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A dilapidated room photographed by Andrew Heptinstall

07/02/2015

BBC Radio 4 - An Image of Sound

Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph.

Documentary charting photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photographic image, which takes him from the camera into the mind and back again.

Photographer Andrew Heptinstall is embarking on a quest to see whether a photograph can deliver information over and above a pure image; details of the sound of a place that only the photographer could have known at the time of its capture.

He spends a day on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland with blind contemporary photographer Rosita McKenzie and meets Professor Fiona Macpherson, a philosopher from Glasgow University to gain an insight into human senses and perception.

His many attempts over 6 months to capture the quality of sound within his images take him on a journey as far as Australia; yet he is only at the beginning of his journey as he continues to search for An Image of Sound.

Presenter: Andrew Heptinstall
Producer: Andrew Dawes.

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