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Students Capture a Vision of Walsall

This week, Walsall College Creative Arts students have been working with award winning photographer, Phil Brooks, on a project to capture ‘The Real Walsall’, documenting the diversity and richness of our town.

National Diploma in Art & Design students have been collaborating with Phil, in order to get ‘under the skin’ of Walsall and to show the warm and welcoming people who live and work here.

Winner of the International Photographic Award in 1997, Phil Brooks is a highly esteemed documentary photographer, who gained widespread acclaim for his Sixty Degrees North exhibition in conjunction with The New Art Gallery Walsall, which comprised of photos taken around the Arctic Circle, including places such as Lapland in Winter, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia.

The photos created from the project will be used to form an online gallery on Walsall College’s website and will then be made into a limited edition book.

Student Danielle Round, said: “I have really enjoyed working with Phil Brooks on this project; it has definitely increased my confidence in approaching and interacting with people in order to get a good shot. It has been a great experience and I am now even more enthusiastic in pursuing a career in photography”.

Head of Photography for Walsall College, Ian Male commented: “We are delighted Phil Brooks is working with our students on this project. Phil has been undertaking three photographic sessions with students and the images taken so far offer a fabulous celebration of the diversity of people in Walsall. It is hoped this will be the start of a much bigger project and we will be doing more work with Phil in the future”.


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