The Correspondences

dream in colour © Brenda Burrell 2009

Correspondence (dictionary.com)

  1. communication by exchange of letters.
  2. a letter or letters that pass between correspondents
  3. also, an instance of corresponding.
  4. similarity or analogy.
  5. agreement; conformity.
  6. news, commentary, letters, etc, received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.
  7. a mathematics function

It is a dialogue interwoven with a shared grammar, which voluntarily dispenses with words and concentrates instead on the properties of photography to stimulate the mind of the spectator, in the way in which music can.” Marcelo Brodsky *

Amanda McHale
We’ve collaborated before – most recently she helped get the Number 7 Project off the ground. She’s a professional photographer living and working in the mighty Teesside, home of the lemon top, and those windswept, sandswept places visited in those distant summers as a tiny child.

Karen Strunks
Originator of the 4am Project and weekly contributor to the fabled Birmingham It’s Not Shit phenomenon, Karen lives and photographs in Moseley, Birmingham, where I spent a remarkably large slice of my adult life before I remembered how much I missed the sea. We have never met.

Jac Howard
Active member of the East Durham Artists’ Network, painter, sculptor, wordsmith too, Jac has been lucky enough to live all her life in the exquisite small coastal town which is now my home. We share a love of ice cream sundaes, wild northern beach combing and the ever changing colours of a beloved horizon.

Ferry Photographers © Brenda Burrell 2009

The plan is thus: one of us takes a photograph, or chooses one from our archive, and the other responds with a piece that corresponds in some way. We are looking to stimulate each other’s photographic eye and to develop ways to enhance each others’ ways of seeing. We’ll probably be working intuitively rather than with deliberation, although it’s too early to tell, and in any case each one will probably be very different. We’ll be publishing the work on each others’ websites as it is created, and at some future undecided time, there will be book/s.

There’s room for more Correspondences. If you’re interested, there would need to be some other commonality between us, or none at all in a way that would resonate as a counterpoint, so if that sounds like it might be you, please get in touch.

We’re calling these series’ correspondences after Marcelo Brodsky’s project of the same name. Page through to Marcelo’s Artistic Projects pages and his sections XXII onwards to see some of his collaborations.

* Marcelo was at the Photographing Humanities conference in Durham this summer. His work centres upon his own experiences of loss and bereavement as a result of his family’s incarceration and murder under the Nazi regime, and the subsequent devastation of his surviving relatives after they had fled to Argentina, where his young brother became part of the community of the disappeared. Meet Marcelo if you can, or go and see him talk. There’s a plan to do an interview: his brief expose in Durham left me with a lot of questions.

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