SOCKET Magazine - London Metropolitan University
A magazine is synonymous with revelation, sharing and reflection; it is a colourful compact guide through ideas and suggestions that can stay with us even after newspaper headlines are shredded and hasty videos are scrolled away. There is no ‘perfect’ or ‘easy’ way to create and launch a magazine. Yet, the 20/21 BA Photography Year 2 students of the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, brought together their creative idiosyncrasies to produce a fantastic source of collective energy and inspiration – aptly called SOCKET. Diverse photographic genres blend in a symbiotic narrative that features selected work from the students’ array of projects. They reach out to the world with an inspective eye (AGORA), follow people to their various roots (TRACE), expose our shapeshifting mood in our strive for survival (CHAMELEON), and shed a spotlight on digital heroes and hidden icons (EYESOME). The productive cross-contamination of creative practices (in this instance, photography, poetry and painting) is celebrated as a serious field of enquiry in which the process of discovery transcends to the final outcome. Yiannis Katsaris Senior Lecturer, BA Photography London Metropolitan University
A magazine is synonymous with revelation, sharing and reflection; it is a colourful compact guide through ideas and suggestions that can stay with us even after newspaper headlines are shredded and hasty videos are scrolled away. There is no ‘perfect’ or ‘easy’ way to create and launch a magazine. Yet, the 20/21 BA Photography Year 2 students of the School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, brought together their creative idiosyncrasies to produce a fantastic source of collective energy and inspiration – aptly called SOCKET.
Diverse photographic genres blend in a symbiotic narrative that features selected work from the students’ array of projects. They reach out to the world with an inspective eye (AGORA), follow people to their various roots (TRACE), expose our shapeshifting mood in our strive for survival (CHAMELEON), and shed a spotlight on digital heroes and hidden icons (EYESOME). The productive cross-contamination of creative practices (in this instance, photography, poetry and painting) is celebrated as a serious field of enquiry in which the process of discovery transcends to the final outcome.
Yiannis Katsaris
Senior Lecturer, BA Photography
London Metropolitan University
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C O N T E N T S
Agora 02
Chameleon 32
Taking a look at the
realms we occupy,
Agora seeks to document
and study the central public
space, the one that connects
the multiplicity of the personal
familiarity with the
wider human existence. It’s
values and its social occupancy.
Our places of shared
cultures and beliefs. Where
we inhabit one space, experience
similar moments -
the universality of the life of
humankind.
Trace 16
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Discovery and experimentation
are a cornerstone
of photographic
practice, we utilise photographic
techniques, a play
on visuals, distortion of
reality, costume and metaphor,
process and manipulation,
to investigate and interrogate
the world around
us, and a space where discovery
is realised through
investigation and iteration.
Eyesome 46
Exploring the evolution
of human interconnection,
and the complexity
within this world. An
image worth more than a
thousand words, breaking
the barrier of what is documented.
Aiming to address
through visual concepts,
the future and present
affairs that are a part of
society and its inhabitants.
The ‘eye’ is the viewpoint,
the engagement with the
prospect and the possibilities
of our unknowns,
on a personal or universal
scope. The ‘some’ is that
of us all, the ‘sum’ of humanity
and its interwoven
workings, in a collective,
world-image with multiple
adaptations.
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