Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Every week we showcase a personal project from a photographer looking for completion funding or assistance shooting another series. Each published is then longlisted for our £5000 Project Assistance Award. This week's featured photographer is Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
My Project: The Devil's Horsemen - At 22 Camilla Neprous is one of the world's leading horsewomen and stunt riders. Having grown up in the circus where her mother was a performer, Camilla left school at 14 to join her father Gerard's stunt riding team, The Devil's Horsemen. Today she lives with her partner Amy, who is also a stunt rider, and Amy's seven-year-old daughter Skye, at the family farm in Buckinghamshire. They work together travelling around Europe during the summer, performing trick-riding at horse shows. For the remainder of the year they work on film-sets body-doubling for some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
What I would do with £5000: To document the rural culture and traditional way of life in the west country, beginning with the cider-making tradition in small villages that is at the heart of this self-sufficient way of life.
CV: I am a London-based freelance documentary photographer and my clients include The Sunday Times Magazine, The BBC, Channel 4, Marie Claire and Geo. I studied at the University of Wales Newport and am represented by Cosmos photographer's agency. In 2008 I was included in a group show Dispatches from the Frontlines - 12 Women Photojournalists at Fovea Exhibitions in New York. My work also featured in a BBC TV documentary about photography and war, which looked at photographers Phillip Jones Griffiths, Paul Seawright and myself. My images will be included in the book Kurds; A photographic history published by Trolley next month.
Contact: anastasiataylorlind@hotmail.com / www.anastasiataylorlind.com / 07813 175427.
Win £5000
The Project Assistance Award is open to any photographer currently residing in the UK, so long as they are not in full-time education. Photography students who complete their courses this summer are eligible to apply. Other photography students may be eligible to enter the Nikon Discovery Awards, details of which will be announced shortly. - For full details on how to enter the Project Assistance Awards 2008, visit www.bjp-online.com/paa.
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