Bank Top – congregation not segregation during COVID-19 Published 08 May 2021
CREDIT: Craig Easton
The series, Bank Top, is partly the result of many years of inter-related projects I’ve been working on across the north of England. In much of my work, I can see concerns and themes that have developed over the years – the same concerns that made me want to be a photographer in the first place and Bank Top is a continuation of that.
Paul Strand once said,
“I want to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time”; I think that is very much my approach. I’d like the work I make to have a value beyond the news agenda and to stand as a testament to the times we are living in for future generations. That may be a grand aim and I may not always achieve it, but when I look back in history it is the work of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Paul Strand and countless others that have given me a perspective
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image copyrightStefan Christmann
Christmann was a camera assistant and expedition photographer for an episode of the BBC series Dynasties, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
He has also produced imagery for publications including National Geographic, with his work winning the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio Award in 2019.
In his new book Penguin: A Story of Survival, he shares some of his favourite images from Antarctica.
image copyrightStefan Christmann
Christmann s first winter in Antarctica was in 2012, when he worked as a geophysicist for the Alfred Wegener Institute.
He spent nearly 15 uninterrupted months working at the Neumayer-Station III, close to Atka Bay, where 10,000 emperor penguins gather each year.
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The emperor penguin has managed to create a home in one of the most hostile habitats on Earth – Antarctica.
And award-winning photographer Stefan Christmann has captured their unique existence there in a quite breathtaking collection of photographs, showcased in a stunning coffee table book called Penguin – A Story of Survival, published by teNeues (www.teneues.com).
It’s a book that has been eight years in the making.
Stefan - who won the NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio Award in 2019 and who helped plan and film the Emperor Penguins episode for BBC Dynasties - first wintered in Antarctica in 2012 and fell in love with the neighbours of his research base: the 10,000 emperor penguins of Atka Bay.