Julia Margaret Cameron Award
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.
Hand to Mouth exhibition
By Tessa Bunney on 1 June 2011Hand 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
Duckrabbiting in Devon
By Tessa Bunney on 19 May 2011Heading 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.
Field, Forest and Family update
By Tessa Bunney on 12 May 2011I’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…
New Facebook page
By Tessa Bunney on 6 May 2011Tessa Bunney Photography is now on Facebook! Please join to find out up to date news about my work.
Wayne Ford’s Posterous
By Tessa Bunney on 26 April 2011Thanks once again to Wayne Ford for writing about my work on his blog – this time about Field, Forest and Family.
Event: Firecracker at the Apple Store
By Tessa Bunney on 28 March 2011Despite 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.
Swaledale sheep’s nose
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…
Duchess of Devonshire
By Tessa Bunney on 25 March 2011Spent 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
The Global Journal
By Tessa Bunney on 15 March 2011Thank 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.”
Format
By Tessa Bunney on 9 March 2011I’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.
Feature about Home Work book in Selvedge
By Tessa Bunney on 3 March 2011A great 5 page feature about the Home Work book is in the current issue of Selvedge (Issue 39, March / April 2011).
www.selvedge.org
Home Work book signing, 5 March
By Tessa Bunney on 2 March 2011I’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
www.formatfestival.com
Off to Laos
By Tessa Bunney on 3 February 2011Heading 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.
Home Work book reviews online
By Tessa Bunney on 29 January 2011Many thanks to Wayne Ford, Posterous and Joerg Colberg, Conscientious, for reviewing Home Work on their blogs.
Fire-cracker.org
By Tessa Bunney on 11 January 2011Firecracker 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