Launch: Level / Fieldwork

Level

BA (Hons) Digital Imaging and Photography (Hugh Baird College)

As a culmination of three years of creative inquiry, technical development and critical engagement, this exhibition represents the work from a cohort of emerging practitioners who have each undertaken the challenge of articulating personal, social, political, and aesthetic concerns through the photographic image.

The resulting projects use various approaches – documentary, conceptual, staged, autobiographical, and interdisciplinary. They ask questions of identity, memory, place, environment, representation, and belonging, while also challenging viewers to reconsider familiar perspectives. Some of the works presented are deeply personal; others engage directly with wider cultural dialogues. Together, they speak to the enduring relevance of photography in helping us understand the world and our place within it.

Works by: Euan McDonnel, Jeff Starley, Joe Seddon, Melissa Carrabyne, Nicole Hughes, Nina Karetska, Stuart Cassidy, Taryn Whitehead.

Fieldwork

BA (Hons) Photography and Social Practice (UCEN Manchester)

Moving across sports, documentary photography and socially engaged practice, Fieldwork considers photography as both a tool to observe and also as a means to navigate contemporary social experience. From these three practices, questions of identity, community, performance and belonging emerge from their differing visual languages and approaches to representation.

Sport operates within the exhibition not only as spectacle, ritual and physical performance, but also as a community space through which masculinity, aspiration, collectivity and place are negotiated. Alongside this, the photography made in Birkenhead considers residents' lived experiences next to the politics of everyday life, bearing witness, whilst also portraying human connection.

Works by: Adam Tellouche, Scarlett Peet, Hollie Whelan.