Original photograph
Surreal Sunflowers (Ukraine)
by Nigel Mallon
- Medium
- Original photograph
- Dimensions
- 30 × 60 × 1 cm
- Presentation
- Acrylic, unframed
- Minimum bid
- £75
- In person
- Artwork only
Opens the Bridge2Aid silent auction page on Zeffy. Scroll to “Surreal Sunflowers (Ukraine)” and tap Bid there. 100% of proceeds support the BDA Benevolent Fund and Bridge2Aid.
About the work
Last year I spent 10 days of photo journalism and doing training in trauma therapy for military chaplains in the Ukraine. Sunrise and sunset I would stand in the sunflower fields behind our hotel to breath in and breath out. Mid week two tomahawk missiles would land 26km away. Surreal yet so real!
Artist statement
Living with ADHD means you are constantly scanning for stimulation, the next dopamine hit. The camera helps to capture the moment we all pass by — but it is more than that. It is the time where my over-active mind becomes quiet. I am just an ordinary person who has found himself in the most extraordinary places, and I am thankful to the profession and Bridge2Aid for the opportunities.
The artist
Nigel Mallon
Nigel first picked up a camera after qualifying as an RN dentist sent to the Far East and Middle East. His clinical, peripatetic experience took him to Latin America and East Africa with USA dental charities, leading inevitably to volunteering with Bridge2Aid. He has always had a camera by his side.
More by Nigel
six works in total
Original photograph
The Butterfly Effect (France)
30 × 45 × 1 cm · Foam-board, unframed
from £30
I first picked up a camera after qualifying as a RN dentist sent to the Far East and Middle East. Subsequently my clinical peripatetic experience developed working with USA dental charities in Latin America and East Africa which inevitably lead to volunteering with B2A. I always had a camera by my side. In practice we always encouraged all staff in pro bono work and charitable help for the community , city and continents
Original photograph
Skimming the Surface (Tanzania)
30 × 45 × 1 cm · Foam-board, unframed
from £30
Taken just off the coast of DAR from a very queasy catamaran ferry. The simplicity of wood and sail seemed much better to navigate the choppy waters of life
Original photograph
Resilience (Burundi)
30 × 45 × 1 cm · Foam-board, unframed
from £30
A young lad from the Education and Family project YADA takes me to the to the edge of the city dump where he lives
Original photograph
The Eye of the Little Man (Cameroon)
30 × 45 × 1 cm · Acrylic, unframed
from £50
Cameroon kids are watching our health care clinic. The image captures the reflection in the eye of hands hanging on the wire fence separating our two worlds
Original photograph
Umbrella (Burundi)
45 × 60 × 1 cm · Acrylic, unframed
from £100
I took a break from the full on temporary dental clinic in Makamba, Burundi and wearily walked around the patient lines of waiting people. This arresting smile and image just shows that you have to be expectant for joy in the most random or difficult places
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