Biography
Edmund Clark is an artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material. Recurring themes are visualising state power and experiences, spaces and processes of control in contemporary conflict and other contexts. Clark spent five years as artist-in-residence in HM Prison Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic prison for violent and sexually violent offenders. He is Reader in the Political Image at the University of the Arts London.
Download Edmund Clark’s full CV.
Monographs
- White Cliffs, Blue Channel, Yellowhammer (Here Press 2019)
- My Shadow's Reflection (Ikon/Here Press 2018)
- In Place of Hate (Here Press 2017)
- Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (Aperture/Magnum Foundation 2016, 2017)
- Control Order House (Here Press 2013, 2016)
- The Mountains of Majeed (Here Press 2014)
- Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out (Dewi Lewis Publishing 2010)
- Still Life Killing Time (Dewi Lewis Publishing 2007)
Other Books
- Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (Thames & Hudson 2023)
- Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (Thames & Hudson 2022)
- Images in Conflict (Jonas Verlag 2018)
- Can Art Aid in Resolving Conflicts?: 100 Perspectives (Frame 2018)
- Photographers and Research: The Role of Research in Contemporary Photographic Practice (Routledge 2017)
- European Photography: Time Maps. Memory, Archives, Future (Fotografia Europea/Silvana Editoriale 2017)
- [7P] [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields (Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg/Kehrer Verlag 2015)
- Under Surveillance (Revolver Publishing 2015)
- Power (te Neus 2012)
- Confined: The Captive and Keeper in Contemporary Life (The Bluecoat 2011)
- Bringing the War Home (Impressions Gallery 2010)
Talks & Symposia
- Art and Revolution
European Consortium for Political Research, Bordeaux, France - Art and Terrorism
Courtauld Institute, London, UK - Art, Justice and Terror
Imperial War Museum, London, UK - Border Control
Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK - Captivity in Twentieth Century Warfare: Archives, History, Memory
Ecole Militaire, Paris, France - Face Off – Pakistan, Issues of Terror and Intolerance
Department of Culture, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar, Pakistan - Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out
Houses of Parliament, London, UK - Imperial Cultures of the United States
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK - In Place of Hate Symposium
Ikon, Birmingham, UK - Photography and Anthropology
British Museum, London, UK - Provocations in Art: Art Under State Control
Royal Academy, London, UK - Remembering Guantanamo
Columbia University, New York, USA - The Political Life of Things
Imperial War Museum, London, UK - Very Now
London College of Communication, UAL, London, UK