Projects at the Bristol Photography Research Group
Find out about our projects.
Whole School Self Portraits in vernacular and YouTube aesthetics
Year: 2016
Partners: Hannah More School and Centre for Moving Image Research
Funder: UWE Bristol Research Leave
Project Manager: Dr Shawn Sobers
Photographers/filmmakers UWE Bristol Photography BA students:
- Courtney Barnes
- Jack Dowling
- Lucy Durling
- India Farman
- Becky Hardy
- Ella Harris
- Karina Jacenko
- Joelle Sayles
Project Description: Exploring how a school community choose to be represented, using music and video to overtly and covertly communicate key messages to the wider community.
Hometown Heroes
Year: 2012- present
Partners: Bristol Metropolitan Academy, Broadlands Academy, Worle Community School, Backwell School, Downend School, and Bridge Learning Campus
Funder: The Prince’s Trust
Project Manager:
Amanda Harman
Photographer: UWE Bristol Photography students
Project Description: Working with local schools, using photography to explore people that have inspired the lives of the young people.
Hidden Presence
Year: 2013-2016
Partners: Ffotogallery, Chepstow Museum, Pound Arts, Photo-Sensitive, Barnardos, Bath Records Office, Bath Black Families Support Group, Firstborn Creatives, Centre for Moving image Research, Cardiff Council, Monmouthshire Council, B&NES, Wiltshire Council, East Tytherton Heritage Project, Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre.
Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council of Wales, Wiltshire Council, and PLaCE UWE Bristol.
Project Manager for UWE Bristol: Dr Shawn Sobers
Photographers:
- Penney Ellis
- Julian Germain
- Eva Sajovic
- Dr Shawn Sobers
Project Description: A creative research project exploring the presence of Black people in Britain before the 20th Century, over numerous geographic locations.
See more about Hidden Presence.
Open for Business
Year: 2015
Partners: Bristol Museums & Art Gallery and Magnum Photos
Funder: Lloyds LDC and UWE Bristol
Project Manager for UWE Bristol:
Jim Campbell
Photographer: UWE Bristol Photography BA Students
Project Description: Producing images to fill gaps in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery archives, in the category of documenting significant local businesses.
See more about Open for Business.
Garden Stores, Hidden Labour
Year: 2014
Partners: Tyntesfield House, National Trust
Project Manager:
Amanda Harman
Photographer:
Amanda Harman
Project Description: This series of unintended or ‘accidental’ still lives seeks to make visible the unseen and often unsung work of the gardeners, by revealing small signs of the day-to-day. These observations seek to embody the gardener’s labours and reveal the hidden stories of the work and life of the gardens, and those who tend them.
See more about Garden Stores, Hidden Labour.
Out of the mouth of babes
Year: 2015
Partners: Hannah More School
Funder: UWE Bristol Research Leave
Project Manager: Dr Shawn Sobers
Photographers: UWE Bristol Photography BA students;
- Jade Spurling
- Sharma Everson
- David Gilmore
- Lilia Manninen
- Taya Portlock
- JoeYouens
- Katie Dinnage
Project Description: Commissioned by Hannah More School to document a week-long off-curriculum special project which involved every child in the school. In addition to photographing the week, we interviewed the children to investigate the immediate impact the week had on the children.
See more about Out of the mouth of babes.
Santa Muerte
Year: 2015
Partners: The Photographers Gallery, Trolley Books, and Victoria Forrest
Funder: Bar Tur Photobook Award
Project Manager: Angus Fraser
Photographer: Angus Fraser
Project Description: Exploring modern day practices and iconography of the Santa Muerte religion in Mexico - a way of life that has been denounced as satanic by the Mexican Catholic Church.
See more about Santa Muerte.
Walking Interconnections
Year: 2013-2014
Partners: Bristol University Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Glasgow, UWE Bristol – Visual Culture Research Group, Sustainability Practitioners Networks and WECIL Peer Support Group.
Funder: AHRC Connected Communities
Project Manager for UWE Bristol: Dr Shawn Sobers
Photographers: Members of the WECIL Peer Support Group and sustainability practitioners;
- Anais Leger
- Julie Whittaker
- Andrew Whittaker
- Liz Crow
- Rosalind J. Turner
- Tom Henfrey
- Dale Durrant
- Raheela Raza-Syed
- Paul Noone
Project Description: Using participatory photography, mapmaking and audio to explore the lived experience of walking and the environment for disabled people.
See more about Walking Interconnections.
The Chaos of Memory
Year: 2013
Partners: Bristol Museums & Art Gallery
Project Manager:
Nick Bright
Photographer: Nick Bright
Project Description: Working with Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to document their store rooms and behind the scenes spaces.
See more about The Chaos of Memory.
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