Photographers — confluence

Adam Tidman - The Valley

Adam Tidman is a British based documentary photographer and visual storyteller. Interested in exploring themes of place and identity, he builds relationships with his subjects, capturing the intricate details of people’s lives and the communities which surround them. His personal work focuses on human stories, the ocean, and the overlooked areas of society.

His latest photo series ‘The Valley’ focuses on Porthtowan, a coastal village in Cornwall. The images convey the many difficulties faced by the community while also capturing the still, beautiful moments which surround it.

https://adamtidman.com/
@adam_tidman

Alexander Harrison - Enowi

Alexander Harrison studies Marine and Natural History Photography at Falmouth University. For the past 3 years he has been tackling themes of conservation and the climate crisis through photography, moving image, and graphics design. For him, finding and understanding storylines and pushing them to a wider audience using a punchy and stylised art forms helps him to explore often difficult themes about global warming. Using a diverse approach to his work, his aesthetic intertwines with many of his projects. Working as a photographer for several client briefs, his storytelling creates a sense of hope, whilst educating the viewer with pressing themes.

Enowi – Cornish ‘to light’. Enowi is a short experimental film, book and series of prints exploring preternatural light amongst familiar and isolated nightscapes in Cornwall with ground-breaking visual effects.

https://alexharrisonphoto.art
https://www.connectingwiththefuture.co.uk
@alex.harrison.photo

Alice Ives - Echos

Alice Ives is a photographer originally from West Yorkshire, who uses realism and documentary photography to convey emotion through the use of visual language. Prioritising connections and relationships, she tries to redefine people's idea of beauty.

Her work aims to spark meaningful conversations and deepen understanding of the human experience, inviting viewers to relate and empathize with her subjects. Her use of colour and flash lighting further emphasises the narratives behind her work.

Echos explores the intricate dynamics of the mother-child relationship, navigating the rocky terrain of love, conflict, and nostalgia. Through a rose-tinted lens, this photography project delves into the emotional complexities of childhood. By juxtaposing past and present, it invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences, resonating with the universal journey of growing up.

@aliceivesphotography

Amber Newman - Anthropogenic Ambience

Amber Newman is a Falmouth-based exhibiting artist studying Marine and Natural History Photography. She works with subjects that overload the senses and explore humankind's complicated relationship with nature. Her photography is provocative and installs feelings of guilt and dread, thus providing an incentive for change.

She is currently working on a project exploring the underwater soundscape. Focusing on how anthropogenic ambiance affects marine mammals' wellbeing and communication.

Amber creates immersive soundscapes to destabilize the viewing experience. While utilizing quantity, she collects extensive visual archives woven with scientific data and gritty, empathetic, abstract imagery.

Her work is a subterranean insight into the bombardment of droning human noise, which pollutes the minds of its inhabitants.

Ana Leila Saiti - Avo

Ana Leila is a German Natural History Photographer and Filmmaker based in London.

Leila strives to capture personal human stories from all around the world, she believes in giving a voice and letting the subject choose how the story unravels to truly capture a raw result. Her focus throughout her work is exploring the theme of identity within different cultures and presenting it in a documentary style or abstract form of photography.

Leila’s current project is a short documentary called Avo. This was inspired by Leila’s struggles growing up as a Third Culture Kid and never being able to explore her Portuguese heritage. This personal work follows her visiting her grandmother in Alentejo and following her unique lifestyle and traditions to learn more about herself and strengthen the relationship with her family.

@analeilaphotography

Anneka Thearle - Grounds For Conection

Anneka Thearle is a documentary photographer and filmmaker currently based in Devon and Cornwall. Striving to capture stories about culture, sustainability, and the small moments in everyday life, hoping to inspire humans to think more carefully and deeply about their connection with each other, the planet, and their constant consumer habits.

Currently completing a project called Grounds for Connection which shares a photographic narrative into the importance of coffee in our everyday life. This project looks outside of the normal commercial photographers’ eye and more deeply into the coffee industry in Cornwall, investigating sustainable coffee roasteries and the growth of coffee by the sea, looking deeper into how it sits in the background of our everyday lives and how it connects us.

www.annekathearle.co.uk
@a.thearle

Pin Tak Hei Brian - Halo Frame

Pin Tak Hei (Brian) is a Wildlife Photographer, storyteller, and diver. He was born in Hong Kong and studied Marine and Nature History Photography degree at Falmouth University.

Having grown up in one of the busiest cities in the world he understands that people can easily miss out on stories that happen next to them. In the age of advanced information, he targets normal, simple, and daily life subjects. To be good at using ambient light, flash, and framing he presents common subjects from a different perspective of the world. From the nightlife of cats on the streets of Falmouth to the mythical sea birds you see at the coastline every day, his images contain a story, message, and feeling.

Halo Frame is a romantic story about a seabird based on an oceanic tale.

pinbrian_gallery
pinbriangallery.com

Charlie Comrie - де дім

Charlie Comrie is a documentary photographer specializing in personal stories and underwater work. Growing up in Bristol and now living in Cornwall, he has been drawn to people’s personal stories. His journalistic images look at the extremes of life and how people adapt.
Previously creating content for the Avon wildlife trust and the royal photographic society. Charlie’s work spans from video to archival projects, to expand and collaborate with clients and other artists.

The project ‘де дім’ looks at Ukrainian people who have been displaced since the start of the full-scale invasion of the country by Russia in 2022, and are now living in the UK. The project looks at the meaning of home, and the home they find themselves in now.

@charlie.comrie.photography

Connie Preston - Its Bloody Normal

Connie Preston is a photographer whose work provokes and inspires. She’s passionate in talking about controversial issues, the environment, and women rights.  Her photography is about challenging the boxes that have left others feeling trapped and small by offering a platform for their stories to be spoken through.

It’s Bloody Normal is a project that tackles the various prejudices that menstruation has. In society, period stigmatisation is an issue that needs to be challenged, and this work encourages the normalisation of common menstruation experiences.

https://conniepreston.art/
@cma_preston