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Photoshoot Opportunity: Feature in UAL's Home Away from Home Campaign

A large, diverse group of approximately 25 young people — students of various ethnicities — are arranged in three rows on a studio stage set. The backdrop is a dusty pink flat decorated with small framed artworks, shelves with ceramics, and dried flower arrangements, suggesting a lived-in domestic space. In the centre of the group, one person holds up a hand-painted chalkboard sign in pink graffiti-style lettering that reads:
  • Written byAlexandra Kytka-Sharpe
  • Published date 20 May 2026
A large, diverse group of approximately 25 young people — students of various ethnicities — are arranged in three rows on a studio stage set. The backdrop is a dusty pink flat decorated with small framed artworks, shelves with ceramics, and dried flower arrangements, suggesting a lived-in domestic space. In the centre of the group, one person holds up a hand-painted chalkboard sign in pink graffiti-style lettering that reads:
UAL Home away from home film | Photograph: Sonia Abbas

UAL Marketing is working with photographer Ben Turner and Lock Studios to photograph students and the work they've made from a specific world they belong to.

UAL's Home Away from Home campaign — created with director Safeen James and Curated London Productions — explores what it means to arrive somewhere new while carrying your own sense of place and community with you.

We're now extending this into photography, and we'd love your help. We're looking for students whose creative work is rooted in a particular world they come from or are part of. That might mean your cultural heritage, your home country, or a diasporic identity — but it could just as well mean your queer community, a subculture you grew up in, a faith tradition, a specific place, or any group that has meaningfully shaped who you are and what you make.

If selected, you'll take part in an editorial-style photoshoot alongside your work, so we're looking for students who are happy in front of the camera and willing to bring some personality to the shoot. You'll receive images for your own use, and may be featured on UAL's social media channels and in university promotional material. Photoshoots take place Wednesday 24th – Friday 26th June. If selected, you'll be given a 2-hour timeslot and may need to arrive early for make-up.


We want to reflect the full diversity of our student community and are keen to hear from students across all Colleges, courses, and levels of study. It is also open to recent graduates.

Fill in the online form by 7 June 2026. If you have any trouble with the form, please contact a.kytka@arts.ac.uk.

See the image below  for an idea of what the images will be like. Please note, this is only an example taken from the related film. The exact set-design, framing and style will be different.

A split-screen video still showing a young woman standing in a colourful studio set styled as a living room, holding a decorative paper-cut artwork. The right panel shows a close-up of the same piece — an intricate floral design in red, pink, and black.
2026 Screen grab from new campaign film, UAL | Director: Safeen James