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Mike Steven, Yoshi Kametani and Rowan Lear exhibit at Futureproof

Three 2010 Photography and Film graduates from Edinburgh Napier University have been invited to participate in Futureproof: [Some] New Photography in Scotland. Rowan Lear, Yoshi Kametani and Mike Steven shall be exhibiting work at at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow from 6th August – 12th September 2010. Futureproof is a selection of work from graduates in 2010 of [...]

Andrew O’Connor – cinematography showreel

Recent graduate Andrew O’Connor has produced a showreel of work he has made over the past three years. Andrew has shot short documentaries, fiction films, animation and experimental films, and on many formats including 16mm, Super-8, HD, HDV, MiniDV and DSLR. His showreel can be viewed here: Andrew O’Connor Cinematography Showreel 2010. Andrew can be contacted [...]

Urban Exploration

Urban Exploration is a short documentary produced by students for their final year project at Edinburgh Napier University. Funny and moving, the film follows three urban explorers in Edinburgh and provides an insight into the increasingly popular past-time of urban exploration. The documentary strikingly observes the desire in today’s developed societies to leave safe city areas and [...]

Free Range Art & Design Show in London

Seven 2010 graduates of Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University are exhibiting final year work at the 10th Free Range Art & Design Show, which takes place every June and July at the Old Truman Brewery. The show provides the best platform for graduate art and design students to showcase their work to both public [...]

“Found Footage”

Recent graduate Rowan Lear is taking part in a collaborative event as part of Screen Bandita and West Port Book Festival in Edinburgh. “Found Footage” shall include performances by poet Jay Bernard, and author and playwright Mia Gallagher, projections by Screen Bandita, and installations by Izzy Bocchetti and Rowan Lear, plus music from Vroni Holzmann. [...]

Keir McDowall

Keir studies Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University, graduating summer 2011. In his work he often focusses on the landscape, but has a keen interest in fashion and portraiture. Keir’s portfolio can be viewed in full at keirmcdowall.co.uk and his blog, comprising part-diary and part-research, can be read at beautiescandie.tumblr.com

The Skinny reviews the 2010 degree show

The 2010 Edinburgh Napier Degree Show has been reviewed in arts and culture newspaper The Skinny. The article, which focusses mainly on the work produced by the Photography and Film course. gave the show 4 stars. Below is an extract. Read the full review by Rachel Bowles at theskinny.co.uk As part of Napier’s 2010 Degree Show, Tessa [...]

Source Graduate Photography 2010

Eleven Edinburgh Napier University photography graduates has been featured in Source Magazines’s Graduate Photography 2010 website. Visit www.source.ie/graduate/2010 to view the degree show work of Suzanne Boak, Elspeth Gunnery, Yoshi Kametani, Tessa Kerrs, Aleksandra Kocela, Sumieya Kouser, Rowan Lear, Kristina Milic Thompson, Matthew Nanson, Mateusz Noniewicz, Jonathan David Smyth, Mike Steven, Karen Taylor, and Chris [...]

‘Reverenc’d In Decay’ by Mike Steven

Mike Steven has just completed BA (Hons) in Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. His major project examined the equal fragility of both the built and natural environment, and focused this theme around the Palladian ruin of Mavisbank House, in the project Reverenc’d in decay. “From a beacon of wealth, art and music at the [...]

Matthew Adams

Matthew Adams has recently graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BA(hons) Photography and Film. He has produced a high quality portfolio of work that is varied and tends to transcend genres. He has particular interest in the creation of social-awareness imagery and advertising. Matthew Adams can be contacted by email at matthewadamsphoto@hotmail.com and more examples of his [...]

‘Marvelling’ by Elspeth Gunnery

‘Marvelling’ is a body of photographs Elspeth Gunnery produced for her final year project of BA(hons) Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. The images depict coastal landscapes associated with smuggling, for example, river mouths and caves. The work charts the journey taken by Elspeth Gunnery along the North Northumberland Coastline starting at Cove, Eyemouth, [...]

this is what creates every adventure – a project by Rowan Lear

Rowan Lear recently completed the BA (hons) Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. Her major project developed into a process of collection, research and response which she titled this is what creates every adventure . The project investigates our relationships to photographs and memory. Rowan uses found photographs and treats them not simply as memory [...]

The Photographer’s Gallery: Annual Graduates Exhibition

freshfacedandwildeyed is our annual exhibition open to recent visual arts graduates, representing the most dynamic new photographic work from across the UK. Following an online submission process, up to 25 artists are chosen by a jury to exhibit online and at The Photographers’ Gallery. View the exhibition pages for the last two years: freshfacedandwildeyed08 freshfacedandwildeyed09 [...]

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