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// Edition 011. Cartes de Paris
Open studio exhibit, commission news and endnotes.
Surrey Artists Open Studios, June 2022
I’m looking forward to participating in Surrey Artists Open Studios (SAOS) again this June, alongside other members of Kiln Photo, but this time I’ll have a partner: I’m excited to be exhibiting alongside my son, Alex, for his first show.
We are showing twelve diptychs, twenty-four photographs, of Paris. Working through the whole process with Alex was a really interesting experience, and I hope fun for him. There’s more about the project and SAOS in this news blog post on my website.
Kiln Photo is part of the North Farnham Art Trail, and will be open 11am – 5pm on 11-12th, 17-19th and 23rd-26th June.
The address is: The Kiln, 38 St Georges Road, Badshot Lea, Farnham, GU9 7LY
We’d love to see you there.
// News
Crafting Futures
Last month I completed a commission on behalf of UCA Farnham and The Crafts Study Centre to document Linda Brassington’s collaboration on a British Council-funded ‘Crafting Futures’ project. This is the project that lead to the ‘Tansa’ commission I mentioned in my last newsletter. You can find out more about the “Crafting Futures” commission on my website here.
// Endnotes
Word of the month: Shivelights, the sharp lances of sunshine that pierce the canopy or foliage of a wood or forest. Coined by poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, hat tip to writer Robert MacFarlane for his tweet in 2017. It’s a word that has stuck with me and is appropriate with the lengthening days, brighter sun and full trees.
Inkcap is where I get all my ecology and environment news. They produce a roundup each Friday as well as an independently reported feature each week or so. Well worth subscribing.
Redux: R.S. Thomas and the Sea, at Wales Arts Review, on his lifelong relationship with the sea and what we might learn from Thomas’ uncommon patience today.
Someone recently introduced me to Lithuanian photographer Tadas Kazakevicius’ beautifully poetic work.
Unravelling, by Terry Tempest Williams, an essay at Emergence Magazine.
I’ll be honest, it’s been hard to collate my thoughts, let alone put anything into words, the last couple of weeks. Personally and professionally it’s been a bit of a rough patch. I’m in my head a lot, overthinking things, over analysing things, allowing imposter syndrome to get the better of me. Certainly the cost-of-living crisis is playing into this.
However, this is all over shadowed by the terrible news of the mass shooting incidents in America. First the one in Buffalo, and then the one in a school in Texas. My heart aches. There’s nothing I feel I can add to the discussion on this, the maps and data, and inaction of US Senators that refuse to pass background checks, says it all. Steve Kerr spoke from his heart for those of us who feel the same way.
So please excuse me if this newsletter is more loose and brief than usual.
Thank you for reading The [ED]it, I hope you enjoyed it, please do forward this on to anyone else you think might enjoy it. If you have questions, comments, ideas, projects, sponsorship or anything else stimulated by this edition, you can reply to this email, or get in touch by leaving your thoughts in the comments or contacting me via email at edbrydon@gmail.com
Take care,
Ed
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I am a photographer and writer available for commissions based near Farnham, Surrey, in south east England, just 45 minutes from London. I also regularly work in North Wales.
My more recent work explores personal connections to place, the land and natural environment, how each of those, and the connections between them, are changing.
In 2017 my ongoing project on people of North Welsh heritage in the northeast US was exhibited at Northern Eye Festival. I was subsequently awarded a commission from the Welsh Parliament in 2019 to make new work for exhibition around Wales in 2019-20.
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