By Tessa Bunney on 10 July 2012
I am pleased to announce I have just published a new limited edition book of my recent work from Finland. Järvenjää / Lakeice explores the frozen landscape of Jyväskylä, the largest city in the Finnish lakeland. It is available now for £15.50 as a signed edition limited to 250 copies from my website and from selected bookstores. The 36 page book includes a short story by Finnish writer Riikka Ala-Harja and is housed in a screen-printed pvc wallet.
Järvenjää / Lakeice is currently available to purchase from Impressions Gallery Bookshop in Bradford…
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By Tessa Bunney on 19 June 2012
My new (and first) photofilm On the Board, about the Serpentine Swimming Club, is currently on show at The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate as part of the Dive! exhibition until 2nd September. You can see it on Vimeo too.
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By Tessa Bunney on 18 June 2012
Available now from http://www.contacteditions.co.uk/
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By Tessa Bunney on 8 June 2012
For the past year I have been taking part in the fantastic Noorderlicht Masterclass in Groningen, The Netherlands organised by Lars Boering and Marc Prüst and with great international Masters such as Francis Hodgson, Magdalena Herrera from Geo France and David Birkitt from DMB Media.
The host organisation Noorderlicht is at risk of closure as the Dutch advisory board of The Netherlands advised the Dutch Government to cut the financial support to Noorderlicht after 2012. Half of the total Noorderlicht budget…
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By Tessa Bunney on 29 May 2012
Hot footed it down to the newsagents this morning to get a copy of June’s National Geographic – double page spread of Mousehole tidal swimming pool by me!
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By Tessa Bunney on 5 March 2012
My image of the canna flour noodle maker from Home Work is ‘photo of the week’ on the 6 Mois website.
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By Tessa Bunney on 3 March 2012
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By Tessa Bunney on 29 February 2012
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 February 2012
Tomorrow 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!
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By Tessa Bunney on 20 January 2012
Thanks 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!
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By Tessa Bunney on 20 December 2011
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By Tessa Bunney on 19 December 2011
This 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
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By Tessa Bunney on 5 December 2011
Members 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
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By Tessa Bunney on 16 November 2011
I have just created a new gallery of images on my website from my latest trip to Laos.
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By Tessa Bunney on 17 October 2011
An 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
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By Tessa Bunney on 14 October 2011
Whether 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…
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By Tessa Bunney on 10 October 2011
For 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.
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By Tessa Bunney on 20 September 2011
Tomorrow 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…
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By Tessa Bunney on 13 September 2011
Tomorrow 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…
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By Tessa Bunney on 30 August 2011
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