Alexander Burton

Hello, this is where I post things that have happened to me/things that I want to happen to me. I like to travel and spend time with nice people. I write things and make things and sometimes I take photographs of things. https://www.instagram.com/alexanderfburton/

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Popping in for my yearly reminder to the internet that I am still alive. These photos sum up what I’ve been up to whilst I was gone. 

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After my Grandma died I went into her attic and tucked away in a battered suitcase was a manuscript- an entire novel that had been rejected by a publisher and presumably left quietly to one side ever since. I had no idea she was a writer! I’ve since found out that after suffering the most heartbreaking loss in her twenties she shut herself away for nearly a year and did nothing but write. I’m hoping that reading this will be a catharsis.

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A common theme in my camera roll

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I don’t take photographs as much as I did anymore, but I write now. It feels like such an intimate medium, which is why I stopped using this blog so much. I have started a newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. It is called the ‘The Land Fortnightly’, and every two weeks you’ll get a quiet and nostalgic piece, perhaps a rumination on the landscape, or a memory of home, sometimes a review of a walk. I hope some of you will join me there, I miss sharing my work.

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I quit my job a while ago and have been living in a van travelling around Spain and Portugal, here is the view I had having lunch in Andalucia last week.

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Some photos of our villa/dream house in Camogli, Italy. I’ve never before felt such an instantaneous sense of belonging

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it’s almost 1am and I just stopped what I was doing because I remembered that these before and after photographs of mount st helens exist (and that even the most solid things can change/there is beauty in that)

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It's me again, I wanted to show you this

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My home from home for the past few days ✨🌿💕 (at Aragnouet, Midi-Pyrenees, France)

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I got drunk and ordered 12ft of artificial wisteria for my bedroom and it’s starting to feel like I live in a conservatory

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Laura at the V&A / the eucalyptus bedside that I hung onto for three weeks before throwing away

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From the archive - a lake beginning to thaw and another one with a drowned village beneath the surface

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The view from the fire escape / ‘poem at the dinner table’ by Crispin Best

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Recently in bed

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Some photos of Kew Garden in the summer to try and make me forget that it is December

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I was lucky enough to be able to leave London this weekend. The sea was just as perfect as I remembered.