<p dir="ltr">Ray is a Central Stores Technician in the Equipment Resource Centre at Arts University Plymouth. He is a part of the MultiMedia Lab team, whose expertise features photography, moving image, sound and game design.</p> <p dir="ltr">His speciality is analogue photographic equipment, film processing and scanning. Ray has worked with 35mm, medium format and large format film cameras, predominantly in black and white. Ray can also undertake minor repairs and general maintenance on analogue equipment such as light seal replacements and lens cleaning. </p> <p dir="ltr">Ray studied at Exeter College, graduating with a merit in Access to HE Art &amp; Design. He also studied at Arts University Plymouth at undergraduate level in Photography and completed his Masters degree in photography at Arts University Plymouth with a distinction. </p> <p dir="ltr">His research was based around alienation within society, psychogeography, the non-place, capitalist realism and the prosaism of the everyday. This mixed photography with a walking practice, similar to the ‘flaneur’. Further into his postgraduate studies, Ray challenged the use of ‘New-Topographics’ in a modern setting - updating the movement to ‘Post-Topographics’ to reflect the half-century difference in time, yet juxtaposed by the stagnation of society.</p> <p dir="ltr">His work has been published with Shutterhub Yearbook 2020, Photograd Graduate 2020 and Photograd Conjunction zines. He has also worked with the Smart Citizens Programme, Atlantic Youth Creative Hub, Arts University Plymouth Students’ Union, The MegaRide and Soperfect Images.<br /></p>