UAL BA Photography Degree Show 2022 - Voices

Isabella Scott (b.2000) is a British fine art photographer and an undergraduate BA (Hons) Photography student at London College of Communication (UAL). She has recently (March 2022) exhibited her work in a group show at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham, London. Her work has also being featured in PhotoVogue, Vogue Italia.

Isabella’s practice is often inspired by walking which necessitates towards unexpected encounters, enabling a visceral exploration of the world around her. Photography offers us an ‘Affective’ and embodied experience in addition to capturing space. Walking allows us to engage with the real, tangible, and transient, and photography thus, allows us to ‘retain’ it. Employing this methodology throughout her practice has brought her into close contact with the materiality of places allowing her to notice the subtleties of her surrounding environments, and has made her more aware of variation, colour, texture, and materials reminding her of the enduing pleasure of just looking.

Mick O'Connell is an Irish  photographer, set designer and creative director with a passion for creating dramatic images with a unique storyline.

Throughout his work he explores the notion of keeping photography camp and light hearted while still remaining visually strong, thought provoking and true to his imagination. 

Currently a final year student at the University of the Arts London, he is continually developing and fine-tuning his style of photography.

Callista is an artist who works from London and Cambridgeshire. She is an undergraduate for the BA Photography course at London College of Communication, UAL.

Her work explores nature as an allegory to human experiences, employing a combination of lens-based and camera-less techniques.

In her images, she explores the physical interactions between artist and environment, object and surface, by employing alternative processes. Charcoal, acrylic paint, and organic matter intertwine with photography, embracing a more ecologically inspired way of thinking and creating images.

She creates a dialogue between landscape and people, shifting between nature’s microcosms, intimate relationships, and larger more complex questions about life.

born in hong kong, ellen tay is an artist who currently lives in london.

she loves experimenting with colour and creating works based on various concepts.

ellen has particpated in exhibtions at the Wells Gallery, SCAD Hong Kong and in the Rising Phoenix Showcase.

Angela Gioffrè is an Italian student based in London.She is currently studying BA Photography at the University of the Arts London. She is interested in the way in which different media work together, experimenting using photography, different materials, painting, sculpture and collage. 

With the use of all these different media she is able to work on the idea of two dimensionality and three dimensionality: in particular, with the use of materials offer photos, photography is able to go over its two dimension and touch the three dimension.

The three dimension can involve the sense of touch that engage even more the audience, prompting them to interact with my works.

She started her journey through art with an external prospective, creating works with general themes; she is now focusing on more personal themes related to herself.

Oriana is a 23-year-old photographer who begun documenting her life in London at the age of 16. The diaristic approach to image making continues on 8 years later as Oriana seeks to find the beauty in the everyday by creating worlds with the people closest to her and merging fantasy with reality.

Mars Obonyo (b.1999) is a South London raised multi-disciplinary artist who is intrigued by the weird,  wonderful and macabre. Using a diasporic lens they unpick the ever changing nature of identity, contemporary culture and attitudes in society towards queer communities.  Mars often works with lens based media, textiles , themes of afro-surrealism and works towards dismantling fetishization and misogyny.

liv wood is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and forager based in London.

their work explores digital technologies within our collective ecologies.

they work directly with artificial intelligences and plant life to explore the social, political, and environmental impacts of the information age from a critical posthuman perspective.

they are a recent graduate of London College of Communication, currently working within the institution on curatorial and ecological projects.

their latest visual work, data gardens, is an AI-generated video essay exploring digital capitalism through a contemporary cyberfeminist lens.

Loyin Ogunbusola is a multidisciplinary British Nigerian artist making work about blackness, queerness, hotness, realness. Her work moves between directing, still image, creative direction  and styling.  

Ruby Griffith is a photographer and creative from New York City, currently living in London. Ruby is currently in her final year of studying BA photography at London College of Communication. Her work focuses primarily on fashion, femininity and gender identity. She experiments with a variety of different medias, including analogue photography, digital photography, sculpture, and video. 

Ruby first began her studies in analog photography at the age of 15 at the International Center of Photography. She has always been intrigued by the mystery and emotion of Black & White analog photography, however since starting University she has expanded her skills to include digital photography practices. Her earlier work focussed primarily on her family, whereas her work in University has switched more towards femininity and fashion. Although Ruby has the most experience in photography, she also considers her general creativity and conceptual ideas exist a skill of their own. She is intrigued by the concept of gender and femininity and the fact that these concepts are completely constructed, however still pushed upon us. 

Adorabael is a 3D visual artist based in London. Intrigued by the technological, her work embodies ethereal and surrealist visions, as well as Posthuman ideas of the self through the use of CGI. Specialising in 3D character design and motion graphics, with a background in photography and creative direction, adorabael is passionate about constructing a unique visual outcome from start to finish. Her work spans the digital space, including exhibiting artwork as NFTs on Foundation, alongside working with clients such as Iggy Azalea and Jaded London.

Beth Carter-Woodhouse (b.1998) is a photographic practitioner based in London.

Her practice focuses on themes of the body, sculptural forms and the every day in an attempt to question how we engage with our surroundings. Her latest project Forgotten Matter uses the constraints of a riverbank along the Thames. The work studies washed-up objects from the riverbed, objects she claims as sculptures. She explores how we can overlook these outer edges of the city by creating a visual dialogue between her body and the landscape.

BRANKIN is a Northern Irish Digital Artist, based in London. 

Their artistic practice revolves around visual investigations into the unfixed states of identity and reality and, specifically, what these are coming to mean in a contemporary digital context. They centre ideas of possible futures within their creations through the lens of fantasy, utilising camp horror aesthetics, to play with notions of dissipating binaries in a postman future. 

With a background in photography, they use photographic methods of post production in combination with performance, moving image and animation - treating photos as a material to craft with rather than an outcome. 

‘I believe that photography is a meaningful tool towards understanding and exploration. trying to make sense of the modern human experience is many times at the core of everything. I often find myself absorbed with problems of thought and so I wish to present a portal for you to step through - a chance at us understanding each other’. 

Charlie Cluff is a Photographic Artist. Growing up just outside of London, she studied Fine Art before completing a photography course at the New York Film Academy. She attended the School of Visual Arts NYC and completed her studies at the University of Arts London. She has had the opportunity to work alongside other passionate artists and highly acclaimed photographers.

Charlie has recently been inspired by the use of Art as a therapy and the archiving of photography. Her recent thesis, Photographic Memory: Exploring the relationship between therapeutic and archival practice looks at her grandfather’s archive, looking at how he balanced his life in dentistry alongside his creative practise, establishing a connection between his photographic work and her own. 

In 2020 she put together an exhibition focusing on the art that people created throughout lockdown. Focusing on the importance of the artistic world in these times of crisis and drawing attention to the different forms of art that can be used as a form of recreation as well as therapy.

George Budden is an artist that uses photography as a primary medium. The subject matter he focuses on changes project to project, but generally evolves from themes on space and material. He enjoy philosophy and psychology, and he likes to combine these researched themes with the physical outcome to create either an existing idea visualised, or a new philosophy altogether.

Wenxuan Qian (b. 1998) is a London and Wuhan based photographer

He works on landscape, documentary and snapshot photography.

His viewfinders are fulfilled with things and people trapped inside margins.

He barely does portrait, but he is trying.

Scarlet Yates is a photographer and visual artist based in London. As a 2022 graduate from the BA Photography programme at UAL, London College Of Communication, Scarlet's interests lie in topics surrounding gender, surveillance, as well as documentary and observational photography.

She enjoys exploring different mediums within her work including printing in different formats, involving screen printing and mono printing, film, and photography.

Scarlet has had her work exhibited at The Phoenix Art Space in Brighton, where she was shortlisted amongst 20 finalists in the 'OPEN18 Young Photographers', a part of the Brighton Fringe. Her recent work has consisted of portraits of people who identify as male. Whilst working in a hyper-masculine environment (a sports bar) she was inspired to create a project based around masculinity and performativity.

Felix Falck-Næss (b.1999) is a photographer based in Oslo, Norway.

He works on long-term projects, as well as for magazines,
newspapers, publishers and books.

Felix was born into a family where the camera has always been part of the inventory. That is perhaps why it is with the camera that Felix prefers to communicate, and what he tells us is how marvelous our surroundings can look, just when we look at them from an unfamiliar angle. Felix can make even the smallest story exciting, because he tells it in a new way. He has told stories about Hunters, Svinesund, high voltage lines and birdwatchers, to name a few of the
projects he has made in recent years.

Yuying Zhang (b.2000), Hangzhou and London based photographer.

Usually works on documentary, landscape and street photography.

Diggory Lynch is a lens based artist based in London, England. Central themes within his work include aspects of the mundane and the overlooked elements within our immediate surroundings. His recent work has looked into domestic space and how it can inform interior mental states. 

Rebecca Dorothy is an Irish photographer based in London.

Primarily looking at documenting human connections using photography as a medium. she is concentrated on telling stories, and ensuring that those who are being documented are included within the process. She is also dedicated to ensuring the art world becomes a more accessible and inclusive space for everyone to be accepted. To do this she has worked on a number of community engagement projects.  

Emma Martin (b.2000, she/they) is a London based photographic artist whose work documents underepresented subcultures and communities, predominantly through portraiture. Published three times by the British Journal of Photography by the age of age 20, their work shows a long standing commitment to working immersively and conscientiously with communities in their spaces to document an under-exposed culture and performance of self, often with a view to challenge pervasive cultural norms and perspectives.

A 2022 graduate from the BA Photography programme at UAL LCC, Emma brings a diverse approach to image making that sees her utilise traditional darkroom and analogue practices with experimental methodologies. They also have been working with found photography and archival curation since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when they began their Ebay Archives work.

Born 1993 in China ; lives and works in Shanghai and London.

Blanks is a non-profit curatorial organisation which brings the potential of everyday living spaces and artists who share similar interests together. It is founded by three like-minded Asian artists: Tianyi Sun, Ellen Tay and Juehan Zeng. What brings us together is the main idea of minded Asian artists: Tianyi Sun, Ellen Tay and Juehan Zeng. What brings us together is the main idea of exploring city spaces and challenging the conventional way of exhibiting and viewing artworks. The name “Blanks” represents our project’s scope, we redefined empty city spaces as a blank and we encourage our audiences and artists to “fill in the blank together in any way they like”. We’ve chosen to establish this organization because firstly, under the rapid process of urbanization and industrialization, more and more public spaces are commercially occupied, which means people have less chance to enjoy the city spaces, also, living through the past 2 years’ pandemic situation, people are experiencing unexpected lockdowns and most of the time they are encouraged to work and stay indoors, this turns the definition of “home” into a place where almost any everyday activity takes place, so we took this idea of rediscovering spaces to make little renovations of vacant and unused urban spaces into some mini exhibition areas. Our intended exhibiting spaces are, for example, a parking lot, sidewalk or even the space next to the exit of underground stations, they are places that people may pass by every day, but never had a chance to imagine the possibility of these places, except for their original purpose of which they were built for. With our project, we hope that it is like a treasure hunting adventure for our audiences, and by joining our exhibitions and events, they are able to re-open up their experience in outdoor spaces and find an easier way to enjoy art. 


Mariam Salarishvili (b.2001) is Georgian-born fashion and documentary photographer and an undergraduate BA (Hons) Photography student at University of the Arts London. Her work has been selected for exhibitions including ‘Photography Now’  at The Brick Lane Gallery and has featured in PhotoVogue, Vogue Italia, several times.

Mariam employs the use of combining multiple photography styles, as well as image capture formats within her practice. She sees the use photography as a unique way of personal storytelling and has a passion for presenting others stories though her own lens. 

Originally from Florence in Italy, Matilde Grassi is a documentary, portraiture and street photographer currently studying at the London College of Communication in BA Photography and will graduate in 2022.

Her practice is inspired by observing spaces, people and the adventure of walking.

Tianyi Sun is a Chinese visual artist who’s currently based in London, UK.

She’s interested in sociological topics and her main practices are always around “family”, “strangers” and “behaviors”. Her artwork often combines still images, videos with multi-media experiments.

Gintare Sadauskaite is a Lithuanian visual artist based in London. Her work spans self-portraiture, fashion photography, moving image, writing, and performance. 

Reuben has been working as a Photographer, Videographer and currently on an upcoming Music project (very hush hush). Being raised by a Dancer and a musician/composer for parents Reuben was surrounded by the art world while growing up, because of this Reuben got to try a hand in multiple art forms to a high degree.   

While at college Reuben was granted funding by Screen South in collaboration with Channel 4 and received their first professional experience in film. Alongside Film, Reuben Champion was learning photography as a hobby but after a while this became a main focus. 

Reuben's latest work was a collaboration, with their sister, Neath Champion in a dance/photography installation experience. 

Blanks is a non-profit curatorial organisation which brings the potential of everyday living spaces and artists who share similar interests together. It is founded by three like-minded Asian artists: Tianyi Sun, Ellen Tay and Juehan Zeng. What brings us together is the main idea of minded Asian artists: Tianyi Sun, Ellen Tay and Juehan Zeng. What brings us together is the main idea of exploring city spaces and challenging the conventional way of exhibiting and viewing artworks. The name “Blanks” represents our project’s scope, we redefined empty city spaces as a blank and we encourage our audiences and artists to “fill in the blank together in any way they like”. We’ve chosen to establish this organization because firstly, under the rapid process of urbanization and industrialization, more and more public spaces are commercially occupied, which means people have less chance to enjoy the city spaces, also, living through the past 2 years’ pandemic situation, people are experiencing unexpected lockdowns and most of the time they are encouraged to work and stay indoors, this turns the definition of “home” into a place where almost any everyday activity takes place, so we took this idea of rediscovering spaces to make little renovations of vacant and unused urban spaces into some mini exhibition areas. Our intended exhibiting spaces are, for example, a parking lot, sidewalk or even the space next to the exit of underground stations, they are places that people may pass by every day, but never had a chance to imagine the possibility of these places, except for their original purpose of which they were built for. With our project, we hope that it is like a treasure hunting adventure for our audiences, and by joining our exhibitions and events, they are able to re-open up their experience in outdoor spaces and find an easier way to enjoy art. 


We are a group of young female artists who put a large amount of importance on sense of individual identity. Recently , within our work we have been exploring the importance of ones own identity, and how it sculpts us to become the person we are ; how external and internal factors and experiences allow us to become the person we have become today.

As a group, we have decided we want to focus on this, and emphasis the importance of the sense of identity within young females, femme presenting and non binary teens. We want to create a safe collaborative community space, wallowing people to develop and express understanding of our own and others identities. Due to multiple different factors it can sometimes feel impossible to relate and fit in with others. This platform will bring those together. This is important to us as when we were all younger we feel like we would benefited from something like this. So to create something like this would mean a lot to all of us and we feel it would be very impactful and would help to aid personal growth and alleviate the loneliness of . It is extremely important to us that we continue to encourage others to stay with their authentic identity so we aim to create a multi- faceted community which would provide a safe collaborative space to develop and express our understanding of our own and others identities. In doing so we hope the community finds a way to feels encouraged to share their art work exploring this with us.

Our collaborative project will be an art workshop about letting people experience the different understandings and feelings of people with disabilities about time, space, and things. Disabled groups have always been socially classified as marginalized groups, social alienation of this group has always existed, and their abilities have been greatly underestimated in various sectors of society. This is also the core concept of this workshop: people with disabilities have different world experiences due to the lack of some
physical senses. The lack of some of their physical abilities does not mean they are incompetent; they just have a unique way of feeling the world and experiencing life. We hope at least through this workshop, the people who will join in can understand a bit more about the feelings of the disabled and the way they understand the world and raise some concerns about this marginalized group in the society. Barriers do not affect one's creativity.

Our group is linked together by a wish of representing the “self'' in our personal projects: we all got through a period of transition during covid, passing from general projects to a desire and also need to represent and create something personal, starting from ourselves.

This personal perspective is different for all of us because we are different one to each other, but the self is the starting point, the common link that creates a unity in our collective. The strength of this group is that each of us have a different point of view in regard of the self and this is expressed by a variety of techniques: some of us prefer to use digital photography and analogue photography, other of us videos and others less technological techniques like collages. The same starting point but the diversity of our practices and of our techniques is what give this group an opportunity to create something unique.

Even though our personal interests for projects, the themes that we usually explore and the way of representing them are various, the topic chosen for this collective is able to bring together our subjects of interest of our personal projects with the theme of graduation.

Sometimes it can be hard to work in a group of five people where all of them have their individual interests, individual subject preferences and individual way of representations of it when it comes to create a project; but our group saw these diversity as something positive, as a possibility to experiment more and create something that could combine all our strength.

Graduation is experienced differently for all of us but we are all linked by a fear of the future: we want our collective to be a safe place for whoever is experiencing the same fear and anxiety about graduation and what happens after it.

As three artists who use photography as our primary medium, we have naturally taken not only a fascination in the ontology of the photograph, but the ethical dilemmas associated with it. 

Our work is generally very concept driven and research based. We are open to a multitude of art mediums, particularly performance. Combined with the photograph we hope to yield more informative results that utilise and comment on the theory we’ve focused on.
 
George and Diggory have worked on projects in the past, exploring absurd and surreal theories and realising them through the objectivity of the photograph. Now we’ve joined with Felix, a successful documentary photographer who doubles as an encyclopaedia for artists and works. We hope to combine our techniques, ideas and research to create comments and work that says something new, and enlightens those ideas through art.

As three artists who use photography as our primary medium, we have naturally taken not only a fascination in the ontology of the photograph, but the ethical dilemmas associated with it. 

Our work is generally very concept driven and research based. We are open to a multitude of art mediums, particularly performance. Combined with the photograph we hope to yield more informative results that utilise and comment on the theory we’ve focused on.
 
George and Diggory have worked on projects in the past, exploring absurd and surreal theories and realising them through the objectivity of the photograph. Now we’ve joined with Felix, a successful documentary photographer who doubles as an encyclopaedia for artists and works. We hope to combine our techniques, ideas and research to create comments and work that says something new, and enlightens those ideas through art.

As three artists who use photography as our primary medium, we have naturally taken not only a fascination in the ontology of the photograph, but the ethical dilemmas associated with it. 

Our work is generally very concept driven and research based. We are open to a multitude of art mediums, particularly performance. Combined with the photograph we hope to yield more informative results that utilise and comment on the theory we’ve focused on.
 
George and Diggory have worked on projects in the past, exploring absurd and surreal theories and realising them through the objectivity of the photograph. Now we’ve joined with Felix, a successful documentary photographer who doubles as an encyclopaedia for artists and works. We hope to combine our techniques, ideas and research to create comments and work that says something new, and enlightens those ideas through art.

As three artists who use photography as our primary medium, we have naturally taken not only a fascination in the ontology of the photograph, but the ethical dilemmas associated with it. 

Our work is generally very concept driven and research based. We are open to a multitude of art mediums, particularly performance. Combined with the photograph we hope to yield more informative results that utilise and comment on the theory we’ve focused on.
 
George and Diggory have worked on projects in the past, exploring absurd and surreal theories and realising them through the objectivity of the photograph. Now we’ve joined with Felix, a successful documentary photographer who doubles as an encyclopaedia for artists and works. We hope to combine our techniques, ideas and research to create comments and work that says something new, and enlightens those ideas through art.

As three artists who use photography as our primary medium, we have naturally taken not only a fascination in the ontology of the photograph, but the ethical dilemmas associated with it. 

Our work is generally very concept driven and research based. We are open to a multitude of art mediums, particularly performance. Combined with the photograph we hope to yield more informative results that utilise and comment on the theory we’ve focused on.
 
George and Diggory have worked on projects in the past, exploring absurd and surreal theories and realising them through the objectivity of the photograph. Now we’ve joined with Felix, a successful documentary photographer who doubles as an encyclopaedia for artists and works. We hope to combine our techniques, ideas and research to create comments and work that says something new, and enlightens those ideas through art.

As three artists who use photography as our primary medium, we have naturally taken not only a fascination in the ontology of the photograph, but the ethical dilemmas associated with it. 

Our work is generally very concept driven and research based. We are open to a multitude of art mediums, particularly performance. Combined with the photograph we hope to yield more informative results that utilise and comment on the theory we’ve focused on.
 
George and Diggory have worked on projects in the past, exploring absurd and surreal theories and realising them through the objectivity of the photograph. Now we’ve joined with Felix, a successful documentary photographer who doubles as an encyclopaedia for artists and works. We hope to combine our techniques, ideas and research to create comments and work that says something new, and enlightens those ideas through art.

Aaliyah Jackson (b.1999 She/Her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her works span the mediums of analogue and digital photography, film and coding.

In 2022 she graduated from UAL and has been creating more code-based work which can be seen HERE.

i_kiss_your_lips was featured as part of Kawaii Agency's submission to the 2021 Wrong Bianalle.

Gintare Sadauskaite is a Lithuanian visual artist based in London. Her work spans self-portraiture, fashion photography, moving image, writing, and performance. 

Mars Obonyo (b.1999) is a South London raised multi-disciplinary artist who is intrigued by the weird,  wonderful and macabre. Using a diasporic lens they unpick the ever changing nature of identity, contemporary culture and attitudes in society towards queer communities.  Mars often works with lens based media, textiles , themes of afro-surrealism and works towards dismantling fetishization and misogyny.

Tianyi Sun is a Chinese visual artist who’s currently based in London, UK.

She’s interested in sociological topics and her main practices are always around “family”, “strangers” and “behaviors”. Her artwork often combines still images, videos with multi-media experiments.

Sounds of birds singing in the park. Spring sounds. Relaxing nature. People can be heard in the distance.

ambient nature sounds, sounds of frogs in the distance, birds and insects.