Emma Mcloughlin (She/Her)
Anthropologist
Emma Mcloughlin is an anthropologist who finds herself in the intersection of the arts and the sciences. Having completed a BA in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, followed by an MA in Material and Visual Culture at University College London, Emma combines these interests by exploring visual culture in the Anthropocene.
At the Centre for Ecological Philosophy, Emma is continuing to collaborate with Alan McFetridge’s work on Landscape Fire and how transdisciplinary photographic practices can help us navigate these precarious and troubling times. Guided by anthropological and ecological principles and training, she asks, how can photography bring value to communities affected by fire and lead to alternative modes of compassionate learning, imagining, and sharing?
Antoinette Johnson (Any Pronouns)
Researcher and Writer
Antoinette is a researcher and writer who recently completed their undergraduate degree in English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining the Centre for Ecological Philosophy, their research has been primarily interested in the relationship between 19th Century western scientific developments and literature, theatre, art, photography and the every-day performance of the self or persona. Ultimately, their work is rooted in recognition of the importance of forming interdisciplinary approaches to critical race theory and considerations of contemporary Colonialism, oppression, marginalisation, othering, and subjugation across socio-economic institutions.
Alan McFetridge (He/Him)
Artist & Photographer
Alan McFetridge's quest to understand dispossession through photography began with a self-initiated study since 2012.
His first book is On The Line was published 2019 and he is currently working on a monograph Songs of the Dead, which is expected 2022.
His field studies of Landscape Fire include regions within Canadian boreal, Australia and Greece. As an autodidactic, he receives invitations to visit Indigenous land, founded of the Centre of Ecological Philosophy, been a panellist at the Association for Art History Annual Conference in 2021 and lectured at the John Hopkins Museum of Archaeology in 2022.
Alumni
Connie Boeree (She/Her)
Visual and Communication Designer
Connie is a Visual Communication Designer. She works with Alan and the team on visual design and communications alongside continuing her ongoing study into evaluating the role of art and design in communicating our individual and collective relationships to our environments.
Passionate about exploring patterns, Connie practices looking inwards and outwards to uncover connections, both mundane and ethereal. Having completed her undergraduate degree in Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, Connie’s continuing interdisciplinary practice takes form in photography and experience design, often exploring a range of mediums such as moving image, digital form and sculpture.
Oscar Cannon (They/He)
Photography Assistant
Oscar’s role at the studio involves wearing many hats, assisting in various tasks to ensure the smooth running of the operation and offering creative solutions to any problem that may arise along the way.
They completed an undergraduate degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London with a specialism in Photography, and alongside working with Alan and the team at the Centre for Ecological Philosophy, continues an artistic practice based in photography, video, and performance; exploring the absurdity and nihilism of existence through the internet and the role of technology in the creation of identity. In his free time, Oscar enjoys watching movies, making music, and other normal human activities.
Mohamed Mazy
Data Scientist
I am Mohamed Mazy, I got my bachelor’s degree in computer science at Université Nice Côte d’Azur in France.
I have always wanted work as software developer after my graduation. But during my third year university I have been selected by Google London to participate in a machine learning workshop in Paris in order to discover the data world. After this experience I knew that I want to work in data. So I have started my master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence that I will get in August 2022.
Eriz Yusuf (He/Him)
Data Scientist
Eriz is an aspiring data scientist who recently completed his degree in Computing at the University of Greenwich in London. He will be working with Alan and the team to help collect data from satellites to give the fires visual representation from a different kind of perspective.
His interest in data has stemmed from a very early age from the fascination with order. Data can follow a standard or it can become sporadic and unpredictable, he enjoys looking at all of the different aspects of why data can become so different over time, Eriz's main practices use python libraries to extract and sort data into different kinds of visualisations such as graphs and maps to try to understand and explore different kinds of data.
Igor Augustynowicz (he/him)
Photography Assistant
Igor is a graduate of International Relations from the University of Nottingham who picked up a camera in 2020 and made a pivot from politics to photography.
He is joining the studio as a photography assistant, helping with the release of Songs of the Dead and the running of the East London Superlab. Along side this, he will be contributing to the Centre for Ecological Philosophy through a series of local mini documentaries on how ecology and climate change are experienced in the surrounding areas to the studio.