I am pleased to announce that a portfolio of 4 images from Home Work has received second prize in the Life category in the Travel Photographer of the Year Competition. The winning images can be seen on http://www.tpoty.com
I am pleased to announce a special edition of prints from my archive of photographs. This first release of two images have been selected from the Lamb and Iceland series. Each edition is a digital c-type print, 9.5 x 12 inches, signed verso and limited to 100. The cost is £45 plus £2.50 postage and packing (UK only).
If you are interested in purchasing one of these special edition prints please leave me a message or email info@tessabunney.co.uk and I will contact you directly with more details.
It is almost six months since we returned from Hanoi, however I called in for three days on my way back from China to see for myself the changes beginning to take place following the announcement of Hanoi’s expansion into a “super city”.
Officially designated on 7th August, the expansion makes Hanoi the 17th largest capital city in the world with 6.2 million people, double the previous population. Hà Tây no longer exists as a separate province.
“This adjustment has sprung from the country’s demand for development opportunities for the new capital.”
Vietnam News, Friday 8th August, 2008
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The Sunday Times Magazine has a new section devoted to showcasing the best photography from around the globe and this week my photograph of H?u – Mi?n (canna flour noodle) making village from Home Work is featured as a full page.
On Sunday I will be leaving UK for two weeks to undertake a short trip to Yunnan province in China returning via Hanoi for 3 days to put those finishing touches to Home Work – weather permitting as Hanoi is rumoured to be unseasonally waist deep in rainwater at the moment!
I won’t have access to email during my trip so if anyone would like to speak to me urgently my mobile numbers are: China: 0086 13987263935 (10-18 Nov), Vietnam: 0084 0936110558 (18-21 Nov) or failing those I will have my UK mobile with me: 07850 740254.
Portfolio magazine, Contemporary Photography in Britain #48 is out now and contains a selection of images from Home Work with an essay by Pippa Oldfield.
I’m also pleased to announce that HBOS has purchased two images from the Moor and Dale series which will be on permanent display at their offices in London.
Congratulations to the winners of the Independent Photographers Terry O’Neill Award 08 ((Anthony Crossfield, Edgar Martins and Edmund Clark). The show continues until 22nd February at Fulham Palace Gallery, London and a catalogue including all the shortlisted photographers work is available from the venue or the Independent…
A feature about Hand to Mouth now appears in Lens Culture, the Photography and Shared Territories website edited by Jim Casper. The link to my page is: http://www.lensculture.com/bunney.html
Three of my images from Home Work will be shown at Fulham Palace Gallery between 8 November 2008 and 22 February 2009 as part of the Independent Photographers Terry O’Neill Award.
Fulham Palace Gallery, Fulham Palace, Bishop’s Avenue, London, SW6 6EA
Gallery opening times: Saturday 11am – 2pm, Sunday 11.30am – 3.30pm, Monday 12-4pm, Tuesday 12-4pm
The exhibition will then go onto the Independent Photographers Gallery in Battle, East Sussex.
I will be in Jyvaskyla in Central Finland from the 8th to 13th October taking part in phase one of Connections North, an International Residency Exchange Project organised by Art Connections.
On my recent trip to Romania I visited as many people who appear in the Hand to Mouth book as possible to give them a copy. Sadly one old lady we called in on in Oncesti had died this spring, but here beekeeper Ioan Tivadar and his wife view the book at their bee hives in Glod.
At the moment the Maramures landscape looks much the same as it always has. The old people are still making hay, picking plums and growing vegetables. Everyone we spoke to has at least…
A portfolio of images from Hand to Mouth has recently been published in the latest issue of Daylight magazine #7, Agriculture in U.S.
Featuring portfolios by: Michael Ableman, Wout Berger, Tessa Bunney, Jason Houston, Raoul Kramer, Eduardo Martino, Peter Menzel, Brad Phalin, Heinrich Riebesehl, Munem Wasif
Scientists are only now beginning to tell us what many traditional farmers have always known: small crops of vegetables grown in mixed plots can be produced without chemicals, more efficiently and with richer supplies of nutrients than industrially grown crops. This edition of Daylight features a diverse range of photographic representations of agricultural practice…
A recent commission from the Guardian to photograph the Mainline Border Collie Centre in Bingley was published yesterday in the Guardian Weekend supplement England’s Cityscapes, a guide to weekend breaks, pp38-9
I’m excited to announce that I am one of four North Yorkshire Artists selected to take part in phase one of Connections North, an International Residency Exchange Project in Jyvaskyla, Central Finland in October. Organised by Art Connections (http://www.art-connections.org.uk) the project involves a proposed international residency programme for four North Yorkshire artists and four Finnish artists and is supported by Arts Council England and the Finnish partner organisations.
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Although handicraft and small industry lines have developed and provided a good income, all the peasant families in the (Tuong Giang) commune still receive contractual arable land and do farm work. Like in almost all the communes of the Red River Delta, the people here still consider agriculture the base of stability, and arable land a precious asset and the solid mainstay against the volatility of market concerning both the inputs and outputs of non-agricultural lines.
All the household heads interviewed agreed that: Once you live in the countryside, you must be engaged more or less in cultivation. Our forefathers…
