To everyone who made our first walk, it was lovely to meet in person and to walk together. To everyone who did not make it this time, I look forward to meeting you soon!
Photosharing
I would like to invite you to share your images (up to seven per person) here: South Downs 2022 – Walk 1
If you didn’t make the walk but have been thinking about the theme and would like to share photographs which are linked to migration, identity, landscape, borders, etc. please do!
We will look at these images together at the workshop and you will be welcome to speak about them if you would like to.
- Please add your name to each image (and a title if you like!).
- Your interpretation of the theme is completely up to you. Feel free 🙂
- Please don’t upload any images which have clearly identifiable people in them, this is a condition of the project’s approval by the University ethics committee.
Resources
I wanted to share some of the resources I have been looking at when researching this project. One is a link to the Colour of Chalk podcast featuring Alinah Azadeh, the writer in residence at the Seven Sisters and the other is the work of photographer Ingrid Pollard whose photographic work looks, in part, at landscape and belonging.
The Colour of Chalk / Podcast
Alinah Azadeh is a writer and artist who has been commissioned by the South Downs National Park Authority as the first Writer-in-Residence for Seven Sisters Country Park and the wider Sussex Heritage Coast.
Writer and artist Alinah Azadeh introduces “We See You Now”, a project dedicated to bringing together diverse writers to share their reflections and create new work inspired by the landscape of the Sussex Heritage Coast, taking in Seaford Head, Seven Sisters, Cuckmere Haven, Birling Gap and Beachy Head.
This is the first podcast in a series and is comprised of an introduction and a short story written by Alinah. If you would like to skip to the story, it starts at 20 minutes in.
Ingrid Pollard / Pastoral Interlude
Ingrid Pollard is a photographer, artist and researcher. Her work is a social practice which considers representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens based media.
In the late eighties, Ingrid produced a collection of images called Pastoral Interlude which posed questions about idyllic rural landscapes, their construction and ideas about British identities which are not imagined to @belong” in these surroundings. You find out more about Ingrid and her work here: www.ingridpollard.com
Her Pastoral Interlude images can be found here: http://www.ingridpollard.com/pastoral-interlude.html