Aleksandra Swiderska wins Eaton Portrait Prize 2015

The Eaton Portrait Prize is a student competition for the BA Photography students at the Cambridge School of Art.  The prize is generously sponsored by Andy Eaton, an alumnus of our course.

First Prize - Aleksandra Swiderska

Second Prize - Emma Dullingham

Third Prize - Sam Shelton

The exhibition of all ten shortlisted portraits can be viewed in the Mumford Theatre Foyer, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Made a Difference Award nominations for three photography staff

The ‘Made a Difference Awards’ are a unique opportunity for students to recognise  outstanding members of Staff and Reps who have really made a difference to the lives of students at our university.
The awards are organised by the Student Union, are student-led and is all about students recognising fantastic, inspirational and life changing Staff and Reps.

The Photography staff nominated this year are: 
Duncan Ganley
Sergio Fava 
and
Kerstin Hacker

Photography Research Seminar - Contextualizing Contemporary Photographic Portraiture

Date: 24. April 2015

Time: 11am to 3pm

Venue: Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University

This seminar will bring together a range of speakers from across the museum and gallery sector and explore and examine practices in portraiture.

11am

Welcome

11.20am

Roger Hargreaves – Curator at Archive of Modern Conflict

Talk: tbc

12.00am

Tom Wichelow – Photographer

Talk: Exploration and recording societal (and personal) histories through portraiture

12.40

Nick Galvin – Academic and Photographic Librarian

Talk: Martin Parr's Autoportrait: How Parr performs as a post-modern artist

13.00 – Lunch

14.00 – Panel Discussion

  

MA Photography students will present their papers at 10am in a Break Out session as part of their International Perspective module.

Location:

Anglia Ruskin University

East Road

Coslett Building

Room: Cos 404

(Easy access also from McKenzie Road Entrance)

Eaton Portrait Prize - Shortlist announced

The Eaton Portrait Prize is a unique prize for the BA Photography students at the Cambridge School of Art. 
The prize is generously sponsored by Andy Eaton, an alumnus of our course. For the last nine years his generous support has given us the opportunity to celebrate the amazing talent of our students. 
This year we had a record number of images to look through and the standard was incredibly high. 

Emma Dullingham

Neo Gilder

James Foard

Anna Kressler

Megan Czykieta

Sam Shelton

Stephen Allwright

Richard Tooley

Amber Schormans

Alexsandra Swiderska

The judges this year were Nick Galvin (lecturer and freelance photography consultant), Maria Mann (Director of Special Project at the European PressPhoto Agency, Frankfurt), Andy Eaton (Sponsor of the Prize), Christine Webster (Senior Lecturer) and Kerstin Hacker (Course Leader BA Photography).

MA student Jamie Tilley shows new series 'Last Office Memo' in Enlightened Perspectives exhibition

'The Last Office Memo' by MA Photography student Jamie Tilley is a series of constructed photographs, commenting, overarchingly on the struggle between the rise of a western, consumerist, capitalist system and the need to protect and sustain the natural world.

The photographs present the man-made world as formal, architectural,  backgrounds; often offices of commerce and industry, where order is king. 

Upon this, the natural element, presented through intentionally placed, chaotic plantlife is central to the photographs. 

This may be seen as a beacon of hope, or a mournful nod to a last remaining piece of the natural world.

As well as choosing and positioning the physical objects on location, the scenes are often digitally manipulated to duplicate elements, remove elements, or replace elements to further create an abstract, ordered and man-made setting for the plant life, or lack of it.

Link to Jamie's website 

Rare Public Lecture by the Internationally acclaimed Photographer Hannah Starkey

We are pleased to announce a rare public lecture by the internationally acclaimed photographer Hannah Starkey.

  
One of the most important currently active female photographers engaged with female representation, Hannah Starkey’s work has won many awards and is held by in many collections throughout the world, including the Tate Gallery and the V&A. 

  
An important contemporary photographer with a distinct voice, her carefully staged and composed images evoke the cinematic, recalling the cool compositions of Jeff Wall or the melancholy of an Edward Hopper painting.   Though seemingly mundane, her pictures of women engaged in everyday life suggest intimate moments within a wider sense of narrative beyond the frame, collectively imbuing a sense of disquiet. 

Event Details:

Lord Ashcroft Building

Room LAB002

Anglia Ruskin University

9th March 2015
Doors open 6pm.  Lecture starts 6.30pm 

Please book free tickets through our eventbrite page: Hannah Starkey tickets

Danielle Shepherd, final year student, makes the front page of Lost Love online exhibition

Lost Love online exhibition

Link to Danielle Shepherd's tumblr