Clore begins · Stef Lewandowski

This last fortnight I was away on the first two week residential/retreat as part of my Clore fellowship. I thought that the start of my being a Clore fellow would be a blog-powered experience. It turns out that I've been so overloaded by what was an amazing and thought-provoking experience that I haven't published a word. We were staying on a lovely organic farm in Kent called Bore Place, and the combination of the environment there and the inspirational people I met while I was there inspired a photographic response instead. Several hundred photographs later, I've put the best of them up on Flickr and as slideshows on a new site (ours being the fifth year of the programme) at clore5.com.

Around the same time

Why Andy Burnham’s plans for censoring websites with film-style age certificates won’t workWriting · 2008
Ben made a wish and it came trueWriting · 2008
Xela — In Bocca Al LupoMusic · 2008
Helios — CaesuraMusic · 2008

Earlier in writing: The “One week until Clore starts” brain-dump. Later in writing: Blog Action Day in Birmingham.

About this piece

First published 3 Oct 2008.

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