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BA (Hons) Photography 2012 Leeds College of Art
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∞ Contents
10 Emily Bailey
14 George Beck
18 Sofia Coombs
22 Rory Doyle
26 Charys Elmer
30 Daniele Fitzgerald
34 Mindy Goose
38 Aisha Greenidge-Noorgat
42 Katherine Gregory
46 Alice Hall
50 Aaron Hargreaves
54 James Hawley
58 Chris Jackson
62 Stuart Leckenby
66 James Lester
70 Kyla Lynskey
74 Tim Mellin
78 Ess Newton
82 Hannah Reynolds
86 Scott Salt
90 Claire Sawdon
94 Benjamin P. Smith
98 Catherine Laura
102 Jack Turner
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Emily Bailey
embphotography.co.uk emilynicollebailey@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7738 307 813
Emily Nicolle Bailey is a fashion and beauty photographer whose inspiration often stems from the themes of self-expression and individuality, Bailey has spent the best part of a year undertaking collaborative projects with various makeup artists and models. Exploring how self-decoration, specifically in the form of
make-up artistry and fashion choices, aid in the construction of an individual’s persona, in that they allow the individual to appear to the world in the way that they choose; the images included here are representative of the photographer’s wider practice, both thematically and visually.
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Emily Bailey
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George Beck Youth Club georgebeckphoto.co.uk george@georgebeckphoto.co.uk +44 (0) 7572 617 556
George Beck’s practice lies primarily within the field of conceptual and editorial portraiture. The Youth Support project focuses on the users of youth support services, who are in the transitory stage between childhood and adulthood, a period in life where they are often overlooked or demonised by wider society.
Here by association, Beck also brings to light the importance of these services (although set up by local authorities, largely run by charities) within our communities; the fact that their work largely goes unnoticed does no justice to their importance in guiding young people towards a successful start in adult life.
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George Beck Youth Club
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Sofia Coombs
sofiacoombs.co.uk sofia.coombs@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7864 660 441
A documentary and editorial photographer, whose work draws inspiration from everyday life, Sofia Coombs uses image making to gain a greater understanding of the unfamiliar and the observed behaviour of others. In this series, she documents her intimate yet strained relationship to her mother, with whom she is naturally
close, despite past issues causing an extended estrangement. The project is an observation of her mother’s life in an attempt to comprehend why she is the way she is. A serious and complex subject, approached with an innate sensitivity and the well considered, thoughtfulness of a person studying a loved one.
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Sofia Coombs
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Rory Doyle
rawreylostinthought.tumblr.com rory_doyle_91@hotmail.com +44 (0) 7889 465 947
The focus of Rory Doyle's body of work lies in gender, specifically in the examining and understanding of gender’s boundaries. In order to do this, Doyle's photographs those who take gender related concepts to what are socially considered to be more extreme conclusions,
capturing images of Transvestism in drag acts and cross dressers. The images, which often take their aesthetic from traditional fashion and beauty photography, seek to question how notions of femininity and masculinity are visually defined within our society.
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Rory Doyle
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Charys Elmer
charysellmer@hotmail.com charysellmer.carbonmade.com +44 (0) 7850 692 959
Charys Ellmer has taken a set of Thematic Apperception Test cards as the starting point for her series of narrative photography. TAT cards are designed for use in psychological examinations, depicting various provocative yet ambiguous images, which the subject is asked to interpret, allowing the attendant psychologist a
window into their patient’s personal history and attitudes. Narrative photography runs corollary to this process, asking viewers to consider and ‘read’ a scene as a story. No interpretation is wrong, merely a version of the truth presented through a medium that can be said to blend veracity and illusion in equal measure.
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Charys Elmer
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Daniele Fitzgerald
danielefitzgeraldphoto.com danielefitzgeraldphotography@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7746 713 715
Daniele Fitzgerald is a beauty and portrait photographer who, drawing on a wide range of influences, from Terry Richardson to Rankin, has developed a personal style
intended to capture each of her subjects’ individual qualities. In this book Fitzgerald presents a selection of her work, an overview of her on-going portfolio.
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Mindy Goose Well-Being mindygoose.co.uk mindy_goose@yahoo.co.uk +44 (0) 7969 647 027
Mindy Goose is a photographer as well as a community workshop leader, whose use of photography extends to self-discovery, social inclusion and education. The Well-being project examines her daily life, capturing the seemingly mundane objects, landscapes, journeys and routines in a manner that seeks
to present them as beautiful, unusual and unique. Her intent here, is to let her images act as a lens through which the viewer has the opportunity to see the everyday world in a more enriching way and in so doing, to inspire her audience to take notice of the beauty in the familiar themselves.
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Aisha Greenidge-Noorgat Playhouse aisha_milk@live.com +44 (0) 7572 617 556
Aisha Greenidge-Noorgat’s Playhouse acts a photographic exploration of a traumatic space, in which she suffered sexual-abuse as a child. The family sitting room becomes a place shrouded in darkness, the images’ aesthetic reflects this turmoil and with their soft focus, references the process of memory. The fabric of the space has
become forever intertwined with a painful past; though, this cathartic work sets the door ajar, airing the room, absorbing a part of GreenidgeNoorgat’s anguish. Also included are images from the Meat & Flowers series, an attempt to capture the essence of what appears repulsive and beautiful, in immediate juxtaposition.
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Aisha Greenidge-Noorgat Meat & Flowers
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Katherine Gregory Northern Soul katherinegregoryphotography.com kategregoryphotography@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7581 277 270
‘Northern Soul’, with its rich, Rhythm and Soul
development its own fashion movement and as
influenced, musical and dance culture has its roots firmly in Northern, industrial Britain and originally centred around legendary nightclubs such as Wigan Casino. As well as its distinctive and unique forms of dance, it is also responsible for the formation and
such, can be considered an important aspect of cultural heritage in the UK. Katherine Gregory’s hometown of Wigan is also home to this scene and through her series, she documents the present day styles and personalities, focusing on themes of identity and culture.
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Katherine Gregory Northern Soul
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Alice Hall
alicehall.eu alicehall83@hotmail.com +44 (0) 7920 011 441
Alice Hall’s work takes its form and inspiration
and printing, seeks to craft a technique that
from the beauty and fragility of flowers, her subtle and often abstract, images focus on the simplicity and delicacy of the shapes and colours of the petals. Photographing primarily on analogue formats, Hall’s experimentation with a range of methods for image making
accentuates both her subject and the imagined tangibility of the medium. Her organic and alluring photographs resonate with a strong emotional involvement and attempt to depict the true and unique beauty of natural forms, while inspiring her own wonder in the viewer.
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Aaron Hargreaves
aaronhargreaves.com info@aaronhargreaves.com +44 (0) 7590 903 788
The series Discernment unveils a side to the
ultimately causing him, as it does for many others,
catholic Church that often goes unnoticed and is unmentioned in popular discourse; the positive communities that can be created when the Church opens itself to less dogmatic doctrine. When Hargreaves’ sexuality met his family’s preconceived ideas of faith, a schism was created,
to reject his faith altogether. Curious, last year he attended Mass at All Hallows Church in Leeds, an openly inclusive Church that celebrates diversity. The subsequent photographs document and explore his reunion with faith, and the accepting community that facilitated it.
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James Hawley
jameshawley.co.uk info@jameshawley.co.uk +44 (0) 7962 157 212
James Hawley’s stripped back approach to
high quality fashion editorials. Naturalistic
fashion photography is designed to allow the model’s personality to become a part of the image. Deemed as of equal importance to the clothes and the photographer, Hawley spends much of his time searching for models with whom he can collaboratively produce
and minimal in terms of post-production and artificial lighting, this collection of images comes loaded with a subtle yet pervasive sense of beauty; formed from the triptych of clothing, location and model-photographer relationship.
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Chris Jackson
chrisjacksonphoto.co.uk chris@chrisjacksonphoto.co.uk +44 (0) 7766 612 342
In this series of still life images, Chris Jackson
perspective on the movement of objects forever
explores the genre of creative product photography. The theme of motion runs throughout this set, in which the photographer reveals one of the medium’s most formidable abilities; to capture that which the human eye could never see; frozen milliseconds provide a
denied organic observation. Although technically polished, clean and crisp, commercially minded photographs, Jackson looks beyond mere depiction and finds a visual language that gives a life to his subjects, while at the same time reinforcing the power of photography.
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Stuart Leckenby The Invisible Age sleckie68@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7576 218 260
Typically
politically
and faces un-made; without the plethora of
underrepresented and largely ignored by the opposite sex, The Invisible Age seeks to highlight and question the societal place of women in their sixth decade. Stuart Leckenby’s portrait series focuses on these older women, presenting them in stark relief, hair un-styled,
socially
undervalued,
products thrust on them by social pressure and advertising. The stillness and passivity of the photographs act as a testament to preconceived ideas, although silent witnesses, these portraits seem to shout what this invisible demographic wants to say: “We exist!”.
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Stuart Leckenby The Invisible Age
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James Lester
jameslesterphoto@gmail.com +44 (0) 7906 333 905
In James Lester’s autobiographical series,
evocation is created of the character of those
he casts himself in the role of long-lost or distant family members, producing a study of hereditary and genetic traits. Through a subtlety of expression and body language, gleaned from old family photo albums, an
relatives whom Lester has never met. In doing so, the performance based, photographic study forges a link with these individuals that transcends mere blood ties.
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Kyla Lynskey Twenty-Two Years kyla.lynskey@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7825 913 576
Straddling
and
home, the building itself transcends a mere
documentary practice, Kyla Lynskey focuses on interior and domestic spaces. In her latest body of work she has spent six months photographing the house that has been her and her father’s home for the last twenty-two years, a house soon to be sold. Like any childhood or family
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structure; it comes replete with, in this case, a lifetime of memories. The images produced, likewise transcend mere documentation but come with a clearly tangible, emotional content, a catharsis for Lynskey herself, concluding the process of moving on.
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Kyla Lynskey Twenty-Two Years
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Tim Mellin
tim@timmellin.com +44 (0) 7738 954 062
Tim Mellin has created a body of work
but have challenged both his technical and
designed to appeal to both the creative and commercially minded. Working handin-hand with clients on live briefs in order to develop this series of images that not only meet standard industry requirements
creative abilities; honing his own distinctive style. Innovation is a highly valued aspect of Mellin’s photographic practice as; each undertaking has its own unique parameters and therefore, demands a unique approach.
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Ess Newton
essnewton.com essnewtonphoto@gmail.com
Covering
product
fashion and lifestyle editorials, employing her
photography practices, Ess Newton is primarily a commercial photographer. The photographs featured here are a selection from an on going series focusing on men’s
lifestyle,
fashion
and
own personal aesthetic approach, Newton sets out to capture current and commercially viable images of masculine identity, crucially from a female perspective.
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Hannah Reynolds
photobyhannah@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7846 231 587
Embarking upon long-term projects, Hannah
residents employed on some level of the industry,
Reynolds’ practice centres on documenting facets of society and their inherent issues. In her latest body of work, Reynolds investigates the small East Anglian town of Newmarket, internationally renowned as the epicentre of Horse Racing. With one in every three of the fifteen thousand
from stable owners and skilled professionals to semi-itinerant farm hands, Horse Racing is intertwined with every single element of the community. The series seeks to explore the nature and ramifications of this relationship and how it has shaped Newmarket; past, present and future.
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Scott Salt Behind The Spectacle scottmsaltphotography.com scott@scottmsaltphotography.com +44 (0) 7864 391 080
The Behind The Spectacle series seeks to explore the people and personalities behind performers and the act of performance. Famed for the ‘Big Top’, sideshows, menageries of animals and death-defying feats of athleticism, the circus has always been one of the ultimate spectacles. In this
on-going, long-term project, Salt takes in not only the more familiar extroversion of the ‘show’ but peers behind the curtain, documenting the off stage individuals and their relationships in both transient and domestic environments.
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Scott Salt Behind The Spectacle
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Claire Sawdon Project 01482 clairesawdon.com clairesawdon@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7821 213 981
Project 01482 takes its name from the area dialling code for the city of Hull, a city for which the telephone became not just a tool of communication but a symbol of independence. Depicting the steady decline of the public telephone kiosk and presenting it as an echo of a death of a wider cultural heritage. Sawdon
acknowledges the technical developments of the 21st Century but through exploring the remaining kiosks, recalls childhood memories of a time before mobile phones, emphasising the role of the past on shaping all of us and, the importance of one town’s history of independence.
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Benjamin P. Smith Signed: The Occupiers benjaminpsmithphotography.co.uk benjaminsmith_photography@hotmail.co.uk +44 (0) 7728 874 753
Benjamin P. Smith is a photographer whose focus lies in documenting movements and groups that overtly or implicitly question socio-political paradigms. Presented here are excerpts from two bodies of work, Signed: The Occupiers and The Camel And The Scorpion. The former, an advocacy based series, deals with communities
of squatters in the UK as the government moves to criminalise trespass; an action that will erode avenues of accommodation for the poorest, protest and culture. The latter takes its title from a Middle Eastern joke and attempts to investigate the situation in Palestine’s West Bank, beyond the standard, politically convenient interpretations.
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Benjamin P. Smith The Camel & The Scorpion
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Catherine Laura
catherinelaura.com info@catherinelaura.com +44 (0) 7716 544 050
Specialising in underwater fashion photography, Catherine Laura’s series showcases her oftenwhimsical style, as well as her ability to create themes and narratives. These threads which run through each of her ‘fashion stories’, allow her to anchor each set with a cohesive visual approach, while at the same time, from shoot to shoot,
endless scope to produce diverse and creative images. Her firm understanding of working underwater has allowed Laura to push her creative boundaries, undeterred by challenging environments and has led to her coordination of her own team, from creative and stylists to safetydivers, thus facilitating this collection.
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Jack Turner
jackturner28@gmail.com +44 (0) 7921 463 968
A year after Jack Turner was born his Grandfather moved from his home in London to Northern Scotland, therein causing an estrangement that has lasted all of his conscious life. As an adult, Turner set out to meet and get to know this man, a close family member with whom he had previously almost
no relationship. This series documents his visits to Scotland, from their very first meeting and examines with an acute sensitivity, the unusual dynamic of this new relationship; at once a close familial bond but with a distance, induced by a long absence.
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∞ Acknowledgements
Publication Design Paweł Adamek www.paweladamek.co.uk Jonathan Finch www.jonathan-finch.co.uk Sean Perkins www.sean-perkins.co.uk Chris Starkie www.chris-starkie.co.uk Rosalind Stoughton www.rosalind-stoughton.com
∞ Course Contact Info Adrian Davies, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Photography Leeds College of Art Blenheim Walk Leeds West Yorkshire LS2 9AQ +44 (0) 113 202 8000 info@leeds-art.ac.uk www.leeds-art.ac.uk