News / 01 Sep 2025
Recent Photography graduate awarded Manth residency in Italy
BA (Hons) Photography
Recent BA (Hons) Photography graduate Daniel Jefferies, was selected for the Manth Immersive Photography residency in Bracciano, Italy.
The Manth residency is aimed at artists who wish to fully immerse themselves in a rural environment and have a desire to explore their creativity in a natural setting. Daniel was awarded this year’s paid fellowship placement at the farmhouse in Bracciano, near Rome, to develop and refine his project over the course of a week with the guidance of mentors Guido Gazzilli, and fellow alumnus, Maurizio Cogliandro.
"I was lucky enough to be offered a fellowship placement so the initial fees were waived meaning all I had to cover was travel expenses. To assist with these expenses, I utilised the Leeds Arts University Enterprise and Employability fund, without which, I wouldn't have been able to attend the residency."
Daniel Jefferies, BA (Hons) Photography graduate
Daniel continued; "the residency was a great opportunity to get myself straight into life as a working artist. I was able to concentrate my time wholly on a project and really begin to understand the work as I was making it. Guido and Maurizio gave me a lot of freedom and some great advice during my time there too."
Daniel’s residency project, 'Scarle', was an investigation into sculpture and truth; questioning the artistic potential of ordinary materials and the landscape. Daniel achieved this through creating installations in abandoned or overlooked rural sites, and capturing them on film. Alongside these constructed scenes, he began to document his surrounding environment, creating a visual dialogue between intervention and observation.
"The residency lasted seven days in Bracciano, not too far from Rome, from which I was able to travel freely in the area with one of the other residents who I was sharing my room with. We visited various points of interest and nature reserves as I was scouting out places to create installations that I would later photograph. During the residency I was also able to catch the train into Rome and see various exhibitions and book shops as well."
Daniel Jefferies, BA (Hons) Photography graduate
'Scarle' is an ongoing project and Daniel has plans for a solo-show and coinciding publication in the future.