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Foreword
Your Dad on a Skateboard
Around the age of fourteen I had a short fling with skateboarding. I had just become friends with an eighteen year old skateboarder who seemed to master all the tricks, and I tried to imitate his moves endlessly. I did manage the ollie and kick-flip at some point (for those with no knowledge about skateboarding: they're different ways of jumping up in the air), but I never really mastered the halfpipe. I was just terrified of throwing myself down this U-shaped structure and never really got the balance 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 thehalfpipeI just could not do it. What puzzled me was that it all looked so easy for my eighteen year old friend, so why couldn't I get it to work?I pondered this until one day my father found my skateboard in the back garden, and in an attempt at being funny, decided to show the family how to ride a skateboard. We all know what a dad on a skateboard looks like: not good. It looks uncomfortable 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 friend pulled off 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 father, who really didn't know what to do with a skateboard, made me see how difficult it actually is. Flipping through this catalogue reminded me of my eighteen year old friend. Because if there is one thing that all photographers in this book have mastered over the last three years, it is this: to make something terribly difficult (i.e. to put the world around you, including all those thoughts about this world, into a cohesive series of images) look like a piece of cake.While looking at all these images I no longer think of the troubles the photographers went through: the permissions they had to obtain, the cameras that failed them or the personal indecisiveness that troubled some for months. What I look at are many exciting stories and even more ideas that this new generation of photographers wants to show me. Some stories are close and personal, others are on big subjects or matters of beauty. Luckily, even with all these stories told, there are still many more left untold. And if you the photographersever feel 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!
Contents
08 George Beck
12 Claire Sawdon
16 Hannah Reynolds
20 Catherine Laura
24 James Hawley
28 Emily Bailey
32 Alice Hall
36 James Lester
40 Aisha Greenidge-Noorgat
44 Stuart Leckenby
48 Charys Elmer
52 Mindy Goose
56 Scott Salt
60 Sofia Coombs
64 Rory Doyle
68 Jack Turner
72 Tim Mellin
76 Daniele Fitzgerald
80 Chris Jackson
84 Ess Newton
88 Katherine Gregory
92 Aaron Hargreaves
96 Kyla Lynskey
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Hannah Reynolds
Embarking upon long-term projects, Hannah Reynolds practice centres on documenting facets of society and their inherent issues. In her latest body of work, Reynolds investigates the small East Anglian town of Newmarket, internationally renowned as the epicentre of Horse Racing. With one in every three of the fifteen thousand
residents employed on some level of the industry, from stable owners and skilled professionals to semi-itinerant farm hands, Horse Racing is intertwined with every single element of the community. The series seeks to explore the nature and ramifications of this relationship and how it has shaped Newmarket; past, present and future.
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Catherine Laura
Specialising in underwater fashion photography, Catherine Lauras series showcases her oftenwhimsical style, as well as her ability to create themes and narratives. These threads which run through each of her fashion stories, allow her to anchor each set with a cohesive visual approach, while at the same time, from shoot to shoot,
endless scope to produce diverse and creative images. Her firm understanding of working underwater has allowed Laura to push her creative boundaries, undeterred by challenging environments and has led to her coordination of her own team, from creative and stylists to safetydivers, thus facilitating this collection.
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James Hawley
James Hawleys stripped back approach to fashion photography is designed to allow the models personality to become a part of the image. Deemed as of equal importance to the clothes and the photographer, Hawley spends much of his time searching for models with whom he can collaboratively
produce fashion editorials. Naturalistic and minimal in terms of post-production and artificial lighting, this collection of images comes loaded with a subtle yet pervasive sense of beauty; formed from the triptych of clothing, location and model-photographer relationship.
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Emily Bailey
Emily Nicolle Bailey is a fashion and beauty photographer whose inspiration often stems from the themes of self-expression and individuality, Bailey has spent the best part of a year undertaking collaborative projects with various makeup artists and models. Exploring how self-decoration, specifically in the form
of make-up artistry and fashion choices, aid in the construction of 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 of the photographers wider practice, both thematically and visually.
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Alice Hall
Alice Halls work takes its form and inspiration from the beauty and fragility of flowers, her subtle and often abstract, images focus on the simplicity and delicacy of the shapes and colours of the petals. Photographing primarily on analogue formats, Halls experimentation with a range of methods for image making
and printing, seeks to craft a technique that accentuates both her subject and the imagined tangibility of the medium. Her organic and alluring photographs resonate with a strong emotional involvement and attempt to depict the true and unique beauty of natural forms, while inspiring her own wonder in the viewer.
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James Lester
In James Lesters autobiographical series, he casts himself in the role of long-lost or distant family members, producing a study of hereditary and genetic traits. Through a subtlety of expression and body language, gleaned from old family photo albums, an
evocation is created of the character of those relatives whom Lester has never met. In doing so, the performance based, photographic study forges a link with these individuals that transcends mere blood ties.
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Charys Elmer
Charys Ellmer has taken a set of Thematic Apperception Test cards as the starting point for her series of narrative photography. TAT cards are designed for 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 of the truth presented through a medium that can be said to blend veracity and illusion in equal measure.
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Rory Doyle
The focus of Rory Doyle's body of work lies in gender, specifically in the examining and understanding of 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 of Transvestism in drag acts and cross dressers. The images, which often take their aesthetic from traditional fashion and beauty photography, seek to question how notions of femininity and masculinity are visually defined within our society.
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Jack Turner
A year after Jack Turner was born his Grandfather moved from his home in London to Northern Scotland, therein causing an estrangement that has lasted all of his conscious life. As an adult, Turner set out to meet and get to know this man, a close family member with whom he had previously almost
no relationship. This series documents his visits to Scotland, from their very first meeting and examines with an acute sensitivity, the unusual dynamic of this new relationship; at once a close familial bond but with a distance, induced by a long absence.
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Tim Mellin
Tim Mellin has created a body of work designed to appeal to both the creative and commercially minded. Working handin-hand with clients on live briefs in order to develop this series of 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 of Mellins photographic practice as; each undertaking has its own unique parameters and therefore, demands a unique approach.
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Daniele Fitzgerald
Danielle Fitzgerald is primarily a beauty and portrait photographer whose style, drawing on a wide range of cultural influences, is designed to facilitate the capture of the individual nuances and qualities inherent within her subjects. The work presented here
chronicles Fitzgeralds on-going portfolio development, from more traditional, studio based fashion and beauty work through to her recent move into the field of editorial and music based photography.
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Chris Jackson
In this series of still life images, Chris Jackson explores the genre of creative product photography. The theme of motion runs throughout this set, in which the photographer reveals one of the mediums most formidable 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 finds a visual language that gives a life to his subjects, while at the same time reinforcing the power of photography.
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Ess Newton
Covering lifestyle, fashion and product photography practices, Ess Newton is primarily a commercial photographer. The photographs featured here are a selection from an on going series focusing on mens
fashion and lifestyle editorials, employing her own personal aesthetic approach, Newton sets out to capture current and commercially viable images of masculine identity, crucially from a female perspective.
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Acknowledgements
With special thanks to: Thijs Groot Wassink wassinklundgren.com Editorial Team: Benjamin P. Smith Scott M. Salt Hannah Reynolds
Publication Design: Jonathan Finch jonathan-finch.co.uk Rosalind Stoughton rosalind-stoughton.com Pawe Adamek paweladamek.co.uk Chris Starkie chrisstarkie.co.uk Sean Perkins