Graduate Prizes from the School of Arts & Humanities 2024

New Photography Prize 2024

Szu Chun Wang

Wang's project ‘Soft Swirl’ is an exploration of identity, belonging, and the complexities of perception. Through the lens of a biologically female immigrant navigating life in the UK, the film delves into the visceral discomfort of being observed and judged by others.

Brandon Sheer

Sheer's 'We’ve Become Like Strangers' is a long-term photography project that excavates our fractured and occasionally desolate, post-pandemic world. Thematically, this collection addresses the broader political divisions that exist in America.

Amin Abdulrahman

An interrogation of relational ethics and the violence of the camera lie at the heart of Amin’s work. In his winning project he finds new ways of working to respect the autonomy and humanity of those being photographed, in an effort to move away from photography’s extractive, colonial origins.

Danilo Zocatelli Cesco

Danilo's project 'Dear Father' explores the theme of acceptance through role reversal, subverting father-son love and highlighting misunderstanding and stereotyping, using drag make up as a tool to build a bridge of conversation between father and son.

Artful Dodgers Imaging Award

Amy Sarr

In Amy's project, 'So long a life' she reenacts the Xoymet, a Saint-Louisian (Senegal) tradition dating back to the 1930s, in which brides borrowed photographs from their relatives, friends and neighbours to exhibit in their groom’s room on the days of their wedding.

Labyrinth Photographic Lab Award

Brandon Sheer

Sheer's 'We’ve Become Like Strangers' is a long-term photography project that excavates our fractured and occasionally desolate, post-pandemic world. Thematically, this collection addresses the broader political divisions that exist in America.

Metro Imaging Mentorship Award

Jiaqi Chen

Jiaqi Chen’s artistic practice delves into the intricate interplay between humans and nature by dissolving the distinctions among images, installations, and film. Employing the body as a medium, she weaves complex dialogues between human forms and the natural world.

Rapid Eye Darkroom Award

Danilo Zocatelli

Danilo's project 'Dear Father' explores the theme of acceptance through role reversal, subverting father-son love and highlighting misunderstanding and stereotyping, using drag make up as a tool to build a bridge of conversation between father and son.

Shadow Labs Award

Molly Lindsay

Lindsay’s work is an investigation into the intense relationship she has with her muse/friend/ collaborator Ellie.

Yuanhao Li

Li’s project 'Ether' is a shareable self, where the ordinary and the spectacle come together to constitute the landscape and create a self-portrait in which everyone catches a glimpse of themselves.

Sofiia Vinnichenko

Sofiia’s project is based around the translation of her family’s past: one that belongs to her, the one that she’s never had. Liberating from the oppression caused by Russian influence on Ukrainian culture, she starts translating her memories and dreams from Russian to Ukrainian, then continues working with her family’s archival images.

SW Darkrooms Award

Nelle Laurent

Laurent's project 'A Process of Respite' looks at the negotiations and dialogues between maker, material, and place through a sustainable approach to the historic process of dry plates.

Kenneth Armitage Award

Caitlin Hazell

Hazell presents ‘An Investigation into the Noseless Saint' , in which myth, history and speculations collide in a heady mix of bronze, stone, bread and sprout stems.