comics, video games, TV shows and movies. The internal landscapes of the people who cosplay have changed their physical appearance. Dressed to reflect an exact representation of a fictional character, they embody the characters personality and mannerisms. With this in mind Paul Bradley has documented those who participate in cosplay, showing them in their current state of costume, placing each subject within a surrounding which is appropriate to the persona they are projecting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Brown
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The tidal swimming pools represent some of the last man made structures that don't come under fire from health and safety rules. These rules now threaten the existence of the remaining pools, through lack of maintenance, whilst being exposed to the harshest of elements. Now a space where freedom of expression can be celebrated, where people can choose to act on instinct and common sense, rather than the behavioural constraints dictated upon society. But these spaces have restrictions, the most prevalent being nature. The tide dictates the space, however the ocean answers to the force of gravity. This natural occurrence still holds a dominant sense of control over humans and the landscape, controlling the use, enjoyment and documentation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danny Carter
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The honeybee's industrious nature has made it a powerful metaphor in flourishing cultures throughout history. But now, in the 21st century, bee colonies are vanishing on a dramatic scale. Although biologists worldwide are still debating the causes, one thing is certain, without these pollinators, our way of life is under serious threat. A third of all we eat is pollinated by bees and much of what we wear is entirely dependent on their pollination. This project will act as a honeybee retrospective, set in a fictional future where this vital species is already extinct. Using the visual language of the archive to discuss preservation and loss, these microscopic photographs are visceral illustrations of the extinction of this vital species. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Suzanna Davison
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The ruinous landscape can demonstrate something of the other, a different moment in time, lacunae, here and there strewn with ruins, can in a fragmentary way stir up something of the past, as a support to the memory of a city.' Jan De Graaf. Wastelands are often looked at as inane eyesores. I have always been intrigued and enchanted by the museum like qualities they hold, every barren landscape has a history to tell. In wastelands across Britain, this work tells a story of these spaces before they were left to ruin. The most profound photograph for the previous function of each desolate place is found, and projected back into the landscape, creating a juxtaposition of the past and present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Donovan-Brown
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Un-Attended funeral deals with issues of loss, memory, identity and place. By working with a broad range of subject material David's photographic practice is ultimately trying to answer questions about his own fathers death in 2004. When he was 21 he met his biological father for the first time in 18 years. Although they had met previously he had been too young to remember and it had been a photograph that provided the only evidence of the event. At the time his father was living and working in America. Six years later he died suddenly in South Africa whilst on business. The project engages with a fear of dying alone and also explores the representation of people who have died and are as yet unidentified. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Ivin
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The following work is an on going project investigating the work of Community Nurses in Gwent, South Wales. I have shadowed and attended a number of visits with District Nurse Natalie Curry and Sister Nurse Jackie O'Leary whilst on their rounds, where they visits patient's homes and assist them with their medical needs. This project shows the hardworking nature of these highly trained Nurses, the somewhat monotonous tasks they undertake and the variety of patients they see. This project is in association with The Aneurin Bevan Health Board and funded by Ideastap. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Johan Peter Jønsson
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

To be a transgender person is about the identity you feel comfortable representing. If it is a man or woman it does not matter. This has resulted in a series of portraits displaying different counterparts of each person, one comfortable, one uncomfortable and sometimes even a third persona according to how the individual feels best reflecting his or hers identity. This method of working helps to visualise the complex and often awkward feelings of dressing up in clothes that do not feel right. In addition I have photographed family album pictures and personal items from past and present life in order to connect the counterparts. This explains their personal stories and provides an understanding of their individual identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Triin Kerge
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Kodukoht visits the homes of Estonian residents. Estonia, a country that was occupied by the Soviet Union for nearly 50 years, regained its independence in 1991. It has attempted to leave the past behind, however there are still elements in the country reminding us of the history. Kodukoht tells a story of Estonian culture and history. Through domestic environments it comments on the intimate relationship between Estonian people and nature, the occupation years and the recent western influence. The project takes place between Autumn 2013 and Spring 2014 showing the changing seasons captured through the windows of the homes visited, reminding the viewer of the continuous change taking place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Alberry
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

As Christianity attempts to renew itself in an increasingly secular society, 'A Time To Dance' examines the emergence of postmodern culture in the British church. Pentecostalism, a Christian denomination that is growing in the UK adopts pop style music; services are filmed and broadcast live on the internet via the church's livestream; and churchgoers record and share the presence of God by mobile phone. These spaces of worship often recall the celebratory atmosphere of the dance club, and call upon the visual rhetoric of broader society. The series also explores the human search for a sense of immersion and catharsis, seeking something bigger than ourselves and a transcendence of the banalities of everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie E Murray
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Football and its associated culture has always provided aspirations within many peoples livelihoods. This project follows the path of James, a route many adolescents take in which they look to an outlet and distraction to the struggles of growing up. The solace he receives from the community of the club he supports and the dream of success in his own playing even through injury grant James a focal point to his life, one in which he can strive to do his best and find an acceptance and recognition amongst others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashley Parker
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Across the UK there are currently 5,406 wind turbines, with more being created each year all so the Government can achieve it's aim of twenty percent of all UK energy being from renewable sources by 2020. The public's opinion on the subject of wind farms differs greatly from person to person. Many people are pro wind farms, others oppose them completely, and many people seem not to care about wind farms as long as they're not on their doorstep. By manipulating British landscape paintings from before the early 19th Centaury, Parker hopes to infect this idea of the ideal British landscape, and question the visual and aesthetic impact wind farms have on the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Peat
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Nothing Like It is about the challenges facing the NHS and how these manifest themselves in A& E departments. The project is shot in the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. On average, this A & E department sees a new patient every six minutes and thirty seconds, every single day of the year. Like most A & Es that have to cope with additional stresses from the reduction of services elsewhere in the NHS, the department is under constant pressure to perform despite the limited numbers of staff and resources that they have. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mario Pinto
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In the Sanctuary (a Christian charity) women of many nationalities share similar stories: Stories of loss, misappropriation, sexual abuse and religious persecution. I was presented with numerous accounts; from reports about threats from the jihadist group Boko Haram, to unspeakable accounts of sexual violence and sex trafficking. With the subject of anonymity in mind, this project seeks to give voice to their predicament without directly linking them to any specific event. The beauty of their faces and the loudness of their gaze, while looking away, out of the frame, is the main focus. The intention is of a dignified subject, one that, without voice, has a powerful presence, emptied of judgemental preconceptions and filled with courage and hope. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicola Pullen
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work has been produced with The Libra Foundation which is a charity based in the UK and Romania. The purpose of Libra is to take UK students out to Eastern Romania in the summer to work with disabled and disadvantaged children, and to provide specialist resources and experiences which the authorities cannot otherwise afford. My work is an attempt to document the activities and people, who are involved in the projects, by including photographs not only by myself, but also by the children and workers. This is to provide a wider insight into the lives of those affected by the charity, and an understanding of the collaboration which is needed for it to run. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lianne Runcieman
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"See" is a documentary photography project focussing on the area of land on which the proposed third site of Hinkley Point Power Station will be built on the coast of the Bristol Channel near Bridgewater, Somerset. The new site, named Site C, will be built adjacent to Sites A and B and aims to provide electrical power through nuclear means for the entirety of the UK. The proposal of the site's construction attracted much negative attention from surrounding residents and it was these issues that led to the conception of "See". "See" aims to document the area proposed for construction, and question the decision to build on the area. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Skipper
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

He wants to see my Amazon Wish List explores the role women play within modern commodity exchange currently taking place online. Exchange is taking place in the form of Amazon Wish Lists, online shopping bags consisting of an individuals' desired items, ranging from clothing to sex toys to microwaves. In order to photograph my subjects I offered them a payment in the form of an item from their wish-list. By doing this I question the photographer to subject relationship and explore the nature of photography. Women are my artistic focus for this work, the act of paying a woman to be photographed mirrors the exploitation of women alongside a visual discussion of topics such as prostitution. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sissel Thastum
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through the nature, the landscape and the feminine form, I am here when you are here mediates a close and intimate relationship between mother and daughter. It is a bond that is found within the return to the familial; the home and the mother. Portrayed through a melancholic language our relationship to each other, to our age, our gender and our identity become underlying themes. The essential presence of nature in connection with the body calls up the notion of a cultural and symbolic identification, emphasising the feeling of the 'Nordic' ambience. I am here when you are here is a personal project made between my mother, my home and I. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Uwejoma
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ngwakọ' is a translation from the Igbo language meaning 'hybrid'. The 'ity' is an addition element to create a mixed word. 'Hybridity' is a bi-racial person from two opposite cultural backgrounds. The surname 'Uwejoma' originates from the Igbo tribe, which is located in West Africa and is the third most populous tribe in Nigeria. The staged self-portraits are a layered narrative of Uwejoma's previous experiences of the African culture and are interpretations of the Igbo traditions. Uwejoma was born and raised in the UK and grew up with minor hints of Nigerian heritage without being fully aware. The series of images highlight the secrecy and uncertainty of not knowing where ones true ethnic identity belongs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olivia Whittaker
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Identity fraud rose in the UK by 163% over the past year leaving it the highest form of fraud in the country. Typically 46% male, 54% female victims, Masquerade accounts statistics in a visual display of identity theft. With the ever-increasing rise in technology, social media and the Internet, fraudsters have more opportunities and information available to them than ever before. Masquerade highlights the domestic reality of fraud and the portable ability to commit such acts from the comforts of your own home. Despite implementations used in and around the home such as anti spyware, shredders etc. even when people feel at their most protected lurking in their shadows could be the fast paced actions of someone adopting their identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Böök
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

There are more reindeer than people living in Pudasjärvi, a small town in Northern Finland. With the local population drastically shrinking, the town has set the exceptional goal that in 2018, one in ten residents will be an immigrant. This ongoing project focuses on Congolese families who have moved to Finland to start a new life after fifteen years of living in refugee camps. At the same time it looks at the transition of the surrounding community, struggling to redefine its identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stephanie Franklin
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'I've done my time' is a body of work that illustrates a detailed, yet curious look into a particular space that I spent my final project working in. The project operates as a muted forensic exploration of the small details in this space that would otherwise go unseen because of the purpose that this place has. My work was based in a Police museum, within a Police headquarters. The project became a piece about my journey and how difficult the accessibility to the place was. I turned the work into a investigative narrative, that explored the conversations I had to have with certain people, the marks people left in the museum itself and the chaperones that had to accompany me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eizabeth Hewson
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Lacuna is an autobiographical body of work exploring memory's imperfections through the loss of childhood memories; now completely irretrievable, this phenomenon has left a substantial empty space where they were once present. The conversion of originally analogue childhood images into digital files, transforms a memory from artefact to virtual representation. The files are then corrupted intentionally, with the input of information about the photograph in question; what, where, when. Suddenly, an image that had been so familiar purely through viewing time and time again, had become distorted, disorientated, and was struggling to hold on to its original form. The photograph has become a true representation of the constant longing to feel any familiarity of the context within the picture. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie Hodson
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"My grandmother's photography aroused my sensory knowledge of a forgotten childhood landscape" - Natalie Hodson Natalie Hodson combines the romantic forest scenery of her childhood against the harsh beauty of the Swiss Alps. She creates work that examines the bond and relationship with her Grandmother. Using her Grandmothers own photography as a starting point she montages her own photographs creating fantasy landscapes, reminiscent of the stories that are passed down through generations. She focuses on the forest as a metaphor for the family, escapism and coming of age. The resulting images create their own ambiguous tales continuing an imaginative storyline. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Howard
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The chosen location was photographed to explore multiple ways of viewing a space. A mirror cube was used to create visual games within the imagery. The folding then re-photographing of the images leads to the compressing of the 3D into a 2D photograph. Inclusion of the original image, the installation shot and the installation shot of the installation shot, blurs the lines between the established spatial contexts, adding another line of confusion. The lines that dissect the images, that the folds are placed along and that the installation shots are focussed upon, all reflect the architecture in which the work is presented. The continuous nature of the images signifies that the space and the architecture are also never ending. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirstie Adam
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Potential tourists choosing to visit a town, city or country, rely on recommendations made online, by friends and family or literature. This usually contains a set of words accompanied by a series of photographs used to entice visitors. This project hopes to explore the "staged authenticity" tourists experience when visiting Oxford. The photographs used were taken during a tour of Oxford, accompanied by comments made about a particular building or area made by the guide. MacCannell wrote in 1973 about "staged authenticity" in the American Journal of Sociology. His argument was that something that was seen to be authentic was in fact set up well in advance and used purely for touristic visitation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Love
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Jamie Love considers the relationship between man and machine, focussing his study on the automobile. He produces staged imagery that depicts the car 'failing in its duty' towards man. He views the car not just as a member of the family but a means to achieve freedom. With sublime landscapes as his backdrop, he constructs dramatic tension when the relationship between man and car breaks down in an idealistic setting. Using the subversive language of advertising Love pushes the ideal of freedom and beauty onto the viewer. He promotes the possibilities the car has to offer, whilst revealing a scenario in which those possibilities can be taken away by a simple malfunction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosanna Blatchford
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Beachcombing was instinctive and reminiscent of childhood and home. The act of searching the shore for shells and the impulse to pick up these objects was natural, but only ones I felt a fascination or curiosity about. As I accumulated my collection of shells, I found myself beginning to organise each one, forming individual patterns and orderly lines, leading to the creation of arranged displays. This process would repeat: searching, gathering, cleaning, categorising, arranging, positioning. This activity becomes one of escape, time I have allocated for myself; it becomes a way of dealing with my skin condition. Curios takes form in both image and video, showing both the process of collecting and the finished arranged displays. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Roberts
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Untouchable' is a photographic project exploring the fundamental ideas of femininity, sexuality and the Ego. This originated from a study of the aspects of burlesque and how, through the use of costume, the performer can create a surrealistic entity in which to portray an untouchable erotic deity, existing only within the confines of the stage. Moving from the egocentric specific of the burlesque, the focus broadened to the contemplation of the hypocrisy created around the consideration of the female body, the utilisation of the female form as a sensual visual tool as opposed to a taboo and vulnerable image. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lottie Morris
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Infinite intangible photographs are floating around the digisphere; rarely revisited, what becomes of the plethora of countless digital archives that become so fragile and transient? We can now unlimitedly create, consume and contribute photographs. They individually capture specific moments that might be important but the reality is a multitude of digital files, often stored away. Lottie Morris deals with her own photographic iPhone archive, possessing over 10,000 files, taking those from the past year and transforming the nonmaterial digital space. Making the photographs physical objects and throwing them into the world becomes an extensive pursuit. The ritual of reframing the images as an unfamiliar documentation represents an overwhelming task. The resulting installation presents a compulsion for relentlessly documenting everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Norcott
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Beyond the astute commemoration of the disturbingly homogeneous shopping centre, that postmodern citadel so accustomed to stridently and unremittingly defending the essentiality and desirability of consumption; beyond the mature examination of the creative possibilities purveyed by innovative photographic technologies, and even beyond the superficial pastiche of historic cubist enterprise, the understated imagery incites prudent reassessment and potential reconfiguration of the conventional relation between artist and spectator. No longer the passive recipient of a single, unyielding meaning carefully delineated and rigidly conveyed, the latter is cognitively liberated and imaginatively unbridled to receive, reject and retain a plurality of disparate meanings. Words by E. B. Skies . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katherine Nowak
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Cienie (Shadows) is a project based on the Five stages of grief by Kubler-Ross, the beautiful poem by Pauline Prior-Pitt 'Disappearing Out' and my personal experience with the loss and depression. According to psychologists, there are Five stages of coping with the grief, but refering to my old diaries and memories, I dealt with the loss of my brother differently, starting off with the Denial and Search, Isolation, Bargaining, Anger and then Depression. The last stage occured last year, however, I feel like I truly reached the Acceptance now. Cienie helped me close that particular chapter of my life and I think anyone who experience grief and loss can relate to this project. For the loved ones never leave us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paige Smith
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Tower X visually explores the newly emerging high-rise craze which is currently taking over London's skyline, focusing on some of the most famous corporate towers in the city. The skyscraper is a means to give a city an identity, as the skyline is what is used to visually reflect that particular city's economic power. Corporate companies are under the impression that to build higher is a statement of financial power and wealth. As architects have designed these skyscrapers with distinctive identities, the images deconstruct what is otherwise instantly recognisable. The layered images distort the outline of the tower so intrinsic to its overall effect on the skyline; their height and therefore their power, becomes redundant. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacob Sanders
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Mountain biking is a sport that takes you on an adventure across rough terrain, through forests and mountains, taken at speed. The aim for the rider is to flow through the landscape with man and machine working in harmony, gliding across the terrain, without stopping. The journey through the landscape allows the mind to wander from the regularity of everyday life, and focus on the immediate task. It is a journey from normal life, to a more naturalistic location and mind-set. Psychologists believe that people are happiest in a state of flow. It is a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else matters. This is identical to the feeling of 'being in the zone'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elian Williams
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A century ago there were reminders of the coal industry in most corners of Wales. 'Black gold' powered the wheels of industry and provided fuel for heating and cooking. Few visible signs of coal mining now remain in Wales. However, the irony is that coal now plays an important, unseen role in our modern culture, providing the raw material behind everyday products we take for granted. Coal touches our lives in ways that our mining ancestors could barely have imagined. Could it be that the central role of coal in the way we live today is a fitting testament to all the sacrifice and tragedy seen by the industry and those associated with it over the past 100 years? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harry Rose
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Set in the mountains of North Wales in the Dyssini Valley and rural Gwynedd, where through several generations, memories have been carved into the landscape. The project follows the notion of loss, memory, time and the permanence of place. Through archival images and the collection of semi precious rocks, In the Company of an invisible man addresses the idea of making a place important, with a strong and deeply personal story, the project guides us not only through a landscape but through the ongoing internal conversations of the photographer, trying to find the invisible man, a person who once walked amongst the landscape, who has since departed, leaving the photographer following the breadcrumb trail, putting the pieces of landscape together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alessandro Polledri
University of South Wales, Newport - BA (Hons) Photographic Art
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work considers notions of boundaries relating to the immigrant Italian family in Wales. Images of physical barriers such as walls and gates become self-preserving metaphors for traditional Italian cultural values within communities. The journey of my Father's family is typical of many that came to Wales from Italy before the Second World War to escape poverty they faced in their homeland. Whilst Wales offered many opportunities, the War intervened and today older generations remember the difficulties and prejudices they faced. Consequently, many families set about protecting and preserving values inherent to their cultural identity for the following generations. This then raises questions of internality and externality; how families see themselves in relation to the way others - outsiders - see them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashleigh Berryman
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.' Albert Einstein. Ashleigh uses still life photography and an approach that references traditional photomontage techniques to create tactile imagery that aims at engrossing viewers in a playful imaginary world. Her series 'Dreamscapes' applies techniques of photomontage to combine old family holiday photographs with organic objects. In this process both are reinvented through the use of visual puns and associations to explore themes of childlike adventure. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Chapman
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Emma is a home and interiors photographer. Her latest work is inspired by the Scandinavian design she encountered when travelling to Stockholm. She works closely with independent stores and designers to develop imagery that expresses a love for simple clean lines, with a strong focus on shape and form create a sense of structure and balance, that are the key elements in Emma's work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Charlton
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through the relation of points, lines, shapes and colour, Jonathan uses graphic, often geometric approaches to his work. His inspiration lies in the objects around us, the colour we see, the shapes we feel, and the surroundings we take for granted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Cornish
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In his most recent photographic series, Jack Cornish examines the unpredictable behaviour of materials. Exploratory in nature, these works reflect his broader interest in the archaic art of alchemy. His work attempts to engage with photography's scientific almost alchemic histories to create an eclectic body of abstract photography in which he hopes to evoke feelings of the sublime. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Duffield
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Megan Duffield is a beauty and fashion photographer who works with light and space to create photographs that aim at creating natural, soft, almost angelic images of feminine beauty. She is not only influenced by contemporary fashion photographers such as Alexi Lubomirski but also by the use of light and space within architecture in the works of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando and Le Corbusier. Both these architects have used light and space in revolutionary manners to 'cleanse' a person's thoughts and feelings and in so doing draw attention to the form and colour of the subject within the frame, the room or the space. Megan takes this approach to her photography as she strives to create a simple imagery that exhibits clarity and purity but with an attention to detail. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alec Game
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My current practice focuses on the themes of place and identity and the way in which they can create transitional periods in people's lives and inescapable acts of emotional fluctuation. My current projects intentions are to explore how people extend the home as a psychological space into their wider environment. By photographing people in their homes along with still life images and landscapes made from and in their broader environment I hope to achieve a level of intimacy in the work that aims to expose a more expansive response to the dialogic processes involved in portraiture. The intentions being to allow the work to consider ways in which the subject's identity both reflects and is reflected by their environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Gundry-Beck
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Catherine is a London based photographer working with portraiture. She looks to capture people in a pensive, tranquil state in her representations of individuals. In the studio and on location her portraits aims to create an ethereal atmosphere that engages the viewer with the subjects in a dreamlike world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Carrie Marks
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work explores the possibility that every environment holds its own history. It considers if those people who came before experienced the same joy or the same anxieties when faced with similar environments and events. The series 'Nowhere in Particular' highlights often overlooked aspects of everyday life and the memories and events that are connected with them. It aims to highlight and recall such events and create a kind of autobiographical engagement that hopes to, as Lisette Model suggests, use a highly personal approach to make more universal connections. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Norton
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Amy has drawn on her experience as a ballerina to explore the effects that a location has on the ballerina's performance. She has focused primarily on the strength and athleticism that is required. This is emphasised by its juxtaposition against the delicate, diaphanous nature of the tutu. She employs her deep understanding of ballet to show another level of, often unrecognised, beauty contained in this particular dance style. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Quille
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is an exploration of space and tone. It experiments with the aesthetic outcomes and how we perceive these formal elements. The work is minimalist. It uses processes of reduction in an attempt to bring a simplicity and a clarity to the images. Nature and natural forms are essential to this and through an emphasis on details within the subjects the work attempts to bring out the graphic qualities of order and structure that they contain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Taylor-Eddington
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Hannah is a still life photographer inspired by the beauty of the world around us. Her practice embraces both analogue and digital methods and processes. In the series presented here she has been inspired by the use of contrast, colour and silhouette in the fashion imagery of Nick Knight to engage with the shape and form of plants to bring out their unique qualities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shannah Wills
Norwich University of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Shannah Wills specialises in portraiture of both people and animals, seeking to turn the ordinary extraordinary through her use of rich tones and intimate composition. She takes inspiration from classic paintings and sculptures to develop a contemporary photographic practice that draws on traditional approaches to portraiture. Her work shows an attention to detail as she seeks to create formally striking imagery that references the aggrandising portraiture of the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pearson Dixon
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The body of work's foundation lies in the collaboration between one photographer and another. Our subject matter focuses on the discovery of a familiar environment that surrounds us. The photographs play with digressive association, forging oddities, rarities, and the mutually exclusive into the unexpected links sustained by an involved rhetoric. To portray this notion we use grammatical terms as a basis to edit our work. We see some images as 'articles' indicating the type of reference being made by another image, a 'noun'. It is to form a new way of seeing through two sets of eyes discovering the already discovered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Swanson
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'The Conquest of Materials' is a study of the sculptural significance of still life photography, a presentation of photographic sculptures created with manufactured or altered materials. There are strong links to modernism and constructivism in their aesthetic whilst the metaphorical space that they represent speaks of the development of his practice and the experimentation and the failure that underpins it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benjamin Kay
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A photographic journey from my front door to the North East coast, an exploration of landscapes leading to the sea, documenting my walk as I travel through. Following the River Trent North to the Humber Estuary and then tracing the estuary until it reaches the sea, a dialogue between the flow of nature and our human encroachment upon it. Presented in a concertina book which when folded out becomes a scaled-down version of the walk, viewers are encouraged to see the images within the activity of walking themselves. The interactive elements of the work cause the viewer to engage with the conceptual nature of the project: 249km. The conceptual art of walking. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber Banks Brumby
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

By employing the tools of science I am able to reveal the undeniably extraordinary patterns and structures of the familiar. Stripping away templates believed as reliable, to witness a more complex understanding of actuality. My work plays with the boundaries of science and art, exploring and exploiting the set of measurements through which we read the real. A contemporary experimentation driven by curiosity and wonder. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Beck
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

With influences from abstract expressionism and new technologies, my work is part of an ongoing investigation into the language of the digital code and is an attempt to aid the computer into establishing an understanding of its own function. The 'glitch' occurs when an image coded in one language is opened in another program that uses less complicated symbols. This process of un-translation causes the computer to shed parts of its code at random thus rendering it, when converted back into an image, glitched. Much like abstract expressionist painting whereby the artist acts out unconscious drives to discover an aspect of him or herself, the process of producing the glitched image can be seen as a digital metaphor for this. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Selma Lillefjaere
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through constructing artificial interiors out of paper on my tabletop I attempt to make up for the space that I lack but require. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Finlay
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In 1974, Turkish forces illegally occupied roughly 38% of Cyprus in a move that remains controversial to this day, this year marks the 40th anniversary of this invasion. Cyprus was split in two after a ceasefire line was drawn; this 'Green Line' stretches 180km across the entire country and is separated by a United Nations demilitarised zone. The buffer zone ranges from several kilometres at its widest point to just few meters through the city of Nicosia, which is the only divided capital left in the world. Over 200,000 Greek-Cypriot refugees fled from the Turkish invaders and numerous towns and villages in the north of the island were completely abandoned, many of which still exist today. The most infamous of these towns is Varosha in Famagusta; once one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, it now stands frozen in time as a ghost town. The 35,000 occupants of Varosha fled during the invasion and it has remained uninhabited ever since, fenced off, overgrown and slowly crumbling away. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben McManus
Nottingham Trent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Statement: This series has been designed to differ from the traditional British landscape of pleasant evenings, lush green hills and pretty castles. The images focus on capturing intriguing shapes, tonal ranges and oddities within the landscape through a monochrome eye, while also attempting to maintain a sense of the harshness of nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tanya Ahmed
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Walking the Gamut considers our interaction with the structures that support our lives and recognizes the experience of their impact on us. New subway construction, on New York's Second Avenue, has dramatically altered the landscape above ground creating intense yet confusing shapes, colours and routes. Uncertainty and impatience are balanced with excitement and wonder as pedestrians navigate these unfamiliar and continually shifting spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rob Birrell
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The North East of England has a rich industrial heritage which is reflected in the makeup of its population and its landscape. As the traditional forms of employment in heavy engineering have dwindled new forms of employment, notably leisure and tourism, have taken over as major employers, with correspondingly different demands on the man-made landscape in the forms of building and transport infrastructure. My work aims to tell something of the North East's relationship with its landscape. How that landscape has been shaped by the economic fortunes of the past and present, and some of the contradictions, the nostalgia and the aspirations of the population with regards to its environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dewald Botha
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Considering the relationship between the cultural correct view from an ideal observer, and that of real reality, layered with the veneer of a simulated and referred-to world. 'Simulacrum' observes from the distance of an outsider, yet viewing China from inside, and attempts to determine whether reality as experienced, is true. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rob Brisco
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

If you go down into the woods today, it won't be a surprise to find objects discarded by those who visited earlier instead of teddy-bears. Our culture, certainly here in Europe, is one that is clearly wasteful; many people find it acceptable to jettison their litter at the point the object outlives its usefulness, no matter what impact that might have on the surroundings. Here, items have been removed from the woods in which they were found and photographed in order to form a juxtaposed pairing that asks questions of the viewer. Whilst their relationship becomes more tenuous, abstracted and distant than if the object had simply been photographed in situ, the overall impact is stronger. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keith Greenough
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Since 2004 I have competed in 'Ironman' triathlon, a sport involving swimming, cycling and running over courses 140 miles long. Ironman Family is a series of portraits of my fellow competitors. The work seeks to confound the vernacular idea of portraiture and invites speculation about the general nature of people who take part in endurance sports and why they challenge themselves to the extreme. The portraits are deliberately deadpan, in sharp contrast to the typical heroic imagery of athletes in the media. Ironman Family is part of my broader inquiry into strategies portrait photographers use for 'disarming the pose' of their subjects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nigel Haworth
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Much of my work is concerned with the notion of transience; of situations or segments of time which will move on, and the temporary nature of periods we go through in life. Shot in the seaside towns of Usuiso and Toyoma in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, this series looks at the empty spaces left by the tsunami which affected the region. They mark a transient period between the clearing of the piles of debris which had become familiar images in the media, and any attempts at rebuilding or re-settlement. The images portray a place caught between its former self and a future yet undecided. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Peter Mansell
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series of images display aspects of living with the implications of spinal cord injury. All the images relate to issues A. H. Maslow referred to as hygiene factors within his hierarchy of needs classification -- that is they relate to my managing my survival rather than relating to any superior quality of life issues. This is something I've been doing on a daily basis for the past 35 years and needed to document. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Ridyard
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Jemma Ridyard is a photographer who uses traditional photographic processes to explore the landscape and translate it into unique pieces of work. Through using processes such as wet plate collodion and bromoil printing, every image is individual and cannot be replicated. In this digital age, she enjoys using 19th century photographic processes to express her relationship with the landscape in England, with particular focus on Dartmoor National Park in Devon. The time consuming process of wet plate collodion gives Jemma more time to consider the landscape around her, and the finished result is a physical photographic artefact which she finds to be increasingly important in a time when millions of photographs are taken and forgotten about every week. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hayley Orchard
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These images attempt to illustrate what is both above and below the surface. Merging objects, places, mementoes, text and self-portraiture, this work is a retrospective of the last year. The process of making these images has been insightful and allowed me to illustrate the ways in which I manage a challenging and personal situation. My work uses alternative self-portraiture to address issues of mental health and coping mechanisms. These images are personal to me, but will hopefully provoke thought, dialogue and questions in others. By creating these images I have been able to discover an outlet in which I am able to reclaim normality to some degree. It has enabled me to regain control over things out of my reach. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mary Pearson
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Biosigna is a new term that describes the photographic practice of: burying, covering and submerging film within the natural landscape. The literal translation of Biosigna is 'Life Signals'. This art is not about mere representation, but is the exploration of the manor in which microorganisms and their natural elements interact with the negative leaving their indexical trace. The life of the invisible is made visible and where the act of destruction becomes a creative force. The images are a collaboration between the artist, microorganisms and the natural elements allowing the voice of the environment to be heard. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Gareth Sands
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Of the Land' offers an appreciation for Industry and Land within areas I am familiar with. It is to serve as a passive gaze. Looking at Industry and not questioning the impact it has, but showing the way Industry sits within and is part of the land. This has developed from wanting to question how land is used while also showing gratitude to the exhibition 'New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape.' Working with a large format camera and black and white film, I have begun a journey that I wish to continue long into my practice: looking, documenting and questioning the use of land. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Greenidge
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Our First Universe is an exploration of my first childhood home. Using found and constructed images, alongside photographs from my own family archive, I have attempted to reconstruct the feeling of 'home' that I experienced in the house during my childhood. This project explores the physical tactility of the family album, versus the intangibility and elusiveness of the memories that it represents. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Summers
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is my personal homage to the beauty I find daily in nature,  alongside an obsession for collecting, old unusual and quite often  discarded objects found along the way. I try to create surreal scenes  that capture and question the imagination. My general approach involves creating illusion, what may appear a straightforward image, on closer inspection, is clearly a creative impression, an artistic manifestation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Satu Stoljarova
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project is exploring the theme of alternative living through the aesthetics of contemporary documentary photography. It is a quiet study of people and their surroundings. I have always been intrigued by the space. It is important within my practice; how the subject responds to space and how space responds to the subject. I predominately work with traditional analogue photography. I'm looking to develop my work by experimenting with a series of images, exploring the everyday and re-contextualising through capturing the insignificant moments normally overlooked. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Robins
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A response to my interest in the effects of seaside tourism on the South West, Freathy Cliff gives an insight into the lives of the permanent residents of a holiday location, who are perhaps forgotten by those who come and go in the Summer months. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Boffy
Plymouth University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Allemannstretten is a document of a journey from Bergen, on Norway's West coast, to Helsinki in Finland, travelling by bicycle. The work portrays a personal journey through spectacular but challenging terrain and the feeling of solitude that accompanies being alone in such a vast natural landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Barnes
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These two bodies of work titled Defocus and What is Colour? Are both autobiographical pieces, in which I invite the audience to have an insight into the way I see. Since birth I was diagnosed with Cone Dystrophy and Nystagmus; I am therefore unable to see colour, nor am I able to see 'much' in focus. Throughout my practice I have delved into finding ways to allow people to be apart of their unknown and see what I see. By using the camera as a tool to portray the different elements of my sight these two series combined allow you to some extent see how I see. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber Bristow
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The natural landscape has always been around me throughout my life, for this work I wanted to find a way of marrying this with the notion of memory. I focused the images from classical landscapes to looking at the elements within them, specifically trees. Trees are highly symbolic, suggesting life and growth. This coupled with the use of double exposures hints at memories changing and overlapping with time. The use of 120 film was key to keeping with the idea of the past and memory, each image is hand printed and mounted on 18mm Ply wood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Danielle Cook
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is essentially focused on questioning photography. These images are from a series called 'Copycat: Reproducing works of art' where I have explored iconic images and reproduced them. Appropriation in art is ultimately the act of using pre-existing objects or images with little transformation applied to them; and categorically defines the notion of post modern art. My most recent project 'Read between the lines' delves deeper into the condition of appearance. The idea of this work is not to develop a new iconic sign of a zebra; it is to question our ability to read such signs. How much of a photograph does there actually need to be for us to determine what it is a photograph of? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ritual project documents various aspects of the Romanian culture, a post-communist country that succeeds in keeping alive the richness of its traditions in a modern era. Many of the old traditions can be discovered in the countryside, which is considered to be the heart and soul of Romania, where peasant culture remains a strong force and medieval life prevails. The New Year's traditions have some of the finest winter attractions, diverse, colourful and rich in symbols and meanings. These customs bring to the present, glimpses of pre-Christian rituals and underline the predominant agrarian lifestyle from the past, rich in symbols and meanings. The traditions and the customs are an integrated part of the Romanian national conscience, as they express the ancestral wisdom of the people and are the core of their spiritual legacy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Molly Eyre
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series,consisting of four images explores the notions surrounding memory and fabrication. Specifically focusing on her paternal heritage, Eyre elected to construct miniature interior based sets from memory within a studio environment. Approaching her work wanting to maintain control in every possible aspect, be it in the design and execution, or the set building itself, Eyre is able to achieve her specific wants and needs in front of the lens without the use of heavy post production. Eyre approached this work aiming to evoke a sense of loss without embarking on too personal a tribute to the memories embedded from her childhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Fazackerley
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Laura Fazackerley is a fine artist currently working in a mixed media format using photography as a main tool, her work focuses on the fragmentation and transient nature of memory. The emotional attachments we form as humans toward each other, our surroundings and often seemingly insignificant objects. Fazackerley's most recent work 'Abide' stems from a collaborative project with navy veterans. The installation is a visual representation of the regimented process of moving house within the armed forces; encompassing the idea of structure, uniformity and the restrictions applied to living spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Gatt
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Born in Malta and now based in the UK, Rachel Gatt is a photographer specializing in studio work with high contrast and staged imagery. From still like to portraiture, her work looks to represent the subject matter as a single entity that is glorified through a smooth feel and polished finish. Even though Gatt's work differentiates from one body to the next, a distinguishing feature is the compelling use of strong lighting that emphasizes the key features, thus incorporating the boldness of the subject's appearance with the frailty of it's nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tyran Hawthorn
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Still life has interested me from the outset of my photographic practice. Out of all the themes that I have researched, this has interested me the most. Still life has proven to be the most practical and accessible genre for me as I have mobility issues. Within still life, there are an infinite number of objects, patterns and textures to be explored, photographed and utilised. I have investigated still life art and photography during recent years, focusing on themes of vanity and decay, connecting to my thoughts and innermost feelings concerning my own condition. Operating in the realms of Surrealism, Vanitas, Abstraction and, most recently, portraiture, these themes of vanity and decay have remained in my photographic practice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Courtney Husselmann
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Identity is an ever-unfinished conversation.'Stuart Hall. What began as an exploration of the complicated landscape in South Africa, later evolved into a study of the artist's own personal ties to the country she left so young. Emigrating from a nation riddled with crime post-apartheid, Husselmann has lived in England for most of her life, and yet continues to struggle with her cultural identity, split between the two nations she calls as home. 'A Predicament' follows Husselmann's journey around South Africa as she gets to know the country again, in an attempt to find her place within it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Jones
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Gentlemans Club' is an exploration of the controversial topic of strip clubs. The body of work represents the overlooked beauty of the space inhabited by strippers. In focussing on the composition of the club, it is possible to view this space as an elegant environment, as opposed to the seedy establishment labeled to it. By photographing this space architecturally, the initial connotations of a Gentlemans Club are not apparent, instantly questioning whether it is possible that these images represent the work place of a stripper. The linear and balanced construction of the imagery informs the viewer of the controlled environment presented to them, and perhaps highlights a truthful judgement, in contrast with the generic connotations already attached to them. This work is heavily associated with the theme of spectatorship, as every individual who enters this space is inﬂuenced by the visual stimulation available. The imagery of seating highlights the theme of voyeurism with the absence of a portrait. Similarly this is portrayed in the photographing of the main attraction, the stage. Although there is no human presence, the imagery portrays the space as if there were. The human absence leaves the viewer to look upon the space with an open mind, forming their own discourse and judgement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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George Newing
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Equilibrium is a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced equally. My work plays with the ideas of utilising forces and within structure, that go into forming the fundamental elements that allow balance to occur. Each structure balances in place for as long as the unseen force within it remains in a state of equilibrium. Completely temporary in the way they exist, it is this force that gives the structures their life span. From that, I was able to capture these structures in a way that gives the subject matter a sense of power and prestige. It is the equilibrium of force that goes unseen within the structures that allows it to maintain balance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Pates
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Megan Pates often plays on the notion of memory and ideas of representation, predominantly through surrealism, within her photographic work. Visually, her work is playful and explores the staged image, in which scenes are often reconstructed from both memory or imagination obscured by elements of surrealism, within her projects. Pates' most recent project, 'Ready or Not' is an autobiographical series of images based on the childhood game, 'Hide and Seek.' By creating the sets of rooms from memory, she investigates the contortion of the body and growth, and represents this by hiding in her own images in the same places and the same way, however in her current adult body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dainius Sciuka
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Lithuanian photographer Dainius Sciuka presents a study of the street; small bite-sized pieces of how personal taste is manifested through today's everyday man and woman's style. The initial inspiration for this project came to him three years ago when he watched his first documentary about Bill Cunningham, one of the masters and creators of the street style genre. The original, as one may argue, Sartorialist's passion for the originality in the streets of New York City were the initial push to the creation of this project. Sciuka's work, vigilantly stirring away from the heavily saturated fashion week material and the official fashion scene of the five different cities in the world where he decided to point his camera, aims to showcase the real street. Fascinated by how the masses are experimenting with fashion and style he captures the individuals that pique his interest trying to imprint their essence in the leeting photograph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Slocombe
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Through the projects Q2 and Traces, I have revealed a unique insight into spaces many of us encounter on a regular basis. Q2 is an empty office block, and it is only when the building is free from any evidence of people that we can really appreciate the space for what it is. Traces looks into the small, normally unnoticed, details that go into a nightclub and the subtle traces left behind by people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kat Springate
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project documents the life of Sophie blue. Sophie is a post-op transsexual, dominatrix prostitute with a 9 year old son. Poverty and addiction are issues explored throughout my project as well as the impact of recent benefit cuts resulting in Sophie's need to turn to prostitution. Taking a 'fly on the wall approach' when documenting Sophie's life I embedded myself into her daily life and photographed the many ups and downs over a period of a year. The project explores the conflict between the role she plays as father and escort, the book consist of images taken by not only myself but her Son Adian and her client 'Steve the slave'. Nearing the end of my project Sophie sadly found out her liver and kidneys are badly damaged and she will need a transplant in the near future. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Thirgood
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Storytelling and fashion are things that coincide with one another and it is this approach I took when using youth as a base for this fashion inspired work, I used the well know Beatrix Potter story 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'. My work is a shadowy and moody adaptation of the tale, combining radical notions of performativity and vogue. I wanted this work be envisioned as a surrealist approach to the use of the tale, to transform it into a form of realism to construct something raw and untreated; the fashion facet can then live through the fabrication of the imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Brock
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I like to focus on political/cultural issues that relate to current climates such as the financial situation in previous years. I have recently explored themes of idealism within media, feminism and currently wish to focus upon the detachment of the general population from the government. I particularly wished to highlight certain political decisions made that disregard the health and safety of our population and landscape. I wanted to feature clothing that reflected the zeitgeist. Inspired by the potential toxicity of nuclear power; Fallout is a post-punk themed editorial, that imagines the model in a vast wasteland, suffering the consequences of a fallout. She is left alone in the wilderness to fend for herself yet contemplates her newly found freedom. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Giola Cassar
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Giola Cassar (b.1989, Malta) is an emerging artist who is intrigued by the relationship between languages, and how both text and image can work together as well as contradict one another, and as a result create very different narratives. The inspirations and ideas for her work stem from various influences, such inspirations are broken down and analysed, and at times explored to a greater extent, which enable her to put together a study or illustration conveying both the visual and the concept at hand. Her work aims to generate intrigue and raise questions, rather than provide answers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Salvador Dewald
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Adrift, is a project that begun its journey through the focus on the idea that reality is just a fabrication of our imagination and was furthered by how mental illnesses distort, manipulate or change the perception of ones idea of reality, this project focuses within mental illnesses as 1 in 4 people in the UK will be affected by a mental illness at least once in their lifetime. The work is highly constructed to play on the idea of the distorted reality, or that the perception of reality is just a fabricated created by ones imagination with or without acknowledgment, the project is a close journey masked by the constructed spaces with pauses within the book of reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ollie Gapper
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"Forgetting Heaven: A Sojourner's Guide To The American Frontier" examines the reconstruction of the American Frontier as manipulated and tailored for the quintessential American leisure-time that is RV camping. 'As I understand it, that was a valid objection urged by Momus against the house which Minerva made, that she "had not made it movable, by which means a bad neighborhood might be avoided"; and it may still be urged, for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves.' [sic] Henry David Thoreau, Walden . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sandra Grabowska
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In the 21st century we are free to believe in whatever we want, either to create our own God. There are tens of thousands different gods world-wide. Finding this freedom of our beliefs I went to early days of my country (Poland) and Slav territory to look at the main Slavic deity Svetovid. The goddess who was associated with war, heaven, fertility and abundance. Svetovid was depicted as a four-headed god, where each head was looking at each side of the world. For example the Holy Bible says that 'No one has ever seen God', and in Muslim, Allah is represented by the sign. In the way God is a formless thing, inner figure of our beliefs and imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ramona Guntert
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The photographed objects oscillate between a human and brutish appearance. With the interest in things that are elusive, I photograph found objects, surfaces and combine them with fictional or staged images. Traces like scratches or hair are shown without revealing any further details about their origin. Inspired by German myths, I use the idea of masks or costumes as transformation from a human being into an animal, which is represented symbolically in the photographs. This notion of displacement represents the idea of a boundary between the self and other, but also combines the past with the present. The mask or the costume can be compared with skin: it is a border like a surface of a rock, hair, or feathers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ingrid Gustafsson
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The work explores a deep relationship between the artist and a place that is no longer a part of her everyday life. Now when returning only sporadically to the island where she grew up - seasons become distorted and time itself seems to fast-forward through quick cuts from one scene to the next. Change is inevitable, but memories and feelings remain. When does what you see become something different from reality? Originally inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Gustafsson questions whether it is really ever possible to return once you have left. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sanaa Hamid
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"My Body Is Not Your Battleground" is a two-part, UK and Pakistan based, photographic exploration of what it means to be a South Asian woman today, specifically in terms of identity, religion, education and femininity. The title stems from feeling like South Asian women are often spoken on behalf of, diluted and generalised, a political pawn. The women I photographed were bold, creative, progressive and therefore expressive of their own agency. There's a relentless misconception in the West that South Asian women cannot both represent traditionalism and religion as well as modernity and progress and are oppressed, which is certainly not the case and exhausting to see in the media. The body of work is an aggressive dismissal of stereotypes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bradley Helbert
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This photo series aims to show the waste which people leave outside their houses and on the streets. This issue affected me in a negative way, I wanted to highlight how this was an important problem in the area which I have been living in for the last three years. Alongside photographing the items, I also took close ups. I felt that a lot of the surfaces and textures were interesting and I was able to create abstract images which highlighted the waste in a beautiful way; the viewer is unable to formulate an idea of what the content of the photo is therefore the waste is seen in a positive light rather than a negative one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Hollingbery
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ben is a keen landscape photographer, greatly influenced by the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams. He is colourblind and so prefers to work in black and white where possible. Being colourblind means that shape and texture play a greater role in his landscape photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Kale
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Using the artists own figural form within the night, her gestures become a performance with her suburban setting. Through the quiet of darkness the artist's body begins to take on a new form, one that is struggling against the compressions and anxieties associated with the mundane and dormant suburban life, into something 'other' that is unobtainable to conscious comprehension. Flash is used to violently still this gesture, not to expose the unknown but to add to the mystery of it. Taking on this animalistic state, the artist undergoes a transformation to the state in-between conscious and subconscious thought. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josie McCann
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My photography delves into the world of the female form, feminism, fashion, media issues and voyeurism. I experiment with these subjects both on-location and in the studio, primarily using female models whilst shooting digitally. I also like to experiment with my work by using various types of lighting, styling and settings. I explore, photograph and reveal the hidden depths of the female form; ranging from female beauty, body shape, fantasies and character. Whether this is in a portrait style, an answered or interpreted issue within the media or a narrative theme. I believe that the female form is something to be acknowledged, admired, celebrated and revealed for all that it is and all that it can be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chel Negus
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The theme 'motherhood' is often looked at with rose-tinted glasses. I wanted to give this notion a reality-check. Not to shock, but to encompass the role of a mother as a whole. There are the joyful, serene, affirming moments. But there's lot of pain, anxiety, stress and work too! I feel acknowledging all of these important parts of motherhood, rather than sweeping them under the carpet, gives value to the role of the mother. Through my series I photographed various paraphernalia that will be very familiar to mothers. Each object stands as a symbol of some part of a mother's experience or role, through pregnancy, birth and then caring for a baby in the early months of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Overbury
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Amy Louise Overbury's (b.1993) photographic and sensory body of work 'Petrichor: A Social Study of Rain', is an investigation into the social reaction and behaviour in response to the experience of rain; focussing on human perception and reaction in relation to emotion, environment and attire. We perceive the world through conscious experience and perception of phenomena; the project delves into the psychological effect that rain has on us; everyone has a story about the weather, whether it be positive or negative. In British culture in particular the weather is a controlling aspect of life, our emotions, reactions and attire, through experience of our environment. Large format photography is utilised alongside naturally lit portraits to epitomise the gritty reality of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christine Sanderson
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I believe we sometimes take what we see in the photographic world for granted if it looks the least bit believable. I think this can be a dangerous thing when photo-manipulation such as retouching is the root of so many people's body issues. In my series I am addressing what I believe to be a serious issue within the photographic industry but in a somewhat playful way and a way I feel is unique to me. The series is of constructed scenes designed to look like realistic, everyday scenarios. I use fake objects chosen carefully for believability and have photographed them in a way so as they fit in with the real surrounding context to challenge our perception of photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harry Scott
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Examining the limits to the photographic medium is something Scott has done through much of his work. Challenging the standard perception of preserving a moment that comes with the archival process of taking a photograph. Spinning these notions by placing ephemeral qualities and methodologies to challenge the information contained in a photograph to add to its very being. In the exhibited body of work, 'Paint is Paint' Scott has taken the traditional use of a Portrait to challenge what an image can truly show. Pigment, chemical and digital content shown to be what it is, at the same time show its equal value as you were viewing a 'traditional' portrait print. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nikita Shergill
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The school is a place of disciplinary regimes where its pupils cannot resist conforming to the practices of intense examination. The school is a complex space that harbours growth, play, experimentation, adolescence, maturity and sexual development but socially functions to critically impose boundaries of authority over achievement. The psychological invisible structures suppress the body to surrender to the subjection of being constantly tested. 'Educational Procedures' makes the body visible to these social disciplinary instructions looking at the social pressure of education in the UK through the foreboding space that invites certain levels of expectations and behaviours. These theoretical images look at the controlled experience of school under the culture of regulation to measure individuality and to assign their place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Squires
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Wonder is a photographic project about feelings of being mentally lost, unknowing of direction and aimless wondering within your own mental circles, Until you can't see a way back. Created during a period of creative block where I felt lost to the point of floating within the feelings of unknowing and confusion. With feeling of pressure of what a major project should be I decided to let the pressure go and went about creating still life photographs of these feelings, the incorporate the flowers that have been ever so present from the start. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ian Wisbey
UCA Rochester - BA Hons Photography Contemporary Practice
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The city of Lens and its outlying areas have been influenced by the destructive nature of both the coal mining industry and by the massive trauma caused by the First World War. Almost 30 years since the mines closed and nearly 100 years since the start of the war and the wounds opened are only just starting to heal. Working with composite imagery my project explores the way in which the scars of the past can resonate through the landscape, with a focus on memorials and historical sites, entities maintained as constant reminders to all of the true destructive power of man. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melissa Bennett
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Kayleigh is a documentary piece that has an insider element: capturing images of my close friend who suffers from chronic social anxiety. My work uses both monochrome and colour to represent her different mood levels and states of mind. Through gathering information and images from her past and taking present photographs my work allows the viewer an intimate insight into my subjects' life. The final result is a book with a diaristic aesthetic, including physical photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Meadwell
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In retrospect, this series that initially looked at memory and nostalgia within the domestic space was subconsciously a grieving method. We do not just store belongings within our personal space, we attach sentiment, value and memories to these, reflecting on how we want to be viewed and how we view ourselves. These spaces, that are void of human presence, begin to show signs of absence and yet presence of time spent and memories captured. Loss can be a time to reflect, allowing daily life within the domestic space to have new meaning and to gain new sentiment, with this the importance of family and memory becomes more poignant than ever. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Normansell
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project explores the idea of non places. These are places we travel through frequently, however we never stop to engage with them. I have explored this through documenting derelict railway lines that were once a non place, and to some extent still are. I am giving the viewer a chance to experience these places without the strict time constraints, they usually observe these places within. The body of work also features the idea of our landscape being a canvas for time, through the way in which it documents how man's neglect effects the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emlyn Northcote-Rojas
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Candid fleeting moments and notions of memory form the basis of this project. For fear of losing touch of memory, my final piece is an expression of this trepidation. Drawing influence from personal snapshots and social documentary, I realised the difference between the photographic representation of a moment and ones memory of that moment. Memory is a recording of ones emotional response that doesn't capture everything within an experience and distorts over time. The image is the conduit from which memory is communicated and connotes aspects of a life that was, and the transient relationships that fade with it. Concerned with themes of nostalgia for the longing of remnants of the past that embolden the desire to relive a moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morgan Smith
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'200' is a body of work separated between four books each standing alone yet working together to present an abstracted views of an urban environment. The books display a deconstruction of the urban environment to allow the viewer to focus on the uniqueness of each detail that is ordinarily lost in the enormity of the constructed urban environment. An example of man, not seeing the wood for the trees, so I have culled the trees to reveal the beauty in the minutiae. This project has been a self-exploration a trip into the unknown I have captured the existing but unnoticed patterns and forms in the environment and with them expanded the abstract to create my own order and form. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Amesbury
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My imagery is a reflection upon the conflicts that arise between domestic and public space; in other words when one condition takes on the appearance of the other, leading to visual disjuncture. Set in Suburbia, 'Privet' explores this monotonous environment, built upon concepts of community and tradition, referencing the Bourgeois notion of the home being the epitome of security. However, in today's culture of surveillance, highlighted by Google Earth, it has never been easier to access the lives of others. These walls, and hedges, have become a product of society, providing 'protection' from the world. Simultaneously able to conceal and project the inhabitant. As the home is concealed, manicured hedges and twitches of net-curtains become indications of activity behind the 'veneer'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Angell
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'HP2' is a documentation of the area of my hometown that I grew up in. The name 'HP2', coming from the area's postcode of Grovehill, Hemel Hempstead. The project captures the unique and unusual qualities of a place I grew up seeing as monotonous and mundane, as well as capturing objects and evidence left by those that currently live there and building they occupy, that would often go unnoticed in a small suburban area of a town. Immortalizing objects that are often viewed as random refuse or the inevitable residue of modern suburban life. This bitter sweet representation of a place which has been a massive influence on my life gives the impression that despite the concrete architecture and disheveled greenery there is still beauty and interest to be found. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lydia Barnard
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

21.12.86 is a body of work demonstrating the creation of abstract portraits. Each individual image replicates the confusion and how daily mundane tasks can appear overwhelming to my brother. Adam has a rare disability causing cognitive, physical and medical challenges which impact on his everyday skills, which seem banal to us, but are a struggle for him. Everyday tasks we usually learn at a young age like buttering bread, and doing the laundry, Adam still finds challenging at the age of 27. Theorist, Michel de Certeau, has also studied the practice of 'The Everyday' and examines the cultural practices including the repetitiveness of general activities, such as, catching a bus and cooking. His work offers insights into the undervalued and neglected space around us and how people individualise within mass culture. Each photograph contains 100 individual photographs, all a reflection of Adam carrying out an 'Everyday' task each hour. An idea of 100 images compressed into one, reflects how there is a vast amount of information stored within the image, and how overwhelming a 'simplistic' task can be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Scott Bradstock
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Nature of The Beast' is a project about the good and the evil within human nature. The project tries to show these two sides of the human soul in a different light and attempts to show humans as wild woodland creatures. The first, living in a lush well grown part of the forest, bathed in sunlight and nature, contrasting the second, which shows a dying and decaying part of the forest, where the sun light is scarce and only roots and dead wood grow. Both good and evil represent the different sides of human nature, consumption and morality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Gaffney
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This Project focuses on my Grandfather, as when he was twenty-one years old he fainted in a fire. He was treated for his burns at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. This hospital is where the pioneer of plastic surgery Archibald McIndoe in World War II was based and came up with new techniques here, which has influenced plastic surgery today. I have focused on the trauma of what all of these men in the war went through here, as they were the first men to be treated on with the new techniques. I have focused on the walk to the theaters, to capture the thoughts that must of been going through their heads at this time, not knowing how the outcome would be after the operations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nisha Haq
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'A Date with Venus' explores connotations of the female nude, particularly young females and their relationship with a heterosexual female photographer. The entirety of the project was photographed in my bedroom studio where this heightens intimacy between photographer, sitter and spectator. Many of my sitters were surprised to be asked by a female as patriarchy inflicts the view that the female body is used as an object of sexual pleasure solely feeding the male gaze. The unusual nature of taking nude photographs where neither sitter or photographer are sexually attracted to each other eliminates sexual motive and is a means to purely study the nude where unfamiliar relations are experienced. This project explores intimacy, beauty, the gaze and questions the nude. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Katz
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My work is a typological showcase of structures I found within the New Forest; built from branches and twigs, they are dotted through the woodland, yet there is no trace of who built them or why. This brought to my attention a human's way of interacting with nature. How the space and materials at hand have been used to create something with a purpose, whether it be for pure entertainment or for more practical reasons such as creating cover from the elements. Each structure differed in shape and creativity, resulting in a haunting atmosphere throughout the forest. The branches stripped of colour from the winter left behind shells of unknown intention which exist long after each creator has gone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Knightley
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I have experimented with abstraction and interesting viewpoints; I am interested in portraying the land as it is but also including extraordinary views of familiar objects, particularly nature. This questions the perception of the viewer by seeing something unusual and different I am changing the way we look at things we would usually pass by without noticing. The images particularly explore composition and an exploration of 'seeing'. This work involves ideas of 'existence', the act of being or not being within the space or environment; or the idea of 'interaction' with the landscape, how this effects or influences our actions when surrounded by nature and our 'interconnectivity' and this idea that we are closer to nature than we might think. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Rabey
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series is based around the Titanic, possibly the most deadliest peacetime maritime disaster to have ever occurred. Instead of addressing the topic from a upper class fashion perspective, the focus was directed more towards the traumatic side of the incident, indicating pain, suffering and distress. The collection is heavily narrative based and I have used styled portraits in order to reveal a story about each character depicted, from a trapped passenger and dead corpse to a captain in much distress. Using fashion, make-up and clothing, my main objective was to show the levels of emotional impact that the Titanic would have had on many peoples lives during this particular era. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Robinson
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Material' is an exploration into the culture and environment behind local artists, their studios and field of expertise by combining influence's from Victorian portraiture and neoclassical paintings.  Exhibiting the portraits along-side isolated still life photographs of tools sheds a new light on the portrait, by removing an object from the everyday we look at the series and its new presence on a wall as something we've never even witnessed before, by suggesting a person's profession in this form, you're left with a deeply suggestive piece of work, which forms a mind set of contemplation and consideration towards these people as members of society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Rose
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Central to my practice is an exploration of architectural form and our movement through space. Ideas of observation and surveillance also surface, forming a discussion of public and private space in the contemporary urban landscape. Imprint explores notions of the uncanny, played out in the architectural space of the city through the subtle erosion of structure. The abstract compositions question the documentary capacity of the medium while displacing the viewer, occupying a space between immersion and unease. During the night, these structures stand as empty shells, illuminated by artificial light. Focusing on texture and surface, the absence of figures alludes to a sense of solitude that pervades the environment at this time, offering a reflective, contemplative interaction with urban space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Sharplin-Hughes
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Nuclear Politics' is a project about 'Greenham Common', land that was once heavily used by the Ministry of Defense and the US air force throughout World War II and the Cold War; abandoned in 1997 it was left open for the public to roam. Control towers, missile silos and remnants of the once longest runway in Europe were left behind giving individuals access to an area that was once of high security and importance. I wanted to question whether this land was dangerous, and understand the military presence surrounding the base. Photographing using Aerochrome film; a type of media that had heavy military usage, I began to question the history behind the landscape using the garish pink colors as a metaphor for the nuclear past behind the space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Davie Walker
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

From a very young age the forest is presented as a place where amazing and scary stories happen. As wild and made up as they are, they still leave an impression, be it a scary one or a happy one. As adults we suppress this, and our connection with the forest fades, however there is still a fear of the forest. When the sun goes down, and the light disappears, the woodland turns into a different place, this is when our imaginations takes over and you can't help but be fearful of the darkness. I aim for my forest / woodland work to be reminiscent of the way we think about the forest in terms of our exposure to mythology and childhood memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chihin Wong
Southampton Solent University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project I wanted to look at the traces of wars in my home of Jersey, via bunkers. These ruins have been abandoned and forgotten; yet they are still ingrained in the landscapes. With these neglected areas the remains have been greatly hidden by the overgrown environment, causing these man-altered landscapes into run its course and nature has retaken the land that was once theirs, therefore I highlighted them in a way that reveals and presents them. However I found the light coming from inside the bunkers gave a mystery and fantasy element to the photograph, as the light would give an atmosphere that felt mystical and eerie, as it welcomes you to the unknown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jenna Campbell
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

These series of photographs are inspired by the Northern Ireland 'Troubles.' At a young age l discovered that my uncle had died during the Troubles. As I got older, l had imagined his violent death through the cinematic and atmospheric deaths of characters in gangster films such as "Road to Perdition" and "Goodfellas." As a child l didn't realise the horrific violence of the Troubles. I became interested in the story surrounding the "Shankill Butchers." Each of their victims where viciously beaten and had their throats hacked with a butcher's knife. I recreated some of these murders at the original crime scenes where they had occurred. I reinvented some of the murders with an added cinematic atmosphere. For effect, I concealed the anonymous victim's identity by wrapping them in white sheets to create a mysterious atmosphere. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Cochrane
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I was diagnosed at the age of three years and three months with a sensori-neural bi-lateral hearing loss. This is the most common type of permanent hearing loss and can result in different levels of deafness. Mine is a moderate hearing loss which means I can hear some sounds but at muted levels.These photographs represent my soundless mornings, the time before I put my hearing aids in, a time when the limits of my hearing actually provide me a comfort, allowing me to more gradually engage with the day ahead. After this time in the morning, my day is enhanced by the wonderful technology that opens up a sound filled, busy world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linda Conroy
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In its basic of definitions Atheism is described as a "Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods". My specific interest and starting point for this work lay in a consideration of what relevance our species may have in a universe without any divine presence. How do we deal with issues such as mortality, existence and meaning? Portrait of an Atheist consists of a series of portraits made within environments containing created and preserved historical objects. The setting allows the sitters an opportunity to contemplate their own place in the context of history and time. Accompanying the portraits is a set of microscopic images that further explore our relationship to matter and meaning. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Naomi Dass
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Touch, the physical act of connecting with another person, even a stranger is a powerful expression. It creates an instant intimacy where none existed before. This series of photographs follows three refugees and asylum seekers who offer free services to other asylum seekers and refugees which all revolve around the intimate sense of touch, a masseuse, a henna tattooist and a hairdresser. The dichotomy of the life of an asylum seeker in Northern Ireland, a lonely existence alongside this human interaction offers an inverse symmetry to the series. This series looks at the way the subjects can achieve a state of trust and intimacy with others that has previously been denied them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dara Flanagan
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This piece explores the perception of time past, present, and, moving towards a speculated end to the universe, through a symbolic use of colour, imagery and distortion. The use of video is crucial to allow the manipulation of speed which is intentionally warped paralleling the universe itself. I have considered the order of the universe from the past through to a theorised future, playing with time as a measurement of the duration of events and exploring the intervals in-between. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Glass
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Confinement or Sanctuary? Words that we might reflect on looking at these birds. Can we, as people, fly as far as we want, or are we constrained by our own lives and commitments? These interiors draw upon our conscious understanding of freedom - its limits and possibilities. The photographs draw upon a custom that has grown in the best interest of the birds. Born tame, they can no longer survive in the wild. The bird owners become their protectors - whilst the birds themselves, in turn, become members of the family; nurtured, cared for and - for a brief moment - freed from their cages and allowed to fly freely within the confinement of the home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Gonsalves Moore
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ordinances and Angels is about the observation of dress codes within the evangelical Christian tradition in Northern Ireland. This body of work documents to the practice of head-covering informed by biblical belief. Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? (1 Corinthians 11:13) (KJV). Brought up within the Free Presbyterian Church and Brethren Sunday School, the photographer draws upon an insider experience in making a series of portraits which are non-traditional and dignified. In adopting a heavenly viewpoint what is made strange and concealed is countered by what is revealed. The use of such a viewing point suggests a search for other perceptual possibilities beyond 'reason or religiosity'. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jan Gorman
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This examines experiences related to living with impaired vision. Vision is the most imperative of our senses but its depreciation is something over which we have no control. The eyes are the second most complex organ in the human body overcome only by the brain. But with the intricacy of the eye, comes its fragility. I have worked to imagine what the associated experiences of visual deterioration and chose to explore retinas that are in some way physically compromised. I then combined these images with landscapes and the ambiguous darkness of night, these images sit alongside photographs of glasses with amplified lenses belonging to people with vision impairment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Graham
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

When I became sick I found myself detaching from everything. With the parts that defined my Nature no longer naturally staying in place, I was forced into a desperate task of survival, only to finally realise one thing: 'Perhaps you can never truly fix your self, only allow it to heal.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Hagan
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

At the Edge' is a body of work that looks at boulders that are found mapping the landscapes that surround us. These boulders are found at the edges of industrial estates, throughout housing developments, within parks and lining roads throughout Northern Ireland. Used during the 'troubles' here in Northern Ireland, both by the military/police force and paramilitaries, they performed as structural limitations, containing areas, creating boundaries and marking territories. The project is an investigation of the modern use of this type of defensive architecture within contemporary landscapes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Johnston
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Until now it has been mostly independent companies and brands that delegated skate fashion, but these companies also came from and support skateboarding. The latest company to try capitalising off skateboarding is UK clothing giant Topman. This isn't the first time aspects of skate fashion have worked their way into street fashion though. The vulcanised shoe, such as Vans can be seen on every other person on the high street. Snap-back hats, skinny jeans and graphic t shirts have all been popularised by skateboarding and this copy cat culture has left many skaters angry that they think they can just steal their individuality. This series looks at everyday people on the street who wear clothes that have stemmed from skateboarding. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Lewis
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The term 'wild swimming' has been used to describe the age-old practise of swimming in natural waters, be it lakes, rivers or the ocean. Unlike the restrictive and somewhat clinical environment of constructed, chlorine-filled swimming pools, wild swimming allows people to escape to the outdoors and return to the true essence and exhilaration of swimming in natural surroundings and fresh water. The individuals featured in this series regularly venture into the wild to swim in some of the most unique swimming havens across Northern Ireland. This series aims to reveal the adventurous nature of these individuals; they do not view swimming as a competitive, indoor sport, but rather an animated, outdoor activity to be enjoyed within the natural landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Magowan
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project was a collaboration with the Northern Ireland Built Environment Centre, PLACE to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Craigavon. Craigavon was a planned settlement in Northern Ireland which began in 1965. For various reasons around 50% of the area's planning never went forward and the vision of this futuristic 'New City' was never realized. Through a series of landscape photographs and portraits this project explores how over 50 years Craigavon has developed it's own unique landscape and sense of identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sollie McDaniel
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

My images explore how young internationals, living in Northern Ireland, make "home from home." Food says a great deal about culture, serving as a reminder of national identity. The food cupboard is representative of the individual, defining them, both culturally and personally. The cupboard is a shell, like the body, containing an identity. The cupboards demonstrate how individuals adapt to local culture. A sense of displacement arises away from home, national identity often lost in the face of a new culture. Yet, internationals bring with them new traditions, insights and flavours, challenging the status quo of locals. The cupboards explore how young internationals retain their own sense of cultural identity, how they "fit in" without losing their heritage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Mooney
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

"Tea" is a series of documentary images containing a variety of locations and people. I wish to portray a society revealing itself through tea. I believe the tradition of tea drinking has created a sense of friendship and great community well-being since it has originated. A social gathering around the table for tea signifies an important pause from other daily activities. My images convey that regardless of occupation, situation or social activity, the importance of tea is prevalent in bringing people together. Therefore my images leave that sense of belonging and amity that we feel when we have our tea, absorbing that moment in time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susanne Morrison
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In today's modern society the demand for fuel has increased rapidly in order to feed our demand to further technology and improve our quality of life. This has created the need for Fracking, a process involving extracting natural gas from rock deep in the earth surface and has become an increasing alternative method used to produce fuel. This process has been faced with wide criticism due to the environmental consequences which can arise. Currently in Northern Ireland several areas have been marked for possible Fracking sites including County Fermanagh where these images where taken. To illustrate the possible devastation this process would have on such a beautiful landscape, each photograph was hit with a sandblaster ripping and puncturing the scenery to illustrate the scarred landscape as a direct result of Fracking. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stanislav Nikolov
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Bulgarian word for living room is 'Hol', ironically meaning 'Hall' as in a large room for assembly, meetings or entertainment in the English language. However, these typical Bulgarian cabinets located in the 'Hols' of the high-rise communist era, standard town and city apartments are in fact the grandest item in the living room and the whole apartment. Shared also with a suite of furniture. A large part of these cabinets is used for storage, another part for displaying the families' most prized possessions, another for photographs and souvenirs from around the world. The sitting areas outside are resident-made extensions of the 'Hol', where they gather in the evening as an extension of the living, meeting and entertaining space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Orla O'Neill
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This work focuses on Wiccan witchcraft in Northern Ireland. Wicca is a Nature oriented religion that puts emphasis on living in harmony with all things in the Universe. Wiccan people are considered white witches and do not worship Satan or summon demons. As a form of neo- paganism I wanted to change the stereotypical view we often have of witchcraft. The work features portraits of witches against areas of Wiccan significance accompanied with images of tools often used during their rituals. The work explores a different and often misunderstood type of paganism. The images feature aspects and people involved in this religion that most Northern Irish people know nothing about. Christianity and it's involvement in Northern Ireland has influenced my interest in exploring alternative religions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Scott
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Bessie Bell is a mountain near Baronscourt in Co. Tyrone, at the southernmost part of the Sperrin mountain range. The mountain named Sliabh Troim (The Mountain of the Elders) by the Celts and later Bessie Bell by the Planters, has maintained an anthropological link to power and spirituality for at least 5000 years. From its Neolithic portal tombs dating from 3000BC, to the monumental 'Steel Henge' of wind turbines encircling the mountain top; the stone cairn on the summit, marking the grave of Donald Gorm (1000AD), to the documented standing stones and stone circles. The Mountain of Elders is a photography project that documents both the incongruity, and harmony, of man-made structures within the landscape, capturing the impact of human activity over thousands of years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Stitt
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work is a two-part series that explores music cognition and the re-collection of memories. The first phase of the work was made in 2012 as a photographic response to a piece of music. In this work I investigated the parallels between sound, imagery and the cognitive process. During this time my father was ill. He later passed away. Consequently my relationship to the music changed, now harbouring emotions that transcend my initial experience. When I hear the music I re-engage with memories, evoking an emotional response. In the second phase I returned to the forest a year later, focusing on my attachment to place. This time, not being guided by the music, but being aware of the associated sensory memories and the personal significance the music has now come to hold. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Karolina Szymczak
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A woman is never more of an individual than in her response to the conformity of motherhood. Hidden Woman is a project based on my personal observations and reflections on the role of motherhood in a woman's life. My portraits explore the concept of emotional identity and how self-expression and behaviour can communicate internal concerns. This is a visualization of the belief that in the moment of becoming a mother, a woman can experience a loss in the 'power of autonomy', which can lead her to relying on the daughter as a channel through which she can convey and express her own individuality. Engaging with a complex mother-daughter relationship, my work leans towards an exploration of the essence of their emotional bond. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ross Young
University of Ulster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Rank is project that explores the communal living spaces of military personnel in both British and Irish barracks. The images explore how each rank division spends their time out of combat and they show the unique lifestyles that soldiers lead. The images are also a historical look at both military's on how they are now and the links to the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Naomi Goddard
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Continuing a personal body of work located in food anthropology, Naomi Goddard spent three weeks in Israel documenting how aspects of food culture are inscribed into the landscape, from the domestic to the commercial, observing how religion and ritual influence the structures of everyday routines. Focusing on the Jewish dietary law and symbols of food, she discovers how abiding to customs and traditions of eating can bring people together, as the people dictate and root themselves in the Holy Land. Quiet and reflective in tone, Naomi's photographs offer a personal insight into the lives of individuals and households and point to a wider sense of identity in 'the land flowing with milk and honey.' . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marton Gosztonyi
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project has grown out of a series of photographs I have been working on over the past year. In my mind it's a dialogue between the culture and vibe of two cities, Budapest where I was born and Bristol where I now live. I am fascinated by the space and objects that surround us, the way we shape our environment and how our environment shapes us, affecting our mood and influencing our taste. I am also interested in the way we associate memories and feelings with a certain place, something I felt very strongly when revisiting Budapest after so long away. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phil Hather
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Maps are a way of organising topography. Buildings, motorways, rivers, forests, categorised and aligned along the grids and contours. In this project I allow the organised nature of the OS map to be reinterpreted by chance. The map is left in the garden under wood and stones. After several days the map becomes soggy and attracts small slugs and snails that eat away at the paper. The result is a map full of small holes - these holes become markers for the locations that I photograph. This process is intended as a playful rejection of the typical grandeur of land art. Each object photographed in its location is site specific, relating in some way back to its place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Hill
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I've always had a fascination with the condition of life on and beyond our planet, which strongly influences the work I produce on various levels. This is reflected in my project 'Transfiguration' in which I explore the south coast of England, capturing the constantly evolving coastline that yields 180 million years of geological history. I have used the moon as my primary light-source in this particular project, subtly bringing life to the natural forms that constitute the coastlines I have depicted. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Manning
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

As humans one of our most primal desires is for self-preservation, and due to new technologies we are able to postpone the course of nature both medically and cosmetically. Because of the possibilities that come with developing technologies, our relationship to death and decay has become further removed. I wanted to explore what happens when we lose our control and cannot stop nature. I often use organic materials to explore human nature and for this project I used rotting fruit because of its connotations with the Vanitas genre, playing with the paradox of the attraction and seduction felt towards the colour and texture and discomfort experienced when meaning and material is discovered. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cian Oba-Smith
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Image making forms a part of Cian's daily life and is informed by instantaneous encounters and moments with strangers and close friends alike. Although he would not restrict himself to one genre of photography, he states that the majority of his work falls into the realm of documentary portraiture, however his process is often that of a fine art photographer in the sense that he enjoys making slow images and communicating a story through the use of visual imagery. He predominantly shoots analog using a mixture of 35mm, medium and large format film depending on what he feels works best with the project he is focused on. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ameena Rojee
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I journeyed to China to pursue my interest in Kung Fu, and instead I found a strange yet beautiful fusion between the traditional and the contemporary that echoed contrasts and concepts that were closer to home than I realised. Kung Fu is an art that is shrouded in mystery and myth, and I travelled across the world to immerse myself in something completely unknown to me - and yet in that experience I found an unanticipated familiarity among the visible ongoing shift between the old world and the new world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Teasdale
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The Magdalene Laundries were founded in 1765, by Catholic nuns in Ireland, to house 'fallen women' and offer them security, guidance and direction in their lives. By the time the last laundry finally closed in 1996, there were many revelations from former inmates that whilst isolated from the outside world, they endured sexual, psychological and physical abuse in these 'asylums.' The women who worked in the Magdalene Laundries are still campaigning for justice today. This project considers all of the institutions. The book is a consolidation of the information collected throughout my journeys to and around the ten different laundries, which I hope will help inform people about these institutions and what the spaces have now become. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charley Williams
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Charley Williams is a photographer who likes to shoot the world as it comes; she believes the thrill lies in catching the right moment or angle, rather than creating something completely from scratch. She uses her work to articulate responses to wider issues surrounding her subjects. 'Ark' is a project exploring the inevitable human influence on animals living within a zoo environment. Many zoos offer expensive 'wildlife' photography experiences, which invite attendees to zoom in close, blur the background and buy into the false reality of the wild animal. Her work takes the viewer beyond the frame of the average tourist photo, to purposefully include the unwanted human influence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ross Williams
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Ross explores social anthropological aspects of places, juxtaposed with his own personal responses. From this viewpoint he continues to investigate both the banal and the sublime; not as a documentary study in a purely transcriptive form but as a way of further understanding his own distinct associations with a site. The most recent project Ross has undertaken resulted in a body of work that shows the progression of a way of making photographs he has become accustomed to. Situated in Berlin, the almost quantifiable weight of the history of this location was compelling enough for Ross to return and spend a month surveying the city using the Mauerweg Trail, where the Berlin wall once stood as a primary reference point. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dan Wye
University of the West of England - BA (Hons) Photography
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Dan Wye works primarily within the medium of fine art photography. Wye's work typically focuses mainly on heritage, preservation and animal rights. His latest work creates a visual narrative of young love, referencing a series of found love letters that were written during the 1950s. Wye has been developing his own letters, gathering images from the time period of the letters and photographing locations mentioned in the letters. He then looks to present all of the sources together so that the public can explore this brief glimpse into the naive and insecure world of young love. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bettina Adela
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A documentary piece which focuses on a connection between 5 young ladies of no relation with each other. Lorena, Amina, Keira, Charlee and Ayesha allow us to get to know who they are now. The project identifies the links and connections that the ladies have and helps us as viewers open our mind's more to the similarities we all share as beings. In an interview alongside these portraits we hear each one of their stories and transitions of understanding their sexual identity. We learn about them and get a chance to listen to how they feel others may perceive their self image alongside their sexual identities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruth Bridget Brennan
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Rather than presenting, as Geoff Dyer does in The Ongoing Moment, a number of 'looks' at a subject - a repeated moment seen through different eyes, The Ongoing Photograph presents one vision looking a number of times. Rather than a body of work looking outwardly to capture a human moment, this body of work looks inwardly, extra-temporally, to meditate the nature of the photograph. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Brown
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I look down to see the lines running across my palm. No matter how many times I look, I'm always convinced that they are not the same one as I saw yesterday. I try hard to concentrate on them and make a map of them in my mind. It keeps jumping. Under the heat in this room, I close my eyes and I drift off. I think of a bird, down at the bottom of a pit. It flies up towards the fleck of light that hangs high above. I follow the bird, moving fast, and burst through into the lightness with it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Burfitt
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

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Jack Carvosso
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Sorry I Was Miles Away unfolded through performing solitary acts and creating sculptural forms that explore the paradigms of photography. Often involving carefully composed performances and spontaneous feats of balance, the project disrupts the fabric of the everyday to create short narratives that lie on the boundaries of fact and fiction. Within the images there emerges notions of temporality with an acute focus on aspects of human life. They can appear ridiculous, pointless and seemingly useless, but that's just how they provoke questions towards human finitude and our relationship with time. For once the log falls, when the cards collapse and the wet footprints disappear, all will continue, undisturbed by their presence and fade back into reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kerimcan Goren
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Business-oriented spaces often take a progressive approach to their architecture by converging such constructions as undulated or polished ledges. However, as such obstacles are built to meet the standards of one community, another culture is quickly drawn. Skateboarders by their nature engage with their practice by applying their creativity to a range of terrains. Textured walls can be surfed like steep waves whereas urban objects can be transformed to grind and slide via the diffusion of wax. As a result, the central business district often develops popularity within this culture and is regularly subject to friction between skateboarders and its occupiers. Lines of Flight concentrates on this conflict and studies skated surfaces evident within the urban landscape of London. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Hirons
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Silver Loop is a 16mm film installation that highlights the material wealth of analog image making. Throughout the 20th century silver has been instrumental to the understanding of our world because of its quality to be light sensitive when combined with other chemicals, allowing a mechanical depiction. The looped film presents the closed narrative of a 1000 troy-ounce silver bar being turned into photographic film, to the silver being recovered from the photographic film back to a 1000 troy-ounce bar. The film asks its audience to consider the ecological and economical past of images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Iona
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Fast fashion has taken the high street by storm, changing the way we interact and respond to clothing. This change has impacted more than the bulging rails of our wardrobes, and the subsequently small financial implications on our wallets. The disposable pace of high street fashion is having a ripple effect on the environment, indicating we could soon be outlived by our clothing. By utilising a bold and saturated approach to fashion still life, Worn In/Worn Out aims to ask the viewer to simply consider their clothing in terms of its material properties instead of their instant appeal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vladislav Kolev
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This series examines our growing interactions with technology and its influence on our daily life, a topic pursued throughout my artwork. Centered mainly around portraiture in this most recent project I photograph the residents within the familiarity of their own domestic settings lit by unconventional light sources. Each photograph reveals an intimate moment in time depicting people in different states of absorption similar to those which happens when you watch a live performance . Playing alongside notions of voyeurism my aim is to create a sense of intimacy and question the viewer to reflect on their own experience in time with technology. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Riikka Lahti
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Mummola (meaning 'grandparent's house' in English) is about my grandmother's childhood home in Saarilampi, a small side village in Rautalampi, Finland. The house has been completely abandoned for over 30 years yet you can still find items which were left behind, like my great grand fathers Sunday coat or his morning coffee cup. This body of work conveys the themes of memory and the passage of time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julie Lauritzen
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In a large city like London it is quite rare to know ones neighbours. People rush from home, to work and the pub without saying more than a 'hello', if that. Since moving to London I had been curious about the next-door neighbours, and it wasn't until I met the protagonist of this story that I allowed myself to enter his world. Jozsef Franko is my neighbour, but he is so much more than that. Taken from the book My neighbour Jozsef Franko these images delve into the world of the 88 year old Hungarian man that I have known for 138 days, who has read my palm 32 times and allowed me into the sanctuary of his home, as well as his mind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Owen Lewis
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In this work I am trying to open up a dialogue between the colonial period in Egypt during the mid 19th century to the early 20th and the current socio-political climate in the area and how the western exploitation of these regions is not a new phenomenon but one with historic routes. Working with the Egypt Exploration Society I have made these images from their expansive archive and my own rather limited one. The work focuses on the area around Sharm El Sheikh where there is arguably the greatest western interest in the country at the moment and juxtaposes the cities outer landscapes with images of forgotten towns, British outposts and colonial workers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steffen Michels
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Along with a reproduction of a 19th century celestial planisphere, this body of work comprises twelve images depicting constellations of moles on the skin of twelve different people. Each corner of a dimmed room features three small prints hung up high to be explored through a pair of binoculars. Disregarding the scientific approach to terrestrial and astronomical documentation through the inclusion of Earth and celestial coordinates, the installation seeks to establish an emotive appreciation of the reciprocal way constellations of moles on the skin and stars in the night sky mirror one another. A poetic interplay between the biggest and furthest objects and the comparatively minuscule human body alludes to the idea of a mutual history and ultimately, universal belonging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Arran Milne
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Light sets the boundaries for the faculty of sight. It is the agency our vision relies on to see the world. Light is also perceived with an awareness of its antonym, darkness. Light travels through the vacuum of outer space obscure to the eye, only when light pierces the atmosphere and reacts with airborne dust can we see a blue sky. The invention of photography is a pigment for the medium of light. The depiction of light extends from a deep black to an over-exposed white. These polar opposites represent the area where an image can be seen. In Light-Dark the limitations fixed upon this technology are exploited to overcome the medium's implied boundaries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Konstantin Mitrokhov
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Current surge in popularity of tattooing will probably fade over time, leaving thousands of people with permanent marks on their skin. It is not only the idea of leaving a physical trace of the past decisions on your body but the ritual itself that makes tattooing so appealing to many. The project was conceived as a photographic documentation of the process of getting a tattoo. Over time, it has transformed, overcoming the initial aim and becoming a quiet but suggestive reflection on the tattooing culture and the results of its commodification. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Trâm Phương Nguyễn
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Here, a river flows / Visual words I cannot speak / Between soft, white pages . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kavan Olbison
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

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Fenris Oswin
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The aim of this project is to produce a series of photographs that captures the UK Steampunk culture as it is at this moment. It is a young sub-culture that is still finding its feet in the 'real world' and not just the literary world where it has existed for many years. It is developing its own styles of costume and design which will in time change as the sub-culture becomes more popular. It is this 'moment in time' and the people involved in Steampunk that I want to capture as a record of Steampunk's UK beginnings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Rhodes
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

In the 1960's, a race promoter observed that crashes were the most exciting part of any race meeting. From this, an entire sport of Banger Racing was born. Today, each weekend across the UK racers as young as thirteen limp out onto dirt tracks and disused stadiums in an array of vehicles salvaged from scrapyards and back gardens; stripped to the core and rebuilt for their destruction. Winners are awarded cash prizes, but money isn't a concern to the men on the track. It's the adrenaline and heated rivalry between racers that keeps the tradition alive. Bangers documents the sport over a number of months, observing the carnage on and off the track, and the people behind it all. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Simpson
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This project explores and documents the subcultures that continue to circulate within London. It focuses on those who follow styling from the 1950s through to the 70s, concentrating on the Teddy Boy and Mod movements which formed an iconic part of British history. With the use of a large format camera, I travelled around the capital to events and establishments who promote the fashion, music, and lifestyles of these cultures. The final portraits are a series that offer a unique insight into a Britain which is rarely seen and reveals the faces of a select view who form a part of these exclusive followings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Westgate
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Working initially in the fields of Documentary and Commercial photography, Simon returned to university in order to further his understanding of the medium of photography and its place within the art world. His work now uses Sculpture, Graphics, Printmaking, Interactive Installations and data manipulation as a means to highlight data and tell stories alongside his more traditional works. In this series he creates a set of subversive advertising posters to highlight the failings of the current government and the increased persecution of the most vulnerable and needy. The posters were placed, without permission, across London in the run up to the 2014 European elections, using the words and promises of the candidates alongside verified facts showing the duplicity of these statements. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pagan Wicks
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

A series in which a space is recorded and how a public acts, not realising they're being recorded, within that space. The series attests to the comparative quality of photography; of being able to record a single space and view that space in multiple different times all at once. What is recorded is an interesting narrative which occurs naturally and would have occurred whether you were there to record it or not. The voyeuristic quality of the series maintains distance and allows the public to act as if they would naturally; the natural behaviour, of these passers-by, creates this narrative. All these 'characters' previously unlinked become roles in a short narrative; a narrative linking these strangers forever. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kyra Campbell
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

The concrete jungle known, as Hong Kong is not soulless as many other cities are. For round every corner there is a small shrine shrouded in incense, a temple guarded by Foo Dogs or an old market filled with fresh meat, vegetables and fish. The city is a muddle of old and new ways of live, of east meets west, of spiritual layered with commercial. I wanted to illustrate this beautiful mix of cultures by double exposing my film. Just as the different ways of life merges in Hong Kong, the images of a single frame mesh together creating the vibrant feel of Hong Kong's true nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sara Bertolasi
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Land. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jane Bradford
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Knick Knack is a positioning of traditional figurative sculpture alongside personal sculptures found and made in my home. It is a quite dialogue between the past and present definition of sculpture that has shifted over time creating a hidden relationship and an alignment of traditional and new interpretations. Viewed side by side the two very different unconnected portrayals of sculpture become connected. Knick Knack realises an opportunity to experience both where jarring and engaging with each other they create a cultural narrative reflecting two very different eras in time. This series of diptychs not only depicts the dramatic change this medium has experienced but can also reflect changes in other areas of art where the recognisable have become unrecognisable. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cristina Calvo
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

I started this project moved by the need to explore and understand a personal situation. In 2012, I received a diagnosis of remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis. The unpredictability of this disease and the fear of an uncertain future submerged me into a mental state of disbelief and denial. I felt I was immediately thrust into a state of otherness, fragmenting my identity and causing me to be misunderstood and excluded socially. I needed to understand my conflicting feelings about the situation and to cope with my anxiety and frustration, and so I sought to inform my introspection by studying the creative work of others who had undergone a similar transition. The work is composed of 2 pieces. The video piece, A Disappointed Woman, presents a visual allegory my experience of MS. The Journal of A Disappointed Woman narrates the process accepting my situation through my intimate thoughts and reflections on relevant literature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martin Dixon
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Council estates suffer from bad press no longer the planner's utopian dream they're now the tabloids' feral nightmare, caught in the obscene rush to erase the social and herald the investment. Meanwhile, lives are lived as days go by and the best way to see how things are is to take a walk and take a look; to stand and ponder the estate map's message You Are Here. In 1997 I moved onto the Tabard Gardens Estate in south London. In 2014 I walk the estate with the writer Christopher Jones and photograph it as it moves into spring. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Donna Lamarr McKeown
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Melody is my daughter who has Down's syndrome. This has resulted in delayed communication in the way that we know and understand. This is an insight into her world, her feelings and personality. She has her own means of communication and expression which she diligently creates on a daily basis, writing down her thoughts, stories and dreams in her own language. Although we do not understand it she will, when the mood takes her, translate it for you. I have collaborated with Melody using Polaroid's, digital, her script and quotes as a way of engaging her into the process that keeps her attention. It is a humorous and honest insight into having a child with Down's syndrome. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bob Marsden
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

From the diagnosis of MND to death, the median time is 39 months and about 5000 people live with this diagnosis in the UK at any one time. Some of these people will almost certainly die from complications of this illness within the next two years. Genetic links to MND are being found all the time. Our outward appearance is a manifestation of our inheritance. I became fascinated by the question whether such an illness could be seen in the details of an innocent portrait? We all have the same basic genetic makeup with remarkably few variations on the microscopic digital level of our genes and chromosomes. Can we see in the fine details of these portraits hints that we might see in ourselves in a mirror? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hilary Rock
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Photographing roses had an emotional beginning. Some time ago, my mother became ill and the roses I was photographing at the time, hastily abandoned in the garage, shrivelled and mostly died. I didn't throw away the roses. Instead I re-arranged them, put their wilted and dried little bodies together in a tiny posy and carried on photographing them. For a while I left this theme of roses. But I was recently drawn back to it: first roses and then other bouquets. It brought poignant feelings and loving memories; the curl of a pastel petal began a stirring inside. It was a time of waiting, arranging and re-arranging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Valérie Sieyes
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

'Imagination augments the value of reality to give poetic space to an object is to give it more space than it has objectively, or rather, to follow the expansion of it's intimate space'. Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher. In the project 'My Kitchen', I am trying to create a different space, a dreamy place with an immense horizon and a diffused light. All the images of this project have been shot in my kitchen and, there are all images of domestic objects. I choose to create abstract images to push the viewer to rely only on their perception of the photographs. Through the colours, the graphism, the depth of the image, I am trying to find an echo in their soul. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christina Stohn
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

This body of work interrogates the interface between the impersonal terrain of a call centre and its human components. PROBE [UNTIL UNPRODUCTIVE] is a command on the corporation's computer screens that call centre agents are strictly required to adhere to whilst conducting telephone interviews. These repetitive structures aim to deliver consistent 'quality' control, to enforce productivity and cost efficiency. Workers become automated anonymous agents in this institutionalised system, repeating prescribed modes of enquiry to the respondents. Their interchangeability is reflected in the numbered booths, lined up in identical rows. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natalie De La Mare
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2014
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Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:12:22 EDT

Exploring the decline of simultaneous participation. With the rise of current digital technology, the contemporary world has seen the shared viewing experience dissipate. Technological design promises to bring people together, yet the advancement brings segregation not the quality of communication it assures. Exploring reaction and relationship of the individual to the audience in which they are participating and the cinematic experience in which they are encountering. Unable to see the precise film being watched, you as the viewer are situated between the audience and the figurative screen as you become observed by the audience captured in simultaneous participation, involving yourself in the spectacle of joint engagement. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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