BA PHOTOGRAPHY | GRADUATES 2021 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
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BA PHOTOGRAPHY | GRADUATES 2021 UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
MISAKI SHIMIZU
CONGRATULATIONS
As photographers, we often set out to explore and make sense of the world, its people, places and objects. What then can be photographed, explored or created, when the world closes down around us and we retreat into our homes? The work presented here stands as a testament to the resilience and creativity of this year’s cohort. After fifteen months of interruption, uncertainty and restrictions, these graduating students have managed to produce extraordinary work under extraordinary circumstances. This catalogue highlights their energy, creativity and ingenuity. We can see in these rich and varied bodies of work that students grappled with the circumstances with imagination and curiosity; some chose to reflect upon memories of the past, others on relationships drawing to a close or unfolding in the present. Some explored and questioned identities and society. Some turned to the new world of technology and our relationship with virtual worlds and social media, while others sought the tangibility
of photographic production, searching for a palpable relationship to photography’s material qualities to explore their worlds and relationships. All within a period of time in which the idea of touch has become synonymous with illness. Feelings of desire, longing, anxiety and absence permeate through the work as these artists found themselves for much of this, their final year, working alone, separated from family, friends and peers, only interacting via unstable wifi connections and blinking webcams. It is through the lens of these times that the strength of their work and the sheer joy of their creativity shines through. This cohort will join an international community of artists, photographers, curators, editors, technicians and teachers, all undoubtedly changed but also, hopefully, strengthened by this unique experience. This year has been a challenge for us all but it is in this work and in these talented graduates that we can perhaps start to glimpse a brighter future. Rachel Cunningham & Andre Pinkowski
GRADUATES 2021
ABRIL SIGLE
DYLAN CLINTON
AISHA NORTHEAST
ELLEN TASKER
ALESSIA ROSSI
ELSA RUFFIEUX
ANNA COLE
FIONA HARNETT
CAMERON ST JOHN-KNIGHT
GABRIELLE BEESON
CHLOE SMITH
GIULIA PROCOPIO
CLAUDIA CANTARINI
GYONGYI BAGYINKA
DARAGH DRAKE
HANNAH MATTHEWS
DENISE EBANKS
HARRY MORTLOCK
DILARA SIGIRTMAC
JOSHUA ANDERSON
KYLION BUCK
MISAKI SHIMIZU
NADIA ABATORAB-MANIKOWSKA
NADINE BAJA
LAUREN JOHNSON
OLIVER CROWN
LIVA PASTORE
OZZILINE BILL
LUCREZIA CANTELMO
PEDRO FINO
MALAVIKA SHARMA
REBECCA COOPER
MAX REIDY
RHIAN HOWELL
MEHERET BEYENE
ROBERTA VIALE
MELISSA USS
BRITTANY KEEN
MIRO LOVEJOY TEPLITZKY
BA 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.
LAUREN JOHNSON
Extimacy Some days after I met my boyfriend Will for the first time, we been taking intimate portraits of ourselves in different landscapes. This project explores the meaning of trust and intimacy in a visual and personal way, in the context of the start of a new relationship in the pandemic times.
ABRIL SIGLE Email: abrilsigle090@gmail.com Instagram: @abrilsigle Website: www.abrilsigle.com
Black White Ugly & Beautiful This image is part of my photo book called ‘Black White Ugly & Beautiful’. The book is a visual collection of images that presents my struggle with self-love and self-acceptance as a mixed-heritage woman. As a child, I grew up with my mum and had little contact with my dad, this created resentment for my African heritage that continued well into my teenage years until I was able to reconnect with my own blackness and accept the beauty of being mixed-heritage. This self-portrait is a celebration of that acceptance and my journey to understanding that I am more than just the colour of my skin and that I can present myself however I want.
AISHA NORTHEAST
Email: aishanortheast@hotmail.co.uk Instagram: @anefashionphoto
Natural Beauty In the age of technology, traditional methods such as polymer printing get hugely overlooked, as we all seem to be caught up with the latest and greatest technology. I wanted to capture the pure beauty of nature in an intricate and traditional fashion. Throughout lockdown, I took the time to surround myself with nature close to home, and focus on the natural beauty around me. I would go on long walks, and allow myself to enjoy those things I would normally have had overlooked, until the situation of the world forced me to slow down. This project has helped me to understand what type of photographer I truly am and what I want to work towards for the future.
ALESSIA ROSSI Email: acgrossi14@gmail.com
The New Normal This photographic collection is a diaristic journey of my personal experience during the Covid-19 global pandemic. Through my camera I have captured my housemates and the small but charming details of our home, highlighting things that I had previously overlooked due to the busy routine of everyday life before the pandemic occurred. Living in a student house made it possible for me to document different people as opposed to a ‘regular’ family household, while the rest of the world focused on life outside the home and problems caused by being confined to one space.
ANNA COLE
I wanted to show a different perspective and highlight the small positives that can be found through really connecting with what surrounds us. These natural and honest photographs show a reality that, potentially, all ages can relate to.
Email: annacole150700@gmail.com Instagram: @a.cole_photography Website: www.annacolephotography.uk
Interconnected
Email: cameronsjk@outlook.com Instagram: @cameronstjohnknight Website: www.cameronsjk.com
CAMERON ST JOHN-KNIGHT
Endeavouring to explore the conscious and unconscious subjectivity of data collection and mass surveillance, Interconnected visually interprets the correlation between various technologies in our urban spaces and the global societal relationship with such devices through the combined use of photography and graphic design.
Turmoil How do we tell them? How do we begin to explain how we feel when no one is looking? The sadness, the pain, the grief, the anxiety, the stress, the rage, the turmoil. The ever-present and overwhelming thoughts and feelings that beg to be kept away from caring minds. We can’t always tell them what it’s like inside our own heads when it starts to feel like the sun won’t rise again. So, we don’t. We show them instead
CHLOE SMITH Email: chloerosesmith.photo@gmail.com Instagram: @Chloe.rose_photography Website: chloerosesmithphotography.co.uk
All That Glitters is Not Gold Born during the pandemic, All That Glitters Is Not Gold, is an ongoing project that utilises photography as a coping strategy in this anxious age, where visual information overload creates an unstable and insecure perspective of reality. A blend of stories and relatively dark emotions have been collected and reconstructed adopting reflective, metallic and shiny colours to symbolise the fabricated deception of reality we are experiencing and to characterise the contrast between what we want to believe is real and what is actually real.
CLAUDIA CANTARINI
Email: claudiasubtle@gmail.com Instagram: @claudia.cantarini Website: www.claudiacantarini.me
Anam Cara (Soul Friend) Anam Cara is an ode to love, friendship and life. It represents my forming and continued growth as a person through those I hold dear. The project is based on John O’Donohue’s writings on Celtic spirituality and the ethereal relationship between the aforementioned.
Email: daraghdrake@hotmail.com Instagram: @daraghexists
DARAGH DRAKE
This current period in time has led to much introspection and soul searching. Within Celtic spiritualism, solitude brings forth the true sentiments of the soul. This unreservedly led to emotions of both joy and deep sadness due to the passing of a number of close friends. This project is in memorandum to them and their impact on my life along with a celebration of those who have impacted and remain in the physical.
Time: A comfort to a fool?
DENISE EBANKS
A private person like her father, Denise affectively explores the heartbeat and heartbreak of time, being and traces of what remains. Music is the nervous system of this profoundly personal conceptual piece exploring her late father and his music, memories and her own cultural identity. The relationships with music, feeling, and memory underpin this work, evoking emotions not immediately understood and, although surprising, is somewhat both confronting and comforting. Denise selected a compilation of albums from her father’s extensive vinyl collection that imbues memory and presents traces of cultural identity. The monotonous crackle on vinyl is analogous to time as the fabric of existence. Her voice is a hypnotic incantation reciting her poem. All of which serves to foreground the conflation of time as a construct. Denise processes her ever-present thoughts and memories, ultimately presenting an ongoing confusion and conflation of time, a sense of presence and one of loss.
Email: freedom@denisenebanks.com Instagram: @denisenebanks Website: @denisenebanks.com
Evîn / Evin Translating to first ‘love’ in Kurmanji Kurdish and ‘home’ in Turkish, Evîn/Evin is a visual devotion to the artist’s Turkish/Kurdish culture and her discussion of diaspora and resistance.
DILARA SIGIRTMAC
The wall-based project has two parts consisting of a large landscape and a grid of hand photography. The landscape depicts the view of an English garden through a window layered with a Middle Eastern inspired material. This construction metaphorically represents the artist’s similarly ‘layered’ view of the Western world around her as an Easterner at heart. The grid of hand photography is a documentation of the artist’s hands as she forms different gestures with her grandmother’s Turkish headscarves, creating scenes where the ethnic material acts as a physical symbol of her culture which she continues to embrace, demonstrating a resistance against becoming completely Westernised.
Email: dilarasphoto@gmail.com Instagram: @dilarasigirtmac
Sports Lens
Email: dylan@dylanclintonphotography.co.uk Instagram: @dylclintsphotography Website: www.dylanclintonphotography.co.uk
DYLAN CLINTON
I have taken photographs for two football clubs that I have been working with: Aldershot Town’s Academy and Hartley Wintney, as well as my local Cricket Club: Putney Cricket Club. I grew up as a sports fan so this is what motivated me to get involved with Sports Photography.
Utopia Complex Utopia Complex explores the Barbican Estate in its entirety from conception to present day. Analysing the formation and layout of the estate from both a visual and historic point of view, the combination of contemporary and historical media and processes creates layers that parallel the Barbican’s past and present. Mimicking the tone of a blueprint, the cyanotype links the images back to the birth of this brutalist architecture and what it represents: the reconstruction not only of buildings but of life post-war, there was belief in these plans for the future. A blueprint for a new era with hope of a better world, one that unfortunately did not materialise in the way these architects had hoped. The Barbican Estate provides an insight into what that life might have looked like.
ELLEN TASKER Email: ellen.tasker@gmail.com Instagram: @ellentasker
DARAGH DRAKE
Untitled We all have memories, experiences and impressions linked to our childhood. Mine are clouded by the death of my father, one day he was there and the next one he was not. The event happened so early in my childhood that it made it impossible to have clear memories of him. Through family photographs, I aimed to explore a past that does not seem familiar, trying to express the frustration and confusion of not remembering a time when he was still alive.
ELSA RUFFIEUX Email: ruffieux.elsa@hotmail.com Instagram: @ruffieuxelsa Website: www.elsaruffieuxphotography.com
Out of Time Walking in woodland near my home it seemed that nature somehow mirrored my emotions. The shapes of the branches, the relationships between the trees and through the passage of the seasons, the growth, the energy and eventually the cycle of rot and decay seem to embody the perpetual harmony of life. This personal reflection celebrates the joy of life but also confronts my fear of death, loss and longing for more time.
FIONA HARNETT
Email: fionaharnett@aol.com Instagram: @fionajonesharnettphotography Website: www.fionaharnett.com
The Not Knowing
GABRIELLE BEESON
This is my key of getting through a national lockdown, having a younger brother and sister around me to get through such a difficult and dark time. Through the heartache and the struggle of not seeing family and friends and then not being able to do normal things, losing yourself to the not knowing. The struggle to get up every morning, the trying and the not knowing of what is going to happen and when will things be normal. Yes, we have all been affected by this pandemic. But as a teenager being so high risk yourself and not being able to be a normal teenager seeing your friends daily, this is the faces of what it feels like being a teenager when some sort of normal is allowed again. This is my key of getting through a national lockdown, having a younger brother and sister around me to get through such a difficult and dark time.
Email: gaby.beeson@googlemail.com Instagram: @g.beeson.photographyxo
You can’t even see it
Email: giulia8497@live.it
GIULIA PROCOPIO
At the start ‘You can’t even see it’ had the intent of just making people aware of what Vitiligo really is but, with me developing with the project, I realised that my whole life I had been scared of showing how I really felt about this disease. With people telling me that they could’t even see it I always thought it was stupid for me to be ashamed of it and that I didn’t deserve to not feel good about it. What I finally understood is that it is my body, it is my feelings and it is normal for me to feel them.
Masturbation is the epitome of self-love As recent year’s events unfolded, the absence of touch became the focal point and main catalyst in the development of this project. The depravation of this sensual experience has led me to turn towards myself to seek comfort and gratification, which meant that self-loathing was not an option anymore — the journey to self-love started with the realisation of the importance of caring for my body and soul.
Email: gyoengyi4@gmail.com Instagram: @gyoengyi
GYONGYI BAGYINKA
These visually captivating toys are encapsulating the shame I experience when talking about selflove, not just the spiritual but the physical one too. Masturbation is the purest form of self-love — but will I be condemned if I say this out loud?
The Digital Realm An exploration of the vast and intricate networks that define our current age, using 3D technology to represent the embodiment of the self within this reality. A journey through an ambiguous vacuum of information, this piece is a self portrait built from individual data particles that accumulate through the integration of technology within society.
HANNAH MATTHEWS
Email: hannah_matthews03@hotmail.co.uk
Standing Dozen - Twelve iconic bridges across the Thames
Email: harrymortlock.photo@gmail.com Instagram: @harrymortlock Website: www.harrymortlock.com
HARRY MORTLOCK
This project was designed to show the architectural beauty of a dozen iconic bridges that span the Thames. The concept was to highlight the design and grandeur of each structure not only as a whole but the intricacies of their fine detail. All twelve have their own distinctive character and majesty which is often sadly overlooked by the general public as they use each bridge solely as a means to get from point A to point B.
Somewhere In The City Somewhere in The City is a documentary project following the exploits of the young men who take to the rooftops of London in their own unorthodox form of escapism. Some find thrill in the heights, others peace in the isolation above the city, but each feels a draw to access these restricted areas and to experience the views normally reserved for workers, window cleaners and those who can afford multi-million pound penthouses. These men are in part petty criminals but also young adults trying to reclaim their city and engage in one of the most primal desires humans can experience. The need to explore.
JOSHUA ANDERSON
Email: joshandphoto@gmail.com Instagram: @joshandersonphoto Website: www.joshandersonphoto.co.uk
Empty Process This project represents my journey throughout my time at university. Portraying my personal route, to understanding my own struggle when it comes to my environment and how I have come to appreciate it. I wanted to focus on using negative space and geometric shapes to highlight the emotions that I have felt over my past few years.
KYLION BUCK Email: me@kylionbuck.com Instagram: @kbuckphotography_ Website: www.kylionbuck.com
She, The Ever Changing She, the ever changing is a self-portrait series exploring what it means to be a young independent woman in the modern society.
By exposing my personal, modern day survival mechanisms, thus asking why is Western society forcing women to adapt, and why it continues to support the male gaze in our daily lives? I ask the viewer to perceive the work and the women in the photographs as she is; by letting go of all the stigmas and stereotypes, allowing to finally notice her for who she is, rather than what society wants her to be.
Email: nadiaabatorabmanikowska@gmail.com Instagram: @nadia.abatorab
NADIA ABATORAB-MANIKOWSKA
After years of being over sexualised, objectified and romanticised I dive deep within myself to explore all the different inner characters patriarchal society forced me to create in order to be successful. These characters are parts of my personality that I had to either suppress or distinguish, depending on what the situation required.
Hudsult (Skin-Hunger)
LAUREN JOHNSON
Hudsult (Danish for skin-hunger) is a physical book centred around the dematerialisation of the world around us into what Jean Baudrillard would call ‘signs’ and ‘simulation’. The subjects in my images are caught in a surreal purgatory between the real, tangible world and a digital space, much like the actual world we find ourselves in now. The human subjects are being taken from reality and scanned into technology; the figures being pushed into the digital, altered by it and then pulled back out into the physical realm. My interest lies in the misinterpretation that the technology makes when trying to understand the world and the human body, how it will never be a perfect replica as there is always something missing and more unsettling. In the end some of the technologically altered body parts appear as if they were painted, building even more tension between the analogue and digital.
Email: lauren.johnson1999@hotmail.co.uk Instagram: @laurenjohnsonphotography_
Vivid Reality Vivid reality is a personal journey of anxiety, confusion and instability. It discovers emotions and feelings experienced living in a modern world, which can be simultaneously comforting, disturbing and eerie — dreams colliding with reality and pleasure with pain. Growing individual and mass anxiety places individuals in a position where everything needs to be questioned and genuineness rediscovered. A series of constructed imagery takes the audience through an anxious journey filled with mixed emotions experienced during times defined by overwhelming instability, mistrust and disinformation. During this rather strange reality, how do I find my peace and belonging in the ever turning and ever-changing world?
LIVA PASTORE Email: liva.pastore.photography@gmail.com Instagram: @liva.pastore Website: www.livapastore.co.uk
White Rainbow
Email: lucrezia.cantelmo@gmail.com Instagram: @lucrezia.cantelmo Website: www.lucreziacantelmo.com
LUCREZIA CANTELMO
White Rainbow is a project that features two drag queens, Tekemaya and Donny Brooks. They are shown in the duality of their person; their strongest and safest part, the real being, and the other one which is used as a shield from the rest. The images aim to communicate the fragility and the beauty. A fog bow, sometimes called a white rainbow, is a similar phenomenon to a rainbow; however, as its name suggests, it appears as a bow in fog rather than rain. In many cases, when the droplets are very small, fog bows appear white, and are therefore sometimes called white rainbows. The fog surrounding the drag queen argument (ignorance and disinformation) is a metaphor for this project.
JOSHUA ANDERSON
Existential Oddity
The themes in his written work consisted of ‘absurdity’, ‘existential anxiety’, ‘realism’ ‘surrealism’, ‘alienation’ and ‘guilt’. Since Kafka’s life was surrounded by self-doubt and anguish, I present the scenes that, I believe, Kafka probably would have chosen to wander about in, omitting the happy world that, apparently, ridiculed him. My subjects’ absurdity is like some of his absurd characters; their actions ambiguous. Kafka’s way of coping with his insecurities, perhaps.
Email: malavikasophie@hotmail.com Instagram: @sophie_malavika Website: www.tinyurl.com/malavikasophie
MALAVIKA SHARMA
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s novels and short stories from the early 20th century, my photography project creates Kafkaesque visuals similar to his uniquely dark, disorienting and surreal writing style as I attempt to look through the eyes of Kafka.
Digital Gods Inspired by Carl Jung’s archetypes, and designed with a childhood of gaming in mind, this project portrays all 12 of Jung’s archetypes as retro game characters. I noticed similarities between Jung’s archetypes and mythological deities resembling Greek and Norse Mythology. Each archetype had different characteristics, in the same way that Greek Gods had unique personalities as well as appearances. These reminded me of a childhood game that I used to play; “The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim”. In this expansive fantasy game, set in a magical world, there are godlike beings called “Divines” or “Daedra”, each of which has unique behaviours and worshippers.
MAX REIDY
Anciet Greeks and Norse worshippers chose their gods, much like kids are choosing a character to play in a video game.
Email: Max.Reidy@icloud.com Instagram: @MaxGarnerReidy.insta Website: www.maxgarnerreidy.co.uk
West London West London is a documentary book that explores the concept of gentrification and sustainability, as a result of suburbanisation that has taken place in the area over the last decade. This photo book is filled with insight that encourages dialogue and outward thinking with those in and out of this space. Each photograph aims to reveal an aspect of the diverse culture and authenticity encapsulated amongst this urban environment.
MEHERET BEYENE
Email: maya144@hotmail.co.uk Instagram: @mayascreations_ Website: www.maya144.wixsite.com
Children Of A Frozen Time My project is focused on children during Covid-19 as the pandemic is taking a heavy toll on all of us, affecting our emotional, and mental wellbeing. I wanted to engage my creation process around their emotions and how they responded to the pandemic. Children often struggle to express and process their emotions and they react differently to the occurring events around them compared to us. My photography tried to capture their emotions and response during school closures for a long period of time. Children were stuck at home with an immense need for entertainment. As a result, emotions were bottled up inside them. I wanted them to feel free of their emotions and act on how they felt during photographing them. For a brief moment, they seemed to forget about the pandemic and why they were stuck inside. MELISSA USS Email: melsa.deen@gmail.com Instagram: @mussartuk Website: www.melissauss.com
Solipsism Syndrome
Email: misaki.bb.0113@gmail.com Instagram: @ikasim223 Website: www.misakishimizu.com
MISAKI SHIMIZU
I am a photographic artist and a bookmaker based in Tokyo/London. This book explores my experience of self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The title of this project, Solipsism Syndrome, is “a psychological state in which a person feels that reality is not external to their mind.” (Wikipedia Solipsism Syndrome, 2021). Losing a sense of social belonging, my reality was constructed only based on the endless internal dialogues and interactions with inanimate objects in the house. I projected my mental state onto the ordinary objects and scenes in my house. The collection of photos is a mixture of my photographs taken inside the house and NASA images. You can access the video of the book from my website link.
Approximation of Chaos The universe was once a chaotic mess of matter, pulling and pushing against itself until one day, from this chaos, came an explosion of life that created order. In early Greek and Norse mythology, there was a similar belief to this order coming from chaos and that the two elements were inseparable. Chaos surrounds us. We are born and it is chaotic, we fall in love or out of love and it is chaotic, we live surrounded by it and we die amongst it. Humans have never entirely embraced chaos, deeming it untrustworthy and full of difficulty and pain, yet its importance and its nature are embedded in us in every way. MIRO LOVEJOY TEPLITZKY
This is a project that documents the experience of chaos. A narrative of a type of chaos, ranging from insignificant and small moments, to large and more grand instances. It is about the emotional experience, the psychological imprint as much as the events that unfold.
Email: miroteplitzky@gmail.com Instagram: @miros__of__the__3rd Website: www.mirolovejoyteplitzky.com
Immigrant Forever
Immigrant Forever also delves into a very common issue that people with multicultural backgrounds tend to face, namely the inner conflict of not really feeling like you belong anywhere in particular, having a sense of displacement and feeling inauthentic and fake towards your own self. This project explores change, instability and what it’s like being stuck in cultural limbo.
Email: najbaja@gmail.com Instagram: @nadine.baja
NADINE BAJA
This video project explores the story of Mara, a Filipina living in England and her struggle of adapting to a culture and society that’s not “hers”. It explores multiculturalism and the natural urge to fit in with the crowd. We talk about stories from our childhoods, early school life, as well has how we have managed to settle in now in the present. Through comparing and sharing experiences, this project showcases the fluidity of identity and how we as human beings are able to adapt to our surroundings.
What We Could Do (Party) At a time where partying could lead to prosecution and strict guidelines and regulations prevented large groups of people to meet in person, we were forced to improvise within our social lives. Retrospect became our best friend, we looked back on the parties that are long gone, but not forgotten.
OLIVER CROWN
We needed a form of escapism, fabrications of these parties to take us away from reality, even for a short period of time. What We Could Do (Party) presents staged Polaroids within partylike settings, inspired by 80s New York and fashion brands such as Fiorucci. It shows not only what has been, but also what we could do in the future. Moments shared at a party will return again.
Email: oliverjwcrown@gmail.com Instagram: @ollycrownstudio Website: www.ollycrown.co.uk
@mercedes666____ @mercedes666____ is an experimental online performance in which the artist embodies a digital avatar called Mercedes; an unashamedly, sexually ‘provocative’ female who lives on screen. Mercedes demands the viewers gaze, and in return gazes back at them, confronting them with their own immediate reactions and assumptions towards her; what do you assume about Mercedes? How does she make you feel?
OZZILINE BILL
By evoking self-reflection in the viewers, @mercedes666____ challenges cultural and social attitudes towards female sexuality and sex work, contesting the patriarchal moral and ethical standpoints surrounding them.
Email: contactmercedes666@gmail.com Instagram: @mercedes666____ Website: www.onlyfans.com/mercedes_666
Fino Zine Accentuating emotion and grace through fashion. Fino Zine defies the standards of the modern zine, standing at 5ft 4 inches, it entails the use of your whole body to move onto the next page.
PEDRO FINO Email: pedrovfino@gmail.com Instagram: @pedrovfino Website: www.pedrofino.com
I was your shadow Reflecting on my relationship with my dad and the scars that have been left. Photography reminds me to understand not everything you see is a reality, its our own perception, feelings and understanding. Always seeking his approval, behind my happy family photographs is separation, anxiety, insecurities and loss.
REBECCA COOPER
Email: beckc86@hotmail.com Instagram: @coopsphoto86
The Monitors our relationship with technology has become increasingly important in recent times we use it for entertainment work education shopping ... we use it to talk to our friends and family our habits and behaviour have changed our vocabulary has changed it is part of our urban landscape we can switch it off but we rarely do
RHIAN HOWELL
Email: rhian.s.howell@gmail.com
Just The Two Of Us Just the two of us is a story of loss and gain. It’s the inside of my mind poured out, made into images, a tale of my most recent fears coming to life. It is the process of becoming that my body and mind underwent during the most socially difficult times of my life, so far. This project has been my therapy and companion, my mother and my child, for the last year or so.
VIALE ROBERTA
I tried to speak through it, and it will be a place I need to be able to go back to, to teach myself to never go back to it again.
Email: robertaviale11@gmail.com Instagram: @rbrtvl
ELLEN TASKER
In Memory of Brittany All of us who had the chance to meet Brittany will remember her as the kind and thoughtful person she was. During her time at university she truly created a positive impact as she often selflessly went out of her way to help other students who were going through stressful times. Brittany will be deeply missed by all of us, but she will always stay in our hearts. Rest in Peace. (Brittany Keen, 1999 – 2021)
Website: www.whatahoot.co.uk Telephone: 01553 401879
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