Thank you to The Global Journal for a great 3 page review of Home Work in their January & February 2011 issue #03.
“It is very rare that a book of photography gives you the chance to slow the course of time, to the extent of bringing you to exactly where the photographer wished you to embark. Tessa Bunney’s work has succeeded. Her book is a gem of delicacy and visual intelligence.”
I’m pleased to announce that my work from China was voted the Best Portfolio by the reviewers at Format Photography Festival on Saturday. Sadly I was travelling home on the train when it was announced at the award ceremony by Joel Meyerowitz.
The Format International Photography Festival ‘Right Here, Right Now’ runs until 3rd April with some great exhibitions and seminars related to street photography running between now and then.
A great 5 page feature about the Home Work book is in the current issue of Selvedge (Issue 39, March / April 2011).
www.selvedge.org
I’ll be at the Format Photography Festival in Derby on Saturday 5th March and will be signing copies of Home Work in QUAD from 1.15 to 1.45
Dewi Lewis Book Signing | Format Festival
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Heading off to Northern Laos on Monday 7th Feb for a couple of weeks research and to do some more work on Field, Forest and Family. Planning on visiting the jungle and some Akha minority villages on the border with Yunnan Province in China where I visited some Aini (Akha) villages in 2009.
So will have intermittent access to emails during that time. My mobile in Laos is: 00856 (0)2058646100 or you can call me on my usual UK mobile number.
Many thanks to Wayne Ford, Posterous and Joerg Colberg, Conscientious, for reviewing Home Work on their blogs.
Firecracker is a new online platform dedicated to supporting european women photographers. Despite many fantastic women working with photographic media, the industry continues to be dominated by male counterparts. Firecracker was established in 2011 by Fiona Rogers to assist the promotion of women photographers by showcasing their work in a series of monthly online gallery features. Rogers currently works at Magnum Photos London as the Cultural & Education Co-ordinator, a position she has held since 2005.
I am delighted to announce that I am the first featured photographer, click here to see my work featured on Firecracker
Home Work is published in the new edition of Private Photo Review. You can download a pdf of the pages featuring my work here.
Recently updated my website with a few images from my recent trip to China – click here to see some more.
The weather prior to and during my travels was unseasonably wet which made getting to some of the villages a bit tricky and the paths in and around the villages themselves were liquid mud! Luckily we only managed to get actually stuck once!
Just posted up some images on my website from The Hereford commission and here are some installation shots of the exhibition at Hereford Cathedral.
Arrived back from China last Wednesday and for once had a window seat not over the wing! and had the most fabulous view of the mountains as we flew over Tibet.
Mostly shot film so work is still at the lab so will update and post up some images in a while.
Tomorrow I will be heading back to China to do some more work on my project about ethnic minority women in South West China, Field, Forest and Family. This time I will be travelling in the mountains of north-west Guizhou province to the Miao minority villages. If you need to get in touch with me please leave a message on my mobile and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can! I’ll be back in the UK on the 28th October.
For the past six months I have been up and down to Herefordshire working on a commission for the Hereford Photography Festival about the Hereford Cow. The final exhibition will be on show at Hereford Cathedral as part of this years festival:
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Friday 29th October – Saturday 27th November 2010Opening times: 9.15am – evensong daily (Monday-Saturday 5.30pm, Sunday 3.30pm)
For more information about the festival please visit http://www.photofest.org/ or download a pdf of…
Photomonth PhotofairSaturday 9th October 2010
Zoe Bingham Fine Art will have a stand at Photomonth Photography Festival where they will be selling limited edition photographs by Tessa Bunney, Mimi Youn and Lynn Saville alongside rare vintage photographs.
Free entrance 10am – 6pm at Spitalfields Traders Market, Brushfield Street, E1 6AA (Liverpool Street tube).
For information about other events in the festival please visit: http://2010.photomonth.org/
The new issue of the beautiful French magazine L’Insensé with the theme of British Photographers is now out and features 3 of my images.
I’m pleased to announce that images from Home Work will be shown at Gallery on the Green in Settle, North Yorkshire. The exhibition will run from Saturday 4th September 2010 for two months.
The Gallery on the Green, housed in a classic red BT phone box, is thought to be the smallest public art gallery in the world. The phone box was purchased from BT by Settle Council as part of their ‘Adopt a Phone Box’ programme and has been refurbished by Cultivating Settle. The gallery houses a collection of postcards, both original and printed art.
Location and other details…
The Home Work book has had a mention on the designer Paul Smith‘s blog!
Part of the Home Work series is included in the Land – Country Life in the Urban Age exhibition in the Noorderlicht Photofestival in the Netherlands, September 5 – October 31 2010.
Please download this pdf for further information about the other work on show, Announcement Noorderlicht Photofestival
Images from Home Work are also going to be included in TWENTY – a retrospective of Twenty photographers who have shown work at the Hereford Photography Festival in the past 20 years who have been asked to lend examples of their current work to form this timely retrospective. The photography on display…
Over the past year or so I’ve been experimenting with various on-line book making options including Blurb and I recently entered Ag magazines Brilliant Book Awards and to my delight came third with a book I made of images taken in Yunnan province in China.
The book is a collection of landscapes, interiors and portraits of the people and places of Yunnan as I wandered randomly, using local transport and on foot, around the villages from the mountainous peaks in…