Maddie Page Chloe Martin Shayla Glover Charis Sinclair Joss Beeley Adele Spicer Beth Munck Amy Johnson Iss. 4
Becky Le Corre Petar Petrov Beth Barlow Shannon Osborne Emma Anslow Mat Scott Gen Rodrigues Alisha Tarrant 2017
Editors: Evie Mundy & Luke Shears Deputy Editors: Alex Currie, Alice Riko Hawes, Alice Saffron Worby, Bethney Janson, Hannah Stockem, Immy Murphy, Izzy Prior, Jamie Marshall, Jess Glendenning, Juanrie Strydom, Keziah McEwen, Kirstie Wilkinson, Luke Applin & Tracey Cortes-Arias Creative Director: Nathan Downing Deputy Creative Directors: Matt Goring & Per Ivar Olsen Accounts Manager: Mandy Lee-Jandrell Founders: Nisha Haq, Joe Rose & Matthew Angell Published Annually Printed by Belmont Press Funded by BA (Hons) Photography at Southampton Solent University ©2017 Penta Prism. Content may not be reproduced or copied without permission. Each photographer, designer and writer retains their own copyright. Produced by the above listed Editors and Creative Directors on the BA (Hons) Photography programme at Southampton Solent University. The views expressed in the magazine are the contributors’ own and as such the University and its staff cannot be held responsible. Cover images: ©Amy Johnson, 2017.
Issue 4 2017
The main focus of this year’s issue of Penta Prism is to showcase the vast variety of talent and ingenuity in all three years of the BA Photography course. The fourth issue explores more of the conceptual and experimental realms of photography as well as traditional themes, to show the broad scale of possibilities on the course. We hope this magazine will help readers to consider the myriad of possibilities that can come from the photographic medium. This issue would not have been accomplished without the immense efforts of the Penta Prism team, a group of third years who took the time to embrace this project alongside their final semester units. It has been a test of all the contributor’s skills as artists, but we believe that the level of output and dedication from the team has been immeasurable. Creating this magazine has been a worthwhile experience as part of our final year at Solent, and it is now something we are all confident in taking forward beyond our degree. Any funds raised from this publication will go towards funding our final degree show in London, so thank you to all our readers for your contribution. The Penta Prism team would like to thank all the students who submitted work this year. The standard was very high and made the editing process extremely challenging. Finally, we would like to take the opportunity to thank Mandy Lee-Jandrell and all the tutors for their amazing help and support during this project and throughout our time on the course. It has been a pleasure to be part of the Penta Prism legacy and a joy to see how far it has come as a publication, I look forward to seeing what the future will hold for the magazine and its artists. Evie Mundy & Luke Shears Editors
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Maddie Page Human Traces 2016
Within this photographic series, Page documents human traces within nature. Living in the New Forest, she includes the remnants of human intervention: settlements, abandoned objects and structures, and the use of natural resources. Page looks to portray the beauty of the landscape whilst focusing on the hidden areas and the stories within it’s charm. By engaging with the photographs, Page illustrates the sinister undertone that is often behind such beauty, due to man-made deconstruction.
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Chloe Martin Re-Visited 2016
This series acts as a tribute to Martin’s late grandfather, who throughout his younger years documented his life in the area in which his whole family grew up. By revisiting the same locations, she re-photographs her grandfather’s images, contrasting past and present. The areas subsequently looked abandoned, the people are no longer there, yet, the photographs are full with memories for Martin and her family.
Shayla Glover Pattern 2016
Through her photographs, Glover investigates ideas of architectural surface, pattern and texture. Interested in the abstraction of the architectural surface, she uses a minimalist approach to the composition in order to highlight the finer details. By looking at well-known buildings within Southampton, Glover wanted to focus on the materiality of the architecture and the superficial detailing that is often overlooked when considered as a whole.
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Charis Sinclair Tower Block 2016
Sinclair explores the representation of modernist architecture, drawing ideas and methods from the New Topographics movement. By documenting structures using deadpan techniques, she creates an indirect response to spaces. Wanting to investigate imperfections within architecture, Sinclair created contrast between the symmetry of buildings and the reality of their flaws. This idea was the driving force behind her extension of the visual lines within the structures, allowing an investigation of perspective and pattern.
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Joss Beeley Untitled 2016
Beeley’s series of portraits are created with the sole purpose of presenting raw emotion. In turn, the portraits allow us a varied speculation on the narrative within. The images aim in abling personal connections with the subjects, something of which we instinctively narrate. Using digital photography and particular flash techniques Beeley presents an organic depiction of emotion, particularly emphasised by the lack of any prior personal relation.
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Adele Spicer Même Pas Peur 2015
These images are taken in response to the rise of Islamophobia in France following the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Spicer looks to present Islam as a peaceful religion, one to be proud of. Photographing a friend who grew up in France and another who is a practicing Muslim, she spoke at length to the models about the events and how they felt in response. The Muslim model in particular, spoke of the dramatic rise in Islamophobia that her family has experienced following terrorist attacks in the name of Islam. Spicer asks them to convey their feelings and thoughts through expression and body language. Following the President Donald Trump’s recent ‘Muslim Ban’, Spicer feels this image represents the need to come together and to stand in solidarity against discrimination and segregation.
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Beth Munck The Old Fort 2016
Munck’s work explores the theme of urban decay, engaging with ideas of ruination and entropy. Located in an old fort, which was once a functioning building, she examines the decomposition of the urban environment. Munck shows that the entropic cycle of disorder can be beautiful, a sight which people don’t ordinarily see. By using colour to reinforce the ruin aesthetic, she highlights moss and rust within the compositions, emphasising the state of disorder.
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Amy Johnson Plastic Pollution 2017
Through darkroom experimentation, Johnson explores the human reliance on modern technology and the subsequent deterioration of the oceanic ecosystem. Stunned by scientific fact and predictions surrounding global warming, Johnson creates photographs that address the guilt of society. By printing photographs of fish onto acetate, she overlays these ‘fish’ onto plastic bottles creating a unique image. The combination of techniques and materials mirror the complicated ecosystem that Johnson is trying to save.
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Becky Le Corre Kawarau River 2016
Inspired by the Maori legend of ‘Matau’ in the Kawarau River of Queenstown, New Zealand; this project explores the resonance of specific places in our memories. Half of Le Corre’s family lives in New Zealand resulting in the loss of regular contact. However, after years without seeing each other, the whole family took a trip to New Zealand. The meaningful memory of the trip to her family is mirrored in the myth of the tide rising and falling in the river, as ‘Matau’ sleeps at the bottom, his breathing lungs creating the tide. Capturing the experience, the photograph awakens fond memories for Le Corre.
Petar Petrov Red Room 2016
Through this project, Petrov recreates some of his most intimate memories using people from his life: family members, ex-partners and friends. Rather than recreating the memories exactly, he looks to portray how his mind twists events over time and are forgotten. By using a dominant red and green, Petrov signifies the passion and fear he felt during the production of the images. The ‘Red Room’ of the project refers to the dark room in which they were shot, as well as the part of his mind where good and bad memories are twisted, altered by his emotions.
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Beth Barlow
A Single Light Source 2016 This series explores the use of a single light source and the creation of negative space. Throughout the project, Barlow focuses on areas from her home town and childhood haunts. Knowing them well, she chose to capture the areas at dusk to explore the threat of the approaching darkness, to be outside of her comfort zone and the safety of daytime. These rules encourage Barlow to look at negative space in relation to emotion, creating a juxtaposition between light and dark and safety and danger.
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Shannon Osborne
Coloured Light Experiments 2016 Within this series, Osborne experiments how she can leave a trace within the darkness. Through the use of photography Osborne is able to capture traces that cannot be seen by the naked eye and how the results can be unexpecting. By exploring the manipulation of light, she creates elements that are not visible in reality and focuses on how photography can maintain what is not perceivable.
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Emma Anslow
Torbay Berkeley Hotel 2016 Through cut and paste tecniques, Anslow’s work surrounds the aesthetics of the abandoned. Repeatedly drawn to the Torbay Berkeley Hotel; a place for Anslow that combines childhood memories and nostalgic recollections of breaking in with her friends. Re-visiting this location, Anslow aims to encapsulate the beauty of the abandoned using the manipulations of collage. This emphasises the fact that the hotel is now redundant, forgotten and more importantly, that it will continue to deteriorate.
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Mat Scott
Skateboarding 2016 Scott explores the connotations of skateboarding within society. Often perceived as a rebellious, anti-social activity, he looks to challenge this preconception by documenting his local skate scene. Being a skater himself, Scott wants to illustrate the culture of the community where there are no rules, racism or judgement and anyone, of any age, can be part of their culture. By challenging the public stigmatism attached to the sport, he looks to show that an individual doesn’t have to be antisocial or rebellious to take part.
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Gen Rodrigues
A Lot of Time, Little Money 2016 Rodrigues uses pre-existing familial connections and friendships to document people within a small community in Portugal. Based in a rural area, her subjects rely on manual skills and produce to live using the Fairtrade scheme to survive. Taking time to get to know her subjects and their stories, Rodrigues portrays the open-minded individuals in a photojournalistic style, drawing inspiration from Walker Evans’ and Dorothea Lange’s Farm Security Administration series.
Alisha Tarrant Trees 2016
This body of work is based in the New Forest, Hampshire. The project looks into nature as a way of relating to Tarrant’s personal life. Over the course of the project, Tarrant traveled home to tend to the needs of her grandfather recovering from cancer and her mother undergoing an operation. Subconsciously Tarrant began taking images of dead or withered trees to express her feelings of time passing and loss of faith. Over the course of the images, Tarrant’s personal situation improved and the progression is mirrored through the re-awakening of the trees.
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CONTACT DIRECTORY PHOTOGRAPHERS Adele Spicer
Charis Sinclair
Maddie Page
aspicerphotography@gmail.com @adelespicerphotography
charissinclairphotography@yahoo.com www.charissinclairphotography.co.uk
madeleine.page@btinternet.com
Alisha Tarrant
Chloe Martin
alishatarrant@hotmail.co.uk @alishatarrantphotography
martin.chloe1997@outlook.com @chloemartin__photography
matscott98@hotmail.co.uk @mat__scott98.
Amy Johnson
Emma Anslow
amayjohnson8@gmail.com @behindthelittlecamera
emmaanslow19@hotmail.com @emmarosephotos3
Becky Le Corre
Gen Rodrigues
beccalecorre@hotmail.co.uk
genevive100@hotmail.co.uk @thruthislens
Shayla Glover
bethbarlowphotography@hotmail.com
Joss Beeley
shaylalouphotography.weebly.com @shaylalouphotography
Beth Munck
joss.beeley@hotmail.co.uk @jossbeeley_photography
Beth Barlow
Mat Scott
Petar Petrov petarppetrov96@gmail.com @pepe__pic
Shannon Osborne shan.osborne@yahoo.co.uk
beth.munch@hotmail.co.uk @beth.munch.photography
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Izzy Prior
Luke Applin
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Jamie Marshall
Luke Shears
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Alice Saffron Worby
Jess Glendenning
Matt Goring
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Juanrie Strydom
Nathan Downing
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Keziah McEwen
Per Ivar Olsen
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piophotono@gmail.com @piophoto
Kirstie Wilkinson
Tracey Cortes-Arias
irstie999@hotmail.com @kirstiephotography
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