In pictures:
Ed Swinden meets the beekeepers of Britain
A new exhibition by photographer Ed Swinden - 'Beekeeper: to Serve the Queen' - has seen Manchester-based Ed travel around the country 'meeting the men and women who - if pessimistic voices are to be believed - are our frontline troops in a desperate war against environmental collapse.' The results are striking portraits of the beekeepers in their protective outfits, which are being shown online and at an exhibition at Heaton Park Dower House, home of the Manchester Beekeepers'. Link to sample of pictures on BBC Link to Manchester Beekeepers Association
'These days you don't have to be a beekeeper to have heard the bad-news buzz about bees. "Apocalypse of the Honeybees," "Bees Vanish" ... you've read the headlines, or if you haven't, you can watch them flash past in the first minutes of director Taggart Siegel's documentary Queen of the Sun.' Link to review on Film.com
West Seattleites abuzz over Gary DeBoer's artful beehive boxes...
1930's Beekeeping Video Archives on YouTube
(5 in the series)
Click here for link to 1930's beekeeping on YouTube
Bal - Honey (2008)
Director Semih Kaplanoglu
Documenting the perilous living conditions of people who produce the most precious honey in the world, living as they do on the largely undiscovered Turkey's Eastern Black Sea Region's high mountains, learning about the production of honey and observing the lives of the children in the region are all vital to the script's wealth of detail and cinematography.
The Last Honeybee (2009)
Through the stories of three American beekeepers; Nicole Ulibarri from Montana, Eric Mills from Carolina and Matt Hutchens from Washington State, Simmons follows their efforts to establish bee colonies, make them commercially successful and travel across the country with their hives to areas where their pollination is needed. But as with so many of the world's apiarists, the three are suffering from unexplained colony collapse disorder (CCD) which has not just seen single hives affected - but instead, caused whole businesses to fail. Originally released in US as 'The Last Beekeeper'.
The Last Beekeeper
Director: Jeremy Simmons
Honeybee Blues (2009)
Australian Documentary about the world's disappearing honeybees and the efforts of Australian scientist Dr Denis Anderson to save them from annihilation.
Directed: Stefan Moore www.screenaustralia.gov.au/showcases/honeybeeblues
Honeybee Blues
By Tristan Tyle Blodgett
SB City2 - February 6, 2010
Film Review
Informative, and illustrative Honeybee Blues lays out all the information that comprises the complicated and necessary relationship between Humans and bees. In a time of Industrial agriculture the busy bees are a $100 billion industry involving beekeepers, bee-brokers and bee-breeders that ship from Australia, around the world. Link to article in SB City2
Colony
'We wouldn't be able to feed ourselves if there was no more honeybee pollination' Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell, directors of ‘Colony’, an Irish documentary about honeybees. Link to article in Irish Times
Vanishing of the Bees
Imagine half a million adults skipping town and leaving their children behind. Picture an opened suitcase filled with bundles of cash at a bus stop and yet no robber wants to snatch it. The apiary science mystery known as “Colony Collapse Disorder” displays these very symptoms. Link to Hive Mentality
Release date: 01/02/2010
Directors: Maryam Henein, George Langworthy
Studio: Dogwoof Pictures Click here for more information (& video clip) on Amazon
Bees in Art
The world’s first art gallery devoted to Honey bees, Bumble bees and other Hymenoptera depicted in art. www.beesinart.com
Eric Tourneret - The Bee Photographer
Large collection of photographs of life in the hive, queen, bee plants, swarming and more. www.thehoneygatherers.com
Louis Rummer-Downing - wildlife photographer...
has been photographing and writing about honeybees for the past 12 months. He has been funded by the EU to work with Roger Dewhurst, a Cornish beekeeper who is breeding Varroa mite resistance into his bees. The project will last for 5 weeks. He aims to film not just this behaviour, but also record other aspects of the beekeeper's job, including the Heather honey flow and a diary of events for that 5 weeks. His work can be viewed on www.louisrd.blogspot.com and this will be updated constantly with photography and notes about honeybees and the project.
Click here to view more photos about bees on Louis Rummer-Downing's blog.
Vita-Europe - Photo Gallery
Anyone giving talks about bees and beekeeping can now download images for their presentation from the Vita gallery at www.vita-europe.com. Vita (Europe) Ltd, the honeybee health specialist, has developed the free resource because of the increasing demand on beekeepers to give public talks.Already there are more than 300 images available for download and that number is expected to grow steadily. The Vita Gallery reflects the multifaceted nature of beekeeping – there are historic, scientific, and botanical images as well as pictures relating to beekeeping management and equipment, new and old. www.vita-europe.com
Click here for details on Vita Bee Photo Competition 2010
