Title: Orientation
Author: text and photography by Alexandra Huddleston
Orientation brings together five prose pieces that describe a radical alteration in the author’s perception as she explores the world on foot. Most of these pieces were previously connected to individual photographs or photographic projects. In this chapbook, the texts are given a chance to speak to each other, and to show the progression in Alexandra’s thinking about walking and landscape.
Status: published, April 2023
Imprint: The Kyoudai Press : Blind Cat Valentine LLC
Photographs: cover
Language: English
Medium: Soft cover, pamphlet stitch
Size: 6.5 inches high by 4.75 inches wide by 0.125 inches thick (165 mm by 120 mm by 3 mm)
Note: Each copy is printed and hand-bound by Alexandra Huddleston
Edition: no edition
To Purchase the Book:
US Sales: $15 (includes shipping), payable by cash, check or Paypal
For more details on purchasing contact the artist directly at: kyoudaipress {at} gmail.com
European Sales: $18 (includes shipping)
About the Author
Alexandra Huddleston is a photographer, writer, and walking artist. Her most recent projects describe landscape as a space of dynamic change. It’s a vision gained by walking thousands of miles in the last two decades. Alexandra brings motion through time and space into her work, expressing what it’s like to be within an ever-changing landscape.
Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and Bamako, Mali, her upbringing has led her to explore landscape and culture from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. Between 2009 and 2014, she walked thousands of kilometers on pilgrimage in Spain, France, and Japan – journeys that led to her current walking art practice. She has won a Fulbright Grant, and her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian and the British Library.
Alexandra presents her work to the public through her books, exhibitions, and lectures. She holds a Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. She studied broadcast and print journalism (MS) at Columbia University, USA and fine art and East Asian studies (BA) at Stanford University, USA. As creative director and co-founder of the Kyoudai Press, she has published Lost Things (2012), 333 Saints: A Life of Scholarship in Timbuktu (2013), East or West (2014), Vertigo (2016), Traces of Time (2022), A Walk in the Park (2023), and Orientation (2023).
