Peter Simon Bailey

| 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐧 |

It’s not always the devil in the detail.





PSB 2025

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When you’d rather have cake…

Mokymosi namai Patirčių slėnis.

On September 01st 2023 I began a new chapter & met a beautiful new community.

Patirčių slėnis (Valley of Experience), is a sociocratic school. A revolutionary experience in self driven education. A community that believes in nourishing the greatest potential good in everyone.

This is a special place with an aspiration to share an alternative view of education, where adults & children alike can aspire to find harmony within themselves & the world.

This is the beginning of my fourth year in the world of alternative education & forest schooling & it makes me happy to share that I am still as much a student as an educator.

PSB / October / 2023
















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| 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 |

Wandering lost around the sleepy midday streets of Vilaflor Tenerife, I notice a man sitting alone in the shade.

He seems to be there without reason or concern, he seems calm, patient & I am curious. The camera in my hands offers us an opportunity to begin conversation.

Between puffs of smoke from a well used & stubborn cigar, he tells me in a thick accent & broken English that his name is Jean. He’s from France & is seemingly a vagabond of many lives & homes. For this moment Tenerife is one of them.

As he notices the watch upon my wrist, he shows me the lack of one on his own & we begin to talk about time as a perception.

We talk about the future, about wanting. He shares with me that what we want cannot be taken, instead, one must be open enough to let opportunity inside.

Our conversation is punctuated by Jean greeting strangers & locals as they pass.

I ask if I can take his portrait, he agrees, only pausing his thoughts in attempt to relight his cigar.

Jean is the first stranger I have approached with my camera. And in return for that moment I was gifted a connection, wisdom & a story to remember.

I hope these shots offer a window into this mans many stories. I wonder where he is now?

PSB / March / 2023














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| Forest School |

From mud kitchen to the kitchen. Children show me that cooking is an inherent, joyful, creative, sharing process.

There is no such thing as perfection, only playful, delicious experimentation.

I feel that it is a shame in our lives if we have forgotten this.

PSB / March / 2023


















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