The Carnival Crowd, 2023 by Lily Bertrand-Webb

The Carnival Crowd, Dominica, 2023

I visited Dominica with my mother and my sister for the first time in 30 years. Being half Dominican, this trip was a very special trip for the family. Dominica’s Carnival is one of a kind. Carnival starts at J’ouvet, 4 am. As the light comes up, the costumes start to appear, and the sense of lunacy and freedom brews. Music, drums, rain, beer, chicken, costumes, colour, rum. This is the Crowd watching the floats pass by.

Print Dimensions: 73.5cm x 100 cm

Hand C-type Print

Edition of 5

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Lily Bertrand-Webb presents her photographic series, “The Flâneuse.”

“For a woman to be a flâneuse, first and foremost, she’s got to be a walker – someone who gets to know the city by wandering its streets, investigating its dark corners, peering behind façades, penetrating into secret courtyards. Virginia Woolf called it ‘street haunting’ in an essay by that name: sailing out into a winter evening, surrounded by the ‘champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets’, we leave the things that define us at home, and become ‘part of that vast republican army of anonymous trampers’.” by Lauren Elkin

Opening on the 20th of August 2024, the works will be exhibited at Sister by Studio Ashby’s London showroom, The Blewcoat School, as part of a new exhibition series.