Emir Šehanović

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Archie Fitzgerald

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Art

Page Six Archie Fitzgerald

Page Eleven Danielle Greenhalgh

Page Seventeen Erin Hayhow

Page Twenty Emir Šehanović

Pause

Page Twenty-Five The London Riots

Page Thirty-One Top Three Trends

Page Thirty-Four Budget Shopping Drama

Photography

Page Thirty-Six Alex Brunet

Page Forty-Three Emily Rose Parris

Page Forty-Seven Claire Huish

Page Fifty-Three Marina Refur Pause

Page Fifty-Nine Fun vs Funny

Collaboration

Page Sixty-One 21grams and Sam Packman

Page Seventy-Two Alison Isabel

Page Seventy-Seven Pillow Talk

Content

Danielle Greenhalgh

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Alex Brunet

Archie Fitzgerald6

www.kidtildeath.tumblr.com

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Danielle is

currently in her

final year at Leeds

Metropolitan

studying Graphic

Arts and Design

who hopes to teach

and become a

freelance illustrator

after university.

Her inspiration

comes from books

and films,

observation of

animals and

humans, and

patterns. We love

her style of

illustration with

collage.

daniellexruth@hotmail.co.ukhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/daniellexmute/

Danielle Greenhalgh11

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Erin Hayhow17

BA Honours Fine Art

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Emir Šehanović20

http://esh.ba/

“I enjoy making art of things I found in myenvironment - virtual or real.”

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‘We’ve had it with you politicians, you bloody rich kids

never listen. There’s no such thing as broken Britain, we’re

just bloody broke in Britain. What needs fixing is the

system, not shop windows down in Brixton, riots on the

television; you can’t put us all in prison.’ – Plan B.

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On the 4th August, 2011, 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot dead by police. On the 6th August

2011, violence broke out in Tottenham after an initial peaceful protest and for the next four

days, a domino effect of riots swept across several London boroughs and major city centres

such as Bristol and Manchester. The media went crazy and the headlines spread the fear: ‘Yob

rule’, ‘anarchy’, ‘flaming morons.’ Not even the Police could calm the chaos.

After months of hearing about brutal protests in Egypt, Syria and Libya, involving young

people upset about the state of the country and the corrupt individuals who ran it, it seemed

that these youths in England, a democratic country, were beginning a copy-cat mission.

British rioters have now been heavily criticized for their seemingly mindless actions, as if it

was violence for the sake of violence. When psychologists, politicians, professionals, all dipped

into the situation, they just saw the surface - stupid kids, breaking the rules for a bit of fun.

But looking deeper into the minds of these kids, past the smashed windows and ashamed

parents, it seems that the rioters were protesting about something that after a while became as

clear as crystal – Social prejudice. It is proven that social class can predominantly determine

wherever a child does well in education and in the work place. A staggering 50% of the

differences between schools in reading literacy can be explained by the socioeconomic status of

the students. This basically means that the division in social class between students can

indicate whose going to be earning a high figure salary, and who’s going to be signing on.

It is undeniable that young people, especially young men and especially young black men are

continuously targeted and shamed by the media. When there is any type of shooting, stabbing,

murder, rape, shop-lifting, violence, the words ‘young’, ‘black’ and ‘male’ are undoubtedly

going to pop up. This repetitive nature of the vocabulary of certain media outlets has created a

stereotype, in which every time you hear the words ‘young black male’ you are almost certainly

hearing it side by side of bad news. You or I may not agree, but the media’s propaganda is

strong. At times, it pretty much runs the country, and with headline such as: ‘Nearly one

million young people out of work,’ ’Black youths from broken homes turn to street crime’, ‘Black

and male are bywords for failure, says equity chief’, ‘Clegg – Young black men are more likely to

end up in prison than in a top university’ it is only a matter of time before the public start to

share the views of the news.

So did the media change its perception of young people when the riots took place in 2011? Did

it gain any empathy for young people? Or did its long-term negativity merely increase?

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The media’s bias was emphasized when one particular rioter, Laura Johnson had an interesting

media following, compared to the rest of the prosecuted rioters. You may not know her name

but she is a middle class white teenager, with millionaire parents. Her story was picked out

amongst hundreds of others facing prosecution across the country after their part in the riots.

It seemed this was just because she didn’t fit the ‘rioter stereotype.’ She was in court accused of

three counts of burglary and three counts of handling stolen goods, yet the excuses of her

behaviour were reeled out through the media outlets: ‘Laura Johnson duped into driving looters

during riots,’ ’Laura Johnson was too scared to say no.’These are just some of the excuses the

media gave for Johnson’s behaviour and never forgot to add the most important part in their

eyes: ‘Millionaire’s daughter.’

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Alexandria Walters is a 19-year-old black female living in Lewisham. She is in her second year

of a Biomedical Sciences degree at Brunel University and hopes to become a scientist in cancer

research. She said: “South London has such high amounts of violence and even has a

ridiculous S.T.I rate. Everything that people hear about South London is negative but that

doesn’t mean that everyone here is bad. My friends and I are mostly at university and we have

all grown up in South London. I think the riots were definitely a cry for help but I think the

media portrayed it like they were creating violence for no reason. I think they definitely had an

aim, but they went about it in the wrong way.But the rioters are only a small percentage of

South London – people forget that. We are not all bad people.”

Journalists can empathise with politicians. We have seen that recently between Murdoch and

his relationships with the past and present Prime Ministers. The media and the government

have a very close tie, in which the papers reflect the news that the government wants the public

to read. Essentially, at a time where we are run by a group of alpha-male, middle class

politicians, with journalists who will do anything to keep the peace with the government, their

main aim is not to empathise with these young people. It is merely to post the bad news about

them, because at the end of the day, the news wouldn’t be so interesting if it was constant

praise and positivity. But when all is said and done, empathy is practically impossible with the

social class division that exists so substantially in Britain.

Bess Browning

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“I think the older generation despair of what young people are becoming!” – Claire Huish

“The London riots have changed a lot of people’s views on one another, not just the young. The

riots deeply upset a lot of people including myself and divided the country. However in a wayI

feel it’s brought us together and bringing justice to the situation by sentencing the rioters to

prison/community service.” – Emily Rose Parris

“I think the London riots have given young people a bad name because a certain group of young

people in society think that the world owes them, they have no respect or morals. However it is a

minority but unfortunately they have displayed all young adults as hooligans and thugs.” –

Danielle Greenhalgh

“I guess the London riots did not change the view on young people in general but on a certain

part of them. I’m not sure if the reactions coming from the art world were that much different

from what other people were thinking about the riots but I can say that when I heard that so

many art venues were attached and damaged and even a big part of the stock of PIAS was

destroyed I really started to shiver and got angry.” – Marina Refur

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BUDGET SHOPPING DRAMA

this shit simply wouldn’t go down in M&S

I have recently come to the conclusion that a lot that is crude and tactless or even base inconversation is usually forgiven if it is in some way amusing. With this in mind I will tell youa story which despite all other shortcomings I found a little bit funny, and perhaps you will

too. So we begin.

Being a student and living off a pittance I have found a way of treating poverty as not onlymanageable but fun, namely through the one-player game, ‘The £20 Food Challenge’. Theglossy title says it all so I won’t elaborate beyond the fact that it means I eat far too many

tinned tomatoes and spend far too much time cruising the aisles of a certain budgetsupermarket. And I have an iron deficiency. A few weeks ago, during yet another round ofThe Challenge, something unusual happened. A middle aged man (cheap pin-stripped suit,

balding) pushed in front of me in the queue. I say unusual not because of the man’sappearance but because he pushed in front of me. In a queue. In England. I stood back to see

where this sacrilege would lead.

“Who’s in charge around here? I want to talk to whoever’s in charge!”

“Well the manager’s on a break, but perhaps there’s something I could help you with?”

“Well perhaps there is! Perhaps you could tell me how you people get away with calling these,”brandishes ripped reusable bag, “bags for life when they don’t even last the bloody pissing

walk home!”“I’m sorry to hear that…”

“I’m sure you are sorry, but that doesn’t change the fact that my shopping is now spread allover Malden Road and that you … Denise – you and your establishment have wasted £23.70

of my money and 2 hours of my time with your eco-warrior sham!”

“Look there’s not need to get upset…”

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Elly Watson

“I am not upset, I am simply expressing the perfectly reasonable opinion that when I spendmoney on something that is otherwise free, on the sole pretext that it is guaranteed for life Iexpect it to be more than just a useless bit of plastic with watermelons printed on it. I don’t

even like fucking watermelons!”And here the man reeled off a stream of profanities too colourful to repeat, even on a blog. As

in all these situations I started off by being amused by it all, but then felt a growing sense ofembarrassment for this pin-stripped man and his unreasonable anger. I guess its a sign of our

humanity that we feel uncomfortable on other people’s behalf, but we quickly realise itslimitations when we fail to intervene in such scenarios.

The whole episode had lasted a good ten minutes so far and from my furtive upward glances Icould see that the man was getting progressively redder, and that a sheen of sweat had spread

across his forehead.

“And they try to make you feel guilty about the fucking penguins drowning in the fuckingSouth Pole…”

Maybe he just needed a cup of tea.

“but all it really is, is another way to bleed you dry, probably invented by some yoghurt-weaving prat with a trust fund!”

Or to go on holidays. Perhaps Majorca?

“I say it to you now Denise and I’ll say it again, I will never…”

And then there was silence. The pin-stripped man had keeled over from a heart attack anddied. So it turns out it really had been a bag for life.

Ps. My housemate has just insisted that I let you know that that definitely was not a true story.Just so you can smile without feeling guilty.

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"A crazy afternoonwith Sarah"

Alex BrunetJoy MaireSarah

“My style –

I’d only say that it’s something

raw, without any fake stuff, I

just like to share a moment

with my model and I. Let the

emotion go.”

“My inspiration comesfrom my emotion and myfeelings. If I’m in a sadmood I’d prefer to shootsomething more dark andstrong with strong attitudeand strict poses. Or if it’s agreat day it's going to be afunny and crazy shoot.”

“I have no limit,

I just live to create”

“The most importantfuture project in myheart at this time isthat I’m working on abook or fanzine aboutmy personal work.”

Emilyroseparris@hotmail.com

Emily Rose Parris

Emily Rose Parris has come far for somebody only in their first year at university. The

BA(Hons) student at Kingston Upon Thames tells us how she has been interested in art

all her life, “I remember when I was a kid, I'd get told off over and over again for staying up

past my bedtime and being found in my room colouring in my colouring books”. The unique

style of her work that she describes as “reckless” has been influenced by Andy Warhol’s self

portraits and William Eggleston’s ground breaking colour photography. We are excited to

see how far she comes after education and expect great things.

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“I enjoy the processes of photography, like hand printing my work.”

"She's Electric"Claire Huish

Feminine, soft, beautiful, honest, melancholy

and ethereal are just a few ways that Claire

Huish describes her style. The near graduate

that discovered photography at sixteen and has

never looked back, hopes to eventually enjoy a

career as a successful fashion photographer.

After just finishing five editorials and with

more to come, we have great hopes. Her digital

media is influenced by the history of art,

paintings, films, literature, colour, and light.

We look forward to seeing her future work.

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Marina Refur

marina.refur@gmx.dehttp://marinarefur.paspartout.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redredhead

After first seeing Marina Refur’s Work we fell in love with the self-taught photographer.One of her particular projects intrigued us “The 365 Project”, we asked Marina to explain

the concept of this a bit further: “I remember that day when I first saw someone doing a 365project on flickr and I was absolutely hit by the idea of taking a picture each day for one

year. I thought by challenging myself to take a picture every day and to keep the creative flowgoing I’d rather improve my photographic skills than when shooting infrequently. So it

somehow was the beginning of my photographic career and it’s interesting to look back to thefirst pictures I’ve created for it and how my work has changed since that day. Now that oneand a half year has passed I still haven’t finished the project for several reasons but it was

totally worth it to give it a try.”

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“Almost everything can become an inspiration and that’s one of the things I really like about photographyor being an artist in general…you’ll never know what will be the next idea that will cross your mind.”

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“My work now is a lot more subtle, atmospheric,naturally and kind of fashion-like.”

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“One of the mostimportant futureprojects will be to startshooting other peopleinstead of self-portraits.I’ve been doing this forfar too long and I can’twait to realise my ideaswith differentcharacters.”

FUN VS FUNNY-society’s new great divide

I was talking to my friend the other day and she was trying to justify her new boyfriend’s

complete absence of a sense of humour by the fact that she herself is not funny. I was

mortified.“Of course you’re funny! Why would I hang out with you if you weren’t

funny?” “No baaaaaaaaaby (she’s Italian) I’m fun, but I’m not funny.” And I realised she was

right, she’s not a particularly funny person. I mean she makes me laugh, her life in all its soap

opera glory is pure comic relief to my sensible English ways, but she could never crack a joke.

This new distinction between ‘fun’ and ‘funny has left me with food for thought. Am I fun or

funny? And which one would I rather be? The person I’d automatically describe as funny is

my dad. Bald, suited and booted with his work pass clipped to his front pocket he does not

look like your average chubby funster, but inside this forty-something year old engineer is a

wit drier than the Queen’s eyes at Diana’s funeral. An incident that always comes to mind is

when he dropped my Grandma off at church and came back to the car looking mortified. We

asked him what was wrong and he said: “It was horrible. They’ve turned Jesus into bread and

are ripping him up into little pieces and eating him!” Or another time when we were getting to

move again and I asked my dad if he was sad about leaving anyone behind. He put his hand

on my shoulder, looked over at my mum and said: “No darling, because my favourite person

in the world is coming with me…myself.” My father is not a very popular man.

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The funnest person I know however is probably my little brother. The sunshine child of the

family he glides past the rest of our sly witticisms on a long board of non-chalance and

effortless cool. While being both the youngest and best looking of the siblings made him the

butt of many a sarcastic remark and the testing ground for our ‘dark’ sense of humour (we

once told him that the ghost of a little boy who’d recently died in the village was going to kill

him because he’d stepped on his grave) my brother has turned out to be a genuinely fun guy.

At 15 he snowboards, gets into clubs for free, knows his fair share of good youtube clips and

drives his babe of a girlfriend around on his moped (we promptly shat all over that one

though by telling him it was similar to shagging a fat girl: fun to ride until your friends find

out.)

But while my brother is the epitome of the high school cool kid, I don’t know if I’d like to be

him. Because being fun doesn’t naturally command a whole lot of respect, and it seems that

while being ‘fun’ or ‘funny’ could be synonymous with being ‘clever’ or ‘kind’, it’s also comes

pretty close to being liked or not, and being the former seems fucking exhausting. As a

German friend of mine once told me: “I don’t have to smile at everybody, I’m not American.”

May my sarcasm keep me warm at night.

Elly Watson

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Sam Packman& Siân Lynwen

“Hanging High”

“Oh, I’m Hanging High”

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“These razors cutting sharp”

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“I’m hanging on a thread that’s bound to drop”

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“Oh, won’t you let me down?”

“But I’ll always choose the black in front of white”

Spencer WohlrabAlison IsabelHanna @ Wilhelmina Models

“Hanna ”

http://www.alisonisbell.com/

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PILLOW TALKLines from the smooth operators you’ll hope you never meet

Before I begin I’d just like to point out that the following content does not come solely from

my own experiences. I’ve talked to people. I’ve awkwardly asked the questions. After more

than a few uncomfortable conversations, I’d now like to collate my research, share my

findings and hope that others will come out. Because society needs to know the weird shit that

we’ve heard while doing the deed.

“Wow, this is better than riding my bike!”

“How much do you think it is for a bag of tomatoes at Tesco’s?”

“Dead dog dead dog dead dog dead dog”

“Did you know Keira Knightley was in the first Star Wars film?”

” Man power!”

“Do you want to see my stamp collection?”

“The force of your love is impregnating my uterus”

“Hello Tetley! Hello Clive!” (talking to her pet terrapins in the tank by the bed)

“You know, sometimes I think I could kill a man.”

You’d think there would never be a worse time to speak freely but there you go. If you’ve said

something strange in the sack please feel free to contribute.

Elly Watson

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Alex Brunet