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PHOTOGRAPHY
Universal locality
Experimental Bristol-born documentary photographer Stephen Gill reflects on an enriching journey of learning, creating, dismantling and ending up back where it all started, ahead of his home-city retrospective – and how photography saved him
Not your typical nature pictures: the universe found inside a fish, from ‘Please Notify The Sun’ 2020 © Stephen Gill
From ‘Hackney Wick’ 2001 – 2005 © Stephen Gill
From ‘The Pillar’ 2015 – 2019 © Stephen Gill
From ‘Talking to Ants’ 2009 – 2013 © Stephen Gill
32 THE BRISTOL MAGAZINE
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OCTOBER 2021
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NO¯ 203