An Epoch of Rest

Patrick Bernard walks along the Hogsmill River, a chalk stream and tributary of the Thames, to explore our changing relationship to space, Victorian science fiction and the transformation of everyday life.

The French philosopher Henri Lefebvre said that 'to change life, we must first change space'. The pandemic didn't change space, however, but our relationship to it. Read the essay here.

Photography by Patrick Bernard and Karen Lacey-Holder.
Music by Jon Hassell.