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GRADUATE
PHOTOGRAPHY
ONLINE 2025

Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the BA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole.

Michael Itkoff

Publisher, Daylight Books

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As an annual survey of young talent, Source's showcase is quite ambitious. Facing a long list of photography-focused programs and photographic categories I found myself quite overwhelmed at the prospect of selecting six young photographic stand-outs. Soon, however, I succumbed to the flow of unique and diverse imagery ranging from commercial work to self-portraiture and landscape. Seeing new work is always fun and I approached each portfolio as if it contained private worlds waiting to be explored. As I clicked through each set of images and read the accompanying statements I was, to varying degrees, provoked, seduced, informed and entertained. As this large collection of images illustrates, the photographic language is alive and well carried on by each new generation of artists, each one contributing their voice to the evolving landscape of visual expression.

Selected Photographers:

Levente Hegedus

Selector's Comment: Levente's exploration of his home country of Hungary is filled with a quiet tension. Everyday moments are charged with the weight of history and a tinge of sadness. I hope to see the transcribed narratives from the people in his portraits as they will only make this work stronger.

Jack Hughes

Selector's Comment: A heartfelt documentation of a long journey home this project is both intimate and isolated. Making such a long pilgrimage leaves ample room for reflection and introspection and these spare landscapes are evidence of both.

Svetlana Pavlenko

Selector's Comment: Ghosts of the past seem to haunt Svetlana's photographs with a high-key silver sheen. Exploring both memories of a homeland as well as her mother, Svetlana allows for a potent ambiguity in some images while others feature a lone suitcase filled with the loneliness of loss.

Inés Goméz Fuentes

Selector's Comment: The body as landscape is the central subject in this set of images. A human form struggles to emerge from the ground which constantly seeks to reclaim it. In some images the slight tonal contrast of a lone figure is the only clue that the image, and the world, contains more than the remains of the past.

Lucy O'Loughlin

Selector's Comment: This body of work seems to contain evidence of mystic rituals as it conjures the 'wisdom of the Celts'. Upon repeated viewings one wonders whether the act of looking at the images alone could cast some sort of ancient spell. While it may be unclear exactly what is happening these images manage to convey a potent transportive power.

Mariam Sorour

Selector's Comment: In this work Mariam creates worlds within worlds where scale and subject tease the viewer with a sense of foundational form. With a seductive use of color and internal framing these beguiling images manage to reference physics, myth and human endeavor all at once.

Selection by Raquel Villar-Pérez ▸
Academic, Curator & Writer

Selection by Siân Addicott  ▸
Director, Ffotogallery Wales

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