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.
FILTH
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CURIOUSLY CURIOUS
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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.
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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.
ARE YOU SURE?
In third year we were briefed by The LGBT+ Foundation Manchester to create a digital campaign exploring 'marginalised identities'. I focused on gay women, fascinated by how queerness in pop culture, media and literature has always been made palatable by either sexualising lesbian characters, or making them some what 'deviant'. In the 50s and 60s, lesbian pulp fiction had to present the characters as 'wicked' to pass government censorship. They could be as “steamy as you wanted, but you could not give them a happy ending.”
For my campaign I recreated the homophobic pulp fiction covers, replacing the titles with the ignorant, invasive and stupid questions gay women are asked daily (taken from interviews I conducted). Modelled by Manchester couple Haleesa and Natasha and combined with retro fonts and film photography, my campaign strives to highlight how 2019 society are not so forward thinking as we like to think. Whilst homophobia is not so overt today, there is still undoubtedly prejudices and outdated opinions and views towards gay women, even amongst our youth. The final images were drawn by Manchester based illustrator Eve Gittins in her distinct style that fitted the campaign too well: the perfect blend of modern meets old school. Shot, directed, cast & styled by me.
RESEARCH
COLLABORATORS
Modelled by Haleesa & Natasha
Illustrations by Eve Gittins, Eden Bo Dower & Lana Fenton