LANDINGS is back for 2025, and for a few weeks we are taking over the @falmouthphotographyonlineInstagram account. Landings is a collective of research clusters: Habitats, Practices of Care, Centres and Networks and Im/material Worlds; each of which is a collaboration of artists who share a cohesive methodology of visually communicating the world in which we live.
Practices of Care brings together those interested in the diversity of human identities, their health and their wellbeing. This includes those examining representations of the self, and of others; of majority and minority communities; and potentially those interested in more participatory practices.
Today we introduce the work of artists Naomi Huq and Ian Blyth.
Naomi Huq
Naomi Huq is a photographer and visual artist who explores pluralities of identity and an organic kinship between people and place. ‘Get Me’ explores notions of identity, belonging and otherness in the rural community where she lives; a response to her teenage daughter’s experience of racist abuse among her peers in their home in the Scottish Highlands. Through collaborative portraiture and engagement with local young people, Naomi encounters a group of individuals who paint an alternative picture of openness and possibility in Highland youth culture, resisting divisive narratives and redefining boundaries. @naomihuq
Ian Blyth
Ian Blyth is a visual artist working with still images and video. His practice is an exploration of his own experiences of being a stay-at-home father, his masculinity and how society projects preconceived ideas of parenthood and manliness upon men and boys.
‘Manhood: The Artifice of Masculinity’ approaches stereotypes of masculine ideals in popular culture, specifically film, presenting them as a projected image that men in contemporary society are often coerced into portraying, unwittingly. This one-dimensional facet fails to recognise men as loving and caring fathers, usually portraying them as negative influences and social pariahs caught by a narrative of absenteeism. (This work has sound) @thisisblyth
