“The Boy and the Frigatebird” by Photographer Joshua Atkins

Kent, UK-based photographer Joshua Atkins captures the sense of liberation he felt whereas touring once more, after a number of arduous years, in his self-published zine, “The Boy and the Frigatebird.” Taken throughout Mexico in November 2021, the pictures are extra to Atkins than easy vacation snapshots. “Provided that the journey got here after a few robust years and an actual wrestle with my psychological well being, these images purpose to seize a way of pure freedom that goes past simply escapism,” he says. “After I mirror on my time away and the pictures that I made, I can see that giddiness to find form and color to be showing how I hadn’t seen them for a while. Maybe it’s simply the totally different mild and heat from the UK, however that first sight of a frigatebird flying overhead was extra than simply thrilling for somebody with an curiosity in ornithology, it was an actual sense of peace.”

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