By Tessa Bunney on 24 August 2011
Thanks 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.
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By Tessa Bunney on 4 August 2011
My 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!
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By Tessa Bunney on 3 August 2011
Last 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.
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By Tessa Bunney on 26 July 2011
Have been at Ryedale Show today photographing the Bransdale hill farmers showing their Swaledale sheep at the first show of the year.

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By Tessa Bunney on 11 July 2011
I 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…
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 July 2011
A 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.
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By Tessa Bunney on 1 July 2011
Just 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.

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By Tessa Bunney on 21 June 2011
Thank you to Monica at e-photoreview for showcasing my Home Work project on their website, you can see the video interview here.

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By Tessa Bunney on 20 June 2011
I do like a good ferret roulette!

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By Tessa Bunney on 17 June 2011
I’m delighted that two of my images have been selected for the Foto8 Summershow this year.
The show opens on July 8th and will run until the 12th August at Host Gallery in Honduras Street, London, EC1 0TH.


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By Tessa Bunney on 6 June 2011
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By Tessa Bunney on 1 June 2011

This image of the Tidal Pool in Mousehole Cornwall just got highly commended in the Landscape category of this years Julia Margaret Cameron Award.
Congratulations to Chloe Dewe Mathews who won the portfolio section of the Documentary and Editorial category and also picked up the New Talent Award.
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By Tessa Bunney on 1 June 2011
Hand to Mouth is currently on show at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes. Hand to Mouth explores the lives of villages and nomadic shepherds in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, a way of life threatened by EU enlargement.

Dales Countryside MuseumStation Yard, HawesNorth Yorkshire, DL8 3NT
01969 666210
Open daily 10:00 to 17:00
Museum admission: adults £3.50; concessions £3.00; under 16s and full-time students FREE
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By Tessa Bunney on 19 May 2011
Heading down to Devon tomorrow to take part in the Hinterlands workshop run by Duckrabbit. Hoping to return with expert knowledge on how to improve my audio skills and produce photofilms with my work.
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By Tessa Bunney on 12 May 2011
I’m excited to announce that I have just received a Grants for the Arts award from Arts Council England to continue my Field, Forest and Family project in Northern Laos and will be returning there in September to undertake research for a longer trip planned for next year.
For some time I have been working with the ethnic minority women in China and Laos scanning their textiles and clothing in situ and bringing other items home to be photographed. Part of the award will enable me to purchase a battery-powered light so that I can work in remote rural villages…
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By Tessa Bunney on 6 May 2011
Tessa Bunney Photography is now on Facebook! Please join to find out up to date news about my work.
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By Tessa Bunney on 26 April 2011
Thanks once again to Wayne Ford for writing about my work on his blog – this time about Field, Forest and Family.
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By Tessa Bunney on 28 March 2011
Despite many fantastic women working with photographic media, the industry continues to be dominated by their male counterparts. Firecracker is an online platform dedicated to supporting European women photographers. Join Firecracker founder Fiona Rogers as she introduces three photographers, Tessa Bunney, Laura Hynd & Leonie Purchas who will each show and discuss their work.
Firecracker at the Apple Store, 235 Regent Street, London will take place at 7pm on Monday 4 April 2011.
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By Tessa Bunney on 25 March 2011
One of my most enduring and popular images is this one of a Swaledale Sheep’s Nose – it was taken almost 11 years ago at a farm in Bransdale, an isolated and beautiful hill farming and grouse shooting dale in the North York Moors, close to where I live.
10 years later the parish (you couldn’t even really call it a village as such) in conjunction with Rural Arts in Thirsk have invited me back to spend the year with them documenting Bransdale life, part archive and part decoration for…
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By Tessa Bunney on 25 March 2011
Spent a lovely morning with the delightful Duchess of Devonshire and her hens at Chatsworth on commission for FT Weekend Magazine last week which was then published on Saturday 19 March. If you would like to see a pdf of the pages please download here. Duchess of Devonshire
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