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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IN CONVERSATION by Bea Lauckner
with RUARIDH MOLLICA on the skate community.
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How long have you been skating? What was the skate
scene for you growing up?
I’ve been skating probably over the course of the last 10 years.
The skate scene for me growing up was very much indoor skate
parks. I remember first time I went to transgression, which is
an indoor skate park in Edinburgh was in 2009 and the first
few times I actually went on a BMX and fell and swore to never
touch a BMX ever again. So then I picked up skating and this
guy in his 40’s at the time around in the boom of skating, just
had a real passion for it and started teaching me how to ollie and
stuff like that and kind of got my passion growing. Luckily from
that I met a few other skater friends, because there wasn’t that
many skaters who were ten or eleven years old in Edinburgh at
the time. Most of them were all older. When I was learning to
skate, there was a dip in the popularity of it. There was all of the
young guys and then all of the older guys who would hang out
at Bristo Square, and occasionally we would go to Bristo Square
and try and shred with the older guys, but they were always
really intimidating so we didn’t go near the stuff they would use.
I went through a weird phase of putting together a skate team
and we were terrible. That was the scene growing up and as I got
older I got more comfortable with skating and myself. I began
to speak to more people at different spots and over the course
of me growing up it just so happened that the skate scene got
bigger and bigger too.
The skate community worldwide is one like no other.
Specifically looking at the Scottish community, and
Edinburgh – what does this community look like to
you?
I think being a part of the skate community in Edinburgh is not
just about skating. Sure, that is the main reason why people
are there but tied into that seems to be this underlying care for
independent local shopping and sustainability is in there as well
and just a general community of friendly faces that you know
everyone has something in common and I think that is lovely.
Would you say this community defines you in any way?
I would definitely say the skate community has helped define
who I am as a person. I think having the ability to be in that
environment, and be themselves, does give you the confidence
to be yourself and find who you are alongside all these other
people. The skate scene influences the music you listen to, the
way you dress, it comes with a culture that you adopt and attach
to yourself and that in turn does define you.
You said you’ve been consistent with it (skating) this
year in particular, has this got something to do with
lockdown and COVID would you say?
I found skating a really therapeutic thing, like a meditation, all
I can think about while skating IS skating so it was an escape at
the beginning.
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