LISA BEER CATHERINE DONOGHUE CHELSEA JAMES REBECCA LEE HAYLEY LINDRIDGE-MORGAN REBECCA LITTLECHILD DAVE MACEY GUILLERMO REYNER FUENTES ALLISON SMITH SHAUN VINCENT TENFOLD Tenfold presents the work of Canterbury Christ Church University s graduating photography students. Here we see projects made by photographers at the beginning of their lives as artists, if not their lives as creative practitioners. It is these past and sometimes personal experiences that can influence and inspire the final year practical projects. Tenfold signifies much about creative practice and critical engagement in photography. It demonstrates how, in the final year of study, undergraduates immerse themselves in their research and, by understanding contexts and making connections, projects can be conceived, refined and delivered in a broad range of interesting ways. Tenfold is an insight into how contemporary issues are explored through photography. Here we see the students practice informed by topics including home, nostalgia, motherhood, solitude and utopia, and how students respond with critical thinking and the practice-based approach we see in this publication and accompanying exhibition. As lecturers one constant remains in the ever changing HE landscape: the pleasure of supervising projects and seeing the creative outputs emerge. Each project represents a new discovery, a personal journey, and the end and beginning of a new chapter. We watch with excitement as careers develop and new stories are told. The Photography Programme, Canterbury Christ Church University 2/3 Ten Fold
Rebecca Lee I am a photographer/artist who uses different mediums to create my work such as photography, paint, drawings and sculpture. This work has been created to show that people still believe in the Romantic childhood ideal, despite the fact that photo albums are a constructed representation of family life. In my work I add a layer of paint to symbolise the deconstruction of that ideal. The work is also showcased in the book that has been produced to accompany the over-painted photographs, in which the pictures are displayed alongside accounts from the people within the images. 4/5 Ten Fold
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Catherine Donoghue Constructing Utopia was a photographic exploration on the role of utopian idealism in the design of social housing estates during post war Britain. The motivation behind this body of work was to reassess my own emotional responses to areas such as Thamesmead, a place I grew up near during the 1970s. My approach was to construct a series of images from different viewpoints using double exposure and digital manipulation techniques. This was done in order to create a new descriptive narrative exploring architectural utopian idealism as expressed within the design of these social housing estates. The images, when considered together, take the form of a walk through the landscape while musing on my thoughts and perceptions. Ultimately the aim in exploring these themes is to ask questions on the role of perception and memory when formulating a response to a revisited landscape from childhood. 8/9 Ten Fold
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Dave Macey Today there is a need for emotional and mental space within our society and people are searching for places to help produce a conducive state of mind for emotional and mental space. It can be seen as a search for solitude. To achieve a sense of solitude the environment has always been the catalyst. My own search for solitude has led me to this particular place, Little Stone Wood, a small ancient woodland. The attraction of the place is its remoteness and the presence of mankind seems to be at a minimum. This project explores my own concept of solitude. I have taken a series of images in the ancient woodland with myself in the frame to emphasise the connection between the person and the environment. I have also produced a film to reflect on how the state of mind is calmed and made peaceful by the environment. 14/15 Ten Fold
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Allison Smith The work I produce is a contemporary observation of death and impermanence, subjects that might not be openly discussed. My work encourages viewers to think about aspects of culture and consider these along with their own views of mortality. I am aware that some viewers may or may not agree with the work I produce, but I aim to use this to create discussion and debate. One of the main issues I have drawn upon is suicide, which can be seen in the series In the Shadows, which has been produced with great care and thought aiming to be sympathetic and challenging simultaneously. Whereas in my other series, I present keepsakes, objects that represent someone who has been lost to time. The object becomes a form of memorial that can be encountered daily. With both these projects I aspire to encourage viewers to consider these difficult topics and find significance in re-examining the connections between mortality and photography. 18/19 Ten Fold
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Guillermo Reyner Fuentes I like to observe things visually and experience them emotionally as in wonder or with a sense of unity. The latter appears to open the mind to new ideas and alternative viewpoints, thoughts and possibilities that I achieve producing photographs. I found this a very interesting and creative way to understand photography, people, life, the environment and our relationship to these in a specific time. As such, I would describe my work as part documentary and part abstract where my aim is to be suggestive, enlightening and entertaining. 22/23 Ten Fold
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Chelsea James My photography is predominantly based on documentary, particularly looking into the fashion industry. For example my latest series of work was focused on photographing behind the scenes in Selfridges. My aim was to capture the atmosphere of the studio space with the workers in their everyday environment, showing the unseen side to fashion. My photographs vary from a selection of un-posed portraits to still life, showing the surroundings of the area I m focusing on. I would say my work is very atmospheric, as I aim to narrate a story or reveal the space with the items provided around me that identify that specific environment. I have always been attracted to the fashion industry, and with my passion for photography I merged the two together. This area of interest inspired me to research and think of alternative ways I could create unique fashion photographs. After having experience in a studio, I felt documenting would show the real roots to fashion, and I was then able to be creative with how I photographed within the studio. I was highly inspired by the work of Daniel Riera and Joss McKinley, with their own interpretation to fashion photography. I would like my work to highlight the reality of the fashion industry through the medium of photography, showing the mundane. 26/27 Ten Fold
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Shaun Vincent The intention behind the majority of my work is preservation and an ongoing desire to record objects before they alter, or are gone for good. I have found that the common thread which ties my work together is a fascination with change and in some ways, a desire for things to remain the same. With this photographic essay, Our Home, I have recorded what makes my childhood home, and still my mother s, uniquely hers. The items, and decorative touches, that have remained constant over more than thirty-five years have been documented to form a lasting archive of memories. Nostalgia is increasingly playing a larger part within my professional practice, and by using my former family home as a subject I have naturally intertwined two important areas to produce a personal body of work. Nonetheless, it is one which has a wider appeal as viewers may also experience nostalgia, and create their own narrative to accompany the photographs. 30/31 Ten Fold
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Hayley Lindridge-Morgan This series of imagery Cows in the Kitchen is based on my Mother s journey with breast cancer which she was diagnosed with at the beginning of the year 2015. I photographed my Mother over the time span of a year documenting her recovery from a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The project was titled Cows in the Kitchen because my Mother works in a nursery and her favourite song to sing with the children was called this. She told me that whenever she was having a dark day she would sing this to herself and it would cheer her up. The series marks a project of collaborated images taken between Mother and Daughter. The Mother being the amateur and the Daughter being the professional photographer. This work is set to appeal to a larger audience in hopes of raising awareness of Breast Cancer. To look at the images is a personal experience to each individual viewer and it is important to me that the viewers approach my project with an open mind, so that they take something away from looking at the project. 34/35 Ten Fold
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Rebecca Littlechild Over the last two years I have work predominantly within Margate s iconic building Arlington House. Within this body of work I have explored the linear and domestic spaces, finding beauty in what is often overlooked. The project contemplates themes such as place, space, misrepresentation and individualism, often creating images to reflect the height and orientation of the building. of formats, including both analogue and digital photography. By using such a variety of medias, it has helped to give the project a diversity in both its depth and scope. The complete series includes typologies, portraits, still life and landscapes where the theme of inside and outside is explored at the same time. The process is multi-layered, with images created through using a variety 38/39 Ten Fold
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Lisa Beer I am portrait photographer who currently bases my photographic practice on the woman. For the past year I have built a body of work based on the Mother, approaching issues that the woman may experience through this life role, from the everyday activities that may happen within the family space, the lack of acknowledgement from the children, the façade that mothers create to avoid disapproval from others. These projects titled The Everyday and Motherhood- behind the façade reveal the truth of motherhood. Concluding the body of work on portraits of the mother. The photographs allow the viewer to observe the subject as woman, not just a mother, she fully engages with the camera, the woman takes away the vulnerability associated with the male gaze to show empowerment. 44/45 Ten Fold
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Lisa Beer www.lisabeer.co.uk lisa.m.beer@sky.com Catherine Donoghue www.catherinedonoghue.co.uk cathy@catherinedonoghue.co.uk Chelsea James www.chelseajames45.wix.com/photography chelseajames45@gmail.com Rebecca Lee www.rebeccalee-photography.co.uk beckie.lee39@gmail.com Hayley Lindridge-Morgan hayley.lindridge@btinternet.com Canterbury Christ Church University BA Hons Photography Degree Show 2016 Sidney Cooper Gallery St Peter's Street Canterbury Kent CT1 2BQ Sat 18 June Tuesday 21 Saturday 25 June www.canterbury.ac.uk Rebecca Littlechild www.rebeccalittlechild.co.uk info@rebeccalittlechild.co.uk Dave Macey www.davemacey.co.uk dave.macey@ymail.com Guillermo Reyner Fuentes www.guillermoreynerfuentes.com Guillermo_reyner@hotmail.com Allison Smith http://alilouise0.wix.com/alismith Ali.louise@hotmail.co.uk Shaun Vincent www.shaunvincent.co.uk shaun@shaunvincent.co.uk Design: loupdesign.co.uk
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