LANDINGS: 2018
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AT FALMOUTH FLEXIBLE
Welcome to Landings 2018 For a second year, Falmouth University provides the virtual base for exhibitions to travel and be seen across the world. Each unique exhibition ‘packet’ contains images and installations created by students and staff of the Falmouth Flexible MA Photography course. This showcase shows single images from each exhibition ‘packet’. They are accompanied by the photographers’ own words describing the focus of their work and presented according to their conceptual alignment with one of three themes.
Rachel Akerman, Packet Ship, 2016
Just as the postal ships of old carried messages, ‘packets’, around the world, Landings 2018 does similar in pictorial form. While past practices led to discovery and trade todays methods focus on advancement, sharing, inspiration and equally, discovery. In both, diversity is a strength, but in creative endeavours stories, concepts and informed practices emerge and form, develop, mature, and explain. Falmouth University links such creatives, a world encompassing diversity, with a common interest — photography.
Expressions of Consequence: Documenting, describing or raising awareness of a subject linking or suggesting past, present or anticipated changes or outcomes. Narrating Identity: Exploration, singular or in combination, of self, of place or of others, often involving some transitional element such as time. Elements of Abstraction: Offering an alternative view or perspective, an exploration of perceived reality which can, but not exclusively, include manipulation of process and printing and elements of experimentation. It is with great pleasure that we present this work to you. Andrew Barrow, Sarah Newton, Anthony Prothero Exhibition Designers August 2018 WWW.LANDINGS.SPACE
Alan Harris, Carmarthen, Wales “Investigating ‘Hiraeth’ (untranslatable) - a longing for a place, person or time.”
Narrating Identity
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Alexandra Prescott, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK “I illustrate creature / human connections including how human actions shape the environment for creatures.�
Expressions of Consequence
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Alison Price, Gloucestershire, UK “A personal journey to photograph and reflect on my experience of The Road to Elgol.�
Narrating Identity
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Amos Rabbani, Berkshire, UK “The Chronic G-Had” is pensive, melancholically stimulating pathos for an invisible and marginalised people.”
Elements of Abstraction
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Andrew Barrow, Oxfordshire, UK “A cyanotype project enfolding found images with a contemporary abstract approach.”
Elements of Abstraction
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Anthony Prothero, London, UK “An investigation into the relationship between photography and memory, explored through personal family narrative.�
Narrating Identity
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Ashley Rose, Sutherland, Scotland “Shifting Sands: The Changing Face of Coul Links and its Inhabitants.”
Expressions of Consequence
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Bistra Stoimenova, Sofia, Bulgaria “Beyond the Postcard - showing the fate of beautiful abandoned buildings across the Balkans.�
Expressions of Consequence
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Cemre Yesil, Istanbul, Turkey “Pseudowhorl meditates on the nature of separation and coming together through a botanical observation.�
Elements of Abstraction
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Charlotte Eades-Willis, Lincolnshire, UK “An exploration of migration utilising natural objects and themes, whilst combating image fatigue.�
Expressions of Consequence
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Dayana S Marconi, Rome, Italy “[I’ma:.go:] is the short documentary introducing the two-year project “I can hear you now.”
Narrating Identity
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Dr Stanislav Shmelev, Oxfordshire, UK “ECOSYSTEMS is a project depicting the nature’s complexity, diversity and contribution to humanity.”
Expressions of Consequence
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Ella Jade, Warwickshire , UK “An investigation into life in a small town in rural England during 2018.�
Narrating Identity
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Gail Timms, Lincolnshire, UK “A portrait reborn inspired by the masters. Merge historical and present with what consequence?�
Expressions of Consequence
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Gary McLeod, Tokyo, Japan “Following a three-year-old’s engagement in space, place, time and picture making.”
Narrating Identity
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Gem Toes-Crichton, Oxford, UK “Nephrectomy: a mindful approach to my recovery.”
Narrating Identity
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Graham land, London, UK “A photographic illustration of a number of distinctive Croydon shops and their proprietor(s).�
Narrating Identity
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Isabella Campbell, Pembrokeshire, Wales “Exploring sense of place and identity through the landscape that embodies a spiritual nature.�
Narrating Identity
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Jesse Alexander, Somerset, UK “Found images exploring place, ‘nature’, and the curation of digital identities.”
Narrating Identity
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Jo Sutherst, Gloucestershire, UK “Self-portraiture exploring the ways in which social media affects how we present ourselves online.�
Narrating Identity
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Joanna Salomon, London, UK “Exploring emotional and personal ties with place through encounters with light and shadows.�
Narrating Identity
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Julia Rettenmaier, Ellwangen, Germany “Nature in comparison to human influences to show how meaningful or insignificant humanity is towards nature.�
Elements of Abstraction
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Kevin Mallan, Malta “Amalgam of experimental constructs that challenge own working methods and question current socio-economic practices.�
Expressions of Consequence
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Kirsty Logan, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK “Exploring whether death is really the end or simply a transformation using macro photography.�
Elements of Abstraction
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Megan Ringrose, Oxfordshire,UK “The work is minimalist and embraces nature’s economic shape optimisation.”
Elements of Abstraction
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Michelle Sank, Devon, UK “Insula” addresses the social and cultural diversity within the uniqueness of Channel Islands life.”
Narrating Identity
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Mick Yates, Wiltshire, UK “Negative traces of the Khmer Rouge Genocide, ever-present reminders of personal tragedies.�
Expressions of Consequence
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Najm Clayton, Birmingham, UK “Can You See The Real Me? Documenting the alter egos of the Cosplay community.�
Narrating Identity
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Philip Morris, Staffordshire, UK “Visually describing the diaries of an anorexic, Jo-Ana provides one girl’s account of recovery.”
Narrating Identity
61
Richard Moore, Lincolnshire, UK “The aim of this project is to explore visual emotion through addiction to technology.”
Expressions of Consequence
63
Sarah Newton, Devon, UK “Beach debris presented in forms that invite exploration and self reflection.�
Expressions of Consequence
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Sarah Smith, Cumbria, UK “Exploring travel, tourism, time, place and identity and experimenting with multi layered images.�
Narrating Identity
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Simon Johnsen, North Lincolnshire, UK “A study of the dominance, echo and discordance of structure within a scene.�
Elements of Abstraction
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Teresa Williams, Northamptonshire, UK “Exploring and reconstructing an anonymous life using narrative imagery within appropriated photographs as stimuli.�
Narrating Identity
71
Wing-Lun Blase Cheung, Hong Kong “Homelessness in HongKong creating street-sleepers, McRefugees; and drug addicts as street sleepers.”
Expressions of Consequence
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Yasmin Crawford, Devon, UK “Exploring tension between illness and the surreal, personal, poetic, abstract.�
Elements of Abstraction
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Libby Nightingale, Blackpool, UK “Reclaiming fairy tales: a modern take on Little Red Riding Hood.”
Expressions of Consequence
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Expressions of Consequence Libby Nightingale: Gail Timms: Alexandra Prescott: Stanislav Shmelev: Sarah Newton: Charlotte Eades- Willis: Mick Yates: Ashley Rose: Richard Moore: Wing Lun Cheung: Kevin Mallan: Bistra Stoimenova: Elements of Abstraction Andrew Barrow: Kirsty Logan: Yasmin Crawford: Cemre Yesil: Simon Johnsen: Amos Rabbani: Julia Rettenmaier: Megan Ringrose
Falmouth Packet Ship, 1820’s, Royal Mail Heritage: Transport Series 2016 Š Stamp Design Royal Mail Group Ltd (2016)
Narrating Identity Dayana Sharon Marconi: Teresa Williams: Jo Sutherst: Alison Price: Jesse Alexander: Ella Jade: Michelle Sank: Philip Morris: Joanna Salomon: Isabella Campbell: Najm Clayton: Alan Harris: Gem Toes-Crichton: Graham Land: Sarah Smith: Anthony Prothero: All images copyrighted by owner
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Exhibition Designers: Anthony Prothero Sarah Newton Andrew Barrow Packet Ship Illustration: Rachel Akerman, Packet Ship, 2016 Falmouth Packet Ship 1820’s Stamp: Royal Mail Group Ltd (2016) Exhibition Colour Palette: Inspired by Wes Anderson “Colors”