PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNALISM 2014-2017
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JEMMA ARMITAGE
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REBECCA CLAYTON
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MAISIE COULBERT
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KATE FINNERTY
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ROSEANNA GYLES
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LUKE HANNAFORD
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REBECCA HEYES
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OLIVER JACKSON
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NATHALIE KELLY
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RACHEL KENYON
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ALEXANDER KOSCIAN
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GABRIELLE PARKER
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MELLISSA RYE
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SIMON REDDINGTON
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EUAN RUSSELL
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JENNA SCOTT
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ELLA SEDMAN
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HARRIET SKINNER
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MACEY SMALES
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ALEX TOMLINSON
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LUCINDA WALDRON
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ARAN WHALLEY
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JOSHUA WHITTAKER
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ADAM WRIGHT
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Photographic Journalism 2017 showcase book, a compilation of third year students work.
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JEMMA ARMITAGE Jemma Armitage is a photographer based in Leeds who enjoys photographing a wide range of subject matter, from landscape and travel, to portraiture and events. However, her main passion has been music photography and she’s worked with a number of Leeds based solo performers and bands. She has created a variety of images, from EP covers to live performances in local venues for their marketing, promotion and social media platforms. When travelling, Jemma likes to capture places in a unique way and her images for her final project are compiled from her travels to Paris and New York. This collection of photographs has been inspired by Martin Parr’s Small World series and is her take on capturing the tourist attractions in these cities.
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REBECCA CLAYTON Rebecca Clayton is a photographer based in West Yorkshire who specialises in sport, portrait and architectural photography. She particularly enjoys photographing amateur sports and has spent five years working alongside a rugby league team, photographing their games and club events as well as their team portraits. She also has ambitions to promote the female presence within sport photography. Rebecca also has strong editing and post production skills using the Adobe Creative Suite.
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MAISIE COULBERT “I wish I were a girl again, half savage, and hardy and free” E. Brontë
Maisie Coulbert is a freelance photographer from the Peak District specialising in fashion and fine art. Maisie has photographed at London and New York Fashion Week as well as for various global fashion blogs. This series of work is based around the theme of literature. Drawing inspiration from classic novels such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, this shoot is a portrayal of Maisie’s love of the English countryside, literature and fashion coming together to create a dramatic set of photographs.
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KATE FINNERTY Kate Finnerty is a researcher and picture editor from North Yorkshire. During her degree, she studied abroad in New York where she interned at CNN for six months working on the digital photo desk. During this time she worked in a busy newsroom at a crucial time in America’s history and this has developed her understanding of global and current affairs. Kate’s work focuses on the ways people connect with one another at a time when digital communication threatens to blur the lines of understanding. “The Stand-Up Tale of a Silent Laugher” looks at humour and documents Kate’s journey of performing a one-off, never to be seen again stand up comedy routine.
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ROSEANNA GYLES “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people” Karl Marx The photographs exhibited here underpin Roseanna’s research into the fall of Soviet communism and its continued effect on countries of the former USSR, specifically Bulgaria and Romania. These two bordering countries were chosen due to their close geographical and historical relationships. Roseanna’s research has revealed these similarities and led to the discovery that a large majority of Bulgaria and Romania’s social, political and economic issues seem to be rooted in an overwhelming and long underlying corruption of power. These photographs show, in a creative way; what this current situation is doing to the state of Bulgaria, a country that was once one of the most successful countries within the Soviet bloc, and is now one of the least successful in the European Union. This country is one of the most extreme examples of the effect of the fall of Soviet communism.
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LUKE HANNAFORD Luke Hannaford has been a music journalist and tour photographer for nine years. He has travelled with musicians to document life behind the scenes as well as their live performances on stage. Luke has worked with up and coming musicians as well as those in mainstream and clients include, Rolling Stone, DIY magazine, The Skinny, Drowned in Sound, BBC & Gigwise. Over the last two years, Luke has also begun to focus on current affairs, such as documenting the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis as people arrive in Greece. He spent three weeks at camp Alexandria in Northern Greece working with the charity Refugee Support, distributing clothes and food to the refugees. As this selection of photographs gives an insight into what life is like living in a refugee camp in 2017. 42
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REBECCA HEYES Rebecca Heyes is an aspiring photojournalist from Manchester who has a keen interest in design and social media platforms, which is shown in her portfolio. After travelling to various different countries, and using her photographic skills to capture landmarks that the cities have to offer, she will present to you some of those images from her travels around Europe.
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OLIVER JACKSON Oliver Jackson is a photographer working and living in Leeds, England. Olivers final year project focusing on city life in New York, Paris and London aims to capture the unique cultural spirit and 24/7 vibrant moving environments within his photography. Oliver has taken the approach to shoot this project entirely on film to create a more methodical approach to his photography. Oliver believes opting to walk the various city streets with all but 24 exposures adds an element of surprise and spontaneity to his work as oppossed to using digita
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NATHALIE KELLY Nathalie Kelly is a blogger and photojournalist from London. Her main photographic genres are wildlife, landscape and sports and she also has a keen interest in videography. The photographs within this exhibition were taken during her volunteering experiences in different countries, and explore conservation through wildlife and nature. Nathalie uses various photographic techniques to illustrate the beauty of animals which have been threatened by urbanisation to create empathy and compassion towards them. Nathalie also has experience in event photography, image retouching and graphic design within Photoshop.
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RACHEL KENYON Rachel Kenyon is a Photojournalist from the West Coast of England who specialises in travel photography. She has travelled extensively around Europe both photographing and writing about architectural landmarks and interned with Euroventure, over a four month period last year. During this time she was responsible for writing blog posts and picture editing for Euroventures web and social media sites. The selection of photographs in this exhibition illustrate Rachel’s interests in historical architecture as she pays attention to the details within ancient ruins of cathedrals and old city quarters.
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ALEXANDER KOSCIAN “Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it’s time we controlled the population to allow the survival of our environment.” David Attenborough, 2011 Proudly hailing from Kingston Upon Hull, Alex Koscian is a photojournalist with aspirations of success in an industry bursting with an ever-increasing number of practitioners. In an age in which anybody with a smartphone and a social media account can consider themselves photojournalists, Alex seeks to bring the prestige back to a withering art. This series of images explores Britain’s National Parks, and how they are rapidly being forgotten for the natural wonders they are. Across the world, vast areas of natural and ecological importance are diminishing, and within the UK this is no different. Threats such as fracking, mining, and urban expansion, are putting the natural world under pressures not seen on this planet since the last major extinction event 66 million years ago – only this time we are to blame. Humanity’s ever increasing ego and greed has led us to completely destroy such vast ecosystems and habitats, and now the last few remaining areas are too under threat. We have to ask ourselves: “is this really the legacy we want to leave on this planet?”
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GABRIELLE PARKER Gabbi Parker is a photojournalist and designer from West Yorkshire who specialises in editorial portraiture and online journalism. Alongside her studies at university, Gabbi has worked with various cosmetic companies to create visual online content using her own photography. After writing various online articles and designing multiple digital magazine layouts throughout her degree, Gabbi now owns a dedicated beauty and lifestyle blog. Established in early 2016, this online platform has also developed her understanding of illustrative graphics for website design as well as being beneficent behind the creativity in photographing and publishing editorial portraits. The images in this exhibition are reflective of the genre of photography Gabbi specifies in, which also incorporates herself as the makeup artist as well as the photographer.
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MELLISSA RYE Mellissa Pye is a photojournalist from Warrington with a passion for human and animal rights. Her main work is focused on the puppy industry and dog rehoming where she has been involved in documenting No Kill shelters, a licenced breeder and people who have adopted and rehomed dogs. She admires the work of Tim Hetherington and Danny Gold and aspires to work as a war correspondent in the future, possible working with charity organisations to highlight their work in conflict zones and to show the effects of war. Mellissa hopes to continue developing her skills by participating in a Masters at Newcastle University studying International Multimedia Journalism in 2008.
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SIMON REDDINGTON “The path in front of you is rarely a straight line. It’s full of bumps ... Embrace the bumps in the road.” Ellen Bennett Simon Reddington is a photographer, graphic designer, and image retoucher based in Leeds, who's had an interest in design work since secondary school. The main focus for his photography is landscape and architecture particularly looking at open space. He also enjoys working in the studio, photographing both people and still life, and has a strong skill base in editing software and post production work. With a strong passion of travel and adventure, he has taken images around many European countries, soon to be traveling Indonesia. “I’ve had a strong enthusiasm for designing for a long while, and being able to use my skills throughout University has been great. I have had a magazine I have designed, published in cafes around Leeds City Centre and surrounding areas including Waterstones! I definitely plan to use my eye for detail and design after I graduate” - Simon Reddington.
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EUAN RUSSELL Euan is a photographer and web designer based in Northumberland, England who also has film making experience for independent clients. Euan has studied photography for five years and discovered his passion for web design in the last three. He has experience in a range of genres from documentary and sport, to studio portraiture and advertising photography, and has also worked as an events photographer at formal dinners and weddings. 100
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JENNA SCOTT Jenna is a photographer from Cheshire who’s had experience with a variety of photographic styles from still life product shots through to event and travel photography. The photographs in this exhibition are from a six-week volunteer program Jenna undertook in Thailand, in the summer of 2016. Whilst teaching English she took time to explore the environment to create a set of photographs that reveal the space and colour of her surroundings. After graduation, Jenna is travelling to Australia and South East Asia and will be writing a travel blog about her journey, illustrated with her photographs.
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Ella Sedman is a photojournalist and designer from Manchester who specialises in magazine design. Predominantly a portraiture photographer, Ella has also worked alongside various protest groups and independent art companies. After consistently opting to create magazine content throughout her university life, her most notable work came in the form of She magazine. Established in late 2016, She is an independent art, photography and culture magazine that celebrates contemporary girl culture. Developed to encourage creativity, conversation and a sense of community for girls, She is primarily made up of short, female-orientated photo-stories. She creator Ella says, “I wanted to produce something myself, and my friends would read, and enjoy.� Through the artistic fluidity magazine production facilitates, Ella relished in the creative freedom magazine design facilitates. Working in a variety of creative disciplines from photography and writing through to graphic design and illustrative artwork, she plans to continue with magazine design after university.
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Harriet Skinner grew up in London but is now based in Leeds. Her primary genre is travel and she uses her passion for photography to highlight the planet’s diverse landscapes. She’s been to a variety of European and American destinations and previous series’ have included images from Norway and the Czech Republic, specifically capturing the beauty of Oslo and Prague. Her most recent photography series is set in Canada, a country ranked amongst one of the highest for quality of life, economic freedom and education. Harriet’s photography portrays the serenity and peacefulness of this diverse country. After finishing A-Levels with an A* in Photography, she also received a gold arts-award for a project that involved transferring photographs onto sentimental items, a series that reflected deterioration and preservation. This was inspired by the works of Robin Wood and his artistic campaign to stop forest fires, deforestation and melting ice caps with the anchoring slogan “Destroying nature is destroying life”. Harriet has pursued her love for nature and landscape photography at Leeds Beckett University, where she has just finished studying Photographic Journalism. Her photographs feature in various national trust websites and brochures including Harewood House and Painshill Park as well as the Western University promotional advertisements in Ontario, Canada.
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MACEY SMALES
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ALEX TOMLINSON Alex Tomlinson, is a 21-year-old photographer who’s been photographing for 7 years. His work focuses mainly on wildlife, urban environment and reportage images. The idea of preserving time in a physical form has always interested Alex and motivated his photography. He has created bodies of work in a variety of places from farms and festivals, to hospitals and house parties. Currently living in the north of England, between Leeds and Liverpool, Alex hopes to break into industry, ultimately shooting for the BBC, once he’s finished his degree in Photographic Journalism. Alex has worked in a photo-studio and used a dark room to improve his versatility. His camera and video skills are also supported by knowledge of post-production software such as Adobe Indesign, Photoshop and Lightroom.
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LUCINDA WALDRON
Lucie Waldron is a photographer based in Leeds who primarily shoots travel, architecture and landscape photographs. She has secured two internships, one with a product photographer, and another with a European travel company, in order to further her pursuit in travel photography. The series of work in this exhibition is based on her travel experiences, depicting specific culture and iconic viewpoints as well as capturing the reality behind these travel destinations. After graduating Lucie wants to continue her passion for travel photography.
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JOSHUA WHITTAKER The photography displayed is based on non-league football, and its importance within local communities. Capturing the sports cultural and social qualities, the work showcases the nature of non-league football clubs, and the impact they have on people from all different walks of life. By photographing the match action, the visual content gives the viewer a feel of what it’s like being pitch side, whilst displaying the emotions of the footballers. These specific photographs were used alongside a research report which explored the commercialisation within football and the problems that have arisen because of this. This area of work is currently topical within photojournalism, with many individuals and publications creating and sharing content surrounding the world of non-league. These photographs alongside others will be used for future projects focusing on the topic of non-league football.
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ADAM WRIGHT Adam Wright is a photographer and retoucher from Warrington based in Leeds who has been influenced by surrealist photography, particularly the work of Man Ray. Adam has worked as a personal assistant for Matt Ford, a fashion photographer, on a number of photo shoots and also with other industry professionals Mark Melia, Lola Loves Boutique, Lush Hair Extensions and Homotopia. He has had a passion for photography and retouching for over five years, and is highly skilled in image-editing software such as Photoshop. The photographs in this exhibition are reflective of the style that he has grown into and are inspired by the work of Kirsty Mitchell, a fine art photographer and independent magazines such as Toilet Paper and Plastik. After graduating, Adam would like to work as a creative director on independent magazines.
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