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
COMPETITIONThiscompetition was open to students of photographyand visual arts subjects aged 16 or over and in full-timefurther education at schools or colleges in the UnitedKingdom. Students were asked to submit their favouriteportrait, landscape and still life photographs.Best Portrait Courteney Blackman, Farnborough Sixth Form College62We would like to thank and congratulate the24 finalists whose work you can see in thismagazine as well as those students whosework has been highly commended and willbe shown on our BA Photography Website.However, we also wish to thank all thestudents who submitted the many wonderfulentries from around the country. All the judgescommented on the quality of images, howhard it was to make decisions and how muchthey enjoyed seeing the work from the 260entries we received.Congratulations to Tilly Reed from New Collegein Doncaster for her still life entry that haswon the Your Things category and to CourtneyBlackman from Farnborough Sixth Form Collegefor her winning image in the Your Peoplecategory of the competition.
YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR PLACES, YOUR THINGSPortrait Landscape Still LifeOverall Winner &Best LandscapeAlexander Phocas, Godalming CollegeBest Still LifeTilly Reed, New College DoncasterA huge well done to Alexander Phocas fromGodalming College for his landscape image thatnot only wins the best in the Your Places categorybut is the overall winner of the competition.Thank you to Metro Imaging (www.metroimaging.co.uk)for supporting the competition andproviding 12 shortlisted finalists with a C-Typedigital print of their work.And thank you to the students, alumni andstaff for their time and diligence in judging thecompetition.Judges:Alba De La Cruz Soto, Angela Blazanovic,Christiana Pietzsch, Chuck Chakarov, Cristi AndreiSmadoiu, David George, Douglas Reeves,Giulia Simonotti, Isabella Bosi, James RussellCant, Kasia Kowalska, Mina Boromand, RachelDemmen, Vaiva Botyriute
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COMPETITION
This
competition was open to students of photography
and visual arts subjects aged 16 or over and in full-time
further education at schools or colleges in the United
Kingdom. Students were asked to submit their favourite
portrait, landscape and still life photographs.
Best Portrait Courteney Blackman, Farnborough Sixth Form College
62
We would like to thank and congratulate the
24 finalists whose work you can see in this
magazine as well as those students whose
work has been highly commended and will
be shown on our BA Photography Website.
However, we also wish to thank all the
students who submitted the many wonderful
entries from around the country. All the judges
commented on the quality of images, how
hard it was to make decisions and how much
they enjoyed seeing the work from the 260
entries we received.
Congratulations to Tilly Reed from New College
in Doncaster for her still life entry that has
won the Your Things category and to Courtney
Blackman from Farnborough Sixth Form College
for her winning image in the Your People
category of the competition.
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