This year we bring you a number of special bonus selections - chosen from the 2012 BA Submissions. We asked some of the Directors, from those courses who participated in 2012, to choose their favourite set of work. The only condition we set was that the work they chose had to be from a course other than their own.
Peter Neill
Peter Neill is Course Director of BA (Hons) Photography at University of Ulster. Peter has been exhibiting since 1977. His photographic work has been published extensively in Europe and featured in the British Journal of Photography and Creative Camera magazine. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and was a founding member of the editorial team of Source Photographic Review.
Selector's Comment: Rhodri Brooks' images show a perceptive observation of, what appears to be, everyday life but with a special awareness of the precarious divide between absurdity and 'normality'. There is a knowledge and understanding of the history of portraiture in both painting and photography, which is carefully acknowledged, but at the same time exploited and twisted to add another layer of meaning. This is beautiful and contemplative work which displays a sensitivity and delicacy with its use of natural light and simple props. The images contain hints rather than explanations and leave us with questions rather than answers. I love the serious humour that makes one re-evaluate the content and context of the photographs.
Selection by James Hyman ▸
Director, James Hyman Photography, London.
Selection by Sean O'Hagan ▸
Writer on photography for The Guardian and The Observer.
Selection by Kirsten Lloyd ▸
Associate Curator, Stills, Edinburgh.
Selection by John Duncan ▸
Editor, Source Photographic Review.
Bonus Course Director Selections:
Selection by David Williams ▸
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Photography, Sheffield Hallam University.
Barking and Dagenham College
BA (Hons) Photography
Blackpool and the Fylde College
BA (Hons) Photography
Mid Cheshire College
FDA Contemporary Photography
University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
De Montfort University
BA (Hons) Photography and Video
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
IADT Dun Laoghaire
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh Napier University
BA (Hons) Photography and Film
University College Falmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University for the Creative Arts Farnham
BA (Hons) Photography
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Fine Art - Photography
Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University
BA (Hons) Photographic and Electronic Media
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media (Part Time)
Hereford College of Arts, University of Wales
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Central Lancashire
BA (Hons) Photography
Leeds College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Liverpool John Moores University
BA (Hons) Photography
Manchester Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography
The National College of Art & Design
Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography