About

A fantasy about freedom, dreams, and faraway wild places. A life story that leads to a work that evolves and changes with Russell Young the child as its basis.

Russell Young was born in 1959 in Yorkshire, where he was immediately put into a foster home, then a nunnery, and was adopted before reaching the age of one. He was moving from town to town and living an isolating existence. Here he would take his first photographs of birds on the lawn only for the film to come back developed so dark he could hardly make out the birds. Like these first photographs, Young’s life developed with areas …