Andy Sewell

Overview

Andy Sewell's first book The Heath was a winner of the International Photobook Award and is included in Martin Parr's The Photobook: A History Vol. III.  His work is found in private and public collections including The V&A Museum, The MAST Foundation, The Museum of London, Columbia University Art Collection, Eric Franck Collection, The Hyman Collection and the National Media Museum.  

His work explores the permeable quality of the boundaries between things.  The Heath is about the paradox of a place managed to feel wild.  Something Like a Nest explores the gap between the countryside as an idea, somewhere often imagined and depicted as an escape from modernity, and the messier, enmeshed landscape we find there.  Known and Strange Things Pass looks at the cables carrying the Internet across the Atlantic and coastal locations they link.  Exploring, in these places where the digital network is concentrated, a literal and metaphorical entwining of worlds we think of as separate - the ocean and the Internet, the close and the distant, the physical and the virtual, what we think of as natural with the cultural and technological.