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Portraits, from a distance

Join photographer Michelle Sank on her daily walk around Exeter. Strength, frustration, resilience and eccentricity all show in these candid images portraying life under the constraints of coronavirus lockdown.

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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: women are playing cards at a table, a man has a bottle stuck on the end of his nose, jockeys ride on rocking horses and a camel looks over pyramid. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1872, after John Gordon Thomson.
  • Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
  • Bablake Hospital, Coventry, Warwickshire. Etching, 1850.
  • Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: Parade and pump room. Steel engraving, 1857.
  • Matlock, Derbyshire. Etching by Rock & Co., 1862.
  • Use the Alden Fruit Vinegar / White Brothers.
  • Use the Alden Fruit Vinegar / White Brothers.
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