GREAT GREY OWL – JASPER DALGLIESH

A Great Grey Owl in flight, Hampshire, UK.

EDGES 4 – SANDERS NICOLSON

Sparking the oppositional primary colours together, yellow and blue, Nicolson creates a chromatic feast for the eyes.

SELF PORTRAIT – PAUL SLATER

In the style of the Pre-Raphaelites or the Euston Road School, this clever self-portrait is a portrait of a self-portrait. Paul is dressed and styled as if a young artist in inter-war Britain.

THE LETTER G – MIKE WILKS

Originally made for his book ‘The Ultimate Alphabet’, The Letter G contains hundred of items beginning with the letter G. Grizzly bears and giraffes stand next to gas masks and guitars. Indicative of Wilks’ frantic, complex and narrative pictorial style, Wilks’ packs so much visual information into the storyboard, we will always find something new.

CHELLARKOVIL – JAKE POLONSKY

Composed around a single tree, this photograph has the feeling of being shot in a pre-historic age. The sapling can, in a way, be metaphorically associated with a sense of the beginning. A strong light comes in from the east- flooding the valley below. This stunning piece of landscape photography stands out for the uniqueness of its approach.

GRANDEUR IN DECAY – MATTHIAS HAKER

Haker masterfully manipulates the texture and colours of this abandoned grand palace to give it the feeling of a photographic painting. Mossy green mould slowly creeps across the magnificent staircase as tired painting turns to ruin. At the heart of this image is a romantic sense of time and decay.

BATU CAVES BOY – YONG LIN TAN

In this stunningly composed shot of a boy is working in a steel and glass manufacture shop in Batu Caves, Malaysia, Lin uses the straight lines of the metal as perspectival arrows honing in on the boy. The young boy is almost lost amongst the sea of metal. Highly saturated, the photograph is conceived in black and white so to enhance the tones of the metal.

CUT PORTRET – JAN ZWART

This intriguing portrait of an old man, spliced up, draws from the aesthetics of Cubism. Seeing the portrait from multiple perspectives we get a holistic insight into not just the identity of the sitter but more importantly his character.

ABANDONED FARM – DARWIN WIGGETT

Images of dereliction are bread and butter for many photographers, it is the sense of timelessness and romanticism that we attach to them that makes them so powerful. Here, Darwin captures an old Candian truck buried within deep grasses. The industrial patina of the weathered and rusted truck contrasted perfectly with the yellows, greys and blues that colour the rest of the scene.

TREE STUMP 1 – MIA COLLIS

Mia Collis has a respected photo-documentary track record stretching back 8 years in East Africa and around the world. Born in Kenya, educated in Britain with a major in Anthropology, she’s currently based out of Nairobi.