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IAMCIDER is an ongoing personal project and something I feel very passionate about. Bill Bradshaw is a contemporary
Living in Somerset, the heart of true cider country, real cider is something I am freelance photographer based in
surrounded by and fascinated with. The Cider world has so much to capture and offers a Langport. His background is in editorial
photographer a perpetual challenge. The seasonality and idiosyncrasies of the landscape, fashion and documentary and influences
the rare and colourful characters involved, the origins of an area, a cider farm, a person, include William Eggleston, Stephen
an apple... Like any industry it has a peculiar mix of tradition and commerce, both of which Shore and James Ravilious.
have their value and place. My role, as a photographer, is to record this - these photos
are a visual response to the realm specific to cidermaking and apples. I was first asked to
photograph cider as a subject when I was commissioned to document the Apple Villages
IAMCIDER
project in 2004 by Kate Lynch and James Crowden. I remember kneeling in the orchard
The Somerset Rural Life Museum
behind the school in Kingsbury Episcopi and being astonished by the quality of the light,
Abbey Farm, Chilkwell Street,
the amazing smell of cider apples, the age of the place and the ways the kids were Glastonbury. 01458 831197
reacting to it all - it was marvellous. I was really excited, that day really inspired me. www.somerset.gov.uk
It was like a new world had opened up to me and I fell in love with it.” 17 October – 21 November,
Bill Bradshaw Mon – Sat, 10am – 5pm, free.
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