New work from Finland
By Tessa Bunney on 29 February 2012
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Heading off to Finland
By Tessa Bunney on 9 February 2012Tomorrow I will be heading off to Finland for a week or so to do some more work on my Järvenjää / Lakeice project. First stop my friends at the print making centre in Jyväskylä where I did a residency in 2010 and then on to Kuopio to the largest smoke sauna in the world where I am hoping to catch some more ice swimming action! -22 in Jyväskylä last night!
Today on Flak Photo
By Tessa Bunney on 20 January 2012Thanks once again to Andy Adams for using my image of Vuorilammen Sauna and Ice Swimmming hole from my Finnish series Järvenjää / Lakeice on today’s FlakPhoto:
http://flakphoto.com/photo/tessa-bunney-vuorilammen-sauna-and-ice-swimming-hole
Heading back to Finland next month to do some more work on this project!
Merry Christmas from North Yorkshire
By Tessa Bunney on 20 December 2011
Firecracker 2012 diary
By Tessa Bunney on 19 December 2011This beautiful photographic diary, designed by Dutch duo Kummer & Herrman, showcases the work of Firecracker’s featured photographers for 2011: Polly Braden, Tessa Bunney, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Sophie Gerrard, Léonie Hampton, Jane Hilton, Liz Hingley, Laura Hynd, Dana Popa, Mona Simon, Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Daria Tuminas.
Proceeds go towards The Firecracker Grant for a woman photographer born in or residing in Europe, to assist with a photographic project.
To purchase a copy please click here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2836094
Serpentine Swimming Club
By Tessa Bunney on 5 December 2011Members of The Serpentine Swimming Club have met in Hyde Park ‘to promote the healthful habit of bathing in open water throughout the year’ since 1864.
Occupations of swimmers last Wednesday:
Bank messengerBarristerCarpenterFarmer / software developerHatterInterior designerLawyerMarketing consultantPainterPensionerPhysics teacher RetiredRetired educational consultant Self-employed inventory clerkSolicitor x 2Teacher x 2Television documentary researcher and producerTelevision producerWriter / biographer
Laos image gallery
By Tessa Bunney on 16 November 2011I have just created a new gallery of images on my website from my latest trip to Laos.
Verve Photo
By Tessa Bunney on 17 October 2011An image from my Finland project is on Verve Photo | The New Breed of Documentary Photographer today http://vervephoto.wordpress.com/
To see some more images from this project please click here
Landslides and leeches
By Tessa Bunney on 14 October 2011Whether or not you can classify landslides and leeches as highlights of travelling in Laos at the end of the rainy season, they certainly were the reality of the last 2 weeks as I travelled in Northern Laos by road and on foot.
Not much went to plan. I’d wanted to try to photograph the cotton harvest but I was a little too early because the rainy season is running late but it meant that the landscape of forest and rice field looked amazing and the skies were often clear unlike…
Home Work on Photo Eye
By Tessa Bunney on 10 October 2011For those of you in the U.S. I’m pleased to report that Home Work is for sale on the Photo-Eye bookstore; there’s also a great review by Karen Jenkins in Photo-Eye magazine.
Back to Laos
By Tessa Bunney on 20 September 2011Tomorrow in the early hours I will be beginning my long journey to northern Laos. For the first time I have decided to travel overland from Thailand directly to Luang Nam Tha province. It seemed a good idea at the time to fly from Bangkok to Chiang Rai and then cross the border at Houay Xay, however the flight times changed after I booked it and I now have a 12 hour connection at Bangkok airport!!
This will be the first time I have visited Laos in the rainy season and it will be fascinating to see the Mekong at…
Heading to Noorderlicht
By Tessa Bunney on 13 September 2011Tomorrow I’ll be heading to Groningen in the Netherlands to take part in the Northern Lights Masterclass. Taking place at the Noorderlicht gallery, there will also be the opportunity to see the exhibitions in the current festival which has the theme Metropolis, City Life in the Urban Age.
Taking place over a year and run by curator Marc Prüst and Lars Boering (Lux Photo Gallery), the masterclass for professional photojournalists and social documentary photographers aims at developing their skills as photographers and as marketers of their own work. This first session also includes sessions by Charlotte van Lingen, curator of…
Bee keeper portrait for North York Moors
By Tessa Bunney on 30 August 2011
Two of our favourite Iceland swimming places
By Tessa Bunney on 24 August 2011Thanks to Iceland’s abundance of geothermal heat, swimming is a national institution. Nearly every city and village has at least one public swimming pool with sauna and hot tubs.
Selardalur swimming pool was in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE… no house, village or town for miles! And it was warm.
Fantastic location for a thermal pool, surrounded by mountains and sea.
New feature on tidal swimming pools
By Tessa Bunney on 4 August 2011My feature on tidal swimming pools will be published this Saturday 6th August in The Financial Times Weekend Magazine.
Heading off to Iceland tomorrow for 2 weeks – back on 20 August, I’ll check my mobile for messages every now and then so please leave one if you’d like to get in touch with me while I am away. The slightly warmer Blue Lagoon – here we come!
One thing always leads to another…
By Tessa Bunney on 3 August 2011Last year I spent some time in Finland on a Connections North residency at Jyväskylä Printmaking Centre working on a project about the landscape of the frozen lake.
I then returned to Jyväskylä 2 months later and continued to explore my interest in the landscape of the sauna and swimming places around the city. The work from the residency will be exhibited in UK and Finland next year and I am currently working on an artist’s book which will include a short story by Riikka Ala-Harja. 
It was…
Tim’s top tup
By Tessa Bunney on 26 July 2011Have been at Ryedale Show today photographing the Bransdale hill farmers showing their Swaledale sheep at the first show of the year.
Away in Devon and Cornwall
By Tessa Bunney on 11 July 2011I am away on an editorial assignment in Devon and Cornwall this week and part of next – back on Wednesday 20 July.
Day 1 – Westward Ho!
Day 2 – Devil’s Point, Plymouth
Day 3 – IlfracombeIt is NOT meant to be raining today – all the weather forecasts say so!
Heading to Cornwall this evening – along the Atlantic Highway to Bude.
Day 4 – North Cornwall CoastSUNNY – need to get as much done as possible today as tomorrow and the next, next day it forecasts RAIN!
Day 5 and 6 – North Cornwall Coast
Day 7…
Today on FlakPhoto
By Tessa Bunney on 9 July 2011A big thank you to Andy Adams for posting up an image from Home Work on today’s FlakPhoto.
Home Work is also July’s Weekend Feature series on FlakPhoto.
Cross Lane Hospital commission
By Tessa Bunney on 1 July 2011Just got back from Scarborough where we have been installing my work into Cross Lane Hospital’s new building. It was such a lovely project and great to know that patients in years to come will be able to see images which reflect both the location of the hospital and its surrounding area. The subjects for the photographs and the final images were chosen in consultation with the staff and current patients in the hospital. Thank you to Rural Arts and Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS.
