Project displayed at National Media Museum
Friday, 7 October 2011
A selection of work from the project is now on display at National Media Museum as part of Ways of Looking, a new photography festival in Bradford, Yorkshire, until October 30.
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Exhibition Now Open
Saturday, 13 August 2011
The outdoor exhibition opened in the Forest of Dean this week at Beechenhurst Lodge Visitor Centre (home of the FoD Sculpture Trail, which I highly recommend) and runs until 2012.
I was really
Not-so-elusive wild boar
Friday, 12 August 2011
Back in Manchester now I can’t seem to escape wild boar, which has got to be a good thing!
After the reports of wild boar being washed up on a Brittany beach I have been drinking Wild Boar cask
Single Edition Prints Available
Monday, 1 August 2011
Photographs of wild boar and fallow deer recorded as part of the project are available in 6x4inch single edition (+AP) mounted prints, framed or unframed, at very affordable prices.
All of the
Exhibition Launch, Forest of Dean
Saturday, 30 July 2011
Results from the project are to be displayed in an outdoor exhibition in the Forest of Dean from next week!
The exhibition features unique and intimate self-portraits of the forest’s wild boar
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Saturday, 30 July 2011
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A wild boar photograph
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Well I’m back in Manchester now working from my studio that has solid(ish) walls and I’m putting together the exhibition that will be on display in the Forest of Dean next month.
I got the last
Foresters’ Stories
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
In Britain we don’t know that much about wild boar. We’ve forgotten about them. During their 300-year absence from our landscape we have collectively forgotten about the species and its
Workshop Camera-trap Designs
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
I thought I’d share with you some of the drawings made by children at one of last weeks workshops where we looked at the work of Eadweard Muybridge and William Heath Robinson for inspiration to
Demonstrations
Monday, 18 July 2011
Photo: Rick MinterIt was great chatting to lots of passers by about the project yesterday at Beechenhurst, especially those from further afield that weren’t aware wild boar were in the forest.
I
The Campbell Clan Crest
Sunday, 17 July 2011
A visitor of mine at my session at Beechenhurst Lodge today brought along his family (Campbell) clan’s crest badge, which features a wild boar’s head.
“The [Campbell] Clan is also known as Clan
Fergus Beeley in front of the camera
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Last week I bumped into wildlife filmmaker and The Life of Birds and Planet Earth: The Future producer Fergus Beeley.
Here is Fergus triggering one of my Automata via its trip wire.
I’m at
Reflections on Rooting “Damage”
Friday, 15 July 2011
I remember how shocked I was when I first saw the extensively rooted fields at Beechenhurst Lodge in March. I had seen loads of photographs of rooted pasture but to see it with my own eyes had a
Magiceye
Friday, 15 July 2011
This is a Magiceye style design I have made using images of pressed bluebells. You know the score.
Immunocontraception
Friday, 15 July 2011
Aside from culling and hunting, and with re-wilding feeling like a chimera, there may be other population control methods available for wild boar.
Immunocontraception, administered either
An Inspiration: William Heath Robinson
Friday, 15 July 2011
William Heath Robinson’s illustration’s imagine impractical and sometimes impossible, but always eccentric mechanical responses to domestic conundrums or activity. And working during World War II
An Inspiration: Eadweard Muybridge
Friday, 15 July 2011
The work of Eadweard Muybridge has long been a source of inspiration for me. Muybridge’s pioneering use of photography to document natural forms lead to a deeper understanding of animal and human
BBC Points West
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
You’ve only got today to catch me discussing the project with BBC Points West reporter Steve Knibbs.
The show also features an exclusive reveal of one of my first wild boar photographs so catch
My first sighting of a free-living wild boar
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
I’ve just got back from an outing with two local photographers, Ben Locke and Tony, who kindly took me to one of their favourite spots to see boar.
I wasn’t holding my breath to see anything but
Wild boar in Castlefield, Manchester
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
A wild boar also features on the logo of my hometown of Manchester’s very own Castlefield Gallery. Director Kwong Lee informs me that the logo’s designer chose a wild boar, a wolf and an ox to
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