Bristol Through the Lens book

Bristol Through the Lens book

Second edition

In this series of 20 artworks, Sheona Beaumont has produced photographic interpretations of the Bristol landscape. Each image is made up of more than one photograph taken at different times of day/year/view, revealing the dimensions of time and space in new and unseen ways. The work explores the landscape as a changing, animated scene, bringing life to landmarks such as Cabot Tower, Queen Square and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. In an accompanying essay, Sheona writes about the story-telling and space-stretching capacity of photographs, and the ways in which other photographers have explored techniques that produce this effect, including Bristol’s Andy Clifford and pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell. From the foreword, David Trigg writes, ‘Sheona Beaumont not only recognizes photography’s inherent tension between objective truth and subjective expression, but also its potential to transcend literal representation.’