BBC News in Pictures Features BA Photography Graduate Work

Photography graduates from Stockport College have made it onto the BBC News in Pictures web site. Degree work from students who have just completed a three-year BA (Hons) Photography course will go on show at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester from 20th June.

A selection of student still and moving images took the top slot on the BBC News website after graduate Andrea Smith contacted the BBC to help publicise the exhibition.

“We’re really please about the exposure that the exhibition was given on the BBC website – but it didn’t surprise me at all,” said Paul Proctor, Assistant Dean of the School of Arts, Design & Media at Stockport.

“Our students are a group of highly motivated and entrepreneurial individuals, and enterprising in every respect


“We try as far as possible to encourage our students to work independently as well as collaboratively, and this is a perfect example of that; the students played a big part in organising the exhibition, then Andrea took it on herself to do what she could to raise the profile of the event – and this is the result.”

Among the graduates’ images featured on the BBC website were examples of Andrea’s own work, which explored gender stereotypes through the idea of hunting in modern life, from food to designer goods.

 Also included were images by: Emma McKay, whose work examined the improvisational world of hip-hop; Chris Griffiths, who mixed images and sounds in his original film, ‘Bleed’; Stacey Calderwood, whose work took its inspiration from the stonemasonery skills of her father and two brothers; and Andy Moseley, whose short film depicted foreigners offering their humorous observations on English men and women.

They can be viewed at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-18416143