OCR National Students exhibit their work
Posted on Wednesday 16 January 2008
This is Me: An Exploration of Identity through Form and Style at the West End Centre, Aldershot.
Media students at Farnborough Sixth Form College have undertaken a photography course which has resulted in the best of their work being displayed at the popular community arts venue, West End, in Aldershot, Hampshire. The group of 19 students, all aged 16-17, will be showcasing their Media Production photography work for the first time in a the exhibition entitled This is Me: an exploration of identity through form and style.
The students have been supported in their hard work by Industry professional, Philip Nash, and their photographs represent a range of work inspired by the theme of identity, drawing also on the importance of family and friendship.
Using a range of classic and experimental forms and styles, the exhibition presents a colourful and diverse collection. The young photographers are all students on the highly successful one year Media National Certificate Course. Before the project, most of the young people had little of experience of camera use except for holiday snapshots.
Sixteen year old Matt Tapp of Frimley said: “The thing I am most proud of is that I have been able to develop my creativity through using the camera better and also learning how to use Photoshop to improve the images”.
The students have been tutored by the College Curriculum Manager for Media, Colette Brennan. She said, “The energy and enthusiasm generated by the students throughout this project has been fantastic”.
She added: “The whole project has embraced our key aims of engaging employers and motivating students in a meaningful way in order to raise their achievement”.
The exhibition is open to the general public at the West End Centre, Aldershot, until Sunday 10 February.
