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Abbie Stewardson
After studying the work of Kate Barclay, I felt inspired by landscape photography and how an image can capture the natural beauty of a single second. I found exploring the landscape enjoyable and saw some amazing scenes that I wanted to convey through my photos. I have focused on taking positive images that convey a calm and peaceful atmosphere. Using skills I have learnt from studying Barclay’s work, I used techniques to capture the movement in the water and the sky; this creates a simple frame that speaks for itself. I believe my images show honesty and convey a positive outlook on ‘Man’s environment’.
Laura Gathercole
After looking at the work of photographers such as Britta Jaschinski and Art Wolfe I wanted to create photos that contained nature in all it’s beauty. While on a recent trip to Florida it is very apparent that it is very colourful over there, everything is bold and bright and whatever lacked colour was still beautiful in its own way. I set out to capture this in my photos, and show how Florida is so inviting, so warm and so different than everyone expects. Most people don’t see Florida’s hidden yet vibrant beauty, as they are blinded by the big names associated. I hope I have managed to show what I saw while I was over there, and share a spark of enthusiasm to protect our world, before the beauty is blinded due to man.
Emma Snowden
The photographer Martin Parr inspires my work; I especially like how he creates such highly saturated colours in his photographs. It has been said that his subject choice is satirical and entertaining, and finds the beautiful in the banal. This has influenced how I look at my surroundings and what I see through the lens of my camera. Recently I have been taking snap shots of people in their environments, although quite mundane, the results have been interesting and received many different responses. These photographs were taken locally at the seaside resorts of Great Yarmouth and Hemsby.
Jamie Webb
I have a keen interest in both Photography and Textiles and I am particularly inspired by two artists, Lesley Riley and Robert Heinecken. Lesley Riley is a mixed media artist and combines fabric with photos and a quote relating to a memory. Using Photography to capture memories is something that greatly interests me. Whilst Robert Heinecken takes a silhouette and places various images on the top to convey a story at the particular time it was put together.
I wanted to combine both of these ideas to come up with a unique way of displaying memories. I photographed various childhood memories, made them into just a silhouette and layered a fabric pattern over the top of this to produce my final images.
Sophie Elliott
I mainly like to photograph models and produce creative portraiture, with an underlying theme to them. The photos I have included in this collection all have a grotty, grainy element to them that adds a darker tone. I base a lot of my photos off musings and thoughts that occur to me, but some are influenced by song lyrics from bands such as Madina Lake, Atreyu, and other such musicians. The theme I am developing at the moment is based around colour, more specifically the colour White. The photos I have included in this exhibition are loosely based around this theme, including a darker edge to fairytales, creating sophistication in a hostile environment, and the beauty of the past (i.e. the 1950s). All the photos were taken in Autumn and so a sepia tone was present in the original compositions, which I enhanced to add a dry, gritty edge to the photos. In the future I’m hoping to look more at darker, more alternative compositions that really challenge the status quo.
Becca Mitton
The theme for this exhibition left me with many questions. Most importantly, where do I want to take it? At first I wanted to completely avoid nature and environmental issues because it was the first thing that came to my mind, and I figured everyone else would be thinking the same thing. I went through many different ideas, like exploring if maybe safety would be a possibility, and I even dipped a little into the idea of obsession and addiction but nothing really stood out much. Then, in October, I went to Ireland to visit a friend and on the plane ride there I managed to get many pictures that I thought were very effective. This lead to me wanting to use a photo I already had of planes from the Lowestoft Air Show, so that I could show one view from a plan and one view from a plane. This lead to my theme for this exhibition becoming The Sky.
Emily Morgan
I get a lot of my inspiration simply by stopping and looking at the world around me; I always try to study things from a different or detached perspective. I recently studied work by Photographer, Nicolas Grospierre. His work influenced me to look around at the world that the human race has created for itself. Where I once took architecture for granted, I now see it as a symbol of identity and community. Even the ugliest or mundane looking of places hold their own kind of beauty - we just have to look a little closer.
ARTIST STATEMENTS - PHOTOGRAPHY
Abbie Stewardson
After studying the work of Kate Barclay, I felt inspired by landscape photography and how an image can capture the natural beauty of a single second. I found exploring the landscape enjoyable and saw some amazing scenes that I wanted to convey through my photos. I have focused on taking positive images that convey a calm and peaceful atmosphere. Using skills I have learnt from studying Barclay’s work, I used techniques to capture the movement in the water and the sky; this creates a simple frame that speaks for itself. I believe my images show honesty and convey a positive outlook on ‘Man’s environment’.
Laura Gathercole
After looking at the work of photographers such as Britta Jaschinski and Art Wolfe I wanted to create photos that contained nature in all it’s beauty. While on a recent trip to Florida it is very apparent that it is very colourful over there, everything is bold and bright and whatever lacked colour was still beautiful in its own way. I set out to capture this in my photos, and show how Florida is so inviting, so warm and so different than everyone expects. Most people don’t see Florida’s hidden yet vibrant beauty, as they are blinded by the big names associated. I hope I have managed to show what I saw while I was over there, and share a spark of enthusiasm to protect our world, before the beauty is blinded due to man.
Emma Snowden
The photographer Martin Parr inspires my work; I especially like how he creates such highly saturated colours in his photographs. It has been said that his subject choice is satirical and entertaining, and finds the beautiful in the banal. This has influenced how I look at my surroundings and what I see through the lens of my camera. Recently I have been taking snap shots of people in their environments, although quite mundane, the results have been interesting and received many different responses. These photographs were taken locally at the seaside resorts of Great Yarmouth and Hemsby.
Jamie Webb
I have a keen interest in both Photography and Textiles and I am particularly inspired by two artists, Lesley Riley and Robert Heinecken. Lesley Riley is a mixed media artist and combines fabric with photos and a quote relating to a memory. Using Photography to capture memories is something that greatly interests me. Whilst Robert Heinecken takes a silhouette and places various images on the top to convey a story at the particular time it was put together.
I wanted to combine both of these ideas to come up with a unique way of displaying memories. I photographed various childhood memories, made them into just a silhouette and layered a fabric pattern over the top of this to produce my final images.
Sophie Elliott
I mainly like to photograph models and produce creative portraiture, with an underlying theme to them. The photos I have included in this collection all have a grotty, grainy element to them that adds a darker tone. I base a lot of my photos off musings and thoughts that occur to me, but some are influenced by song lyrics from bands such as Madina Lake, Atreyu, and other such musicians. The theme I am developing at the moment is based around colour, more specifically the colour White. The photos I have included in this exhibition are loosely based around this theme, including a darker edge to fairytales, creating sophistication in a hostile environment, and the beauty of the past (i.e. the 1950s). All the photos were taken in Autumn and so a sepia tone was present in the original compositions, which I enhanced to add a dry, gritty edge to the photos. In the future I’m hoping to look more at darker, more alternative compositions that really challenge the status quo.
Becca Mitton
The theme for this exhibition left me with many questions. Most importantly, where do I want to take it? At first I wanted to completely avoid nature and environmental issues because it was the first thing that came to my mind, and I figured everyone else would be thinking the same thing. I went through many different ideas, like exploring if maybe safety would be a possibility, and I even dipped a little into the idea of obsession and addiction but nothing really stood out much. Then, in October, I went to Ireland to visit a friend and on the plane ride there I managed to get many pictures that I thought were very effective. This lead to me wanting to use a photo I already had of planes from the Lowestoft Air Show, so that I could show one view from a plan and one view from a plane. This lead to my theme for this exhibition becoming The Sky.
Emily Morgan
I get a lot of my inspiration simply by stopping and looking at the world around me; I always try to study things from a different or detached perspective. I recently studied work by Photographer, Nicolas Grospierre. His work influenced me to look around at the world that the human race has created for itself. Where I once took architecture for granted, I now see it as a symbol of identity and community. Even the ugliest or mundane looking of places hold their own kind of beauty - we just have to look a little closer.