BA Hons ✛ Photography University of Huddersfield ✛ Online Degree Show Catalogue 2022

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Photography is so central to our everyday that as an activity it seems almost natural.

The photograph however is a paradox.

An uncountable number of images are created at any given moment, from selfies to surveillance, artwork to artless visual documents. While the quantity of images being produced can be considered now like a constant stream, the photograph itself is still, and it is this stillness that offers the opportunity to pause and reflect on our own current, collective moment.

The work created by the photographers graduating this year, carries a wealth of these opportunities. In an images saturated society, the projects are still unique and made with ambition and integrity.

I encourage you now to take your time, study the images, and appreciate the thought, skill, and insights they contain.

Enjoy.

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Farzana Begum

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Kieran Brittain

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Sophie Buckley

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Kian Creighton-Schwarz

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Kelse Evans

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Finlay Hall

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Clayton Heeley

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Charlotte Ingram

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Darian Jones

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Tess King

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Saskia Mallinson

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Jessica Mark

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Marisabel Matias

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Nikita Merchant

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Chloe Moulding

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Helene Nesset

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Iona O’Grady

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Korin Philip

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Katie Pickering

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Natasha Quinlan

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Liv Senior

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Amy Skidmore

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Olivia Strettle

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Kara Sweeney

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Michelle Tovar Dussan

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Laura Umpleby

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Francesca Ward

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Farzana Begum

Growing up with the Mountains

A documentation of coming to terms with the surgical experience.

The encounters and her current state; the works explore a series of strong, distorted images that depict how she felt after the surgery.

Photographing her surroundings and nature are imagined settings that have rescued her when she felt vulnerable.

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Kieran Brittain

A Melancholy Note

A Melancholy Note is a lyrical documentary project that resembles the exploration of the self. Using film photography as a form of therapy, to encounter with past and current dispirited experiences; openly willing to learn to accept them.

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Sophie Buckley

This project is a collection of Sophie’s photographs that she has captured over the last year whilst shadowing the world’s most followed beauty influencer, Abby Roberts and developing her skills as a portrait, fashion, music and documentary photographer.

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Kian Creighton-Schwarz

Act Natural

Act Natural is a commercial Project that looks at how one will pose when instructed to act natural in front of the camera. This project aims to show that when people are not given instructions on how to pose, they choose to pose how they have seen people pose in magazines and advertisements. It shows how people think they should pose when they are asked to act natural.

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Kelse Evans

PLAN2

PLAN2, is a project created in order to showcase sustainable fashion. The basis of this project surrounds itself within Second-hand fashion, an area under photographed and talked about. The work created has been captured in a way that allows second-hand fashion to be seen as equal to fast fashion, as fast fashion isn’t the only way to shop.

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Finlay Hall

xover

‘Xover’ is a project produced by Finlay, that looks at how different gazes react to the ‘performed body’. The photographs explore and convey how social constructs of these gazes, control what we think and feel, of other bodies.

Using the camera to exploit her body, Finlay forces images of herself to disconnect from societal norms.

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Clayton Heeley

Seeking Out Euphoria

‘Seeking out Euphoria’ documents Clayton Heeley’s Gender Transition from Female to Male. Using the camera as a tool for documentation and performance, Heeley visually communicates emotions experienced in relation to his Transition whilst also using photography as a platform for education on Transgenderism, and to challenge the medical gaze.

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Charlotte Ingram

They say a picture paints a thousand words, but it can also tempt the appetites of its viewers. This practice is tailored towards the food industry, the work created from self directed briefs has opened up a variety of different avenues ranging from savoury to sweet foods.

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Darian Jones

Mindset

Oblique presentations of which suggest signs of anxiety, focusing on capturing the impulse triggers that individuals make when talking about their traumatic experiences. Deceptions of gestures are shown in order to trigger subsequent interpretation by a viewer who might share similar feelings. This work aims to promote mental well-being.

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Tess King

Fifty-Six Years With Tony

Her grandfather passed away in June. The loss was sudden and very unexpected. This project explores the interactions shared between Tess and her grandmother since her grandfather’s death. Without her husband, Ruth’s identity has evolved drastically as she is now aware of her need to become more independent. The work illustrates this development from a companionship within a hectic, family dynamic to a more solitary existence as a widow.

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Saskia Mallinson

Family and Memory

This work focuses on family, memory and representation.

The theme that Saskia has chosen to pursue is the contrast between capturing a special moment at an event or just in life, in a documentary style and the more posed and constructed scenario and idealised portraits.

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Jessica Mark

Where We Left Off

This work explores the relationship between two siblings, specifically the disruption it endured and the rebuild it then subsequently went through. A change occurred for one sibling when they expressed they were transgender, which of course was a huge shift on the family dynamic, especially for the brother and sister.

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Marisabel Matias

ESTE OESTE

This is a sneak peek of my photobook showing the absence of home and finding it through a comparison of the place I came from and the place the photographer is in. Starting from an empty room and moving to a place that seems foreign and at times feels isolated.

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Nikita Merchant

Still on my mind. A part of me.

‘Still on my mind. A part of me’ explores Nikita Merchant’s long-term mental health’s experience and a journey to befriend her mind. This was explored through symbolic images suggesting, What if scars and traumas were worn with pride instead of carrying them with shame? What about embracing the inner child to allow growth and acceptance?

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Chloe Moulding

Living For Another

This work is a series of images presenting an authored narrative of motherhood. Aiming to form an understanding of the experience a first-time mother encounters by exploring emotions and isolating pressures, when the reality of another life, solely dependent on her, shifts her main focus from herself to the baby.

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Helene Nesset

II

II is an exploration of the grief and guilt experienced after the loss of her twin sister, their correlation as twins and the life they shared but no longer do, made as an attempt to understand her sister’s reasons for leaving. Helene’s revisiting beloved childhood memories, while simultaneously confronting the personal trauma and learning to let go.

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Iona O’Grady

Eden

From an imaginary place to a domestic setting. Eden was an enchanted garden, connected to Iona’s home of fifteen years. A place where Iona has spent the majority of her life growing up and holds the past memories of her childhood dreams. Eden explores her newly established independence since she has enetered her twenties and the realisation of only having her own company to depend on, since losing her imaginary friends.

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Korin Phillip

Forgotten Places

‘Forgotten Places’ documents Korin’s interactions with the city and unconventional observations of the places he discovers through this exploration. These images represent both his reserved and intimate perspectives of the city, often showcasing the beauty which can be found in a place uncommonly observed this way.

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Katie Pickering

Commercial Fashion Portfolio

This practice explores commercial fashion, expressing diversity and individuality through clothing, using technical skills within the studio and professional standard equipment as well as working collaboratively in a professional context. Being able to combine a passion with the project and see ideas come to life was very rewarding.

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Natasha Quinlan

My body is not my body

My body is not my body is an exploration of sexual harassment and how 97% of women have experienced it in their lifetime. It is about reclaiming my body from men who think it’s theirs to touch and by using self portraiture I am able to take back control and consent to putting my body on screen. This project is extremely personal and allows me to use phototherapy to come to terms with my own struggles.

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Liv Senior

Empower

Working collaboratively with other women focusing on the beauty and fashion industry widely showcased through media, this work is informed by advertising in magazines and how women are seen in imagery, looking in-depth into female and male gaze and how it is embodied.

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Amy Skidmore

Goods Inwards

Goods inwards is a project which focuses on the clear differences in architecture. Particularly it showcases the visual differences between buildings during the industrial revolution and industry buildings in the modern day. Displayed in black and white, they capture the essence of what is new, and what is old.

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Olivia Strettle

78 at N° 32

This project brings beauty to the everyday by exploring the age of Olivia’s grandad within the space that is his home. He has lived there for over fiftyfour years and it continues to hold so much value, comfort, and familiarity.

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Kara Sweeney

Hidden Figures

‘Hidden Figures’ explores the lack of gender and racial diversity portrayed in the form of statues, from the perspective of a biracial woman. It reflects art that is limited in its existence amongst artistic mediums of sculptures and photographic content.

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Michelle Tovar Dussan

Fashion Portfolio

This work explores and engages with a variety of brands within the Fashion Industry to build a professional portfolio that can be shown to clients between Commercial and Editorial Industry. Specifically targeting editorial and beauty, to overall achieve crafting light in studio and on location.

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Laura Umpleby

Beauty Portrait and Product Portfolio

Conforming to commercial photographic conventions of the popular cosmetics brand, Morphe, Laura focusses on the ‘Morphe 2’ collaborative campaign with Charli and Dixie D’Amelio. Collaborating with aspiring makeup artists, Laura aims to showcase the campaign’s message of a clean, natural aesthetic to a younger demographic Morphe targets.

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Francesca Ward

Red Shirt

What are family archives? Are they just photos that sit in the cupboard or are they special memories? This project explores family albums and experiments with different ways of bringing memories back to life. Some images are exact recreations of the originals whereas others are created in an indirect way.

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