joanna vestey - 1830-2030 | 06.07.23 Borrowdale Woods, Lake District, England
from the series: 3Days|2Nights.
In her most ambitious project to date, Joanna Vestey has travelled the breadth of the UK, making images in each of the remaining rainforests and recording sound in situ. Made over the last 2 years, 3 Days | 2 Nights reminds us of the healing power of Britain’s temperate rainforest and the fragility of these rare ecosystems. The resulting photographs, made on film using a large-format camera, were made by leaving the shutter open in the forest for at least 2 hours in each case.
In her most ambitious project to date, Joanna Vestey has travelled the breadth of the UK, making images in each of the remaining rainforests and recording sound in situ. Made over the last 2 years, 3 Days | 2 Nights reminds us of the healing power of Britain’s temperate rainforest and the fragility of these rare ecosystems. The resulting photographs, made on film using a large-format camera, were made by leaving the shutter open in the forest for at least 2 hours in each case.
This long exposure has created images which record the passage of time rather than ‘capturing a moment’. The photographs become an aperture into these wild places, demanding our respect and our engagement.
The total exposure time taken to make the final collection of 26 images adds up to a combined exposure time of
3 Days | 2 Nights. Vestey said of the experience of making the work and being in the forest
“Once I had quieted my thoughts,
I found myself marvelling at the wayward entanglement
of the forests. The spaces seemed to offer a threshold to another world, to layers of deep time - to an arboreal time that stretches far beyond human time, to a place beyond ourselves.”
Joanna is a UK based artist primarily working with photography and sound. Her practice explores tracing and visualising time and stewardship. She holds a PhD in Photography from the European Centre for Documentary Research and her work is widely commissioned and collected globally. She is passionate about how photography can both affect and effect change. Beyond her own practice she is co-curator of online platform Beyond The Negative and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth.
joanna vestey - 1830-2030 | 06.07.23 Borrowdale Woods, Lake District, England
from the series: 3Days|2Nights.
In her most ambitious project to date, Joanna Vestey has travelled the breadth of the UK, making images in each of the remaining rainforests and recording sound in situ. Made over the last 2 years, 3 Days | 2 Nights reminds us of the healing power of Britain’s temperate rainforest and the fragility of these rare ecosystems. The resulting photographs, made on film using a large-format camera, were made by leaving the shutter open in the forest for at least 2 hours in each case.
In her most ambitious project to date, Joanna Vestey has travelled the breadth of the UK, making images in each of the remaining rainforests and recording sound in situ. Made over the last 2 years, 3 Days | 2 Nights reminds us of the healing power of Britain’s temperate rainforest and the fragility of these rare ecosystems. The resulting photographs, made on film using a large-format camera, were made by leaving the shutter open in the forest for at least 2 hours in each case.
This long exposure has created images which record the passage of time rather than ‘capturing a moment’. The photographs become an aperture into these wild places, demanding our respect and our engagement.
The total exposure time taken to make the final collection of 26 images adds up to a combined exposure time of
3 Days | 2 Nights. Vestey said of the experience of making the work and being in the forest
“Once I had quieted my thoughts,
I found myself marvelling at the wayward entanglement
of the forests. The spaces seemed to offer a threshold to another world, to layers of deep time - to an arboreal time that stretches far beyond human time, to a place beyond ourselves.”
Joanna is a UK based artist primarily working with photography and sound. Her practice explores tracing and visualising time and stewardship. She holds a PhD in Photography from the European Centre for Documentary Research and her work is widely commissioned and collected globally. She is passionate about how photography can both affect and effect change. Beyond her own practice she is co-curator of online platform Beyond The Negative and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth.