Fine Art Photography. The name of the department that unites this group of young artists. But to make assumptions as to the work they make based upon those three words could be to define too narrowly their interests and modes of production. Certainly, they are united by their attraction to that spark that brought them together – namely a passion for the photographic image. They continue to be informed and driven by this specialist love of the media, it's histories, and it's diverse and ever changing presence in contemporary culture and art. But they also have an ability to look out-with media specialism to create experimental works utilizing installation, drawing, sculpture, video, print, text, sound, computer game design, etc. Receptive to the opportunities to develop the possibilities of works where photography can for instance, unfold into drawing, and then again into words, and perhaps back to photography – what they have in bucket-loads is an ability to look and think intelligently.

It's absolutely a cliché to say we as staff learn more from the students than they do from us. But it's true - we're happy to be here, mere guardians on the first stage of a much longer journey, of which we're privileged to accompany them on. They themselves are at the cutting edge of photography's continued development in our culture, and the broader palette we see being employed hopefully says something about our willingness to see these young artists employ whatever means seems appropriate as artists , but more realistically, it probably reflects the challenge and rigour they apply to the real, substantial, committed and wonderfully passionate development of their individual artistic visions.

Lesley Punton, lecturer at Glasgow School of Art