Auf wiedersehen Hamburg! Today continuing my Baltic maritime journey to Poland visiting Szczecin, Swinemunde and Gdańsk. Images courtesy of Mr Ralf Thorein former employee of Howaldtswerke who handed over 30.000 digitised images of the shipyard to the International Maritime Museum Hamburg.
Antwerp is really impressive, not least its archives which are very sophisticated. Recently restored both the Rijksarchief and the Stadsarchief which are housed in one of the last remaining warehouses left in the old port where Jersey mariners in the past landed their cargo. Next stop Hamburg on the maritime trade route into the Baltic! #entrepôt
As editor together with Patrick Cahill, we are excited to launch the third issue of ED.EM.03 - Henry Mullins / Michelle Sank - On the Social Matrix with a new text by Gareth Syvret.
Henry Mullins and Michelle Sank represent 165 years of the practice of photographic portraiture in Jersey. That period has seen the island undergo major social and economic changes. Through these photographers’ works, we examine those changes and the power structures that remain in place within this insular society.
ED.EM. is a series of new photo-zines produced by Éditions Emile – a new imprint celebrating the unique collections held in Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise in the island of Jersey.
Get you copy here!
Work from Masterplan, my long-term research project using photography, film and archives to explore the story of Jersey’s contemporary prosperity as an International Finance Centre is exhibited at Jersey Summer Exhibition 2021 at CCA Galleries International.
ARCHEOLOGY OF FINANCE is the latest visual enquiry reflecting on the material culture of finance work inside corporate environments. Both images were exhibited internationally in 2019, first at CAPITAL Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia (24 Aug - 20 Oct) curated by Naomi Cass and Gareth Syvret and TAXED TO THE MAX at Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, The Netherlands (6 Oct - 1 Dec) curated by Hester Keijser.
Stamps #1 and Stamps #2
Inkjet on Giclee paper
Size 60x80cm
Framed (grey)
Editon 1 of 7 + 2 AP
To purchase contact Sasha Gibb, gallery director at CCA Galleries International, 10 Hill St, St Helier, Jersey.
Congratulaions to Chloé Best for winning Guernsey Photography Festival Channel Islands Student Photography Competition (category 16+) with her film ‘Recovery through a Looking Glass’ about self-love, rebellion and eating disorder set within an imaginary world referencing Alice in Wonderland.
Runners up from Hautlieu School also includes Moses Pike, Leanne Stoneman, Eleanor Gilson and special mention for Aimee Cast, Lexie Stephens, Aimee O'Connor and Daniel Butt. Thanks to festival director Jean-Christophe Godet and festival committe for awarding young talent in the making!
Watch the winning film here:
LOVE & REBELLION exhibition is opening from today 24 May until 13 June at the Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre. Personal work across a variety of media from films, photobooks, zines, prints and a special newspaper produced by photography students at Hautlieu School is on display addressing important universal issues of race, gender, climate change and the effects of Covid-19 on the lives of young people. Each day of this week students work will be featured. If Jersey bound, make sure you pay a visit!
The themes was inspired partly by the 10th (+1) anniversary edition of Guernsey Photography Festival 23 Sept- 23 Oct 2021
Newspaper kindly sponsored by the Chief Minister.
Exhibition kindly sponsored by the Bailiff of Jersey.
Since schools opened again in early summer of 2020 a cohort of 48 A-Level photography students Hautlieu School have been working on an extensive programme of study in their final year exploring the themes of LOVE & REBELLION. The results of their work can be seen in a 56-page newspaper supplement printed and distributed island-wide by Jersey Evening Post today Tuesday 18 May and in a multi-media exhibition of films, photobooks, zines and prints at the Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre 24 May – 13 June.
When we look at the images presented, we are reminded of how complex the lives of young people are. This, of course, has been exaggerated by a year of living with a deadly pandemic causing uncertainty and anxiety, especially among school leaving children. What we are confronted with are snapshots of ordinary life alongside other more serious images showing teenagers coping with family, lockdown and isolation. There are images depicting experiences of living at home with chronic illnesses, physical disabilities, mental health problems, as well as playful and optimistic glimpses of social interaction with friends, finding comfort fixing cars or listening to music.
Photography is an excellent medium for recording the mundane and the banal, but within an insular context such vernacular images are rarely on display in public (if we discount social media platforms). What do these ordinary photographs that people make and use every day tell us about our social patterns, personal rituals and structures of identity, or political participation? Photography in Jersey is often depicting the island’s natural beauty, beaches and sea at dawn or dusk endlessly recycling romantic idyll and pictorial clichés. What do we learn from an image of another sunset at Corbière Lighthouse?
At Hautlieu we aim to encourage students to explore subject-matter that is both personal and universal, reflecting upon historical and contemporary discourse informed by critical theory and practice within visual and popular culture. The Love & Rebellion newspaper is the third supplement produced in collaboration between Hautlieu School Photography Department and Jersey Evening Post. In 2018 the first issue was The Future of St Helier and last year the theme of Liberation and Occupation was published in the week leading up to Liberation 75.
The themes for this publication was inspired partly by the 10th (+1) anniversary edition of Guernsey Photography Festival , 23 Sept - 23 October 2021 on the themes of ‘Acts of Love & Rebellion’
Newspaper kindly sponsored by the Chief Minister.
Exhibition kindly sponsored by the Bailiff of Jersey.
Get a copy here!
PHmuseum has selected Archaeology of Finance in their top picks of 2020. Since 2015 I have been developing MASTERPLAN - a research project using photography, film and archives to tell the story of the island of Jersey’s contemporary prosperity as an International Finance Centre - and Archaeology of Finance is the latest incarnation reflecting on the material culture and nature of finance work as a process of production.
Last year work from this project was exhibited at TAXED TO THE MAX at Noorderlicht Photography Festival in Groningen curated by Hester Keijser and at Ballarat International Foto Biennale in Australia as part of CAPITAL curated by Gareth Syvret. To learn more visit Masterplan. The project is ongoing.
