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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OUTLET
Photographers are practitioners who usually have
numerous outlets for expressing their creativity besides
photography. These pages feature poetry and a painting
produced by this issue’s creators and contributors.
‘To My Ex’ By Isabella Bosi
For our curves mould neatly into the
others shape,
Grinning faces blaze, both parallel.
God bites it’s bottom lip,
First the devils tip,
Mirroring, in a violent dance
Within this wicked well.
Temptation is merely coercing,
Whilst you kneel, creatively nursing,
a vacant throbbing swell.
Thrashing and dethroning,
Here lies a saint-less, soothing,
Bold and burgundy hell.
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Our bruising fruits,
And bleeding gooey juices,
Leading to liquid kisses.
Stretching and expanding,
Propelling and vibrating,
Discovering what loose is.
Our feelings and our succulent sex
scrambled in refusals,
Alike our sticky, young organs
enveloping our bones.
Just spooning out my mind with,
Moans and groans, and shown
To be each-others muses.
Our fleshy appetite, now our bellies full,
Entwined in biological nooses.
But with the willingness to grow.
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