Aleksandra Kocela
My body of work focuses on animal instincts of women. It illustrates various instinctive activities, for instance, feeding, animal fighting, and animal courtship behaviour. I am interested in conveying behaviours that are unlearned and inherited but also these patterns of behaviours that are placed upon women by the society. Women are being heavily identified with animals within our culture. It leads to objectifying portrayals of women. Symbolical associations of women with animals assist with their oppression. My images question this societal order and its hypocrisy. Moreover, these photographs comment on a staged photography and its artificiality.
Suzanne Boak • Elspeth Gunnery • Yoshi Kametani • Tessa Kerrs • Aleksandra Kocela • Sumieya Kouser • Rowan Lear • Kristina Milic Thompson • Matthew Nanson • Mateusz Noniewicz • Jonathan David Smyth • Mike Steven • Karen Taylor • Chris Wong •
American University in Dubai
BFA in Visual Communication - Photography
Blackpool and the Fylde College
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Brighton
BA (Hons) Photography
Camberwell College of Art
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Cambridge School of Art
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Central Saint Martins
MA Communication Design - Photography Pathway
University of Chester
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Dublin Institute of Technology
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Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
MA Photography
Edinburgh Napier University
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University College Falmouth
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University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Central Florida
MFA Studio Art and the Computer
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
Governors State University Illinois
MFA Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media
IADT Dun Laoghaire
BA (Hons) Photography
Kingston University London
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Leeds College of Art and Design
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University of Lincoln
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University of Lincoln
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London College of Communication
BA (Hons) Photography
National College of Art and Design
Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
The University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
Rochester Institute of Technology
BFA Photographic Illustration/Fine Art Photography Concentration
Rochester Institute of Technology
MFA Imaging Arts/Fine Art Photography Concentration
Sheffield Hallam University
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University Campus Suffolk
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Swansea Metropolitan University
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Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photojournalism
University of Ulster
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University of Westminster
BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
University of Westminster
BA (Hons) Photography (Part Time)
University of Westminster
MA Photographic Studies