14 years ago, March 27th 2006, we left Birmingham New street station to travel overland on public transport, heading towards Beijing. We had no plan as such just an idea to head in that direction, overland on public transport - trains, buses, boats, rickshaw...
We didn’t want to fly for environmental reasons, aviation represents the world’s fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions*, but also traveling overland you feel more connected, how spaces, nations, peoples, histories are connected. In a plane you miss all that.
Today, April 2020, we are in Bristol with our two amazing children, on Lockdown, as are many people around the world, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Very strange and worrying times.
Of course at the moment it is vital we observe rules to stay at home, not travel, keep physical distance, but this pandemic also shows how interconnected we all are and the need for global social solidarity.
We've always described - Environments as 'A photographic – video - art project exploring issues of identity, histories, space and time, on an overland journey from Birmingham to Beijing and Back on public transport.'
Our original site, with blog has expired, we had been meaning to repost it for sometime now, we will start revisiting and posting the blog, photos and video here.
* www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/02/28/we-are-all-killers/
We didn’t want to fly for environmental reasons, aviation represents the world’s fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions*, but also traveling overland you feel more connected, how spaces, nations, peoples, histories are connected. In a plane you miss all that.
Today, April 2020, we are in Bristol with our two amazing children, on Lockdown, as are many people around the world, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Very strange and worrying times.
Of course at the moment it is vital we observe rules to stay at home, not travel, keep physical distance, but this pandemic also shows how interconnected we all are and the need for global social solidarity.
We've always described - Environments as 'A photographic – video - art project exploring issues of identity, histories, space and time, on an overland journey from Birmingham to Beijing and Back on public transport.'
Our original site, with blog has expired, we had been meaning to repost it for sometime now, we will start revisiting and posting the blog, photos and video here.
* www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/02/28/we-are-all-killers/
Jenny4 - DIÙRA from Richard Edkins on Vimeo.
Environments has been exhibited in Birmingham and Bristol. It was presented at 7th Aoteroa Digital Arts Network Symposium (2010) in Whanganui, New Zealand, whilst our Film 'Team Tibet' was screened in McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, India, its UK premier was at the Heart of England International Film festival, where it picked up the Festival Director’s Special Award.
