Rebecca Jeffree
Fly Over My City
Documenting encounters in London with our fastest flying bird, the swift, this personal project explores the re-engagement with life through noticing. Each year, swifts arrive in the capital after travelling from Central and Southern Africa, stopping for the summer to nest in roof spaces. However, the increasing hostility of our built environment has driven their gradual disappearance from our skies. Waiting for, hearing, finally seeing and depicting these elusive birds is therefore an experience in recovering the senses that we Londoners can so easily lose. This fragmentary, tactile, mixed-media work reflects this recuperation process, contemplates on how our housebuilding can impede nature as well as people, and observes what is being lost from this dynamic and disoriented city. The work includes images and drawings made from specimens belonging to Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Leia Ankers • Eyal Ben Dror • Matt Brealey • Richard Eyers • Sophie Gray • Rebecca Jeffree • Alex Jones • Juliette Letort • Maria Lundin Osvalds • Stu McKenzie • Adrian Scarbrough • Elissavet Sikalou • Flora Vever •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
IADT Dún Laoghaire
MRes Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Online)
University of Portsmouth
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography
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