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I N F I N I T Y

BA (Hons) Photography 2012Leeds College of Art


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Foreword

Your Dad on a Skateboard

Tijs Groot Wassinkwassinklundgren.com

Around the age o ourteen I had a short ing with skateboarding. I had just become riends with an

eighteen year old skateboarder who seemed to master al l the tricks, and I tried to imitate his moves

endlessly. I did manage the ollie and kick-ip at some point (or those with no knowledge about

skateboarding: they're dierent ways o jumping up in the air), but I never really mastered the hal-

pipe. I was just terried o throwing mysel down this U-shaped structure and never really got thebalance right. It was always on my way home, or while lying awake at night, that I was convinced

that the next time I would be able to do the trick right. However, every time I returned to the hal-

pipe I just could not do it.

What puzzled me was that it all looked so easy or my eighteen year old riend, so why couldn't I get

it to work? I pondered this until one day my ather ound my skateboard in the back garden, and in

an attempt at being unny, decided to show the amily how to ride a skateboard. We all know what

a dad on a skateboard looks like: not good. It looks uncomortable and like hard work, really hard

work. At that moment I realised why I hadn't been able to do something that looked so easy; why I

hadnt been able do these tricks that my riend pulled o with so much ease. It is because everyone

who's really good at something, consciously or subconsciously, makes it look like it's the easiest thing

in the world. Whilst someone like my ather, who really didn't know what to do with a skateboard,

made me see how difcult it actually is.

Flipping through this catalogue reminded me o my eighteen year old riend. Because i there is one

thing that all photographers in this book have mastered over the last three years, it is this: to make

something terribly difcult (i.e. to put the world around you, including all those thoughts about

this world, into a cohesive series o images) look like a piece o cake. While looking at all these

images I no longer think o the troubles the photographers went through: the permissions theyhad to obtain, the cameras that ailed them or the personal indecisiveness that troubled some or

months. What I look at are many exciting stories and even more ideas that this new generation o

photographers wants to show me. Some stories are close and personal, others are on big subjects or

matters o beauty.

Luckily, even with all these stories told, there are still many more let untold. And i you

the photographersever eel stuck while telling another story, just imagine your dad on a skateboard.

It will make you realise youre pretty well on your way to be the next big thing!


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Contents


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George BeckYouth Club

georgebeckphoto.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 757 617 556

The Youth Club project ocuses on the users o

youth support services who, in the transitory

stage between childhood and adulthood, are

in a period in their lie where they are oten

overlooked or demonised by wider society.

Here by association, Beckalso brings to light

the importance o these services (although set

up by local authorities, largely run by charities)

within our communities; the act that their work

largely goes unnoticed does no justice to their

importance in guiding young people towards a

successul start in adult lie.

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George Beck

Youth Club


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Project 01482 takes its name rom the area

dialling code or the city o Hull, a city or

which the telephone became not just a tool o

communication but a symbol o independence.

Depicting the steady decline o the public

telephone kiosk and presenting it as an echoo a death o a wider cultural heritage. Sawdon

acknowledges the technical developments

o the 21st Century but through exploring

the remaining kiosks, recalls childhood

memories o a time beore mobile phones,

emphasising the role o the past on shaping all

o us and, the importance o one towns historyo independence.

Claire Sawdon

Project 01482

clairesawdon.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 781 13 981


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Claire SawdonProject 01482


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Embarking upon long-term projects, Hannah

Reynoldspractice centres on documenting acets

o society and their inherent issues. In her latest

body o work, Reynolds investigates the small

East Anglian town o Newmarket, internationally

renowned as the epicentre o Horse Racing.

With one in every three o the teen thousand

residents employed on some level o the industry,

rom stable owners and skilled proessionals

to semi-itinerant arm hands, Horse Racing is

intertwined with every single element o the

community. The series seeks to explore the nature

and ramications o this relationship and how it

has shaped Newmarket; past, present and uture.

hannahreynoldsphotography.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7846 31 587

Hannah Reynolds


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Specialising in underwater ashion photography,

Catherine Lauras series showcases her oten-

whimsical style, as well as her ability to create

themes and narratives. These threads which run

through each o her ashion stories, allow her to

anchor each set with a cohesive visual approach,

while at the same time, rom shoot to shoot,

endless scope to produce diverse and creative

images. Her rm understanding o working

underwater has allowed Laura to push her

creative boundaries, undeterred by challenging

environments and has led to her coordination o

her own team, rom creative and stylists to saety-

divers, thus acilitating this collection.

catherinelaura.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7716 544 050

Catherine Laura


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James Hawleys stripped back approach to

ashion photography is designed to allow

the models personality to become a part o

the image. Deemed as o equal importance

to the clothes and the photographer,

Hawleyspends much o his time searching

or models with whom he can collaboratively

produce ashion editorials. Naturalistic

and minimal in terms o post-production

and articial lighting, this collection

o images comes loaded with a subtle

yet pervasive sense o beauty; ormed

rom the triptych o clothing, location

and model-photographer relationship.

jameshawley.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 796 157 1

James Hawley


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Emily Bailey

embphotography.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7738 307 813

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Emily Nicolle Bailey is a ashion and beauty

photographer whose inspiration oten stems

rom the themes o sel-expression and

individuality, Baileyhas spent the best part o

a year undertaking collaborative projects with

various makeup artists and models. Exploring

how sel-decoration, specically in the orm

o make-up artistry and ashion choices, aid

in the construction o an individuals persona,

in that they allow the individual to appear

to the world in the way that they choose;

the images included here are representative

o the photographers wider practice, both

thematically and visually.


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Alice Halls work takes its orm and inspiration

rom the beauty and ragility o fowers, her

subtle and oten abstract, images ocus on

the simplicity and delicacy o the shapes and

colours o the petals. Photographing primarily

on analogue ormats, Halls experimentation

with a range o methods or image making

and printing, seeks to crat a technique that

accentuates both her subject and the imagined

tangibility o the medium. Her organic and

alluring photographs resonate with a strong

emotional involvement and attempt to depict

the true and unique beauty o natural orms,

while inspiring her own wonder in the viewer.

Alice Hall

alicehall.eu

[email protected]

+44 (0) 790 011 441


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In James Lesters autobiographical series,

he casts himsel in the role o long-lost or

distant amily members, producing a study

o hereditary and genetic traits. Through a

subtlety o expression and body language,

gleaned rom old amily photo albums, an

evocation is created o the character o those

relatives whom Lesterhas never met. In doing

so, the perormance based, photographic

study orges a link with these individuals that

transcends mere blood ties.

James Lester

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7906 333 905


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Aisha Greenidge-Noorgats Playhouse acts

as a photographic exploration o a space in

which she experienced trauma as a child. The

amily sitting room becomes a place shrouded

in darkness, the images aesthetic refects this

turmoil and with their sot ocus, reerences the

process o memory. The abric o the space has

become orever intertwined with a painul past;

though, this cathartic work, sets the door ajar,

airing the room, absorbing a part oGreenidge-

Noorgats anguish. Also included are images

rom the Meat & Flowers series, an attempt to

capture the essence o what appears repulsive

and beautiul, in immediate juxtaposition.

aishagreenidegenoorgat.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 757 617 556

Aisha Greenidge-NoorgatPlayhouse


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www.stuartleckenbyphotography.co.uk

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+44 (0) 7576 18 60

Stuart LeckenbyTe Invisible Age

In The Invisible Age, Stuart Leckenby seeks

to make a statement on the ate that society

has waiting in store or women in their sixth

decade. These portraits are intended to

represent the notion that these women

are oten socially undervalued, politically

underrepresented and largely ignored by

the opposite sex. The stillness and passivity

o these images' subjects, is a testament to

preconceived ideas and prejudices. These

portraits act as a very real reminder o this

existence o this 'invisible' demographic and

what it wants to say: We exist.

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[email protected]

charysellmer.carbonmade.com

+44 (0) 7850 69 959

Charys Elmer

Charys Ellmer has taken a set o Thematic

Apperception Test cards as the starting point

or her series o narrative photography. TAT

cards are designed or use in psychological

examinations, depicting various provocative yet

ambiguous images, which the subject is asked to

interpret, allowing the attendant psychologist a

window into their patients personal history and

attitudes. Narrative photography runs corollary

to this process, asking viewers to consider and

read a scene as a story. No interpretation is

wrong, merely a version o the truth presented

through a medium that can be said to blend

veracity and illusion in equal measure.

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mindygoose.co.uk

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+44 (0) 7969 647 07

Mindy GooseWell-Being

Mindy Goose is a photographer as well as a

community workshop leader, whose use o

photography extends to sel-discovery, social

inclusion and education. The Well-being

project examines her daily lie, capturing the

seemingly mundane objects, landscapes,

journeys and routines in a manner that seeks

to present them as beautiul, unusual and

unique. Her intent here, is to let her images

act as a lens through which the viewer has the

opportunity to see the everyday world in a

more enriching way and in so doing, to inspire

her audience to take notice o the beauty in the

amiliar themselves.

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The Behind The Spectacle series seeks to

explore the people and personalities behind

perormers and the act o perormance.

Famed or the Big Top, sideshows,

menageries o animals and death-deying

eats o athleticism, the circus has always

been one o the ultimate spectacles. In this

on-going, long-term project, Salt takes in

not only the more amiliar extroversion o

the show but peers behind the curtain,

documenting the o stage individuals and

their relationships in both transient and

domestic environments.

scottmsaltphotography.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7864 391 080

Scott SaltBehind he Spectacle

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Scott Salt

Behind he Spectacle

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soacoombs.co.uk

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+44 (0) 7864 660 441

Sofa CoombsLiving with Kerstin

Coombs uses image making to gain a greater

understanding o the unamiliar and the

observed behaviour o others; in this series, she

documents her intimate yet strained relationship

to her mother, with whom she is naturally

close, despite past issues causing an extended

estrangement. The project is an observation o

her mothers lie in an attempt to comprehend

why she is the way she is. A serious and complex

subject, approached with an innate sensitivity

and the well considered, thoughtulness o a

person studying a loved one.

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Living with Kerstin

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rawreylostinthought.tumblr.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7889 465 947

Rory Doyle

The ocus o Rory Doyle's body o work lies

in gender, specically in the examining and

understanding o genders boundaries. In order

to do this, Doyle's photographs those who take

gender related concepts to what are socially

considered to be more extreme conclusions,

capturing images o Transvestism in drag acts

and cross dressers. The images, which oten

take their aesthetic rom traditional ashion

and beauty photography, seek to question

how notions o emininity and masculinity are

visually dened within our society.

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[email protected]

+44 (0)791 463 968

Jack Turner

A year ater Jack Turner was born his

Grandather moved rom his home in London

to Northern Scotland, therein causing an

estrangement that has lasted all o his

conscious lie. As an adult, Turnerset out to

meet and get to know this man, a close amily

member with whom he had previously almost

no relationship. This series documents his

visits to Scotland, rom their very rst meeting

and examines with an acute sensitivity, the

unusual dynamic o this new relationship; at

once a close amilial bond but with a distance,

induced by a long absence.

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timmellin.com

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+44 (0) 7738 954 06

Tim Mellin

Tim Mellin has created a body o work

designed to appeal to both the creative

and commercially minded. Working hand-

in-hand with clients on live bries in order

to develop this series o images that not

only meet standard industry requirements

but have challenged both his technical and

creative abilities; honing his own distinctive

style. Innovation is a highly valued aspect

o Mellins photographic practice as; each

undertaking has its own unique parameters

and thereore, demands a unique approach.

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danieletzgeraldphoto.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7746 713 715

Daniele Fitzgerald

Danielle Fitzgeraldis primarily a beauty and

portrait photographer whose style, drawing

on a wide range o cultural infuences, is

designed to acilitate the capture o the

individual nuances and qualities inherent

within her subjects. The work presented here

chronicles Fitzgeralds on-going portolio

development, rom more traditional, studio

based ashion and beauty work through to

her recent move into the eld o editorial and

music based photography.

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In this series o still lie images, Chris Jackson

explores the genre o creative product

photography. The theme o motion runs

throughout this set, in which the photographer

reveals one o the mediums most ormidable

abilities; to capture that which the human eye

could never see. While technically polished,

clean and crisp, commercially minded

photographs, Jackson looks beyond mere

depiction and nds a visual language that

gives a lie to his subjects, while at the same

time reinorcing the power o photography.

chrisjacksonphoto.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7766 61 34

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essnewton.com

[email protected]

+44 (0)7946 85 10

Ess Newton

Covering liestyle, ashion and product

photography practices, Ess Newton is

primarily a commercial photographer. The

photographs eatured here are a selection

rom an on going series ocusing on mens

ashion and liestyle editorials, employing her

own personal aesthetic approach, Newton

sets out to capture current and commercially

viable images o masculine identity, crucially

rom a emale perspective.

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Northern Soul, with its rich, Rhythm and Soul

infuenced, musical and dance culture has

its roots rmly in Northern, industrial Britain

and originally centred around legendary

nightclubs such as Wigan Casino. As well

as its distinctive and unique orms o dance,

it is also responsible or the ormation and

development its own ashion movement and as

such, can be considered an important aspect o

cultural heritage in the UK. Katherine Gregorys

hometown o Wigan is also home to this scene

and through her series, she documents the

present day styles and personalities, ocusing

on themes o identity and culture.

katherinegregoryphotography.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7581 77 70

Katherine Gregory

Northern Soul

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This series unveils a side to the Catholic Church

that oten goes unnoticed and is unmentioned

in popular discourse; the positive communities

that can be created when the Church opens itsel

to less dogmatic doctrine. When Hargreaves

sexuality came into confict with his amilys

preconceived ideas o aith, a schism was created,

ultimately causing him, as it does or many others,

to reject his religion altogether. Last year he

attended Mass at All Hallows Church in Leeds, an

openly inclusive Church that celebrates diversity.

The subsequent photographs document and

explore his reunion with aith, and the accepting

community that acilitated it.

aaronhargreaves.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 7590 903 788

Aaron Hargreaves

Meet Me In he Middle

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Meet Me In he Middle

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Kyla Lynskeywenty-wo Years

www.kylalynskeyphotography.co.uk

[email protected]

+44 (0) 785 913 576

Straddling the genres o ne art and

documentary practice, Kyla Lynskey ocuses

on interior and domestic spaces. In her

latest body o work she has spent six months

photographing her and her athers home,

a house to be sold ater twenty-two years.

Like any childhood or amily home, the

building itsel transcends a mere structure;

it comes replete with, in this case, a lietime

o memories. The images produced, likewise

transcend mere documentation but come

with a clearly tangible, emotional content, a

catharsis or Lynskey hersel, concluding the

process o moving on.

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Benjamin P. Smith is a photographer whose ocus

lies in documenting movements and groups

that overtly or implicitly question socio-political

paradigms. Presented here are excerpts rom

two bodies o work, Signed: The Occupiers and

The Camel And The Scorpion. The ormer, an

advocacy based series, deals with communities

o squatters in the UK as the government moves

to criminalise trespass; an action that will erode

avenues o accommodation or the poorest,

protest and culture. The latter takes its title rom a

Middle Eastern joke and attempts to investigate

the situation in Palestines West Bank, beyond the

standard, politically convenient interpretations.

Benjamin P. Smith

Signed: he Occupiers

benjaminpsmithphotography.com

[email protected]

+44 (0) 778 874 753

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Acknowledgements

With special thanks to:

Thijs Groot Wassinkwassinklundgren.com


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Editorial Team:

Benjamin P. Smith

Scott M. Salt

Hannah Reynolds

Publication Design:

Jonathan Finch

jonathan-nch.co.uk

Rosalind Stoughton

rosalind-stoughton.com

Pawe Adamekpaweladamek.co.uk

Chris Starkie

chrisstarkie.co.uk

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Course Contact Ino

Adrian Davies, Programme Leader

BA (Hons) Photography

Leeds College o Art

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West Yorkshire

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+44 (0) 113 0 8000

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