THE RENO
THE RENO
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club.
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club.
THE RENO
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club.
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THE RENO
CURIOUSLY CURIOUS
THE RENO
THE RENO
I was on the direction team for our second year fashion show 'Curiously Curious'. My role was creative direction and set design. Loosely based on the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland, this show was an exhibition of the second year Fashion Design students garments at Manchester School of Art.
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club.
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club.
A project exploring British youth culture, taking photographs with pinhole camera's that I hand made from items I found on nights out in Manchester. I thought it would be a nice idea to create new memories with old memories. I spent a lot of time in the darkroom for this project, making different lenses for my pinhole camera from a variety of objects and testing for hours. The results were mostly obsqure, perfectly embodying the alcahol induced haze these objects were abandoned in. The styling was inspired by interesting charaters I saw around Manchester, created with mundane objects. The final images are displayed next to the object they were shot with. Directed, styled & shot by me.
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club. Shot & directed by me.
I was on the direction team for our second year fashion show 'Curiously Curious'. My role was creative direction and set design. Loosely based on the Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in Wonderland, this show was an exhibition of the second year Fashion Design students garments at Manchester School of Art.
THE RENO
A collaborative project with the Reno regulars, a group of Mancunians who used to hang out at the Mosside club in their youth. After a series of interviews and discussions with the regulars, these are some plots from our final shoot interpreting their experience at the 70s club. Shot & directed by me.
'Morpheus is an ongoing project i have been working on since January 2020, about dreaming and the creativity of the unconscious. There are many theories on why we have dreams. Some suggest that our unconscious imagination is linked to our mental wellbeing, and so dreams are a way of emotionally processing information. Research suggests that dreams brought on by unique circumstances (like the Coronavirus pandemic) tend to be much more vivid and intense. I thought it would be fun to test this theory by recording the quarantine dreams of 15 different individuals during lock down, comparing and analysing the nature of their dreams. I wanted to explore if (and how) these unique recent events have been manifesting in the subconscious. The results have inspired a series of different shoots based on different types of dreams.
After analysing my research I chose the five most interesting dream natures and conceptualised how to communicate each through a visual narrative, aiming them at magazines that i felt best represented the aesthetic or message I was trying to communicate. The dream natures I chose to explore were spectator dreams, black and white, recurring, metamorphosis and lucid. I thoroughly analysed these by sorting through the dream logs and cross referencing to find commonalities, looking for patterns and recurring themes. The following five editorials are a visual and psychological exploration of dreaming and the creativity of the unconscious, and a completely unique insight into dreaming under unique circumstances. I have used dreams as my base narrative but explore a wider range of current issues within each editorial.
Due to lockdown I was not able to shoot all of these projects so some are still only plans, but I will be working hard over the next year to bring my ideas to life!