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

Maria Monfort-Plana

This project is about the concept of beauty. Our society has created a role model of beauty with some standards to be followed.

In this project I ask myself and to the viewer what is beauty? I want to state that beauty is not just the outside of the person, if not the inside; it is not a pretty young face, but the wisdom of the whole life.

What it matters is how the person is inside and how her/his heart and soul are. For that reason beauty can be interpreted from different ways. Everybody won’t coincide with the same type of beauty, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Jamie Morris

'There or thereabouts' is a phrase often heard in motorcycle racing. From a team trying to setup a bike for the crucial qualifying session: “It’ll be there or thereabouts” to the factory-sponsored rider who has underperformed in a race: “I’ll be there or thereabouts in race 2”.

Even a club racing team made up of family members struggling to get the money together to go racing: “We’ll be there or thereabouts in some form or another”.

This project is about showing the lifestyle that is motorcycle racing. Along with motorcycle photography, this is my life. I have tried to show every aspect of what this lifestyle consists of: the racing; the good and bad times; the rebuilding of bikes; the pleasure and the pain; the loss and the gain.

Matthew Mullin

Matthew Mullin is an artistic photographer, hailing from the cutthroat ghettos of Norwich.

His primary focus is the tragedy and romance of the inanimate world.

His desire for this project is to represent a map of humanity by capturing the overlooked oddities and hidden narratives of the everyday social landscape and to express visually the intricate relationship between our psychologies and the close personal physical worlds we subconsciously, or consciously, create.

Lu Parrott

This project looks at the concept of identity and memories.
Taking inspiration from the Surrealists as well as many digital artists, this body of work aims to explore memories of childhood.

Drawing from life experiences, both the positive and the negative; images have been intricately constructed to form a surreal environment, littered with clues to decipher different meanings.

Emma Patterson

Every day, young girls are bombarded with hyper-sexualised images via a variety of mediums: magazines, TV, internet, films...

What effect does this have on them? Does it mean that they have to grow up too fast?
Will they enter relationships they are not ready for?

This project looks at the shocking difference between a young, beautiful girl as herself and and the same beautiful girl when she is trying to be someone she thinks she wants to be.