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Judith Ferrandiz
Absurd Society
It is about the absurdity in our society and how far we are getting away from nature. We are in the communication era but we are getting every time more isolated from each other, we live in our human bubble and nothing else matters.
This image express me point of view about society and expose what I consider to be a solution for a better future, represented by the little girl. The earth is our home we should respect it.
Ken Street
Photography has the ability to focus the viewers attention on one moment of time; taking influence from cinema these images explore the idea of freezing unfolding action at moments of high emotion, allowing deeper reflection upon what is happening within the scene. Utilising cinematic techniques for building tension and suspense this series invites the viewer to create their own.
Jessica Starns
Common Kids
This is a continuation of a project called 'The Commoners' that I started last year. It is documenting an area that I moved to when I was 13 years old. This project is centering on the children that live around the common. Predominately my childhood was spent in a town with no real space to explore.
My younger sister is now 6 years old and has grown up playing around the common. She has had a totally different childhood to mine. I asked my sister why she thought living around the common was better than living in the city, her answer was that she has the common and the fields to play in and the kids in the city only have gardens.
In the photographs I try to show a child's imagination at play as well documenting a place.
Gemma Hall
I am producing a series of portraits running along the theme of role reversal.
Taking 4-5 key characters of varying age, gender and profession, and constructing the opposite character to whom they really are.
Amongst them is a Vogue stylist, a hardened criminal, and even myself, as shown below.
I am aiming for very strong, slick black and white images, with just a hint of the ridiculous, as the flip side to some of these character is nothing short of comical.
Bruce Nye
One of the most interesting and fundamental ideas that I have been introduced to during the time I have spent studying is that of the unreliability of the information that the photographic image is thought to convey, the whole area of truth (or not) in photography. Photographs are still generally accepted to be windows looking out on reality, used as documentary evidence of how things are in the real world. On a very basic level this fact is exploited to construct an image to influence the viewer in one way or another, and I wanted to examine this process in the images that I produced for this project.
The starting point I took was the landscape genre, the beautiful scene, usually of a reasonably large format, which shouts to the viewer authoritative declarations of truth and beauty. The scenes in the images I took are of locations surrounding Brighton, not the usual tourist sites that the town is famous for, but views where the interaction of culture with the environment can be seen.
The large digital images obtained were then resized to a small format and degraded by conversion to a low-resolution digital format to produce a degree of pixellation, to make apparent the basic nature of a digital image. (An effect that this degrading process has is that from beyond a small distance the pixellation is not immediately noticeable, and the viewer is enticed in further to examine the splendid scene that is contained in the image; as distance decreases between the viewer and the image the deterioration becomes apparent and the only truth reached is that of the image's underlying structure).
These small degraded images, quite the opposite of the traditional landscape image, were then placed centrally within a large white background. To further play with the notion of truth definitions of adjectives that are used in the context of landscape imagery have been placed on the images, the selected words defined being Beautiful, Sublime, Picturesque and Magnificent; fading this text is a reference to how unconsciously and subliminally information can be conveyed through a photographic image.
Jade Madgwick
Fun, funky portraits, quirky and a bit different. I want to create images people will notice and talk about, either because they have not seen people like this presented in a commercial sense, or because they are striking, eye popping and stick in peoples minds as something different, alternative to the normal fashion/portraiture we are all bombarded with.
Brian Goldsmith
Hinterland
This is a photo montage with elements of Vanitas. This image comprises of twenty eight photographs.
All of the images have meaning and the statement I am making is about power.
For more images or information please click on the image or, visit; www.northlainepackshot.co.uk
Jessica Starns
Common Kids
This is a continuation of a project called 'The Commoners' that I started last year. It is documenting an area that I moved to when I was 13 years old. This project is centering on the children that live around the common.
Predominately my childhood was spent in a town with no real space to explore.My younger sister is now 6 years old and has grown up playing around the common.
She has had a totally different childhood to mine. I asked my sister why she thought living around the common was better than living in the city, her answer was that she has the common and the fields to play in and the kids in the city only have gardens. In the photographs I try to show a child's imagination at play as well documenting a place.
Kerry Rice
After exploring the effects the camera had upon Academic art during the 19th Century, I came to discover a few paintings based around the study of Orientalism. Originally I wanted to recreate these images exactly, however after researching the study of Orientalism and our what Orientalism relates to in our modern culture, I decided to recreate the images based on our modern view of Orientalism; the stereotyping of Islam. I then decided to recreate the images using materials in the style of Islamic art, I also applied henna to her hands and feet to further emphasize the Islamic connection.
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