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Two guys looking to create a platform for emerging creative individuals from around the UK, with a few of our fashion finds throughout.

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Check out the latest post about Christina - such an awesome photographer. The Artist - I’m Christina, I’m 19 years old and am studying Photography at Brighton Uni. My main interest in photography is working with black and white film however I’m trying to broaden my interests to digital as well.  What discipline you specialise in? Photography is what I specialize in, fine art photography to be specific. At the moment I’m unsure of whether I prefer portraiture or landscape so being at university is a great opportunity to figure out where my strengths are.  Why you love being creative? I have a background in fine art and textiles as well as photography so to me creativity is something I’ve been around for a long time and I really do find pleasure in it. Photography allows me to make something I’ve envisioned come to life; my ideas can be enjoyed and seen by others. Creating work really does make me feel happy and like I’ve achieved something great from just a small initial idea.  Sites - https://www.facebook.com/ChristinaHewittPhotography?fref=ts

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The City Guys OOTD: This is Harry, the other half of The City Guys. Winter is all about the layers, and rockin' the cheap monday. Cheap Monday T-Shirt (€30, store in Berlin) Cheap Monday Shirt (£35, Urban Outfitters) Cheap Monday Hoodie (£40, Urban Outfitters) Beige Parka (£3.99, Scope, Charity Shop) Cheap Monday Jeans (£10, Urban Outfitters) Black Vans (£15, Charity Shop)

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This is a new segment that we have been thinking about and decided that today we are gunna give a shot  The City Guys OOTD: This is Ollee, one half of The City Guys and he is wearing starting from the top down... Supreme Camp cap £40 (Supreme store London) OBEY Clothing Hoody £32 (from Urban OutfittersExeter) Drop Dead Clothing. Jumper £50 (London Carnaby Street) H&M Jeans £19.95 (Exeter store) Nike SB Stefan Janoskis £47 (from Nike TownLondon)

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Straight into another fantastic artist... "Jade Pidgley, 18 and study at Arts University Bournemouth. I run my own company Inner Ink Studios which is photography and tattoo designing. My interests are obviously photography and tattooing and has been for nearly 5 years now.  I specialize in various topics at this moment, I have done event photography before and I also have done work for other people. I like to think that I will find a specialty in my BA photography. I love being creative because I express my feelings through my drawings and my photographs. I express memories which will not be forgotten. I would like to say that I have always been this way since I was little when my dad taught me how to draw." See more of her work on any of these... www.facebook.com/jadeepidgleyphotography www.facebook.com/innerinktattoos www.innerinkstudios.weebly.com

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The Artist -

I’m Marina, (aka Marina De Buchi!) I’m 18 and currently studying Fashion Promotion & Imaging at UCA Epsom.

What discipline you specialise in?

My life is practically ‘one big shoot’ as a Stylist/Creative Director. Alongside, I’m also a fashion blogger for ‘Marina De Buchi’.

  Why you love being creative? I love working in an atmosphere with no creative limits. Being able to express your ideas through photos, will never get boring. And of course meeting all the cool people along the way is a bonus! 

Influences.

My ultimate inspiration is Fanny Lyckman, she has influenced my work crazy amounts.

Sites -

blog - www.marinadebuchi.com

Facebook - www.facebook.com/marinadebuchi

instagram - @Marina_DeBuchi

twitter - @Marina_DeBuchi

tumblr - marinadebuchi.tumblr.com

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The Artist -

I’m Scott, I’m 18 and currently on my gap year before heading off to UCA Farnham next September to study digital film.

  What discipline you specialise in?

  I specialise in film production. Specifically short films in lots of genres ranging from comedy to drama. 

Why you love being creative?

I love being able to show and express who I really am through my work. The best thing about being a creative is that there are no limits. You can be and do anything you want because your art form allows you to explore and express yourself in new ways.

    Sites -

Youtube.com/thisguycalledscott

What The City Guys think?

Here at the city guys we love film makers, and scott is definitely a very talented one. His moving image on his youtube is definitely worth a check, but in a few years time, we'll hopefully be seeing scott reaching very high things indeed!

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The Artist -

  Sebastian Jake Nowell

18/12/1993

Gloucester University

Freelance Photographer

  Shot for:

The Fairy Light Company, Kano Computing, Linziclips, GoodieGoodness, Lovebox Festival 2013, Rosie Fox, Anabella Walker, D&X, Gascoigne-Pees, Kreative Talent Agency, Tag Town, Number Zed, Electric Blues, Paqua & Many more.

What discipline you specialise in?

Product Photography

Live Bands/DJ's

Why you love being creative?

To share images and ideas, to make people think and contemplate what the meaning behind the image is.

Influences -

Peter Belanger

Sites -

http://sebnowell.wix.com/sebastiannowell#!home/mainPage

https://twitter.com/SebastianNowell

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Cheak this guy out. "My name is Tyrone Westlake and i am a 19 year old graphic designer who is studying for a BA (Hons) in Graphic design at the Arts University Bournemouth. In terms of hobbies i enjoy singing. I love being creative as it gives me an outlet to express and challenge myself and obviously i find it fun too." soon he will have a wordpress up running at tyronewestlakedesign.wordpress.com So keep an eye out for that!

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The Artist -

Elliott Gunn. 19. University of Gloucestershire. Photography and Music/Song Writing.

What discipline you specialise in?

Mainly Fashion and Portraiture. Mens Fashion mainly but starting to shoot women.

Why you love being creative?

I guess theres alot behind it, if you are really creative it helps you be unique and find your style rather than just copying people and getting no where, But after all everyone is influenced by everything.

Also as well i find creativity a lot easier in fashion photography, and with the fact if you can get on well with the model then your images will be better.

Just another tip aswell, make friends with everyone as you never know whos going to be what, when you’re older. And give your business cards to everyone! Tip i learnt from a stranger at the train station.

Influences -

My main influence at the moment would be Terry Richardson, of course for the fact of the way you can tell an image is his but also the fact there are alot of people that hate him at the moment and just knowing that these pertitions are gunna get know where as he is to big. haha. As well there is people like Juergen Teller as well but also lets include the guy that taught me everything. Mr Jeff 'Spacehop' Evans, Thanks.

Sites -

www.elliottgunn.co.uk

twitter: @elliottgunn

Instagram: @elstain 

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Our final artist of the day is Amber Eggleden. A fantastic photographer based in London, check out the post below!

The Artist - 

"Hello, my name is Amber Eggleden, I am a 19 year old fashion photographer, studying a BA in digital photography at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. I just love messing about with concepts and different themes, and try to create some interesting portraits along the way.

What discipline you specialise in?

"I am mostly a fashion based photographer although i do practice all types of photography. I love being able to create something myself with models, a big team and fun clothes! I think that is why I love fashion photography the most because you can create your perfect vision." 

Here at The City Guys we totally agree with this concept!

Why you love being creative?

"I have always been creative, and it has been a natural process, I can’t imagine anything worse than sitting in an office all day. I love being out and about with my camera, and can’t think of any better career for me."

Influences -

"I have always been inspired by the big fashion photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Nick Knight, Tim Walker and Miles Aldridge. I love how big their sets can be and how everyone’s efforts are apparent in the image quality. The photos are like movie sets rather than simple portraits, I would love to get to a point like this. If I become successful, to be able to use entire sets and massive props to create really surreal setups. 

Other than famous photographers I am constantly inspired by the photographers around me, I do a lot of assisting work and seeing how people work and direct shoots constantly inspires me to work harder."

Here at The City Guys we love Amber's passion and enthusiasm for photography, and it's definitely shown throughout her beautiful images. Amber is definitely a photographer to look out for in the future, we're hoping she goes far!

Sites - 

http://www.ambereggleden.com

https://www.facebook.com/AmberEggledenPhotography

https://twitter.com/Amber_Egg

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The Artist -

" Hi I'm Kayleigh Underwood, I'm 18 years old and am studying a BA in fine art at Arts University Bournemouth after years of exploring realist portraits, I've recently started opening my eyes to lower levels of expectation from my work, sometimes the ascetics of a piece require imperfection to become successful."

Influences -

"The most influential artists in my life at the moment is scottish painter jenny saville and the acclaimed diva of the art world tracy emin both interpret feminist veiws in very different ways, but still i LOVE it."

Recent Work -

"My most recent work has been trying to covey the idea of females within the porn industry. The way their bodies almost loose sense of being human, more like a tool, how a plumber would use wrench to fix a leaky tap, these women use their vaginas as part of the triad. I use cold stale colours in my work to give this sense lifelessness, again very monotone like a machine, the blurred out faces showing lack of identity and how theres no empathy and love going into this act, its just a body just a figure, not a human, with a face and eyes and expressions and emotions, just a moving sex doll, another object."

How does she do it?

"My most resent stuff - I've been freeze framing porn, which is great when someone comes to look at your desktop and theres several pornagraphic images floating around haha. But in all seriousness I use them so i can replicate shape and body language in my work to make quite rapid pieces through the medium of acrylic chalk, charcoal. I love layering different materials together, gives so much more texture to a piece."

What The City Guys think -

We LOVE Kayleigh's work. The way in which she manages to encapsulate motion and feeling within her work is great. The messy brush strokes, but each individually thought out create a dynamic body of work which you can engage with for hours. Definitely an artist to look out for in the future.

Sites -

https://www/facebook.com/kayleighunderwoodcreations

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The Artist - Jamie Gibson, 16, Clacton County Sixth Form. I'm interested in social media, photography, fashion, all things creative and enjoy creating cyberart.  What discipline you specialize in? Photography and cyberart.  Why you love being creative? I wouldn't say I love it...I'm more creative rather than technical, administrative or physical, etc, I'm not clever nor strong but like to create / design things and enjoy editing photographs using Photoshop.  Sites - instagram: @jamiegibsonyrh facebook.com/jamiegibsonphotography

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The Artist -

Woody Reeves is an 18 year old Studying Digital Media at Winchester University. My interest lies within music and design.

What discipline do you specialise in?

I specialise in music and creative work. I write for music4montage company and have recently established my own record label ATOMA RECORDS. I also produce my own music under the name WEEVE in which I’ve recently worked with some artists from NewZealand (Young Tapz & The Wyld) on a track ‘’Eminence’’ in Young Tapz new album. And will hopefully be producing some tracks again for Young Tapz, featuring an incredible up and coming musician Jaymes Young.

  Why you love being creative?

 I guess it allows others to visualize your feelings. And allows me personally to showcase music that I love producing. And will hopefully allow me to make a career out of it.

Sites - 

  https://www.facebook.com/MUSIC4MONTAGE

http://www.atomarecords.com/

http://music-4-montage.com/about-2/

https://www.facebook.com/WeeveMusicProduction

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The Artist -

Axel Drury, 19, UAL art and design foundation course- Exeter college. Interests - Fashion, news, art, food, space. (We all love a bit of food!)

What discipline you specialize in?

Photography- specializing in gritty black and white documentary work and colour portraiture.

Why you love being creative?

For me, being able to show people what and how I see has always been easier than trying to describe it through spoken language.

Sites -

www.theruralcityboy.tumblr.com

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 The Artist -

Natasha Hicken is a 17 year old student studying A Levels at Exeter College, with interests in history, culture and art, especially the art associated with ancient/exotic cultures as well as the human and animal form.

   What discipline you specialize in?

Fine art including fashion illustration and portraits, I love working with inks and watercolors, as well as textures created with different methods of painting.

   Why you love being creative?

I love being creative because it helps me relax and provides me with a degree of escapism and enables me to express myself with so many different materials and styles.

   sites

Check out natasha's work on her -

Instagram: @nhartwork

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A little bit about the two guys behind it.  We're both photographers but have a real passion for anything creative. We realised the other day that there isn't really any kind of platform for young, emerging artists within the creative industry, so we thought it'd be good to do something about it. The picture below is just to show you the type of work we do. Ollee loves topography and is particularly interested in abandoned buildings and below is one of his stunning film images. Harry focuses on fashion and portrait photography, and loves the more commercial aspect of the creative world. Here are our individual pages- Oliver Turl Photography. Photogharry. We'd like to thank you all for helping us reach 100 likes in just an evening, and if you think our idea could help emerging artists please let people know about our page and blog. The City Guys

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If you're a an aspiring creative indivdual that would like a platform to help showcase your work we'd love to hear from you. Whether you're an artist, musician, fashion designer, whatever you are send us a message either on this Facebook page or our email - [email protected] - once we've gathered enough interest we'd love to produce a zine with work from every discipline and then to distribute to independent shops throughout the UK.  Starting from sometime this week when we've had enough interest we're going to start posting those who have contacted us on our blog, the more submissions, the bigger the platform - http://thecityguys.tumblr.com/