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One spring day in 2012, fresh from his circumnavigation of the British Isles, English designer Nick Hand set off on his bicycle from Brooklyn, New York, and pedalled north along the Hudson River toward the Adirondack Mountains. His leisurely pace suited his simple agenda-to talk to the artists and craftspeople he met along the way. Conversations on the Hudson is a visual record of his five-hundred-mile journey through the hills, mountains and countryside of the Hudson Valley. This one-of-a-kind collection pairs Hand's beautiful photographs alongside visits to a seed librarian, a printer and publisher, a brewer, a stone sculptor, a sheep farmer, a distiller, a maple syrup producer and a boat restorer, among others.

Nick Hand was born and raised in Bristol. He trained as a typographer and now works as a designer and photographer. In 2010 Nick completed 6,324 miles around the coast of the British Isles interviewing artisans and people he met on the road and publishing short photofilms to his Slowcoast website. He continues to cycle and to bring the skills and craft of different artisans to life in his photography and photofilms, in 2012 he completed a cycle tour of the Hudson Valley, New York. Nick regularly contributes to Boneshaker Magazine and has recently been published in the Caught by the River book On Nature. In 2011 and 2012 Nick was a judge for the Balvenie Masters of Craft awards.