Atlantus is a transoceanic photography project between Martin Toft and Gareth Syvret at Archisle: the Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive on the Island of Jersey. Prompted in part by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of Sir George Carteret naming of the State of New Jersey, USA after Jersey his island home in 1664, the project asks how two places that share a name on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean perceive each other within archives and cultural memory? In five stories that respond through image and text to the people, politics, landscapes, industries and identities of these places the Atlantus Project connects memories, archives and imagined lands on opposite sides of the Atlantic world through contemporary visual discourse. Atlantus is a transoceanic narrative in which estranged lands of incomparable scale come together in poetic gestures that ask: what’s in a name?

Atlantus exhibitions, photobook festivals and reviews

• Unveil'd Presents : Photobook #01, Borough Road Gallery, London, 15 - 18 May, 2018

• Athens Photo Festival, Greece, 12 June – 20 July, 2017

• PLURAL, EFTI Photography School, Spain 28 June 2017

• Lisbon Photobook Fair, Portugal, 24 – 27 Nov 2016

• SCAN Tarragona Photography Festival, Spain, 19 Oct – 8 Jan 2017

• Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival, Punta Secca, 9-11 Sept 2016

• e/uh/-books, London South Bank University, 28 June – 28 Aug 2016

• Prix du Livre Author Book Award, Les Rencontres d'Arles, 8 July 2016

• Papeteries Etienne, Les Nuits de la Photographie, Arles, 7 July 2016

• COSMOS Les Rencontres d'Arles, France, 4-10 July 2016

• New Jersey Department of State Building, Trenton, USA. 24 June 2016

• Pop-up exhibition across 432 public libraries in the State of New Jersey, 23 June 2016

• First Books and Dummies, Photobook Bristol, 10-13 June 2016

• Indie Photobook Library, 19 April 2016

• The Hoarding, Jersey International Finance Centre, St Helier 22 March 2016

• 2016 SPE (Society for Photographic Education) National Conference, Las Vegas, 10-13 March 2016

• Best Photobooks of 2015, Photoeye, Alec Soth / LBM

• Photobooks of 2015, PhotoBookStore, Pierre Bessard

• Quintessence, The Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre, 30 Nov-4 Jan 2016

• The Photobook Blog; Review by Douglas Stockdale

• Polycopies and Le Photobookfest, Paris Photo 12-15 Nov 2015

• Skipton Arts Series Projection Gallery, St Helier 10 Nov 2015

• Impressions Gallery Photobook Fair, Bradford, 10 Oct 2015

• Connections: Jersey Festival of Words, St Helier, 30 Sept–3 Oct 2015

• Unseen Festival & Book Fair, Amsterdam 18–27 Sept 2015

• St Ouen’s Manor, launch and pop-up exhibition, Jersey 15 Aug 2015