Sean Palfrey: Wander

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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 and child health advocate, who travels the world with his work and for pleasure. His fascination with people, places and stories informs both his artistic and professional practices. Wander traces Palfrey's journeys across continents and cultures over five decades and features seventy photographs of remarkable places, from the mountain ranges of South Africa to the beaches of Chile, the woods of Canada to the deserts of New Mexico, to name a few. In the text accompanying each photo, Palfrey explores the stories and myths of the localities as he recounts his experiences, thoughts and meditations in lyrical narratives.

Wander depicts and describes vastness and intimacy, beauty and loss, heritage and change. Palfrey affirms photography's capacity to spark our imaginations: 'Every photo here has a story, a back story, a then-story and a since-story.'

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Sean Palfrey has had an illustrious career as a paediatrician, Faculty Dean at Harvard University and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University. Simultaneously, Palfrey has spent a lifetime exploring the boundaries of image-making through photography, with his work as a doctor informing his practice. In addition to being a teacher, Dean and clinician, he served as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and he has been a legislative advocate for child health programmes and policies since the 1970s. Palfrey exhibits his photography in solo and group shows frequently in the USA.