Tessa Bunney gained an MA in Photography from De Montfort University, Leicester in 2004. Bunney's previous projects include Moor and Dale, which was exhibited and published by The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate, and shown at various venues in the UK including Hereford Photography Festival, 2004. Eat Better, Eat British received an Honorable Mention in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and was shown at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles. Lamb, commissioned by The Culture Company, was shown at Impressions Gallery, York, in 2000. Bunney has undertaken residencies at the Artist Centre of Inari at Koppelo, Northern Finland, and the Gil society studio-workshop, Akureyri, Iceland. She is currently working on a new project looking at domestic labour in the suburbs and villages in and around Hanoi, Vietnam.
De Tchernnobyl (Ukraine), à Haïti, en passant par les USA, la namibie ou encore le Bengladesh, les différents photographes de ce numéro présentent des scènes de vie (insolites), faisant ressotir les ressemblances et différences entre ces populations géographiquement éloignées.
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Les Beatles et les Rolling Stones, Oxford et Cambridge, Shakespeare et Agatha Christie, qui dit mieux ? Conduite à gauche, première femme Premier Ministre, non à l?euro... oui à la différence ! Alors, la photo dans tout ça, une institution ou une nouvelle donne ? Même s?il est audacieux et vain de vouloir désigner un style photographique anglais, il se dégage à travers ce choix d?images que nous publions comme un parfum culturel des plus insensés. Nous retrouvons les thématiques britanniques que l?on connaît si bien : ce goût raffiné pour la nature, le théâtre, les mises en scène élaborées, l?humour, la critique sociale...Ainsi, en ouverture de la revue, Tim Walker nous donne à...
Hand to Mouth, a new exhibition and publication of photographs by Tessa Bunney, premieres at Impressions Gallery on 13 October. Commissioned by Impressions, Hand to Mouth explores the lives of villagers and nomadic shepherds in Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
You can see a portfolio of Tessa Bunney's work at http://www.milim.com/new-work.php
Over a period of four years, Tessa Bunney worked closely with these communities, spending prolonged periods travelling amongst villages and shepherd camps. She explains, " I would walk along cart tracks and dirt roads, photographing the people I met on the way - peasant farmers working the fields, women walking along knitting in the street". As the title Hand to Mouth suggests, these people survive precariously by their own labour, bringing a new reality to our often-idealised ...