As another academic year comes to a close, photographic students around the country are preparing to pack up and head out into the world, looking forward to varied careers filled with pictures of awe-inspiring landscapes, gritty reportage or even the demands of supermodel divas. But before the real life starts happening, there’s time to look at their portfolios to date at The Photographer’s Gallery, which is hosting its seventh annual exhibition of undergraduate work.
FreshFaced + WildEyed 2014 is showcasing the images of 22 fledgling artists from BA and MA Visual Arts courses around the UK, chosen by a panel of industry experts from an open submission. The show has all stylistic bases covered; the brilliant Nikolas Ventourakis (who, if you read our interview from last August, might not be so freshly-faced as some of his co-featured) is in attendance, there’s the abstract work of Tracy Fahey, the elaborately-staged theatricality of Julio Galeote, the real world honesty of Lewis Khan and the sculptural life of Chloe Rosser and everything outside and in between, once again showing that the future of photography is bright in Britain. The exhibition runs until 20 July.
Katarina Mudronova
Untitled #1 from the series Strategic Cooking, 2012
© Katarina Mudronova
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
Alice Myers
From the series Nothing is Impossible Under the Sun, 2013
© Alice Myers
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
Lewis Khan
My mum was great to me man, my mum’s gonna live long, 2013
© Lewis Khan
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
Iringó Demeter
Violet, Violent II, 2013
© Iringó Demeter
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
Nikolas Ventourakis
Elina, 2013
C-Type Print
Courtesy, Nikolas Ventourakis
Bruno Freitas de Oliveira
Monserrate, 2013
© Bruno Freitas de Oliveira
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
Marcello Simeone
A Gradual Approximation to the Sun (Detail), 2013 © Marcello Simeone
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
Victoria Jenkins
Fig. 10, 2013
© Victoria Jenkins
Courtesy of the artist and The Photographers’ Gallery
