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Sasha Andrews
Employed full-time as an NHS Medical Photographer Sasha documents patient conditions for notes, teaching & publication. Sasha recently introduced a video service to document surgical procedures and patient’s stories to provide information for patients so that they are better informed about conditions and more confident in making choices about their treatment. Sasha’s first film project was a promotional video to increase awareness of a Link between a hospital in Jimma, Ethiopia and Nottingham University Hospitals. The experience led to a new determination to forge a career in documentary filmmaking.
Jan 2007 participated in BBC East Midlands Untold Stories project making the two minute film Liveaboard; a snapshot of Nottingham’s boat dwelling community.
Sasha Andrews has been selected by EM-Media with the project Wild Swimming
This film observes the longstanding friendships and customs of the men who swim in West Lake, Nottingham through the soft muted colours of brutal Winter to the intense brilliance of Spring. With a vitality that belies their years the swimmers aged between 74 and 83yrs, pitch into the water all year round. Their companionship and concern for each other is patently visible through the teasing, banter and bravado. An integral part of the landscape they gather and enter the water in ones or twos, heading with purposeful manner in diverse directions. When they swim they leave a v-shaped furrow behind them like ducks and when treading water they are like the bobbing coots who have befriended them. After 20years they are now part of the local wildlife at Colwick; treated with indifference by the birds and bemused respect by passers by, the West Lake swimmers will carry on till they drop.