Graduate and Free Range exhibitor Wayne Daniel is featured in the July edition of the British Journal of Photography.
Wayne “… takes a novel look at the photographic archive and questions notions of validity, authenticity and manipulation …”
He graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Photography.
Thank you to all students, staff and visitors involved with Vantage who made this year such a success.
Daniel Llobera’s final year under graduate degree show project has been chosen as the Best in Show by the British Journal of Photography at Free Range 2013.
Writing on the BJP website, Gemma Padley explains:
“While this freedom of communication has its obvious advantages, there is a darker side; the blurring of the distinction between public and private has made it increasingly difficult to know what or who is real. When we see an image of a person online how can we be sure he or she is who they say they are?
These are some of the issues graduate Daniel Llobera addresses in his project, Search, which has won one of BJP‘s two Best in Show prizes at this year’s Free Range exhibitions.
Appropriating portraits from dating websites, missing persons sites and the FBI ‘most wanted’ website, Llobera manipulates these images digitally to make them look pixelated and in doing so questions the way we present ourselves online. At the core of the project are questions of representation and how we gather information about other people in an online world.”
More content here http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2277066/daniel-llobera-wins-bjps-best-in-show-at-free-range-2013
Bethany Hewitt has been selected by one of the Source Judges, Sue Steward, Photography Critic for London Evening Standard.
“Fashion photography outside of magazines struggles for recognition as Fine Art and is often the least praised in competitions. Bethany Hewitt ignores the classic styles and predictable ‘shoots’, instead working with collage to challenge traditional depictions of women. By replacing facial features with cut-out patches of blackness, she ironically creates a new, unconventional, Dadaist beauty. The collage which opens this series, reveals her tremendous skill which results in a myriad of model-perfect faces and lips. Works on Hewitt’s own website reveal strong influence from the pioneering photo-collagists Hannah Hoch and the contemporary John Stezaker.”
View the series online http://www.source.ie/graduate/2013/selection3.html
Opening night in the Vantage studio …
Today the group of 3rd yr students selected to show their work at Free Range in London worked hard to install the exhibition and it is looking fantastic. Private View is from 6pm on Thursday 20th June followed by public viewing from 10am on Friday 21st June. All welcome and a viewing is thoroughly recommended.
Gary Woods was selected by one of the Source Judges, Dagmar Seeland, the UK Picture Editor at Stern.
“Gender issues were the subject of a number of works. Some projects were executed with great sensitivity and clear personal involvement, but none managed to inject humour into the debate as well as ‘The Little Merman’ by Gary Woods. This reinterpretation of Anderson’s tale is told in dreamlike images with a nod to Tim Walker. A story for our time, convincingly narrated and tapping directly into topical social issues still capable of raising eyebrows, such as gay marriage.”
View the series at Source Online: www.source.ie/graduate/2013/selection2.html
Vantage Exhibition website: www.vantageexhibition.com
Photography at UCLan is proud to present Vantage, the exhibition of work produced by final year under graduate students. Exhibitions take place in both Preston and London, visitors are welcome to both events.
Vantage Exhibition website: www.vantageexhibition.com
For the past week Final Year under graduate students have been working with staff to hang the final degree show exhibition. Titled Vantage, the exhibition will be open to the public as part of the UCLan Creative Focus week from 10am on Saturday 15th June.
Vantage 2013 is the title for our graduate exhibitions in London and Preston this year.
You can follow the updates at http://vantage2013.wordpress.com
Image by Grace Cappy
My work centres around issues to do with regeneration and the changing landscape of the city. I use a combination of both digital and traditional photographic practices such as cyanotypes to create large scale montage images. Drawing attention to political and economical issues centering around the urban landscape.
Image by Reo Bartosz
I specialise in Fine Art photography and particularly focus on themes exploring identity, the body and distortion. Surrealism is a major influence to my practice and I always aim to achieve a sense of ambiguity by incorporating this genre in my work. I am currently exploring perception of the ideal form with the aim of presenting an alternate body.
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