The East Anglians
Justin Partyka
For nearly a decade, Justin Partyka has been photographing rural lives in East Anglia. He has taken over 14,000 photographs. His photographs appear in Granta 102: The New Nature Writing, alongside Robert Macfarlane’s essay ‘Ghost Species’. Click here to see more of Partyka’s work.
Justin Partyka
Justin Partyka was born in Norfolk in 1972. He is working on his first book of photographs, The East Anglians. Photographs from this long-term project were featured in the Tate Britain exhibition ‘A Picture of Britain’ in 2005.
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Plainsong
Suzie Howell & A. K. Blakemore
‘Postures of graceful receptivity, or surrender. How do we tell the difference?’
A.K. Blakemore introduces Suzie Howell’s photographs.
We’re Not Really Strangers
Sama Beydoun
‘The people I’ve photographed made Beirut liveable.’
Sama Beydoun photographs the nightlife of Beirut.
There Was a Farmer Had a Dog
Irene Solà
‘A twenty-five-kilo dog is too small to survive in the countryside.’
An extract from Irene Solà’s forthcoming novel, translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
What Feathers Know
Stephen Rutt
‘I see a gull in a car park and they can see the place where it metabolised water into feathers, food into energy, oxygen into blood.’ Stephen Rutt on what isotopes can tell us about birds.
An Education
Lynn Barber
‘The whole meeting seemed completely unreal but then everything at that time seemed unreal, so I said ‘Yes, by all means make the film,’ and went back to the hospital and forgot about her.’
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