News / 17 Mar 2025
Fashion Photography student creates portraits for Community Clothing brand
BA (Hons) Fashion Photography
Final year BA (Hons) Fashion Photography student Phoebe Jacob has taken a series of portraits for sustainable clothing brand, Community Clothing.
Phoebe responded to a live brief set by the course to work with the brand, pitching an idea to collaborate with Assembly House, an artist-led community arts organisation in Leeds. Her idea was to focus on the artists and creatives based there, and the community they have created. She felt it important to give the studio holders a voice in the project, allowing them to choose their own Community Clothing pieces for the shoot, to be published with a short statement about their work.
“I loved working on the project. The brand’s values are very complimentary to my own in my practice: bright colours, people focused and sustainable. I felt I could create work that strongly resonated with them because we wanted the same outcome. Getting to meet amazing people and connect with them was incredibly rewarding. I felt relating the artists helped me to express them more fully in the final imagery.”
Phoebe Jacobm BA (Hons) Fashion Photography student
Live briefs are important across all our courses at Leeds Arts University. By partnering with industry, students are given real-life learning opportunities to support the development of creativity and professionalism.
“This has been an amazing opportunity to see how I can create commercial work that aligns with my values and expresses my interests. I’m not sure what my next steps after university are yet but this opportunity has made me more positive about what I could do as I feel much more capable.”
Pheobe Jacob, BA (Hons) Fashion Photography student
Community Clothing was founded in 2016 by award-winning designer and Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant with the aim of building a clothing brand that would create and sustained skilled jobs in the UK’s textile manufacturing industry, using high quality and sustainable materials. The brief was set as part of Community Clothing’s ongoing commitment to working with emerging talent, partnering with colleges and universities.