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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
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PUNCTUM COLLECTIVE
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography (Class of 2021)
PUNCTUM COLLECTIVE
University of Portsmouth - BA (Hons) Photography (Class of 2021)
This website showcases the work of graduating photography students from the University of Portsmouth in 2021. It is composed of varying projects and styles including documentary, portraiture, landscape and architecture photography. As a collective, we present notions of spaces, people, history and what it was like to live and create in 2020-21.
Roland Barthes deciphered that images are emotionally evocative by nature through the function of the punctum, an unconscious device within the photograph that pricks the intangible emotive barrier between an image and the audience viewing the image. Because of this, it could be suggested that the punctum is the heart of the photograph, the core of its being, and through this, we found resolution. As a photographic collective fuelled by young, diverse practitioners, we find ourselves embracing notions of the punctum. We intend to penetrate cultural, political, social and creative barriers through our work in order to access the world through unique perspectives in an attempt to decode our status and purpose in today's society. Our intention is to translate our solutions, concerns, and notions of representation through creative texts (more specifically concerned with the photographic medium) in order to contribute to the complex discourse of such subjects in a fresh and intuitive manner. We acknowledge the unspoken emotive language of photography throughout our individual practices, but as a collective, we embrace it.
The experiences during and following the 2020-21 pandemic changed everyone’s lives in completely different ways, but something that unified us all, was the need for creative exploration in personal projects. What you see in the Punctum Collective is twenty-seven individual journeys in the realms of photographic, CGI, film and collage.
We would like to express our thanks to our lecturers Roel Paredaens, Richard Kolker, Jonathan Baggaley, Dana Ariel, Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Alexandra Lethbridge and James Allen for all their advice and support over the past three years. Especially in the past year where they have gone above and beyond to ensure the growth and wellbeing of each of us. We would also like to thank our wonderful technicians David Clarke, Billie Cawte and Andy Gregory for all their support and advice with photographic equipment.
Lastly, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to the Faculty of Art, Design and Performance at the University of Portsmouth.
Roland Barthes deciphered that images are emotionally evocative by nature through the function of the punctum, an unconscious device within the photograph that pricks the intangible emotive barrier between an image and the audience viewing the image. Because of this, it could be suggested that the punctum is the heart of the photograph, the core of its being, and through this, we found resolution. As a photographic collective fuelled by young, diverse practitioners, we find ourselves embracing notions of the punctum. We intend to penetrate cultural, political, social and creative barriers through our work in order to access the world through unique perspectives in an attempt to decode our status and purpose in today's society. Our intention is to translate our solutions, concerns, and notions of representation through creative texts (more specifically concerned with the photographic medium) in order to contribute to the complex discourse of such subjects in a fresh and intuitive manner. We acknowledge the unspoken emotive language of photography throughout our individual practices, but as a collective, we embrace it.
The experiences during and following the 2020-21 pandemic changed everyone’s lives in completely different ways, but something that unified us all, was the need for creative exploration in personal projects. What you see in the Punctum Collective is twenty-seven individual journeys in the realms of photographic, CGI, film and collage.
We would like to express our thanks to our lecturers Roel Paredaens, Richard Kolker, Jonathan Baggaley, Dana Ariel, Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Alexandra Lethbridge and James Allen for all their advice and support over the past three years. Especially in the past year where they have gone above and beyond to ensure the growth and wellbeing of each of us. We would also like to thank our wonderful technicians David Clarke, Billie Cawte and Andy Gregory for all their support and advice with photographic equipment.
Lastly, we would like to express our deepest appreciation to the Faculty of Art, Design and Performance at the University of Portsmouth.
