Barron Art Agency is pleased to announce
3 Days | 2 Nights, a new series by British photographer Joanna Vestey.

In her most ambitious project to date, Joanna Vestey has travelled the breadth of the UK, making images in each of the remaining rainforests and recording sound in situ. Made over the last 2 years, 3 Days | 2 Nights reminds us of the healing power of Britain’s temperate rainforest and the fragility of these rare ecosystems. The resulting photographs, made on film using a large-format camera, were made by leaving the shutter open in the forest for at least 2 hours in each case.

This long exposure has created images which record the passage of time rather than ‘capturing a moment’. The photographs become an aperture into these wild places, demanding our respect and our engagement. The total exposure time taken to make the final collection of 26 images adds up to a combined exposure time of 3 Days | 2 Nights. We are delighted to share the full body of work attached and also to invite you to see a first select of the framed works in situ at the Fitzrovia Chapel, London. Vestey said of the experience of making the work and being in the forest “Once I had quieted my thoughts, I found myself marvelling at the wayward entanglement of the forests. The spaces seemed to offer a threshold to another world, to layers of deep time – to an arboreal time that stretches far beyond human time, to a place beyond ourselves.”