Siyu Chen

Global Face
Human identity has become a global issue, especially for people who have mixed parentage, or their parents were immigrants. These individuals often struggle with their internal and external sense of identity. I attempted to document ethnic and gender diversity by tiling images of faces and thus exposing identity expectations and allowing the viewer to understand his or her own identity presumptions. The analysis of facial symmetry is done with the biometric technology of international security institutes that measures the distance between human eyes.

Qian Shi

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Martina Langschartner

My approach was to take very subjective portraitures. To achieve this I attached a camera obscura to glasses, which replaced my left eye, I usually focus with. Everything I would do, every laughter, would have an influence on the result.
I was as well interested not to shoot frame after frame but to blur the boundaries between photography and film. I wound a whole film through and decided to stop for longer at certain points that seemed interesting to me.
The result reminds me of memory spaces.
The pictures shown are portraits of my flatmates: Phillipe building violins, Martha reading a book, Ivan working at his Computer.

Marie Galanti

I am interested in looking at our layers of civility, and the essence of Human nature within our contemporary civilized environment and how we fulfill our primary needs commons to all human beings. In this series of photograph, I looked at the instinct of self-protection within our personal space and how the environment influence us as well as we influence the environment like the technique of natural camouflage that animal use.

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Gosia Nierodzinska

Plimsolls
The process of creative appropriation of spaces and objects is the theme I am confronting in my practice. I photographed the shift from something neutral to personal. To realize my project, I used seven pairs of identical white trainers, worn by seven young women (ages 23-27), for four days before photographing them. I asked my course mates to participate in the project, as I was interested in ways they would personalize those originally identical objects. It may be interpreted as a comment on the search for individual ways of creative expression.

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Eva Salvi

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Eva Napp

In my studio work I am exploring private/intimate and public/commercial aspects of sexuality and relationships. Although sex is fundamentally an intimate thing, our culture has a new sense of ‘public intimacy’ and boundaries between public and private are shifting if not dissolving.

“This is where the magic happens” is often said when describing one’s bedroom but I am photographing places that were created for sex but are not in the privacy of your home, including brothels and swingerclubs. I wanted to remove the people and remove the love/relationship factor and document the raw essence of these locations.

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Damla Yilmaz

Reminders
An idol can give meaning to the past, and can also eliminate all meaning. A camera is not only a tool to record but it is also a wand, which a magicians practice on. Photographs can be reminders of those who are gone. Reminders are the traces of friends who are missed and ignored, these are idols of those I love and hate.