"Students" is a series of portraits of girls that examines what it was like to study at a traditional Art school in the United Kingdom before bureaucracy, fees and modern new campuses changed the landscape of education probably forever. All aged 17 the female students are photographed in a series of studios and corridors with high ceilings, polished floors, characteristics of the Victorian buildings that many of these schools were housed. We are confronted by girls still unsure and unconfident of the poses and postures they adopt still struggling with their skins. Trying to fit into common teenage groups which give them a visual identity that forms friendships based on a visual language. Mainly not fitting into the mainstream, these girls get a sense of belonging through the clothes they wear, the music they listen to and a sense of rebellion that places them into sub cultures like Goths, Metalheads, Punks, Emos and other such categories that seem a world away from what their parents would want, which is the whole point that they lock themselves away in these groups where they are understood and accepted.
