BA(Hons) photographyIn this image-saturated world where photographs proliferate it is imperative that photographers offer more than a moment captured. The photographers in this exhibition are curious and critically intelligent, they articulate a language that enables insight, understanding and the possibility of thinking anew. We need the eyes and minds of these image-makers as they will be the ones to make sense of our world. At this point in human history, these photographers are uniquely qualified for this task.
The photographers presenting their work here respond to our changing world with a perceptive eye, always critically engaged with the human condition. The images we are offered range across a landscape of human experience: from a close analysis of the lived environment to a critical questioning of the Anthropocene; from introspective enquiry to the expansive possibility of dream. Dr Sarah Bonner Course Leader BA (Hons) Photography |
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Gabe Baker Bennett
The last 12 months lockdown has affected, the publics mental health and well-being but also the ability to access sports and gym facilities. This will be a retrospective (March 2020 – March 2021) looking on the temporary closer of these spaces, making them buildings ‘redundant’ in nature. This series develops on a dystopian-like landscape as the structures that were once flourishing in society, are now disused. By losing the aptitude to access these activity-based spaces/ venues and their physical benefit toward society, they also lose their intrinsic importance of delivering essential support within educational, tackling health risks and encouraging community interrelations. |
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Jonny Cartwright
Website My interests in photography are varied, and this is reflected in my work; this small selection of portraiture, landscape and documentary photographs from the last three years are from separate series shot for both personal and university projects, exploring themes such as environmentalism, history, autobiography, urban decay, and human impact within the landscape. |
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Matthew Cox
Website During the covid 19 pandemic, the home has become an all too familiar environment. A home is traditionally a place of comforting familiarity, but now this familiarity is a source of disappointment, instead the domestic space has become our de facto environment during the various guises of lockdown. Here I found myself in unfamiliar territory, the distant landscape was seemingly out of reach brought on by the message ‘stay at home’. The domestic environment became my new landscape, a landscape that is safe yet frustratingly familiar, yet I found myself willingly occupied capturing this familiarity. |
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Lena Crowe
Website I am Lena Crowe, a documentary and portrait photographer based in west Cumbria. Here you can see a selection of my portraits, artistic works and street photography which I have developed over the last three years. I have a burning passion for documentary approaches and my fascination for history and culture has led me to naturally document as much as possible before it is instantly changed by time. Here we see those (often drastic) changes in the many images I have produced while studying with the University of Cumbria. |
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Nicole Greenwood
Website Nicole Greenwood is an aspiring portrait and fashion photographer based in the North West, UK. Nicole is extremely passionate about what she does and hopes to show this in her images. Having worked with various people in the fashion and performing arts industry, Nicole has a wide experience of both communication skills and photography knowledge. The images displayed are a collection of Nicole’s work from over the past three years, whilst studying at the University of Cumbria. |
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Hannah Jackson
Website I’m Hannah Faith Jackson, a photographer based in central Scotland, whose love of photography grew from a devotion to the great outdoors and seeking new adventures. I find great passion and joy in making photographs and this is a driving element to my practice. As a photographer I explore notions of people, place and landscape; examining the human presence in, and connections with, the Scottish landscape, in the hope that my images inspire viewers to deepen their love for the great outdoors, whilst nurturing an inquisitive mind. The images offered are a selection from disparate projects over the past three years. |
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Kim Messenger
Website Derelict: ‘Derelict’ is a documentary photography project with the intention to document the historical building around Cumbria, UK. This is due to the vast amount of military, industrial and historical heritage, which is disappearing because the pressure of regeneration. As we find it easier to neglect and demolish the old and re-build the new. Lock and Make: ‘Lock and Make’ is a food photography project on baking and cooking. It incorporates the ingredients and recipes used to produce the food, along with a visual on what the ingredients look like. Allowing for an easy baking experience for all ages. |
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Alex O’Brien
Website Vimeo These videos form part of a developing practice which uses accessible moving-image to explore and encourage a decoy visual-language of ambiguity. The improvisational and immediate qualities of these digital expressions allow for consideration of the broader implications of their possibility – and a subsequent existence as viewable products. Embedded within is a utopic desire to navigate the possibilities of digital communication whilst prizing the personal and communal lived experience. |
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Aiden Richardson
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Josh Smith
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