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Bran Symondson
For Everyone to Change We Need Everyone

Name: For Everyone to Change We Need Everyone
Brand: Bran Symondson
Rating: 5 (20 reviews)

$30,500List Price

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Artist: Bran Symondson For Everything to Change We Need Everyone Mixed Media 30 x 40 cm 125 cm - Acrylic Box Deactivated AK47 taken from a conflict zone and embellished with real butterflies and origami dollar bills. “For Everything to change we need Everyone” This Art piece which was originally created for the World Wildlife Foundation auction Looking at the impact we have on the environment and how we have encroached on our natural environment, slowly destroying Mother Earth and as us humans find ourselves on a knife edge of the point of no return. The dollar bill butterflies are to represent the capitalist mind, human greed and consumption , the origami butterflies are a paradox of trying to replicate something of natural beauty that we are destroying. The real blue Morpho butterflies represent the real true beauty of Mother Nature. (a point to note that these are environmentally sourced for the art works) and how that they are at odds with each other when we as humans destroy their habitat. The AK47s used in these art works are sourced from areas of the world were environmental issues have in there own right become conflict zones affirming in my eye the name “eco worrier” bullets are filled with symbolic fillings to represent the narrative of the piece Bran Symondson is considered to be one of the finest reportage photographers of the 21st Century. He began his career working alongside renowned photographers such as Gavin Bond, David La Chapelle and Nadav Kander. During this period he joined the UK Special Forces and was immediately called up for a tour in Afghanistan. He documented his life-changing experiences under gunfire with a simple Canon G9 camera, these significant images culminated in his first show “The Best View of Heaven is from Hell”. It was during his last tour of duty training the Afghan National Police (ANP), which now patrols this province, that Symondson became fascinated with the force’s distinctive ethos. So he returned as a civilian photographer “embedded” with them to document something far more unique than the endless fields of opium. As the photographs were taken whilst he was a serving soldier with the Special Forces the Ministry of Defence banned this exhibition, however, it was not long until The Sunday Times decided to commission him to go back to Afghanistan and re-shoot the images as a civilian photographer. After being awarded the 2011 Amnesty International Media Award for his photograph “Lost Boys”, Symondson decided to develop the concept of his photographs further and he began work on the sell-out show “AKA Peace”. Bran Symondson’s 2012 exhibition “AKA Peace” is considered to be a pivotal point in his artistic career. After his tour in Afghanistan, he established the concept of taking de-commissioned AK47 guns and masterfully embellishing them with dollar bills, iconography butterflies. He gave decommissioned AK47’s to artists such as Damien Hirst, Gavin Turk, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Antony Gormley and the Chapman brothers and asked them to reinterpret their own AK-47 assault rifles which were all exhibited in “AKA Peace”. This critically acclaimed show raised more than £430,000 in one night.

Creator:
Bran Symondson
Dimensions:
Height: 49.22 in (125 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30 cm)Depth: 15.75 in (40 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media
Movement Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU147227547952

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