OCA Photography Social Group: online with Tessa Bunney

For our next online event we have Tessa Bunney coming to speak to us on Wednesday 12th November at 18:30 GMT.

Tessa is a lecturer in Photography at York St John University.

For over 30 years, she has photographed rural life, working closely with individuals and communities to investigate how the landscape is shaped by humans. From hill farmers near her home in North Yorkshire to Icelandic puffin hunters, from Romanian nomadic shepherds to Lincolnshire flower farmers her projects reveal the fascinating intricacies of the dependencies between people, work and the land.

FarmerFlorist was published by Another Place Press as part of their Field Notes series and in early 2020 her exhibition ‘Otherwise Unseen’, bringing together four series which explore various rural communities in Europe and South East Asia was shown at the Side Gallery in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Britain’s only documentary photography gallery.

Between 2012 and 2016 Tessa was based in…