PHOTOGRAPHY MA
graduation
show 2012
Else, World of Textiles
Alastair Mc Crea My Collection depicts people and their collections in their own environment. Some of these collections have been amassed over decades and are very personal to the sitters. Most of the subjects seem like your normal, average person but behind the closed doors of their houses, they have these wonderful, surprising and sometimes slightly strange collections. I spoke to all of the sitters in some detail about their collection and where it all stemmed from. I photographed them with their collection
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as a series of portraits. The portraits show how they interact with their collections, either physically or emotionally. Some of the sitters view the collections as a burden while others see it as an escape from the world.
07817383522 alastairmccrea@gmail.com www.amcphoto.co.uk
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Bego Garcia The Birdsongs series has its roots in my desire to explore lost memories; I’m interested in the relationship between memory, time and narrative.
‘The present divides the future and past, What could happen next and what happened last.’ Extract (sonnet: Iphgenia Baal)
Birdsong series
Birdsong series
The work exists as a photo fiction book with a hidden reality, which narrates memories in the shape of fantasies or dreams, or a mixture of the two. It deals with trauma and fears but also with happier instances, or perhaps with the uncertainty of not knowing exactly which they were, and whether real or imagined. What interests me is the conquering of fear; the playing with and hiding from it, being ashamed of it, and finally not being afraid any more. I want my photographs to be enigmatic, allusive and elusive. I also want to develop ways of representing shared personal memories while creating spaces where the imagination can be playful.The Birdsongs series belongs to a land were the photographs are like lost frames of a narrative that belong to a bigger story — perhaps these images are like found fragments.
bego@birdsongsphotography.com www.birdsongsphotography.com
Birdsong series
Bruna Martini My project critiques the model of female beauty imposed by society through mass media. The emphasis on the idea that the body can be improved to perfection transforms women in commodities. To denounce the current representation of women in our society, I photographed advertisments displayed in public spaces accessible to anyone. Through an act of Guerrilla art, I drew attention on the disparity between real women and how the media stereotypes them. By bringing together cultural artefacts that are taken from everyday life, the project makes the viewers feel uncomfortable with the quantity of glossy bodies.
This reveals the limitations and contradictions of our collective cultural life.
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bruna@martinib.eu www.martinib.eu
Dan Imade The Office: Their Space, My Space For the people who work there, the office represents the oddest of relationships. A space which has been created for them but which is not theirs; a place where even their recreation has been considered and designed for. The office worker is coerced into where to sit, where to work, where to chat, where to eat, where to walk and how to move from one place to another. But there are places where the architects and the designers have to cede control; where their space becomes my space.
daniel.imade@arup.com
Elena Sarghiuta This body of work is a metaphor for transformation. With it I intend to touch upon concepts which may, or may not, be called mystical paradoxes: permanence/ impermanence, matter/ emptiness and ultimately the nature of the mind. The materiality of light is a constant concern. My approach to nature is through receptivity, preferring to utilise an intuitive focus rather than merely arranging or recording forms. I hope this work challenges the dominant view of photography as a documentary medium, questioning its indexical relationship with the world. Photography, whether in its
analogue or digital form, may enable us to view in close up the surface detail of objects, but in doing so our perceptual experience of them becomes more ambiguous and fragmented, belying their unity and coherence. The images possess, I should hope, a soothing and meditative atmosphere. I would like them to involve the viewer in a visual experience where forms cannot be easily verbalised as visual elements, or categorised as objects; an experience of pure discovery.
monuar23@gmail.com www.elenasarghiuta.com
Elizabeth Bicher Primary The family album is the memory keeper; the precious object that gives validity to all of the happy holidays, birthdays, and graduations. Proof that they happened. But what about the unrecorded events? Where do those memories go? I have been looking critically at my relationship to photographs of my mother in order to address my experiences as her daughter and the memories that each image invokes. I am attempting to remember what
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is not depicted in our family album, recreating my own version of events in the making of a new photograph, which could be termed a mirrored response; I sit before the camera with my mother’s photograph staring directly at me, I return the gaze and am newly enabled to react, no longer as a child, but as an empowered adult.
elizabethbicher@yahoo.com
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Fotios Kyriakos Variatzas Autopsy examines interrelated murders that were committed during the 1960’s in Boston. The aim of this project is to bring back to the spotlight one of the biggest failures of the justice system - failure to convict and protect the people who were affected by the actions of Boston Strangler. This row of diptychs does not only represent the story of the women who got murdered, but it also tries to show that everyone, including the man who was convicted for thirteen murders, was affected by the incompetent justice system of the time.
Ida Irga
It could be said that this work functions as a historical paradigm. By turning the narrative into images through the merging of factual elements and the missing parts of the story, I would like to encourage the viewer toreconsider the limitations of the justice system.
varfotis@yahoo.gr www.variatzas.com Patricia Bissette
Goncalo Bispo This is a project about my personal emotions and experiences. The work describes my state of spirit since I arrived in London in September 2011 and through the sequencing of important events and locations, which paint a picture of my stay in London, it explores how my feelings and
psyche were affected by this remarkable change in my life. I am the central subject of these images and the rest of the world races past me, blurred and oblivious. The work could also be seen a social critique of the challenges facing young adults today.
www.grbispo.com grbispo@gmail.com
Jane Garfield These images are the work in progress of my ‘Pre’ Family Album. They are a response to my adoption documents. Each photograph’s title has been taken from statements written about me by officials dealing with the adoption case. It is titled ‘Pre’ Family album to illustrate the passage of time when I belonged no family at all. The images are visuals that I have created to accompany the words heard in court as my adoption was read out and I was placed for the first time with my ‘family’. The prints are an exchange of thoughts and interpretation of my emotions as the officials were making decisions of my destiny. These decisions were made in court about me. I was not present. My birth parents were not present. My adoptive parents were not present. The images were created as an emotional response to a court hearing.
janegarfield@blueyonder.co.uk
Lauren Mashford My photographs explore escapism. I frequently return to the idea of Sleeping Beauty and Ophelia, as I am drawn to making images where the model appears to be in a state of dream or abstraction. I consider it important for people to take time to escape from everyday life by indulging in daydreams and the enchantment of stories. Freezing a moment of chaos can often create a response of calm and reflection. Bruno Bettelheim observes: Sleeping Beauty is ‘the incarnation of perfect femininity. However...the adolescent dream of everlasting youth and perfection is just that: a dream.
laurenmashford@hotmail.co.uk laurenmashford.photoswarm.com
Ozaan Gßner The Dark Side of Fashion: Death represents a number of crime scenes of women and merges fashion with the disturbance of death. My subjects are photographed in various parts of the city, in different atmospheres and isolated places. The first series in a three-part project is an introduction to the period beginning with the moment of death and ending with burial. It is also the starting point of my photographic exploration of how fashion is represented through these stages. In this project my inspiration has come from Melanie Pullen’s work, High Crime Fashion Scenes. Taking her idea one step further, I look into the funeral tradition in the UK whilst focusing on the importance of clothing.
ozngnr@gmail.com
Parastoo Ebneali Now we will prosper? Throughout history, there have been different types of censorship, from moral and religious to political, in order to withhold information. The images of magazines imported into my country, Iran, are manually censored. The government readers use black ink or stickers to cover some parts of images of women’s bodies, although, as there are no clear guidelines, this process is by no means consistent. While a woman’s body is censored, men’s bodies and words are left untouched; it seems the red line is too arbitrary. papar_1316@yahoo.com
Saman Movahed This project is about my opinion of the strange world that we must live in. The ‘mean life’, especially my own life and things that happened to me, make me see this world as a huge box. Also the objects we furnish them with, in order to give them our story and make them a space where we can play out our lives. In my point of view people are like prisoners who should live in this world. To be is one thing and to live is another; whether people have lived well or they have lived ill, everyone is to die, they live in a box and they will die in the same box. samanp84@yahoo.com
PHOTOGRAPHY MA
graduation
show 2012