The "3 Days/2 Nights" project by the British photographer Joanna Vestey explores the last remaining moderate rainforests in the United Kingdom in the photo: Pontneddfechan, Powys, Wales.
Tempered rainforest that is used to cover aroundone fifthFrom Britain, but today it extends over only 1% - spread in small fragments along the west coast, where the conditions are wet and mild.
Vestey was surprised to discover that her home forests had rain forests and decided that she would visit and photograph the last pockets to increase awareness of the habitats that have an urgent need for conservation.
She used an analog camera and took long exposure photos where the closures of the camera remained open for at least two hours.The photo: Gray Park Wood, Devon, England.
One of the forests in which she spent time is Cabilla, Cornwall (in the photo). Center for a Rainforest Restoration Project, run by a charity called Thousand -year Trust.ti percentage From income from all printed sale of Festey goes to charity.
Vestey is also fascinated by the potential health benefits of the time used in the forest.ResearchFrom the Japanese immunologist and forest expert Dr.Qing Li discovered that spending three days and two nights in a forest can increase the immune functions of a person up to 30 days. Set: Cabilla, Cornwall, England.
She hopes that her photos and accompanying audio recordings can restore the experience of sitting in a forest in the photo.
While Vestey's work is exhibited in London, a team of researchers from the University of Exeter or the compelling art experience can offer the same health benefits.
Ultimately, Vestey would like to see her work from an exhibition space to support or wells, such as health clinics or schools, moving to help nature and their benefits with people who have no access to it.Photo: Knowans Wood, Devon, England.
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Lush greener, confused wood, veils of light - huge statues of rain forests hang on the walls of a church in London.
The images are not of tropical rain forests, but very rare moderate rainforest in the United Kingdom.
Due to excessive agriculture and development, the rainforest coverLess than 1% of the UK, found in isolated bags that run from Cornwall in the south to northwestern Scotland.
When photographer Joanna Vestey discovered that rainforests existed in her home country, she would see them for herself and make the forests available to everyone else.Fitzrovia BandThis week she hopes to increase the consciousness of the endangered habitat and at the same time explore the potential health benefits of the forest.
Forest baths
The first trip from Vestey to a moderate rainforest was in Devon, Southwest -Engand.One herd of marshes and low climbing everything."" She said.
Since then, Vestey estimated that she has visited around 60% of the remaining moderate rainforests in the UK.Period in two hours.Let the camera open as long as a unique effect has been created: "There are incredible veils, where the wind branches blows over where it rains and raindrops fall on the lens," she said.of work."
Her method is inspired by research in "Forest baths, "A concept that comes from Japan, assuming to be quiet and calm under trees while they drag deep, it is believed to help people emphasize and increase their health.
Vestey had read "Into the Forest", a book by the Japanese immunologist and Forest Medical Expert Dr.qing Li that after extensive physiologicalto test, discovers that it is cheap and physical.After four to six hours of exposure, the immune functions of a person can be increased for a week, and after three days and two nights, changes will occur at the cellular level that can increase the immune functions for up to 30 days, According to Li's research. To display this optimum period, the final collection of Festey of 26 images is a total exposure time of three days and two nights.
At the same time, she recorded the sound of the forest.Sound and visual elements are to recreate the experience of sitting ice for those who have no access.
"Fear levels and depression are so high at the moment, especially among young people, and there is so much research into connection with nature and how useful it can be," she said."I try to investigate whether I can share the experience I have been in a forest by taking it in a hospital or clinic or school and in one way or another sharing the virtual immersion in nature.
Healing forces
With a subsidy from the Art Council of the United Kingdom, Vestey works together with a team of researchers from the University of Exeter to test whether these benefits can be transferred to a sound and Beelder experience.To triple the amount of rainforest in the United Kingdom for the next 30 years.
The couple is strong proponents of the health benefits of the rainforest.After working in the British army and made three trips in Afghanistan, Hanbury-Achton suffered from complex PTSD, while Lizzie fought a series of abortions.In Cabilla, the 300 goals of their family large farm on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.
"We both received a lot of healing and food by spending time in this room, and it became very clear to us that the healing power of nature was something that we would focus more on our energy," said Hanbury-Achton.
The British photographer Joanna Vestey wants to increase the consciousness of the rare rain forests of Great Britain during her work.
In addition to working on planting several trees and restoring rainforest over very large -ritain, the charity builds what it calls the first Atlantic rainforest research station at Bodmin Moor.
Hanbury-Achton explained that the lows and swamps that grow on the trees of the moderate rainforest of Great Britain, volatile organic compounds called Terpenes, as some say that the person of a person says the person of a personinflammationDuck levels, the most important stress hormone when they are inhaled. "We do a lot of research into how we can synthesize the terpenes in the rainforest, so that you can have diffusers and room testers who take place in places such as NHS departments or nursing homes," he said.
Vestey hopes that her photos by combining scientific research with compelling art transfers from an exhibition space to support or good - all with the attention of the remaining rain forests of Great -Britain.
"I have always been really interested in what photography can do and how it can strengthen things," she said.Will do something about management.
