Last week saw the MA fashion photography from the London College of Fashion on show at the city’s Mall Gallery. The work of the graduates appeared around the room and in the pages of a giant book, that needed two people to turn the pages.

Rebecca Litchfield won Professional Photographer of the year 2009 and has been a photographer for four years, after a BA degree in graphic design from UCA. At the exhibition, Rebecca showcased the series Edenias: ‘Edenias follows the journey of the soul through fashion photography through life, death, hell, purgatory and heaven. Inspired by the writing of Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Dante and Milton.’

Foreign Bodies by Jonathan Mist looks at the beauty of discarded clothing: 
’It is unusual to see clothes left strewn in areas of natural beauty, in bags, torn and ruptured. These items that function to be worn and that aesthetically veil the body. Put in that position mixed emotions can filter the mind, questioning the individual for their actions. Pausing at these found items they metamorphose beyond normality into the undergrowth of Mother Nature.

‘It is also however the hidden factors of slow decomposition that can inflict damage to the countryside. The aim of this body of work provides an insight into the questions of throw away fashion. Whilst the work aims to shift away from the traditions of fashion photography, attempts are also made to study their defects and penetrate their exterior to seek and recall the existence of memory.’

Yifei Shu draws on her Chinese heritage for a series called One Child Policy and reminisces about having an older brother, feeling lonely in London and is a mix of photography, cartoon-style graphics, notes and scribbles.


Gabriela Antunes’ project is called strange meetings 1: rainbow cuts and uses effects reminiscent of early solarisation but using a tonal palette of atmospheric greens and blues or a blurring of brighter tones.

Bet Orten’s series is entitled Tell me your story and I will tell you mine… and is a story of romantic rural images set against a Scandinavian backdrop.

Veronika Kucharska’s My Solitude studies are atmospheric story of a woman alone, with a filmic Hitchcock feel, while Katia Serek created surreal collages featuring winged creatures – a modern version of the Victorian fad for capturing angels on camera.

London College of Fashion

Rebecca Litchfield
Jonathan Mist
Bet Orten
Veronika Kucharska

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