Andy hughes photographer biography video
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Can You Guess What You're Looking at In This Mesmerizing Viral Video?
Upon first watch, it may look like maggots crawling around (gross!) or grains of rice floating in water, but take a closer look at this captivating video posted to Facebook yesterday by photographer Andrew Hughes:
Yup, what you're looking at is sheep being sorted into various paddocks as they prepare to be sheared. As Andrew wrote in his Facebook post:
This video was taken on my parents' property just north of Thargomindah in South West Queensland. It shows my father drafting Merino sheep into mobs so when they go into the shed to be shorn the wool is all the same and easier to be pressed into bales.
We can't stop staring at this second video—it's oddly calming and relaxing. If you agree, you're definitely going to also want to check out this mesmerizing (and beautiful!) mass sheepherding video.
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VRAL # Andy Hughes
Matteo Bittanti: In both Inner Migration – which was screened at the Milan Machinima Festival – and Shimmer, archival films and machinima collide with dystopian virtual landscapes, reflecting the tension between failed utopian visions and contemporary ecological crises. How does this dynamic resonate with Richard Barbrook’s critique of “imaginary futures” as inherently shaped by ideological imperatives? Do you view these failed futures as cautionary tales, or do they offer opportunities to reimagine speculative possibilities that challenge existing frameworks?
Andy Hughes: Taken as a whole I do think these works act as cautionary tales – warnings about where our current trajectory might lead. The failure of past utopian dreams serves as a direct critique of how we have failed to create more equitable or sustainable futures. These works do not simply present a static future but rather collide and juxtapose different historical moments with imagined futu
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Andy with Dopper Changemaker Judges, London,
Andy at Gapado AiR, South Korea,
Andy Hughes is a British artist whose practice revolves around the littoral zone and the politics of plastic waste. Hughes studied fine art at Cardiff University and received a scholarship to study photography at the Royal College of Art, London. He was the first artist in residence at Tate galleri St. Ives. For more than 30 years, he has collaborated with scientists, curators, publishers, NGOs, academics, other artists, and many communities sympathetic to those aiming to examine and consider our relationships with plastic and pollution-related matters. Recent work aims to move beyond the trope of 'raising awareness’ about plastic pollution in the world's oceans by connecting to weirdness, magic and the writings of Timothy Morton.
His first book, 'Dominant Wave Theory,' was published in This fryst vatten the first photographic monograph where combined texts from scientists and leading commentators, al