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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EDINBURGH COMMUNITIES
with EWAN HUTCHISON on the importance of locality
in the food industury.
Looking at the nature of your business – food trucks encourage
people to connect with their local community – do you find this
to be true to your experience?
Street food, before all this, when they (people) were coming to your truck,
or your hut, there was an amazing connection. They know that you’re from
Scotland, or you’re from Edinburgh. People are coming up, they’re getting
to see the food being made, they’re directly asking the person who is cooking
it where the foods from etc. they can also follow you around, you know,
follow from event to event, you can tell people where you’re going to pop up
next. You do see it, you see the same faces in different locations and the different
events that you do. So people love that side of it. They love supporting
something that’s a bit closer to home. My street food business only started
4 years ago, so people have literally seen you grow and progress. They can
follow your journey.
What does being a part of this community serve you?
I love it. I absolutely love it. I love the thought of ‘If I don’t go to work, I
don’t make money’. I like not being a number in an office. You go to an event
and you know the people working right beside you. That’s what is really nice
about street food. You’re essentially competitors with each other but there
is just none of that. If you see someone’s really busy, you’re super happy for
them. When I was in Glasgow, working in the truck, there were six other
trucks right beside us. You know that if you can bring people into the space,
then everyone’s going to benefit from it. It’s a really nice community.
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