Lewys Canton

Homeless, 2012

Homeless, 2012

Homeless, 2012

Homeless, 2012

This exploration of work is aimed to produce a documentary series to capture the inner struggles and perceptions people have toward homelessness. This idea was based on the concept of human experience and emotional connections.  I have use photography as a means to document the world around me. I enjoy taking pictures that call attention to things that other people overlook. My interest comes from ideas about the way people live their lives within a contemporary society. In a way these images are constructed with the intent and purpose to comment on preconceived ideas of what its like to be homeless and undermines this nostalgic pre-conception we already associate towards these people. 

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Lesley Farrell

Perennial Gardens

This series includes images of tools and household items found, over time, on my allotment, some no longer functional and some that I continue to use. The smaller items are carefully arranged in groups, as if staging a formal portrait and shot on the site where they have been found. 

Allotments, as spaces that commonly exist on the peripheries of towns and cities, represent, for many users, an escape from an urban lifestyle. They are also places where items from the city that have outlived their original function are collected and recycled, this process of regeneration mirroring the perennial nature of allotment life and produce.  They are both communal and private spaces. Whilst users may mark out their territories, allotment tenants are temporary occupants, nothing is owned, and everything is passed on and reused until items eventually decay.

In the most recent images I have combined the man-made artefacts with animal structures also found on the same allotment.  I am interested in the coexistence of the natural and man-made in our urban spaces, and the constant cycle of rebirth, reuse and decay. Photography provides a unique medium to explore this relationship, the still image interrupting the cycle, in a would-be attempt to stall the passage of time.

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Catherine Jacobs

Visionary architect Jan Gehl stresses that “lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities can be strengthened immeasurably by increasing the concern for pedestrians, cyclists and city life in general”

Created from small everyday objects, without the use of digital manipulation, In Proximity is an ongoing series of unpopulated, high-rise urban landscapes. Hovering between image and sculpture, reality and fiction, this ambiguity perhaps allows space to contemplate how architecture and ways of moving through cities influence the way we feel.

In Proximity

In Proximity

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Phillipa Klaiber

'Last of the Free Miners' is an on going project documenting the few remaining Free Miners of the Forest of Dean. The practice itself is no different to conventional mining; it is the traditions of eligibility combined with the modernisation of such an industry that make it so unusual. The mines that remain today are hidden away within the forest, each worked by two or three men. As a whole, the series endevours to document the working lives of the Free Miners and their Forest, exploring both recent changes in the landscape and those made hundreds of years ago in the ancient iron mines that have since been reclaimed by the forest. In our society of vast industrial and commercial growth, the Free Miners of the Forest of Dean represent a more traditional way of life that is easily forgotten.

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Owen Harries

Wales was once a country famous for its industry, the south in particular being home to countless factory and mining towns, but in recent years these industrial hubs have all but disappeared. Port Talbot, where these images were taken, is the last true industrial Welsh town. A blight on the horizon, and unavoidable point on the M4 corridor, it holds a strange place in every Welshman's identity. A place everybody passes but nobody ventures into, I have chosen to document this town, the industry surrounding it, and it's effect on the natural landscape.

Derelict Warehouse, Briton Ferry

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John Trickey

'on the edge' is my Final Year Project on the BA(Hons) Photography at the University of West London, Ealing, London

This defines the abstract edge created between the rural and urban, using the symbolism of man-made objects within the construct of the scene.

The project reflects upon personal issues spent living on this edge - liberty and confinement - and the movement not only between the two, but discovering the liminal point where the moment and movement exists between life and death.

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Gideon Vass

This project is a study into the suburban areas of south Manchester. The main focus is the relationship between people and place, how the structures and obstacles within this environment interact and obscure the view of the figure. I often direct the camera towards the household, the concern being how people act in their comfortable and immediate surroundings and what they are willing to expose to the outside world. Through these observations I aim to highlight the interplay between human actions and architectural arrangement.

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