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Bran Symondson was born on 1971 in Afghanistan, is a British Artist. Discover Bran Symondson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?

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Born 1971
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1971

Bran Symondson (born 1971) is a British sculptor artist and photographer known for works relating to the War in Afghanistan and taking items of violence such as the AK47 rifle and transforming them into art.

His work has been featured in multiple exhibitions, including Hollywood Reloaded and AKA Peace.

According to his biography at Maddox, Symondson was born in 1971.

1990

In the 1990s he took up a photography career, but choose to join the British Army Special Forces Reserves in 2004.

On deployment during the war in Afghanistan to Helmand province, Symondson elected to bring his personal Canon G9 camera even on operations taking images of landscapes, civilians, and the Afgan police who Symondson was helping to train.

On return from deployment Symondson left the British army and gained a commission from the Sunday Times to return re-shoot images of the Afghan people.

2011

In 2011, he was awarded the Amnesty International Media Award for his photograph entitled Lost Boys, showing young Afghan boys holding guns with flowers and stickers.

In 2011 Symondson's first solo exhibition, The Best View of Heaven is from Hell, was held at the Idea Generation Gallery, It featured photographs of the Afgan Police, their cultural idiosyncrasies, and included images of the way they decorated their AK47 rifles with roses and stickers.

In particular his photograph entitled Lost Boys showing young Afghan boys holding guns with flowers and stickers was awarded the 2011 Amnesty International Media Award.

Symondson developed the theme of weapons transformed with peaceful art as depicted in the Lost Boys image as part of what became his AKA Peace project which concept turned out to be a turning point in his artistic career.

2012

The resultant show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) from 25 to 30 September 2012 brought together over 20 artists including as Damien Hirst and Gavin Turk who each created their interpretation of decommissioned AK47; the works being auctioned post-exhibition with proceeds to Peace one day who had held a concert for Internal Peace Day on 21 September.

2016

Symondson has had problems exporting his art, in 2016 a decommissioned AK47 assault rifle artwork was seized by customs in Texas en route to an exhibition in Houston.

When a buyer from New Zealand brought Symondon's work Beat of a wing of butterflies on an AK47 for NZ$35,000 only for it to be delayed in transit for many months and the butterflies deteriorated on arrival, with Symondon having to fly to Wellington, New Zealand to repair the work.

2017

Gayatri Rangachari Shah, reviewing the 2017 second edition of Bahrain's art fair "Art Bahrain Across Borders" for Vogue Magazine (India), noted Symondson's " eye-catching works" of de-commissioned AK47s's decorate with objects like butterflies" with causing "quite a buzz" at the Maddox Gallery.

2019

In 2019, Symondson collaborated with world-renowned photographer Terry O’Neill in a project Hollywood-Reloaded in which they worked on a photographic venture which included Hollywood actors and actresses.

In an interview Terry O’Neill describes his experience with Symondson as "He’s taken such time and consideration when creating his art. He has transformed my photographs into something entirely his own. It’s been a thrill for me to work with a young artist such as Bran, to listen to his thoughts and process…"