Communication Design School of Design
Leon Murray Caddick
Leon Murray Caddick is a lens-based designer working across still and moving image. His practice centres on narrative and the relationships between people, place, and practice – often explored through both digital and physical mediums. With a growing interest in anthropology and research-based methods, he uses photography, film, and interviews to examine how meaning is formed through everyday use, memory, and shared activity.
This year, Leon’s projects have focused on collaborative storytelling and overlooked material culture. In-Use is a publication exploring work-life balance in Scotland through out-of-hours hobbies – from doo flying in Glasgow; to mountain rescue in Braemar and handball in Jedburgh. Halfway Home is a diaristic short film tracing a journey from Brighton to Belfast, combining travel footage and family interviews to reflect on identity, Irishness, and intergenerational connection. His third work, In Passing, is a photo book documenting a bus journey through the Andes, using image sequencing and book form to reflect on transient spaces, slow movement, and the act of looking while travelling.
Still from Halfway Home
Photograph from In Passing
In-Use
In-Use is a collaborative publication with Graphics student Meg Waterston exploring work-life balance in Scotland through out-of-hours hobbies. Documenting doo flying in Glasgow, mountain rescue in Braemar, and handball in Jedburgh, the project draws on interviews, oral histories, and photography to reflect on the ways people find meaning, connection, and community through shared activity.
The publication combines still and moving image with editorial storytelling, highlighting overlooked practices and the objects that carry them.
Billy's Interview - Hand Ball Section
Interview with Billie Gillies, a Jedburgh resident, on growing up with the town’s handball tradition and its connection to place, memory, and belonging. Aided by my imagery and by Ellis Bairstow's, as I couldn't attend the event itself.
Halfway Home
Halfway Home is a short film tracing a journey from Brighton to Belfast. Combining travel footage, interviews with family members, and archival material, the film reflects on identity, Irishness, and intergenerational connection.
As it moves through trains, ferries, and coaches, the film lingers on the transient spaces that separate places and generations. Structured as a visual diary, it weaves together moments of movement and reflection to explore how identity travels with us — shaped by language, memory, and distance.
Halfway Home
Halfway Home is a short film I made using travel footage, archival material, and interviews with my mum and grandad. It follows a journey from Brighton to Belfast, exploring ideas of identity, language, and how Irishness is passed across generations. The film is the practical outcome of my dissertation, “Visual Narratives of Irish Identity Across Generations: Moving and Still Imaginations.” Through still and moving image, I reflect on how national identity is shaped by oral history, memory, and visual storytelling. It’s a personal work, rooted in my own experience, but shaped by conversations, distance, and the act of looking while in transit.
In Passing
In Passing is a diaristic response to a journey through the Andes, made with my mum during a break in my final year of study. We travelled by bus from Santiago to Buenos Aires, and although the trip began as time away from my main project (Halfway Home), it naturally became an extension of it. My mum wrote the text, and I photographed – forming a collaboration shaped by the experience of travelling together. The work reflects on movement, observation, and pause, while continuing my wider interest in family and place.
Below is a selection of pages from the final print, alongside digital versions of my favourite images.
Front Cover
