Louise Axby-Hirst

This body of work evokes the genre of fashion photography to investigate ideas and issues surrounding the notion of the gaze and particularly the female gaze. Employing a cinematic aesthetic, and an unelaborated narrative, these images present an idealised instant: the pinnacle of the action, the clearest facial expression or the perfect composition.

The objectification of the male characters within this work importantly seeks to establish a relationship between the image and the viewer, a relationship that invites the viewer to continue the fantasy.

Emmie Bates

Sociology is the study of society. I am a social photographer.
I study people. The media places great pressure on us to aspire to the ideologies of the ruling class.

Just as the lower classes’ of the past photographed themselves in an alternative setting than that of their real life, we still today create false realities for ourselves through the way we present our familial photographs.

I have taken the example of a wedding. We dress in elaborate and expensive clothes, in a venue which holds no other relevance to us personally. We then return to our daily lives and live happily ever after? The purpose of this project is to juxtapose the utopian wedding image with the realities of a marriage. It isn’t always happy. It isn’t always beautiful. It doesn’t always last.

Peter Hirst

The work is a documentary based in the North of England. It follows fifty-seven year old Janet from Middlesborough.
Living in warden controlled housing for the past few years, Janet has found herself in a position that many people find themselves in, but not usually at her age.

The project considers three main aspects of her life in the warden controlled housing and how she socialises with the other residents on the estate.

Carly Jackson

Carly stretches the boundaries of photography and enjoys manipulating images in and outside the camera to produce pieces of art.

She enjoys working with all aspects of photography from black and white to colour; film to digital; studio to street life and she also uses different tools to help her create her surreal images such as scanners; chemicals on negatives and prints; and photo-montage skills.

Carly has a collection of all types of cameras, specialising in the older film cameras, and she uses these in her work to create a specific ambience. She aspires to the work of many photographers but especially that of Francesca Woodman; Maggie Taylor and Man Ray.

Lee Jobson

Lee Jobson is an avid wildlife photographer who is trying to express his belief that all animals should be free.

Whilst he understands the need for conservation, the sight of captive animals is contrary to his belief that nature should take its course.

Mankind has moved from building enclosures to keep wild animals out to building enclosures to keep wild animals in.

Patrick Kilian

Patrick is interested in 'visual thoughts' and the notion of a photograph being merely the 'tip of the iceberg' of the larger unseen reality beneath.

This project is about unseen sights and photography's relationship with space and time.

Marcin Mazur