Tara Leigh McGowan

My name is Tara Leigh McGowan I am 22 years old and currently studying an MA in art and design. I was awarded with BA honors degree in contemporary art practices last year and decided to begin my MA last September. My artwork consists of photographic experimentation and collage. I thoroughly enjoy photography, working within the photo studio and the great outdoors. I am a contentious, determined and work extremely hard to fulfill my future goals.  I aspire to be a fantastic teacher; tutor, photographer and I am always looking for new experiences within the art world.  

My most recent project is based on photographic experimentation and collage. I am experimenting the limits of practice within the Gothic and I am discovering that the clichés of Gothic Horror can be one kind of engagement, kitsch for example, or the Uncanny, discomfort, cultural uneasiness, as a more subtle form of disturbance of the reality. I am currently enjoying experimenting with female models within the studio to create the images you are viewing today. 

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Liz Fairbrass

I am a 3rd year student currently studying Contemporary Art. Throughout the course I have always been interested in Photography; making my own handmade pinhole cameras and experimenting with film.

I have always preferred the hands on methods to digital, I think that some of the human-ness and truth can be lost in the perfection of Digital. Using a darkroom and processing your own films gives you a real freedom and is something quite magical with photography and is becoming lost in this new world. Living around Yorkshire all my life I have always been interested in photographing Landscapes and documenting life in and around the city centres.

This set of images are from a trip to Vancouver, shot on an old film camera. Once I had returned I found out that the camera was broken and light was able to leak in and corrupt the film; resulting in the strange tones that can be seen. Using this mistake to my advantage I have continued experimenting with the film negatives manually. I haven't used digital processes to edit these images (apart from scanning them in) and this gives the images an authentic quality I feel couldn't have been created digitally.

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Jenna Woodward

 My name is Jenna Woodward and I am currently in the 3rd year of my Zoology degree at Leeds Uni. I'm originally from Buxton in Derbyshire, but Leeds is definitely home now.I am also a professional wedding and portrait photographer, I hope to be able to develop my skills in my professional photography practice once I graduate in the summer. I enjoy doing personal photography work too, such as the 366 Project I've just completed!  I'm 22 and engaged. 

A selection of photos from the '366' project

The 366 Project is a popular photography project that requires you to take a picture every day for a year. I started this project on the 1st of January 2012. My main drive behind the project was to improve my techniques and knowledge, whilst producing beautiful photos to include in my photographer portfolio. My inspiration comes from every day life, from the obvious beauty to the hidden gems. I wanted to document the things I saw in my everyday routine, show people things in a way they might not always see them and create something captivating. It's not always been easy, and some days have been almost impossible, but the experience has been invaluable and I would do it all over again in a shot - although maybe not for a few years!

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Giulia Greco

I am a second year photography student at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. My practice is usually very documentary, my mind is constantly trying to think about different ways to capture and document events or details and different series of photographs I can compose and do. When I am not studying frantically for my degree you can find me reading novels, browsing online for new creative and colourful websites and blogs.

Images from 'Groups' project

This project, called Groups, was for my Vision and Knowledge unit for university. The project was based in London and I set up in a spaces I thought had a nice clean aesthetic. Then I stopped people that passed by and grouped them together with other strangers and took a group picture. This project explores the ideas that seeing is believing and imagined communities, my aim was to make the audience believe that this is a real group, the subjects might not know each other personally, but they still constitute a group. Accompanying the photos I also have a video documenting the whole project which gives the viewer and deeper understanding of the processes gone through in order to create the images.

A link to Giulia's video can be found here:

https://vimeo.com/61216713

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Jasmine Farram

My name is Jasmine Farram, within my photography I look at home, nostalgia, self identity and memory. This is often explored through self portraiture. I use photography as a medium for creating art, often combining collage, digital and analogue work to create mix media pieces. 

Images from 'Mother'

These images are from an ongoing project titled 'Mother'. It explores the relationship i have with my mother and the feelings of separation i feel when looking at photographs from before my birth, looking at her past and yearning to know the person i see in the photographs, and coming to terms with the reality that i will never know that person; to conclude, that despite our bond my mother is also a stranger to me.

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