“Goldsmiths photography students are encouraged to challenge what we understand to be photographic.
Working across still and moving image, installation, photography as sculpture, book making, digital and analogue techniques, they produce work that investigates our lives in a world saturated with images – and they learn to cut through that noise to tell compelling, conceptual and deeply personal stories.
Final year students build self-directed bodies of work in response to a series of provocations around photographic worlds, the body and identity, the camera as therapy, and our relationship to technology and image proliferation.
This year’s courageous cohort explored personal narratives while maintaining sophisticated technical and conceptual rigour. From powerful documentation of conflict and displacement to experimental explorations of gender, identity and cultural dislocation, these students created work that speaks to our time with urgency and nuance. Many have pushed the boundaries of photographic practice, incorporating AI imagery, kinetic sculpture and installation to expand what photography can communicate.
Their work collectively reveals a generation of image-makers unafraid to confront difficult subjects while developing distinct visual languages which transcend simple representation that showcases the breadth and depth of contemporary photographic practice at its most compelling.”
Damian Owen-Board, Co-head of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Jacob Love, Lecturer, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Wunmi Onibudo, Associate Lecturer, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies