CHARLES BARAKAT

Artificial Landscapes

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Photography Middlesex University

The concept for this project is based around landscapes and the relationship between what is real and what is fake in modern-day photography. The aim is to symbolise more than just landscape photography to trigger the viewer in to questioning their own perception of reality within the images. This concept was chosen because it combines many factors of art and photography that the photographer enjoys, such as surrealism, the natural world, and his technical ability. The photographer finds it interesting how landscapes are immovable and one of the aspects of life that is constant and never changing.

DANIEL HOXHA

Breaking Free

DESTINATION: Apprenticeship

This project focuses on the idea of trauma and the impression of breaking free from it. What has happened in someone’s life and what is currently going on through their mind, are two diverse set of circumstances. Their past may have set a barrier for life, but their future is what can be changed for the better. Inspired by the photographers Cho Gi-Seok and Emmanuel Mathez, this work focuses on the emotional experiences and the backstories of people. This project hopefully helps us to see that guidance and new directions can help those overcome traumatic occurrences.

DENIZ ALBAY

Blurred Thoughts

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Advertising and Brand Design

Ravensbourne University, London

This project is more than the glamorous culture of beauty. The photographer transforms these images using the techniques of blur and texture to portray the chaotic sensations and emotions that can be experienced within people.

The inspiration for the work has come from the photographer Ryan Muirhead, and the way he used photography as a cathartic healing medium for improving his own mental health.

ELICIA THEOPHANI

Redefining Beauty Standards

DESTINATION: Apprenticeship

The focus in this project is to capture the emotional pressures we feel from beauty standards and to de-glamourise this. The use of ripping and tearing methods in the work creates a distorted appearance and signifies that human imperfections are to be celebrated because we can re-define beauty standards however we want.  

the intention is for the work to have an influential and positive impact on young people and to educate them in changing the way they see themselves and therefore improving their mental health.

GRACE MBALA

Finding Peace in Nature

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Early Childhood Studies

London Metropolitan University

This project focuses not just on the hippie movement but on the essence of nature, showing the earthy and organic aesthetic. The main inspiration for this project was the peace and love movement when hippies were wanting to achieve during the 1960s.

The photographer has been inspired by the work of ‘Jana Kukebal’ and the way her work invites the audience to get themselves into the fashion culture. They were also drawn by peaceful atmosphere and amazing colour palettes that was shown in her photographs.

JESSIE FINN

A Messy Life of Love

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Photography

Bournemouth University

This project's goal is to portray the stages of love, the process of falling in and out of love, mainly focusing on the downfall and negative side of loving someone. I wanted to have 7 different stages all representing different phases and strong feelings that relate to a relationship.

My main inspiration came from Petra Colins and her earlier work surrounding the female gaze and the experiences of young women.

JOSIAH HAZELEY

Household ghosts

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Fine Art Photography

Glasgow school of Art

Household ghosts is a horror inspired photography project. The work took inspiration from many different horror movies and games including: The ring, hereditary, Dead by daylight, resident evil and the conjuring. It also takes some inspiration from non-media specifically anxiety and how it effects people.

The work was constructed primarily as fine art project and as such does not have much of a meaning behind it Instead focusing more on having an abstract setting and interesting atmosphere.

JULIA FAJEK

Keeping Sane in a Chaotic World

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Photography University of the Arts London

For the photographer, ‘Keeping Sane in a Chaotic World” is about the mental chaos that goes on inside our minds in response to what we are surrounded by. This might be the people we socialise with or our environment. A lot of people with chaotic lives tend to keep to themselves and be silent and still, and this tension is something I want to show through my work. Emotions can be temporary and controlled by us, but it is when we give up control that problems grow and begin to consume us. The key to keeping sane in a world of chaos is to stay in control of the only thing we can control which is ourselves.  

The main objective for this project is to find some way of showing the way a person can remain calm whilst having overwhelming and chaotic things happen around them.

KRISTOF DALMI

Car Photography

DESTINATION: Employment

This project explores the idea of beauty behind cars, throughout this project, there was a lot of opportunity to develop a range of skills that have significantly enhanced approaches to car photography. One of the most significant takeaways has been the ability to think creatively when taking pictures, experimenting with different angles, lighting setups, and composition techniques to capture unique and captivating images. The concept of the project is to create some creative pictures that are in the style of old and new magazine, online marketing/advertisement, or simple pictures for social media. My resources will be the internet to search for showrooms and dealerships and social media to find the same thing or search for people who want pictures of their car or bikes.

LUIGI MAGGI

Lifestyle of a Man

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Photography

University of the West of England

This project focuses on the life as a carpenter and the story told through his hand-made crafts. It concentrates on the personal reasons for his personal passions in later life and asks questions about their ambitions in his work. Through the building up of this book narrative, the project invites us to consider issues of sustainability and the value of making an honest living, with the experimentation of macro, portraiture, and wide-angle photography.

LUNA JENKINSON

Don’t Go Gentle

DESTINATION: Employment

This project explores the idea of transformation within yourself.

I wanted to demonstrate the idea that our emotions can be complex, and intense, so much so that they begin to overcome us; this project was put together with my own thoughts, feelings, and experiences in mind, and it is a means to show how allowing yourself to be consumed by your emotions and experiences can transform a person from one version of themselves to another.

My images are a storytelling sequence, showing the model progressing through stages of transformation. This is representative of my own ‘healing process’ and is a visualisation of the way emotions can manifest themselves.

MAHDIEH FAGHIHI ZADEH

Searching for the Beauty

DESTINATION: BA Hons. Digital Photography

Ravensbourne University

People have always had different concepts about internal and external beauty standards and how our modern lifestyle has put greatest value on external beauty (makeup, beauty procedures and clothing styles).

This project focuses on how human being are insecure about their outside look by showing this in fashion photography; letting the light to show that connectedness with the inside: in other words, the aim is to show this by bringing the real internal beauty which is hidden inside by exploring the lights and shapes on the external look (body).   

SAMUEL CUSHING

Exploring Hidden Emotions

DESTINATION: Employment

This project explores the theme of showing how people cope with both negative and positive experiences they’ve had in their life, and how’s it's made them change as a person. The experiences mainly include toxic relationships with friends, family or partners, or it could include happy moments that have impacted them in a positive way.

This topic isn’t really normalised to be able to express normally, it's something that most people usually just bottled up in their head instead of expressing how they feel. The main aim is to show people that they should be able to express what they are feeling instead of building up any negative emotions.

TIA KULUNK

Splash Of Feelings

DESTINATION: Employment

Organised chaos is more than just untidiness and clutter, it is about the organised chaos people can feel within their own lives. The photographer identifies with the theme “a sense of organised chaos’ because, although there are a lot of pressures in the lives of women, we always feel we have to put on a brave face and carry on regardless, hiding behind their true feelings. The pictures on display capture the mess inside of a person's head and the photographer used colour to portray built up hidden emotion.