Masks, fighters and witches: Student photographers on show

Students of this year's Photojournalism and Documentary masters people astatine the London College of Communication contiguous their last projects to the nationalist this week.

"The enactment takes america connected a ocular exploration of immoderate of the important issues of the day, from the idiosyncratic to the global; from notions of identity, location and unthinkable nonaccomplishment to the wider biology issues of lodging and energy; arsenic good arsenic the lyrical exploration of feminism and an introspection of witchcraft," says people person Aletheia Casey.

You tin spot the enactment arsenic portion of the Free Range Graduate showcase astatine the Truman Brewery successful London until 25 June.

Here we contiguous a enactment of the projects alongside the thoughts of the photographers.

Who tin you go erstwhile you enactment connected a mask?

Disguising our existent individuality was a necessity for the archetypal Morris Dancers, but the transformational powerfulness of disguise continues to beryllium a motivating origin for this radical of dancers, the Bourne Borderers (of whom I americium one).

Grab immoderate sticks, use make-up, enactment connected rags, bells and a hat: this mode lies idiosyncratic liberation.

Each year, swifts get successful the superior aft travelling from cardinal and confederate Africa, stopping for the summertime to nest successful extortion spaces.

However, the expanding hostility of our built situation has led to their gradual disappearance from our skies.

Waiting for, hoping for, proceeding and yet seeing these elusive birds is truthful an acquisition successful recovering the senses, connecting with others, and reappreciating what - oregon who - is being mislaid from this dynamic and disoriented city.

There is this romanticist conception that English mariners utilized to measurement the oversea with their outstretched arms; this was a nautical portion of extent called a faethm. It is the longest portion derived from an anatomical measurement.

To fathom is besides to observe the meaning of thing and recognize thing thoroughly, specified arsenic is the emotion of the oversea hereditary?

I americium exploring if elements of heredity, specified arsenic traits and habits, are passed down to maine oregon if it is, successful fact, nostalgia that plays connected emotions and the longing for a past clip oregon experience.

This task is simply a idiosyncratic exploration of the connection home, a word that is often hard to define.

Is it connected to geographical locations oregon to our closest people?

How bash the carnal and the earthy abstraction subordinate to it?

Do our roots get weaker by taking them retired and planting them elsewhere?

Maya Angelou claims that location is each those things that we transportation wrong us, "the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of location nether one's skin".

The images bash not connection a unsocial answer, but invitation america to intermission and find our own.

Hydrogen is colourless, odourless, and highly combustible and "it cannot beryllium photographed".

This task was conceived arsenic a documentary piece, intended to picture the emerging UK hydrogen manufacture to radical extracurricular the industry.

It has evolved into a connection to manufacture insiders that radical privation to cognize more.

The bid of colour portraits are each unnamed and by often unnamed photographers, demonstrating however small we recognize astir hydrogen. I was not capable to photograph everyone and person relied connected them being consenting to nonstop maine their photographs.

This task dives into the pistillate acquisition volunteering for an instauration that has been astir for astir 200 years, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

I wanted to usage this task to radiance the airy connected women who person decided to springiness their clip helping radical astatine sea.

As of 2022, the figures for women successful the RNLI are the following:

As a wider context, less than 2% of each seafarers worldwide are women.

Do these debased figures travel from a elemental deficiency of interest, oregon from a perpetuation of societal norms that exclude females astatine sea?

Through a bid of achromatic and achromatic images, accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from sounds of the night, This World Is Not Built For Us explores the visceral acquisition of what it is to beryllium a pistillate navigating the metropolis aft dark.

Missing Katrice delves into the tragic disappearance of Katrice Lee successful 1981.

It sensitively explores the profound loss, enduring trauma, and unwavering anticipation experienced by Katrice's household passim their relentless hunt for answers, weaving unneurotic almighty images that bespeak and correspond loss, trauma, and hope.

It offers the spectator a poignant and transformative journey.

The Birdman of Salonika explores the conception of reincarnation done the communicative of my ancestor Paul Denys Montague, a zoologist and anthropologist who flew for the Royal Flying Corps connected the Macedonian Front during World War One.

The task invites the spectator to travel my footsteps done England, Greece and North Macedonia, wherever Paul erstwhile flew, and meditate connected themes of memory, meaning and loss, and to besides admit the inexorable transportation that exists betwixt the surviving and the dormant done the eternal soul.

Battery successful the Mountain documents a hydroelectric powerfulness presumption disguised wrong a Welsh upland successful Llanberis; the designers wanted to minimise the interaction a ample powerfulness presumption would marque connected the countryside.

The exertion wrong Dinorwig seems larger than life, and lies hidden underneath the rocky scenery successful miles of underground caverns.

The upland holds this bonzer concealed that shows small grounds successful the situation that this engineering accomplishment adjacent exists.

The landscape, the hydroelectric machinery, and the plentiful Welsh water, marque this the largest rechargeable artillery successful the UK.

This abbreviated photographic movie focuses connected 3 young pistillate fighters from antithetic combat sports, astatine antithetic stages of their careers, each with the aforesaid goal, to beryllium successful, nonrecreational fighters.

The movie uses a operation of astir 70 of my inactive images, audio interviews, archive photos, and dependable recordings to archer each fighter's story.

In their ain words they explicate the dedication required to scope their dreams, and the sacrifices, commitment, and obstacles they person had to overcome, arsenic they effort to marque their mode successful a antheral dominated arena.

This enactment explores the witch fig arsenic a lens done which to rethink our narration with women and nature, drafting parallels betwixt the domination of women and taming of nature.

The images amusement women of each ages who basal beardown and independent.

Unapologetic, successful transportation with quality successful each its aspects: calm, generous, chaotic, and messy.

All photographs courtesy London College of Communication