Andy Sewell

The Heath, made over five years and self-published,{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|title='It was like a journey into the unknown': self-publishing photographers|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/apr/14/three-self-publishing-photographers|date=13 April 2013|website=The Guardian}} shows an "affectionate ramble" on Hampstead Heath in north London.[https://rps.org/media/oyga02vm/058-winter-journal-2015-final-lowres.pdf Contemporary Photography] rps.org According to Sean O'Hagan writing in The Guardian, The Heath captures the "hinterland between the created and the natural [. . . ] This is a book of suggestion, a landscape of the imagination as well as a record of a real and familiar place. A classic of understated observation."{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|title=The Heath by Andy Sewell – review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/17/andy-sewell-hampstead-heath-photography|date=16 July 2011|website=The Guardian}} Parr and Badger include it in the third volume of their photobook history.{{cite book | first1=Martin|last1=Parr | first2=Gerry|last2=Badger | authorlink1 = Martin Parr | authorlink2 = Gerry Badger | title = The Photobook: A History, Volume III | place = London | publisher = Phaidon | year = 2014 | pages = 177 | isbn = 978-0-7148-6677-2}}

Something like a Nest is set in farming and family surroundings in the contemporary English countryside (2009–2013).Sewell photographed in rural Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Devon, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire and Kent.{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|title=Rural revelations: the English countryside as it really is today|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/13/andy-sewell-rural-england-photobook-something-like-a-nest|date=13 August 2014|website=The Guardian}} Lucy Davies in the British Journal of Photography wrote that "for Sewell, the English countryside seemed as much an airy, shape-shifting construct as a physical entity, often thought of in a particular, bucolic way, but as connected to 21st century global capitalism as anywhere else."{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-09|title=The rural mythologies of English country life|url=https://www.1854.photography/2015/09/andy-sewell-something-like-a-nest/|website=www.1854.photography}} O'Hagan wrote again in The Guardian that "Sewell makes us think more deeply about what the countryside means by attending to aspects of the rural landscape we often overlook, either because they do not fit our definitions or because we no longer spend enough time there to absorb the changes that have crept into our still green and pleasant, but increasingly managed and manicured, land. [. . . ] Formally, Sewell's outdoor landscapes seldom spell anything out, his eye often lighting on small details that suggest the bigger picture."

About Known and Strange Things Pass (2020), Eugénie Shinkle writes in 1000 Words: "The ostensible subject of Known and Strange Things Pass is the transatlantic communications cables linking the UK and North America. But the cables are only one thread in a web of analogy that explores what it means to be in the world at the present moment. Known and Strange Things Pass is about the deep and complex entanglement of technology with contemporary life. It's about the immediacy of touch and the commonplace miracle of action at a distance; the porosity of the boundaries that hold things apart, and the fragility of the bonds that lock them together."

Sewell also works as a photographer on commissions for clients such as newspapers, magazines and book publishers.{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-09|title=Commissions|url=http://www.andysewell.com/commissions1|website=Andy Sewell}}

• The Heath. Self-published, 2011. {{ISBN| 978-0956892300}}. With an introduction by Sewell and a poem by Owen Shears ("Heath"). Edition of 850 copies.{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|first1=Owen|last1=Shears|title=The Heath|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5fbb03ce-a784-11e0-beda-00144feabdc0.html|date=9 July 2011|website=Financial Times}}
• Something like a Nest. Self-published, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-9568923-1-7}}. With text by Ben Platts-Mills.{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|title=Only in England: Andy Sewell's pastoral photographs|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11058808/Only-in-England-Andy-Sewells-Something-like-a-Nest.html|website=The Telegraph|date=October 2014 }}{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|title=Andy Sewell's charming, honest documentation of British country life|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/andy-sewell|website=It's Nice That}}{{cite web|first1=Brad|last1=Feuerhelm|access-date=2021-03-09|title=Various Effigies and Various Fires Among These Dark Satanic Mills|url=https://americansuburbx.com/2015/01/andy-sewell-something-like-a-nest.html|date=3 January 2015|website=American Suburb X}}
• Known and Strange Things Pass. Marche, Italy: Skinnerboox, 2020. {{ISBN|978-88-94895-36-0}}. With essays by Eugenie Shinkle and Sewell. Edition of 800 copies.{{cite journal|first1=Tom|last1=Seymour|year=2019|title=Known and strange things pass|journal=British Journal of Photography|volume=153|issue=July|page=50}}

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London{{cite web|access-date=2021-03-08|title=Andy Sewell. Something Like a Nest|url=https://wsimag.com/art/11381-andy-sewell-something-like-a-nest|date=26 September 2014|website=Wall Street International}}{{Better source needed|date=March 2021}}
• Museum of London, London{{Better source needed|date=March 2021}}
• National Science and Media Museum, Bradford{{Better source needed|date=March 2021}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website|www.andysewell.com}}
• [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/13/countryside-photographs-andy-sewell-something-like-a-nest-in-pictures Photographs from Something like a Nest] at The Guardian
• [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/apr/04/underwater-cables-where-the-ocean-meets-the-internet-in-pictures Photographs from Known and Strange Things Pass] at The Guardian

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