Studio Output

Studio Output is a graphic design company who work in London and Nottingham. They have worked with BBC and Sony on various projects, and have been described as one of the best studios in the world. they describe their personal strengths as being; Brand identity, integrated marketing campaigns, digital and online, social media and mobile, design for print, interiors and motion graphics. "The result is beautiful work that is always effective, relevant and fresh, bringing genuine credibility to our client's message."

The majority of the work created is graphic design based, and is created using various computer programmes. I really admire their work for this reason, as they have to create the whole image from scratch, which I find more difficult than photographs where you can have a subject to base a photo on, whereas a graphic design can be anything. They're designs are creative, sophisticated and professional, which is why they have such impressive clients. 

Ali Lomas

Ali Lomas is a portrait and fashion photographer from Burton on Trent who went to Loughborough University. She has made a name for herself by featuring in many issues of 'Elle' magazine and by having her work exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery. She tries to create a balance between fine art and fashion within all of her work. She shoots the vast majority of her shots landscape, which is quite unique for a portrait photography and I think it makes the shots more interesting and focus on the location as well as the model.

I'm in two-minds about Ali Lomas' work. Some of her work I find really beautiful, and then I see something else which seems rather amateur in the use of composition and lighting. I don't know whether that's just her experimental work or just if I'm being too critical. With some images, I struggle to understand if there's meant to be meaning behind it and if so what that meaning is. I like her uses of location and the experimental poses she gives her models to use their bodies to enhance the image.

Jill Cole

Jill Cole is a documentary and fine art photographer who has very unique concepts and ideas to base her projects around. Her most unique idea that really fascinated and shocked me was a series she photographed a bird struggling for freedom inside a bag. These photos are on military ground, who keep these birds for conservation and scientific research, and one of her most striking and beautiful photos is of one of the birds in this enclosure trapped by a fine netting.

I also found her project on guns incredibly interesting. She focuses on the idea of how the UK prides itself on being a gun-less society, but yet has guns so much in the media and they are still seen as objects of desire. I thought this was a really interesting idea and the shots taken are really clever.

I really love Jill Cole's work, I love her concepts behind her photos and her careful consideration to the content is obvious in every image to make amazing fine-art images. I find her photo of the child very similar to the work of Sally Mann, in the way it's shot and natural way of presenting children in adult situations.

Suki Chan

Suki Chan is a japanese artist who uses mixed media processes to create her art. She has had her work exhibited internationally, normally presenting it as installations or as videos. Her work is incredibly abstract and contains a lot of symbolism, mostly with times and places.
In her piece 'Sleep walk, Sleep talk' she focuses on the busy London enviroment and uses symbolism to portray the individual escape of repetitive habits and the freedom of expression. The video mostly consists of watching trains and cars speed by creating light-trails in the night, and following the paths of individual people. She created this video using time-lapse photography. Time-lapse photography is a technique used in cinematography which makes the frames-per-second much lower than it would normally be, making the video created appear to be much quicker than it would normally be, and creates a sort of stop-motion effect to the video. I really like this technique as it creates a really surreal and abstract effect.

Also her project 'A Place on Earth' focuses more on the photography side of her work, where she has taken photos of a village in China that is eerily empty due to no-one buying the new historical buildings in the area. I love the eery and lonely feel to these images which make you feel like you are there yourself and all alone, it's as if you can feel the silence.


I have to admit I really don't like Suki Chan's work. I really struggle to understand the concepts behind most of it, and I think it's too abstract for my tastes, although I do really admire her experimental nature and her use of mixed media.