Author Archives: aimeegleaves

Hosted by the Open Eye Gallery, the exhibition displays two bodies of work by photographers who have produced imagery focused on sexual and gender identity, as well as the issues surrounding representation around the world. Robin Hammond’s Where Love is Illegal consists of a number of intimate portraits of subjects around the world who haveContinue reading “Wake Up Together (Ren Hang and Where Love is Illegal)”

On Wednesday 26th February, our group in University were taken on a tour of gallery and art spaces in Leeds. Our tour began at the Stanley and Audrey Burton gallery at the University of Leeds, where the exhibition ‘Book-Space’ was being held. The exhibition focused on the presentation, layout and design of books and wasContinue reading “A Tour of Leeds based Galleries”

As organised by University, we were given the opportunity to listen to a talk by Tori West; the editor of BRICKS Magazine. The publication was created by West in her final year of her Fashion Communications degree. BRICKS deals with social-political issues in fashion and art, and aims to be an inclusive outlet for creativesContinue reading “A Talk by Tori West of BRICKS Magazine”

On Tuesday 25th February I attended the Miniclick Leeds: FAMILY talk with Thomas Duffield and Simon Weldon, which took place at The Brunswick in Leeds. Both of the photographers work focused on the representation of relationships within their families. Simon Weldon’s To you all from us focuses on the photographers relationship with his late Father,Continue reading “Attending a Miniclick Talk: FAMILY with Thomas Duffield and Simon Weldon (25/02/20)”

For another task, we were required to produce work for the EIZO Student Awards Photography and Film Brief. Upon completing our work, we were encouraged to enter our work into the competition. EIZO is a company which designs and creates colour accurate digital monitors. EIZO’s monitors are of industry standard and are used vastly acrossContinue reading “Producing work for the EIZO Student Awards: Photography and Film Brief”

For one of our mini tasks we were required to produce work in a group which responded to one of the Getty visual trends. Getty Images is a media company of which photographers can be used to sell their imagery to, to be purchased by the public or companies for a variety of uses. AsContinue reading “Getty Visual Trends Forecasting- Mini Task”

Whilst in a module session (on 27/01/19) we were asked to work collaboratively on a task with students on the BA (hons) Creative Writing course. We formed small groups consisting of two photography students and one creative writing student, with my group consisting of myself, Courtney Burkinshaw (from photography) and Hannah Price (from creative writing).Continue reading “Collaborating w/ Creative Writing Students”

I’m not particularly sure how to start this post, so I’ll just jump straight into it! As you are aware, my name is Aimee Gleaves and I am studying Photography at Leeds Arts University. I made the decision to come to move away from my hometown and to come to university not only to developContinue reading “About Me”