Bryan Ledger, Freedom in Lockdown, 2020
Photographic print, 297 × 420 mm, £35 each (Unframed). Limited edition of 10 numbered prints.
Contact: www.bryanledger.com
“I have found the period of lockdown to be stressful at times as I am sure many others have also. As a way of dealing with the anxiety this unusual situation induces I have taken to my back garden. Here I have been spending much of my time looking at the local wildlife and photographing the many birds and other fauna which call Walthamstow home.
There is a great peace to be found amongst these animals who continue to go about their lives as normal, unaffected by the situation we find ourselves in. The photograph of one of my local squirrels (we call her Norma) captures for me the freedom of our past life and that which we look forward to in the future. There is something to be learnt from the wildlife all around us, not to let this time overwhelm us and to embrace any situation we find ourselves in.
The virus has meant the wildlife across Walthamstow has had some time to breath with a great reduction in cars and people, something we should not take as a temporary benefit but one we should all strive to make permanent as we move forward.”
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