Aderyn Rhydd, Free Bird

Selection from the book Aderyn Rhydd, Free Bird, 2014.

Originally from Switzerland, I began my studies in Media & Arts at the University of the Arts in Zurich in 2011. In the second year of my degree I began with an exchange semester at the University of South Wales in Newport (UK). I soon realiesed I wanted to complete my BA (Hons) on the Documentary Photography course in Wales so I will graduate in June 2015.

Since childhood I have always travelled from one place to another. First in the 90’s with my family through America and later alone through Europe and Southeast Asia. I’m drawn to look at different cultures and explore the various environments people are living in. I then try to visualize a narrative through a sequence of photographs, based on facts, but also through experience and intuition of letting things happen in a natural way.

My latest project Aderyn Rhydd means Free Bird in Welsh and explores the region around the North of Mid Wales. Restricted in the West by the Irish sea and in the North by the mountains of Snowdonia, the area signifies freedom to its residents; freedom to breathe, freedom for self-expression within art and poetry; or freedom to allow oneself to live an alternative lifestyle.

For more details:
andresmiriam@gmail.com