Unconventional – hannah

Ana Bathe
(Unconventional portrait)

Ana bathe has always tried to communicate her ideas of beauty and sexuality. Ana’s inspiration come from varies sources including current events, literature and music.
She wanted her pictures to be a communication about the mainstream standards of beauty and to use her work as a direct challenge to what we see in magazines, billboards and on television. Ana wants to be able to encourage people to be proud of whom they are and not feel pressure to conform something that they are not.
Her latest project is titled ‘Recognize me’ and it deals with the current homophobic wave that has taken over Russia. it features a mix of self portraits as well as portraits of people from various backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.
Ana is a 24 year old artist from Berlin, Germany and she specializes in self portraits and alternative beauty. Her first experience with art involved channeling her fears and traumas into something more positive. She uses photography to voice her opinions.

Shoe – hannah

Federico Mauro
(Shoe Photographer)

Federico Mauro is a professional multimedia designer and art director who is behind a fun project called ‘Famous Shoes’ The series contains iconic shoes of famous people and beloved fictional characters showcased in a series of posters.
Federico was born in Avellino in 1980 and since 2001 he has been a professional multimedia designer and art director. He majored in Communicational Science in 2004 with an experimental dissertation on Horror cinema.
Besides his experience as web designer he commits to the realization of Videos, Photography and multimedia projects realizing also short movies awarded in various national competitions.Over the years he has been increasingly working on communicational projects, online media, social media strategies, viral and unconventional marketing for clients such as Fandango, Rai Cinema, 01 Distribution, Nanni Moretti, Independet Ideas, Medusa, Mondadori, Alex Britti, Sandro Veronesi, R&C Produzioni, Richard Cocco Strings, Nastro Azzurro, Einaudi.

Photographer i like – hannah

Kevin Carter
(Photographer I like)

Kevin Carter was a South African Photojournalist and a member of the Bang Bang Club. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph showing famine in Sudan.
Kevin would step right into the action that was going on around him o get the best shot. After receiving the Pulitzer Prize, some people said that Kevin was inhumane and that he wo0uld have dropped his camera to run to the little girl’s aid.
Kevin grew up in South Africa during apartheid. He became a photojournalist because he felt he needed to document the sickening treatment not only of blacks by white, but between black ethnic groups as well.
Kevin joined ranks with only a few other photojournalists and a South African newspaper nicknamed the group ‘The bang band club’. At the that time, photographers used the term ‘bang-bang’ to refer to the act of going out to the south African township to cover the extreme violence happening there. In a few short years, he saw countless murders from beatings, stabbings, gunshots, and necklacing, a barbaric practice in which a tire filled with oil is placed around the victim’s neck and lit on fire.

Performance artist – hannah

Kurt Schwitters
(Performance artist)

‘I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints… It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that’s what I did, gluing and nailing them together’. – (Kurt Schwitters)
Kurt Schwitters was a German artist who was born in Hanover in Germany. He was also a painter, sculptor, typographer and writer who studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Hanover 1908 -1809 and also at Dresden Academy in 1909 – 1914.
Kurt was highly influenced by Expressionism and Cubism in 1912. In 1918, he created his own form of Dada in Hanover called ‘Merz’ using a range of rubbish materials such as labels, bus tickets and bits of broken wood in his collages and constructions. He is best known for his pioneering use of found objects and everyday materials in abstract collage, installation, poetry and performance.
‘Schwitters’ in Britain is the first major exhibition to examine the late work of Kurt Schwitters, one of the major artists of European Modernism. The exhibition focuses on his British period, from his arrival in Britain as a refugee in 1940 until his death in Cumbria in 1948. Schwitters was forced to flee Germany when his work was condemned as ‘degenerate’ by Germany’s Nazi government and the show traces the impact of exile on his work. It includes over 150 collages, assemblages and sculptures many shown in the UK for the first time in over 30 years.

Meat Photographer – Hannah

Rick Foulsham
(Meat Photographer)

Rick Foulsham is an energetic father, lapsed runner, enthusiastic foodie, and general ‘good egg’.
When not living his other life with his family and children, has a food photographer for editorial and commercial clients, shooting anything to do with food from raw ingredients and food prep to styled plates and chef portraits. Rick also shoots restaurant, hotel and pub interiors.
His clients range from magazines and national retailers to start-ups and artisan producers.
Ricks work has been published by many UK publishers including: The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Week, Country Calling, Cookhouse, Country Life, and many more.
Rick is based near Bath but also has access to a private Kitchen in Brook Green near Hammersmith in central London.

Iconic Film – Hannah

The Chronicles of Narnia
(Iconic Film)

The chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels that is considered a classic of children’s literature. The novels were such a huge success that it was transformed into a movie in 2005 made by Disney and Walden Media. The films are entirely based around C.S Lewis novel.

The story line starts with four children from the same family have to leave their town because World War 1 is happening. A women and a professor take the children to their home. While playing a game of hide and seek the youngest member of the family ‘Lucy’ finds a wardrobe to hide in. She travels back and back into the wardrobe and finds a place named Narnia. After going in twice, the four children go in together for the last time. They then battle wolves, meet talking animals, encounter a evil white witch and meet a magnificent lion names ‘Alsan’.

Feminist Photographer- Hannah

Liora K
(Feminist photographer)

‘I’m a feminist because I can’t live in a world where I am defined, limited, and categorized by my genitalia, where women are objectified beyond reason, where rape culture thrives, and where these injustices (and more) are so blatantly ignored and denied by so many people.’

‘I believe in the power of inter sectional feminism. Even though I still have a lot to learn, I think that by going together, we can go far. I do my best to incorporate as many different aspects of women’s struggles in my work – I want everyone to see themselves in my photographs. The oppression and dehumanization of women affects everyone, and I strongly desire to represent that.’

Lioras approach to photography is firmly rooted in her feminism and fine arts background. She likes to tell stories through her photographs and brings that to focus in every shot she captures. Liora is aware of the delicacy and vulnerability of being photographed and works closely with her subjects to bring each models personality and story forward throughout the images they create and produce together.
Since 2012, Lioras activist work has been published both nationally and internationally. For example, 3 Story Magazine, Curvy Girl Inc, Cosmopolitan and many others.
In her series ‘ The Feminist Photos’ you can see portraits of women with text written over their body, fighting back for women’s rights. In 2012 Liora first started witnessing attacks on birth control, abortion rights, equal pay and reactions of protections for survivors of domestic violence and she wanted to see an artistic response. Liora wanted to make a change and to be able to create a body of shareable and instantly understandable work that people could connect with and use to continue to spread the word.

‘Women rights are being sabotages, but we are fighting back.’

Art has always been a good communication force for Liora, drawings painting, dance, photography have all helped her to share her thoughts in way that is very authentic to her. She first discovered photography at the age of 18, and after taking her first set of images she knew that it just fit. She was able to produce her thought in the way that she thought them.

Feet Photographer- Hannah

Tom Robinson
(Feet photographer)

Tom Robinson is a London based location and portrait photographer. He works a lot at home and in parts of the world that are almost nothing like back home. Tom works for a range of magazines, advertising, hotels, restaurants and PR.
Some of Tom’s recent clients include Easy Jet, Ryan Air, Wiz Air and Sunday Times travel magazine. He is always available for commissioned work in any part of the world.
In his series ‘Feet First’ he thought that the view of his and his partner’s feet pointing out to the sea would make an attractive photo. Ever since then he has tried to continue to document our travels in this way, resulting in a collection of over 100 photographs.

Famous chair – Hannah

Egg Chair
(Famous Chair)

The Egg chair was designed by Arne Jacobson in 1958 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. Arne was influenced by the Womb Chair which was created by Eero Saarinen as they share similar qualities such as the curves and material.
The chair is the single most iconic chair of all time. It was made out of a steel frame and a fabric cover; it’s a modernist design. The chair was designed in 1958 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Denmark and was manufactured by republic of Fritz Hansen. There was also a sofa that was designed but only a few were made as it was very difficult to make the chair. Some of the sofas were made for the Radisson hotel and the others were just limited editions.
The Egg Chair was originally created in the colour green but more colours were produced later as the popularity of them grew.
The chair has been popularized by Will Smiths sci-fi wise cracking ‘The men in black’ franchise. It has been used as the ‘dairy room chair’ in the first UK series of Big Brother and it’s also been used in McDonalds!

Self Initial David Spero – Millie Doyle

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David Spero is an English photographer, he studied photography at the royal college of  art in London. Since completing his studies he has worked on a variety of different projects  from a documentary approach within his settlement and church series, then to a sculptural  and layered approach in his ball series.​

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Ball series​

This project reflects on the theme of intervention with space by the use of placement of  rubber balls. These locations are usually set in functional domestic locations, bathed in  natural warm lighting conditions. All of his photographs are taken on an 5×4 camera also  known as an architectural shift camera. The use of the plastic balls brings out a dull space  into something vibrant through the use of the colour and placement of the balls. Within  this body of work he has continued further by adding wood and auto tape to construct and  connect the minimal structure of the ball arrangements.

David Spero’s ball series had a major impact and inspiration on my project. I was intrigued  by the way he intervenes with minimal locations to make the image have a different  concept through the use of the balls, through constructing a everyday environment into  something different . This different concept brings out a humorous and vibrant aesthetic  to the images by the placement of the plastic balls and the colours used. Within my body  of work I was inspired to create a similar aesthetic through the placement of plastic balls  within different places within the home environment.