FLYING PROJECT - 1995/2001

Approximately 200 pictures were taken over a five year period on around twenty-five flights - the photographs were taken using an interval timer so I was unprepared for the photograph. In this way I hoped to show the discomfort I feel about flying. The Flying Book is shaped like an airline ticket booklet (remember those) and contains images from 10 flights with the images laid out to reflect the 3 seats on an airplane. Text on the first page reads: When the 'plane takes off - the muscles in my cheeks begin to rise up to my eyeballs causing my eyes to close - my head to roll back -- and I am only able to breathe by pressing my stomach with both hands. Below are a couple of pages from the Flying Project Book.

Preview the 'Flying' book from Julia Bradshaw on Vimeo.

This book was accepted into the Getty Research Library Collection in 2008.