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BA PHOTOGRAPHY | GRADUATES 2022 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER


BA PHOTOGRAPHY | GRADUATES 2022 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER


DOUBLE SPREA

GYORGY ENGLERT


AD IF POSSIBLE


CONGRATULATIONS

What is it to study photography in an unpredictable world in which global crises is captured, shared and deleted within moments? Our BA Photography course aims to equip our graduates with the language, skills and creativity to address contemporary issues, personal concerns and their understanding of the world. For today’s graduates, photography operates through a host of different medias and contexts; from the framed image fixed to the gallery wall to social medias inherent transience. Photography stands out as an arbiter of information, of truth and untruth, of art and commerce. In a world full of images, how can the photographers and image makers of tomorrow confront the questions of today? This catalogue highlights their imagination, creativity and resilience in addressing the concerns of this generation of photography graduates. The diversity and richness of the bodies of work highlight the desire to positively respond to changing circumstances. The search for a responsible practice is enacted through the exploration of sustainable possibilities in photography and image making. These photographers turn to natural materials to reinvent, recycle and reuse everyday materials, while others


reach to the past to recapture innocence through the material possibilities of play to escape the overwhelming concerns of adult life. Some look towards the possibilities of technology to counter the effects of the climate crisis or focus on the beauty and wonder found in the ordering of the natural world. Love, desire and the complications of romantic and familial relationships are celebrated, while feelings of grief and loss are confronted. Some use their photography to explore identities and honour the resilience and determination of their families and communities. The work produced here is a testament to their determination and ambition, their diverse approaches are pulled together by a common sense of purpose; to explore, understand and communicate through their photography, to invite you to look, to feel and to share. This cohort will join an international community of artists, photographers, curators, editors, technicians and teachers. The whole staff team congratulate them on their fantastic work and wish them all the best for the future. Rachel Cunningham & Andre Pinkowski


GRADUATES 2022 AMBER PINKERTON AMEESHA JEYAVICKRAMAN ANGELA CROSTI ASTRID ØRTING UBAGHS BETH THEOBALD BRONAGH MAY O’CONNOR DAJEONG HAN DENAY LONG ELLIE MCDONOGH ELISA GASHI EMANUELA VASILEVSKA GEORGIE RINGROSE GYORGY ENGLERT INKEN OADES


JACQUELINE MULLVANEY KATERINA CACIKOVA KYRA SULLIVAN LESLEY CATTERALL-PRICE LISA HANES LUCY WHITELEY MARTYNA BRZANA MELISSA CHAVEZ-RUIZ RAYMOND BIRD RUIZHE HONG SAMUEL WESTLAND SOPHIE ALLEN TANYA HENNESSEY TESSA BROWNE


BA (HONS) PHOTOGRAPHY

The BA (Hons) Photography course is the most recent manifestation of a long established course with an excellent reputation in this country and abroad for its academic and practical teaching. This reputation is reflected in high application rates, a distinguished record of graduate employment in the industries it serves, and in the publication, production and teaching profile of its staff and graduates. The course is renowned for its distinctive philosophy which aims to provide a holistic photographic education. It combines high levels of technical and visual photographic skills with excellent visual literacy and a critical awareness of visual culture alongside solid professional practice. Project based modules are designed to equip students with the techniques and skills of a variety of digital and analogue photographic media including moving images. Alongside this, modules with written outcomes reflect on the history and criticism of photography, drawing on a number of related fields including art history, media and cultural theory, and sociology. We celebrate a continual emphasis on personal and professional development throughout the course.


The Photography BA Honours will enable students to develop their creative production skills across a range of photographic and lens-based media, to establish a critically engaged and self-reflective creative practice. It will equip each student with the skills to adapt to creative opportunities, participate in contemporary cultural debates, and increase their awareness of the political, ethical and aesthetic implications of their work. Students will learn to form independent, informed opinions of their own work and that of others. Many of our graduates go on to work as photographers and photographic artists, but equally they pursue a range of careers within the broader photographic and creative sectors, as designers, archivists, historians, magazine editors, museum and gallery curators, picture editors and researchers, teachers, and writers. Many also go on to postgraduate study.


MARTYNA BRZANA


AMBER PINKERTON

Hard Food

Hard Food is both a photographic artwork and immersive, virtual video installation. It excavates and focuses on my personal journey after migrating to England over the past five years. The project explores personal reflections, memories and fluctuations. Diverging from the term’s typical definition in Caribbean society as ‘any starchy agricultural product used as food’, the title Hard Food takes on a more metaphorical function. It signifies thoughts or realisations that are hard to swallow or confront. The work operates as a self-confessional and diaristic work. Using self-dialogue, the project unravels different stems and sentiments of solitude — including loneliness (crave for intimacy/love), anxiety, detachment, darkness, limbo, and oneness. The immersive experience (video) imitates sitting in the brain — where we can sit and observe one’s thoughts, visuals and feelings that pass, while the photographic works explore these fluctuations of positive and negative feelings through movement.

Email: amber@amberpinkerton.com Instagram: @ambercashmere Website: www.amberpinkerton.com


AMEESHA JEYAVICKRAMAN

See You Soon

See You Soon brings the motions and emotions of depression, loss and heartbreak in a diaristic manner through a classic photo book. My experience with depression and anxiety is something I have been ashamed to talk about. One of the most highly recommended remedies for dealing with my mental health issues was to keep a journal and do something I love, a seemingly simple thing to do for most but something I found mentally draining. Although, I was adamant that I could recover on my own and did not need to write down my feelings, I quickly realised how fast my mental health was slipping. In showing my personal journey over the last year, juggling issues with relationships, familial matters and love, I found slight peace in photography. The book includes three elements: my inside world and emotions depicted through self-portraits, my outside world during the turbulence with simple photographs taken day to day on my iPhone and finally, the communicative aspects of the journey where personal text messages from the past and notifications from a self help app are included. Instagram: ameeshajeyam


ANGELA CROSTI

Neither Here, Nor There, 2022

Recent events have affected my sense of belonging to this country where I have felt stranded and too far apart from my culture, its values and its traditions. This state of mind combines with a broader detachment from a world that seems to carry with it pervasive indeterminacy and uncertainty. This project responds as a visual diary to these feelings. Images combine with text and poetry in a flow of personal emotions and thoughts recorded in my home country, Italy, and in England, where I have settled with my family. It describes what it feels like to be neither here nor there, where familiar and unfamiliar places metaphorically represent mine and my children’s thoughts in a process of observation, of acceptance, and reconciliation with the complexity of our living. Email: angela.crosti.londra@gmail.com Instagram: @angelacrosti_photography


ASTRID ØRTING UBAGHS

The Shape of Trauma

It is difficult to get a perspective of something intangible, but sometimes perspective is what is needed to fully understand. Through this project I have photographed women who have experienced trauma based on their sex. Female. The portraits are executed through a combination of portraiture and still lifes of important objects connected to the time of the events. Through the process of making these photographs I have come to see not only these women, but myself, through a shared experience. Email: astridubaghs@yahoo.dk Instagram: @astridubaghsphotography


BETH THEOBALD

A Viable Loop In this unpredictable and changing world, we are all urged to take action in the face of climate change. But how can we do so when eco-anxiety permeates our consumerist culture? Large corporations and societal norms endlessly urge the populace to consume with little concern for the consequences. This fast-paced development overproduces and swiftly obsoletes commodities, filling landfills on the way. Nothing is built to last but rather, to fuel the throwaway society we have created. Our current relationship with the environment is strained and unbalanced. This photographic series depicts the interactions between our consumerist society and the environmental damage it has caused. It explores the ways that we limit and control our world through the use of salvaged, damaged, and outdated consumer objects and flora propagated from my surroundings. In search of a more organic and sustainable method of printing photographs, this work delves further into our environmental impact and that of the photographic process. The images in this project are created from organic pigments, ecologically viable printing methods, paper recycling and moulding. All components of this work are handmade, and each cut-off, test print and research document has been recycled into new paper – a circular approach that demonstrates, on a small scale, that there are more viable ways to live. Email: beththeobald66@gmail.com Instagram: @beth.theobald.photos Website: beththeobald66.wixsite.com/beththeobald


BRONAGH MAY O’CONNOR

Life’s A Bitch, But You Survive Life’s A Bitch, But You Survive, is a memoir about my mum as she reflects on her journey with physical and mental health, ageing and life at 55. My project documents my mum in her most vulnerable moments. Intimate portraits show my mum’s scarring from life saving operations after her stroke in 2020; alongside close up images of my mum’s stomach bag which physically and mentally changed my mum but saved her life. My mum has four children, has been married and divorced, worked for the NHS as a midwife, owned her own care company for the elderly and has achieved so much in her 55 years of life. Documenting my mum at this stage in her life is so important to me. I know that my mum will not live forever, but she can through the life lessons she has passed on to her four children; to be brave and persevere. I am honoured to share my mum’s journey and document her as she continues to survive. This has been the most emotional and personal project I have created to date. Email: @bybronaghmay@gmail.com Instagram: @bronaghmay__


FIRST NAME LAST NAME

Title of Project

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DAJEONG HAN

The World You Lost

Joy and fun are at the heart of playing. Kids are emersed in various forms of playing that adapt and change as we learn, develop and grow. As adults, we slowly lose this expression of freedom and become tied to reality, distant from the innocence and pleasure of play. Freedom and creativity no longer suit our preoccupations and the simple joy of play is lost from our memories. Our lives become dreary and arduous as we obsess over the reality of adult lives. The World You Lost is an attempt to reconnect to childhood through the action of play, freeing the self from the everyday concerns of adulthood, to rediscover image making that is intuitive and impulsive, and re-immerse oneself in action rather than thought. Email: handajeonggg@gmail.com Instagram: @handajeongg Website:handajeong.cargo.site


DENAY LONG

Black and British

Growing up in the UK and being young, black and a woman, our voices tend to not be heard by society. The realisation of having to go through issues and conversations regarding race and sexism are just some of the things we must deal with in our lifetime. Representing power through the lens can show history and strength of how far we have come and all we have concurred, especially women. Finding our identity and exploring it is the question that will continuously get asked in the black community. These series of images are to capture new generations, friendship, power, strength and black culture. Here is the power of black culture, along with the past and future history it brings to the UK. Email: denaysllphotography@gmail.com Instagram: @den4y_photogr4phy


ELLIE MCDONOGH

Between Everything Else

Between Everything Else reflects on the ordinary moments many of us experience. Focusing on the details of daily life, this work documents the relationships we have with each other as well as our physical surroundings. These in-between moments are often overlooked and lost in more significant moments in our lives. Taking the form of a photobook, this body of work reflects on the unnoticed and fragmented occurrences that make up everyday existence. While this work documents my own experience, Between Everything Else will connect with others experiencing similar moments.

Email: elliemcdonogh@gmail.com Instagram: @ellie_mcdonogh


ELISA GASHI

Looking Forward, Whilst Looking Back My project is based on carrying memories. When I was younger I was in hit by a car and lost my memory. For a while there were things that I couldn’t remember. I would fall asleep everywhere and not be able to recall what I had done that day. I began to wonder if I could capture my memories, however when I went back to Albania I found that not much had changed. The things and places I had seen and the memories I had made were living on in the present, untouched. Email: E11.11@hotmail.com Instagram: @AstroAlbo


FIRST NAME LAST NAME

Title of Project

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EMANUELA VASILEVSKA

Red Moon

Red Moon refers to the experience of a menstrual cycle via staged self-portraits. It aims to eliminate its social stigma and normalise public discourse. Every cisgender women’s period is different, yet each person’s experience is filtered through social and cultural beliefs that influence how they perceive symptoms. Negative myths, misconceptions and misinformation regarding periods can be detrimental for many girls, women, and people who menstruate around the world. At the end of the day, it is Mother Nature - sharks will not attack you if you swim during your period, and food you touch while menstruating will not go bad faster. However, I refuse to feel weak for being unable to handle the agony that I experience monthly, so please allow me to get in my weird position on the bed or the floor, to find relief for my head, stomach, and back.

Email: vasilevskaphotography@gmail.com Instagram: @photosbymanu.uk


GEORGIE RINGROSE

Germination Georgie Ringrose is a experimental photographer and installation artist. Her most recent work focuses on using plant matter to create imagery. Her work is based on senses. A lot of the work Ringrose creates requires you as the viewer to touch, feel, or enter a work. “No longer should a viewer of art be kept behind a line, sight is just one of our five senses.” Germination is a selection of Chemigrams. They were made using hand-made plant based chemicals on light sensitive paper. Each Chemigram is completely unique. The concept of creating unique images that cannot be recreated is a theme that runs consistantly throughout my work. It is important to me that my work holds an element of suprise. The closest I get to control with my Chemigram work is the concious desicion I make when pouring my chemical onto the paper. Chemigrams are forever changing until you pause the life-cycle of the print. I enjoy the never ending aspect of Chemigrams and digitising them is the only way to stop them on their journey. I choose to pause the prints at specific times when the colours are most vibrant. Email: georgia1974@hotmail.co.uk Instagram: @georgie.ringrose


TESSA BROWNE


FIRST NAME LAST NAME

Title of Project

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GYORGY ENGLERT

Prologue to a Tango

From time to time, in my relationship(s), I come across situations that cause confusion in me. I find it frightening, sometimes amusing, or even both at the same time. A multitude of feelings emerge and I sense a dazzling mirror of my presumed or real mistakes. From a spectator, I immediately become a participant with an already written role to play out, regardless of my consent. I know, in some way, I have to address the call but whatever I will do, I will always remain an outsider. Email: englertgy@gmail.com Instagram: @egy.photography.hu Website: gyorgyenglert.myportfolio.com


INKEN OADES

Sanity in Boxing

Sanity in Boxing is a project based on my own experience of boxing and its effect on my mental health and well-being. I started boxing last summer, as a way of taking charge of my life and to rebuild attributes of myself that I felt had been lost, such as my confidence and sense of security. When speaking to other boxers, I found that many of them had a similar story to mine. I have become fascinated with the contradictions between a sport that is often described as violent and aggressive, but also allows people to have an outlet where they can find strength in vulnerability. In the series I have stayed away from the bloodied noses and black eyes to depict the tranquillity I feel when boxing. Email: inken.oades@gmail.com Instagram: @inkseyes


JACQUELINE MULLVANEY

South Norwood London’s Lake District This project was inspired by the lockdown of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, when everyone was encouraged to stay within their own environment. I discovered that I had just as many beauty spots on my doorstep within my urban surroundings, as could be found anywhere in the world …. I just needed to look. By looking at my hometown with fresh eyes, I was able to find a new love and respect for what I had at my fingertips. This series of landscape photographs focuses on the three lakes of South Norwood that are both beautiful and tranquil, and each serve a purpose to the community.

Email: jacquiemulvaney@gmail.com Instagram: @mulvaneyrose


KATARINA CACIKOVA

Growing Roots

Growing Roots is a visual representation of a journey of change. This series observes the organic patterns and rhythms of life through which humans and nature connect. This work depicts the period of the author’s life during which she grew personally and spiritually and explored her relationship to the Earth, herself and her heritage. Email: cacikovak@yahoo.sk Instagram: @avantgardna Website: avantgardna.myportfolio.com


KYRA SULLIVAN

Sacred Geometry

All life forms are created out of geometric codes, which is known as sacred geometry. My work explores the deep connection between the patterns that are rooted within every aspect in nature. This repetition of patterns can be seen even in diverse phenomenon, where two completely different things can have striking similarities. This leads me to believe that everything in this world has in fact been made by a creator. My aim for this project is to draw attention to these similarities and to encourage the viewer to notice them in their own surroundings. No matter which way the images are laid out, a connection between each one can be formed with another. Instagram: @ksullivan_photo Website: www.kyrasullivanphotography.com


LESLEY CATTERALL-PRICE

Breathe We cannot ignore the fact that we are in a climate crisis. The evidence of climate change is impacting our lives on a daily basis. The increasing levels of greenhouse gases are lowering the ratio of oxygen to nitrogen in our atmosphere, thinning the air we breathe. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are at their highest in human history. Our carbon budget is depleting quickly, we are in a race against time for our own survival. Given the opportunity, nature has the ability to redress the damage humanity has caused. The conversion of sunlight into energy by the process of photosynthesis evolved around 3.4 billion years ago; specialised photosynthetic cells within plant leaves trap and concentrate carbon dioxide. Oxygen is released into the atmosphere as a by-product of this process. Marine plants are the unsung heroes of this process. Seagrass stores carbon up to 35 times faster than a tropical rain forest. Seagrass meadows in Wales, Scotland and England are being restored to help absorb pollution, create healthy habitats for marine life and re-establish biodiversity to our coastlines. “To restore stability to our planet, we must restore biodiversity the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created.” Sir David Attenborough, 2020 Email: lesleypricephotography@gmail.com


LISA HANES

Shadows of Photography Shadows of Photography was printed using plants gathered from kitchen waste and sunlight. The plants facilitate naturally occurring light-sensitive abilities to produce photographic images. The imagery shows microscopic photographs of the materials that are typically used in photography, such as silver, gelatine and plastics. I printed the images on pages taken from second-hand copies of crucial writings on new materialism. This enabled me to produce work with a minimal impact on the environment, that incorporates contemporary approaches addressing our relationship to matter. New materialism encourages us to reconsider the materials we use and view them as collaborators rather than disposables. By assigning non-humans (matter) agency we encourage a more imaginative and resourceful engagement with it. In other words, new materialism renounces the classical binary of human (life) and non-human (matter), and it acknowledges that we ourselves are built of matter and that matter itself is an active agent, building and interfolding networks of humans and non-humans. Rejecting conventionally used materials is a form of boycott, not just from traditional photography, but also from the systems it is enmeshed to, such as capitalism. Inherent to the use of alternative processes is a reconsideration of what we understand as photography. Usually we understand photography as sharp, colourful, indexical images, consider perfect lighting conditions and a sharp focus. Using plantbased materials creates very different, wonderful, and unpredictable results. Nevertheless, it is photographic in its basic sense, as it is writing with light. Instagram: @lisadhns


LUCY WHITELEY

You Are What You Eat

You Are What You Eat explores our relationship with food. I believe it evokes personal and complex feelings, developing this project to challenge one’s own urges & desires while idealising with the processed or unprocessed. All questioning an individual’s cultured habits which can be left for open interpretation. This idea of the digestive system through the breakdown of food also becomes apparent. Website: www.clearwateroriginals.co.uk


MARTYNA BRZANA

How to be a Man

How to be a Man is a collection of self-portraits interpreting the “Top 10 Manliest Men in Movies”, through a list found in a YouTube video. These characters are presented using minimal and makeshift costumes on my female body. By acting and adjusting my body to the mannerisms of the characters, the project aims to highlight the characteristics and body language of masculinity by re-enacting ‘manly icons’. Using 35mm black and white film, the images reflect the style of 1970’s feminist art as a way of paying respect to this important era within feminism and making contextual reference to artists of the time. The photographs are intended to be amusing, while also underlining some deeper issues surrounding masculinity within Western culture. Email: mwbrzana@gmail.com Instagram: @martynabrzana Website: martynabrzana.com


MELISSA CHAVEZ RUIZ

Indigenous Beauty

She is one, yet at the same time all; her identity is what defines indigenous women collectively, that symbiotic relationship with Mother Earth. Her body morphs into the elements of her land because her identity is intimately tied to her ancestral territories. The series of images are reflecting the idea of indigenous beauty and our representation as the second generation defending the missing and murders of indigenous women in Latin America. The main objective in this project is to shine the light on these issues, making the second generation of Latino native heritage stick up for what we stand for and also learn more about the native life. I made sure to portrait latin people who have experienced any type of heritage and to be able to feel that connection to support their rights in being able to live a free native life.

Instagram: @photographybymcr


ANGELA CROSTI


RAYMOND BIRD

Paris and Politicaly Influenced Constructed Images This work covers the power of the constructed image. How the photographer has the power to take a photograph of an event or situation and manipulate it to represent whatever is needed by governments or media. One such undisputed image released by the American security forces was the image of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle. The image was released immediately after the assassination of President John F Kennedy to manipulate the public into believing Oswald was a Russian spy and the shooter. Facebook: Raymond.Bird Website: www.raybirdphotographer.com


RUIZHE HONG

So Close When You Look Away So Close When You Look Away explores the intricate emotions one might experience in a romantic relationship inspired by the book A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes. In this project, I recreated the fragmented moments within a relationship that showcase the intricate nature of love. Love might be seemingly positive and joyful yet painful and intractable at the same time. Relationship could be overwhelming, one might find himself/herself constantly lives in the complication of supposing oneself, simultaneously being loved and abandoned. Sometimes, even though a couple is physically close, their souls could be alienated. One always waits for the other, and the other never waits. Love is not merely a single emotion but an intricate combination of both positive and negative feelings. Thus, love is like a pendulum that swings between pleasure and pain. “So far away when you look at me, so close when you look at the clouds”. Gu Cheng Email: royhongmedia@gmail.com Instagram: @rzhee Website: rzhee.cargo.site


SAMUEL WESTLAND

The Levels

This series of images aims to explore our connection with space and nature through the study of a unique landscape, the Somerset Levels. This project observes the relationships we have with nature, at a time when it has never been more paramount. As the project unfolded it became clear that what was being documented within this series was a microcosm. A location which encapsulates our connection with nature, an interesting partnership in which we take away and then give back.

Email: samuelwestland@gmail.com Instagram: @samuel_westland


SOPHIE ALLEN

Rise: Freedom to Assemble The right to protest in the UK is under threat. With the crime and policing bill 2022 going through parliament at the time of writing, this series of photographs documents people speaking up for what they believe in at a particularly poignant moment in the history of assembly and protest. The bill considers restricting the volume, in decibels, of protests. However, protest is inherently a noisy act, and in the words of Anne Mclaughlin MP, “The louder they shout, the more we listen”. The majority of the protests photographed in this book took place throughout the coronavirus pandemic, when infection and social distancing – even going outside – were contentious and for some, anxiety-inducing issues. However, despite these fears and at times increased legal restrictions, people still took to the streets. Systemic racism, war crime and ecological threats did not just stop in the midst of a pandemic and neither did people’s will to fight for what is right.

Email: sophieallen_21@hotmail.co.uk Instagram: @sophie_allen_photography Website: www.sophieallenportfolio.com


TANYA HENNESSEY

Mortem

Confronting my fears … A psychological study of insect death, looking at the relationship with insects as a metaphorical reference to death and the dying body. It is through the fear of insects and dying I delve deeper into this subject by using a macro lens to study the species closer in realising that insects cannot harm you as well as death, which is a process we all share once. Death has a meaning and quality far beyond what we perceive, it is only when we look at death closer under the scrutiny of the lens, we can see a beauty which reaches deeper than words.

Instagram: @tanyaphotographyba Website: www.tanyagabriel-bird.com


TESSA BROWNE

Pillow Feathers and Dust

The objects that surround us become the fabric of our everyday environment. Alone, the naked eye is not capable of seeing the intricate details and complex structures that reside within them. Because of this, these elegant entities go unnoticed, and by consequence, unappreciated. Yet, from an elevated and magnified perspective, our understanding of the unseen landscape can be altered. This revelation serves as a reminder of how delicate and beautiful the backdrop of our lives can be, from the feathers in our pillow to the dust that circulates in the air. The invisible becomes visible. The insignificant given significance. The interconnectivity and shared complexity between all and everyday materials are demonstrated through this project.

Email: tessabrowne@hotmail.com Instagram: @____brownii


DAJEONG HAN


THANK YOU

Thank you to Bob Books for sponsoring the Bob Books Student Award 2022

Thank you to Bindi Vora for selecting the BA Photography Graduate Prize 2022 Special thanks to Tessa Browne, Angela Crosti, Lisa Hanes and Elizabeth Theobald Thank you to Travers Smith and Michael Boitier for the continued collaboration and supporting our graduates.


University of Westminster College of Design, Creative & Digital Industries Westminster School of Arts Watford Road Northwick Park Harrow HA1 3TP Instagram: westminphoto www.westminster.ac.uk COURSE LEADERS Rachel Cunningham r.cunningham@westminster.ac.uk Andre Pinkowski a.pinkowski@westminster.ac.uk


RUIZHE HONG


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