Alumni of the Month: Fashion Photographer Miri Zaruba

Miri Zaruba graduated in 2009 from the BA Photography and now works for clients including Vogue, Angel Magazine and Velvet magazine.

Miri says: "Eight years ago I had no idea I would become a professional photographer. Only what I had was a passion for photography. Today I am a freelance photographer shooting mainly fashion, events and actor headshots. I started shooting for clients in the second year at uni. Portfolio shoots and fashion shows were great testing ground. Today I still work with a lot of the people I started with years ago. A career of a photographer is not only about skills and contacts, but also about determination, reliability and personality. It is a never ending journey and progress."

Link to Miri's website

Maternity Ward - Romantic Narrative of Childbirth Challenged

Changing Spaces Gallery

9 Norfolk Street

Cambridge

CB1 2LD

Private View – 22. October 2015

5pm to 8pm

Exhibition from 19. October to 1. November 2015

11am to 5pm

Website: www.kerstinhacker.org

Link to series: http://www.kerstinhacker.org/CZmaternity

Kerstin Hacker photographed the series Maternity Ward in the Vinohradsky Hospital in Czech Republic and won the Emma/Agfa Prize for Female Photojournalists in Germany in 1993 with this series. The powerful and uncompromising images reveal a different and provocative view of childbirth.

Vinohradsky Hospital is a large teaching hospital in the centre of Prague and the maternity ward dealt with over thousand births a year. The series gives an insight into the busy department of the hospital and challenges the romantic narrative surrounding childbirth.

Kerstin Hacker studied at FAMU (University of Applied Arts in Prague) and is now Course Leader for the BA Photography and MA Photography at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.

The show is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. This year's Festival of Ideas theme 'Power and Resistance' was an ideal time to show the work, as the work discusses existing power structures in a maternity ward and how women can feel disempowered during labour.

Changing Spaces is an artist-led project in Cambridge that negotiates the use of empty commercial property for use by artists for exhibition and development purposes.

MA Photography students exhibit during the MA Degree Show 2015

Degree Show - Cambridge School of Art

The Degree Show of the Cambridge School of Art is showcasing work from all graduating students and is open until the 20th June. Details about opening times are in the post below. Please find here a selection of work from BA Photography.

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Vicky Young

Stephen Allwright

Saffron Smith 

 

 Richard Tooley

Laura Nundy

Kelsey Evans

 Elliot Ford

Bronwen Posner

Anta Mainule

Cambridge School of Art Degree Show opens tonight

Alumna Mary Humphrey exhibits at ArtCell Gallery, Cambridge

 

Link to Mary's website 

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.