Featured Shoot – Freshers’ Fair

Freshers’ Fair.

With this years Imperial Freshers’ Fair rolling around, I wanted to revisit some of my favourite images from the event.
A cheerleader is held up in the air by three friends.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

Freshers’ Fair is a great event to cover as the campus erupts with colour and activity. Over 340 clubs and societies set out their stalls and run a host of activities to attract recruits from the new and returning students. It’s not everyday you see cheerleaders on the Queen’s Lawn, but Freshers’ Fair is one of them.

Five students dancing on the Queen's Lawn cast shadows across the terrace.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

This is one of my favourite Freshers’ Fair images – students brightening up the Queen’s Lawn with an impromptu dance, making an excellent shadowplay on the pavement.

A student dressed in a crocodile costume laughs with a friend at the Freshers' Fair.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

A giant furry green reptile in the Student union? It has to be Freshers’ Fair.

Students at the Imperial College Union stall.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

The Imperial College Union sign up another year’s new recruits.

A student about to throw an American football, with the Queen's Tower in the background.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

The Imperial Immortals American Football Club drum up business underneath the Queen’s Tower.

A screenshot of the Imperial College London website homepage, showing students at the Archery Club stall from Welcome Week 2015.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

The Imperial College Archery Club always seem so cheerful, and here they are signing up a new recruit in an image that was used on the College’s website homepage.

Two men using rowing machines and watched by other students.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

The expressions are great in this image. These lads were thrashing the rowing machines so hard in competition that they were lifting off the floor and bending in the middle.

A student on a bike cycles out of a lift.Image © Thomas Angus / Imperial College London  [Click Image to expand]

A very different day for the lifts in the Sherfield building.

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