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Rebecca Davis
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Men From Small Towns and The Romanticism of The Railway examines train enthusiasts in Staffordshire, where the Churnet Valley line once ran. The line now operates as a heritage site that preserves carriages, engines and other associated memorabilia. The memory of the railway’s history is kept alive by those who feel passionate enough and the majority of those at the Churnet Valley site are volunteers using their skills beyond retirement. This project shows the idealised world of the enthusiast through the dioramas they create, it shows a forgotten age of railway travel through the design of carriages in Britain, and it shows the pride still felt in railways throughout generations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nick Wegg
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

There is always light at the end of the tunnel. Pain and process, things we discover and understand through our own and others’ mental health experiences. They come, go and stick at points within our lives that shape us to who we become. It’s important for me to share something that has affected me in my past. I want to express the importance of those who stand by you when you need friendship, love and support. It is and will continue to be a platform to show the strength and comradery of those in this body of work. ‘Fragments’ shares this through the relations and connections between the places and people we confide in and go to. Nothing is a forever thing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Toni Slattery
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I took these photographs during the first lockdown. The pandemic caused a huge strain on myself, my well-being and my mental health. I used photography as a form of escapism so I decided to create a project surrounding this. The coast has always been one of my favourite places to go to relax, listen to the sound of the sea and have some time to myself. I enjoyed creating this body of work. I felt connected to it on a deep personal level and I now have it to look back on as a representation of the first lockdown. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Medlycott
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

breathe. is a project that explores fashion whilst showing the importance of the world we live in. The relationship between body and nature is currently particularly critical as we witness both the ongoing climate crisis and sustainability issues within the fashion world. Fashion draws you into a story, it is one of the only outlets in the photography world where you can create imagery that breaks boundaries; where fine art and fashion co-exist. This is what I have delved into whilst expressing and exploring the outside world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Anna Green
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The South Downs have always been my home. As a child, I remember walking over their hills and imagining I wasn’t truly part of the real world - but some strange rolling kingdom made up of great waves, an earthen sea of chalk and soil. We see rocks as fixed and unchanging, as opposed to the flowing forms of deep time that they truly are. They shape the world; they mark time; they are the bones we walk upon, the skeleton of the world hidden beneath grass and trees. to wander the whale-road explores these ideas through a series of photogravure prints and film images; how chalk moves within this ancient landscape and mimics the ocean it once was. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Freya Britnell
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Ma(間) focuses on the Japanese concept of negative space within visual art, photography and fashion. Ma is described as nothing but energy and feeling – where we see a pause in time with quiet awareness. This theory often describes the interval or pause as the context of a work. The project ‘Ma’ focuses on this concept, not just through a physical and visual aesthetic, but through the minimalist fashion elements (which I designed, illustrated and adapted into unique items myself) and the focus on form, layering and geometric motifs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Onna Borbely
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I slip into the warmth of darkness and yet when I wake, in that split second of confusion, I could still be dreaming. I am suspended in silky streams of consciousness and nothing. We stand in our minds on the edge of asleep and awake. In dreams, deprived of the five senses, confusion, and manipulation of reality is rife. Subconscious battles with consciousness, the illusion of reality starts to slip away, leaving chaos and ambiguity in images of light and dark. This work attaches itself to that tender line between dreamlike chaos and stillness, presenting a loose, frayed, unstable, uncertain view of the dreamscape. Broken narratives that weave together in unrest and ambiguity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tara Ferguson
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

On 6th July 1999 I came into this world 14 weeks prematurely and weighing less than a bag of sugar – a consequence of my mother suffering a placental abruption. My traumatic birth was the start of a long journey for me and my parents, who were exposed to a brutal version of first-time parenthood. This project explores this roller-coaster experience. Using a diverse portfolio of material this collection lays open this highly personal and emotional story for the first time. During my 1st 9 weeks of life, while in the care of the amazing staff of the Rosie Hospital, I had over 30 operations leaving a permanent signature on my body and a reminder of who I am and how I got here. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Bentham
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Following the death of Sarah Everard, it really resonated with me that my safety as a female will always be a barrier. The mundanity of the situation and the ongoing compliance to adhere to these restrictions, which dictates women's lives, was the main incentive when creating this project. The majority of women will always clench their keys, take the longest route home, or avoid the outdoors alone past daylight. These images represent the blatant reality of this overlooked and ongoing issue and make it unavoidable. Whilst photographically focusing within my local area, the territory I know best, ultimately this project conveys a universal experience of inescapable fear felt amongst all women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keane Waite
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project explores our attachment of memories to places through the eyes of those meaningful to me. The process of image-making was interesting as it uncovered just how quickly we, as human beings, adapt to drastic changes in the landscape equally to those more subtle, and it is not until upon reflection do you realise just how dissimilar things used to be. This project is selfish in the sense that it feels like a conversation primarily between me and the subject. However, if these photographs allow for you to connect to your own relationships and experiences, they can bridge that gap and ignite a more personal, but limited, interaction; if they do not, then they are simply just photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathan Miles
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This still life project presents a lot of the skills I have collected over my three years at university. Throughout my workflow I used techniques to create technically “perfect” images. The images are designed primarily to convey my knowledge of lighting and how it can be shaped and morphed to create interest and desire from the brands’ target audience. The motivation for these images was to create a refined portfolio to help me attract more work and really start my career in still life commercial advertising photography. Through researching alongside shooting in this project I have learnt a lot about the marketing and advertising world and how it all comes down to the photographer to create desi . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Hall
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘If we couldn’t handle it, we wouldn’t be thrown it’ is based around the life of my younger brother Reece and the struggles that our family faces. He has many complex needs and was recently given a rare genetic diagnosis. At the age of 16, he has been through so much and never truly lets this overshine who he is. His daily life is so different from ‘normal’ which falls onto mine and our mother’s, meaning adaptions have had to be made to our lives. The outside world doesn’t see everything, and people are so unaware, something I believe needs more attention and awareness. This sequence shows the relationships Reece can maintain, his working age and who he truly is. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Loudon
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Making a lifestyle choice. Many of us choose a comfortable way of living and here I explore an individual who has chosen between looking after animals and the land, over what might be considered a more usual way of life. Think of working in freezing temperatures, no heating, hot water unless you boil it and only animals for company. I capture her daily life and routine, her happiness and drive - I want her world to be seen by all. Land over living. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harriet Warne
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Fashion has a longstanding relationship with both social and personal identity and is one of the most visible expressions of it. The way we dress can communicate to others how we portray ourselves in different social situations, underlined by social expectations and norms, to how we express our sense of true self. These photographs, from the series ‘Fashion Identity’ are about finding a person’s true and authentic identity from the way they dress and present themselves to the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morgan Williams
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Dirt Riders is a series of documentary photographs taken within an area that the young boys who ride here call ‘the Meadows’. The project aims to show the identity and relationships of those who come to chill out and meet new people in this dirt-bikers paradise. The photographs describe the characters who share this space – their tattoos and injuries, banter and camaraderie – and the constructed environment of sculpted mud that brings them together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phoebe Cascarina
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Any talk relating to menstruation, people bleeding every month or how we’re “crazy” when on our periods is portrayed negatively by society. It’s a topic that is censored to many, to keep it hidden from those that don’t have to deal with it first hand. Within this project I wanted to portray the harsh mental and physical realities many people face each month whilst on their period. To start the conversation, to get people talking and allow others to see what actually is normal and not always pretty. The menstrual cycle is harsh and unforgiving and just because not everyone has to suffer each month, it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t learn about it and know the truth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eden Angus
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Waiting for Nightfall is a series of constructed images inspired by cinematic atmospheres and the intersections of visual mediums such as photography, painting and cinema. The project explores the uncomfortable atmospheres of everyday locations, the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, and the tension of feeling like something more than what we can see is going on. The images are constructed but undercurrents of reality run through them; particularly the pervasive feelings of loneliness, alienation and detachment felt by many of us a year into the lockdowns and restrictions caused by the pandemic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heather Boulter
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“Wardog here. Talking to the mist. Life is becoming normal now, I'm just getting used to the emptiness of the world. I’ve almost accepted that nobody is around anymore. Almost. The night’s are hard, far worse than they used to be. Sometimes I wake up, and I’ve almost forgotten. But, that doesn’t last long. The only consistency I have is watching the sun rise, and attempting the radio. I’ve made friends with the static, it’s sound lingers in my ears long after I’ve arrived back at camp. It stays with me, ringing throughout the day. It’s the only thing I can attach myself to. Aside from talking to you, of course. I couldn’t forget about you.” . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Airlie
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Symbolism, texture and atmosphere permeate these images from my project on witchcraft. The purpose behind these images is to dispel the traditional view of witchcraft as a pursuit practiced by evil women. I endeavour to show instead that magic is a practice rooted in nature, not malevolence; more intricately linked with herbal-lore than potions. The coloured images express the emotions and feelings of witchcraft, weaving in nature’s own magic with signs and symbols traditionally linked with witchcraft. The black and white photos are rooted in historical accuracy. I researched the history of witchcraft locally and some sites are connected to witchcraft in the Bath area, for example the tithe barn pictured is covered in symbols designed to ward off witches. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charley Skinner
Bath Spa University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

On September 5th 1943, the world was blessed with the birth of Jill Marlene Moore, a beautiful soul who sadly passed away on January 14th 2021. 77 wonderful years of life. I became very close with Jake’s nan as we had a lot in common, we would sit and chat for hours and hours. The more I learnt about her life the more intrigued I was to learn more about her before her diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease in 2009. This led me to begin this series which is a documentation of her life and her struggles when she was diagnosed with this dreadful illness. I am so very glad that I was able to complete this project before her passing . . [ Full Article ▸]

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George Harris
Birmingham City University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

George is a British photographer and creative director with a background in fashion, beauty, and editorial photography. His latest project titled the recovery explores the process of how through lockdown, society and society’s fashion has climatized to covid-19 and the ever-changing environment we live in. Dropping labels, spending less, and spending more time working on ourselves and trying to find stability, George’s shows a contrast of chaos and serenity with his work analysing how our fashion and social state had transformed during covid-19, questioning the future of fashion and society post covid-19. Moving forward with his creative career, George looks to continue experiment within the genres of fashion and beauty photography whilst further exploring the role of a creative director. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Naylor
Birmingham City University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Do I Pass?’ illustrates a want to best understand through self-portraiture the connection trans men hold to masculinity, which at times finds itself toxic and hard to navigate. Hegemony and the pressure to uphold a traditional masculine gender to pass, has been a long regarded battle for trans men and has often caused discomfort in individuals seeking masculinity. Finding it difficult to accept that we can find comfort as men when men have long since held the representation for being seen as oppressive towards women, this project hopes to shed light on the vulnerability of young queer masculine youth in contrast to the hegemonic expectations of the white cisgender hetero man. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jade Tomes-Morgan
Birmingham City University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Manic Pixie Dream Girl serves to answer the question, what next? What happens when the movie ends, when the boy is past saving, what happens when the girl doesn’t die. With the looming coming of age notion that is graduating what comes next when you never thought you would get that far. Questioning the notion of a fixed conformative future as a bisexual polyamorous woman, how my wants and identity are seemingly at odds with each other when it comes to things such as marriage. As well as how my mental health effects my relationships to others and how I view the notion of future in relation to my past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Findon
Birmingham City University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

These images are from three projects in which I explore the changing roles of women in society, particularly in relation to ageing; professions in which we have traditionally been under-represented; and sexuality. 'Vanishing Women: 50 portraits of 50 women over 50' explores the increasing invisibility of women within society as we age. 'Breaking the Stained Glass Ceiling' celebrates the increasing role of women in church leadership, and 'Inamorata - the woman with whom I am in love' portrays women who can now have their committed same sex relationships legally recognised. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathan McGill
Birmingham City University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Nathan McGill (b.2000) is an emerging visual artist, writer and curator based in the United Kingdom. McGill utilises the medium of photography to produce socially engaged projects that explore the interrelationship between people and place. Pandemic Portraits is a collaborative portraiture project that documents the social implications of COVID-19 on individuals across Birmingham, UK. The body of work is solely analogue based, and performs as a testimony to the participants lives during a pandemic. Through collaboration and conversation, a dialogue was created to address and understand the lockdown experiences of my participants. Alongside this, to ensure the project was truly a collaborative effort - the participants selected a significant location for their pandemic portrait. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Agnes Gill
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work finds subtle humour and satire in the patterns of human behaviour in the context of the selfie in order to justify our existence and confirm our place in the world. Embracing a documentary aesthetic and using varied locations and the appropriation of stereotypical gestures, I create a platform for my restaging of previously observed events. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claudia Penney
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Using moving image, I represent the relationship I have with my hair through performing a series of repetitive micro rituals. These six key actions, depicted through the six stills, offer a response to years of habituation and social conditioning which I have leant into through using my hair as a cover for my anxiety. The moving image piece runs for 9 minutes 22 seconds. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Thompson
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The images show stills taken from moving image piece ‘Release’. Combining my passion for photography and a background in dance, I perform for the camera using sound and moving image to document minimalist repetitive movements. I link my emotional experiences and self-expression in order establish an intimate connection with the audience. Running time: 1 minute 09 seconds. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ffion Denman
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I explore post-industrial Welsh towns and their working-class histories, representing communities that are hidden, fading or on the margins of society. Central to the work is the audience’s physical intervention with the historical and contemporary national socio-political narratives. Focusing on Bleanau Ffestiniog in North Wales and Port Talbot in South Wales, I depict how post-industrial life has damaged both the culture and identity of Wales, but in turn how its people have attempted to overcome this. Wales has a synonymous historical past and present with industry, with certain areas being the largest exporters of steel, iron, slate, copper and coal in Europe in their most prosperous days. What remains is a domineering post-industrial landscape echoing the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jordan Ridout
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Using a combination of photography and performance I work with themes of play, chance and failure. Pushing the boundaries of my practice, I create a series of attempts to question the role of the camera, photographer and the moment of exposure. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lizzie Carrera
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My installation ‘Attension’ emphasises the connection between the physical and psychological in order to induce a heightened experience of tension. Informed by proxemics, the claustrophobic passageway begins to lure the viewer into the uneasy atmosphere created once within the isolation booth. The moving image lasts 3 minutes, allowing for tension to be built between the single viewer and the artist. This is driven through the combination of the passivity of the subject and the manipulation of sound. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leila Wenban
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Combining photography, performance and sculptural fragments, I explore the sport of climbing, traversing the relationship between the athlete and environment. In rehearsal of the action, I use chalk to trace climbing holds onto rock surface, the residual nature of the mark draws parallels with the indexical nature of the photograph. By simulating these gestures, I direct the audience toward a deeper understanding of the athletic experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mika Takiyama
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In representing the mundane, I photograph everyday elements most often overlooked, sublimating them into the unfamiliar. In this abstract form, my photographs offer an alternate perspective in finding a quotidian beauty. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel De Saulles
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The unpredictable elements of chaos and chance are central to my practice. I encourage new ways of looking by creating playful visual illusions in otherwise familiar spaces. I use tennis balls as a device to challenge depth and perception of the photographic frame. This performative repetitive interaction in real time is explored through this series of temporary scenarios. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mikaela Kilkenny
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

February is the shortest month and marks the end of winter. Embracing lockdown and the notion of introspection, during that period I maintained a journal alongside my daily image-making, documenting how the seasonal shift affected my mood and appearance. My work and its narrative emerge from the process of reviewing this material – my emotions, thoughts and images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Siân Overton
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My sister Katie died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning at the age of eleven. My work has been created to heighten awareness of this issue through processing my own and familial grief. Using my dad as subject and addressing aspects of loss, the work confronts longstanding traditional gender roles and the denial of opportunity for him to suitably grieve. This work has provided us with a space to reflect on his long held raw emotion felt by Katie’s death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Myles Morgan Bailey
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In 2019, the UK skateboarding community felt an incredible sense of loss and pain through the deaths of close friends and family. Following these losses, memorial events were held in the wake of those passed. This series captures the fallout of this period and how this narrative has affected me over the past year. After further traumatic experiences of my own, skateboarding and photography have once again become significant motifs in my life. Because of this, the series now takes on a diaristic & autobiographical nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Molly Nicholson
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Informed by theories of topophilia and nostalgia, I use the camera as a companion to capture time restricted performances involving games of hide and seek. Familiarity with location and re-enactment of play are of central importance to my concept. Me as an adult, acting like a child. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Evie Milsom
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Lobster pink skin, cheeks tingling and a serene mental state. ‘Biophilia’ - “an innate and genetically determined affinity of human beings with the natural world.” This body of work follows my journey of sea swimming in coastal environments around the UK. There I document myself within the landscape, whether it's after the swim or just before the plunge. Surrounding myself within the wilderness enables me to thrive and appreciate the natural world, particularly when the human relationship with it is so troubled. With the sun hitting the water’s surface, the light creating tones of blue and the sounds of the sea waves in the shallows - being within the water without disturbing the flora and fauna brings such happiness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Laird
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work uses photography and yogic practice to address and process feelings of memory and loss. Using autobiography as a foundation I explore loss of the self, and others, alive and passed. Informed by sculptural forms, I use the materiality of fabric, clay and the body, as metaphor to express an understanding of relationships. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily James
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I explore themes of identity and privacy, and question the use of facial blur within the realm of Google Street View. Using myself as surrogate I reimagine individual scenarios through imitation, humour and irony - offering a critique of the process of auto-anonymization. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deimante Aleks
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This photographic series follows my family’s life in the UK subsequent to our migration from Lithuania. Whilst missing our Lithuanian roots, we have created a beautiful home - a strong blend of two cultures. My approach has been to capture the everyday events, from my dad’s fascination with DIY projects, to my mum's gardening aspirations. In amongst this, my two brother's persistence in having the last word! . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Olympia Freiin von Woellwarth-Lauterburg
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project explores my relationship, as a solitary encounter, with the sea. The images seek to convey my different emotions, thoughts, and internal responses whilst immersed. The different environments form part of the broader experience, but each in turn shapes and influences me as a sentient being. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorna Tyrie
Arts University Bournemouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“Watching you silently passing by, allows light to sink into my chest and reminds me to be still and breathe again." In this series ‘Quiet in the Calmness You Bring’, I work with glass cyanotypes and explore the transient nature of natural phenomena. Ranging from 5x4 to 10x8 sizes, each glass print is unique, echoing the disposition of my chosen subject - clouds. I draw inspiration from such, revealing the ethereal painterly and harmonious relationships between process and subject. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joel Goldstein
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Captured as a form of escape on walks during the third lockdown this project presents a meandering journey around a series of cuts that form the canal system between the rural suburbs of Southall, and Limehouse basin. Alongside the canals themselves this project examines ideas of the man-altered landscape. Having cut through twenty-two miles of land in order to build the Paddington Arm and the Regent’s Canal, they shape the present environment both in the urban and rural areas. They act as a green corridor, a boundary line between different boroughs, and in some places even a socio-economic divider. This project explores these different facets of the canals to present a unique perspective on north London and its waterways. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Brammeld
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Town That Roofed The World is a project focussing on Blaenau Ffestiniog, a historical slate mining town in Gwynedd, North Wales. This town was once responsible for producing incredible amounts of slate to be transported and used around the world, hence the affectionate title the town has rightly earned. Now, the town is known for an entirely new industry; tourism. The remnants of Blaenau Ffestiniog’s slate mining industry now not only serve as monuments to the town’s proud past, but also to its future. Visitors to the town are able to explore the rich history it holds through activities such as Bounce Below, a trampoline system within the mines and caves, and the longest zip wire in Europe. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Limage
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project looks at the connection between myself and my mother. Reflecting on the mother-daughter bond as a whole and the attachment between two individuals. The photos and screenshots from a short moving image piece created for this work also relate to the notion that our memories can be attached to certain locations; returning to these locations can strengthen your memories and trigger new ones. I return to a location from my childhood, revisiting the landscape through my mother, photographing her and filming her performing small ‘acts’ in the natural environment. Gathering stones and twine, submerging herself in the floodplains and walking barefoot in the soil. Simultaneously exploring our matrilineal relationship and that which we have with the land. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Rosewell
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Memoir of My Youth features images exploring my childhood memories. After turning twenty-one in a pandemic, reflection of the past seems much more desirable than focusing on the present and celebrating life at current. After experiencing brain fog for a long period of time, most of my memories that remain clear are ones from my youth, where the earliest memory included throwing beans on the floor. The body of work aims to communicate how I have grown out of childhood and these memories have changed into new beginnings where the past is no longer in motion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Howell
University of Brighton - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The grassroots football movement was created in response to a culture that is unwelcoming or exclusionary. Football is an overwhelmingly white male space; the absence of diversity asphyxiates aspiration. I document teams driven by the collective joy of finding a safe space to play football. There is a need for a different perspective when viewing sport and voices that are relatable to a wider audience. What I have discovered during my time with these team is that football often acts as a symbol: a metaphor for passion, vulnerability, belief. It is used as tool to come together and build a community of diverse people wanting to have a meaningful and positive impact on society that goes beyond the pitch. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Calum Jones
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This work showcases my personal everyday life and experiences at home during the restrictions that were put in place because of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-21), thereby revealing a part of myself and my isolated life through this period. My motivation and intention was to highlight both the range of different colours and shades in familiar everyday objects and environments that are usually either lost or unnoticed so that they become the main feature. I chose to work digitally for this project as I can make the individual colours on each image stand out a little more than they would in person by eye, thereby helping catch the viewer’s attention further. Despite working digitally however, the work is still unique to me due to my own personal style of how I edit the images together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ffion Thornton
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

From altered body shapes to distorted facial features, the media have created an unattainable beauty standard through the digital manipulation of images. Continuous exposure to digitally enhanced photographs has a damaging effect on young women's body image. Consuming mainstream media has caused our perception of reality to become warped. What used to be a quick glance at a billboard, scroll through social media or flick though a fashion magazine has now become a means of comparison to unrealistic beauty ideals. “Digitized Dysmorphia” alludes to digital technology’s detrimental impact on our mental health. The project explores female portraiture, with a particular focus on self-perception. When we look in the mirror, we see ourselves as something broken needing to be fixed, we over analyse how we look and focus on the aspects of our body we wish to change. We pull apart our appearance into fragments and the broken mirror embodies this concept. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgina Price
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My photographic practice focuses on the environment and attempts to capture the way humanity exploits the planet which all creatures call home, not just mankind. We treat the earth like a litter box and pollute the very entity that sustains life. Our actions have caused and will continue to affect the existence of all life on Earth, from the endangerment and extinction of species and global warming which has and will remain to disrupt the environment that has been formed over time to support the most valuable construct, LIFE. The work displayed has been produced because of my curiosity for the way people have decided to embed our way of life onto the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah White
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is a reflective piece of work surrounding a close family friend who I have been helping to care for over the last year. To my family and I she is an incredibly inspiring woman and I wanted to create a tribute to her as she turns 99 this year. My aim with this series is to portray aspects of her day-to-day life, while celebrating her quirky personality and the various ways in which she does not let her age hold her back. These photographs were taken as part of a moving image project seeking to challenge certain assumptions about the older generation. This piece, Age is just a Number, can be found on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tv/COynfdYMbnm/ . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Hitchmough
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project was hard hitting and personally, empowering and motivating not just for me, but the women who took part. Seeing half naked images of influencers and models on social media, we are given false hope of how to look. The media presents false standards and fantasies over the way we could or should look like. We are subjected to these standards and how we should have this ‘perfect’ body. But there is no ‘perfect’ body, we are all unique and different. Some have lumps, bumps, and scars whilst others are tattooed, freckled or tiny. Regardless of how we look, we need to love ourselves that little bit more, which is why I felt creating a project about a time where we feel our most vulnerable and exposed, would allow for us all to love and appreciate our bodies that little bit more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Lloyd
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I’ve always been someone who’s struggled with my appearance and body image, as a young woman this is one of my main worries. Selfies and photo editing is becoming a popularity competition. There are so many obstacles and with the ease of social media and the internet there are so many more added pressures to become this idea of ‘perfect’. Advertising and the media have presented both males and females in an unrealistic way for years. I chose to stage and make self-portrait photographs which reflect some of my most vulnerable and challenging times. They suggest that not everything that is always visible or can be clearly seen, that the lines between happiness and stability and life’s changes are blurred. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Sadler
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I chose to work with physical matter rather than computer generated images, I was experiencing digital fatigue. The digital experience is a removal from the physical experience which I subconsciously craved during this time of Covid isolation. I did not glue or stick the images together while building, and instead kept the parts fluid and movable, with their own texture, shadows, and collision within the whole piece until the camera fixed their position. Working in the same way I assembled my own thoughts and feelings, some pieces were organically made, some needed time and love, because what I have created is from what I have absorbed, whether it is a personal experience, written social media comments, or through research into female identity and what that means in a patriarchal society. Instagram: @redshoepersona . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Little
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Isolation explores the ways the pandemic has affected me. It consists of 14 black and white images, some made digitally, and some on film and printed in a rudimentary makeshift darkroom inside my house. Throughout the lockdowns, I became isolated and lonely and spent more time inside my house than ever before. My long exposure images, featuring ghostlike blurs, are meant to express how I felt like I was becoming a part of the house, a fixture like the walls or furniture. My film images relate to the idea of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel; we expect the pandemic to subside at some point and 'normal' life to resume, but we don’t know how long it will be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susannah Fletcher
University of Chester - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project is portrait based and explores the relationship with words and images during the 2020 lockdown. The pandemic has shaped our lives in many different ways, one being our vocabulary. Many new words have been added to our day to day lives, some the same but with different meanings and some invented. They have informed us, kept us safe and given us some much needed humour. As a portrait artist, I wanted to capture the connection with some of these words and the people they related to, exploring their different emotions and situations in these unprecedented times. Documenting a time we had to change and adapt to “the new normal”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Bentley
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In Leaving the Narrow Gate, James Bentley explores the period of introspection and transition he experienced when leaving Christianity. Introduced to religion through his grandparents, he found something within their familial version of it. However, understanding more about himself and his sexuality, he found himself at odds with religion. A response to notions of ‘the self’ through abstract imagery, Bentley uses the traditionally objective photograph to interrogate subjective themes of religiosity, identity and internal struggle. In this rapprochement, the self-exploration is presented through still lives from family homes, natural forms and winter suburbia; alongside a separate series of images of Christian iconography which highlight the distance Bentley now has to the faith and the part it played in his adolescence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Forward
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Exploring the world of Cyberpunk 2077, Nothing Personal explores themes of control and power in virtual realities. Framed by the philosophical idea Metaphysical Solipsism, the work comments on the disposability of the non-playable characters (NPCs), the power relationship of player and virtual community that encourages disrespect and violence. Purposefully boxed and designed to be reminiscent of a board game, Nothing Personal leaves the reader in control of the narrative through cards featuring violent actions that can be performed within Cyberpunk 2077. The reader is invited to exert power over scenes that are present throughout the book by overlaying the card onto pages of their choice, highlighting the moral implication of their actions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aimee Sills
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Like silent seeds grow’ is a body of work exploring the notions of trauma and healing. This work investigates my internal dialogue of my dad’s cancer diagnosis in 2014 and the processing of trauma and grief that was present here. I grew up next to a forest and during dad’s diagnosis this woodland gave me a place to ease my grief. The forest became a place of self-reflection. Each image has its own meaning and expresses a specific part of our journey, including a white sheet which acts as a stand in for myself and allows me to metaphorically place myself within the photograph without physically being present. This is a sensitive depiction of illness and family, trauma and healing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Giordano
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“Outside In” is the journey of an unnamed individual set in an urban landscape, where the individual wanders through the city, lost and alone. The series explores the feeling of not belonging to a place, but desperately wanting to. With a focus on the light emitting from the windows, Emma Giordano creates a story of someone looking for human connection after having been alone for far too long. The photographs of curtained windows hold an air of suspense and mystery, as anyone could be right behind, ready to bridge the gap and connect with the individual. The glass creates a physical barrier, and a possible connection is close, but always just a step out of reach. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabrielle Bourne
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Beyond the Trees explores the poetic relationship of Gabrielle Bourne’s movement and observations through the British landscape. The changing seasons show evidence of a diversity of flora and fauna, not immediately obvious, but being made visible by observations across time. The landscape and sublime are often concerned with impressive vistas of mountainous and coastal landscapes. Captured over two seasons, Bourne shows an alternative perspective, charting the small changes that are often overlooked. The need to protect our British Wildlife is becoming ever more critical. The work aims to encourage viewers to give thought to their relationship and interactions with the landscape and nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amelia Mitchell
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Practice Makes Perfect explores daily routines and rituals that alter the appearance of the body. A communal experience across women has formed, naming this process as getting ready. Defined as ‘to prepare’, it is a state of being where the body is not yet complete, taking steps to reach the stage of readiness. Inspired by Juno Calypso and Miles Aldridge and using textures and performative gestures the work displays melodramatic tableaux of beauty regimes. The body is prepared using products imposed upon women by society forming an ideal version of the self. Practice Makes Perfect invites audiences to explore their complicity in the cultural value placed on feminine standards of beauty and its impact on our daily lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phoebe Mansfield
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Phoebe Mansfield is an experimental visual artist who primarily works with collage, photo-sculpture and a combination of analogue and digital photographic methods. Recurring themes in her work include the study of landscapes and the natural world, exploring concepts of absence and loss that come as a result of our destructive human impact on the planet. Her latest series “One Hundred Seconds” explores the impact of coastal erosion on seaside towns and villages across East Anglia – one of the most at-risk coastlines in the UK. Printed on hand-made paper, the work observes the disruption and displacement of local landscapes and settlements resulting from the encroaching shoreline, contemplating on the area’s local history as it is lost beneath the waves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rabia Nabile
Coventry University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Fashion Glam by Rabia Nabile explores Fashion Photography as an exuberant performance of confidence. As a response to a common perception of fashion as exploitation of the female body for consumerism, the work aims to celebrate female subjects comfortable with posing for the camera. The series exaggerates body language, facial expressions and fashion photography methods in the creation of images. It explores and prompts the audience to consider how advertised fashion products are enhanced by the female subject as she is the basis of the glamour – not the inanimate objects. Glamorous clothes, exaggerated hair and makeup and rich colours are matched by the subjects’ unusual poses, her direct gaze and sometimes preoccupation in her own world where she seems nonchalant towards the audience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maitiú Mac Cártaigh
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My current practice is concerned with constructing an alternative agricultural space, which is derived from the rural landscape and decaying architecture of Ireland. My place within this landscape is uneasy as I grew up as the eldest or ‘right son’ on a farm but never inherited due to fire. I also exist outside the heteronormative ideal of agriculture life. I examine the ideas of labour, landownership, male-dominance, agriculture and Queerness. As the Farm Labourer, I actively engage with a process of making akin to systems of labour and production. My work is presented as an expanded print-based practise with a central focus on the performative act of making. The printing moment is the fulcrum to my practise, employing an auto-ethnomethodology. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emma Price
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My approach to making photographic images is an exploration of personal desires through image manipulation. I create my work based on ideas of parallel universes with references from 80/90s sci-fi and fantasy movies. I create worlds from other worlds. My photos function as recollections or distant memories. They contain obscured faces, figures, and mysterious occurrences taking place. The images give minimal but enough visual information to allow an investigation, creating a certain mood or a strange narrative. A supernatural or apocalyptic atmosphere is created within these images and their installation. My images works are made from fragments of the contemporary world altered into new places and times. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Guilfoyle
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My photographic work reflects on the economic states of the rural town of Urlingford in Co. Kilkenny. My approach is a photo documentary style showing the town’s changes due to economic cycles of growth and downturns. This photographic series works as a microcosm of the development of modern Ireland in the early part of the 21st century. My process involves me visiting various locations that surround and make up Urlingford, documenting my surroundings and gathering visual information. The places I visit, and research are the M8 motorway, the Templetouhy bog, the Islands forest and shops and businesses within the town that are still open and the ones that closed their doors for good. My work with photography also includes publications that detail and archive the changes in livelihoods and how life is lived in this part of the country. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meadhbh Healy
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work reorders familiar domestic space using photography, collage, photo-sculptures and installation. Through these making and display processes, and influenced by set design and stock images, I create – a staging of a staging – allowing a 3D experience of the construction of an image. The figure is a vital part of my work as it allows interaction and a sense of play. Using the avatar of ‘Mini Meadhbh’, I appropriate stock image poses used for commercial purposes. ‘Mini Meadhbh’ takes over scenes playing roles including producer, set designer and chief electrician. The chosen scene is arranged, shot and assembled small scale, and shot again using studio lighting. This transforms the routine scene into a dramatic stage set-up. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ava Hayes
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In a contemporary world, where societies distrust of images is rife, I explore the manufactured reality of seduction and beautification. Through the mediums of performance, photography and installation I examine how patriarchal society has affected our ways of seeing. It is said that analysing pleasure and beauty destroys the very essence of it, however, in a world where beauty standards have been shaped and moulded, the work showcases our struggle and anxiety in trying to reach our forever fantasised better selves. Exploring times of solitude the work blurs the line between private and public moments; making private moments a public spectacle in order to question the act of relentlessly looking. The work focuses a cynical lens on the idea of selling being “womanly” to women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jordan O Brien
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The work is an exploration of one figure's role in portraying the psychological aspects to an everyday family dynamic when it has fallen apart. The practices involved are photography, performance and sculpture. These are incorporated into photo-sculptures of isolated moments in a staged performance. Within this body of work are 3 separate houses, a house per parent and a limbo space where the figure resides in a fantasy from his past. Only 1 house can be called a home. The pull from either side comes when you are stuck in the middle of two parents. The figure yearns for a home, the tension gathers when he must make his choice, where to live and who with? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kayleigh Maimaran
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work explores a psychological space through sculpture based photography that depicts an abstract architectural landscape. Playing with a high contrast of light and shadow, the photos attempt to reflect the vagueness of our subconscious and look at the psychological space from a 'feeling space' point of view, which is one aspect of the psychological space. As this kind of place goes beyond our measurable world, the pieces aim to visualize an invisible territory. The digital photography uses a studio setup of miniature sized wooden sculptures in a controlled studio lighting. To enhance the concept of a constructed world, it plays with a distorted perspective through the use of mirrors within the miniature sets, as well as digital photo collaging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Daly
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work is an exploration of discomfort and artificiality within domestic space. Our interior lives are rooted to the spaces we live in, linking place with private psychologies of desire and anxiety. As the home is traditionally associated with a sense of security, my work ruptures this aspirational space and shows that there is more beneath the surface of the conventional. My practice includes both digital and analogue photography, with the majority of the images shot on a medium format Hasselblad. Through bodily gesture, the constructed images depict intimate scenes of figures teetering on the verge of dysfunctional moments. The viewer is not provided with a full narrative but is instead presented with visual and transient fragments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bríanna Ní Léanacháin
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My current work is rooted in personal experiences of home, identity, ‘Irishness’ and seeks to explore the position and experience of the female in traditional and contemporary Irish culture. Through this work I attempt to dismantle the nostalgia propagated by romanticised notions of traditional Irish identity and deconstruct the inherent patriarchal discourses associated with rural Ireland. I displace domestic labours within the rural landscape, challenging traditional tropes of the landscape as a female space and seeking to reclaim this feminine space and emphasise the ‘invisible’ labour of women in rural homeplaces. The work attempts to evoke a merging of the domestic and the rural spaces as I reclaim and reconstitute these spaces as a site of convergence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kevin O Brien
Crawford College of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Fine Art
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Through photographic images of the landscape and nature, including a variety of subjects and locations across Cork and Kerry, I share the hidden stories in these places. I believe that the sites we visit and wander into have something to share with us. Every place is unique, no two places are the same. I wish to highlight how we can communicate and appreciate the natural distinctiveness that is around us. Overtime the stories begins to reveal themselves. One image could be understood as a visual metaphor for the human psyche, whilst another might be a representation of current events. My images are about seeing the world in a new light. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Cox
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

During the covid 19 pandemic, the home has become an all too familiar environment. A home is traditionally a place of shelter and comforting familiarity, but now this familiarity is a source of grievance and disappointment. No longer does one return home from the outside world, instead the domestic space has become our de facto environment during the various guises of lockdown. Here I found myself in unfamiliar territory, the distant landscape (my natural subject matter) was seemingly out of reach or at least hampered by the message ‘stay at home’. This new continuous domestic environment became my new landscape, a landscape that is safe yet frustratingly familiar and yet I found myself willingly occupied capturing this familiarity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kimberlee Messenger
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Unconscious Touch is a photographic project based around the Coronavirus pandemic. The focus of the project is to highlight the surfaces that are touched daily. Touching items each day is a part of our human nature, the feel of something enables our senses to recognise an object rather than just looking at it. The sensation of an object produces a defence mechanism within the body, making the body feel safe. However, due to the Coronavirus this defence mechanism is no longer an unconscious doing but more conscious as we are more aware of bacteria and how it is spread from one individual to another. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Smith
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My name is Joshua Smith, I am based in the North East, I like to capture moments and edit them in a cinematic way, further documenting my life to make the viewer relate to my images/videos on an emotional level. The initial idea for this project was to capture everyday moments and edit them in a way to make each image appear to be dream-like and mystical. To do this, I visited local parks, nature reserves and beaches, at different times of the day to try encapsulate the environments natural lighting and elements. Based on this, I decided that my goal was to glorify the beauty found in these landscapes and make them liminal, thus producing an image that is familiar to our brains but makes you question the reality of the situation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lena Crowe
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The project's themes are centred around the combination of paranoia, depression and anxiety. Which has been a personal experience of mine throughout the 2020-1 worldwide pandemic, and not due to the Covid-19 virus (in the most part.) Instead this was due to a perceived misinformation campaign, one of unprecedented scale and with a focus of creating fear to hide the disintegration of basic human rights. This project suggests the idea that the British governments and news bodies are, if anything, perpetrating this narrative with their mixed message regulations, confusing guidelines and vaccine dependent rhetoric which is largely devoid of personal choice and freedom. This project asks the question of where do we draw the line in the face of adversity? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Faith Jackson
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Dreams provide the sleeper with a liminal space: a place where the lines of time and reality become less distinct and sometimes blurred. The project ‘Terra Nullius’ employs an ordinary bed, a self-built lockdown creation, to act as a symbol of the journey through this transitional space between conscious and subconscious states: marking the threshold where the dreamer has left reality behind but is not yet in a subconscious state. This widespread project encompasses all four seasons in a deliberate attempt to convey the effect of changing seasons on our subconscious. The bed and my own presence remain constant and help to engage the viewer by allowing them to enter the images in a way that is significant for them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabriel Baker Bennett
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Through the last 12 months lockdown has affected, not only the publics mental health and well-being but also the ability to access sports/ gym facilities. This series will be a reflective piece (23rd March 2020 – March 2021) that looks on the temporary closer of activity purposed spaces, making these buildings and facilities ‘redundant’. Furthermore, the series develops on a dystopian-like landscape as the structures that are photographed were once flourishing in societal means, are now deserted within a temporary basis. By losing the aptitude to access these activity-based spaces and their physical benefit toward society, they lose their intrinsic importance of delivering educational development, tackling health risks as well as inequalities and encouraging local and national community interrelations. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonny Cartwright
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The landscape as a subject is so much more than a visual experience, and draws upon many different discourses and ideas from philosophy, psychology, politics & environmentalism. Theories rooted in these diverse areas, along with the complex intersections of power structures and privilege, are the primary focus of Anthropos. The effects of humanity’s actions on the landscape are often not taken into account when we interact within them; Anthropos explores the landscape around us as an intersection of the human and non-human. The images are taken within a small wedge of Dumfries and Galloway in Southwest Scotland, within the restricted circumstances of the first four months of 2021, and return the gaze of my camera towards my home and, ultimately, myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex O'Brien
University of Cumbria - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The source images were produced to satisfy the conditions of the Hadfield Trust Creative Travel Grant 2019. I proposed a project which would investigate the cultural and aesthetic implications of country borders, during a period of bike-travel from the UK to Greece, following a personal migratory line. The project was completed in December 2019. In the wake of global events, these ‘soft’ Schengen constructs became increasingly defined, and the findings of the project were rendered problematic. I returned to the images in search of meaning but found only vague proof of an historical experience. The camera-phone snapshots appeared now more evidential and ‘present’ than any formal compositions. In frustration, I deleted portions of these images, replacing them with algorithmic content and withdrawing a degree of control from their production. In this process, the visuality is informed solely by the existing image. Now, any meaning is applied, rather than determined - an evocation of experiencing socio-political events as hopelessly circular, pervasive, and ambiguously consuming. What follows are fractured images of removal and repetition. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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George Rayner
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Exploring my own cultural and historical attitudes towards nature, this project explores current ecological concerns of rising sea level and pollution. Drawing upon the anthropomorphisation of nature as my visual mode akin to that of the green man and mariners rhymes. Through the eyes of the ancient seafarer cast upon our shores, we observe this crumbling landscape, now scarred, only to be reflected to see ourselves as the seafarer, and our eventual demise. Re-evaluation of conventional photographic process led to using seaweed collected daily to develop photographic film and caffenol to produce prints, with their own nature from inconsistencies and unpredictability within the ecological process. These idiosyncratic qualities are a result of the indeterminacy, which is only allegorical of nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Barness
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

What would it look like to come face to face with your memories, to witness the building blocks of your identity? I explore the intricate internal workings of memory, a space understood logically but fathomed visually. Inspired by Simonides’ Mind Palace I transformed my domestic environment into a container of memory. Each domestic space is fit for a key purpose, the same principle applies to the 5 chambers of the mind which process memory. Through the media of slide projection, I projected my categorised family photographic archive onto my domestic space to form a simulation of the cognitive. By adopting the role of the subconscious, the viewer explores the threshold of the mind consequently writing their own mind palace journey. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bethany Barlow
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Out of Thyme documents the act of my own labour as an amateur gardener throughout the duration of the second major UK pandemic lockdown. During this period, many people have sporadically been affected by food shortages. Mass panic buying at the start of lockdown caused individuals to stockpile essential goods from local supermarkets; with Brexit import tariff changes also causing delays with deliveries from Europe. The experiment tested how much food a single person can grow from seed at home with little knowledge or experience, with the eventual goal being to provide enough fresh produce for sustainable individual consumption. Documented using numerous photographic and moving image media with complimentary sustainable processes, this work manifests in an epic visual legacy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fiona Middleton
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Menopause is one of society’s last taboos and, as such, with the onset of my own perimenopause some of the symptoms were unexpected and overwhelming. Series one (black and white) reflects how middle-aged, menopausal women are often invisible to wider society and that loss of fertility is often seen as loss of relevance. There has also been a medicalisation of menopause and many of the remedies on offer have little or no proven efficacy, the issues caused by menopause have been commodified. Series two considers the stereotypes of menopausal women, celebration at its cessation, grief for the loss of fertility, and the woman who sees it as seasonal growth with opportunity for new pastimes. The series concludes with my own reali . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laurence Thorn
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

For the past year, the vast majority of UK residents have been restricted to their homes. Education, work and entertainment typically became domestic activities, and the home has shifted from a place of relaxation to an environment of restriction and monotony. actualize.exe exists as a virtually rendered 3D experience, navigable using any desktop or laptop computer. Produced within the Unity 3D editor, an industry standard software for the creation of video games, actualize.exe resembles the games that have kept millions entertained throughout the pandemic. Appropriated historical artworks are incorporated as ‘easter eggs’ within the surfaces and objects found within the experience. This contextualises the virtual environment by presenting observations that comment on the effect of restriction within a domestic space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Trudi Hall
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Within the biosphere of earth, bacterium resides alongside us in the realms of the invisible. Unnoticed by humans it is only when we become symptomatic hosts we are aware of their existence that eludes our visual senses. A microscopic exploration of the Covid 19 virus, Biosphere is inspired from living in a time when a pandemic swept across the Earth. The connotations of home became blurred and undefined. Homes became multi-dimensional spaces where both work and relaxation mutated into a vague ambiguity of existence. Living through the pandemic locked into our homes created a mutation of roles, routines and social exclusion. Biosphere encapsulates a macrocosm of this time through geometric representations of the metamorphosis from freedom to isolation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucie Scott
University of Derby - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

On 23rd March 2020, our lives in the UK were changed due to the start of a national lockdown. Throughout this time in lockdown inside our homes, life has continued on as best as we can make it despite many people’s lives being turned completely upside down. The project describes the hectic and intense life of a large family under one roof that is managing to carry on throughout lockdown. The synthetic display of screens represents how easy it is to insert or remove technology and media and its influence on our lives. To remove the invasion of media, the layer is deleted, much like turning off a device. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jordan Hearns
TU Dublin - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘We Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet (We Will Dance Again)’ is a socially engaged, mixed-media project that explores the newfound realities facing clubbers and their immediate communities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘We Will Dance Again’ is a 48-page, A3 tabloid publication featuring six long-form interviews, illustrated with an array of 35mm photographs shot within the spaces mentioned throughout the text. This publication features a sequence of stills from ‘Raveyne’, a 60 minute audio/visual presentation incorporating field recordings, verbal testimonies and a 59 minute DJ mix, curated by the artist. Highlighting the loss of human interaction within the aforementioned spaces, ‘Raveyne’ is presented alongside ‘Dancing (Removed)’, a series of audio/visual pieces depicting four subjects dancing in their respective living spaces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Arman Duzel
TU Dublin - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Lost Kingdoms examines different affective registers of loss and reconnection after the war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project considers the involvement of three male subjects, before, during and after these events, all of whom experienced the tragedy at first hand and were forced to leave their home leading them to settle in their new kingdoms. Photographs from the family album and postcards are used as archival sources for these personal stories in addition to contemporary portraits of the subjects and solemn records of objects and regalia associated with Bosnia. These images provide space for further associations and remembering, almost thirty years since the war. This project is ongoing and it will act as a totem of memory. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Croghan
TU Dublin - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A Black Notice is issued by Interpol and An Garda Síochána when looking for information about unidentified deceased persons. In many cases the person may have been using a false identity. For more than ten years the Garda and Interpol have been trying to identify the body of Peter Bergmann. Nobody has ever come forward to identify him and he lies buried in an unmarked grave in County Sligo, Ireland. Much has been written and discussed about this case, the lack of personal information and details in a modern era, make this a fascinating subject. This unsolved mystery was the starting point to explore conceptual documentary photography at the intersection between fact and fiction, the raison d'être of photography itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabel Mullarney
TU Dublin - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project draws attention to the troubling issue of identity theft and identity masking in the online world. By now, we all have received that message on Instagram asking us to accept gifts and because they just love your work so much, they will give it to you for free - you just pay the shipping. With Covid, many have been exposed to a new wave of frauds that sound amazing or scary, which anyone could fall for easily and accept as just someone wanting to help them. Texts, calls, emails, DMs are constantly catching people out. The portraits catch the eye in all their grotesquery, forcing the viewer to look further into the image, find the text and be reminded of how easy it is to be fooled by innocent messages. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mary Furlong
TU Dublin - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Not the location of my first kiss is about memories, sometimes misremembering, and mixing things up. I concentrated on memories from the years before my first misremembered kiss, and as the project is centred around childhood memories I wanted it to have a playful element. The still life images were made at home in the spare bedroom. As I currently live in the same town I spent most of my childhood in, I had some form of access to locations. To date my portraiture has been very straight, I wanted these portraits to have a performative element, my Mum stood in for everyone. Everything starts with a memory, from that a photograph is made and a piece of text written. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Grace Scully
TU Dublin - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Natura Imperium examines the history of botanical exploration and its impact on current ecosystems. The intentions for collecting plant specimens by colonial powers included expanding scientific understanding of the world, exploring medicinal uses of plants, and a simple appreciation of nature. These explorations coincided with imperialist countries exploiting indigenous people, pillaging resources, and destroying communities. Thus, the collecting of botanical specimens can also be understood as a means of control; gaining an understanding of the natural world often with the intention of controlling those environments. Some of the effects of this colonialist attitude have resulted in people becoming alienated from the natural environment and forged the conditions for climate change and ecological disasters to exacerbate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Connor O'Neill
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This series of images was created using handmade paper shapes and a combination of photoshop to create minimalist architectural settings that look like they could have been taken straight out of a dream. These images were created with the intention of being dreamlike in their setting and colour palette. Using paper arches and staircases I created scenes that were surrealist yet minimal. My images include single subjects as a focal point to lead the viewer from one image to the next. The subjects bring a more real element to the surreal surroundings. For a lot of people dreams normally feature abstract shapes and flat colours instead of highly detailed settings, this is reflected in my minimal compositions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fabio Scalici
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My artistic practice tells a story about self-acceptance. With my images I am trying to express the pursuit of freedom as an individual as well as an artist. Photographs talk more about the photographer than anything else, to show a photograph to somebody means to expose your deepest intimacy and to me, this is a courageous act of self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is the first step to accepting others the way they are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jill Barnett
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I created this project to further develop my food and drink photography skills. This is the path I intend to take following Graduation. The plan was to create a body of work suitable for either in a magazine, recipe book or advertising material. The aim was to produce a variety of images to reflect the range needed for food magazines and cookbooks, whilst keeping a distinctive style throughout. All images were shot in a home studio in keeping with the appropriate Covid restrictions of the time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Gray
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This collection captured a glimpse into the lives of those around us by photographing them through the windows of their own homes. Each image is captured inside of the model’s homes as they do activities or tasks from their own personal lives. This collection started from an image I captured a few months before lockdown and due to the lockdown, I found this collection would be topical and safe to create. This collection allows the viewer to look into the lives of complete strangers like you would if you were glancing into the window of a house you walk by without the feeling of guilt. It is designed to allow you to look. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nathan Ross
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I am mostly known as a fashion photographer, but pure portraiture will always remain my first love. Throughout my work, I stress subject connection first and foremost. I always want to display the connection I have with my subjects to really create images with feeling. For the most part over the course of the year, I have been carrying out test shoots in collaboration with Tartan Models. Throughout these sessions, I always seek to get something different out of the models than other photographers get, which comes back to stressing that connection above all else. The work attached for my submission is several examples of the results of this connection first approach to working with people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steph Nicol
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Nowhere to go’ explores how 2020 changed the way we were able to experience the power of fashion. As the first lockdown ensued (and the second and the third...) the nation donned their comfies, but for some, the urge to dress up had never become more apparent. The power of the garments, lend the loneliness of lockdown a slice of fantasy and escapism. With colour and texture the series demonstrates the wonder fashion can bring to the mundane. When in the midst of uncertainty, what better distraction than embracing the joy of dressing up. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vicky Murray
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“Portrait of an artist” aims to capture female artists working in any medium to represent their artistic vision. I have chosen to focus on female artists based in Scotland in response to research that highlights the under representation of women holding positions of power in the creative industries, based on leading roles held in museums, galleries and national arts bodies, and the consequences of this. This project will draw attention to and showcase the diversity and talents of female Scottish artists through a series of captivating portraits that represent their day to day lives. It is a joyous celebration of their work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sebastian Janik
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I’m Sebastian Janik. I love cars. That’s why I specialise in automotive photography. I do every genre - from portraits to landscapes – but nothing gives me as much satisfaction as photographing cars. I photograph every type of cars. It doesn’t matter if it’s a luxurious Mercedes, huge Range Rover or a racetrack Honda. I treat them all with same love. I believe to succeed in an automotive photography, one needs to love driving cars. Every car has a soul and my job is to capture it in my images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katrina Soutar
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As a photographer, I create fine art images that make people stop and think. ‘The Unknown’ is a series of images that shows a variety of different people in the middle of nowhere, lost in thought. As though they don’t know where they are or what they’re doing. I created ‘The Unknown’ to bring a cinematic style to my portfolio and personal work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Xavier Montojo Jordan
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My passion as a photographer is to shoot portraits and fashion. These two categories allow me to feel alive as an artist, I can express myself through unique images better than words and become a visual story-teller. I love capturing different types of beauty and enhancing them to capture the eyes of the viewer, challenging their senses and imagination. Portraits are raw and intimate, while fashion provides the opportunity to explore my creativity to develop layers and learn from every project. I thrive when developing the concept of the shoot; connecting with the person/model and the team; playing with the light and maximising on the location to create impactful images that tell a story. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Gillies
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is an exploration of occupations and workers in the Glasgow area during a six-month national lockdown. This work is a necessary documentation of a time in which the world of work was altered and for some changed indefinitely. I intended to highlight and celebrate those who have worked throughout the pandemic and give an intimate insight into their working environments. Throughout I have engaged and connected with people during a time period in which the concept of human connection has felt intensely distant. This has been a strange yet valuable experience and has allowed me to gain a better understanding of the trials and tribulations of working life during a pandemic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sandra García
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Alfonsina Storni, ran away from her life like an Icarus from Crete. The waves were the wax wings that transported her to the world of those who never die since they remain forever alive in the social imagination. Alfonsina’s Dream belongs to an ongoing series dedicated to muses who lived an outstanding life and died a memorable death. I perceive images as a gateway to the subconscious. The archetype the fable and the folk tale are my source of inspiration because our world, is that of Antigone, and Oedipus, the Selkie or Bluebeard. There in the land where the dream and the reality are intertwined, you’ll find me and there I’ll find you too because we are all as one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adella Qotrunada
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I am passionate about capturing products and I love turning them into something eye-catching with my signature style. I began my venture into photography in 2017 and became obsessed with the fundamentals that takes great photographs: lighting, balance, composition and use of space. I love capturing something ordinary and turning them with a creative twist. I combine my passion for photography with my love of food, music, beauty products, accessories and all the finer things in life. I am inspired by the worlds of art, design, (of-course food) and photography. These interests give my work a much more robust look and feel. Whether I am collaborating with clients on location or in a studio, I tailor each project to my client. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Bujok
Edinburgh College - BA Professional Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I'm a fashion photographer, and I do clean and neat work supported by a simple idea or object. I'm equally fascinated and inspired by mundane everyday things and large, expressive art installations. I do contemporary fashion, and I like when images make viewers stop for a second and analyse the picture, but it's hard to stop; there is too much going on around us; we feed our brains with the popular because it's easy. 'Look at me. 'Be me' is the story inspired by #beme; increasing self-criticisms affects our everyday lives. We worship popular, beautiful and rich; we follow blindly fake appearances like mannequins' heads on poles staring at their idol. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yizhou Aiden Sun
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work explores my cultural identity as British and Chinese, and the construction and reconstruction of this identity that occurs because of my experiences with racism and shame. This has caused my identity to be unstable and precarious, which I symbolise through still life constructions. I specifically use bananas since British-born Chinese people are called this because of the notion that we are “white on the inside and yellow on the outside”. Colour plays a prominent role within my work with reference to the perceived queerness of bright colours, and the cultural significance of such colours. My most recent work explores these themes along with spirituality, as a documentation of a personal ritual – a ritual of reflection and healing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellen Blair
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Ellen Blair's practice is about chosen families within the LGBTQ+ community. A separate sense of family and community outside their biological one is incredibly important for many people who belong to the Queer community as they can be misunderstood or rejected by their biological families and society. Safe spaces are therefore important in finding acceptance, understanding and a place to learn and grow as their authentic selves. Her work focuses on Queer joy and portrays an insight into the intimacy and friendship involved in these chosen families. It subverts societal ideas of family and kinship through reappropriation of the family photo album, using the scientific term spectrum as a motif to explore the transcension of boundaries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kizzie MacNeill
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Investigating the fluidity of the analogue image in the digital age, my practice meddles with the photographic darkroom in an attempt to loosen its heavy construct. Assessing relations between the digital and analogue, an initial conversation is held between the online and the darkroom by positioning the pinhole camera in front of the technological device. Later, the laptop is invited to act as a tool within the photographic process; its blue-light brightness capable of transforming the negative image into the positive. My work, RESIDUES OF CUSTOMISATION, is guided by the remix - a regeneration of information- in order to diffuse competition between the online and the darkroom and contemplate the behaviour of advancement, malleability and mutuality in the digital age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Topping
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Common Ground is a project exploring how individuals utilise shared public space during COVID 19. From October 2020 to May 2021, Emily Topping has been taking regular trips to The Meadows and Bruntsfield Links, public parkland in the centre of Edinburgh, to engage with the landscape and individuals that occupy the space. These five portraits are of the people that Emily met along the way, who are part of a larger collection of 145 photos, illustrating and identifying community within The Meadows area. In a final homage to Edinburgh itself, the project also acts as a personal goodbye letter to the place that Emily spends almost every day: The Meadows & Bruntsfield Links. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander Van Der Byl
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Through this body of work I wanted to portray the inner psychological experience of the very 'subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place' - monachopsis - often experienced by some members of a displaced or gentrified community. Through visual storytelling, the character within this set of images portrays both the familiar and unfamiliar. Monachopsis manifests itself in the inability to feel comfortable within new circumstances, and produces an underlying feeling of anxiety. This discomfort leaves aperson feeling detached and drawn inwards into their own thoughts, despite their surroundings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosie Anderton
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In the project Strength Rosie Anderton contemplates the different types of strength that people have found during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project has three parts, one with dancers and gymnast while the other two with herself. All three parts are linked to this time period by the use of masks. The dancers represent physical strength as both sports require a lot of strength that is overlooked because of the beauty that is a part of the sports. The self-portraits represent internal strength. The second part of the projects acts like an in-between. They contain statues of animals that are often in myths and stories. The final part of the project represents the internal through the fairies which were added digitally. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bade Baran
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Photo series consisting of long exposure landscapes of the cliffs in Arbroath, Scotland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julia Mackenzie
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A digital, moving image piece expressing passing moments of the everyday which are transient and therefore precious. Stressing the importance of the present time where we find ourselves, knowing nothing will happen in the exact same way again. Like ripples in a stream, the time is gone forever. I record the branches as they move calmly in harmony, like the ebbing and flowing of the sea. Layers within the wall and imprinted shadows of trees on various surfaces create depth and texture; birds passing across the screen just as time does. Quiet overlooked moments which constantly repeat, not through exact visuals but in feeling - throughout each day. To feel and savour each moment as it passes, to achieve true connection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josephine Berry
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

BOYHOOD and MANHOOD are intertwined yet separate series; borne out of an interest in dissecting what masculinity is within differing periods of life. BOYHOOD encapsulates the adolescent stage of Josephine’s brothers with an emphasis on their relationship with each other and masculinity and how this evolves. It began upon noticing that the youngest brother had the build of a child whereas the other brother had begun to take on the physical features of a man. She captures this difference from standing on the edge of childhood to being on the verge of adulthood. MANHOOD depicts men in early adulthood and their understandings of masculinity; specifically societal expectations of male behaviour and unpacking what these are and how they are created. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Riccardo Angei
Edinburgh College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The project explores the LGBTQIA+/Women skaters' community around Scotland in response to the toxic masculinity image surrounding this environment. Born organically, Beyond The Others, In Front Of Everyone explores members of the community from different perspectives, where the skate is a mere glue for an inclusive community that takes care of its members. The project, carried out during lockdowns, sees the active participation of the community, which has achieved a part of the project through disposable cameras given away. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annabel Ferguson
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Photographer Annabel Ferguson showcases a constructed, environmental, female-only, portraiture series, "You Are Very Hard to Love." An existential, apolitical, prosaic opus presenting images that do not rationalise existence, they highlight self-determination and the relationships the sitters have with themselves, the relationship they have with Annabel and Annabel’s relationship to them. The series considers the fragility of the human condition whilst projecting the photographer’s life experiences and emotions onto the piece. The photographs presented adhere to a loose typology and feature twelve women who have performed in a caring role to the photographer. The title comes from an insult that was directed towards the artist, and this series contrasts this phrase with the images of twelve women who have contradicted it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Celine Lundqvist
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The fashion industry has a history of pressuring young females to look a certain way. There has always been a clear ideal, presented within the pages of the magazines. I decided to create my own fashion magazine called "Women", where my models were normal everyday people of different looks and backgrounds. Real women. My goal with this work was to show that anyone can be a model and there is no such thing as an ideal body. I have interviewed my models who have taken part of this magazine, and throughout this magazine we get to read about their experience and thoughts of the fashion industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martina Barahal
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'Saudade' is a semi-biographical still-image film of the author’s father’s life using his personal photographic archive. The title is a Portuguese word that represents a feeling of longing, melancholia and nostalgia. It signifies a presence of absence and pulls us towards the memories we have of the people and places we miss. The film is a montage of images presented as if the viewer were watching a slideshow. All along, there are clips from recorded conversations carried out while looking at the slides, approximately thirty years after they were captured. The film is meant to reflect how our memory works, and how we would experience a flashback of a lifetime. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miriam Levi
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Indigo Dust is a sci-fi photo-book that welcomes the confusion of technological societies. Acting as a bridge between artificial and natural, the project is a cyborg, child of a surreal lovemaking between fiction and science, archive and fantasy. It merges images imprinted by the sun through camera-less processes and then digitally altered with others appropriated from online archives and then experimentally corrupted through the use of a flatbed scanner. Indigo Dust shows an alternative universe in between layers of reality, where artificial and natural are suspended in an eerie balance. Reshaping the past to comment on the future, it questions the era of hyperreality, rethinking notions of motherhood and gender in the technological age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Euan Robb
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Scottish photographer Euan Robb merges fantasy with the everyday in his series of portraits entitled 'Freaks, Geeks and Those Who Act Like Sheep'. Drawing on the stereotypical representations of teenage 'archetypes' within the 'teen' and 'coming-of-age' genres of contemporary film and television, Robb presents the viewer with a specific and familiar cast: The Jock, the Goth, the Geek, the Gossip, the Skater and the Activist. Each character is photographed in a unique, constructed set, designed to have the appearance of the fictional persona’s bedroom. Presenting them through the visual language of parody, within the fantasy world of the movie from which they originate. A movie that does not exist. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Tobin
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Laura Tobin tackles the fast fashion industry by producing the Capsule magazine. With the intention of inspiring others to change their shopping habits, Laura creates a positive resource for young women advertising how to build a capsule wardrobe, up-cycle clothes, and ways of shopping sustainably. Laura has done an investigation into the industry, focusing on the role that influencers on social media play. By photographing in a similar aesthetic to influencers, creating neutral colour palette that reflects influencers Instagram feeds. To emphasise the element of community, Laura created a Capsule Instagram and online blog, which work as a safe space for the community to discuss and share advice. With Capsule magazine, collaboratively, we are saying No to fast fashion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Duncan Thompson
Edinburgh Napier University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

"Fish Out of Water" by Duncan Thompson examines the vital role of the fish and chip shop within its local community, with an emphasis on how it has served its constituents during the lockdown. The project took place around the areas of Burnley and Pendle in East Lancashire, England. Photographing within a mile radius of each chippy presented, it shows the immediate community and their identity which has been affected by Coronavirus restrictions. The project references the working-class roots of the food. Presented in the format of a tabloid newspaper giving a nod to the historical wrapping of the food in old newspapers whilst alluding readership to the common stereotype that the working class only read tabloid papers. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jodie van Mesdag
University Centre Farnborough - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'A Contemporary Allegory' takes a modern approach on the use of symbolism in historical artworks. During the Renaissance period, art was used as a way of telling stories to those who could not read and write, and objects, food, animals and colours were used as symbols to portray messages about society, human nature and emotional states of mind. This series takes these traditional symbols and aims to portray their meaning through photographic diptychs, encouraging the viewer to explore the relationship between the two images. Jodie was particularly interested in some of the lesser-known, sometimes hidden symbols, such as the ostrich egg as a symbol of virginity, and the pomegranate as a symbol of eternal life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Fielding
University Centre Farnborough - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Rachel Fielding is a Berkshire based photographer whose work expresses her interest in still life both in a domestic and environmental setting. Having come to photography later in life she brings a reflective and contemplative aspect to her work. Her practice also incorporates elements of other disciplines such as sculptural and textile work which have been of interest for many years. Having completed a Degree in Photography at Farnborough College of Technology she is looking at working independently to further her practice and widen her knowledge and capabilities. She has exhibited her work locally, producing work for a Local Authority initiative as well as working collaboratively on fashion and beauty briefs and promotional projects for some local events. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Agnese Stare
University Centre Farnborough - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“Taking the word literally, it may be said the Text is always paradoxical.” Roland Barthes. According to Barthes, text can be plural, not only for having various connotations but for being able to accomplish the very plural of meaning. To prove this statement the series ‘I Did Not Mean That!’ are examining this versatility of words by photographing literal and deconstructed meaning. Every image contains an additional text from the dictionary which defines and analyses the original compounds that could be surprisingly different from the imagery the spectator can see. This project explores and shows how complex our mind and perception can be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel Beasley
University Centre Farnborough - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Represented in these images is an overlap of reality and a world far from it. We are able to depict which images look like close to the reality we live in and which images are heavily edited to the point where they look like something out of a book. This body of work has been influenced by the film ‘The Birds’, a 1963 production where a new normality is created by the blackbirds taking over the world and attacking characters in the film. It is almost as if the roles were reversed, the birds become the dominant species rather than humans, hunting them instead of being hunted themselves. This project is about making a new identity for birds, where they are perceived as not real, but part of the human imagination, they can be dangerous or friendly or somewhere in the middle. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Owen Bevan
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Owen Bevan’s body of work is using fashion photography to provide people with a safe space to experiment with their appearance without fear of judgement or descrimination. He is working with everyday people giving them the opportunity to be photographed in a way that they want to express themselves but currently do not have the confidence to in public. The photographs are shot to resemble a fashion photography photoshoot however each photograph and each model has their own personality imprinted on their photograph. The work is designed to encourage the models and the audience to express themselves freely to create a supportive environment in which people can select their clothing as they see fit . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yifan Lai
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The physical numbness and psychological resistance brought by the restraint, Yifan began to growl and cry, and then returned to peace. In this moody environment, she began to think: when facing different condition, the human experience of time is entirely different. Pain and happiness are fixed, and nothing will last. This temporary and permanent tension is a point of reference for our organizational values and beliefs. Every life that is bound by the "red line" can get a chance to breathe in the gap that recognizes the essence of time. There is no need to suffer or to indulge in happiness, to remain still, and to let yourself stay in a relatively calm state to talk to this world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Callum Smith
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As a brother of six, I have spent my entire life surrounded by masculinity and benefitted from the enjoyments that have come from this such as a lifestyle of healthy competition to constantly push one another further. However, like anything this also comes with its darkside - toxic masculinity. This project studies and asks questions of what is lost in the midst of toxic masculinity in British culture - capturing men in British culture who haven’t felt like they have been able to show affection towards each other and providing a safe environment for them to do so - acting as a form of phototherapy for the individuals, all while documenting the process in a ethnographic manner. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Liesicke
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Over the summer, autumn and - as of writing this - in the winter, I have had a spider living in my bedroom window. Because of this, I have become fascinated with the gaze of the insect and its relationship to my own. When I open the window, I can see it’s food tucked away in a corner or balled up in a web, while it rushes around and hides from me, then patches up broken threads. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Priyanka Pattni
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As part of my third-year graduation project, I explored the empowerment of people of colour by creating powerful and positive representation, as growing up there was a lack of these images provided. In doing so, I was taught in order to empower others I must empower myself first. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Reinstadtler
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Chris Reinstadtler is a British artist based in southern England. Currently graduating from BA Photography at UCA Farnham, Reinstadtler’s primary interest is in the spaces and places that go unseen and explores the cracks that appear benign to the public eye. “Monotony” is Reinstadtler’s exploration of his forced loneliness and declining mental health during covid lockdown and his frustration with blocked creativeness during this time. The images are created by burning old artworks to create new unique individual pieces as a form of phototherapy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tamara Lawrence
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This socially engaged, scientific project aims to raise awareness about water pollution and bring attention to the national river water crisis in the UK. It’s said that 40% of our UK rivers are polluted with sewage water (WWF), this results in just 16% of waterways having a ‘good’ ecological status (Defra). This project has been important to raise attention to issues that often go unnoticed, particularly as housing developments have increased in the past few years, this leaves the infrastructure in many areas outdated and struggling to cope with the increased usage. These images have been captured along the River Wey which is part of the Thames Basin, this flows through Hampshire, Surrey and parts of West Sussex. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nate Powell
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Nate’s work ‘XYZ’ is an ongoing project exploring and showing the different identities within the trans umbrella, encompassing both binary and non-binary people. He hopes to take this further to explore a wider and deeper meaning of the trans identity. By taking portraits of people who fall under this umbrella, Nate hopes to share how people showcase their identities. ‘XYZ’ is a play on the chromosome’s we all have. This work was brought about because of the lack of transgender representation within media, and the lack of understanding around what it means to be trans. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jakob Winterborne
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

landscapes around Devon, documenting the natural beauty of Dartmoor . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heather Tonkin
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Exploring the lack of knowledge that I have about my dad, this piece correlates the lack of exposure in making a photograph to the lack of provided information about him - creating a void more than a window into my fathers life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shoib Ahmad
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In this work I have been exploring the idea of feminism and pushing that conversation to be not just about the rights for women but gender equality for the entire spectrum of genders. In this project I have focused on photographing and having conversations with men, non binary and transgender individuals as these are the groups that are often left out of the conversation around gender equality. By doing this work I am allowing these groups to have a voice and showing how rich the conversation on gender can be when we allow all to partake. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Taylor Harbison
University for the Creative Arts Farnham - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Landscape photography taken inside my memories of a place . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Heather Rowan
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Soul is an intimate and ethereal presence that is abstract and personal, the interpretation of which can be influenced by everything around us. The tactile direction of the project creates intimate and delicate sensitivities. Through experimenting with nature and degradable objects, I produced a composition of images that portray an interpretation of soul through spirituality using nature. Dynamically conveying mother-nature, life, and the beyond. Displayed in a woodland setting designed to leave no physical trace within the space after deinstallation, complementing the transient nature of soul. The intention is to leave an imprint without form, sparking the audience to contemplate their own perception of soul. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dominic Eardley
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project looks at architectural images researched and photographed throughout the country, with emphasis placed on form, function and style. As with the COVID19 pandemic, my project idea saw me focus on structures closer to home, which in turn, allowed me to create a series that gives an insight into different eras of architecture, their purpose, how we respond to their existence and why their importance is significant today. The overall goal for this project was to create a set of images that shows how our ever-changing societal landscape has allowed for preservation of various structures, how we respond to them, how they have helped shape our surroundings, which, in turn, highlights the impact they have on us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robbie Boyd
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The sensitive issue of male suicide is becoming a bigger challenge to society, still a taboo subject that contributes to those suffering. My project looks at a community-based group focusing on men’s mental health and fitness. The aim of the project is to shine a light on the efforts of those suffering these thoughts, and those in the community focusing on helping find solutions. My project is to find a positive message of hope in amongst a lot of tragedy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Agata Gajewska
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I created The Fear of Tomorrow as a response to lockdown and my feelings of loss and terror. I decided to make something entirely new to explain my feelings at that time, creating a mixture of fine art portraits and landscapes. My goal in this series of images was to represent the breadth of my feelings, including fear, loss, emptiness, anxiety, encirclement and the desire to run away in the safe place. However, despite the presence of these negative emotions, there is also hope. The pictures are intentionally in different tones from delicate to more intense, representing the variability of my emotions during this weird time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shaun Fox
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My Teddy Edwards is a story that focuses on my mum and her life, with an emphasis on her battle with depression. The project comes from a letter written by my mum while receiving treatment for her depression. It’s an amalgamation of images from my mum's childhood, with letters from her days of receiving treatment and also images taken over the past year. The project hits very close to home as over the last year I went through a lot of personal loss, which resulted in me having to fight my own battle with depression. Lockdown allowed me to spend more time with my mum, and I began to realise the importance of the people closest to me, especially her. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niamh McInally
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project explores the sense of loss experienced by a cross section of football supporters from the area of Cumnock, Ayrshire, due to the negative impact caused by the global pandemic of 2020/2021. It is evident that this town steeped in a history of socialism, solidarity and a sense of community still carries these traditions. The current supporters of Cumnock Juniors’ Football Club display a form of community spirit and camaraderie, and are joined in their optimism and enthusiasm for a return to football. The football club is an essential part of community life in the town, and brings a sense of belonging to the supporters. As Jock Stein rightly said, “football without the fans is nothing”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Becca Burn
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is a photographic time capsule that explores a sense of place and the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. The body of work follows the journey of bringing my Gran’s past to meet my present, exploring our relationship through memories, shared experiences, and familiar everyday objects. The images are raw and real, conveying compelling emotions of fragility and sensitivity. Roots from my Gran’s life in Glasgow weave their way through my project, tracing and connecting significant places. Archival material and personal belongings are used to explore a sense of place within myself and my home environment, documenting living space to portray feelings of sentiment, comfort, and the journey with my Gran through the years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Craig Dalziel
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My name is Craig Dalziel and I am a Queer portrait photographer from Glasgow, Scotland. My work revolves around the self-expression of portraiture. I am also a fat activist who loves to challenge the status quo of society and photography. This project is titled Queer People Make Glasgow. I wanted to photograph and document a variety of people who identify as Queer and live in Glasgow. I love talking to people and finding out their passions and dreams and have created a body of work that shows who they are and how they live their lives. This project is ongoing, I aim to photograph many more people in the after lockdown restrictions ease and life returns to normal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Mitchell
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

"Select & Arrange" is a photography-based psychological project in photography's expanded field looking at how image, text, and colour interact and form new meanings. I asked, entirely anonymously, by hand-delivered typed letter, for people to answer the following question (after arranging their randomly supplied image, text and colour) - Where does it take you? From a group of twenty-four people, I received three replies. Beyond the photographic and the psychological, I designed the project to be multi-faceted and potentially never-ending, allowing me to explore other connected themes that interest me. Embedded within the project, I explore material culture, analogue and digital processes, dissemination, chance and failure. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sadia Iqbal
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project highlights the serious issue of plastic pollution and its side effects on environment. My aim was to avoid creating typical plastic waste images and instead make it look pleasant in order to get more attention from viewers. These images show that the plastic objects taking over our oceans, which is dangerous for us and our animals. Plastic waste is a serious issue, which is often taken too lightly. I tried to convey that message by making these plastic objects look like they’re floating in a blue background. I used cyanotype process to show our oceans and the floating plastic in them. For the project I used the plastic objects found on the roads. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Reid
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project looks at the people of Falkirk and the smiles we’ve missed while they’ve been under masks during lockdown. Falkirk is my hometown and where I’ve grown up and I wanted to show off some of the many faces that I’ve seen while living here. The project came about from being in lockdown, isolated and not being able to see or speak to anyone in person and just missing the social aspects of life. Doing this project allowed me to meet up with people, have conversations about the pandemic to see how they were coping and, most importantly, just have that chat we’ve all been waiting for. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Bowler
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project, An Internal Furnace, documents myself and my model’s different mental health struggles. The name came from my model, who describes himself having “an internal furnace” which burns inside him, that won’t die down. I used physical manipulation to represent the pain it causes our bodies and the damage it does to our sense of worth and self, as well as how it makes us feel exposed. As you will see, there are burns, ink stains and cuts in these images, all of which represent a physical or emotional side effect. A special thanks to my model and boyfriend, who not only let me photograph him during some very hard times, but got me through some of my own. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul McDade
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is about the coast and where the land meets the sea, along with detailed shots of things associated with the coast in its natural state, not interfered with by humans. To ensue this there was next to no human interference in the shots. The coast is something that shapes us and intrigues us, there is something grounding about looking out over the sea into the great blue yonder, that gives us a moment of pause to ponder over many things. Maybe it makes us think about ourselves and our lives, it can heal us and, for most of us as an island nation, the coast has probably touched us in more ways than one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michelle Maclean
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This series was a way of coping with my own anxieties during Covid-19, where being around nature was my antidote to everyday realities. The images combine three elements of nature: earth, water and air. I experimented to create these painterly images by using a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement. Five of the images convey the graceful and almost balletic movements of birds in the air, creating an ethereal, abstract painterly image. Seagulls are often found in coastal and large water areas and, like myself, are often described as independent and of unique character. They’re symbolic of freedom and, in Greek mythology, were viewed as incarnations of the highly respected Goddess Leukothea, “The White Goddess”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iain Gallacher
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In this day and age, we can be overly critical with our own physical appearance and too quick to judge others based on their physical appearance. My project explores body image among men, exploring how each individual included in the project views their own body image. The aim of this project was to challenge the viewers’ own unconscious bias towards physical appearances - no two people look the same so why is there so much pressure for everyone to fit the same mould? Each sitter was given minimal direction in the hope of capturing their individual personality, resulting in natural and authentic representation. I wanted this body of work to celebrate diversity and individuality. You do you! . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susan Kelly
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

With the global pandemic, came significant uncertainty, national lockdowns caused a great deal of emotional stress and financial insecurity. Being forced to stay at home created a sense of cabin fever and isolation; the longing and hope for things to return to normality was at the forefront of everyone’s minds. I was watching the world go by, from my own little bubble, with my dog as my companion. This project “Through the looking glass” documents my journey of understanding. My world became small, and this was my only view of the outside, the world where I longed to be. As things started to relax, I took this opportunity, cautiously exploring, but only through the safety of my looking glass. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miriam Ali
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Ghar Se Ghar‘ meaning home from home, reflects on my grandmother’s journey from Pakistan to Scotland in 1962. This project documents my grandmother’s tendency to hold on to her past through the items she collects and old conversations she continuously plays in her head. Initially inspired by the term ‘palimpsest’ which is given to describe something that has been continuously erased and written over, the project uses elements of physical manipulation which tie into themes of displacement and writing over one's life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Geraldine McClure
City of Glasgow College - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In this work, I hoped to express moments of feeling that I could not articulate verbally; instinctive responses to things observed and experienced. In a time when personal freedoms were restricted due to a pandemic and when anxiety was often present, finding a temporary peace in the moment was welcome. Nature’s beauty, light and shade, the enchantment of colour and absorption in the moment provided a sense of freedom and a form of mindfulness. The freedom of expression of these moments, spontaneously created, fulfilled a need to experience beauty, serenity and poetry in a time of turmoil. I hope, in turn, that this work can perhaps offer the same to others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vanessa Fairfax-Woods
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography (Top Up)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The home is where the heart is. Where we feel safe, secure, can relax, be ourselves. However, women’s roles in the home aren’t quite as simple. Often split into roles of mother, wife, siren; women can find the domestic setting a minefield of stereotypes and prejudices that hark back centuries. This project investigates our struggles with motherhood, sexuality and beauty standards that are pressed onto us. The home should be a place where women, free from the objectifying gaze of the outside, can adopt an authentic persona; but is this true? Can we choose what we want to show of ourselves, even in the home? Or are we always forced to adopt the roles that history has made for us? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Russell Dyer
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography (Top Up)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

During the covid-19 pandemic, record numbers of people have suffered with poor mental health and reports of domestic violence have increased exponentially. Searching For The Happiness tells the story of a survivor of domestic violence throughout childhood and the subsequent mental health challenges they now face as an adult. The series explores their visual memories of traumatic events and triggers, challenging an unequivocal reading of the world through ambiguous narrative and an atmosphere of suppressed trauma. The series reflects upon a need for changing attitudes towards both survivors of domestic violence and those who suffer from mental health illnesses. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Stokes
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography (Top Up)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The process of creating each cyano-lumen image surrenders control to the environmental conditions present at the time of their creation. By combining processes, from the time of the industrial revolution through to the modern day, along with mixing photographic chemicals using various pH’s of seawater, I examine the effects of changes to ocean chemistry over time. As atmospheric CO2 increases, our oceans which absorb CO2 are becoming more acidic. This poses a huge threat to biodiversity as many marine organisms will suffer inhibited growth and slowly dissolve. The title ‘acidopHobe’ refers to the abundance of organisms reliant on a specific alkaline ocean environment, the health of which is integral to maintaining a balance that supports all life on Earth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ines Malvarez
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography (Top Up)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Dear Mother is a project exploring my mother's relationship with nature. Dear Mother documents the countryside life and the person who, most of her life, dreamed of having a place to call her farmland: my mother. It is my way of honoring what she has taught me as well as a celebration of what she had accomplished through this challenging journey. This is a time for new beginnings. A time we enthusiastically look ahead and glimpse into the future of what could be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elias Tsigounis
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography (Top Up)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The “Faces of the King” is an imagery of Nurses and Health Care Assistants in a ward at King’s College Hospital in London during the Covid-19 pandemic. The work examines the identity, role and geographical representation of the nursing staff who fight the current pandemic. It is an illustration of diversity, equality and inclusion. The participants would pose for approximately seven minutes when they were less busy or on break and after they would return to their day or night duty. The entire body of work comprises a historical archive of 800 Nurses and Assistants who served at King’s College Hospital during Covid-19 pandemic, seventy-two years after the NHS was founded in 1948 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Magdalena Klimczak
Falmouth University - BA (Hons) Photography (Top Up)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In this essay, I would like to deal with the personal, historical, and cultural memory of a place that influences significantly our perception of the world. I have chosen a village in central Poland displaying various cultural and historical influences from the Russian Empire through German occupation to communism as well as the European Union’s impact. I wanted to show how the present reflects the past; moreover, how humans merge with the landscape, and how they treat their belongings. Consequently, I collected all dialogues, portraits and details to present connections between historical facts and the present by means of symbolic language that is important for the society. My aim is to help the public construct, understand and remember the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eliza Coulson
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In-between lockdowns I had the opportunity to document this emporium of historical railway wonders and the people behind the skills and knowledge in maintaining these 100-year-old steam engines. I was incredibly keen to observe the environment and the interesting objects, tools and compositions that naturally occur in the ‘Shed’. Everyone knows about the impressive steam engines but there is a real sense of anonymity of who it is that is responsible for keeping this industry and these pieces of engineering alive for others to enjoy. Even within the project there is an atmosphere of privacy which is conveyed through small gestures throughout the project. I hope to have shown a side to the railway not often seen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tong Wei
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This is a project about anxiety, mainly reflects the inner feelings of anxiety patients, such as double shadow, lack of confidence, indescribable tension, sense of suffocation, personal pressure on themselves and so on, and visualized these emotions. Hope to be able to resonate with anxiety patients, but also hope to give them a psychological comfort, we are yearning for hope, yearning for sunshine. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tara Drummie
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Harvesting Light is an ongoing series motivated by a symbiotic relationship between humans and the land, inspired by the crofters who encourage the rare and biodiverse machair ecosystem prevalent on the Isle of North Uist to thrive. The works are time-based and site-specific, exclusively using matter found within a given environment to create a camera obscura, disposing of harmful objects found on site upon a work’s completion. A camera obscura is an optical instrument comprising a dark chamber, a small round hole known as an aperture, and reflected light, projecting an image of the external environment onto the internal wall. The images displayed reveal the apertures and projected images of Sheep Shelter Camera, Bird Hide Camera, and Horse Box Camera. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Croll
The Glasgow School of Art - BA (Hons) Communication Design
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In the U.K. when someone awaits a decision regarding their asylum application, they have no legal right to work. Only 52% of these applications are successful, leaving nearly half of the forcibly displaced community with a longer wait in the appeals process, and the prospect of deportation or destitution. As they wait, people are given just over £5 a day to buy food, toiletries, clothes etc., and with the majority of applications taking far longer than 6 months to be processed, people find themselves in a state of limbo. In response to this aspect of the asylum system, Refuweegee make and distribute over 150 emergency packs in Glasgow each week. I photographed some of the volunteers and what they do to help. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Felicity Barlow
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I see photography as an ability to create awareness, and I utilise this alongside my production skills. My current work is an awareness campaign for Polycystic Ovarian syndrome. If just one person learns about PCOS, then this project will have become a success. But I aim to speak to as wide of an audience as possible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Ann Munday
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Death is Death, Death is Life. Death is Beautiful. We dread its arrival but in comes along anyway. Death is Inevitable. But if you accept it, you will realise what it beholds. Death too is a creator. Death is Life’s partner. They work hand in hand to allow the Life Cycle to continue. Supporting one another in perfect harmony. Death is Inevitable but Death is Beautiful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Davies
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

"Grandad Dave" is a collection of eight images based on the death of my late Grandad, David Wright. Having never dealt with the emotions of grief, this series showcases my way of remembering his life and dealing with the loss in my own personal way. He was an amazing father, friend, husband and especially grandad. Being a popular man from our hometown, his favourite phrase was ‘I’ve met some lovely people today’. Without the realisation that its him. He was the most loving person. His life will never be forgotten and has the purpose to be celebrated. I will always hold on to his belongings and this series to have comfort with life without him. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elyse Townsend
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I am a landscape and wildlife photographer based in Gloucestershire, where I studied at the University of Gloucestershire for a BA (hons) in photography. I first became interested in photography at the age of 14, inspired by outdoor photography magazines such as National Geographic and the enjoyment of walking and travelling. I like to photograph anything from large landscape sceneries to detailed macro mages, with the aim to remind people of the beauty in nature that can be overlooked. I see photography as a means to archive nature, especially in some areas that could potentially be under threat by modern living and technology. Photography can be a good distraction from life, as I can concentrate on the nature around me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leanne Davies
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“Restless Things” explores the theme of connection and aims to show how we suffer when we lack it. The mixed media body of work is comprised of a variety of photography, paintings, archival imagery and collage. From the adage “connection is the key to happiness” the work explores themes of isolation, disconnect and the importance of connecting with others to reaffirm our existence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Becca Perkins
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My creative work explores the themes of grief and loss. Currently my own grief in the passing of my Mother. I highlight the lack of a Mother’s presence in my current life by documenting the items she had left behind after her death. The process of photography has acted as a form of therapy and has enabled me to understand my grief like never before. It is a catalyst in my journey of discovering my Mother and attempting to explore her identity within her absence. Each photographic venture forms a bond to the woman I never got the chance to truly know and whom those around me held so dearly. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashutoshi Joshi
University of Gloucestershire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

What is Nationality? What is gender? What is society? These were the questions I asked myself when I met Gerry on a road trip to Scotland. Like Gerry, I am from a small town, only that I grew up 6000 miles away and 48 years after Gerry. We have a lot in common, the curiosity towards the world we inhabit, the questioning of the social order. We disagree on a lot of things, but it is a debate and debate is necessary for growth. Some people live their whole life without seeing this. In many ways, Gerry is a cynic who believes virtue to be the highest good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Madison Donohue
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The book 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a large inspiration for my project 'Rewilding the Feminine'. Her work explores the wild woman archetype and women’s connection to soul and nature, through those explorations I was able to shape my own work. Rewilding the feminine is an approach to reconnect with the inner self, back towards nature employing the use of a gentler, more feminine energy. My work seeks to find and show these connections between the feminine and nature knowing that they are intrinsically connected. Because feminine form and soul have always found representation in nature, my images explore both the female form and the natural landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sorcha Flattery
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This body of work explores the relationship between people and home. In particular, this work explores the home I grew up in. In recent years, everything here feels much smaller and familiar spaces no longer exhibit the same kind of home comforts from earlier years. Though my home is filled with happy memories it has come to a point in my life where it has stopped growing and developing with me and it is now time to move on. Documenting this precious place now feels important, somewhat urgent. The desire to latch on to memories from the past is so strong, yet an impulse to move on, so intense. What is important to remember, what is important to forget? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Juliana Falanghe
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

How far can they go? From South America to Ireland, some have to leave in an unripe state, some would be lost along the way, some were too delicate to leave. They come from different origins, merging into the unknown land. The exotics have different backgrounds, different meanings to be where they are, the journey that they follow is their own. The Exotics is an ongoing project, working with imported fruit and vegetables Juliana explores the concept of being a foreigner to the land. The starting point of the series was based on the photographer's journey from São Paulo Brazil to Dublin, through the development the project became less about her and more about the experience of being an outsider. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kate Swift
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

There is a part of Ireland’s history which includes a mysterious enclave that entwines with the very soul of mankind: a coastal site named Árd Ladrann in County Wexford. Between myth and matter, shivers and shapes, land and sea, lies Ladra, the first dead man buried under Irish soil. In the eleventh century Book of Invasions its manuscript records the origins of the ancient Irish from the creation of the world, to the myth of the man and the beyond. These environments inspired Kate Swift to unearth this hidden story entwined with her own unconscious roots. This universal ancestral story questions mortality and the mystery that a landscape retains. Swift sought to unearth the deeper existence and soul of this land, its people, past and present. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Donohue
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“...many males are beautiful, at least for a part of their lives, ... some are staggeringly, even supernaturally beautiful.” [Germaine Greer ‘The Beautiful Boy’] Traditional representations of men perpetuate the myth of a strong, rugged, and macho archetype. Contrarily, I have instead shifted the focus towards the delicate and fluid state to which Greer alludes. By using tender and unguarded images, with soft materials such as wool, skin and flowers, I am challenging this and presenting an alternative vision of man’s vulnerable and sensitive side. The fragile and fleeting cherry blossoms symbolise their evanescent beauty. My goal is not to transform these men back to a boyish state; instead, I wish to linger on this time of beauty, transience, and vulnerability. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Max Feehan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Sport has the power to change lives. With over 1.7 million people actively participating in sport each week, its role in Irish society cannot be undervalued. It is well known that the physical and mental benefits of playing any sport from the early days are immense. Their abrupt end in the last fourteen months has been damaging for so many of those involved in the GAA setup. For Jack Cullinan, the challenges have been overpowering for him and his teammates. This series of Images reflects on Jack's Solo venture. Jack's unaccompanied training routines broaden away from the back garden and the local GAA Grounds. When the time comes Jack will be ready to step back out onto the pitch. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Corinna Nolan
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

For those who take to the sea on daily swimming rituals, a common narrative often prevails. For me, much like others, it has become a daily practice, a time to reflect, a time to heal and a time to reset. Rituals is derived from a personal experience and a deep-rooted connection to the sea. From morning swimmers to evening dippers this work records a unique ceremony. In this work a community of swimmers are bound together in mutual agreement of the sea as a powerful catalyst for healing and restoration. This body of work acknowledges the force of oceanic elements as empowering, a place that provides swimmers with a unique way to withstand the differences and challenges of everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Conor O'Rourke
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Landscape and the great outdoors can be enticing and appealing for all to explore. While outdoor leisure pursuits have a positive impact on our general wellbeing, we don’t always have the same influence on our surrounding countryside directly or indirectly. This project reflects on human connections to nature and the relationship to the outdoor spaces that they temporarily occupy. In the series, people are seen cutting through the landscape in ways at odds with the spaces they inhabit. As these figures move through the landscape, harmony is replaced by a sense of disconnect and individuals appear strangely out of place. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Barry
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As a child I felt alone, and still am. One feels more isolated in this current time as we are increasingly deprived of an opportunity for personal interaction. We are bereft of so many outlets of enjoyment, such dissatisfaction prompts people to look for compensation elsewhere as we all need nourishment for our psyche. Is it possible to find such nourishment in an urban setting? I find myself questioning my surroundings, why am I here? Is there any sufficient content or meaning to one’s existence? Spending time in our current empty streets and also looking to nature has provided me with a sense of balance and optimism in a time where individually and collectively as humans we are being confronted with our own fragility. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hoang Duong
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In Vietnamese, the word 'Duyên' is casually used in daily conversation that its own meaning is often overlooked. The best translation to describe this word is 'tied by fate' which sounds dramatic in English, yet so subtle and gentle in Vietnamese. Drawing on my Vietnamese heritage and as an individual living in Europe, this body of work engages with the theme of cultural identity. It explores memory and nostalgia and reflects on how a culture and country of origin have a pervasive and continued influence on personality and aesthetic. This is a journey on perspective. Now as an outsider, I can reconnect with my own culture with a renewed sense of celebration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Hall
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Attitudes towards homosexuality have changed over time. Still, I find myself needing to unlearn deeply embedded ideologies planted at such a developmental period in my life. Using photography and experiences from everyday life with my relationship with my partner, this body of work is a vehicle for me to explore these ideas of internalised homophobia. These images attempt to articulate an internalised struggle with the melancholic weight of introspection. The title, Dearest Father, what becomes of the boy, no longer a boy is an excerpt taken from Ocean Vuong's poem ‘Prayer For The Newly Damned’. This poem seeks forgiveness from one of the main sources of every young man’s sense of masculinity, his Father. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Philip Mc Millen
Griffith College Dublin - BA Photographic Media
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

These images are based on observations I make during my daily experience of traveling around Dublin. I am inspired by the words of the photographer William Eggleston, who stated in his landmark book The Democratic Forest (2012), “no subject matter is more or less important than another”. I see artistic beauty in the everyday normality of things. Amidst the hectic pace of life nowadays, these wonders are regularly missed. I aim to show the convergence of old and new and illustrate how nature can survive in neglected buildings, creating something beautiful and unique. The title of this work plays on the famous book title ‘Me Jewel and Darlin’ Dublin’ by Eamonn MacThomais. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daisy Morgan
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This body of work is a representation of the relationship between nature and humans. Humans are changing so many aspects of the natural world for our own benefits. The process of the work is an important part of the way I want to convey the message of human intervention. The images are created in the darkroom, using a variety of different methods to simulate chemical pollution and how we continue to intervene. I can manipulate the way in which the images come out to a certain extent and have a prediction but I will never know the true end product. This process is a connection to the theme of human intervention and how we can not fully see what our damages will do until it’s too late. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alex Thomas-Bates
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My photographic work explores abandonment and how nature reclaims back land which was destroyed by these now abandoned structures. Through my urban photography I continue responding to the importance of light being confined within a space such as an abandoned building that time has forgotten. My intention is for the is images to speak to those who are fascinated by these deserted places and visiting buildings which all have a long and fascinating history. These images recognise that buildings such as these are still standing and deserve the same attention as others, for their historical and social relevance and past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Widdows
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As a documentary photographer I am interested in making work that has a message, educates, or raises awareness of issues that aren’t seen as invisible in society. Through the creation of ‘Significant Spaces’ the body of work brings to the fore and so raises awareness of the issue of homelessness within the West Midlands. The images allow the viewer to stop and take a moment to think about how somebody less fortunate than many others is having to live their lives within such a small confined public space. Focusing upon the traces of what is left in what has been somebody’s ‘home’ for the day or night is a poignant element within the images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Imogen Davis
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Mental health is being discussed increasingly in this past year and my images aim to help and bring further awareness to our future generations. Within this series I have portrayed a set of both positive and negative emotions through layering my digital drawings whilst concealing the sense of identity from the images, making them delicately striking and relatable to all ages. It shows a journey of pain, intrigue and recovery within the mind. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Hutchinson
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Between September of 2020 to January 2021 I conducted a landscape project that saw me using square format on location for the first time, I had been looking at bodies of work that used this medium and decided it was something I wanted to incorporate into my work. Often when hiking around Herefordshire I encounter these dilapidated buildings that have seen many years of wear and tear. I can’t help but ask certain questions such as how old are these spaces? After me, how long before it sees another face? These are the questions that were the driving force for the project that came to be ‘Lapsed Spaces’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Wyatt
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This body of work titled “dress” is a personal project looking at the way girls are brought up and challenging the gender norms of society. The focus is on the dress, a pretty dress, one that my daughter loves and wants to wear even when traipsing through mud and doing everything that children do, whether male or female. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rick Greswell
Hereford College of Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My practice is concerned with the landscape, both the built and natural. I enjoy the challenges of portraying a sense of place in these environments and how photography can convey not only what may be seen, but also evoke how it feels. I feel strongly connected to a local mountain called Caer Caradoc, and through this work I portray how its presence differently contributes to the senses of place - of my town, and of the wider countryside. This series explores and interprets the ancient rocks and hill-fort on the summit which, when enveloped in cloud have timeless quality that seems to connect not only with the Iron-Age people that settled on its unforgiving summit, but also the Earth itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber O'Shea
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Amber O'Shea's work addresses the intersection between design, sculpture and the moving image. Her current work, titled Anamorphosis, focuses on how we have been consumed by our own image and how mirrors have been replaced by selfie culture. This work is a metaphor for reflecting on our own individual narcissism. When we look at pictures online, we can't regulate our perspective, so in this project, the spectator can choose what they want to see at each angle. The final work will be projected as large-scale lenticular photographs, allowing her to produce trickery of images in the form of Agamographs. O'Shea's broad perspective on photography and image-making sees beauty in the spaces between and beyond formal distinctions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leon Nevill Gallagher
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Cloud based communication is no longer an acknowledged action, it is a passive and seamless interaction. The tension between temporal and virtual experience has unearthed an infinite series of collective memories, adding a new dimension to what defines experience. For better or worse, one can access hundreds of ‘latent’ events occurring locally and globally while proceeding throughout the day. Eroding the fabric between temporal and virtual experience. ‘Cargo’ acknowledges the compression of time in the virtual strati and the cognitive friction that occurs as awareness drifts between temporal experience and being witness to the ‘latent’ virtual experience. The body of work is presented as a scroll containing hundreds of photographs and can be viewed in totality through my website. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Indigo Lewisohn
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As a visual artist, Indigo Lewisohn harnesses the photographic medium as a tool to explore the notion of femininity. Her art challenges the stigmatised female ideal as she apprehends the internalised conflict women and girls often have with their physical self. Primarily concerned with portraiture, she aims to give female individuals a platform to further express aspects of their identity. In her project “archetype,” Lewisohn fuses both contemporary fashion photography and expressionism in the one as she seeks to visualise the commodification of the female body. Her project pushes the boundaries of feminine representation as it deals with concurrent themes of self ideology, presentation of the self, embodiment, female identity and sexuality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Patrick O'Byrne
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I'll Be Damned is a project focused on my Father's Childhood growing up in Dundalk, Co Louth. Baring witness to the grip that both alcoholism and the Catholic church had on the country at the time. I surveyed the area in which he called home in an attempt to traverse the trials and tribulations of a young boy during a time where our existence is ever fleeting. Dealing with themes such as masculinity, existentialism and sexual identity. The work attempts to dissolve the transitional period between "boyhood" and "manhood", exposing its fragility and further dissipation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah-Jane Kehoe
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

"Petrichor" is a project centred around the expression of emotion, with the use of natural landscapes and bodies of water to simulate the state of experience. Each project of mine is grounded in the concept of conveying an emotion or experience that has impacted me significantly. I focus on the use of colour, concept and emotive composition to create and communicate a visual narrative. This project in particular is a representation of the overpowering nature of intense emotion. Nature is a huge source of inspiration for my visual style, and in this project I use the element of water to represent the emotion and it’s consuming effect. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aoife Louise
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Aoife Louise is a self-portrait artist whose work emerges from a place of introspection, and through deep exploration of her sense of self. She states that it is from this deconstruction that one discovers their true self. Her current work ‘Blinded by the Labyrinth’, is a moving image piece in which she uses the labyrinth to conceptualise feelings of rootlessness and disorientation. The erratic nature of the work evokes visceral sensations in the viewer, echoing the ‘inner dialogue’ of being lost in ones own mind; which is visualised through Aoife’s uniquely macabre sense of aesthetics and evocative imagery. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Dupré
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Mark Dupré is a visual artist working in the tradition of the photographic still life. Dupré creates arrangements, temporary sculptures, of objects taken from the vernacular and organic world whilst exercising new ideas of colour, balance and form. The artist draws aesthetic cues from Japanese ikebana floral arrangements along with the baroque visual tradition of the sublime. Dupré uses objects as a way to distill a coded message in his arrangements. In the series featured “The Begonia Exchange” floral arrangements are reimagined with the inclusion of exotic fruits and vegetables collected from Dublin’s ethnic supermarkets as a way to highlight ideologies of globalism and the consumerist neoliberal market. Mark is currently a graduate year student of the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Meagher
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Clearance emerged in response to the process of clearing out the former family home following the death of my grandfather. As the memory of a bygone generation is obscured and reduced to fragmentary belongings, possessions, and photographs, what remains is an absurd and incomplete miscellany. Through juxtaposing my own photographs with archival imagery and artefacts, this work draws from the emotional processes that occur upon the piecing together of histories and memories that do not belong to me. The Clearance presents an unresolved, fictionalised narrative, animated by the potency of imagination, and serves as a final lamentation for the departed in question. A futile attempt to know the unknowable, and an opportunity to invent the past. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chlöe-Louise Scanlan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Chlöe-Louise Scanlan is a fine art photographer who combines her images with sculptural installation. While her work is centred around social commentary it also deals with self-expression and the celebration of the image as a physical object. In dealing with these subjects, Scanlan chooses to analyse virtual reality and online identity by looking at how these operate in society. "Allelopathy" is a project that explores the spectacle of self that exists within digital reality. Scanlan aims to create a dialogue that questions our understanding of the effect of self-representation online and thus on our perception of physical reality. Scanlan’s installation mimics the mass accumulation of facades and ideologies that are created, controlled and maintained for exterior inspection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Louise Lordan
IADT Dún Laoghaire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Sarah Louise Lordan pushes the notion of an image to its limit in order to demonstrate how visual representation affects and influences a viewer’s perception, understanding, and interpretation of imagery. Using her artwork as a form of narrative, Lordan attempts to reveal the harsh truths found in the underbelly of psychosocial dynamics. Lordan’s graduate project explores the ways in which external entities have conditioned women to believe that they are not good enough as they are. “Come As You Are” acts as a visualisation of the turbulent relationships that women have with their own body, their identity, their existence, as well as what might be considered a compulsive fixation on how others see them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Blackwell
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The project is an analytical response to how we compare ourselves physically to open parts of the landscape. The main concept is to find that synchronised connection between parts of the human body and parts of the land or sea. In this project I explored different place settings to find the perfect comparisons. My set of images detail the process of a year’s worth of findings, as an example I focused on the flesh of the human skin and the comparison to earth as well as focusing on how hair strands can become a representation through the versatility of water. My work embodies the contextual approaches of Abstraction through photo-manipulation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caitlin Birch
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Insecurities around men’s mental health is a personal project that documents the reflections on personal experiences from various individuals. The work is heavily influenced by the stigma surrounding mental health in men. Societal expectations and gender roles are often thought to play a big part in the reason why men don’t come forward to talk about mental health and subsequently some often use self-harm as type of release from the pressure they experience. The project itself isn’t just a visual representation of men’s mental health/self-harm but a platform for these individuals to share their stories and educate/raise awareness to the public, that as men, it’s okay to not be okay . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caitlin Munnis
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Nature is beauty is a project focused on representing the natural beauty within flowers. My practice as a headshot photographer inspired the direction of this project. To create these images, I used multiple artificial flowers and dressed my models and the background. Although the flowers are not real, I show that they can still produce realistic artistry as the beauty of nature is not defined by its authenticity. This project features typography to communicate what my project was about and is used to enrich image interpretation. Bright coloured flowers are also used to enhance their presence. I was inspired by beauty magazines and how they represent their own concept of beauty through different poses, make-up and how they are dressed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Euan Witcombe
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Morph is an exploration of human form and control through the mediums of artificial intelligence and photography. To create these images, I use a large series of archived fashion imagery, known as datasets, to ‘train’ the computer on what the human form looks like and have it reproduced its own artificially generated beings. A tension exists between not only the artificial producing the natural, but between the human element (me) and the computer, within the image making process itself. A tension exacerbated by the deliberate disruption of the image making process. This disruption came in the form of including deliberately obtuse images within my datasets, with the aim to confuse the computers ideas of what it considered human. For this I used archived imagery of contortionists and body artists, alongside the predominantly fashion-based portraiture. Through this method of disruption, not only was I able to re assert some control lost to the computer within the image making process, but I could give the work its unsettling, almost human, psychedelic visuals that unease the viewer. A visual experience important to my work as it relays the tense nature of the process. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Hill
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Smart Home is a project consisting of a series of photomontages that explore our increasingly technological domestic environment. The main focus of the project is to warn the viewer about how their personal data is recorded and subsequently used by large corporations that create potentially privacy-breaching products such as virtual assistants and home security cameras. As we are collectively more and more willing to invite these technologies into our home, I believe that we need to retain a crucial awareness about how our data is used. Inspired by works such as George Orwell’s 1984, the project delves into complex themes such as privacy, consumerism, security and surveillance. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Hunter
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘A Touch of Doodle’ is a project that uses photography, fashion and illustration to express my identity through images. ‘A Touch of Doodle’ allowed me to use self-portraiture and mixed media, to showcase my identity and let it seep into the project. During this project, I took inspiration from my favourite locations, books, styles etc to convey themes of identity which allow people to get a better understanding of who I am. ‘A Touch of Doodle’ has been a project that I have loved creating, exploring new variations on mediums while also exploring ‘self’ has allowed a project that has continuously progressed and developed itself, just as I have. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Weatherley
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project is a documentary series of images taken during the pandemic in a small English village. My intention for this work was to document the pandemic itself and the feeling of being constrained to my suburban surroundings, in an original and compelling way. The subjects I chose to photograph often displayed some form of ‘distance’ from the place in which I chose to shoot, such as a road or a hedge. However, the subjects also contained an indicator of human life, like a single light on in the living room. My aim for this work was to explore themes of distance and isolation, as they are emotions that have been prevalent throughout this period. Documentary/ Photojournalism . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Armitage
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project initially sparked my interest after I had photographed items of clothing that had been scattered around unused student housing. Finding beauty in the mundane. I am being drawn to all these different elements that no one really seems to pay attention to or what they would consider boring. I created this work to show my perspective on my surroundings and what I have photographed has been seen before but on a subconscious level. The final outcome that I have is to hope that the message I am portraying throughout my body of work will make people view this and to start seeing things in a different perspective on the things they see and to get them thinking about their surroundings. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke Ward
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This photodocumentary series was shot during Covid-19 when the country was put into lockdown. In this body of work, I wanted to document the effect that the pandemic has had on us as a society, focusing on how it has impacted our outside spaces such as the high streets and parks. From the obvious changes such as the signs alerting people that the shops were shut or that the outdoor play equipment was out of use, to the more subtle changes that I was able to capture, such as the increase in charity donations that were left dumped outside charity shops; to the lack of homeless people that had been moved off the streets for their own safety . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mia Callaghan
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I was inspired by the work of Carl Jung around his concept of gender and identity. He believed that a male’s soul is inherently feminine, whereas a female’s soul is inherently masculine. I created a miniseries of portraits that represent Jung’s concept of the harmony between masculinity and femininity. My aim was to convey this subtly through my subjects to avoid looking performative and remain authentic. I wanted to create different shapes through how the subjects filled the frame, drawing back to the concept of fluidity. I made my portraits abstract by placing water over the images. I tried to make each design unique to how I believe the subject presents themselves, the water showing fluidity through each of their own individual identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Reace Henderson
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Left4decay is an on-going project that documents the hidden world that sits and decays around us. The purpose for this work is to show that each building isn’t an eyesore, each building has a story and that’s something I want to document through photography. The body of work focuses on the decaying architectural structures, the vandalization that occurs within these spaces and the hidden treasures that lie within these spaces. Although these buildings have been abandoned its great to make the buildings feel alive through photography just once more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca McIlroy
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘In Her Eyes’ is a personal, collaborative project which explores my visual interpretation of the symptoms and side effects of a teenage girl, living with Asperger’s. Asperger’s syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder which is identified by decreased capabilities in social interaction and nonverbal communications. It's often hard to diagnose, especially in girls. ‘In Her Eyes’ is a series of photographs documented from an outsider’s point of view. After interacting with my sister and understanding her struggles, I have interpreted these visually through a range of self-portraits, accompanied by her thoughts. This project pushed me to understand what she lives with on a daily basis. It’s driving force is the lack of understanding in a female diagnosis. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rosanna Petty
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The aim of my work was to photograph the heritage within Pendle, the impact these buildings had and how they had evolved over time. I have photographed many locations for this project some of which include Smith and Nephew Mill (Brierfield), Sawley Abbey and The Heritage Centre (Barrowford) - all of which were rich in history and culture. I felt that the results from one shoot in particular, Greenfield Mill in Colne, were some of my strongest works to date, which is why I decided to push them forward as a part of my final output. I mainly used Lightroom as a means of post-production, I edited my final series of images in a way which I felt best represented the building itself. The structure was originally Colne’s medieval corn mill, dating back to the 1200’s. It survived as a corn mill for centuries but was greatly extended and converted into a cotton mill in the mid-nineteenth century. My thought process was to create quite harsh and industrial images to represent the time these buildings were most prominent. I manipulated the lighting and contrast especially within the clouds to denote the smoke which was once billowed out of the now last remaining chimney in Colne. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Cook
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Car Park is an exploration of the relationship between urban spaces and human beings. The car park is a building designed with the purpose of making money by allowing people to store their cars, multi-storey ones like this one are everywhere and serve the same function. To me these car parks have always been more than their initial intentions, from my teenage days skating up to the current day as a creative, I have always had a fascination with these unique pieces of concrete and often history. I wanted the images I produced here to represent the relationship between people and these car parks, I chose to use the lighting of the space to represent this. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Grew
University of Central Lancashire - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project explores athletes trying to get through lockdown, using a play on words to link to the sport of climbing where you’re literally hanging on to the wall. However it is relevant to everyone who is hanging in there, in their own way, to get through lockdown. The project documents a climber called Martin at his private bouldering gym in the West Midlands, showing his journey of rebuilding the strength, muscular endurance and climbing ability that he lost during the original lockdown when he wasn’t able to train. With close up images highlighting all of the musculature needed to hang on to these tiny hand-holds, emphasising the repercussions that lack of training has on athletes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joshua Hart
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Evergreen is an on-going project of medium format photographs depicting a present day look at Great Britain’s Post War Tower Blocks and the greenery that surrounds them. This body of work explores how the communities which live in these buildings view the spaces between, whether they still serve as pockets of health and wellbeing or are merely patches of foliage. Evergreen explores the idea of ‘The Garden City’, a method of urban planning which saw self-contained communities surrounded by "green-belts" on a smaller scale. The project’s title refers to foliage has remained green for multiple growing seasons, the notion being that the buildings and their greenery lasting longer than originally intended. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gabriella Olguin Peasey
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Escapism is commonly defined as ‘the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities’. ‘Wild Waters’ explores escapism through wild swimming. It documents the transcendent experience of wild swimming, from standing on the waters edge, to the intense ecstasy post swim. The project explores the benefits, both mental and physical, that can come from the ritual of immersing oneself in cold water. When swimming one must surrender all control, one must respect the rules of the water and in turn the water carries them away allowing the swimmer to escape and be free. It is an experience of the sublime, it cleanses and reconnects the body and mind, leaving the swimmer with feelings of empowerment and serenity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jane Nixon
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My Inspiration for this work came from looking at The Pond by John Gossage and the references to Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden; or Life in the Woods, being in the world and understanding human existence. My aim was to create a feeling of immersion with something outside myself, a sense of connection and a sort of communion with nature. A sense of looking through my camera and falling in love with everything. Going for a walk and just seeing things being beautiful, the way the light reflects off the water, it feels so calming. Being able to photograph it is my way of being observant. A practice of mindfulness, of being aware of life and my connection to it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ethan Clarke
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Following the daily activities of three-piece band Before me, “Before me. For you” gives not only the viewer of the piece but also the fans of the band a brief insight into their daily activities throughout the seemingly never-ending lockdown period we currently find ourselves in. Here, booking practice rooms and recording studios has often been simply impossible and has unfortunately forced the trio to rehearse at home more. Conversely, being at home hasn’t just allowed them to become closer as a band but also with their three housemates, when simply relaxing at home or if weather permitting, going on a woodland walk or soaking up the sun in the park, giving them the downtime and the headspace they need. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Linta Butt
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

96 DIN is a project around the theme of Migration. Over the course of the last two decades, immigration has been seen in a negative light due to illegal migration becoming more common. “We’re going to build a big, beautiful wall” have been the key words of US President Donald Trump during his 2016 election campaign. Influenced heavily by the current events, this body of work explores my father’s immigration story from Pakistan to Italy in 2000. The work aims to shine a light on immigrants as individuals, that go beyond numbers and statistics. The immigrant without a name or an identity has full control of his story now, he is the narrator. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacob Talbot
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘An Isolated State…ment’ documents an evaluation of self through isolation. Exploring the physical and metaphysical, whilst utilising three-dimensional processes within two-dimensional photographic constraints, Talbot uses himself to comprehend the ever-changing climate. The differing psychological and emotional states are explored through a dynamic conceptionally driven and material based process-led work; detached visage become a catalyst for personal projection and interpretation. This creates a pareidolia type complex through ‘The Uncanny’, whilst emanating emotional forms of abjection. The ongoing work exudes liminality as a reflection of the current times. Man-made industrial materials with organic naturalistic forms epitomises Talbots deep connection to nature and its emancipating qualities. When exhibited it will incorporate interactive sculptures, multidimensional photographic studies, atmospheric sound and moving image pieces. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rhianna Thomas
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Using staged scenes to visualise the future, focussing on fashion and constructed environments I have created images that speculate what life could be like on a new-found Exoplanet. The concept behind my project is based on futuristic astrobiologists’ findings. Having recently discovered and confirming that there is life on Exoplanet Kepler 442-b, researchers have established that the Earth-like planet is rocky with water and active volcanoes. New discoveries include finding advanced lifeforms very similar to humans living there. Taken through the eyes of astronauts and scientists, it documents these new findings. The project shows how the team are tasked with exploring biodiversity under camouflage, studying signs of life, environment and setting up communications with the aliens of this planet. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Dobson
Leeds Arts University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Sunflowers in Her Hair’ is a project and photobook re-visualising human experience and connection, of humans and nature. Time, place and memory are re-visualised in past, present, loss and retrieval and nostalgia. Memory is associated with the hippocampus, contextual binding theory and object associations. Energy and flow are key themes with body language and senses. Misalignment and imperfections are key to documenting that moment. Three is also significant since being a triplet. I explore the sea/mountains at a far away distance through visual language of curves/colour, but also significant places of Wales, Anglesey through archival imagery. The project aims ot create a sense of calmness and appreciation, acknowledging the chaos and anxiety of death and encouraging gratitude for that moment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lockett Niamh
Leeds Trinity University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘The Devil wears Fast-Fashion’ is a project about the modern epidemic surrounding fast-fashion and the addiction of consumerism. Using myself as a vehicle to express my concerns with the business model of Fast-fashion and how it is driving over-consumption and excessive waste. Fast-fashion cares only for trends and sales – not the world, demanding more and more, with more than $500 billion in value lost every year due to lack of utilisation and recycling*. I created characters to bring light to this problem and ask the viewer to challenge their own views and habits. *www.parliament.co.uk . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Millie Bateson
Leeds Trinity University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

With recent events highlighting an issue that has been going for years this project aims to bring light to the subject of violence against women in public spaces. The images are of an alley way in Leeds that has featured in the media for a series of incidents involving harm against women. A recent statistic showed that 97% of women experience some form of sexual harassment or assault* and this project focusses on one public space where this is experienced. These images are raw and portray how people are responding to the incidents. The images are curated to reflect the experience of walking through the alley way, so the viewer can sense the reality of the place and some of the responses. #TakeBackTheNight *YouGov . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Natasha Rae Audsley
Leeds Trinity University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This work explores femininity experienced through cinematic moments, time and places of personal history. Each frame interprets the nature of femininity as a delicate and changeable myth. With the lack of representation for mature women in media, this work develops a more visceral approach to femininity and the female gaze. As we face an ever-growing visual age in a polarized society, this project seeks to ask if the female experience is too synonymous with youth. This work focuses on a new age for womanhood that needs to be represented with veracity whilst positively exploring the metamorphosis of the female experience. The subject's close relationship with vintage clothing during an era of fast fashion is a central part of making this work in the format of a fashion editorial. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lee Gordon
Leeds Trinity University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Mental Health struggles are like looking through a magnifying glass that only pick up the imperfections, the dangerous and the unhappy moments in your life”. This was a metaphor I was given while talking about men’s mental health. I originally wanted to recreate mental health metaphors from other men’s lives and capture it. However, I quickly came to the realisation that I couldn’t justify capturing other men’s struggles when I hadn’t faced my own. This collection showcases the struggles my mental health has on my life as a gay man and the imperfections I see in myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandria Martin
Limerick School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography, Film and Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Alexandria Martin's practice revolves around an exploration of memory, specifically the memory that surrounds family, through processes such as analogue photography, filmmaking and sound recording. Her current work, a project entitled Let Sleeping Dogs Lie was motivated by a fear of her family members dying as a result of Covid-19. As she tried to prepare herself for the grief that she was sure was to come, she combed through family photographs, videos and cassette recordings that they had made. Through this research, Alexandria also became obsessed with the story of her great-great-grandfather, whose two-year-old son, Thomas, drowned in the River Shannon. Gran, as he was called, became a source of wisdom in dealing with death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shane Vaughan
Limerick School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography, Film and Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Shane Vaughan is a multi-disciplinary experimental artist working in lens-art and letters. His work explores ideas of performance, selfhood, truth, and identity. Drawn to Dada, German Expressionist Film and Silent Cinema, his work is disquieting and surreal. His written work has been published online and in print, and his works for theatre performed at the Cork School of Music (2011, 2012) and the Cork Arts Theatre (2013) His photography and videography have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently at K-Fest (2019), Noorderlicht Photo Festival (2020) and the Cork Indie Film Festival (2020). His latest work ‘That Which Devours You’ is a montage tone poem. Performed in Ormston House, 2021, the work tackles themes of omens, spirituality, and abjection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aoife Costello
Limerick School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography, Film and Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Aoife Costello explores performance art and using the body as a medium through the lens of a camera, looking at a series of stills and video documentation. Throughout her documented performances, she is seen in a trance-like state and ventures out into different landscapes to find ‘the other’. The use of the female body as a way to engage with the body as a site of lived realities from the past and by using the archives from her own family's history, she begins to unravel her own concepts. Throughout her experimentation of performances, she focuses on body movement and colour and how that communicates with her audience from those who watch from the other side of the screen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Damon Frawley
Limerick School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography, Film and Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“ABRAXAS is effect. Nothing stands opposed to him aside from the ineffective. ABRAXAS stands above the sun and above the devil. If the pleroma had an essence, ABRAXAS would be its manifestation as he is the effectual itself.” – C.G Jung, Seven Sermons of the Dead. This photoseries, prima materia, explores themes of wholeness, alchemy and archetype. Drawing inspiration from symbolist painting and Jungian depth psychology, it attempts to illustrate the journey of the self towards individuation. The archetypes of the unconscious create a unity of opposites that we call the pleroma. Spiritual beauty may only be attained via ABRAXAS – a gnostic demiurge that represents the dialectic of self. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jamie Jellett
Limerick School of Art and Design - BA (Hons) Photography, Film and Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Jamie Jellett (1993, Melbourne, Australia) makes conceptual artworks using mixed technology with photos, videos. With a conceptual approach, Jellett uses a visual vocabulary addressing many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time and space – in a fictional and experiential universe brought to us with AI. His work establishes a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, he tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way and to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical. He believes in the idea of function following form in a work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alice Smith
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Traces is an exploration of my grandma and the house that I’ve known her to live in all my life. Grandma has suffered with dementia for as long as I can remember and in 2020 she was moved to a care home, leaving my grandad alone in the house. The longer my grandma was away from the house, the more it felt like she had never been there. Noticing the relation between her missing presence and ever fading memory, I drew a correlation between the house and her dementia. While the project holds deep personal connections it also explores a sense of missing that is recognisable for others. Picture hooks with no pictures hanging on them, a tea stain on a doily, they all show traces of my grandma’s presences and the imprint of human activity. Instagram: @aliceellaroseart . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annie Baldwin
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Proud of yer’ is a collaboration with my Grampy which documents our relationship. The title, a common phrase of Grampy’s, sets the tone for the nature of the relationship. Inspired by his rich family archive and uncovered film camera from the loft, Grampy’s passion for photography was reignited almost 30 years on. The project communicates the importance of family documentation, not only for myself, but for future generations. Therefore, I decided to pick up the camera where he left off. This project captures the mundane moments, the different sides to Grampy’s personality and his relationships with others including myself - all moments I know I will want to revisit in years to come. Although personal, this project is rooted in family, nostalgia and emotion, something I hope speaks to others and their own experiences. Instagram: @anniebaldwin.photo . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ashleigh Roach
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This nude photographic study of the female form explores how we read the body when all the usual signifiers are removed, leaving only the way in which the subject holds themselves through slight variations in pose and posture. This invites the audience to consider how the subtle changes in body language can reveal different emotional landscapes within the subject. Instagram: @a.r_photography1999 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Austeja Kursvietyte
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In 2019 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and it changed our lives entirely. I started to notice how my mother is slowly fading, I couldn’t handle the pain in my heart when I witnessed her barely being able to breathe because of the pain. After chemotherapy I surprised her with a makeover, she was very self-conscious about losing her hair, people used to stare at her all the time, which made her very uncomfortable. I wanted to prove to her that she is the most beautiful woman I know. After viewing the photographs my mother began glowing up, I saw the spark in her eyes, every day after the photoshoot, she applies rich red lipstick, puts a turban over her head and confidently heads to the town, this project is for you, the most important person in my life – Mother. Instagram: @Teya.photo . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charleigh Welsh
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Body positivity and female empowerment is not limited to polar opposites, large and small, the broad spectrum of body types and self-acceptances vary. The aim of this project is to signify societies acceptance of the female form and its blemishes. Eluding the accustomed objectified gaze, this project focuses on bringing forward the insecurities women face by flowering them, literally. The bright colours contrasted against the cold pale skin plays on the fluidity of emotions and reinforcing the natural female form. Flowers and nature play a big role in the project as my aim is to be as naturalistic and real with props, lighting and effects in order to reaffirm the true nature of the female form and self-acceptance among all women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Bland
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A photographical representation of Nate Ruess' album Grand Romantic. Using the album artwork as a jumping off point to more deeply explore the style and the lyrics provided. Inspired by Vanitas, Renaissance and Romanticism style paintings I wanted to bring out certain qualities such as the high-resolution aspect of Dutch oil paintings and an identifiable colour palette that was used for the album artwork. I further solidified these colour pallets (one per each song) using my own methodology that drew on Itten’s colour wheel and the circle of fifths. The images are to tell the narrative perceived by myself but to also leave some up to interpretation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Ellmer
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project focuses on telling the stories of eight veterans who have served in the Grenadier Guards. I have tried to show both the physical and mental injuries that they will live with for the rest of their lives following active service. The photographs of the veterans are accompanied by their stories, told to me during a series of interviews where they were able to give a direct and honest personal account of their physical and mental scars. The images also show each of the individuals happy place- one thing that has got them through everything and continues to help them through the difficulties of dealing with the effects of war, post combat. This selection of images from the project is of their portraits only. Instagram: @chloeellmer.photography . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Farmer
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The images along with the captions tell the story of Alexa Hughes; a 19-year-old student 37 Maple Road in Northampton. She was reported missing by her parents, Rachel and Michael Hughes, on 28th October, a day after they saw her as they were lead to believe she was staying at her friends house just down the road for a couple of days. It is very out of character for her not to remain in touch and for all social media activity to cease leading to the case being filed. The series images follow how the investigation is conducted using 12 images representing the key stages, techniques and areas carried out by the professionals in a realistic manner. Instagram: @chloefarmer_photography . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Pryor
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Whilst continuing in the same vein as my 2020 project, Isla & Isolation, I decided this year to photograph the relationship that Isla, my cousin’s daughter, has with her Nannie. I photographed the toddler each Monday as she spent time at Nannie’s house. On Monday at Nannie's highlights the relationship between a child and their grandmother, and paints a picture of Isla at age 2 that we can look back on as she grows. The aesthetic of the images gives a sense of calmness, whilst the content emphasizes the fun that the subjects have together. Throughout this project, the relationship between photographer and subject has grown stronger, something that is present in the work and aids in its success. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dawn Barker-Morgan
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is based on different styles of war memorials in and around Nottinghamshire. That can be extended to all over the county or country. We normally just walk by them and not realise the extent the men went to for either King and country, or in modern war zones for the Queen, It can be personal and a place to reflect. We often find memorials in church yards or a quiet country village, It is a personal project with a strong military background from family members being in the Armed Forces. The photographs were taken on a Hasselblad medium format camera. Facebook: @dawnbarkerphotography79 . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Baker
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Disappearing Coastline’ is a photographic project exploring the impacts of coastal erosion along the Holderness Coast in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Coastal erosion is a process which causes the loss of sediment along a coastline due to destructive waves, therefore causing the land to retreat drastically in areas which are unprotected; this is exceptionally concerning as the Holderness coast is the fastest eroding coastline in Europe. By focusing on documenting the affects this disaster has on the land, people, businesses and wildlife, the main purpose of this project is to raise awareness for the devastating after-effects coastal erosion and climate change have placed upon the dynamic Holderness coastline. Instagram: @emilybaker.photography . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eva Osipova
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Can a group of Psychics lose a city in time and space? A CIA document released in 1977 about the experiments, tests and training that were done under KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti/Committee for State Security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union) control to find out if Psychic powers could be used by military soldiers as a mass weapon. During experiments, objects would disappear and reappear, which seems insignificant to the many outcomes that were hypothesised, such as creating a type of nuclear weapon. The images show the office space in Moscow, where the organising and research of parapsychological weapons took place in the 1970s. We also see an image of the ectoplasm that is exuded from psychics during a trans and only visible in very dark conditions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Corking
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Due to lockdowns, many of us miss out on being able to appreciate the night sky. Over the past year this has become more apparent simply because of the amount of time we have spent indoors. The aim of this project is to bring the night sky indoors and incorporate the ideas of lockdown by having photographs of the stars being shown inside a room. By showing the night sky and stars in this way, it is hoped that the audience can reflect on how lockdown has made them feel and make them think that, despite having their movements restricted for so long, the world beyond their homes still exists and far more is yet to be explored. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabel Sharpe
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Mortis Et Somniorum’ is a project that tells the narrative of a precognitive dream where the dreamer was forewarned of a loved one’s death. The subject of the images navigates through the dream, passing through thresholds that symbolize both the liminality of dreams and the arduous journey of grief. Although trapped in a dark and melancholic world, the dreamer is comforted only by the warmth of a candle that carries her through. The photographs display the narrative subtly using small details such as props, movement, and experimental editing. The hidden narrative allows room for interpretation, as everyone understands their dreams differently and experiences grief uniquely. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Morrison
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In May 2020 protests erupted across America, and the rest of the world, after the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd. However, a year on this project looks into if anything has changed since the protests. I questioned photographers who documented the protests themselves in London to see whether they believe anything has CHANGED. This project has two parts; the first a short documentary where photographs answer the question; and the second part is a series of portraits that show the emotions of the photographs and what this movement really means to them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Hart
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Art movements’ is a creative food photography project that drifts away from classic food styling techniques. The work highlights the different art periods and movements through the subject of food, with physical and edited distortions. This collection connotes the artists impressions of the movements whilst representing them in a unique light to bring the past art movements into the 21st century. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jen Hardy
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Sneaker culture has always been prevalent to those who knew it. Something which originally started as an underground subculture, however through the help of Nike and Michael Jordan it was made mainstream. Growing in popularity every year the sneaker game is constantly changing. The aim of the project is to allow sneakers to be seen as more than a fashion piece or a simple thing to get worn and thrown away. Sneaker culture has made these clothing pieces into something to be collected and valued. The approach taken in this project is to showcase the simplistic beauty which sneakers hold. Focusing on the brand Nike, the project will portray the beauty and art behind popular sneaker silhouettes through both simple and experimental images from a commercial perspective. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josephine Banks
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Working alongside Ed, a non-binary individual, this project documents them using two styles to demonstrate the juxtaposition between each environment. The studio images capture the performative style of Ed and explores their identity in an idealised way. By incorporating the theme of maximalism, the clothing and makeup expresses Ed's gender fluidity and pays homage to other visual representation of the trans and non-binary community in the media. The other half of this project captures moments on Facetime calls that Ed and I had throughout the project to demonstrate a more intimate outcome as well as the collaborative relationship. On the calls, we would catch up and discuss the styling and concept of each image due to social distancing. The black and white image is a behind the scenes document and contrast for the studio portraits. Instagram: @josephine.photographs . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Callaghan
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My aim when producing this set of images was to objectify men in the way women are and historically have been objectified in advertising and media. Presenting men in a way that would make male audiences uncomfortable by not appeal to the idea of the male power fantasy. I chose to do this by creating collages exploring sexual images of men and combining them with images of cars. The world of cars itself exists as a masculine place so by entering this space and playing around with ideas of masculinity, sex, and objectification I hoped to make men aware of their own actions towards women. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Atkins
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project is surrounding selfie culture and the editing techniques my subjects use before posting a selfie onto Instagram. I always wonder if the photographic industry has had some effect on social media creating a compelling idea that surrounds editing a selfie to create a completely new persona. The idea stemmed from researching the different methods of editing, which transformed my project as I wanted to detail each process my subjects used. For my final submission my work will be shown as a video using the platform Instagram to demonstrate the editing process my subjects have used. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Digby
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In 2016, art critic and novelist John Berger released a series of his intimate writings via a book titled ‘Confabulations’. From global capitalism and politics to his various travels and illustrations to envisage each of his extracts. Through Berger’s career, he was able to revolutionise the way we look at art through his use of visual language. The purpose of this project is to encapsulate the way Berger speaks through photography, specifically photomontage. Using photomontage to construct the way in which Berger writes, allows not only me as the artist, but the audience as viewers to seek and articulate their own meanings through the use of multiple images combined into one. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nicole Mcguire
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

When the camera gets turned around, YOU become the subject and the photographer. The world is battling a pandemic. I am battling with my physical and emotional state in isolation. Being away from everyone made feelings that had been bottled up arise like an emotional rollercoaster which I couldn’t escape. These emotions had never truly been explored as I had locked them away, hoping that they would become irrelevant as I avoid the hardships that come with general life and life in lockdown. Photography the outlet allowing for there to be an escape, a form of therapy without the judgemental therapist with their clipboard and sofa in hand. This was an escape between me and my camera, nothing else. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Mayes
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

"Industry Standard" is a piece I created during my second year at University in an attempt to suggest that there are very harsh standards set by famous fashion houses regarding the appearance of the models they choose to hire. The fashion industry has nearly always been synonymous with the ideas of typecasting and problematic ideals, so I took images from Vogue's runway coverage and merged them together to form "ideal humans" or "perfect models"; one for each company that showcases the average look of all the models chosen to represent that specific brand. Some images consisting of 20 photos, others being 100+, I created 60 individual pieces for 60 runway shows, each commenting on this rather important social issue. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellie Pearson
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Google Earth [un]noticed is an Urban/Suburban landscape series which uses the action of a Flaneur; a person wandering, travelling the streets in search for, the abstract, the overlooked, the unnoticed to travel digitally utilising Google Earth's platform as a tool; as a way to explore the world when isolated to one location. Using the internet as a way of travelling by exploring Google Earth enables more than just the place but the frame around the intended view to be noticed, allowing for the search of the abstract 360-degree view; the unintentional juxtaposition between the location and the photographer. The images are a trace left behind by the photographer or during the uploading process to Google Earth. The found images have become a contrast between an overlooked detail appropriated from the original image on Google Earth and the additional phone information captured from a screenshot. This now becomes a new original frame to the image; leaving the trace of a new photographer. Instagram: @googleearthunnoticed . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samuel Morris-Cooke
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As issues of climate change and plastic pollution are prominent now more than ever, it is important to find ways of telling these stories. As a species we must not forget that we are the ones who caused this destruction, and we should be the ones to clear it up. To remind society of the lives we lead, this editorial retelling of Adam and Eve’s decent into temptation depicts the creation of mankind in conjunction with its true downfall. A narrative spread over three images briefly portrays both of these characters as they give in to more contemporary forms of desire. In turn, leading to a world run by consumerism and the unnecessary materials choking our world and disconnecting our communities. Instagram: @sam.cookephotography . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lucy Bennett
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Work in Progress’ was a six-week project working alongside young activists to communicate the individual and collective identities of a new generation of feminism through photography. The project works to convey the continuous evolving identity of feminists today. While the rapid rise of social media has allowed a new collective of feminist voices to emerge, individual voices can often be lost in a mass of content. This project aimed draw out those voices, giving participants a new and exciting avenue to communicate feminist ideas and issues important to them. Through their photographs, the participants explored a variety of topics central to their identities including intersectional feminism, toxic masculinity, normalising periods, feminist identity crisis, street harassment and many more. Their powerful portrayals of self through these subjects paint a picture of an ever-evolving movement of feminism, one which focuses on inclusion, connectivity and empowerment. Instagram: @LucyBennettPhotography . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lewis Smith
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The UK car culture is a scene widely criticized, and portrayed as groups of young individuals labelled as ‘boy racers’. This project focuses both on the passion put into cars, along with commercial style automotive photography, but also to display the culture surrounding the cars themselves. This series is a collection of portraits taken in the past months, portraying owners of multiple different genres in car culture, fighting the stigma of boy racers and showing that cars are just another hobby that many people enjoy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isobel Wallace
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Life at 2pm shares an important journey of me being at Uni, discovering myself and living with dyspraxia. Through a focus on showing the more hidden parts of living with dyspraxia which is a neurological disorder that often presents itself in the form of clumsiness and poor motor skills which impacts negatively on daily life. It is recognised as a learning difficulty however, affects me most in my day-to-day life and through these daily images, captions and still life images an insight of living with dyspraxia has been given alongside snippets of Kevin the kidney stone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lara Chinn
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Focusing on reactions in regard to Covid-19, the documentation of mental health is talked about, but not physically seen. Documenting individuals can seem invasive and disrespectful, but with consent and respect of boundaries of such individuals, its importance can be highlighted through imagery and semiotics. Each photo represents a gradual decrease of mental health through the perspective of the camera man, during the isolation period of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom, between late 2020 and early 2021. Instagram: la_chinn . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Brown
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As photographing historical architecture is an interest of mine, my project brings the events of The Second Battle of Lincoln to the present day through an amalgamation of modern and historical practice of storytelling. To pay homage to the historical style, I have recreated historical tapestries and drawings from around the time. Although the perspective doesn’t look correct to modern day standards, perspective at the time did not exist as it had been lost after the collapse of the Roman Empire and would not be rediscovered for another two centuries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Weronika Gos
University of Lincoln - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This photography project is titled “what I enjoy” it’s a collaborative project with people who work at a residential care home for individuals with learning disabilities and autism. The series is composed of snapshots of the staff as they are at work. The subjects were then asked to write on their polaroid their most enjoyable aspects of the job and why they choose to work in the care sector. This project was intended to highlight the aspects of key workers in the coronavirus pandemic that is still currently happening and how those classed as keyworkers risk their lives continuously everyday so others can have a good quality of life. This series is a big thank you to those who work in care during this time and always. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Milor
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Hannah Milor is a Manchester-based photographer whose practice serves as a space to explore ideas of mortality, loss and memorialisation. ‘The Matter We Share’ is an investigation into the relationship between rituals of death and nature. Imbued with an elegiac sense of presence, the natural burial site is a reminder of our place in the cycle of life, death, decay, and renaissance; where our being will be returned to the ground from which we came. It is within the performance between vernal blooms, the frost-bitten ground from which they emerge, and the markers left in memoriam, that she contemplates the inevitability of her own existence and of her relatives, seeking comfort in the notion of an earthly return. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Callum Colson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Callum’s latest work ‘Loose Ground’ is an attempt at communicating his experience with mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic and his final year at University using the medium of Photography. Through exploring the natural landscape, he has found that it can serve as a place of solitude, reflection and withdrawal from present life. However, he finds this serenity tainted by the very landscape he shelters in. Ominous formations needle at the skin, injecting feelings of isolation, claustrophobia and anxiety back into his psyche. By photographing these formations, he confronts these feelings with the intention of understanding and extinguishing them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Marsden
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Ella’ is a documentation of life with a disabled sibling and an exploration of fragility and strength. Marsden approaches this body of work with empathy and a close bond with her subject, questioning her own abilities through her sister's disabilities. Working with a subject that is so close to her in both relation and proximity gives Marsden the opportunity to capture and portray some of the more tender and gentle moments, in hopes that the viewer will question their preconceived notions about caring for someone with a disability. With this work Holly hopes that a larger audience will be introduced to a subject and theme they don’t often see represented from the perspective of a carer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Holly Staniforth
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Cohesiveness is not an intrinsic aspect of my personal life, once considered a hindrance, now revealing itself to be an advantageous attribute that seeps into all aspects of life. Most notably visualised with 'I fall back asleep when I dream of you'. When viewed individually, each picture appears to exist in its own space, yet, when observed as fragments of an overlaying world, the playful nature allows you to be guided by imagination through a dream-like world where escapism and self-insertion is highly encouraged. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabel Walker
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Isabel Walker is a Manchester based photographer. Her work communicates her values, challenges and perceptions of the everyday creating thought provoking questions and new perspectives for her audience. She does this by examining emotional connections through people and places. ‘Play the Game’ is a portraiture project that looks at the lives of young women. Each portrait challenges the preconceptions of being a young woman in today’s society. They capture honest moments where she has connected with these young women whilst they have shared their stories with each other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Whiting
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

With the pandemic causing the world to stop, scientists were provided with a unique opportunity to measure the resulting noise humans make. As studies showed a 69% reduction in recorded sounds, Jack Whiting is one in many that has struggled to overcome this FORCED SILENCE. From reworking old negatives containing happy memories to now becoming unidentifiable voids. To purchasing his first darkroom setup to document the closure of his workplace. And finally recreating a device that first recorded sound back in 1860 to speak of his frustrations, Whiting challenges his isolation by embedding the vocal vibrations back into the photographic. In sharing his own experiences, Whiting hopes to connect with the collective struggle that everyone has felt during the pandemic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Dewhirst
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In an age of physical and spiritual separation it has somehow become unmentionable, fleeting memories and half glances of a different way appear so distant from where we are. Driven by a cultural indifference to the environment currently experienced in the UK, James Dewhirst’s work situates itself between the natural and man-made, experimenting with the scale of the two elements against one another, in order to explore themes of control and sense of place. The work is an unfolding, traversing alongside and with, encountering traces of things left behind against visible and intangible boundaries that shape the landscape. Utilising a muted palette, warm but silent, the work evokes a feeling of falling into another’s dream. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jess Neary
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Derived from a need to form attachments to place as a means to navigate and further understand her surroundings, Jess Neary’s work, ‘Navigating the Unfamiliar’, alludes to the matter of memory and identity. She is interested in our occupation of spaces and the means by which we convey our sense of self through them, creating places that we can navigate and form attachments to. Her work reflects her own conceptual relationship with place and associated memories found therein. She also has an interest in the photographing of unnoticed aesthetics and brief happenings. The resulting ambiguity that accompanies her imagery invites the viewer to reflect and draw their own narratives and meaning from it. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kaitlen Hogan
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

"Oh Liverpool" was a project that focused on community. As it was a place I frequented more and more over the summer of 2019, I started to see how tight knit the people were, and how they not only interacted with each other, but also how they interacted with me. Community is a complete lifeline for us as human beings, and as we've seen through the pandemic, when we're separated, daily life becomes immensely difficult, and not only takes a toll on our mental health, but our physical one too. Although this project is now behind me, looking back at it helps me remember how important it is to surround ourselves with others, no matter who or where they are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oli Koren
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A surrealist deep-dive into embracing girlhood, femininity and questioning the imposition of societal expectations. Oli Koren’s series tit4tat explores her relationship with femininity, and her adolescent rejection of such standards due to her fear of ridicule. She has shaped her practice to encourage others to engage with their own ‘girly’ side through a series of striking & symbolic images. Handmade flora surrounded by minimalist set designs, tit4tat leads the viewer through a sea of playful, and inquisitive pinks and blues, to visual statements on issues including body positivity and power in femininity. Recurring themes in Oli Koren’s work revolve around social issues - most notably on the experience of being a woman in modernity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stella Gere
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

When you think something in the “Cold Light Of Day”, you think about it clearly and calmly, without the emotions you had at the time it happened, and you often feel sorry or ashamed about it. The title ,The Cold light of Day, was inspired by a red deflated balloon found floating around the streets of Manchester, it represented how the excitement of the night can look so different in the day. This work explores the cascades of emotions felt by the artist from nostalgia of time that feels lost to exhilaration once experienced, to overwhelming feelings of regret as a result of living in the moment and not considering the consequences of tomorrow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isaac Robinson
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In engaging with seemingly unnatural marks left in the landscape, Isaac Oliver Robinson use the photographic to communicate the journey the outdoors takes me on. The exploration of the unknown stands as a focus for my work, the photographs becoming markers in the land. Using digital properties to capture the images, the work offers a juxtaposition to the physicality of the impact of walking through these spaces. Isaac Oliver Robinson examines the textural traces that nature, he himself and or others have left behind. Informed by historical examples of land art, my work seeks out new encounters through a physical response to the unfamiliar. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Thomas-McCann
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Rebecca Thomas-McCann is an artist whose work explores our connection to the universe. Rooted in spirituality, her work uses elements of nature as a means of grounding oneself, in order to navigate cosmological questions. Thomas-McCann’s use of photographic prints emphasise themes of impermanence and physicality. They manifest as visual representations of liminality, connecting with stellar forces and fate to initiate the outcome. She studies astrophysical entities to create an intimate and personal connection between the Self, and the cosmos. Her work aims to serve as a channel for the audience’s contemplation of existence and belonging. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charles Turner
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

How Buses Determine the Shape of Trees is a fond backward gaze into childhood. It follows a stepping stone trail of recollection and longing for both the mother's body and childhood garden as a space of protection and play. The absence of the mother and the garden means that they are no longer physical locations, but a state of mind that is projected onto the landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leon Patrick
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Born through the restrictions enforced through lockdown and social distancing due to the Covid-19 Virus; An Intimate Imitation explores how the essence of another person can be represented through self-portraiture - using subtle nuances, gazes and clothing to do so. Using a series of video portraits sequenced together, the work highlights Patrick’s differing imitations of his parents and a close friend, allowing their essence, personality and attitude towards being observed seep through the fabric of the work without them physically being present. The video portraits have been translated into still portraits, allowing the observer to explore the subtle nuances at their own pace. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Benedict Moore
Manchester School of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Using the camera to open a dialogue between himself and his subject, Ben combines elements of traditional editorial and documentary photography to realise the stories of the people he encounters. Including elements of his own personal experience, Ben seeks to produce evocative imagery in the landscape and objects surrounding his subjects. His interest in fashion photography and its more aesthetically striking elements informs the approach to his own image-making. Ben’s current body of work investigates the lived experience of Britain’s national lockdown’s through his own story and of those around him. Aiming to produce an archive of these unique times, the images canvas a rural and urban cross section of the United Kingdom. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amber Jacks
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Often the home is a place where guards are let down, and where good and bad aspects of a relationship become transparent. My characters - Brian and Julie’s failing relationship is shown from within the walls of their home. Based on my own lived experience, I intend to show emotions that come with the end of a relationship – performing love and disdain. Julie roleplayed by me and Brian by my boyfriend were reconstructed loosely from my parents and the end of their marriage. The images incorporate my memories of their relationship – my recreations of these moments symbolise my bias as a subjective observer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlie Alexander
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Stuck in a mix of work, meetings and problems, we avoid the gaze of those who are devoted to the communities we live in. One of those people is Alan Last, a seemingly ordinary man hiding a golden heart and always putting everyone else before himself; a true knight in a world full of thieves. Health issues and hardships don't hold him back and within this series, I show a man who brings people together both in-person and online within the borough of Barnet. This series is a story of a man, who should be an inspiration for old and young as much as he is an inspiration for me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Goodkin
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Initially I was foolish enough to approach these liminal events and apparitions head on which only caused them to recoil. They, by nature, can solely be seen in our peripheral vision haunting our world and mind at its edge - never tangible enough to believe but too consistently present to ignore. How often have you seen something from the heel of your eye when walking after dark? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Diana Hukanovic
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Royal Docks has always been an important part of East London, it is continuously being developed in different ways since the 19th century when it was first being used as a shipping and trading base. The land has been through a lot of change in a physical form over the years after being abandoned for a long period of time, which was eventually being built over and giving the area new purposes and a new life. These photographs present E16 in landscapes, documenting the setting in a new and improved environment focusing on different points of interest, showing a new perspective of modern life around the Royal Docks along with how everything today has replaced what was previously built on this land. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Wall
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This work explores the reaction to fear, blame and anxiety women often face caused by the threat of sexual assault or harassment in everyday life. Unjustly, blame is often put onto the women who have had these experiences. This body of work explores women's reactions to this threat, as well as the changes they make to their lives, actions and routines as a result of this. Throughout the creation of this work, I found that virtually all women I spoke to have had at least one experience of sexual assault or harassment. Out of these shared experiences, a sense of community and strength has been created within this reality in which women live. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harrison Tibbs
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Has the pursuit of profit bred an invisible beast beyond our comprehension? As we increasingly welcome it with open hands, it seems to have taken root in our lives and minds. Scrolling through an infinite newsfeed or passively waiting for the next suggested video to begin, this parasitic being observes its host from behind the screen. It presents to us an artificial world reflecting our deepest fears and most eccentric desires, but the more we consume, the more it consumes us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jack Fieldhouse
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Graduating from Sunderland University in 1986 my parents are two members of the Class of ’86. Inspired by my parents’ collections of photographs from their university years, this project is a characterisation of my parents, their university friends I know today and students from their courses whom I have never known but have seen pictured and heard described. As such, I have created a range of portraits depicting my interpretations of these people. I chose to play heavily on stereotypical imagery, commonly portrayed in Western television and cinema. It is my hope that viewers will recognise some of the people in their own lives and from their own experiences in these images. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jhanky Rameschandre Baguandas
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A series of photographs that present both the geometric abstract and the visual appearances of the architecture. In this portfolio, I highlight the variety of detailed construction sites and the architectural abstract in two separate areas in London. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joseph Simons
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Inspired by Suprematism and the work of German Expressionists from the 20th century, the emphasis of this series is on form and colour. The reflective surfaces used in each image help to highlight the fact that when we view colour, it is actually light reflections we are seeing. I want to leave the images open for the viewer to focus on the elements within these photographs and create their own perceptions, to build their own interpretations on what has been constructed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Murphy
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Lockdown has felt very isolating. Being confined to our homes, normally places we know well, has felt increasingly surreal through over-familiarity. Playing on ideas of how we perceive, I have explored this concept through taking every-day, mundane objects from around the house and used them to construct something quite new and more abstract. I have specifically focussed on colour and shape to alter our perception of how they would normally be viewed. This body of work is made up of multiple mini-projects. Each one has utilised household materials to explore themes such as shape, geology, texture through alloys, junk and abstraction through illusion. Everything has been created using a home studio. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morgan Tomkinson-Burden
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The North Circular Road (A406) is very dangerous, always congested and heavily polluted, resulting in poor air quality. I have explored the engineering, the surface treatment and paid particular attention to often overlooked details, signs, lights and street furniture. Photographing both day and night and including some of the surrounding environment, has allowed me to analyse and appreciate this urban landscape in some considerable depth. For me, this is an on-going project and one that I will spend more time on over the next few years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rebecca Moore
Middlesex University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

There are preconceptions that queer people present their sexuality through their extravagant way of dressing. However, sexuality and gender are separate from clothing and character. Queerness does not need to be expressed this way in order to be valid. I hope this set of portraits will make society question their assumptions on how people express their sexuality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Butler
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I initiated this project as a photographic exploration of Dublin Airport during the Level 5 Covid-19 lockdown. Living within 5km of the airport, so therefore within the permitted range of travel at that time, I sought to document the terminal buildings, both inside and out - places usually full of incoming and outgoing travellers. What I found during my visits was a stark reminder of the impact Covid-19 had on the main hub of international travel in Ireland: shuttered shops, unattended desks, empty concourses, and eerie silences. Yet at times there were individuals and small groups making their way through; arriving from and departing on the few remaining scheduled flights. The work was made on Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film using a medium format Zenza Bronika camera in November 2020. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Armido Pezzato
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project conceptualises my interest in how one’s surroundings can influence our identity of place. The resultant body of work records places and spaces in the village where I live. Focusing within a radius of a few kilometres from my house, I have been documenting the area with the objective of critically questioning “Is this home?”. The assignment took me on a journey of exploration of the environment and self-reflection through which I delved into the concepts of my sense of belonging and attachment to this area. It culminated in a collection of photographs which depict houses and buildings combined with close-ups of trees and vegetation that help to unify the narrative with the use of symbolism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Caroline Reilly
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A New Light is concerned with the Grand Canal, which I live beside in Dublin city, and how we interact with a space that is caught between its historical purpose and its evolving function as a green artery in the urban landscape. This series reflects upon interaction with our local environment, our need to connect with nature, and the contemplative moments that emerge when we explore, observe and question our seemingly familiar surroundings. Tracing the canal bank on the outskirts of the city, the meditative experience of walking and photographing allows a new narrative to unfold. The work reveals the unexpected beauty and intrigue to be found amidst natural elements and manmade structures, casting the canal in a new light. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Edel McGrath
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

May 2021 marked the centenary year of the Partition of Ireland. A county boundary became an invisible political battlefront overnight. Long after the checkpoints and blockades, the remains of abandoned infrastructures and lands show little sign of life except for farm animals and neglected villages. The borderland continues to be a space that has been forgotten by local people on both sides creating an unconscious void that acts as a crossing point from one place to another. Selected are 8 images from an ongoing project that looks at the 499km long border. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gui Moraes
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Scopophilia is a psychological term for an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person. It differs from voyeurism as the pleasure is not sexual or perverse; it can be the simple act of observing someone's life. This work by Gui Moraes aims to provoke this joy and bring to the surface a curiosity that many people have of just being invisible in someone's life, even if only for an hour. The curiosity and excitement tell more about the observer than the observee. It's about getting to know someone, being interested in the most mundane act, and able to transform everything into a story. With these photos, the artist expects to portray the intimacy and beauty of everyone's neighbour routine. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joanna Onyszkiewicz
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This is a documentary project in which I photographed people randomly encountered on the streets of Dublin. Each of those people attracted me and resonated with me in some way on a personal level. It could be the way they look or how they dress. It could be their beauty or their quirkiness. It could be the fact that they look familiar to someone I know or knew in the past. Those people have no masks. The masks conceal our personality and uniqueness. We become disconnected from people and reality around us. Masks create distance and I wanted to look closer, trying to get a sneak peek with my camera into their world and path, even for a split second. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Trish Troy
National College of Art and Design - Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

With inspiration drawn from the concept in the recent ICP New York exhibition, But Still, It Turns, that 'there is no story is the story', I have created a collection of images that contain fragments of a reality at a given time. Fragments, when brought together give a glimpse into a 'tangled life', as life is. An ode over a brief span of time with strands of strength, isolation, loss, wonder, despair and freedom. A reflection on the nature of nature, our inability as humans to survive without it, examining the belief that human society owns and 'takes charge' of nature. But nature has a habit of whispering out to us, that the opposite is in fact true, we are owned by the world…"We never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way round."(The Moment, by Margaret Atwood). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Curtis Farrier
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Curtis Farrier is a photographer from the North East of England and has always brought himself to be along the shores documenting the area. The North East sea has a great swell that allows the community to surf and this brings the people far and wide together as one. The shared passion of surfing is seen in the photographs as the human features of the face which is exposed by weather, salt, water, and air. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hannah Dunphy
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Home Ground’ is an exploration of the relationship between myself and my hometown. The ambivalence of feeling safety and belonging but also being ready to move on. After growing up in a town that I couldn’t wait to leave, the project looks at a newfound appreciation for the place I was raised, finding beauty in the ordinary. The intentional absence of human subjects represents both the notion of peace and nostalgia when thinking about my roots, but also the regression that the town has faced as a working-class community. Focussing on light and colour, the images signify a utopian version of the town, a place without the sirens and flashing lights - a safe place that will always be home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paige Moorby
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work is fine art photography, which is contemporary based, surrounding the ideology of the concept of love whilst upholding a personal interpretation. Looking at the distortion formed through unhealthy relationships; the impact and negative connotations which this can have. The scanner series transforms an emotion of being trapped. Staged photographs which use; motions, toxic inputs as well as a uniform red lipstick to translate feelings of betrayal, loneliness and anger in a relationship, secluding to this deliberation of never being enough. Further translating to the antagonism I often feel, yet beautifully entwined with an aching lust, using it as a means of an outlet of expression, becoming almost diary like, as a way to express the depths of my emotions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tilli Johnson
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This series of images, titled ‘boys can wear makeup too’ explores a topic under the genre of fashion photography, a topic that is typically taboo, which is boys not being allowed to wear makeup. The reason for this is that makeup is seen as a ‘feminine’ thing and this would ‘damage’ masculinity; or so society has taught us to believe. The purpose of this series is to get across the message that makeup shouldn’t be seen as a woman-only thing, but everybody, no matter what gender, should be able to express themselves artistically and give themselves a confidence boost through the medium of makeup and/or clothing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eleanor Vasey
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Throughout this body of work, I aim to represent and celebrate the importance of creative job roles from around the North East of England. Now more than ever there needs to be a wider representation of the arts, and recognition of the fundamental skills that have shaped and are still shaping this part of Northern England. From a variety of portraits to still life shots, I have explored the lives of eight different creatives in their places of work. Using a medium format film camera has allowed me to take a more methodical approach to my work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Leng
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Daniel Leng is a photographer from the North-East of England and is obsessed with his local area and the people who live there. Using a large format camera, he explored the town of Hartlepool looking at the people he found at work or at leisure at the local pubs, as well as local places that are iconic and easily recognisable to the town. The photographs he took encapsulated not only the local people, but the spirit of the community found in Northern coastal towns. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Keeley Pearce
Northern School of Art - BA (Hons) Photographic Practice with Moving Image
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This series of images is titled 'Women In Art'. It focuses on female artists studying in my local area, Hartlepool. I have always shown an interest in feminist issues, and the erasure and lack of representation of female artists in the art world is still a big issue. With this project, I aimed to highlight young female artists, showing them, as well as their art work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melanie Black
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Personal memory and loss are key concepts in this Body of Work, Left Behind. Exploring inherited objects and photographs ‘Left Behind’, I assess their efficacy as memory triggers, helping us to remember family and friends who are no longer here. Acknowledging both the absence and the presence of those who are gone. By photographing my subjects, their family pictures, and their treasured possessions in their own homes, all the images are connected to a sense of place. As a result, a palpable human presence in all my photographs gives meaning even to the potentially lifeless objects. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah Deane
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In the top drawer of the dressing table there was a photo album with a brown cover. This album was not kept with all the other albums. It was different. The inside was filled with black and white pictures of people I did not recognise, photographs that were made before I was born. They were held in place with hinges, and beautifully patterned interleaves lived between the pages. The only words inside, written on the back of a photograph, were In Mid-Ocean. The album documents the transnational life my parents led as 1950s migrants. Based in London, but longing for home, their lives were lived in mid-ocean, journeying back and forth across physical and cultural space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sarah-Jane Field
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/‘ is an experimental collaboration between a proprietary machine-learning app and a character, referred to as ‘the artist’, with occasional music by a composer who also works with technology. Within the context of coinciding paradigms, one linear, the other networked and entangled, conversations are recorded and photographs shared, cultural favourites celebrated and dreams discussed – but any familiarity we may have had with lines, boundaries and the shape of content is challenged. Instead, entities are encouraged to interact, become enmeshed, to reform and evolve, or else, just slip away. Published across a range of interrelated media and for a limited time, as a web-based installation, available at astronautflowers.online. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Fletcher
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which ended the war between British and Irish Republican forces and established the Irish Free State. The six counties of Northern Ireland immediately seceded, turning county boundaries into an international frontier. A Boundary Commission in 1925 proposed changes in both directions, but the report was suppressed and not published until 1969. The border remains to this day on the provisional county lines, defined in large part by rivers and small streams, with over 200 crossings on its 310-mile length. 'Streams of Consciousness' tells this story through photographs of border streams and newspaper cuttings. The original book was printed in Ireland on Irish linen and is available in replica form. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ivan Radman
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The project was born from an idea of photographing two sisters from Croatia who both live outside of their home country and work in the same place in Luxembourg. However, I chose to bypass direct presentation thorough portraiture, and focused on photographing significant objects and locations of the two sisters. Through the images of objects and locations emerges a picture of the people they represent. This project is conceived as a photo-book that will itself become a personal object, an addition to the objects presented in the project, and a final element of the concept dealing with revealing family relations, memories and identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alan D Horn
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My main focus is documenting the gradual destruction of the village of Happisburgh (pronounced Hays – Bruh) in Norfolk where coastal erosion has led to 30 homes being destroyed in the last 8 years and as many are under threat over the next 5-10 years. My interest is in not only recording the gradual destruction of the village but the affect it has on the local inhabitants whose properties are at risk and in many cases, their only real assets are almost valueless. Many years of neglecting the wooden sea defences have left the cliffs at the mercy of the North Sea and the increasing threat of storm surges. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Fitzgibbon
Open College of the Arts - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I walked the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, observing the burden of deindustrialisation, areas of regeneration/gentrification, and the water’s tranquil flow. Traces of humanity marked possession, use and abuse. A mill’s struggle for redevelopment, a make-shift garden house, detritus framed in shining water, shrubby undergrowth filling the gaps of humankind’s neglect and the ruins of early capitalism. My images and accompanying short film celebrate the richness of meanings and experience found in the everyday condition that are often invisible in socially shared and publicity images that reduce landscapes to pastural places of leisure. They are portrait of humanity through its traces on the landscape and an invitation to look closer at things that often go unnoticed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aarif Amod
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The series is produced from interactions with people and communities in Moore Street Dublin – a historical quarter also famously known as being the soul of city trading. While using expressive approach to document everyday life on the Street, my focus is on the massive cultural shift currently happening – capturing the vibrancy and cultures of Moore Street. The street expresses a vibrant and transformative space, while in the background is a context of its place in Irish history. With recent renewal plans to reactivate one of the most important trading points in the city, finding a balance between holding onto the important national history of Moore Street while also maintaining a modern cultural presence will be important. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Byrne
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

For the past year, I have documented my Grandparents house. My Grandad passed away in 2012. My Nana was diagnosed with Dementia and moved into a nursing home in 2019. I have incorporated still-life imagery, personal belongings and family photos into the work. The project served as a catharsis for the residual grief from the death of my grandfather. As my grandmother continuously battles with her memory. This project also allowed me to discover and recollect memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Steven Doyle
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project involves portraits of frontline medical workers in the environment of the hospital and in adhoc medical centres in and around Dublin city. SafetyNet Primary Care is a medical charity that delivers quality care to those marginalized in society without access to healthcare, including homeless people, drug users and migrants. Throughout this pandemic these individuals give their best to deliver high quality healthcare services for homeless people and others who are socially excluded. I also work as a medical professional and have been on the frontline during the Covid 19 pandemic. These portraits were created on different sites where people were being medically assessed and swabbed for suspected COVID-19 infection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew Dowling
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Weapons of Mass Production is a series of inanimate objects of machine components involved in mass production which can and have caused serious harm to individual workers. These objects have the power to inflict serious and sometimes even fatal injuries. They are unforgiving and will not make exceptions for your mistakes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shona Connolly
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My work focuses around the dysmorphic and warped body image many women have unconsciously developed due to constant exposure to manipulative advertising campaigns, social media influencers and the toxic world of diet-culture. Using an array of mixed media approaches, including still life photography, collage work and graphic design, I deconstructed digital and physical advertisements from fashion magazines and social media posts and reconstructed them. Creating handmade sculptures and visuals that represent and convey the traumatic impact these unrealistic beauty standards have had on generations of women and how the billion dollar beauty industry continues to profit immensely off our insecurities. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andrew OConnell
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is part of part of an ongoing portfolio of work documenting local authority communities in the Liberties areas of Dublin. Many inner city areas are at varying stages of the degeneration and regeneration processes. This piece of work focuses on a sample of those residents who are the last to leave their homes after 60 plus years in the soon to be demolished flats complex in St. Teresa’s Gardens. The flats will disappear to make way for higher volumes of homes which will never be owned by families. As a former resident of the flats I had a deep connection to the blocks, the balconies the environment which helped shape me and the people who are caught in the transition of developments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Murphy
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My name is James Murphy. I'm a 21-year-old photographer who specializes in landscape and travel photography. Here is a selection of images from my most recent project, ‘Lake County’. This project was inspired by my love of beautiful landscapes and my curiosity about and experience of the lake county in Westmeath. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmin Doyle
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Changes is a project that takes a closer look into the area of masculinity and the changes men go through from a young age and onwards. Ranging from 12 to 30 years old, the prime years of transitioning from boyhood to manhood. This documentary challenges representations of these group of men from society's perspective on them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Justyna Musialska
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project was my way of encapsulating strong young women, from multicultural backgrounds, who are the first generation from their families to grow up in Ireland. They are in a way the first settlers to make home here. The exhibition began with my daughter who is of Polish origin. Her friends are from other countries, other cultures. My series of portraits endeavour to represent the beauty of multicultural Irish society. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Catherine Walsh
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'The Family Business' is based on the Walsh's funeral business, based in Co. Galway. My father did his first funeral in 1977 at the age of 17. Coffin making was a trade my grandfather learnt from his cousins in the 1880’s and from then on he began doing the funerals alongside making the coffins. Everyone in the family was involved as it was important to my grandmother to keep it going as a legacy to her husband. Funerals have changed significantly over the years. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adriano Elisei
Pearse College of Further Education - QQI Level 5 & 6 Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The motivation behind this project was to show how the new wave of self-employment that hits our society and how it will affect the way that employers and employees deal with worker rights. Also, it tries to show this modern kind of employment and the fast-changing nature of self-employment, focusing on the delivery food company Deliveroo. The work also shows the stories behind Deliveroo riders - their background, life and reality of work in Ireland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alix Barber
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My aim for this project was to create work that was challenging for people to view. I want to create conversation through my images and make people confront stereotypes. My work includes themes around body positivity and subverting the societal norms surrounding beauty. I have created a body of work that represents how I feel about how society views me. Through this project I want to help others understand what it's like to be on the other side of society's views, and help those who are on the other side to feel seen and accepted. This project has been a long journey of self-acceptance and self-love and through creating this work my view of myself has changed for the better. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lottie Acton
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Ursula Mary, My Sweetheart is a project dedicated to exploring my Nanna’s passing and using my photographic practice to experience grief. Starting this project in the studio and then progressing to locations that were pivotal in her life and inviting you to meet her through these photographs. Shot in analogue medium format to slow down practice and capture the most important parts, including photographing my mother as we both have such strong emotional attachment to Ursula. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Cox
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

We as human beings may see the difference between a plastic object and a jellyfish but to marine creatures such as turtles, they can both look the same. This often leads to plastic being consumed which can lead to devastating results. Plastic Bloom explores how turtles and other marine animals observe the plastic and debris around them by manipulating non recyclable plastic in the form of a jellyfish to demonstrate how this devastating mistake is made. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katie Watts
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘lone’ is an ongoing body of work surrounding a loss of touch. At current, our society has become rather familiar with a sense of solitude, isolated from the ones we used to hold close. This body of work explores this melancholy feeling in a diaristic manner, capturing personal moments of silence, craving an embrace. Absence quietly dominates this visual series, documenting still frames through a reality of distance, yet a desire for connection; it has acted as a form of therapy in some ways. Working tactically with analogue and instant film enables a raw and private narrative to be conveyed and hopefully supply comfort to others - introducing ‘lone’. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Maria Barham-Black
Plymouth College of Art - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘By Your Side’ is an ongoing exploration of therapeutic photography that examines the impact of loss in adolescent years by recreating memories of loved ones. Visualising responses to trauma through a combination of self-portraiture and site-specific photography that is shot instinctively when reminiscing on pivotal memories. Presented alongside the use of the written word to reflect on the image making process. In order to undergo a multifaceted journey to understand personal experiences. Utilising the power of the photograph in relation to grief and materialising a posthumous conversation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ayeesha Ayinla
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Eye Of The Beholder is a series of documentary photographs which highlight social issues around South London based on my own personal observations of the city. The concept behind this series came about when a local hostel in my neighbourhood announced that it would be knocked down to make way for a modern block of apartments. Through personal observation this final series of images has various symbols and messages that link to modern day themes of gentrification, classism and political issues running throughout that resonate against each other. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Jones
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Using a series of intimate, saturated scenes that capture an anonymous character cloaked in darkness seemingly looking for light, The Best Days of Our Lives focuses on the themes of isolation, loneliness, alienation, and the detrimental effects these feelings have on young people in today’s society. The cinematic feel and timelessness of the images portrays an ambiguous and uncertain narrative allowing for a collection where the lines between the staged and the real become blurred, offering the viewer the opportunity to reflect, connect and promote honest dialogue to the series through their own experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Brown
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

It’s not a wild statement to say that times have changed, and people are becoming more environmentally, and conservation minded, we’re looking at protecting what’s left and helping it repopulate for the future. This body of work is looking at the New Forest, more specifically the New Forest enclosures forest plan from 2019-2029 which has the main goal to protect the old forest, but these images focus on looking at how they want to improve economic viability through sustained tree farming. The point of these works is to focus on these forest locations posthumous and question whether these practices are more sustainable and less harmful to the environment to those documented by Robert Adams in “Turning Back”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dan Webb
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The domestic space, a place we may call our shelter, where we can escape the surveillance obsessed world outside. As described by writer Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space: “The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace”, it is also considered “our corner of the world”, where we call home. Viewing each scene from the standing of a photographer, my imagery appears as if they are a collection of photographs. However, it is all an illusion, and you could then argue: why is this imagery not real? If it looks real, is of the real and has people convinced on first glance that it is a photograph, then it must be deemed real. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elena Catalina-Toltica
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project explores ideas of memory, migration and self-representation through significant objects and family heirlooms. I believe that objects become tools in which a person’s identity is imprinted. As I had to move from Romania very suddenly, I only had the possibility to take a few things with me when moving to England. This sequence includes photographs from old family albums, objects I kept through the transition, both cultural and personal. They represent my past but also who I am as a Romanian woman. Old photographs from the family archive are overlapped onto images I took of the handmade embroidered textiles. This creates a sense of reflection from a present point of view onto a past memory or object. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Wildash
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This body of work titled ‘The In-Between’ interrogates the world of images and the set of rules imposed on photography. The gaze at the camera before someone is ready. The Intimate moments recorded by the camera; these photographs explore the in-between state. Moments frozen in time, exploring identity and relationships. The intention of my work is to show that photography can reveal people’s true self. By showing real moments where they have forgotten about the camera’s presence, as well as photographs where their eyes meet the camera for the first time. I wanted the camera to become an extension of myself and record these intimate moments with my friends. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iminee Boyd-Cox
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

We consume fashion through many different avenues. One of them being through other people, whether it’s through friends, family, or strangers. Social media apps and influencers have increased fashion consumption; sharing the clothes and lifestyle they are seen to be living is very misleading. They twist the truth by only showing the viewer the locations, outfits, and parts of their lives they chose to. Using the idea of truth in fashion photography, I created five collages placing the model in a mundane location to show a realistic version of what is seen on social media. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacques Studley
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Docklands is a piece dedicated to showing the loneliness of this maritime industry, whilst also starting a dialogue about the impact upon the ecosystem. With the threats this year of Brexit and Covid-19, the docks have been a forefront of confrontation in the UK with thousands of workers being laid off in the summer. This series highlights the barren nature of the docks and the uncertainty of this once thriving industry. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Lambert
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project presents strict uniformity that expresses socio-political ideologies around housing within Britain, drawing on the relatability of the subject that represent the traditional estate. The execution of the properties are typically unchanged with only the plant life outside to differ the design, ‘The British Estate’ provides an indexical look into the form of a stereotypical estate presenting the likeness’ and differences within the design. Presenting homes through financial tiers, visually altering as the price increases. There is a tension within the modern estate by providing an autonomous lifestyle within a controlled environment on the edges of the industrialised landscape, by presenting an expanding radius wealth spiralling outward. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Forsyth
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Womanhood’ continues my exploration of female experience whilst also including underlying notions of misogyny and patriarchy with a critical view of the feminist movement. ‘Womanhood’ expands on my previous video piece, ‘Baby Girl’ which explores women’s individual accounts of unwanted male attention. By continuing with ambiguous and metaphorical approaches, I am able to create work that requires an understanding of female experience, provided to the viewer through my poetry, creative language and use of signs. This work features both moving and still image, as well as sound and written content. The combination of these medias creates an immersive experience; adding to the plethora of feminist art which we can use to aid our fight in the confrontation of gender inequality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Elvin
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project emerged from a series of walks around my local area during the various national lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, when we’ve had the freedom to go outside for exercise, using the camera as a mediator between myself as the observer and the intraurban. I’ve used these periods to document the various marks and evidences of human life that have caught my attention and that are prone to go unnoticed by others. ‘Observe’ is a body of work that touches on those banal traces that you witness as part of the daily norm. As the city constantly develops and changes, so does my photography and the imagery that inevitably follows, finding that beauty within the banal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jessica Mennell
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The warm embrace of spring engulfs this garden, a space where I’ve spent most of my childhood. I’ve become an observer in a space that I thought I already knew so well. I’ve become fascinated with processes that come with caring for a life that isn’t human. And I realise that there is so much abundance if you take the time to look. I invite my audience to observe with me, noticing the details in the smallest of processes. Through these images, I focus upon the order, detail and individuality that lays within our natural spaces, to slow down and consider the importance of taking the time to notice, the time to explore, and the time to breath. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liberty Abdey
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Reflecting backwards to the past to show something that’s a repeat of the present, I use my practice to make reference to the idea that life in itself is a cycle. I specifically reference the 1918 Flu pandemic as a mirror to Covid19, exploring the idea that our lives are purely a segment of the human experience. This is profound as it allows us to remember how experiences we go through may at first seem shocking, but in reality, these experiences have already happened and will continue to happen in the future. This collection acts as a reminder that if we do not align our priorities with nature, our cycle of humanity may come to an end, just like many other cycles have terminated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mia Curtis-Mays
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project ‘A Daughter’s Loss’ is a response to the sudden death of my father, caused by the current pandemic. In the weeks after his death, I realised how much his absence became a massive presence in the domestic space. Through multi-disciplinaries, I attempt to capture the silence and his absence which I cannot escape from. My intention is to encapsulate the bond between father and daughter and show how his role of being a father has affected not only my upbringing but also my desire to become a photographer. The series has become a form of therapy; it has forced me to interact with things which have a punctum to me, to help me navigate through this grieving process. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sienna Glasford
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The name of my project is ‘The House’. In this project I am exploring the Uncanny in my household whilst creating a slight sense of voyeurism. Although the concept sounds documentary I have decided to shoot in a nontypical documentary approach to further push the idea of the Uncanny. I capture furniture and objects around my household, transforming them so that they can be recognised but not completely. The transformation is very important as it takes some key details of the subject away, meaning the audience wants to know everything about my home environment. This is also why the images are black and white and low contrast. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Evans
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'Numb November' aims to document and access my unconscious mind through various methods including photographically documenting walks that are void of direction or intention, reciting dreams and automatic writing. Collecting raw and experimental data from November 2020, then appropriating these into collaged tableaus that reference pre-existing imagery. The aim was to produce an alternate world as escapism after feeling increasingly disconnected and numb to reality. The tableau format allowed me to provide glimpses into this alternate world. Allowing me control over what was propelled into frame, whilst the rest is banished into nothingness, refusing to produce totality. Within the scenes, I combined CGI avatars and analogue photography as an extension of the disconnect between the 'real world' and the project. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Summer Wilson
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Basic Principles focuses on the culture of competitive ballroom dance, characterised by codes that make sense of performances and performers alike. Through collage and repurposing of material, the purpose of the original images, to showcase individuals and performances, is subverted in order to foreground the structuring forces within which such performances become relevant. These images act as a reflection of wider society, and the forces to which we are subjected in our daily existence. Karl Marx termed this ideology and can be defined by his assertion “they do not know it, but they do it”. This work aims to awaken the viewer into a radical consciousness in which they can gain further understanding of the social environment they exist within. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tara Barton-Leigh
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The title of this piece is ‘Eve and the Garden of Houses’, a project which explores the outdated, abstract idea that a woman’s role is in the home. The performative aspect of this body of work is impactful for the imagery as it produced an instant sense of uncertainty. The unusual positioning in these self portraits are very staged and this is clear to the audience. The way we view the woman in this body of work could in fact be insightful of how society used to and often still does see women as a whole. The obscurity of the positions staged is reminiscent of how many are confused by women speaking out against women’s rights, and the mistreatment of women all over the world. The main idea of this piece is for people to look inward onto both the images and themselves. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tom Buller
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Iridescence is a piece of social commentary photography that actualises social networking platforms creating fantasy existence where edits are how we look and likes and followers have real-world worth. Iridescence removes the filters and exposes the effect social media is having on our lives. Tackling issues such as body image, loneliness and screen addiction, the composites create a character living within this ‘utopia’. The series follows his navigation online, visualising how online pressures effect his battles with self worth, confidence and sexuality. The series uses self portraiture to portray my view on social media, juxtaposing soft imagery with harsh, unfiltered reality to portray the issues that are a direct result of these platforms, whilst hoping to inspire positive change. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zoe Everett-Taylor
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Notions of trauma and memory are applied to the continuing visits I take to my father's home and witnessing his addiction, through the medium of therapeutic archival photography. Each photograph represents either an emotion, object, or resemblance to my past with the sense of reflection and gratitude. Moving through my father's home and finding objects that represent the memory of my mother is a personal archive journey in itself. And by placing myself and my father in these settings I've allowed the viewer to feel into the uncomfortable setting that exposes obvious trauma. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Issie Treacher
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Somebody Shot the Swans predicates landscape photography in an untraditional manner through the incorporation of autobiographical themes. Through this, my images act as external depictions of internal thoughts, emotions, memories, and trauma, considering the landscape as a canvas for the representation of my ‘self’. Natural breaks in the urban topography are evocative and compelling through their unique language and the intrigue of their spectacular beauty. I find myself captivated by these spaces because I envision them as extensions of myself, as well as external reflections of my state of mind. It’s as though my mind is projected and scattered throughout the urban terrain. Additionally, non-places and in-between sites often infiltrate my work, representing the liminal purgatory of my head space. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aurora Way
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The ‘Considered Selfies’ series began as a challenge to create a self-portrait everyday using my front-facing smartphone camera and during the second 2020-21 UK lockdown. This functioned as an incentive to keep creating and to find some gratification amongst periods of otherwise empty isolation. I networked the series daily on Instagram because I wanted to connect with my community through colour and play, at a time of dark uncertainty. The images presented a new way of looking at selfies. As it grew, it served as a reminder that we didn’t need external people or places to empower ourselves. This project entailed twenty-nine self-portraits (or “selfies”) being made, six of which you can see in this final selection. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Redhall
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The natural world is in a state of perpetual flux, never remaining the same for too long. As Spring emerges every year, we start to see regrowth and new beginnings within nature. Witnessing the natural world around us blossom and bloom but because of pressures within contemporary life we lose our sense of connection and awareness. Inflorescence allows each cluster of flowers along the floral axis represented to tell their own story with the help of quiet interventions, highlighting the way we see them and the differences each petal holds. Inviting us to appreciate and reconnect with nature, recognising that just like humans they each have a sense of individuality and uniqueness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jade Lingard
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'In the Garden' is a cinematic series, exploring psychological states and the uncanny within domestic spaces. The images themselves are arrested, however the narratives are not, as these suspenseful scenes have been constructed to provoke questions for the viewer which have no answers, but at the same time have infinite answers. These images have been situated within garden settings; a familiar domestic location that we assume is safe for us. Yet a sense of unease creeps in with the introduction of cinematic devices such as mysterious sources of light and fog, inscrutable facial expressions and buildings with unrevealed interiors. Something isn’t right... . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ella Palmer
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Nostalgia keeps us present in the past. The mental state of fluidity that has us yearning for forgotten times is signified by multiple senses such as taste, smell, and touch. These stimuli are expressed throughout this personal body of work. EaT 'n' mEsS evokes memories from my youth whilst reflecting on my British upbringing and the physical yet emotional balance between the past and present through childhood food. Now more than ever, homesickness has followed me throughout this project. Finding myself longing for familiarity and home whilst suspending myself in a melancholy nostalgia through balancing sculptures and the absurdity of childish play. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aysha Watson
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As children we saw the world through fresh eyes, allowing us to notice small things around us. Colours always seemed more vibrant and brighter, our imagination was beautiful and mystical. Those sensations have gone for us as adults and although we know we are living on a constantly providing planet, we no longer seem to appreciate what it does for us. I want 'Organic Attunement' to awaken a wider ecological consciousness that requires us to acknowledge and see our reciprocal relationship with the natural world. For it is only when we truly listen and hear the communication of beings other than ourselves, that we will be capable of seeing the generosity of the natural environment we inhabit. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Helena Kearsey
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

How much do we actually know about our own body? Despite the countless representations of the body that we have seen throughout history in paintings, drawings, newspapers, medicine and various social media, it can still surprise us. L'appel de l'inconnu explores the unfamiliarity in the known female form and the compulsive drive we all have for beauty. This body of work questions contradictions and tensions; the known and unknown, soft and hard, inanimate and animate. The duality of these images elicits the uncanny as well as the visual perception of Gestalt. Although the images are aesthetically pleasing, the core message that we must re-evaluate how we see, know and understand the female form remains. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Charlotte Skingle
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Seldom Seen Engine House lies hidden at the bottom of the valley. On March 16th, 1895, a tragedy there claimed the lives of three children and an adult who together drowned in a cooling pond belonging to the colliery which had frozen over. The ice broke and Percy Riley and Rebecca Godson (9) and Esther Riley (11) all fell into the freezing water along with Engine man Alfred Williamson (24) who attempted to save them. Eckington Woods is believed to be haunted by the 'Seldom Seen Ghost'. Walking the landscape, I find myself drawn to the heart of the woodland, as if the memory of the incident is leading me back to where traces of their existence remain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabel Hazell
Sheffield Hallam University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Focusing on the interrelationships between movement, the body and environment. Natural elements are incorporated, introducing chance and resulting in unexpected, unintentional forms where body and clothing merge together into unified but transitory sculptural forms and fleeting gestures. The images capture the in-between moments beyond what the human eye normally can see. Using photography, the camera can freeze, defy gravity and create an extended duration from what we could consciously perceive. The influence of surrealism and the unconscious has provoked the departure from the typical pose. Rather than revealing the clothing as the focus, shape, dynamic movement of body and fabric together expresses energetic expansiveness of the whole figure. The figure occupies more space, more powerfully than is normally possible. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jacob Manchester
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My name is Jacob, and I am primarily a product photographer and for this project I have focused on watches. This project for me was photographing watches and exploring the ways that a style can change the look of a product. There are two types of ideas I have worked on for this set of work. There is the first set of photos that are more direct photos that you would see on advertisement campaigns about watches then the second set of photos is a more creative side of photographs where I have used the brands of the watches in the photos. This project has also been about exploring how branding is used in photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Andy Blakeley
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The effect of the COVID 19 pandemic shall stay with mankind for quite some time to come. From such a negative impact on our lives, using environmental portraits, I highlight a positive to have derived from it, our realisation and better understanding of the importance of protecting our physical and mental wellbeing. Through the early stages of the pandemic, during enforced lockdowns, exercise apps reported two million new users per month in the UK, with 82% more engagement than previous years, making the UK the most active global nation for outdoor activity. In typical British fashion, these images are a representation of how many of the population managed to maintain a healthy Mind Body and Soul. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jemma Hancock
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

We are what we believe we are - C.S.Lewis When this project began, we had entered lockdown 3, with all of its restrictions. I am predominantly a portrait photographer, I really wasn't sure how I could photograph anyone without breaking the rules, so I decided to turn the camera round and photograph myself. This wasn't an easy task, but then a little bird whispered in my ear and told me to go for it, so I did! I think we can all fill our heads with negative connotations, we can let the beast within us take over and fill our minds with negative thoughts. Some days we let that beast take over and my images are from those days. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miles Haslehurst
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Originally a study of the human body in the form of body landscape, however, as an artist I found myself fascinated with a closer inspection of isolated parts of the body taken out of context and tightly cropped to accentuate the curvature. The use of patterned fabric further emphasises the curvature and my use of black and white imagery creates an Op Art type illusion. The images have been purposely presented in a way that makes it difficult for the viewer to immediately ascertain exactly what they are looking at. They are designed to provoke intrigue and confusion, to draw the viewer in to interact with the work but ultimately, they are there to be enjoyed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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El Gabriel Brown
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My sinking bride project is an autobiographical piece seeking to visually communicate the all consuming grief of a marriage breakdown and the suffocation and heavy sorrow of broken dreams. Exploring my relationship with my children as a newly single parent amid a painful divorce my work took me on a cathartic journey of self reflection. Ultimately this led me to my final project entitled Heart Failure where the viewer sees a fragile sinking bride drifting down slowly to her death. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vicki Guildford
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Life’s usual challenges pale in comparison to the extreme sense of isolation and detachment that has consumed us during the covid-19 pandemic. A complex series of what felt like never-ending periods of time. Children stowed away from interaction with their peers and friends as we tried to protect them from the deadly airborne disease. Made during the Coronavirus lockdown of November and December 2020. Recording the emotional effect that isolation on primary school age children in my local village. My project looks into the face of confinement and the effects it had on a cross section of children aged between 5 and 10. Our children left feeling frustrated and detached but in some cases liberated. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kim Cockitt
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

It is fair to say that Coronavirus has had a huge impact on our lives, my final project has focussed on Angling and the surrounding areas. In the first lockdown of 2020, the only exercise that was allowed was a 60 minute walk, in the second lockdown, people were also allowed to go fishing, this was due to the positive benefits it has to peoples mental health. I was truly moved by the people I met and listening to their experiences, I realise how much being by the water, with their flask and rods had helped them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Cara Roberts
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Serve it Forth! – Eat like a King (in a council house) is an ongoing project in which I aim to unravel the vague recipes from England’s oldest cookbook, The Forme of Cury, and curate it into a serialized zine. Rather than recreate each recipe exactly, I use my kitchen experience to make new recipes, incorporating the memories and impressions of food I have gained over my life, to tell my story with food, adding my own small chapter to a story that is 631 years in the making. In turn I create vivid, rich photographs from each dish and its ingredients, using a colour palette reminiscent of the lurid technicolor world of 1950’s cinematic depictions of the Plantagenet Kings, adding a fantasy element to this form of escapism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aneesa Rauf
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘This Is Us’ explores the identity of those like myself, the “third culture kids”. Growing up in a culture different to that of our parents we have found ourselves in an identity crisis. Like myself the individuals in the photographs found themselves balancing cultural expectations, with stereotypes from both societies, one from their roots and the other being from the society they live in, both forcing us to challenge stereotypes and create a social change, to stand up and embrace who we are, a strong and influential generation of empowered individuals from the South Asian community, through these images they will share their story, each different to the other yet they all stand for the same notion. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Samantha Bailey
Staffordshire University - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

At a time in history when our forward vision has been halted by a brick wall, my aim with this project is to open the door back into the doll’s house. This project reflects combining both observational and constructed images to explore domestication, dislocation, objectification, feminism and freedom. Using the camera as a mirror to turn inwards on my life as a mother to two young children, and as a window to offer an insight into the lives of others around me that I admire. The strength, resilience, diversity and individualism of the women around me inspire me daily to continue to work hard, push forward and break boundaries. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mary Lawler
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

British seaside towns are known for their bright colours and flashing lights, acting as a beacon for day-trippers and holidaymakers, but in a time where the shutters are drawn and the lights aren’t shining, the finer details begin to catch your eye. Made You Look is a collection of images produced in the empty streets of the British shore, from my hometown of Southend on sea to the Cromer coast, throughout the first year of the Coronavirus pandemic. These photographs form an account of moments that stood out in the silence and Made Me Look. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Taylor
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Opsis explores sight and blindness through the combination of braille and photography. The project developed from the genetic condition Retinitis Pigmentosa that runs in my family, meaning that one day I could find myself with this condition and, eventually, lose my eyesight. Family album images, taken from my family archive, and landscape images, combined with braille, explore the ideas of family, memory, and sight, and the changes which occur over time. Each image is a physical artefact which has been physically manipulated, using a slate and stylus, to write braille onto each photograph, allowing me to teach myself this language and pass this opportunity onto the viewer. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Beth Jaggard
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“two and seven” is an exploration and study of the Suffolk riverways and more specifically the River Gipping. The images present a meditative walk that was repeated almost every day throughout the winter lockdown. At the beginning the images were more of a second thought, quick snaps while I was walking the dog along the river each day, but it soon became peaceful, while taking these images I could switch off and think nothing more than what the image would be and how it would look. The name “two and seven” came coincidentally, all the walks that I did during the project I tracked, including the length, location and time. While researching the River Gipping, I found it was 27km long, and overall, I walked 72 miles over 27 hours so the repetitiveness of the 2 and seven brought me back to the repetitive nature of the walks. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Julie Fairbrother
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

A sequence of cloudscapes taken over a period of one hour. As humans we live in constant flux with every moment bringing change. Buddhist texts tell us a clear blue sky represents our innate mind, a mind clear, radiant and luminous, free from conditioning and attachment. Clouds will enter our sky, wispy and white, just thoughts floating by, they may bring pleasure. Storm clouds might arrive causing turbulence, we can jump into these clouds and be consumed. We might suffer unpleasant sensations, we may label these as ‘pain’. Clouds can at times fill our whole sky, but they pass, the sky clears, and we can rest again in the clarity of ‘sky-mind’. All is impermanent. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Stearman
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This project is an accumulation of my experiences both from real life and the media that have resulted in my desire to represent impact. More explicitly, this impact is directly related to our connection to the world, people, and the environment. “X” is indicative of each spark of colour, and each spark represents a plot, a coordinate, and an impact on the world. Elements of the concept of the sublime and the butterfly effect have been influential in making this project introspective, with the intention of allowing the viewer to reflect on their own impact and place in the world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Nix
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'Unforeseen' explores the circumstances we have found ourselves in over the past year during the Covid-19 pandemic. Stuck within the white walls of my one-bedroom flat, I have found my creativity lacking. The longer the lockdowns went on, the more I felt the creativity I craved disappearing, being replaced by unforeseen rehashed memories of my past, arguments, lack of control, silence and procrastination. I found myself exploring the sights that had become familiar, those unnoticed, unforeseen elements of the everyday, hidden in the beauty in the detail that surrounds me. Constrained by the lack of freedom, the lack of freedom has evolved my creativity and i’m inspired once more. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isobella Hall
University of Suffolk - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Entitled ‘More Masks Than Jellyfish’, my final year project focuses on an aspect of the current Covid-19 pandemic; the casual disregard of PPE. This is rapidly becoming a global environmental problem with scientists estimating that there are now more face masks than jellyfish in the oceans. The project itself is split into two distinct areas. Firstly, I ‘collect’ images of the coronavirus detritus in order to draw attention to it. Each image references the social distancing regulations and is shot from a meter distance. Secondly, in order to encapsulate the global reach of this potential environmental disaster, through Instagram, people from all over the world can contribute to the project through @more_masks_than_jellyfish page. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Somers
University of Sunderland - BA (Hons) Photography, Video and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The Nest is an ongoing autobiographical project that documents my experience of returning home mid-pandemic. I question the meaning of home and its relation to space and family. Exploring my relationship with illness, symptoms manifest in objects around the home, influencing family dynamics. My parents’ protective natures are captured within symbolic acts. I am a boomerang child returning to the nest. The eye of the storm in this pandemic. My mother leaves wilting flowers on the garden wall. My father cuts back the plants in our garden; an annual ritual to maintain and allow plants to bloom in spring. The only unscathed branches support a bird’s nest. 'Empty', he said to me, ‘but you never know if they will return.’ . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Susana Hill
University of Sunderland - BA (Hons) Photography, Video and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I’ve had this sense of unsteadiness ever since I left the house this morning and ever since I moved out of home at eighteen. I wonder if my days unfolded similarly when I was a child. Or has that circle been closed? Even though every day I walk further and further away from my childhood I still see it reflected in the window sometimes. But I think for the first time today I just saw my adulthood reflected in the window. No glimpse of the past was to be caught. I think I might have closed the circle today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iliyana Grigorova
University of Sunderland - BA (Hons) Photography, Video and Digital Imaging
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

It’s a cold December morning. The sun gently touches the frosted windows and chimney smoke is spread all around the village. She waits at the door, tremendously happy to see me. Nothing has changed. I remember the house the same way as when I was a child. The calendar of me and my parents from 2000 is still there, hanging on the wooden wall in the corridor. Coffee is already on the table. She sits on her armchair and lights a cigarette. So many clocks but time doesn’t exist. TV’s on for background noise to break the silence, while she knits socks for the winter. She turns it off when I enter the room. It’s warm inside my grandmother’s house. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adela Puterkova
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My practice aims to challenge society’s representation of the ideal woman and to disclaim ideas of women as dirty, messy or untouchable. In these self-portraits, I contradict ascribed taboos and celebrate the experience of being female by examining denigrated aspects of femininity. In the project I explore the sensuality of my plus-sized body and the beauty of flesh. This Vocabulary of Touch generates a new language around the sensory experience of the body. The tactility of the intervention on the photographs invites the viewer to engage with touch and smell in appreciation of the phenomena of womanhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ben Malcolmson
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Unfolding Forms originates from the conventions of belonging, framed around a shifting political landscape of my native Northern Ireland as a layered landscape of acute sensitivity. Unfolding Forms cultivates my sense of queerness through intimate bodily forms and gestures. I employ a fluid approach to digital and physical methods, creating unique bodily responses to this state of flux. Utilising the agency of touch, I present the fluidity of androgynous forms moulded by their sculptural skin. Through their concealment of identity there is a poetic gesture of self emergence. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe-Jayne McConville
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Growing up I had a conflicted self-image as my parents couldn't agree on how to raise me as a girl. I always felt torn between my mother and father and whose influence to follow. My father dressed me in shorts, hats and drab colours accessorised with a fire truck in my hand. My mother put me in pink frilly dresses, long blonde ponytails and presented me with a doll’s pram, that often just served as a place to put that fire truck. In this work I set out to challenge narrow gender expectations and celebrate a more fluid representation of self, using clothing to play with identity. Now an adult, I relish the ability to define myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daniel Anthony McCabe
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Daniel Anthony McCabe is a visual artist, who writes. His work and research are concerned with the existential nature of image construction and spectatorship. For him, images and text intermingle with memory, and presence highlights the inevitable absence that is insoluble to visual culture, particularly in relation to the duration of experience across time. He interrogates the nature of the photographic image and examines the paradox of the medium: if photography can represent that which is real. Feelings of inadequacy, failure, and notions of time are threaded through his work, into a narrative that examines the relationship between desire and becoming. He is a Junior Fellow of Image Text Ithaca, New York. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Deni Tsankova
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Self-care started as a movement concerned with improving health and personal wellbeing. Capitalism has taken that idea and developed it into an industry of wellness, with a focus beyond an individual desire to be well. Circumstances, such as lack of adequate worker protections and social acceptance, are what drives people to seek solutions. Constant reminding of personal difficulties through marketing instils a sense of paranoia and vulnerability; utilizing misleading and vague statements, which gives a false sense of security. While there is nothing wrong with taking care of yourself, misinformation can be highly detrimental to long-term health. In relation to this, the use of spirulina powder, chia seeds and bleach in the photographs underlines the tensions between alluring and harmful. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dillon Conway
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“The Troubles” is a term that fills many Northern Irish people with anxiety. It refers to a 30-year span of NI's history wherein a civil-war took place all over the country resulting in the deaths of over 3,500 people. Northern Ireland has come a long way since the ending of The Troubles in 1998 but there is still segregation within the country today. Shibboleth looks at one of the causes of contempt within the 2 main communities of NI, the name of London/derry through a trivial means - road signs. The work focuses on the roadsigns along the main roads of NI as they act as a window through which anyone can see the underlying issues that are often brushed over. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ella Baxter
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Over the last few years, the picturesque countryside of Omagh has felt the damaging consequences of rapid and unsustainable construction on the natural landscape. In addition, many wildlife habitats have been destroyed or disturbed as a result of deliberate gorse fires. Beauty and the Beast attempts to sombrely highlight and articulate the strong sense of suffering and violence felt, not only towards the rural landscape but towards animals such as sheep and badgers who fall victim to human actions. Through graphic visual images, the viewer is invited to consider and reflect upon the harrowing consequences of humanity’s damaging interference with our natural world. This work invites you into the heart of the countryside and highlights ecological issues surrounding intensive farming. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Faith Wilson
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Ethnography (eth-nog-ruh-fee) Noun. “A branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures customs, habits and mutual differences. It relies heavily on the researcher participating in the setting to explore the cultural phenomena.” My Ethnography is a pseudo-documentary, self-portrait series capturing my study of Asia, mainly China, Korea and Japan: places I have never been to but love from afar. Born and raised in the same town, my wanderlust has only grown stronger and stronger. I have lost all feeling of ‘home’ for my ‘hometown’. Currently unable to travel, I turn to My Ethnography to immerse myself in the culture of my spiritual home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jonathan Moore
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Do You Know Me? explores identity, performance and character as I take on various personae to examine the concept and display of the self in everyday life. Through these fictional self-portraits, I escape from my own identity and allow myself to occupy another. Masks act as a metaphor for the faces people wear or the ones that others bestow upon them. My identity becomes anonymous although small details and clues, like hair and body shape, hint at the subject behind the mask. To compensate for the absence of facial expressions, I use my body language and gesture to connote these emotions and states of mind. Inhabiting these characters, I invite the viewer in turn to consider their authentic selves and to question the extent to which they perform, whether in public or private spaces. Through a combination of ambiguity and candour the work speaks to those who recognise this feeling of estrangement and to provide awareness to others who do not. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Levi Joy
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

How Do You Change the Course of a River? is about me questioning my perception of my current life circumstances. Following a death in my family, I began documenting the river around my hometown which acted as a buffer to the pressures of home-life. The river soon became a metaphor for the law of human inertia which states that people, having once established a life trajectory, continue on that course unless acted on by a greater force. To change the course of a river requires a magnitude of force that can only involve some sort of destruction or disaster. My work whilst appearing to act as a love letter to the landscape ultimately acts as a premature farewell. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luke McCann
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I see death and insects. I see overlooked everyday beauty in simple things like a dead wasp. I see an anatomy that is different to humans. I see fleeting lives. I see dirty images that others might find disgusting. I see flies encased in amber where in truth they are dead on adhesive tape. I see tiny lifeforms. I see small shadows cast by small corpses. I see intricate beauty in how the insects’ bodies are shaped. I see these things through meditation within my own home. I share what I see through artwork focusing on fleeting moments and the beauty of the temporary. With this work I will give an opportunity to see the overlooked and reconsider small things. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Magda Smolen
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

1189 Miles reflects my experiences coping with the sudden death of my grandfather. His absence has created a feeling of emptiness which slowly fades but never vanishes completely. The physical distance from my homeland of Poland where my grandfather lived only serves to heighten the feelings of loss. The work depicts everyday domestic objects which evoke powerful memories of him that neither time nor distance could erode. The cathartic process of photographing them has been vital in coming to terms with his absence. Engaging with the cycle of life through plants metaphorically shifts focus within the narrative from the past towards the future. This turn speaks poetically about my desire to move forward whilst simultaneously holding onto precious memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Adendorff
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Familiar yet unsettling. The context of COVID-19 has transformed our mundane spaces, making them unstable. They used to be spaces we had play, inhabited and transitioned. Our functions and space are in limbo. The work observes presence and absence in our landscapes. The absence of people but also a presence of something we cannot see. This induces an eeriness that comes from our primal fear of the unknown and disconnect from people. The work asks a question of when we will feel normality and be comfortable in these spaces again. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rachel McClure
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

After experiencing the collapse of my lifelong relationship with religion I was left with a restlessness that look me into a state of longing. The closest I feel to a spiritual connection is when I’m photographing, when I allow my subconscious to take over. This work explores the burden of human existence: feeling the pull of spirituality that creates a relentless longing while being anchored in this mortal body. Reverence creates a space for contemplation to encourage a still point in a world that is constantly in flux. I set about taking time, light and energy and making it tactile. Embedding the ethereal into material invites the viewer to open themselves to the suggestions and nuances of the work. It is a connection to something real. This process of connecting my psyche with the energy of the earth is almost ritualistic. It humbles me, heals me and quietens my mind. Reverence is my grounding. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Shane O'Neill
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Growing up I was raised catholic and went to all-boys catholic schools, these environments that I grow up in were hostile for me, every day I would hear things like “that’s gay”, “Faggot” etc. The repetition of constantly hearing people use words that you associate with being used in a negative way over and over again. My work looks at the unnecessary trauma that I experienced while growing up gay in Northern Ireland and coming to terms with my sexuality, while being raised catholic and in a society that told me that who I was, was unnatural and a sin. I am revisiting these emotional states and places of significant memories that I have experienced and recapturing these moments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sophie Jayne Knox
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Look at me explores female identity through self-portraits. In this work I am questioning the complexities of living day-to-day life as a female. Based in the domestic setting, I investigate my identity and living space to discover my true self, which can only come to life in the home, as the everyday standards from society do not exist here. From stripping down to dressing up I overcome my fear of people seeing my authentic self. In the society within which we live it is generally the norm to leave our homes presented to a certain standard, in an attempt to fit within society and its expectations. All of these social norms are forgotten within the home and within these images. Here I portray what it is like to be truly myself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amy Ferguson
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Speak Yourself comes from K pop music culture which means to embrace yourself and suggests that you should not let anyone else define you. This work is an exploration of my relationship with K-pop or Korean Pop, a genre of music that has been growing in popularity worldwide. Here in Belfast, there is a small community of fans who join together to show their love and appreciation for it. The pandemic has heightened the significance of this connection, with fans finding ways that counter the sense of isolation. I never thought music could be so transformative and I like to think this work is a tribute to those that have got me through to today. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phoebe Elizabeth Chaplin - Shannon
Ulster University - BA (Hons) Photography with Video
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I was born into a home of strange. The uncanny was hidden behind smiling-faced photos and family secrets were confined to sly comments over cups of tea. As I grew up and my father moved away I began to piece things together- finding newspaper articles and photographic evidence hidden amongst preschool paintings and birth certificates. Living with Yourself provides a fully immersive experience for the audience by combining video, audio, installation and photography. The reconstruction of home life with my gather coupled with the banality of our conversation tells a story about a relationship fuelled by destruction, familial damage, childhood trauma and their lingering residues. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chloe Nicholls
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Humans continually look for answers to the unknown question, “what happens when we die?” – even if this goes beyond rational thought. Recently, COVID-19 has incited a global conversation on the subject of our mortality. The virus has left many dealing with the loss of loved ones; as a result, Spiritualist mediums have become inundated with customers seeking connection and clarity in the form of contact with the spirit world. This work considers the collective need to prescribe belief and meaning to that which lies outside our usual perception. Exploring how the Spiritualist movement is thriving in a time of uncertainty, the project looks to examine our natural curiosity about death and opens up new avenues for exploring the nature of reality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pippa Harris
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Famed For Containing Nothing At All’ visually interprets the presence of spring water in the Malvern Hills. Commodified by its role in the Water Cure, the spring water established Malvern as a Spa Town following the analysis that “the Malvern waters, says Dr. John Wall, is famed for containing nothing at all”. Due to the famed process of filtration that occurs out of sight in the geological environment, the project adapts a visual narrative that navigates the invisibility of the water and constructs visual connotations that allude to the presence of water in the landscape without overtly presenting the water itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Harry
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

“A465” is an exploration of the second major trunk route of South Wales. Well known as “The Heads of the Valleys” road, its story is one of the Wales of old reinventing itself for the modern age. Being built in the 1960’s, the road took over the space vacated by the removal of the railways in the “Beeching Axe” cuts. The same railways that took over from the canals to fuel the ever-growing need of the industrial revolution and the British Empire for coal. Being known for its frequent accidents and jams, the road has slowly been upgraded to cope with the demands of the modern age, adding to the layers of history it passes over. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iga Koncka
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

In Poland in October 2020, near total ban abortion law was announced by the Constitutional Tribunal, under the rules of dominant party Law and Justice. This systematic and institutional violence on women is not a new problem. Since the transformation from communism to capitalism in 1989 the roles of women in Poland have become degrading, and traditional and conservative models of women/gender as a housewife/mother have been promoted in the media. Catholic Church works actively with the government, supporting the humiliating ideas against women rights, promoting a patriarchal model of the society. Polarity is a dialogue between control, violence and religion and symbols of womanhood and represents the frustration and anger of the unfolding dramaturgy taking place in Poland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eva Falk-Drake
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Biodiversity is the range of different species within ecosystems - the more diverse, the healthier and more resilient it is. Urban rewilding – the return of nature to urban environments – must become core features of urban design. Winnall Moors Tapestry uses the discipline of craftivism to explore biodiversity – through photographing Winnall Moors (a 64-hectare nature reserve in Winchester, UK) and creating a tapestry of cyanotypes toned with plants from the space. The process is chemically stable therefore low in toxicity as well as using far less water than traditional film photography. Materiality is a key theme in Falk-Drake’s art. The process of crafting by hand and exhibiting the art allows the public to become participants through interaction and hopefully gain a deeper understanding of the key subject; biodiversity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emily Jones
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'The Diary of Gwyn' explores his accident when he was in his late teens. Gwyn worked at Six Bells Colliery. One day while he worked, a coalface fell on him. He was buried under the coal for a few hours, until he was rescued. The after-effects, mentally and physically, are still there today. The photo-series explores him recovering after the accident, losing his friends in the Six Bells colliery explosion, his mental health, and his everyday life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Amelia Shone-Adams
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Amelia Shone-Adams is a Welsh documentary photographer from Neath Port Talbot, South Wales. Her practice focuses on communities, people, identity and storytelling. With a specific interest in people's lives and stories Amelia’s projects include portraiture, spaces and objects. Her project 'Maternal Memoirs' is a visual series focusing on the maternity, pregnancy and parenting stories from a selection of very different women and their backgrounds. Each story is an honest, heartfelt and personal approach from conception through to motherhood and all the challenges and rewards that lay ahead. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexander J Carnie
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Alexander J Carnie’s current work uses a homemade piece of equipment to recreate the perspective seen when looking through a pair of binoculars. The aim of the work is to capture the effects of magnification, depth and scale experienced when birdwatching. The process of building the equipment involved sawing a pair of binoculars in half and attaching them to a camera body. The circular frame seen in the work is made by the binoculars and evidences how they are a vital component in the creation of the photographs and resulting perspective. The work attempts to form a new representation of birdlife. One which aims to document the birds in their own habitat and their own world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morgan Williams
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Plastics surround us. We use them, we consume them, and we wear them. In fact, clothing made from plastic material, also known as synthetic fabric, has become extremely popular due to its affordability and cheap chemical production costs. However, recent studies have shown that the chemical properties of plastics in our clothing can worsen health conditions and cause skin irritation, respiratory issues, and nausea, to name a few. Through this series of images I explore synthetic materials’ toxic impact on our health within the space of our own homes. Using staged compositions and props with toxic qualities to construct the ‘plastic family’, which reflects our blindness towards the toxins we are surrounded by in our daily environments. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katy Bird
University of South Wales - BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Although society is progressing in regards to women being independent and making their own choices, there is a great pressure on women to get married and have children. I have been photographing a number of women who I found on online platforms that are dedicated to making a community with other women who are childfree by choice. This portrait series explores the vast amount of reasons that a woman can choose not to have children from hereditary disease to not wanting to bring a child into the world because of social, environmental and financial issues. This project is to give a voice to women who are seen as ‘not normal’ for not confining to societal norms of the nuclear family. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Aisha Northeast
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

These images are part of a photo book that I am currently working on called ‘Black White Ugly & Beautiful. The book is a visual collection of images that presents my struggle with self-love and self-acceptance as a mixed-heritage woman. As a child, I grew up with my mum and had little contact with my dad, this created resentment for my African heritage that continued well into my teenage years until I was able to reconnect with my own blackness and accept the beauty of being mixed-heritage. This series of self-portraits are a celebration of that acceptance and my journey to understanding that I am more than just the colour of my skin and that I can present myself however I want. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ellen Tasker
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The project explores the Barbican Estate in its entirety from conception to present day. Analysing the formation and layout of the Estate from both a visual and historic point of view, the combination of contemporary and historical imagery and processes creates layers that parallel the Estate’s past and present. Mimicking the tone of a blueprint the cyanotype links the images back to the birth of this brutalist architecture and what it represents. The reconstruction of not only buildings but life post-war, there was belief in these plans for the future. A blueprint for a new era with hope of a better world, one that unfortunately did not materialise in the way these architects had hoped. The Barbican Estate provides an insight into what that life could have been. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gyongyi Bagyinka
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

As recent year’s events unfolded, the absence of touch became the focal point and main catalyst in the development of this project. The depravation of this sensual experience has led me to turn towards myself to seek comfort and gratification, which meant that self-loathing was not an option anymore - the journey to self-love started with the realisation of the importance of caring for my body and soul. These visually captivating toys are encapsulating the shame I experience when talking about self-love, not just the spiritual but the physical one too. Masturbation is the purest form of self-love - but will I be condemned if I say this out loud? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Malavika Sophie G. Sharma
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Inspired by Franz Kafka’s novels and short stories from the early 20th century, my photography project creates Kafkaesque visuals similar to his uniquely dark, disorienting and surreal writing style as I attempt to look through the eyes of Kafka. The themes in his written work consisted of ‘absurdity’, ‘existential anxiety’, ‘realism’ ‘surrealism’, ‘alienation’ and ‘guilt’. Since Kafka’s life was surrounded by self-doubt and anguish, I present the scenes that, I believe, Kafka probably would have chosen to wander about in, omitting the happy world that, apparently, ridiculed him. My subjects’ absurdity is like some of his absurd characters; their actions ambiguous. Kafka’s way of coping with his insecurities, perhaps. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Miro Lovejoy Teplitzky
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The universe was once a chaotic mess of matter, pulling and pushing against itself until one day, from this chaos, came an explosion of life that created order. In early Greek and Norse mythology, there was a similar belief to this order coming from chaos and that the two elements were inseparable. Chaos surrounds us. We are born and it is chaotic, we fall in love or out of love and it is chaotic, we live surrounded by it and we die amongst it. Humans have never entirely embraced chaos, deeming it untrustworthy and full of difficulty and pain, yet its importance and its nature are embedded in us in every way. This is a project that documents the experience of chaos. A narrative of a type of chaos, ranging from insignificant and small moments, to large and more grand instances. It is about the emotional experience, the psychological imprint as much as the events that unfold. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roberta Viale
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Year 2020 will be forever remembered as Covid-19 pandemic related. It has been one of the most difficult times of my life so far as I struggled with my mental health for most of the year. Living and growing up in Italy often means you take places for granted. Since I moved to London the idea of going back home started to become something to look forward to once again. The pandemic scratched away my freshest layers, the ones it took me years to build up. Being able to make a small trip home during summer, meant everything to me. I found myself getting emotional at the sea and sunrises again, it has been the most refreshing of all recent things. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Fiona Harnett
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Walking in woodland near my home it seemed that nature somehow mirrored my emotions. The shape of the branches, the relationships between the trees and through the passage of the seasons, the growth, the energy and eventually the cycle of rot and decay seem to embody the perpetual harmony of life.This personal reflection celebrates the joy of life but also confronts my fear of death, loss and longing for more time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claudia Cantarini
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Born during the pandemic, All That Glitters Is Not Gold, is an ongoing project that utilises photography as a coping strategy in this anxious age, where visual information overload creates an unstable and insecure perspective of reality. A blend of stories and relatively dark emotions have been reconstructed adopting reflective, metallic and shiny colours to symbolise the fabricated deception of reality we are experiencing and to characterise the contrast between what we want to believe is real and what is actually real. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Denise Ebanks
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The journey within the 2-Metres double-sided concertina book and object presents a unique and personal experience of the COVID-19 emergency during the government-imposed lockdown and 2-metre social distancing rule. Transforming the flexibility of the lens, Denise uses a rigid technical framework to explore the emotional and social impact of an outdoor life experienced at a distance of two metres. Observing the pandemic through an 85 mm portrait lens fixed to a 2-metre focus distance, the focus – or lack thereof – reveals an unexpected and often otherwise disregarded perspective. Social distancing, designed to keep us physically separated, surprisingly manifested in new social connections and unsurprisingly in heightened awareness. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clara Williams Brinquez
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The series City Boy was taken during one of the periods of limbo we have encountered over the past year. A limbo where “normal life” seemed almost within our grasp and we were once again allowed to see friends on walks; our nation’s new favourite hobby. This particular walk, captured on film, was around Trelick Tower. City Boy features Conor, a fellow young creative living in London. During our time together we spoke about the future. Both unemployed, post-uni and post-covid, we spoke candidly about the feeling of failure, early burn out and the struggles and pressure within the creative industry. Even so, with all being uncertain, these images personally represent an innate joy and perseverance to document human nature. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Oliver Crown
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

At a time where partying could lead to prosecution and strict guidelines and regulations prevented large groups of people to meet in person, we were forced to improvise within our social lives. Retrospect became our best friend, we looked back on the parties that are long gone, but not forgotten. We needed a form of escapism, fabrications of these parties to take us away from reality, even for a short period of time. "What We Could Do (Party)" presents staged Polaroids within party-like settings, inspired by 80s New York and fashion brands such as Fiorucci. It shows not only what has been, but also what we could do in the future. Moments shared at a party will return again. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Liva Pastore
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Vivid Reality is a personal journey of anxiety, confusion and instability. It discovers emotions and feelings experienced living in a modern world, which can be simultaneously comforting, disturbing and eerie - dreams colliding with reality and pleasure with pain. Growing individual and mass anxiety places individual in a position where everything needs to be questioned and genuineness rediscovered. Series of constructed imagery takes the audience through an anxious journey filled with mixed emotions one experiences during times defined by overwhelming instability, mistrust and disinformation. During this rather strange reality, how do I find my peace and belonging in the ever turning and ever-changing world? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anna Cole
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

This photographic collection is a diaristic journey of my personal experience during the Covid-19 global pandemic. Through my camera I have captured my housemates and the small but charming details of our home, highlighting things that I had previously overlooked due to the busy routine of everyday life before the pandemic occurred. Living in a student house made it possible for me to document different people as opposed to a ‘regular’ family household. While the rest of the world focused on life outside the home and problems caused by being confined to one space. I wanted to show a different perspective and highlight the small positives that can be found through really connecting with what surrounds you. These natural and honest photographs show a reality that, potentially, all ages can relate to. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Courteney Frisby
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My ongoing series documents the social behaviours and the rave scene in 2020 before the pandemic. Amid disillusionment with mainstream clubbing, illegal events are harking back to the original spirit of rave. These parties are anonymous spaces in the sense that no dominant culture exists within, just you & your soul. The beauty of raves allows you to escape into a spiritual vessel; eliminating expectations of who you are and how things ought to be. Fully experiencing what it feels like to be in the exact moment. As a photographer, I want to have my own perceptive gaze towards the spiritual conditions we are living in today as humanity has a personal matter for a universal connection now through these hard times. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dylan Clinton
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The images that I have decided to submit are of sports matches. I have taken photographs for two football clubs that I have been working with: Aldershot Town’s Academy and Hartley Wintney, as well as my local Cricket Club: Putney Cricket Club. The idea of my work was to take photos during sport matches and training sessions of the actions as the throw, kick or hit a ball. I also capture images of facial reactions during the actions or even their reactions after a certain action. I grew up as a sports fan so this is what motivated me to get involved with Sports Photography. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elsa Ruffieux
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Every day images represent our different beliefs and knowledges of the world. But over the last ten to fifteen years, we have been saturated by images, creating unrealistic expectations. Photography can not only show the truth and the unexpected but it can also lie, which is a side that is often forgotten. Throughout this series of images, I aim to show my perception of reality of the life of an 8 years old boy and an 11 years old girl I have followed over a periods of time. Highlighting moments of their life with the aim of reflecting how society’s ideologies can impact young children. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Misaki Shimizu
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

I am a photographic artist and a bookmaker based in Tokyo/London. This book explores my experience of self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The title of this project, Solipsism Syndrome, is “a psychological state in which a person feels that reality is not external to their mind.” (Wikipedia Solipsism Syndrome, 2021). Losing a sense of social belonging, my reality was constructed only based on the endless internal dialogues and interactions with inanimate objects in the house. I projected my mental state onto the ordinary objects and scenes in my house. The collection of photos is a mixture of my photographs taken inside the house and NASA images. You can access the video of the book from my website link. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lauren Johnson
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

The dematerialisation of the world into what Jean Baudrillard would call ‘signs’ and ‘simulation’ is leaving our skin hungry for tangible experiences. I believe we are in a state of ﬂux between the real and digital with no collective foresight as to where the direction we’re going in will take us. The three dimensional images of the body, which are placed in a purgatory between real and virtual, are joined by abstract images of photographic chemicals and pixels. Directly comparing photographic materials and digital matter and taking physical body parts into a digital space results in surreal and innately contradictory images. The vacant fragmented body parts remind the embodied viewer of their own physicality and relationship to the tangible world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Pedro Fino
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Accentuating emotion and grace through fashion. Fino Zine defies the standards of the modern zine, standing at 5ft 4inches, it entails the use of your whole body to move onto the next page. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Josh Anderson
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘Somewhere in The City’ is a documentary project following the exploits of the young men who take to the rooftops of London in their own unorthodox form of escapism. Some find thrill in the heights, others peace in the isolation above the city, but each feels a draw to access these restricted areas and to experience the views normally reserved for workers, window cleaners and those who can afford multi-million pound penthouses. These men are in part petty criminals but also young adults trying to reclaim their city and engage in one of the most primal desires humans can experience. The need to explore. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Meheret Beyene
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

‘West London’ is a documentary book that explores the concept of gentrification and sustainability, as a result of suburbanisation that has taken place in the area over the last decade. This photo book is filled with insight that encourages dialogue and outward thinking with those in and out of this space. Each photograph aims to reveal an aspect of the diverse culture and authenticity encapsulated amongst this urban environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melissa Uss
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

My project is focused on children during Covid-19 as the pandemic is taking a heavy toll on all of us, affecting our emotional, and mental wellbeing- I wanted to engage my creation process around their emotions and how they responded to the pandemic. Children often struggle to express and process their emotions and they react differently to the occurring events around them compared to us. My photography tried to capture their emotions and response during school closures for a long period of time. Children were stuck at home with an immense need for entertainment. As a result, emotions were bottled up inside them. I wanted them to feel free of their emotions and act on how they felt during photographing them. For a brief moment, they seemed to forget about the pandemic and why they were stuck inside. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Daragh Drake
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

Anam Cara is an ode to love, friendship and life. It represents my forming and continued growth as a person through those I hold dear. The project is based on John O’Donohue’s writings on Celtic Spirituality and the ethereal relationship between the aforementioned. This current period in time has led to much introspection and soul searching. Within Celtic Spiritualism solitude brings forth the true sentiments of the soul. This unreservedly led to emotions of both joy and deep sadness due to the passing of a number of close friends. This project is in memorandum to them and their impact on my life along with a celebration of those who have impacted and remain in the physical. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nadia Abatorab-Manikowska
University of Westminster - BA (Hons) Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:10:22 EDT

'humans resonate at 10Hz' is a small abstract series of prints dedicated to my passion for music. The main focus of the project are the instruments, the musicians, the sound and how all three interact with each other. As a result, creating something magical that can influence or change people's lives. The instruments in each of the images are very abstract, hard to recognise even, this is to visually represent the vibrations and the flow of the sound made by the artists and their instruments. But, most of all, 'humans resonate at 10Hz' aims to showcase the resonance that sound vibrations create between human body and the instruments whilst they are interacting. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lisa Doyle
Arts University Bournemouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

7 out of 10 young girls feel they don’t belong in sports, with 50% dropping out when they hit puberty (Always, 2021). This then affects the number of women who participate in sports as adults, both professionally and leisurely. Through personal experience and working alongside sports women, it’s clear to see women are subjected to objectification, criticism and gender stereotypes within all sports, at every level. My photographs not only aim to raise awareness to the problems faced by women in sport, but also show the passion and tenacity women have for their specialisms. This project is ongoing and aims to encourage women of all ages, skills levels and activities to participate in sport. Sport is for everyone. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jayne Jackson
Arts University Bournemouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Jayne Jackson (BA HONS) is a multi-award-winning social-action photographer and change-maker. Jayne specialises in dance/theatrical work, and works with charity clients on empowerment work, promoting mental health, equality and women's issues. Her personal projects have been featured by the likes of The BBC, Radio 5Live and The Independent. ‘Asking for it’ is photographic journey through history, highlighting historical tendencies toward victim blaming, in cases of sexual violence. Each ‘mug shot’ image represents a different decade and contains a ‘crime’ such as ‘wore red’ or ‘swiped right’, which viewers are invited to question. The project was extensively researched and developed as part of MA study at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), with support from starsdorset.org. Interactive survey at www.askingforit.net . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Katrina Carlin
Arts University Bournemouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My project is a collection of images depicting myself, my ex fiancé Zoe, and our son Charlie. The images centre around themes of youth, change and growth, exploring our relationship dissolution to which had begun at the beginning of the first lock down in May 2020. I have used the project to self-reflect on personal experiences, underpinning queer identity within these domestic spaces and the changing relationships between the three of us in the process. The work unearths common misconceptions of gender roles and performative constitutes, and how these ideologies create negative connotations towards the LGBTQ parenting community. MY next step is to use this experience to connect with wider audiences throughout the LGBTQ community to better represent them within the parenting world. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sam Rose
Arts University Bournemouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

What if you just leave it? My work is a multifaced and mixed media approach to documenting rewilding in England. Rewilding is an approach to nature conservation that is becoming increasingly recognised and used because it has been shown to be effective over relatively quick timescales. Rewilding is about the people who choose to do it, the animals that make it happen and the landscapes that result. I have chosen to show this through traditional digital stills, podcasts and some drone stills and video. You can see this through case studies at whatifyoujustleaveit.info In addition, I have done some fine art still life of largely unvalued species such as Blackthorn and Teasel in a related series called OverExposed. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Garcia Gomez
Arts University Bournemouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My work is a compilation of images through which I have the possibility to explore how the social environment affects the individual and its impact in one’s life. With a documentary approach and inspired by personal experiences, my body of work is a reflective practice on human behaviour and the dynamics of relationships of any kind, as well as topics such as self-perception and mental health. Influenced by a classic photographic style, this compilation of portraits aims to question our beliefs and portrays my concerns towards psychological and social issues which- I believe- are shaped by the visual imagery of our cultural heritage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adele Spicer
Arts University Bournemouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Spicer documents her teammates from a London-based cheerleading team as they defy negative stereotypes and raise awareness of Competitive Cheerleading in the UK. Instead of focussing on the flyers, which are the most common images of cheerleaders- she turns her lens towards those working on the ground to lift the fliers to the air. At the heart of each photo is a strong sense of community. Her photographs shine a light on the physical connections between each member of the team, drawing on the deep sense of community and support that is behind you when working on skills and stunts. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bill Brooks
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Songs & Prophecies is a landscape meditation on my home village of Felpham in West Sussex, a place that from 1800 to 1803 was also home to the artist and poet, William Blake. In his own lifetime, Blake’s art provided him with scant remuneration; his primary income was from engraving plates to illustrate the works of wealthy patrons. The prints in this series have been made using the photogravure process; they were printed using an 18th century etching press very similar to Blake’s. In presenting these photographic images alongside extracts from Blake’s writing, I am seeking to dislocate ideas of time and place, inviting viewers to reflect on ideas of past and present, progress and regression, change and constancy. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Doak
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The National Trust’s Clandon Park house is in the stages of being rebuilt and restored after a fire destroyed almost all of the interior in April 2015. As with all things covered, as this now is (cocooned and wrapped Christo-like with over 32 miles of white protective sheeting), it has become an enigma, another thing entirely, so far removed from a house or a home. Like a doll’s house it offers only a frontality that is difficult to access physically and psychologically. This project questions what is hidden beneath this huge dust sheet historically, what is to be revealed in its rebirth and the difficulties of negotiating this new-found knowledge. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Syl Ojalla
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Higher Realms is a body of work exploring a world beyond corporeality. By placing form, transcendence and nature at its core the project questions mind, physicality, and human connection; the materiality of being, it’s potentials, limitations …. and it’s failings. Are we moving further from our true nature and purpose - a connectedness? The work asks if it’s time for a return to something greater, something beyond the ‘self’. This work is ultimately concerned with boundlessness, spiritual growth, transcendence and paradigm shifts. Questioning how we transcend, actualise, and unleash our highest personal and societal potentials is the works goal - our limitlessness. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Abigail Evans
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Connecting salt to both photographic materiality and tears, the triptych “And you, you cry-vessel” explores emotional transference, trace and concealment within the maternal line. Pictures are bathed in tear-like salt water and deposits (like the effects of trauma over generations) build up on the surface of prints and on the isolated body depicted. It makes use of allusions to a culturally traditional treatment of newborns, utilised here to echo the original sense of care but through their re-interpretation these rituals are also allowed to accrue additional meanings. The other images continue to explore themes of maternal relationships, care, vulnerability, shelter and the desire to cover, through various approaches including working with found photographic material and recurring bird and nest motifs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Torz Dallison
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The Robin first visited us on the day of her funeral. She swooped in and landed on the kitchen table. She looked at me and in the stillness of that moment I had the over whelming feeling that my mother was still with us, watching over. Revisiting walks taken with my mother and spending time in her garden, I feel connected to her. Somehow the roots have absorbed our memories and hold traces of time. My mother died before my children were born. She never got to be their grandmother, but if I could call upon the Robin and find her in these shared landscapes, then perhaps, in some small way, I could bring them together. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tony Da Vall
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The countryside is a very different environment to the urban areas that so many people reside in. Yet during the COVID crisis people fled their urban landscape for the freedom of the countryside, this freedom is an illusion. Where in the urban landscape locked doors & gates, buildings, streets, one-way systems control where people can go similar systems exist in the countryside. Fences, locked gates, designated public crossings (paths, bridleways, stiles, footbridges), are designed to manage and protect the environment as well as livestock and crops. To manage these vast areas of countryside signage, structures and other methods are employed to limit and direct people through the landscape, it’s the man placed elements that are explored in the project – Hinterland. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Es Follas-Shell
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Es Follas-Shell has an artistic practice rooted inherently in darkroom photographic practices. In her current work she explores themes of grief, mental health, and masculinity. She is instinctively drawn to fine art black and white portraiture, printing everything by hand. Her project is an examination of the natural connections between images she has made of her partner in their shared home, and images of her father as a young man that she has selected from his archive of letters and snap shots collected by him before he passed away almost twenty years ago. The work combines different aspects of spirituality and belief, surfacing as art which combines gilding with photography. Both creating and re-creating habitual rituals undertaken by her father. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Perkins
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I am a disabled fine art photographer. My images vary from Urbex, to Landscape photography. I get inspired by the mixture of light and nature coming together, and the way it can romantically breakdown what could have been standing for hundreds or even thousands of years once being left unattended or vacant from human interferences. In this set of images, it is possible to engage with the light which captures a visual path, while its elusive behaviour transforms into a romantic texture within the ruins. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Lorraine Edridge
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Drawing from ongoing debates around borders and divisions, Disintegration explores the motif of the white cliff to question what meaning specific landscapes can suggest and ask why some landscapes are given more value than others. By using data from the UK’s 2016 EU referendum result I’m disassembling the original images to create a visual disturbance by the digital intervention of the data on the landscape. This constructs a new landscape which at times is indecipherable from what is perceived to be landscape. By disrupting the apparent coherence of the landscape I’m considering what emotional attachments we have to certain landscapes as we experience being in the landscape and being a witness to it. Nine panels form the final work. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hanna Gabler
University of Brighton - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

If only I could move in and out of non existence. To a space between places. Just as one can be moved by paintings or music, place and space can also have an absorbing effect. This work revolves around the idea that there is a connection between where we are and who we are, with spatial perception and our innate desire to make sense of a place being the emotional core of the following photographs. Through capturing a fragmentary look on the city of London combined with the human figure, I seek to bridge the gap between space, object and body. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Thomas Wynne
University of Derby - MA Film and Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘I send forth, I promise’ is an on-going project that is exploring the future-fiction of post-Earth inhabitation by coining the term and examining The Promittocene (a post-anthropocentric epoch). Whilst currently traversing the Anthropocene (the current epoch), the human species is set on a path of destruction; by existing for decades in an ideological capitalist society, planetary resources are being depleted, environmental disasters are becoming more common and the homeostatic condition of the planet is out of balance. Through photography, video, installation and sculpture I create spaces in which visitors can unravel clues and suggestions, research and scientific data, and question suggested future-fictions that are shared through news headlines, fanning the flames of hoax and science-fiction myth. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Simon Martin
University of Derby - MA Film and Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I have always found it particularly difficult, virtually impossible, to photograph my own family and friends. I think it’s because of the baggage each side of the camera brings to the moment. It’s much easier to photograph someone you only know slightly. My mother is ninety-five years old now and I decided that I really ought to make an effort to document her and her life before it’s too late, however difficult and awkward the process might be. These images explore her body and her skin, perhaps in the way a baby first discovers its mother, in small, bitesize pieces. Each fragment being a partial truth which together form a whole. The images highlight how time has left its mark on her, not just in terms of old age wrinkles but scars from the cancer and broken hip she has had to endure and overcome during her life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bekkie Graham
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

UNSCHOOLED; 'A HEURISTIC STUDY' focuses on families who home-educate (HE) their children. These are philosophical & pedagogical choices, made by parents who HE long term, for most, or all of their child(ren)s educational years. Combining photography, film & audio to understand the families' educational journeys in their own words & contextualised through interweaving of U.K legislation & guidance on HE. The study explores the many reasons families choose this way of educating, from philosophical & pedagogical beliefs, to unmet SEND & bullying within schools; in addition, illustrating the diversity of pedagogical methodologies, from structured school-at-home, to unschooling, where the child chooses what, when & how they learn. Heuristic - "Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves" . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Dean Belcher
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

At some point many of us seek out a sense of belonging. My final project explores this through a photographic study of Working Mens Clubs. At 18 years old I was presented by my Dad, a lifelong club membership with a beer tankard of my own. This was the very antithesis of what I though life was about at the time. In Belong I wanted to explore the complex relationships between the members of these clubs and the sense of community they support and foster. I explore the historical role of the clubs in educating and entertaining the masses and also the personal role they played to me. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ilya Fisher
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Scientists tell us that the world is facing an existential threat : human caused global warming. It’s clear we need to change and prepare for what is coming. Yet most of us carry on as usual. Unravelling looks at the climate crisis and our responses to it, considers our need to look away, the excuses we tell ourselves. Maybe it’s simply too frightening and we feel helpless, fearing the anxiety will be overwhelming? Perhaps, as British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe says “Anxiety is the biggest psychic barrier to facing the reality of anthropogenic global warming”. Approached through self-portraits and embroidered words, Unravelling is an attempt to better understand the world, and myself. For, after all, why am I not doing more? . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hilde Maassen
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

What once started with performing a rain dance has grown into actually influencing, manipulating the weather by making it rain at desired times, the clouds change. Six out of the ten cloud types are man-made or can be modified by human influences; aircraft and industry are examples. The clouds appear to be moving toward the poles and higher in the atmosphere, negatively affecting Earth's temperature. Scientists are investigating whether it is possible to create clouds to cool the Earth. In this work, I grow clouds based on the unseen information captured in the photo. The experiments result in images, minimalist music, 3D-printed clay vases, and augmented reality experiences. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Darren Smith
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Identity forms the basis of my observations. My practice is based on a physical interaction, where I go, the unknown, the unfamiliar, the familiar. The arrival signals a relationship formed through the construction of landscapes. Exploring aesthetic interventions between ‘natural and capitalist habitats’. In the formation of our environment a question of how we perceive our belonging to place through identity. 'An Tired a Dhedheadow ' is an individual project in response to my fathers' diagnosis of terminal cancer. A return to nature, walking in my local landscape, became symbolic to escape and normalise. It enables a therapeutic output where these moments were a time for contemplation and exploring my relationship to my identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mikaela Rackham
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

This project explores an area in Woodbridge, Suffolk, called Sutton. Linked closely to the human condition and our relationship with nature, ‘Walk in the Footsteps’ aims to create a journey into one’s self. The project consists of photographic psychological portraits and automatic writing created in the forest, focusing on ideas around our imagination, past experiences and spiritualism. The book, installation, exhibitions and images produced within this project aim to create a narrative, as though the viewer has walked through the forest portal itself. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nick Hodgson
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The free miners of the Forest of Dean are a tiny community, mining small amounts of coal for local consumption. Free mining dates back to the 14th century and remains a legal right for those born in the local area. Today’s free mining community faces twin headwinds of impending climate change legislation and low levels of home births as there is no local maternity hospital. But the community remains fiercely independent, proud of its heritage, and determined to preserve its unique culture. It’s bound together by trust, camaraderie, teamwork – all essential qualities when working underground. The intent of my project is to document the personalities and values of this challenged community which my mother’s family was once part of. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Angela Lam
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

This series is about homes of university students from Changshun in Guizhou, shot between 2018 and 2019, just before China announced it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty in 2020. One of the students I visited said wildflowers give her sense of well-being. This has inspired me to revisit the concept of “home” in context of the often stereotyped perception of "poverty" in rural China. I am impressed by the ingenuity of its inhabitants in how they craft and maintain their home. Creativity shines through the minute details. This project opens up questions for me to think about what so many of us come to rely upon in our own home lives. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul ‘Buzz’ Moran
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Reading Railway Club is a 90 year old former working men’s club now run as a not-for-profit pub for the local community. Its ageing community of pensioners means that takings are falling, which in turn means a lack of funds for maintenance and repairs. What happens if this pub community centre disappears? Harry’s Thursday is spent playing cribbage with people he’s known since school. He’s alone till next Thursday. It’s the highlight of his week. Michael drinks alone these days. He’s been a widow for five years and sits at the same table he used to share with his wife. The club is steeped in memories for him and as he approaches his 80th birthday he finds climbing the stairs to the club increasingly difficult. My project is to capture the spirit and community of the Club. Survival against the odds. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Chris Jerrey
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

"When you are horrified at the destruction of the natural world and genuinely terrified by the prospect of an unstable and dangerous future, what do you do? You rebel. Extinction Rebellion has emerged as a leading group calling for fundamental global change to avert the climate crisis. Their inspirational actions provide a platform for thousands of individual rebels to express their grief, anger and energy. This is history in the making, the moment that people across the world make the change. My photography practice explores the climate crisis, mourning what has been lost, celebrating the remains of nature and bearing witness to those who rebel against the toxic practices and politics of the past". . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matt Durrant
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Thousands of humans visit Hampstead Heath every day because of the Heath’s far-reaching benefits for physical and mental health. However, how do humans interact with the Heath when they’re there? And what impacts do humans have on the land during a visit? This project sets out to document this photographic evidence of the traces left behind. Through this project, I have found the direct consequences that humans have on the land, but it’s also been very interesting to uncover the Heath as a melting pot of mini communities all intertwined and co-existing at the same time. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Robert McMillan
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Robert McMillan is a photographer based in York, who has recently completed his MA in Photography at Falmouth University. For his final major project, he explored the link between memories, both realised and imagined, based on his family narrative. He used a family archive and artefacts left by his late parents, to describe their emotional state and contextualise their early life. Robert wanted to evaluate his now fading memories of his parents and ask the questions he never had chance to ask before. This work will form part of a larger project he hopes one day publish. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Isabelle Boutriau
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘Maybe I will leave’ is an ongoing collaborative dialogue aimed to reflect on what it means to live as a woman away from one’s home country. It focuses on issues of migration, identity, and belonging. Ultimately, it is about my own situation as an outsider in Vienna. It is a poetical narrative between reality and imagination, merging family archives, portraiture, still life, landscape, and text. The persons depicted in my project are not forced migrants, but women, who, like me, came to Vienna to pursue their career. For them, the return home always remains a possibility. As much as they strive to integrate, they remain outsiders, in transit between two homes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Marcel Rauschkolb
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The project's images and photographic objects tell the stories of the land and man's impact on it. In the middle of Germany, near my home, is an area used for more than 130 years by German, French and American armies as a training ground, airfield and barracks. It houses Germanys' oldest airfield. The project deals with local history, but also world history is mirrored in this. Most buildings are abandoned today; only a few are in use for civil purposes. And then, there are the ruins, the visible traces of history. Soon, they will give way to housing. When they are gone, nothing will remind of the sites' history. Documenting what happened is this ongoing projects' goal. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Victoria Smith
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Affective Energy is a project that aims to rethink the fashion image whilst also celebrating the model and their performance on the photoshoot.Applying the theories of affective labour and somaesthetics, the visuals represent the model’s embodiment of garments, the affective energy they absorb and produce, and their heightened awareness to body sensory perception. The model must be in tune with the continually evolving collective moods of all the authors in the room, interpret those affects below conscious level, and use their body to project affect, to cause affect in the fashion viewer. Performing solo, as author, subject, and viewer, I consider the visuals to be ‘painting’ with light, fabric, and colour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Beverley Thomas
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

For many, the daily walk and the evolving relationship with the natural world has become more important than ever. This journey forced me to consider both the sustainability of my practice and the interconnectivity between myself with the natural world. Developing on from an earlier interest, I began to explore opportunities to push my work into new directions. As I switched my focus to a macro level looking to the nature and fauna around me, bringing old and new technologies together into the modern world. Creating a unified aesthetic using this enduring and versatile subject, it has enabled me to represent this floral series that push the boundaries of traditional floral and botanical imagery, resulting in high-tech versions of photograms. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Drew Findlay
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The project ‘Yes Playa’ intends to open a dialect about men's mental health and document the struggles of a small group of men who decided to share their experiences with the intention of motivating others to engage in a conversation. Set within the community of South Manchester and Stockport, participants spoke of adverse childhood experiences, alcohol addiction and being a carer for a mentally ill parent in addition to a suicide attempt. At the time of making the work, all participants were able to speak candidly about their experiences with the support of the people closest to them. The project serves as a collective voice with the didactic intention of encouraging people to have a conversation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Michael Padilla
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

On September 1st I was assigned to a COVID-19 Hospital ward in the infectious diseases ward and while paint was still drying in some rooms and caudilimetros (oxygen flow-meters) to supply oxygen to patients were being installed, I began to work in ciclos (paired shifts) of 12-hour day, 24-hour rest, 12-hour night, 3 days-rest, another ciclo, four days-rest, rinse, repeat. By November, I had witnessed far more deaths than normal over such a short time. The experience has profoundly affected me that I will always carry it with me. The photographic project, is an exercise in processing these experiences through photographic meditation, text, and repetition, an exercise in therapeutical photography. At times I have no words so I make photographs. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Wilson
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My work is an investigation into the issue of Hidden Labour which has been brought to the fore by the pandemic. The images are constructed to blend reality and fiction with the aim of exploring the intersection between the private domestic space and the public world. I draw on domestic themes and insert them into the public spaces to claim these public domains as my own domestic spaces from both a temporal and temporary aspect, to challenge the societal expectations that are placed on women and girls with regard to their hidden labour. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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De Ferrier
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

This body of work is informed by my own experience of constant migration. My practice is grounded in the photographic images of my current ‘home’ where the iconic silos and rice dryers of Texas dominate the landscape. The actions of hunting, shooting, dissecting, cutting, folding and concealing these images mimic the migrants vilification. What is hidden between the folds are the unjust truths. Utilizing a hands on meditative approach leads to a transformation of folded and constructed imagery. My interest is in the materiality and physicality of the photograph which becomes an object in itself. The aim is to invite the viewer in while gently touching upon very sensitive issues related to migration. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Crean
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Common Land explores the legacy of the Oxfordshire Rising of 1596, a rural protest against starvation, inequality and particularly land enclosures by wealthy entrepreneurs that left many villagers homeless and destitute. Those legacies are still with us. The Tudor era was the dawn of centuries of land enclosure. Our ideas of land use, property and ownership began to take shape at this time, leaving us with a landscape of wounds and notorious trespass laws. Even now, more than 90 per cent of the land in England is off-limits to the public. The Oxfordshire Rising was a protest by the common man, but the issues it brought to light remain unresolved. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jasmine Murray
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

For some years I’ve been exploring and investigating social media, looking at the underlying tensions between the real life and the digital world, how the phenomenon of the curated self is an online oxymoron, a distorted ‘fake’ plastic representation through the lens of photography. However, it was not until recently that I considered the coercive and manipulative nature of censorship through the lens of The Uncanny, its dialectic of power, and its critical reflection on what we upload to the internet and social media, an epitaph for the limits of our tolerance and sense of unreality. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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James Bellorini
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

These images are selected from ongoing biomythographical explorations of the experiences of people of mixed heritage. Working with contributors from a diversity of backgrounds, this body of work utilized chosen food items as personal cultural signifiers: symbols of genealogy, hospitality, pleasure, ritual, and belonging. A series of semi-performative scenarios were created based on extensive interviews with each of the contributors. These were shot in a deliberately voyeuristic manner. Images were supported with still-life work to underline oneiric sensations within memory, consciousness, and the otherness often experienced in mixed-heritage people. The work was also accompanied by an audio soundscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Tim Stubbs Hughes
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

From the age of 6 until he was 18, Tim lived in Fleet, Hampshire. Taking as a starting point his childhood bedroom, “Remembrance of day-dreams” is an autobiographical exploration aiming to explore this liminal space and enquire how the memories of the past and their phenomenological interrogation can illuminate the connections between the identity you have today and the remembrances of a past self. Bringing together elements of photographic material past and present, archival material from his childhood and the use of snapshots of sound, music and spoken word, Tim aims to take the viewer on a journey and place them within this world to reminisce and remember their own childhood. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ross Trevail
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

A Chip Off The Old Block (Work In Progress) considers intergenerational changes in labour, masculinity and class between my dad, myself and my son. As the bridge in the middle, I am looking back to consider the experiences that shaped me whilst questioning the future experiences which may shape my son and what my role will be in them. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Stevi McNeill
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

''Find Us By The River'' is a part of a larger project ''Common Ground'' that explores the connection of how land shapes the way we build community. Find us By The River explores the relationship formed between a group of women who spend five days navigating the Green River in Utah and how being out in the wilderness shapes how we communicate and work together. It also looks at how being disconnected from the rest of the world, the landscape encourages you to think beyond yourself. It allows you to connect with yourself and others in a different way. This selection reflects the moments of life as it was on the water and at camp. Simple, yet constantly moving. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Phil Hill
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Unreliable Narrator is about finding an answer to a 20-year-old question; one that I was far too young to comprehend at the time and am only starting to understand now. What brings someone to deface a photograph but continue to keep it if it wounds so deeply? My project is a journey to understand a family secret, navigating differing truths, beliefs and half-told stories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Laura Jane Fenton
Falmouth University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The Boundary Road is a documentation of local lockdown, and the seemingly ever prevalent North South divide. During a global pandemic, the rules and restrictions seem to be shifting all the time. Residents in Blackburn with Darwen have been hit with local lockdown restrictions, one after another. One week, Blackburn with Darwen is separated off from the rest of Lancashire, following a no socialising rule amongst friends and family. The next, specific wards are free to roam, whilst others are plunged deeper into isolation. Two sides are of the road are separated by rules, but not by postcode. It was then I began to walk the border, the border between perceived freedom and restriction. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alina Saranti
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

“Nothing Is Lost But You Yourself” began as an attempt to salvage a few of my dreams from oblivion and to explore the self when it is most unguarded. The project began before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and was completed during the first lockdown. As the pandemic spread and affected us all, my dream world became more intense. Researchers have reported a general upsurge in vivid, anxious and bizarre dreams; the project thus became a testament to how the pandemic affected our deep, instinctive selves. It was also a time when many of us, confined inside our homes, turned inwards and were faced with our darker inner selves, when reality seemed to compete in surrealness with our dreams. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nick Goring
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

In the spring of 1926 Cecily Nash called off her engagement to her fiancée, Christopher Marlowe. It’s not clear how they first met but it’s thought that it was some time in 1924 whilst he was writing his first manuscript, The Fen Country. No one knows why Cecily changed her mind, but by 1928, aged 21, she had married someone else and the following year would give birth to her only child, my mother. Over the last 18 months I’ve used he copy of the book, with its handwritten inscription to my grandmother, as a map to plot a photographic journey through the Fens whilst I reflected on their love, and the impact of her decision on my life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Leah Band
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Whose story is the landscape? Is it mine, is it yours, is it ours? Is it the landowners or the private corporations? Or is it a story more ancient, feminine and fantastic? Starting autobiographically and working intuitively Entering The Bardo maps my reconnection to myself and to the landscape within the broader narrative of our cultural disconnection to the natural world. Through attentive ways of being and slower acts of noticing I have used writing and the camera to explore the world around me — the landscape of my childhood — and consider the potential to shift our gaze, liberate ourselves and reimagine our stories. The Tibetan concept of the Bardo is a space between worlds where transition and transformation is possible, a space without a map. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Francesco Pennacchio
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

'Dad. Will Mum come back with Spring like flowers do?' After 30 years, I opened the closet where I confined the memory of my mother Emanuela, who died of a cancer when I was two. The project portrays my journey through the traces she left on Earth. I juxtapose the renovating natural world against the fragments of her life captured on film. I choose polaroids as physical building blocks for the reconstruction of her memory, and the prosperous family archive acts as their counterparts, to find a meeting point between us - halfway - and ultimately demonstrate that Emanuela was and is more than the mere narrative I have been told. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Louise Taylor
London College of Communication - MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online)
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Louise Taylor uses a photo archive to reconsider her father whom, she did not know for long, but whose death left a lasting impression. Colour slides, stored for 45 years amongst his belongings, portray a man engaged and captivated by the world. Stills from black and white Super8 film, however, reveal a more complex picture. In 1975, a year after returning from Japan, Taylor’s father ended his life. His archive, taken in Japan between 1972 and 1974, forms the foundation for Taylor's research. She attempts to reinterpret him through his photographic collection, weaving her own narrative through his body of work. The work is as sombre as it is poignant: a piece filled with intense feelings and delicately determined words. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Harry Hitchcock
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Yes Folks It’s Me explores the notion of home and belonging as ever evolving. As the formative home gives way to the often-multiple independent abodes of adulthood, lived experience is informed by shifting contexts of place. Home can be composed and collated from each contributing experiential context until a point of ‘belonging’ might be found. The work juxtaposes family imagery with documentary images of my lived environments; Newmarket and Nottingham, which have been photographed through a series of repeated walks. The pairings and sequence, set out within a traditional family photo album, locates recollection and familial history into the present to meet the possibilities of what future home might be. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kathleen Stewart
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Memory that Remains’ explores the complexity of traumatic memory. It examines how trauma affects memories and its correlation to photography; the facets of recollection and trying to forget. The submerged plant roots in water act as a metaphor for the absorption of memories. They serve as a cage surrounding or confining memories while the plant body itself, alludes to memories that, at times, lay hidden, damaged, or obscured through trauma. The work exposes the different ways traumatic memory can unconsciously be brought to the surface, at times partial and without warning . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Morgan McMahon
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Hylltown is the construction of an imaginary landscape from real physical geographies that all share the same name, Clifton. Hylltown resides in an accordion photobook; serving as its physical location, yet exists in homeostasis between imagination and reality. The project, and its creation, was influenced by historical paintings of imaginary landscapes, with Hylltown bridging the gap between the real and the imagination through the realistic photographic representations of physical landscapes. Methodologically, psychogeography was used as a framework to approach landscapes in an experimental and explorative way to synthesise locations across the subject matter together; forming a cohesive familiar place. The accordion book, when acting as exhibition, can be ‘walked’ and shaped by viewers; to create their own imaginary landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Becky Warren
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Untie The Red Ribbon Covering Your Eyes is a work that explores the role of women in patriarchal Turkish marriage traditions. Women in Turkey can still be subjected to forced marriage and be placed into marriage at a premature age. There is a need to challenge such traditional practices and continue to pursue the equal recognition and rights of women. It cannot be said that women and men are equal until everyone both believes and acts to attain equality within our systems of law and everyday life. Old traditions and attitudes that limit, contain and diminish women, must be stopped. This work points out the place of women in traditional Turkish marriage practices and the necessity of taking women up. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Yahya Davies
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Aarad (turmeric) is a collection of smaller projects that all reimagine a selection of ritualised Islamic practices, taken from my maternal family, to question how these acts of faith direct and guide an individual (and communal) sense of belonging. The overarching narrative moves away from conversations of why we belong and instead looks towards how we belong. I have referenced various Indo-Islamic practices that mould understandings of; uses of language and conversation, varied locations of faith, communal consumption and the act of ritualised cleansing. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Elizabeth Sarah Patter
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

This work examines the subject of natural light and its relation to time; cyclical time such as day turning to night or night turning to day as well as seasonal changes. Cyclical time is prior to the Western concept of linear time which constructs a linear trajectory from past, present to future. I explore this duality of time through photography, I engage with the changing moment, which the camera presents as static and isolated from the continuum of our lived experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Georgia Stanley
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘Whose Gaze it anyway?’ explores the internalized misogyny and social judgement women can experience by other women. Dominantly understood as men hating women, we pay less attention to the ways women can align with patriarchal tropes and engage in the social, behavioural, and physical judgement of other women which plays out in everyday exchanges of power and control. Negative and derogatory terms of cliched name calling title a series of self-portraits that embody the objectifying encounters of growing up in the 2000's. The work shows the negative impact on identity and self-perception and invites the viewer to question their own potential judgement of women and to consider the extent to which their identity may too, be constructed from the absorption of such experience. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Broderick Lee Coursey
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Anywhere I Lay My Head (Tales of Glory Beyond The Doorstep) uses multiple photographic approaches to construct a reality found only in the fantasies and fixations of isolation. Situated in a dark motel room, Anywhere I Lay My Head chronicles the escapism many have had to use as a coping mechanism as we travel through a tumultuous political and social landscape. Many days can carry a sense of terror, which is heightened by the fear of leaving an abode and venturing into the tribulations of the next unknown. One might ask themselves if it’s even worth it to move forward, or is it better to bask in the protection of television fantasies and cinematic romanticisation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Indigo Johnson
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Urban/Suburban Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The work investigates Sheffield’s unique history of industrial manufacturing and explores the surfaces in the urban environment. Historically, the city’s cultural identity has been shaped through steel, music and political activism, through collectivism, physical labour and a strong community. As seen in a number of post-industrial cities in the UK, gentrification oversees the changes in communities as property prices rise and sites of industrial employment are replaced by bars, cafes and music venues. This project interrogates Kelham Island, Hillsborough and areas of the city centre and seeks semiotics that signpost the presence of the continued socialist values within the community that were exercised so strongly during the substantial industrial decline in the 1980s. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kieron Bailey
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The Untold Story is a project that reveals the narrative of my grandfather’s service in the second world war. The work serves as a tribute to a man who helped me uncover a fascination with the past. Brought together through still life, familial imagery and documentary images, the work composes a narrative of his service experience onboard navy ships. The work hosts personal importance as an act of honouring my grandfather and reminds us that very few servicemen remain to tell their stories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Annabelle Knott
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My portfolio piece explores various forms of Portraiture and Fashion Editorial work, collating a broad amount of material that goes beyond the traditional fields of being a photographer, but also integrates my skills of Art Direction and Styling. My main influences come from my working-class upbringing in Stockport, Greater Manchester. I want my work to represent where I've come from and bring my working-class perspective into fashion photography. The selection of images I’ve chosen are pieces I feel represent me in the most authentic way and convey my sense of humour. My use of humour is important in my work, as it brings continuity between my images, and makes the interpretations accessible and relatable to everyday people. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Hennie Swan
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

What is a normal body, and what visual cues dictate to society how these bodies fit into a standard of acceptability?The body of a transgender person is so often objectified, critiqued and fetishized. This project aims to normalise the visual perception of a trans person and the body they inhabit. It is, at its core, the normalisation of transness through a sensitive documentation of people living their lives whilst undergoing medical and social transition. As a trans person, I am driven deeply by my desire to make work that breaks down stereotypical attitudes towards transgender bodies and what cisgender people may think what they might look like- this is what they do look like, day-to-day, a life being lived. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Megan Mizon
Nottingham Trent University - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Photographer Megan Mizon, originally from East Yorkshire, has created a practice that has developed beyond a dominant interest in portraiture. Black Lives Matter protests, triggered by the murder of George Floyd in the USA, occurred in her home city and informed her latest work. When her friends spoke out of their own racist encounters, Megan realised prejudice and discrimination were far more prevalent than represented. Her current body of work sees Megan return to the predominantly white spaces she grew up in. By photographing within quiet, familiar domestic spaces, Megan began conversations that prompted occupants to question their attitudes towards racism. Behind closed doors, in the private rather than public spaces of protest and activism, the work suggests change is often slow but often must be brought to the site of our reality in order to move outwards and recognise the reality of others. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ryan Dodd
University of Portsmouth - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Debris is a photographic series about discarded objects found in everyday life. The juxtaposition between manmade and natural textures asks us to reconsider what our relationship is to the land. The debris collected photographically in this series was taken in 2021. During travels along the edges of towns and cities in the South of England. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gökhan Tanrıöver
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘Evidence of My Sexual Misdemeanour’ is a series of photographs that respond to individual statements from the MMPI- an internationally recognised psychological test that the Turkish military uses on gay men wishing to be exempt from the compulsory military service. The MMPI and other set of investigations are used to ascertain the ‘true’ sexuality of the examinee, as a way of legitimising otherness and surveilling bodies that they deem dangerous. Staging these photographs in my own domestic space and printing them in the darkroom, I express and construct an identity on the gallery, which aims to confront the imposed institutional identity of ‘the gay man’ in contemporary Turkey and offer one of a multitude of queer identities as an alternative. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Junwei Chen
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My curiosity about the environment and materiality drives me to capture these momentary and conscious images. They are fragmented, yet like suspended, silent, slow poetic processes that project the fluidity and anticipation of matter. I seek out all the subtle collisions of everyday life and embark on a journey with those hidden, overlooked, and re-edited visual cues, which remind me of what was and what is happening now. The absence of the body creates a strong sense of presence. The metaphorical daily materiality of the images creates absurd and intriguing frictions that give me a range of new perspectives to interpret the objects themselves and the images themselves, capturing specific trivial details in random scenarios. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kirsty Sim
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Commercial/Fashion
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My practice is navigating the conflict between how to create, manipulate, and live in the world environment one is eager to live in, and how the impact and excitement of the separation of reality and imagination come into our lives. Furthermore, I am concerned with the generation of idol enthusiasts, how they might live, function, and engage with others, and how they engage with the gulf between reality and fantasy. The image of the idol is disassembled by fans and is reborn by reassembling the disassembled pieces. This relationship, which exists somewhere between the object of desire and the subject, asks questions about the possibility of synchronising reality with non-realism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Luc Schol
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My practice is concerned with exploring and questioning escapist realms. I traverse these lands and use the camera to create large enigmatic imagery to invoke a meditative experience. I wonder what escapism means for the human condition, as it is so seemingly pointless yet so irrefutably important. Welcome to an ancient habitable moon circling the gas giant Moeder. Tidally locked to its mother planet, it takes 60 hours to rotate around the giant, leaving this place with no distinctive seasons and long stretches of day and night, dawn and dusk. Underneath the Giant is an ongoing creation of the sublime and an ode to limbo. Join me on a walk through times in between moments of significance and legend. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Svetlana Talanova
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

PhotoSynthesis (2021) explores the intersection and interconnection between nature and humanity. It points back to the beginning of photography and life, exploring the organic nature of photography and of the world. My practice consists of camera-less photography, created by using translucent natural materials, light, time and photosensitive paper. Challenging the preconception that the camera photographs the world that already exists, I decided to remove the camera from the process. The darkroom becomes my camera. I step inside and become part of the mechanism. The work continues the tradition of art and nature. Speaking to the conditions of being, this work is a physical embodiment of the natural world and of light. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Wenxuan Wang
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My project aims to explore how the nesting of family archives and environment exposes the strangeness and loss of control of a sense of boundaries in an oppressive environment. I selectively photographed the areas I was familiar with before, but which have been abandoned or rebuilt due to gentrification. By destroying the images themselves as a means of reflecting on family history and addressing psychological issues, I try to smudge the reality of time, memory and normal narrative. In a way, I fell into the limbo between reality and fantasy: a false emotional attachment. The review of the archive of family images is more like an inward questioning of how to escape the barren emptiness that hides behind the curtain. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jimmi Wing Ka Ho
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘So close and yet so far away’ originates from the contemplation of self-identity exploring the relationship between history and identity. It is a series of conversations among Hong Kong people about the history and future of the city and the social-political environment. By capturing the tranquil moments in daily life, my photography explores the Hong Kong border and emigration of Hong Kong people to the United Kingdom. I rely on intuition and devote myself to creating a poetic language of photography, using nature's growth and migration as the metaphor. I attempt to record the finiteness of Hong Kong people and the calmness that arises in the environment. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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An Ting Teng
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My practice is about the encounter of textures. I collect and am intrigued by a variety of materials in daily life, either nature or man made. By experimenting the traditional printmaking method and darkroom techniques with new materiality, the texture from both images and physical objects are imprinted and merged into one single thickness. This encounter of mediums generates a new narrative that brings together the elements of memory, nature and longing, swinging between the notion of sculpture and photography in a poetic representation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Emil Lombardo
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

During the Covid-19 lockdown, I cycled to different parts of London to photograph trans and non-binary people outside of their homes. An Unending Sunday morning is a photographic documentation of our unique experiences and feelings of isolation and struggle. Between January and April, I cycled 600km and photographed forty-five people. With each meeting and photograph, I also delved into their stories and our shared experiences. The series also acted as a coping mechanism, a space for reflection and a way of remaining optimistic despite the challenges posed by the health crisis. The title comes from this continuous and peculiar sense of time developed due to the pandemic – where each day of the week feels like a “never-ending Sunday morning”. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paavo Lyle-Smythe
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Dear attention reading this, hello, how are you? There seems to be a lot of empowering energy out there. Humanity seems to be in the revolutionary midst of life as we know it - see how the world has transformed in the last 100 years. This universe is old. Very old. And you are here now. Reality seems to be a mirror. If everything is energy and all energy is magnetic what are you attracting? I hope that you are well. Kind regards best wishes yours sincerely with love. i . . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Rita Silva
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I’ve been trying to tell this story many times. My memories are scattered all over the floor and I’m trying to pick them up, dust them off, and put them on a shelf. They slip from my hands to the floor, I pick them up and clean the dirt again, maybe this time they can safely stand there, but they keep slipping, and I keep picking them up. After some time, I don’t remember whose memories are mine anymore. Does this one I’m holding belong to you? Is it mine now? Is my life really my life? Does this body really belong to me? “How much of what we remember is simply ours?” I collect these memories, these poems, these definitions and texts and I puzzle them together, to know you better, to know myself better. I’m not trying to find one conclusive answer, the more I ask the more questions emerge. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jiaxin Liang
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Under the Lychee Tree is a photographic project that confronts the human condition through themes related to memory, grieving, and the cycle of reincarnation. By creating metaphorical images and symbols in the objects and historical landscape, I am looking for the subjective image of the place where I grew up, aiming to create an allegory to illustrate intimacy, the impermanence of life and implicit emotions. The relationship with local myths, folklore and their imagined content is the source of information for the works, and this strategy functions as visual and textual parables. These fragments have inherited the spiritual sustenance from generations, seeking an understanding of life, death, love, and the courage to confront the loss. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Veronica Viacava
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

How To Do Nothing exists at the intersection between performance, labour and stillness, finding its roots in post-capitalist theory and Albert Camus' definition of the absurd. By juxtaposing and accumulating materials I encounter everyday in my work environment and objects that often belong to construction sites, I am building a common ground between the tragic fate the workers share. The camera is used as an observational and conscious tool that favours the disruption of the production cycle and the alienation of the worker vital to capitalism itself. The work lingers on the essentiality of labour for human purpose; How To Do Nothing stems from the possibility of doing in non-capitalist terms through stillness, reflection and agency. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Alexandra Diez de Rivera
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My practice looks at the vacant space, the empty shell, the skin of things and is informed by my own family heritage. Through the use of photograms, analogue and digital photography, I evoke and explore corporeal presence. My subjects have an intimate relationship to the body and have been handled and inhabited; they are inanimate but loaded, exposing the affecting remnants of past lives. The camera becomes an instrument for resurrecting archaic and obsolete objects, turning them into something new, allowing us to observe them and re-evaluate their cultural, religious and sentimental meaning. The images of the clothes are made without a camera, placing the garments directly on photographic paper and exposing them to light, the skin cells of their wearers seeping into the prints. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yuanbo Chen
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

What's the position of human in the nature draws my attention during the pandemic time. The majority think the virus come from wild animals due to we kill and eat them. Because of the killing character, In other words, we are similar to the plague to nature. When human destroy the environment, nature uses virus to defence and to strive for more time to cure their scar. Generally, it seems a conflict between nature and human on surface. However, going through deeper, it is a contradiction among people. Therefore, the pandemic also is a mirror to reflect defects and the sickness of human, which could say we may been chronic suicide due to our depraved characters. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Zhihang Li
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Zhihang Li’s work Waterfall is a construction of symbiotic experience of the subject with machine perception. In a world where identification and surveillance technologies are highly developed, machine perception is incorporated into our modern way of living, seems to have been forcibly engraved into the subject's way of being, causing a process of collapse of subjectivity at both the individual and collective levels of experience. The machine, with its programmed facial recognition, does not perceive any difference between a AI generated portrait and that of a human being standing in front of the camera. Thus arises the question: what is real? During the pandemic, this device paradigm became even more evident as our lives integrated further with the technology we created, while the presence of the real world is strictly limited; Waterfall is about the new fundamental myth of the existence in the digital age. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire Sunho Lee
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

How do we assess the reality before us when it is beyond our comprehension? Through childhood into adulthood, I have been reminded of random imagery of the memories I have never had. The scenes are vague but deeply embedded, causing me to live in in-between dream-like realities. One day, my cousin accidentally told me I had leukaemia when I was little. In this work, I present photographs that represent my edited memories. I juxtapose them with a tweaked version of transcribing AI that starts with an initial text of medical facts about leukaemia and generates new versions with the influence of its own and the surrounding sound. Both imply fragility, instability, and fluidity of memories. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Eman Khokhar
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My work seeks to explore the underlying schism between comfort vs. discomfort, traditionalism vs. modernity, and independence vs. the cost of compliance. At times, driving distortions and dysfunctions within the protagonist. When I travelled home to the Middle East I found myself reconnecting with my Mother. I began noticing her gentle hand gestures whilst offering her prayers, the manner in which she would do her veil and the way she would caress her prayer beads. I pondered over our past, and the differences in our experiences growing up as young women. We were worlds apart and I felt the presence of a wall between us. The Space In-Between is a particularly raw and personal piece of work, which has forced me to confront and channel the fears in my practice. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Bing Ye
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘Ineffable’ has focused on the meaning and significance of the notion of nature. The variations in the rates at which the forces of nature unfold - from aeons to moments, in rocks, ice, leaves and flowing water; the relationship between the force of gravity and the composition of an image, especially as manifest in vertical axes, which can give can an image the dignity, restraint and strength of an icon. It resonates with the Chinese tradition of landscape painting on silk scrolls. In keeping with the aspirations of ancient painters, I see landscape and nature as a veil of meaningful forms that both screen us from the ineffable, but also, in an accountable moment of insight, reveal it to us. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Myro Wulff
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Using Playfulness and experimentation I intend to create open systems that allow interactions between humans and matter to take place. I am interested in fields that question the ways we see. ‘How am I not myself’, is a series of large-format portrait works. The images are produced ‘in camera’, using a self-developed technique. I take multiple exposures of the sitters in motion, whilst interrupting the digital camera’s processing of the image. The camera collapses separate moments onto each other. Unable to fully translate the data, colors and shapes shift into varied chromatic effects. I consider these works materialisations of relationships. Records, of all designated things constantly exchanging, influencing and working inseparably together. Sites of encounters in a space beyond logic. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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David Allison
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Socially Distant is a series of photographs taken during all three national lockdowns in my hometown Winchester, England between 2020-2021. During the coronavirus pandemic. I was still living in London at the time but decided to come back home to be with family in Winchester a few days before the lockdown was announced. I chose to spend my one hour of time outside observing the city, something I hadn’t done since I was much younger. But this was different. This was a significant moment to document. Covid-19 has disrupted how we interact with space and found objects within the space. The atmosphere was eery, uncomfortable. It felt as though something had happened and was about to happen. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Kyungchan Jung
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

For a long time, it was my mission to talk about “presence” through the difference of taste. Since the pandemic began, a screen has taken place of the interaction that needs to take place among people but meanwhile, a meeting on screen offers an opportunity to peep at someone’s personal space. The subjects selected the space and framed their background by angling and positioning a camera. Along the way, my aesthetic tastes were completely excluded. I erased the subject from the screen in order to leave only the selected tastes from a functional point of view. I enjoyed their tastes in terms of optics, perspective and vision, and I sometimes felt eroticism and voyeurism. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ignas Vincerzevskis
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I have embarked on a journey to explore and discover the fragility of our climate and the impact we have had on our planet on my own. To answer the questions, how does it affect me? How do I picture the issue myself? Which place would I be most devastated to lose? These aspects have led me to explore a lifelong fascination with Dunes. In my photographic investigation, I chose to showcase a different possible perspective on the sufferings of the dunes and surrounding nature. that the world we live in is suffering from the effects of global warming and negative human interaction. These images are my responses to the questions I have raised at the beginning of the investigation. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Melanie Issaka
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘Locating The Personal’ investigates visibility and colonial alienation within the Black community. A series of self-portraits, these images question the representation of Black women within photography.Exploring the spaces I occupy and generate, confronting the materiality of my hair and body, I created images which blur the lines between the self and the other. In moments of stillness, from milliseconds to hours, I strike a pose and imprint myself onto photographic surfaces. Through encounters with material, I mark my presence. In negotiating between personal levels of visibility, I claim space. As I lie on photographic materials I am brought into focus. Referencing intersections of Race and Gender, the photograph itself is used as a discursive and dynamic space for discourse. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ruudu Ulas
Royal College of Art - MA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

For me, visual art is a perverse branch of philosophical practice. "Making Something Out of Nothing" contains "Difficult Objects" and "Tensions" which feed off the push and pull between physical reality and our emotional and intellectual needs. The work can appear in any number of permutations, often taking the shape of large-scale installation. The body and mind seem to be out of place, out of time and out of sorts in a world where technology dictates the speed of living and not much makes sense. The wish for clarity is bound to fail, yet my practice aims to amass visual evidence that gain their own centre of gravity that provides an anchor for ideas and feelings to conglomerate. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Justin Keene
University of South Wales - MA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Walls in the Riverbed presents fragments of history, creating a setting in which the viewer can piece together a narrative from different sources of information related to the archive. The mixed media approach of the archival project resembles much of history’s gathering over time as a process of curation. Explored by the project in the context of photography is the concept that “the photograph interprets reality; the archive accurately catalogues the ensemble of interpretations and by their very structure, maintain a hidden connection between knowledge and power” in constructing a reality of the past as the historical agent of memory (Sekula 2002, p. 446; Demos 2012, p. 60; Enwezor 2008, p. 46). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adam Bennett
University of South Wales - MA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The enclosing of common land in the 18th and 19th centuries saw the privatisation of around 22% of the land in England by the aristocracy and gentry, leaving just 3% registered as commons in the present day. Enclosures were dubbed an economic necessity, taking no account for the future ecological impact of agricultural improvements. Today, of the 3% of registered common land, 57% are registered as sites of special scientific interest, a conservation designation given to places which have rare species of fauna or flora, demonstrating the strengths of communal interest in land as a mean of ecological preservation. These spaces appear as oases, filled will the ecological diversity that today eludes much of England’s rural landscape. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adrian Fear
University of South Wales - MA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

It was when I found you, under the canopy of moonlight. A ratchet strap drawn between your neck and the woods above. My matter shifted. I held you close as you moved between this space, and a full stop. All that was left was everything. Everything was left but you. Running Out of Cigarettes is an ongoing exploration into trauma, duality, and existentialism, informed by an intimate encounter with the suicide of a stranger and an ongoing personal/family history with mental health. Moving between the familiar and uncanny Adrian walks with an unsteady footing in the world, using still imagery and written word to represent and articulate a fractured experience of the everyday and quotidian. No two eyes see the same and every space becomes place through a subjectivity of lived experience and an obfuscation of a world in flux. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Ilona Denton
University of South Wales - MA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My work explores new myths; the human body not as an independent biological organism, but a symbiont of an integral ecology. Lichens are uniquely symbiotic. Separate organisms - fungus, algae and bacteria - adapt and grow together in a stable unit. Un-partnered women who are approaching post childbearing age consider their relationship to motherhood, and environment. Turned out in ‘siren-suits’ and dreaming of urgencies relative to their own biology, congruent with the slow, rumbling call of climate change, they balance thoughts of becoming a lone parent or childless / childfree. A chimeric paradox manifests as desire and loss in a dystopic, fictional future, highlighting the continual interplay between people and other species, for “we have never been individuals; we are lichens.” (Gilbert, 2014). . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Matthew Keenan
University of South Wales - MA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Suffused with thoughts of addiction, and unwanted sexuality, performative portraiture and still life enact moments of British male identity, a concept in perpetual flux as the rigid grip of traditional dualisms of gender subside. One’s possession’s may be imbued with gendered connotations of power, status, and temperament. When photographed in conjunction with the white male body, do accoutrements become the building blocks of identity and are they used to buttress a continual gender imbalance? Much like the camera, the body is often considered a site of power, but the body may also be a site of a vulnerability that is required for us to grow. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Railton
University of South Wales - MA Documentary Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Documentary/Photojournalism
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Massifs is a series of images made in response to the disposal of 80,000 tonnes of mud in an underwater sandbank known as Cardiff Grounds, which is located approximately 1.8 miles from the Cardiff coastline. Discussions around the safety of the mud and plans to dispose of another 800,000 tonnes are currently ongoing between the energy company EDF, the UK government, and Natural Resources Wales. This project asks questions about the effect on local communities, as well as the environmental impact, of dumping potentially harmful contaminated mud very close to a city. It also touches on the mutually beneficial exchanges between governments and corporate entities, as well as the citizens and wildlife affected by their actions. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Clare Lyons
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Sparked by the discovery that I have two Birth Certificates on file in the Irish Civil Registry System, and finding a starting point in revisiting the forced relationship I had with my biological father, 'Every Saturday' looks at familial relationships in the face of conflicting identities. Through cathartic processes of childlike crafting which were introduced to me at an early age during therapy and counselling, I create new documents and assemblages which demonstrate the desire to regain control; over my own sense of self, and over a time when I felt I had none. I incorporate ephemera from the landscape to create new documents and assemblages which reflect such processes of working through trauma by creating and making. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Jolane Schaffner
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Homebird is an intimate portrayal of Belfast, opening a dialogue which recognises the common ground amongst individual narratives. This series gathers personal accounts, through portraiture and audio recordings, aiming to relinquish and redress Belfast’s stereotypical representation. Since I moved to Belfast in 2017, I have been confronted by its negative representation. Yet I have found myself in a place where people no longer serve as symbols of the past. Based on my longing to engage with the city and its communities, I’m delving into the deeply rooted connection between place and identity. I am sharing my collaborators narratives, aiming to contribute to this redefinition. Through this series of intimate portraits and connections, I have begun to understand Belfast as my home. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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John Post
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The experience of being denied whilst craving touch is a feeling that gay people are intimately familiar with. Not familial hugs or friendly pats but the touch of someone who wants to be lost within the landscape of your skin and to feel you in a way that means knowing you. It is how all of us who are gay grew up and this period of self-denial, regardless of duration, is a touchstone within both our gay and masculine identities. This project is an exploration of gay men’s emerging desires and consequent wrestle with guilt, and to leave you with an understanding that for some a touch is more than skin on skin but the realisation of who they are. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Paul Greenfield
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I am a baby boomer. I was raised to believe that it was important to work hard and accumulate wealth to enable happiness. My work highlights a group of baby boomers and the project has been described as 'People who have everything but nothing and nothing but everything'. What constitutes their treasure may be interpreted differently. What is 'everything' and 'nothing' in the lives depicted? I want the viewers to be slightly perplexed but also intrigued by the ambiguity of the images. The title might suggest that the viewers will be seeing images of material success. However, they may discover that the work depicts people who have made themselves, in a deeper sense, over a lifetime of experience and development. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Claire French
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

A reflection on the enduring human ability to process change. How do we resolve the loss of a changed future? Throughout our lives relationships change, with people and places, making us reassess who we are and where we’ve come from, often accompanied by feelings of loss and grief. This work engages with those connections and with memory, time and transitions. The images pre-mourn something that is about to be lost. Oikos, a Greek word, referring to family, the family’s property, and the home. Distinct concepts, but also perpetually combined. An action that would normally be undertaken after death has allowed a consideration of mortality without the grief, whilst also connecting this loss with the end of my marriage. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Iryna Baklan
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Magic Hour embodies a collaboration between the artist and the land. It seeks to defy logic, erasing conditioned ways of seeing by subverting expected modes of looking. Experiencing nature through small acts of engagement contrasts the passive consumption of a view, where photographs are taken but give nothing in return. Here instead uneventful places serve as a stage for play on which mundane objects perform. The transitory interventions only exist in the photographs. Captured by the photographic act, they hover in mid-air; between real and imagined, purpose and futility, photography and performance. Rather than adding knowledge and conforming to traditions of landscape photography, Magic Hour is an invitation to enter a process of un-looking and a celebration of everyday landscapes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Roula Patra
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

''The Duo Project'' moves from the relationship of two non- biologically linked women to a more socio-political context, providing a new basis for female relationships, behaviors, and lives, contributing to the elimination of oppressive situations experienced by women, within social frames defined by socio- cultural conventions. Manifesting that biology does not determine relationships, behaviors, or gender identities, it aims to destabilize core concepts by proposing a new experience, conveyed through my relationship with my stepdaughter, particularly the fictional and fabricated common past we never had and the familial affiliations we have built during our life together within our constructed non- biological family frame, highlighting the importance of love and oneness as well as exploring female identity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Gavin Martin
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

‘A trauma that is not transformed, is transferred.’ Trauma affects a person’s ability to see, to perceive the world as it once was seen, through naïve, innocent eyes. It removes the sufferer from the comfort of familiarity and thus takes away the ability to ground oneself, to stabilise, a basic human need for psychological harmony. But where there is darkness and abandonment, there is also beauty and hope, a co-existence, the amalgamation of which is everyone’s life story, without the bad times, what balance have the good. Social Distress Signals is a look at the landscape through the lens of unprocessed childhood trauma. The aesthetic is influenced by the aspirational, hopeful veneer imbued in commercial advertising photography in an attempt to communicate a chance at hope, in even the most desperate of landscapes. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Mark Bell
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Portraiture
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I use the camera as a tool in my own invented ritual to add meaning to my relationships. In moments spent with people to whom I feel connected I can’t help but feel a melancholic sense that the moment will end. I resonate with the Japanese phrase mono no aware. It speaks of the awareness of the transience of things and a quiet sadness because of it. Along with that sadness, however, a celebration of the experience to which you bore witness. When I take a portrait it is like a ceremony to sanctify that person. In the words of Anthony Kiedis, “All I want is for you to be happy and take this moment to make you my family” . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Niall Ruddy
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

War is a profoundly destructive force with a shadow that is cast long into the future. The Korean War began in 1950 and divided the Korean peninsula, separating families and a people along physical and ideological lines. The war has never ended. Through the unique perspective of an artist that grew up during the Northern Irish 'Troubles' and has now been living in South Korea for a decade, 'He made a Fortress from his House' explores the points of tension that arise in society as a result of conflict: primarily how conflict can become normalised and embedded into the everyday. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Martin Reynolds
Ulster University - MFA Photography
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

This work is part of a series of chapters in reverse, beginning with Chapter 3. It is comprised of photography, altered images and drawings to reflect on a journey through a period of trauma, cancer. It is an exploration of how a cancer diagnosis intervenes and affects both the physical and psychology of the self. It presents visually a personal record of unearthed, resurfaced deeply buried emotions and experiences. The aim is to de- stigmatise the human response to cancer and to achieve a form of catharsis. Self-portraiture forms its foundation. The objective is to share the experience, to raise awareness and to encourage a dialogue about illness, vulnerability, and masculinity. A creative / reflective Autopathography and PhotoTherapy methodology is used. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Anne Erhard
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Landscape
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

"The Image of a Place" is part of a larger cycle of works that has unfolded since the death of my father in 2018, far away from home. My father’s passing began as a series of unanswered questions and loose ends - rivers running nowhere, the gap between a lighthouse flash, a haze across the emulsion. Working through subsequent events within a constellation of photographs, objects and words has allowed me to hollow out a space for my grief somewhere at once imagined and real. In conjuring a version of the world where I picture him to be, made in the landscape of the darkroom, I am building my father an ever shifting monument - rock by rock, breath by breath. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Christian Jago
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

My work depicts a distant world called ‘Mag Ildathach’, the realm of many colours. It is inspired by Celtic mythology and memories of South-West Ireland. Existing between worlds, this wondrous land is only accessible to those of a steadfast heart. Inhabited by the 'Tuatha Dé Danann’, an ancient race of gods, it is an untouched paradise born out of old and powerful magic - full of joy and peace, all life within it exists in unwavering harmony. The images reveal sacred places; nestled in the meadows of 'Fuchsia Valley' are pools of liquid knowledge, hidden amongst woodland groves are beehive-shaped huts called 'Clochán', and along its coasts live royalty, who watch over cities of shining shells. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Sayuri Ichida
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

In Absentee, I focus on the temporality of our existence. Centered around my body, this series is an evocative depiction of a sense of detachment, an absence from self and reality. After I lost my mother in my late teens, I shielded myself from thoughts about death. However, 15 years later, the psychological impact of the global pandemic triggered a period of grief. Creating this body of work enabled me to overcome emotional difficulties such as uncertainty and anxiety caused by the reminder of death. Our attempts to evade our own mortality are inevitably challenged, and we are forced to acknowledge our own fragility. A visceral recognition surfaces at times, reminding us of the transience of life. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Nella Casabella
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

The establishment of a connection is pivotal for the growth and development of any being, who is nurtured and shaped by the dynamic processes of affection. ‘So Close, So Far’ explores this primordial need of touch and human connection, focusing on the absence and subsequent search for intimacy and proximity. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Yiqi Dong
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

'Romance' is a word that moves in a blurring area between what can and cannot be articulated. When we talk about romance, we refer to a particular scene, an act, or a surprise moment. It's both narrow and all-encompassing. In this project, romance is put together in myriad fragments, forming an inadequate guide to what it is. Looking at this series of works is like reading an intimate diary, where one can find hints to a personalised romance as well as a record of my search for 'romance'. These seemingly unrelated signals construct 'romance,' seeking to resonate with the concept that romance exists between ordinary life, literary works, and imagination. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Joe Pettet-Smith
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

In 1942, a stage magician made an army disappear. Alongside a rag-tag unit of artists, zoologists and designers based in Surrey, England, they made plans to make military apparatus disappear in the deserts of Egypt during the Second World War. Using optical illusions and experimental camouflage, they borrowed techniques from stagecraft to misdirect and bend reality. Although the plans worked, more recent research suggests that the stage magician’s involvement was itself a deception. Fantastical stories are appealing, whether they end up to be true or not becomes less important, the suspension of disbelief is part of the experience. In The Cloak Hides the Dagger, the intersections of stage-magic and camouflage act as a metaphor for misinformation in the post-truth era. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Adrián Coto
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

I research identity production using performed photography, staged photography and mixed media strategies. My aim is to contribute to the political debate about cultural issues by interrupting the discourse on essentialism and introducing cultural production. This interrogation of subjectivity challenges the notion of identity as a moral device that justifies totalitarian political discourses. Using gender as a driver for the discourse, the photographs are meant to work as recipes for self-production, a space for the workings for performativity in identity as well as personal strategies for becoming, the intentional and aware rhizomatic production of identity as the realm of possible inscriptions within the field of cultural production. . . [ Full Article ▸]

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Vladimir Gheorghe
University of Westminster - MA Photography Arts
Graduate Photography Online 2021
— BA Phase —
Content: Graduate Portfolio
Genre: Staged/Constructed
Posted: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:07:24 EDT

Asbestos Dreams reflects on the gentrification process in Hackney Wick, East London, by exploring the sculptural settings of the area. Through imagery and recovered objects, the project suggests the repurposing of discarded objects into sculptures. By drawing attention to the objects and their surface, the sculptures force the photograph to function as an index of the area and their materiality. This re-contextualization is inspired by questions initially raised by The Situationists’ Détournement theory. Asbestos Dreams means to illustrate urban transformation as revealed by the relationship between found items and their printed representation, besides the interplay between shape and surface . . [ Full Article ▸]

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