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Sean Palfrey: Home

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Home by Sean Palfrey presents a poignant collection of photographs and stories from the author’s 45 years of global travels and work as a paediatrician. Through lyrical images and poetic text, Palfrey reflects on diverse human and animal experiences, exploring the universal need for safe and nurturing places we call 'home'. The book journeys across continents including the Americas, East Africa, and South Asia, offering a moving meditation on community, protection, and belonging.
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Home will appeal to readers interested in photography, travel, cultural reflection, and humanitarian themes. Those who appreciate contemplative works highlighting human and animal connections across the world will find this book enriching.

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In Home, Palfrey shares his beautiful images and stories of the many people and places he has encountered around the world in his work as a paediatrician and travels over the past 45 years.

Polymath Sean Palfrey's work as a paediatrician and natural scientist informs this fascinating first entry, Home, into his forthcoming series of photography books. In Home, Palfrey shares his beautiful images and stories of the many people and places he has encountered around the world in his work and travels over the past 45 years. A lifetime of observation and experience with children is channelled into his lyrical image-making and poetic text.

Home ruminates on the variety of human and animal experiences across the globe, taking us from North and South America, to East Africa and South Asia, among other places. The result is a joyous and moving book that leaves us with a poignant message: that all living creatures need to have safe places that they consider 'home', where they can be protected, loved, sheltered, preserved, fed and surrounded by communities of adults.

Series: Sean Palfrey Photography Series

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    Dance showcases Sean Palfrey's creative vision in a beautiful suite of images drawn from his photographic archive, each of them accompanied by poetic reflections on the very idea of dance. What presents itself to our minds when we hear the word 'dance'? Movement, music and rhythm, of course. The jitterbug and the slow waltz. But what if we go beyond...
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  • Sean Palfrey: Home
    In Home, Palfrey shares his beautiful images and stories of the many people and places he has encountered around the world in his work as a paediatrician and travels over the past 45 years. Polymath Sean Palfrey's work as a paediatrician and natural scientist informs this fascinating first entry, Home, into his forthcoming series of photography books. In Home, Palfrey...
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  • Sean Palfrey: Wander
    Wander features Sean Palfrey's beautiful, varied, and insightful travel photography and writings, exploring the joy of following a winding course. To wander is to travel without a fixed route or destination, to move expectantly through the world. Wander, the second volume in Sean Palfrey's photography book series, explores the joy of following a winding course. Palfrey is a renowned paediatrician...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780903696654

Publisher: Hurtwood Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 December 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hurtwood Press

Illustration: 108 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • By Sean Palfrey

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 730g

Pages: 164

About the Author

Sean Palfrey is a true polymath; he has had an illustrious career as a paediatrician, Faculty Dean at Harvard University and Professor of Clinical Paediatrics and Public Health at Boston University. Trained first in Biology then Medicine and Public Health, he has simultaneously spent a lifetime passionately exploring and pushing the boundaries of image-making through photography. In addition to being a teacher, Dean and clinician, he served as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Paediatrics, and he has been a legislative advocate for child health programs and policies since the late 1970s.

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