CGI Gallery
Liberty Abdey
Ayeesha Ayinla
Tara Barton-Leigh
Iminee Boyd-Cox
Christopher Brown
Tom Buller
Mia Rosa Curtis-Mays
Jemma Elvin
Sophie Evans
Zoe Everett-Taylor
Jasmine Forsyth
Sienna Glasford
Nicholas Halliday
Charlotte Jones
Patryk Komenderski
James Lambert
Oskar Maslanka
Jessica Mennell
Jacques Studley
Elena-Catalina Toltica
Issie Treacher
Aurora Way
Dan Webb
Charlotte White
Emily Wildash
Summer-Lee Wilson
Who Are We
Achievements
As a photographer, as an artist, as a practitioner we have the acquired capacity to view and engage with our everyday surroundings through a creative perspective that perhaps the ‘average person’ would not have, taking no regard to the surroundings they live through daily.
Taking inspiration from Baudelaire’s concept of the flaneur and Debord’s coining of the term ‘psychogeography’, this body of work explores psychological experiences of the city through the dérive, by revealing forgotten, or marginalised places of the urban environment through unplanned journeys of the subtle aesthetic contouring of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously directing the travellers with the goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience.
Psychogeographic walking and urban photography as aesthetic practices have been intuitive and sensory methods for exploring and capturing diverse facets of the city. Aesthetic practices are more than just sensory methods of exploration - they are also importantly connected to performing and making art.
The purposeful walking has an agenda: in that way we can’t absorb certain aspects of the urban world. This is why the drift is so important to psychogeography. The act of getting lost better connects us to the city.
The freedom of being able to photograph what we want, being able to make content out of anything we wish to, necessarily being no limitations to what you can do. But where in current times of a pandemic, where due to COVID-19, that complete sense of freedom has been taken away from us, creating a sense of irony within the context of this project, hence the titled ‘[Insert Name Here]’.
Taking inspiration from Baudelaire’s concept of the flaneur and Debord’s coining of the term ‘psychogeography’, this body of work explores psychological experiences of the city through the dérive, by revealing forgotten, or marginalised places of the urban environment through unplanned journeys of the subtle aesthetic contouring of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously directing the travellers with the goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience.
Psychogeographic walking and urban photography as aesthetic practices have been intuitive and sensory methods for exploring and capturing diverse facets of the city. Aesthetic practices are more than just sensory methods of exploration - they are also importantly connected to performing and making art.
The purposeful walking has an agenda: in that way we can’t absorb certain aspects of the urban world. This is why the drift is so important to psychogeography. The act of getting lost better connects us to the city.
The freedom of being able to photograph what we want, being able to make content out of anything we wish to, necessarily being no limitations to what you can do. But where in current times of a pandemic, where due to COVID-19, that complete sense of freedom has been taken away from us, creating a sense of irony within the context of this project, hence the titled ‘[Insert Name Here]’.
