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Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Brittonie Fletcher.
\\nBrittonie Fletcher (MFA) is a British-American artist, educator and curator currently based in Edinburgh. Her work of the past decade has focused on connection to place, belonging and community - often tying in politics and the personal. She is an active member of Edinburgh LoFi and the Calotype Society.
\\nShe has received awards, nominations and fellowships for her work - including the 7th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers; a nomination for the Royal Photographic Society's 100 Heroines; an Arctic Circle Fellowship; and recent sponsorship from Highland Park. She has exhibited internationally and her work has been published with Focal/Routledge Press and Random House as well as other publications online and in print. Her work can be found in collections such as the Preus Museum: Norwegian National Museum of Photography and the National Library of Scotland.
\\nBrittonie has held teaching appointments at the Royal College of Art, London as Media Instructor and Study Abroad teaching for Maryland College of Art and Missouri University. She is current faculty at Stills Centre for Photography Edinburgh and the Penumbra Foundation in New York, USA. Her curatorial work includes being Director of ACTINIC Festival, Juror for the Art of Research Imperial Innovations competition with the Welcome Trust, and the recent exhibition Photography In Print which ran at Edinburgh Printmakers from January \\u2013 March 2020.
\\nwww.brittoniefletcher.com
\\nRecommendations made by Brittonie during the episode include:
\\nEdinburgh Hacklab www.edinburghhacklab.com
\\nEdinburgh LoFi www.edinburghlofi.com
\\nAidan Moffat & RM Hubbert: Here Lies the Body, (Rock Action Records, 2018)
\\nEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017)
\\nLichen Dyes: The New Source Book by Karen Diadick Casselman, (Dover Publications Inc., 2nd revised edition published in 2003)
\\nThe Science and Practice of Photography, an Elementary Textbook on the Scientific Theory and a Laboratory Manual (Classic Reprint) by John R Roebuck, (Forgotten Books, 2012)
\\nPhotography With Emulsions: A Treatise on the Theory and Practical Working of the Collodion and Gelatine Emulsion Processes (1885) by William de Wiveleslie Abney, (Kessinger Publishing, 3rd Edition, 2008)
\\nHyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities), (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
\\nUnderland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane, (Hamish Hamilton, 2019)
\\nSlime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt USA, 2019)
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