Staff
Our staff are experienced photographers and educators, working across a range of disciplines and technologies. We also have dedicated and passionate technicians in photography, film, digital and print to support you throughout your studies.
They have worked for clients including: the BBC, the Brit Awards, British Telecom, Channel 4, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Marie Claire, Condé Nast, Studio Wayne McGregor, Microsoft, Save the Children, Oxfam, The Red Cross, NHS, the Royal Society of Arts, Tate Britain, Lancôme, Chanel Beaute, London Fashion Week and the Royal Opera House.
Joe Miles: Course Director
Joe has extensive experience as a freelance photographer for national and international clients, allowing him to furnish his students with relevant industry experience and insight.
Joe has taught in three schools within the university – Art, Fashion & Textiles and Visual Communication – giving him a breadth of knowledge across the Faculty.
He is heavily involved in the advancement of virtual and augmented reality within the curriculum, being a member of the Faculty’s VR/AR steering group and Chair of the VR in the Curriculum Working Group. He has a deep commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. He is the Institute Representative on the Faculty’s EDI Committee and leads staff development sessions around inclusive teaching.
He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and gained a distinction in his PGCFHE teaching qualification.
Prof. Ravi Deepres: L5 & L6 Tutor
Award winning artist, photographer and film maker with an international reputation for focusing on the intersection of the still and moving image.
Influences of identity, psychology, social conditioning, historical archives, and scientific cosmological research constantly feed his practice. Expressed through conceptual documentary, choreographic and kinetically employed approaches, the work is often a primal and sensory experience and embraces the potential of collaboration, pushing the boundaries of innovative technology in creating new art and design languages.
His film and photographic installations for stage and screen focus on the symbiotic relationships of audience, choreography, sound, performance, design and film, where image and process transcend their singular states.
He collaborates frequently with choreographer Wayne McGregor on numerous projects from film design for dance performance, to photographic and film creations.
Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora: L4 Coordinator
Jaskirt is an award-winning visual artist, focussing on socially engaged practice. She is interested in celebrating untold stories while exploring visual representations of gender, ethnicity and place.
Dhaliwal-Boora creates work with the aim to empower and give voice to marginalised communities. In 2022 she made Inhale, Exhale a short film for BBC Arts and People, Place and Sport, a large scale photographic exhibition in partnership with Multistory and Birmingham 2022 Festival.
People, Place and Sport was exhibited in multiple outdoor exhibitions across Sandwell and Birmingham from April - August 2022 and includes the BJP (British Journal of Photography) Portrait of Britain award winning image of thai-boxer Amelia and Natalie.
Dhaliwal-Boora’s work has been exhibited nationally, including Wembley Stadium and Manchester’s People Museum, and has been widely published, including in The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Boora has also been the recipient of awards including the Photo Imaging Council Award and the Magnum & Ideas Tap Sports Award for her work on Women's Football and Everyday Olympian.
Nick Priest: L5 Coordinator & L4 Tutor
Nick has a passion for all photography and his practice has led him into documentary and portrait photography, shooting communities, people, places, and readings in Psychogeography and Sense of Place, and this is where his practice now lies.
Works in progress are a project called ‘Twin’, looking at the relationship of twinning villages in England and Germany. His ‘A46’ project sees Nick driving and walking up, down, in and around the A46 road, documenting memories of his Dad and new memories from the daily use of the road.
He is heavily involved in sequencing and making zines and photobooks, creating his own, collecting others and working with students on theirs. With nearly 20 years of photography experience, nearly 10 years of lecturing experience, working with apprentices, and working as an external moderator for learning centres, he has accumulated a wealth of knowledge across photographic genres.