In the Fast Lane

Robert Allman completed an AVCE in Information, Communication and Technology before deciding to pursue an interest in photography. Following this, he intends to follow a career, combining his interest in cars and motor sport with the skills acquired whilst studying photography.

The images for this exhibition were created as advertisements for Ferrari, showing the best features of the cars to generate interest in the product. Through these photographs, Robert demonstrates skills in studio photography, lighting small sections of model cars to produce detailed, close-up images.

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Selected Images

Pranvera Bajrami, who was born in Kosovo, moved to England six years ago and now lives in Southend-on-Sea, studying photography at South East Essex College. When she has completed a degree in fashion photography, she hopes to become a successful fashion photographer.

In ‘Selected Images’, Pranvera’s photographs of family and friends from Kosovo and England, depict strong, empowered women, illustrating the influence of fashion in today’s society.

For Pranvera, contemporary fashion is not just about clothes and how people choose to appear. Her photographs, in which she makes dramatic use of natural and studio light, show young women in urban, domestic environments, displaying ‘attitude’, sexuality and desire.

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Condemned

Making a Point

My view of the world

Ruth Kingman is interested in all types of photography but specialises in documentary images using a range of techniques and styles.

For Peep Show, she has chosen images from two of her collections, ‘Condemned’ and ‘Making a Point’, both of which explore the relationship between people and nature.

‘Condemned’, a series of black and white and colour images, documents the closure and demolition of a hospital, capturing the devastating effect this had on the locality.

‘Making a Point’ was produced for a national advertising campaign to encourage young people to vote in the general election. In these photographs, Ruth projected slides of landscapes on to tattooed bodies, combining location photography and studio work.

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Display and Disguise

This is who I am.

What do you see?

Katie Sheldrake examines the relationship between identity and personal appearance in her portraits of young people, all undertaking full-time education. She is interested in exploring how people choose to express a sense of self through decorative and very public displays. Choices made about hair, clothes, jewellery, body and facial piercing, provide glimpses of the identities that people wish to project. However, the display is also a disguise. The decisions made about how they wish to be seen by others often provoke prejudice, pre-conceptions and misunderstanding. ‘True’ identity is hidden.

For this exhibition, Katie Sheldrake uses film and digital imaging, as well as traditional black and white photographic processes.