Edmund Clark: The Realities of State Power in Conflict and Control Spaces
27 March 2024
“Terror, disruptions of liberty, incarceration, and War echo throughout the work of British artist Edmund Clark, a powerful practice, potent in its approach yet aesthetically gripping. Clark delves into the complex interplay of state power, personal experiences, and the mechanics of control in times of conflict, effectively linking history, politics, and representation.”
See the interview on the Art Plugged website here.
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2024
9 March 2024
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Two works by Edmund Clark
The V&A has acquired two photographic works by the artist Edmund Clark (b. 1963), whose work primarily concerns the perniciousness of state control and repression. Control Order House (2012), the result of Clark gaining access to the house of an anonymous prisoner being kept under house arrest in the UK, will go on display in the V&A’s photography centre in June. Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition is a collection of photographs, taken by Clark in collaboration with the investigative journalist Crofton Black, which document secret detention sites for suspected terrorists in the United States. Both installations are accompanied by rigorous text-based research undertaken by Clark. Much like the work of groups such as Forensic Architecture, Clark’s output straddles the line between art and investigative journalism.
See the news on the Apollo Magazine website here.
Edmund Clark’s groundbreaking works acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum
28 February 2024
Flowers Gallery has announced the Victoria & Albert Museum acquisition of works from two of Edmund Clark‘s groundbreaking projects. “Control Order House” is a critical exploration of the experiences of individuals placed under control orders, a measure implemented by the U.K. government in its counter-terrorism efforts. In “Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition,” created alongside investigator Crofton Black, Clark delves into the hidden aspects of governmental control.
See the news on the Art Plugged website here.
February 2024
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has acquired works from Edmund Clark’s series ‘Control Order House’ and ‘Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition’ for their permanent collection.
Flowers Gallery is delighted to announce the V&A’s acquisition of works from two of Edmund Clark’s groundbreaking projects. Control Order House examines the lives of individuals subjected to control orders as part of the UK government’s response to terrorism. This work delves into the impact of security measures, introduced under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, including the power to relocate ‘controlled persons’ to a house anywhere in the country, to impose a curfew, and to restrict communication electronically and in person. ‘Controlled persons’ were not prosecuted for terrorist-related activity, and the evidence against them remained secret. Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, created in collaboration with investigator Crofton Black, confronts the nature of invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the ‘war on terror,’ until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organised by the US Central Intelligence Agency – transfers without legal process, otherwise known as extraordinary rendition.
Collaboration: A Potential History
14 November 2023
Edmund Clark, Reader in the Political Image at LCC, is in discussion with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Laura Wexler about their new book exploring and recontextualising collaborative photographic practice.
Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photography’s ‘single creator’ tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration – the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography.
Orange Screen in the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries
10 November 2023
The film ‘Orange Screen’, made by Edmund Clark in collaboration with Max Houghton, has been included in the new Blavatnik Galleries at the IWM.
IWM’s new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries provide a vivid account of modern war.
Showcasing the experiences and innovations of artists, filmmakers and photographers, these galleries explore the complex tension between creativity and destruction.
Discover how visual practitioners are also powerful narrators who shape how we think and feel about conflict, and the role of art, film and photography in influencing public opinion.
Over 500 works chosen for display reflect the seismic social, cultural and political changes across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the individual perspectives of their makers.
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography
November 2023
‘Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition’, by Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, is included in a groundbreaking new book by Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler
Collaboration presents a groundbreaking and multifaceted history of photography which explores photography through the lens of collaboration, challenging the dominant narratives around photographic history and authorship. In a vast, collaborative effort led by five of the great thinkers and practitioners in photography that includes more than 550 photographs and over 80 text contributors, this book breaks apart photography’s ‘single creator’ tradition by bringing to light tangible traces of collaboration – the various relationships, exchanges and interactions which occur between all participants in the event of photography.
Looking Other Ways: Contemporary Readings of Archival Presences
17 October 2023
A presentation of collaborative research by the Arab Image Foundation and London College of Communication.
How can looking at images of the past help us understand the present?
Hear the artists and researchers of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, and artist and London College of Communication Reader in the Political Image, Edmund Clark, discuss how visual research into archives of images, and conversations about what the reading of past framings of the world mean, develop shared understandings of contemporary situations. The Arab Image Foundation members will present the history and future of the foundation in Beirut, and, with Edmund Clark, will discuss how research into the foundation’s archives can contribute to understanding political and social issues.
Arab Image Foundation Panel Discussion
18 October 2023
Hear artists and researchers from the Arab Image Foundation (AIF) in Beirut discuss the way transdisciplinary research into photographic archives develop diverse understandings of contemporary situations.
AIF members Vartan Avakian, Fabiola Hanna and Rana Nasser Eddin will share preservation and research practices at the foundation with artist Edmund Clark, who will be moderating the event.
Together they will look at how research into archives contributes to wider understanding of political and social issues.
See the details of the event on the Photographers’ Gallery website here.
Readership
July 2023
Edmund Clark has been appointed as a Research Reader at UAL with the title of Reader in the Political Image.
Workshop series organised by photographer Mimi Mollica
25 – 30 June 2023
Conducted by documentary photographer Mimi Mollica with Special Guest Tutors artist, photographer Edmund Clark and Director of Photography of 6 MOIS magazine Martina Bacigalupo, the week-long workshop will focus on helping you to develop your current projects and contribute to the FRACTURE collective project on the Belice Valley in West Sicily.
Civilization: The Way We Live Now
2 June – 17 September 2023
Edmund Clark’s work is included in this major group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery.
This landmark exhibition tracks the visual threads of humanity’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe, through the eyes of 150 of the world’s most accomplished photographers. Featuring many previously unseen images, Civilization acknowledges the diverse material and spiritual cultures that make up global societies today, spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas. Exploring a wide range of subjects, from our great united achievements to our collective failings, Civilization: The Way We Live Now highlights the complexity and contradictions of contemporary civilization.
Advisory Board – Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant
May 2023
Edmund Clark was invited to be part of the new advisory board for the important Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant.
10 May 2023
The first talk on 10th May will be with Prix Pictet nominated photographers Edgar Martins, SONY World 2023 ‘Photographer of the year’, and acclaimed British photographer Edmund Clark on the role of photography in times of conflict.
11 – 14 May 2023
Edmund Clark is showing work with Flowers Gallery at Photo London at Booth G25
24 March – 8 April 2023
States of Violence opens at a/political, 6 Stannary Street, London, SE11 4AA, marking an unprecedented collaboration with WikiLeaks and the Wau Holland Foundation.
The exhibition brings together artworks by more than 15 artists and collectives to unveil and oppose techniques of government oppression, from war and torture to police brutality and surveillance. Artists include: Ai Weiwei, Peter Kennard, Dread Scott, Edmund Clark, David Birkin and The Vivienne Foundation.
Looking Other Ways – Contemporary Readings of the Colonial Presence
2 – 18 December 2022
Edmund Clark co-facilitated collaborative research workshops at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon, on the theme of contemporary readings of the colonial presence in the collections of the AIF, with artists, journalists and students from from Lebanon, Armenia, Palestine, Egypt and UK.
FT Weekend Magazine ‘Coast’ Special (paywall)
13 August 2022
The FT Weekend Magazine featured Edmund Clark’s work on the architecture of the town of Dover, and the landscape and geology of the White Cliffs of East Kent, as a focus for contemporary political, economic and cultural tensions in the UK.
fLIP London Independent Photography Magazine Insight Supplement
May 2021
Edmund Clark’s work and career was featured in a fLIP insights supplement in an interview with Arun Misra.
9 October 2021 – 20 February 2022
MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
The exhibition takes as a point of departure the concept of the Real in today’s sociopolitical climate.
In the current era of post-truth, fake news, and polarizing 24-hour media cycles, defined by information overload, how can one distinguish what is real from what is not?
University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt
20 – 21 May 2022
“To what extent are the positions and perspectives of art and design changing? What is the relationship between materials, media and content? How can one take a stand, how can one contribute? Is the aesthetic autonomy of design and art in danger, or are there new ways of situating it? How are current challenges affecting the differences and similarities between art and design?”
Edmund Clark will take part in several panel discussions at Taking Sides: Design and Art Between Autonomy and Intervention, a two day symposium organised by the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany.
See the symposium website for more info.
Online
8 September 2021, 6 – 8pm
September 2021 marks the first in a series of twentieth anniversaries associated with what became known as the Global War on Terror. Though the UK and US have only just withdrawn military forces from Afghanistan, bringing to a close, for some, this ‘longest war’, conflicts in new regions are ongoing, while the impact and legacies of the war will continue to be felt in the decades to come in countries across the globe.
This SPIN panel therefore brings together a range of experts on the war to reflect on what we now know (and still don’t) about its causes and its legacies. Covering the war on terror through its military occupations; the rise of new domestic and international surveillance and police powers; the development of new industries, technologies and specialists in terrorism and counter-terrorism (including the rise of special operations’ manhunts and drone warfare); as well as the scandals of extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo and torture, and the challenges of accountability in an age of digital archives and misinformation.
Speakers include Amal Abu-Bakare, Edmund Clark, Nivi Manchanda, Owen Thomas, Simon Frankel Pratt and the panel will be chaired by Elspeth Van Veeren. For more information please visit SPIN website.
Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn, Germany
23 May – 1 August 2021
A series of works from My Shadow’s Reflection are presented in the group show Les Fleurs du Mal held at Parrotta Contemporary Art in Cologne and Bonn.
Palazzo da Mosto, Reggio Emilia
22 May – 4 July 2021
Control Order House book is included in the Fotografia Europea exhibition of publications Home is Where One Starts From, curated by Francesco Colombelli.
Phillips, London and Artsy, online
May 2021
Rare, sold out or limited edition prints and books donated by over 200 of the world’s most renowned photographers to support young and emerging photojournalists will be available to buy at the auction taking place live in London at Phillips and online with Artsy.
For more information please visit Ian Parry Scholarship website or Instagram account.
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, online
18 February 2021, 3:30 – 5pm
Edmund Clark will present his work exploring ideas of visibility, representation, trauma and self-image in developing strategies of visualisation in art practice about criminal justice in English prisons, with particular reference to projects from HMP Grendon and HMP Kingston, and the subsequent exhibitions, catalogues and monographs.
For more information, please visit the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law events page.
Ikon Gallery, online
1 – 7 February, 2021
Edmund Clark’s Oresteia (2017, 3-channel video, sound. 1 hour 14 minutes) will be screened as part of Ikon Gallery’s Faster Than Ever online film programme. Clark collaborated with the psychodrama department at HM Prison Grendon on a filmed response to Aeschylus’s Oresteia. The characters are performed by the therapists, whilst the prisoners identify with the perpetrators, victims and witnesses.
For more information please visit Ikon website.
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, USA
10 September – 10 January 2021
Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, is the first exhibition of Odette England’s book by the same name, which was published in the US in March 2020, marking the 40th year of Roland Barthes’ renowned work, Camera Lucida (La chambre claire). As part of this project, England invited more than 200 photography-based artists, writers, critics, curators, and historians from around the world to contribute an image or text that reflects on the instigator of Barthes’ semiotic musings—a photograph of his mother, Henriette, aged 5, that is never seen in the book, and is perhaps one of the most famous unseen photographs in the world.
Online
1 – 14 December 2020
As a former W. Eugene Smith Fund Fellow, Edmund Clark contributed to the flash print sale to support the 2021 grant cycle. Prints from 57 photographers are available to support the fund which has in turn supported documentary photographers for over 40 years.
Visit W. Eugene Smith Fund website for details.
Online
22 October 2020, 7pm CET
image/con/text, edited by Karen Fromm, Sophia Greiff, Malte Radtki and Anna Stemmler, delves into the possibilities of the documentary and the development of visual narrations that subvert stereotyping and traditional viewing habits. The contributions in image/con/text focus specifically on the textuality and contextuality of documentary practices and on explorations of their bounds, in particular the relationships between art, documentation and journalism.
How can – or should – the effect of images be enhanced? What possibilities currently exist to subvert the stereotyping and traditional viewing habits of classical documentary photography and its narrative forms? Prof. Steffen Siegel, the artist Martha Rosler, the photographer Edmund Clark and the art historian Prof. Susanne von Falkenhausen will explore these and other questions.
For more information please visit [Image Matters] website. You can register here to join via Zoom or visit this link for a YouTube live stream.
Online
3 October 2020, 10am – 4pm
Supported by Arts Council England GRAIN are organising their first online portfolio review day. During the morning sessions invited expert reviewers Bindi Vora, Edmund Clark and Tom Lovelace will give short presentations on their work and careers. Later in the day there will be opportunities for one to one portfolio advice and reviews.
For more information please visit GRAIN website.
Edmund Clark is included in vol. 3 of Conversations, a book of interviews with contemporary photographers, conducted by Rémi Coignet, photo book critic, and published by The Eyes Publishing. This volume focuses on photographers who are particularly interested in editing and editorial work. Photographers thus fully discuss their editorial project, their vision of the photo book and its importance in their photographic practice.
You can purchase the book in English or French from The Eyes website.
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Diesel Engine Factory, Pingyao, China
Opening on 19 September 2020
Photographs from Edmund Clark’s project White Cliffs, Blue Channel, Yellowhammer will be on display in one of China’s most prominent photography festivals in Pingyao. An online version of the festival will also launch on 19 September. More details TBA shortly.
Monday 31 August 2020, 6pm
Edmund Clark will be in conversation with RAKE Collective’s Vera Zurbrügg about Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The conversation will be streamed live on RAKE Collective Instagram account.
Tuesday 21 April 2020
Edmund Clark will discuss his publications White Cliffs, Blue Channel, Yellowhammer; My Shadow’s Reflection; In Place of Hate; Negative Publicity and others live from London.
10×10’s new #INSTAsalons are live presentations from photographers, publishers, bookshop owners and others in the photobook community. Each salon lasts approximately 40-55 minutes and allows for comments and questions. All #INSTAsalons remain available for 24 hours after the end of the salon on @10x10photobooks Instagram account.
11 Feb – 7 Mar 2020
Flowers Gallery celebrates its 50-year anniversary on 10 February 2020, marking the event with a London exhibition of contemporary work by gallery artists produced especially for the occasion.
The exhibition includes 50 works by 50 gallery artists, representing the diverse breadth of the programme developed over the past five decades and emphasising the ongoing focus on exhibiting contemporary works of art.
Produced in a range of media, each work will measure 50 x 50 cm.
University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Thursday 5 March 2020, 3 -5pm
In this talk Clark will explore ideas of visibility, representation, trauma and self-image in developing strategies of visualisation in art practice about criminal justice in English prisons, with particular reference to his work in HMP Grendon and HMP Kingston, and the subsequent exhibitions, catalogues and monographs.
Established in 1962, HMP Grendon is the only prison in Europe to operate wholly as a therapeutic community. Inmates there must have accepted responsibility for their offence, exercising a degree of control over the day-to-day running of their lives, making a commitment to intensive group therapy, democratic decision-making, and holding accountability to each other.
The talk will reflect on how prisoners and criminality are ‘seen’ in contemporary society and media discourse and strategies for visualising experiences of incarceration that question these forms of representation.
For more information, please visit the University of Oxford Faculty of Law website.
Institut Pour La Photographie, Lille, France
12 October – 15 December 2019
Home Sweet Home brings together thirty artists of all generations who allow us to share the intimacy and the everyday life of Britain from the 1970s to the present day. A look around the property that sheds light from different angles on the social, cultural and political realities, past and present, of British society. Installation of Control Order House will be on view alongside works by Ed Alcock, Dana Ariel, Keith Arnatt, Laura Blight, Juno Calypso, Natasha Caruana, Mark Cawson, John Paul Evans, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Anthony Haughey, Tom Hunter, Sarah Jones, Peter Kennard, Neil Kenlock, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Chris Leslie, Stephen McCoy, Iain McKell, Michael McMillan, Daniel Meadows, David Moore, John Myers, Martin Parr, Magda Segal, Andy Sewell, David Spero, Eva Stenram, Clare Strand, Colin Thomas, Gee Vaucher, Gillian Wearing. Home Sweet Home is curated by Isabelle Bonet.
30 Oct 2019, 11:45am – 12:30pm
Faculty III, Media, Information and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover, Germany
Edmund Clark will give a talk entitled Bending the Screen: Ekphrasis, plain sight and the monster within during the Image/con/text: Complementary Testimonies in Documentary Discourse symposium organised by the department of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at Hanover’s University of Applied Sciences and Arts. The conference will take place over 2 days on 29 and 30 October, 2019.
For more information and a full programme please visit Image Matters website.
Maison Des Peintres, Rencontres d’Arles, France
1 July – 22 September 2019
Home Sweet Home brings together thirty artists of all generations who allow us to share the intimacy and the everyday life of Britain from the 1970s to the present day. A look around the property that sheds light from different angles on the social, cultural and political realities, past and present, of British society. Installation of Control Order House will be on view alongside works by Ed Alcock, Dana Ariel, Keith Arnatt, Laura Blight, Juno Calypso, Natasha Caruana, Mark Cawson, John Paul Evans, Anna Fox, Ken Grant, Anthony Haughey, Tom Hunter, Sarah Jones, Peter Kennard, Neil Kenlock, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Chris Leslie, Stephen McCoy, Iain McKell, Michael McMillan, Daniel Meadows, David Moore, John Myers, Martin Parr, Magda Segal, Andy Sewell, David Spero, Eva Stenram, Clare Strand, Colin Thomas, Gee Vaucher, Gillian Wearing. Home Sweet Home is curated by Isabelle Bonet.
12 September 2019, 10am – 5pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK
Redeye Photographic Network are organising a masterclass with the Edmund Clark as he explains his creative processes, approaches to photography and difficult subject matters prevalent in his most successful work.
For more information about the masterclass and to book a place please visit Redeye website.
11 September 2019, 6 – 8pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK
Edmund Clark, Roxana Allison, and Pablo Allison will be presenting their latest work and discussing the similarities and differences between their approach, style and subject matter. This event is organised by Redeye Photography Network.
For more information and to book tickets please visit Redeye website.
Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn
31 May – 27 July 2019
A print from Sites of Special Scientific Interest is included in the group show From the Rocket to the Moon taking place simultaneously at the Sandro Parrotta galleries in Cologne and Bonn. The opening in Cologne takes place on 31 May at 6pm and in Bonn on 1 June.
Founder’s Gallery, The Military Museums, Calgary, Canada
1 February – 20 May 2019
Perhaps the ultimate denial of freedom is captivity; this exhibition brings together photographic work that explores state suppression, control and containment, and summons the never-ending quest for individual liberty and human dignity. The exhibition is curated by Dona Schwartz (University of Calgary) and will feature works by artists Nina Berman, Edmund Clark, Paula Luttringer and Peter van Agtmael.
London College of Comunication, London, UK
17 April – 3 May 2019
Visible Justice brings together artists, activists, journalists, civil liberties groups, human rights lawyers and media students for an exhibition and events programme exploring social justice in national and international contexts.
Presented by London College of Communication’s Media School for its annual public showcase, Visible Justice will investigate the role of media technologies and collaborative partnerships in relation to such issues as climate change, displacement and persecution of refugees, knife crime, torture and rendition, state power, incarceration and the death penalty.
Curated by artist David Birkin and writer and London College of Communication Course Leader Max Houghton, Visible Justice will feature immersive installation, photography, video, sound, and a series of talks, performances, screenings and events – all free and open to the public.
Artists and curators:
Poulomi Basu, David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, Polly Creed, Abd Doumany, Edmund Clark, David Birkin, Max Houghton, Corinne Silva, Nathaniel White.
London College of Comunication, London, UK
Tuesday 30 April, 6-9.30pm
Free and open to all – booking essential
Book tickets
Part of Visible Justice, join journalists, youth workers, experts, and activists for a roundtable discussion about knife crime and restorative justice, followed by a screening of Edmund Clark’s film ‘Oresteia’, created in collaboration with the men of HMP Grendon and the psychodrama department.
‘Oresteia’ was created in collaboration with the men of HMP Grendon and the psychodrama department during Clark’s residency at the prison for Ikon Gallery Birmingham (2014–2018).
Guests can join for both sessions or can book for the discussion or film screening individually. If you wish to attend both sessions, please book a ticket for each.
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7 March 2019, 3 – 4pm
Edmund Clark will join Creative Review, Christiane Zschommler, David Birkin, Hannah Starkey & Open Eye Gallery in a panel discussion The Reflective Lens: Photography Today, part of the Future Now Symposium in York, UK organised by Aesthetica Magazine. The invention of the camera gave birth to a 21st century mass media tool. Photography is ubiquitous. Is it the signifier of our times, opinions and lives in contemporary society. How can we work towards a compassionate culture which promotes visibility to a diversity of perspectives and encourages the full spectrum of expression, including meaningful development for the arts at large?
For more information and to book tickets visit Aesthetica Magazine website.
10 January – 9 February, 2019
Flowers Gallery will present its first exhibition in 2019, titled Flowers Contemporary I & II taking place across both London locations in Cork Street and Kingsland Road. The exhibition brings together new works by gallery artists, representing the wide-ranging themes and concerns defining their practice today. On view will be works by artists including Glenys Barton, Glen Baxter, George Blacklock, Edward Burtynsky, Aleah Chapin, Movana Chen, Cedric Christie, Edmund Clark, Bernard Cohen, Ken Currie, Jane Edden, Boyd & Evans, Nancy Fouts, Tom Hammick, David Hepher, Nicola Hicks, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Peter Howson, Claerwen James, Lucy Jones, John Keane, John Kirby, Tim Lewis, John Loker, John MacLean, Ishbel Myerscough, Jiro Osuga, Freya Payne, Tom Phillips, Simon Roberts, Carol Robertson, Michael Sandle, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Peter Schmersal, Kevin Sinnott, and Renny Tait.
Edmund Clark’s installation of photographs from My Shadow’s Reflection will be on view at Flowers Gallery on Kingsland Road. Private view at 6pm on Wednesday 9 January 2019.
22 January 2019, 6:30pm
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will present their work Negative Publicity:Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition as part of the AA School’s Open Seminars series organised by Eyal Weizman with Christina Varvia and Merve Anil. The seminar introduces the means and modes by which architecture — as a contemporary set of techniques and as a body of knowledge — can become an investigative and evidentiary mode through which to interrogate contemporary politics and conflict. Each of the seminars — building upon the work of the Forensic Architecture agency, its collaborators and friends — introduces a concept that bridges between architecture media and conflict.
For more information please visit the AA School’s website.
12 December 2018, 6:30 – 9:30pm
Critical Contemplation: On Collaboration will be held at Photofusion in Brixton. This event, held in celebration of the launch of the new MA Photography and Collaboration programme at Coventry University, will bring together a range of speakers for an evening of discussion and debate around the role of collaboration in contemporary photographic practice. Together we will consider the spectrum of uses ‘collaboration’ can have, ranging from social practice, participatory workshops, or as a way of describing new ways of working between subject and photographer. The term is often used to reflect a current trend in creating ‘ethical’ imagery, but at what point does ‘collaboration’ become misappropriated to describe something more problematic? The evening will be chaired by Anthony Luvera and the speakers include Edmund Clark, Janice McLaren and Adrian Wood.
Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn, Germany
7 September – 10 November 2018
A solo presentation of Control Order House will be on view in Cologne, whilst a selection of works from The Mountains of Majeed, Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out and Letters to Omar will be shown at Parrotta’s space in Bonn.
The opening at the gallery in Cologne will take place on Friday 7 September from 6pm until 10pm whilst a discussion between Edmund Clark and Thomas Seelig, Head of the Photography Collection at Museum Flokwang, will take place at Parrotta’s Burg Lede in Bonn on Sunday 9 September at 4pm.
9 November, 3 – 3:45pm
Edmund Clark will present his publication My Shadow’s Reflection alongside photographer Caio Reisewitz and the winner of Aperture and Paris Photo’s PhotoBook Awards. The talks will take place at the Paris Photo fair and are organised by The Eyes.
For more information please visit the Paris Photo website.
5 November, 9am – 6pm
This workshop explores the ways in which the study of secrecy can add to our understanding of the causes and legacies of violent conflict. Contributors are invited to reflect on the ways secrecy may function as an essential part of the structures of power/knowledge in state and security-making, including through resistant and dissenting practices. This includes consideration of the interconnections between secrecy and practices of concealing, deceiving, lying, obfuscating, ignoring and de-sensing, and includes exploring the relationship between secrecy and the unseen and unheard, the hidden, the absent, the opaque and the fake through gendered, sexed, ableist and racialised ways of knowing. Confirmed speakers include: Edmund Clark, Oliver Kearns, Brian Rappert, Lisa Stampnitzky, Clare Stevens, Owen Thomas, Elspeth Van Veeren, William Walters.
For more information and to register visit the Eventbrite site.
5 November 2018, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Edmund Clark will take part in Artists’ Books Now, an event exploring the artists’ book and its place in contemporary culture. This event’s in-the-round format is designed to rise to the open spirit of artists’ books by offering an accessible way of exploring them. This evening’s artists will ‘think aloud’ about the meanings and pleasures of artists’ books focusing on the theme of place. Participants include Chris Taylor, the artist and academic, the book artist and poet Nancy Campbell, photography and video artist Véronique Chance, and the artists Edmund Clark and Leonie Lachlan. They are joined in conversation by the essayist, art writer, curator and librarian Clive Phillpot.
For more information and to book a place please visit the British Library website.
27 October, 10am – 5pm
Visible Justice: Collective Imaging and Imagining is the inaugural symposium of the Visible Justice research collective at London College of Communication. This day-long series of talks and presentations will look at how cultural practices and the visual arts can create meaningful interventions into existing legal and political frameworks. Speakers include Ellen Mara De Wachter, Fred Ritchin, Helene Kazan in conversation with Yoriko Otomo, David Birkin in conversation with Maya Foa, Edmund Clark in conversation with Jinnie Jefferies, David Blandy in conversation with Alison Drake, as well as Sofia Karim. The conference will be moderated by Max Houghton.
For more information and to register please visit the Eventbrite site.
10 August – 29 September 2018
Control Order House will be exhibited in this group exhibition alongside works by Göran Gnaudschun und Anne Heinlein, Jelena Jureša, Hrair Sarkissian and Ahlam Shibli.
Opening event will take place on 9 August at 8pm.
21 – 23 September 2018
Flowers Gallery will present for the first time a series of prints from My Shadow’s Reflection, work produced by Clark over a three year residency at HMP Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic community prison, at this year’s edition of Unseen Amsterdam.
Please visit the Unseen Amsterdam website for more information.
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
8 June – 26 August 2018 (extended until 23 September 2018)
Edmund Clark & Crofton Black’s project Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition will be exhibited in this group exhibition curated by Petra Roettig & Stephanie Bunk. The show is part of the 2018 Triennial of Photography: Breaking Point and will also feature works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Bogomir Ecker, Harun Farocki, Jenny Holzer, Sven Johne, Annette Kelm, Mårten Lange, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Peter Piller, Barbara Probst, Thomas Ruff and others.
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
23 June – 11 August 2018
Prints from Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out and The Mountains of Majeed will be exhibited in this group exhibition alongside works by Patricia Piccinini, Rina Banerjee, Tim Hawkinson, Isabella Kirkland, Russell Crotty, Surabhi Saraf, Michael Light, John O’Reilly, Alan Rath, Cornelius Völker, Barbara Kruger, Kiki Smith, Janine Antoni, Julian Charrière and Bruce Conner.
July 6, 2018, 11am – 4pm
Edmund Clark will present his work at HMP Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic community prison. This seminar coincides with the Art for All Exhibition 2018 marking 10 years of work with prisons, young offenders and community groups. There will also be a chance to view the gallery’s summer exhibition of work by James Henry Pullen.
The seminar is delivered in partnership with the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA). For more information and to book please visit Watts Gallery website.
July 5, 2018
Edmund Clark will present his work from HMP Grendon at this 3 day conference organised Birmingham City University. More information to follow.
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
April 14 – June 24, 2018
Works from Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition will be exhibited during Krakow Photomonth in Poland. Edmund Clark and Crofton Black’s project is part of the group exhibition Space of Flows, curated by Iris Sikking, and will be shown alongside Esther Hovers, Agnieszka Rayss, Rune Peitersen, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber and Armand Quetsch.
May 18, 2018, 12:30 – 1:45pm
In a world where “alternative facts” are offered instead of reality, art offers us the chance to make sense of the world. Edmund Clark is an award-winning artist who engages with state censorship to explore the hidden spaces of control in the “war on terror.” Having exhibited at a number of galleries including ICP, New York, and Imperial War Museum, London, Clark will discuss how his work finds new ways to visualise the covert sites and experiences associated with the global response to terrorism, and the impact this has on our society and culture.
This presentation is part of the Aesthetica’s Future Now Symposium. For more information and to book please visit Aesthetica Magazine’s website.
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
January 26 – May 6, 2018
Through photographs and declassified documents, Clark reveals how the unexpected connections between those who exercise control and those who are subject to it bring this covert torture trail to a human level. He highlights the everyday veneers under which purveyors of detention and interrogation operate in plain sight, brings light to the processes beneath, and reflects on how terror impacts us all by altering fundamental aspects of our society and culture. Organised by Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP Erin Barnett, this is Clark’s first major solo exhibition in the United States.
May 2, 2018, 6:30 – 8pm
Edmund Clark will be joined by performance artist and scholar Elise Morrison, assistant professor of theatre studies at Yale; Thomas Keenan, director of the Human Rights Project and associate professor of comparative literature at Bard College; and Dror Ladin, staff attorney at the ACLU National Security Project, for a discussion on the intersections of conflict, policy-making, and new forms of visualisation in our globalised, surveilled culture of spectacle. This exchange draws on themes from the current ICP Museum exhibition Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died, enriching the conversation around Clark’s work about the impact of the War on Terror during the final week of the show.
Free, booking essential. Please visit the ICP website for more information.
April 25, 2018, 5 – 7pm
Anna Marazuela Kim, Institute of Advanced Studies Fellow, writer and photographer brings into conversation artists Lola Frost and Edmund Clark, whose new bodies of work, in painting and photography, bring into view bodies confined both institutionally and psychically.
The seminar is organised by the IAS, University College London.
For more information and to book a free place on the seminar please visit IAS’s website.
April 19, 2018, 7 – 9pm
Edmund Clark will discuss with Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, his artistic practice, which combines a range of reference and forms including photography, video, found image, text and installation. Clark uses these mediums to explore the links between representation and politics.
Edmund Clark will be signing books after the talk and Here Press will be present with the publications for purchase.
The event is part of Photo London 2018 public programme and will take place in The Screening Room, Somerset House.
For more information and to book tickets please visit Photo London’s Eventbrite page.
December 6, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Edmund Clark has been Ikon’s artist-in-residence (2014-17) at Britain’s only therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire. An artist with a longstanding interest in the incarceration and its effects, this exhibition showcases the body of work he has developed in response to the prison and helping to facilitate the prisoners’ own creative output. The work explores HMP Grendon as an environment and a process, as well as a place of incarceration, which is the result of Clark’s familiarity and engagement with the prisoners, prison officers and staff’s daily routine. The works raise important questions about ideas of representation, self-image, trauma and panopticism.
Flowers Gallery, New York, USA
January 27 – March 3, 2018
The Mountains of Majeed is a reflection on the end of ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ in Afghanistan through photography, found imagery and Taliban poetry. Based at Bagram Airfield, the largest American base in Afghanistan, and formerly home to 40,000, Edmund Clark examines the experience of the vast majority of military personnel and contractors who have serviced Enduring Freedom without ever leaving the base. Clark distills their war down to a concise series of photographs of the two views they have of Afghanistan: what they experience of the country over the walls or through the wire of their bases, and what they see through pictorial representations within these enclaves of high technology and occupation.
Bringing together artists, therapists, critics and criminologists, the symposium will consider how prisoners and the criminal justice system are perceived by the public, politicians and media and the potential for artists to influence these perceptions. Presentations and discussion will address the following: the representation of prison(ers) in the media and discourse about criminal justice; the representation of prison(ers) in art and cinema; the role of art and creative therapies in prison and rehabilitation.
This one-day symposium is a collaboration between Ikon, HMP Grendon and Birmingham City University (BCU).
Monday, 12 February 2018, 11am – 6pm. For more information, list of speakers and a full programme please visit the Ikon website.
Feb 7, 2018, 6-8pm
My Shadow’s Reflection is part of a new body of work made by Edmund Clark as artist in residence in Europe’s only entirely therapeutic prison environment, HMP Grendon. Please join us for the book launch at Flowers Gallery, 82 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DP. Published by Here Press in collaboration with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Free, booking essential.
Jan 30, 2018, 6:30-8pm
Edmund Clark and ICP Director of Exhibitions and Collections Erin Barnett will discuss Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died, on view at the ICP Museum from January 26 until May 6, 2018. Free, booking essential.
Jan 27, 2018, 4-6pm
To mark the opening of The Mountains Of Majeed, Flowers Gallery New York will be hosting a special event with Edmund Clark and Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography. Free, booking essential.
Noorderlicth Photofestival 2017, Groningen, The Netherlands
October 22 – November 26, 2017
Selected works from Sites of Special Scientific Interest will be included in Noorderlicht Photofestival 2017. The 24th edition of the festival, entitled Nucleus, is about science and the representation of it by photographers and artists. The exhibitions revolve around the human urge to want to understand and control the world around us.
Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
September 8 – November 11, 2017
Works from Mountains of Majeed will be exhibited alongside works by Wilfried Bauer, Sibylle Bergemann, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Raymond Depardon, Mario Dondero, Arno Fischer, Thomas Hoepker, Francesco Jodice, Karl-Ludwig Lange, Ohad Matalon, Ute Mahler, Rudi Meisel, Sebastião Salgado, Larry Towell, Jörn Vanhöfen, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Ulrich Wüst, Harf Zimmermann. The Wall is curated by Dr. Christiane Stahl, Director of the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung.
September 23, 2017
Edmund Clark will join artist Richard Mosse in a discussion moderated by academic, writer and Founding-Editor of Ibraaz Anthony Downey during Unseen Amsterdam. The discussion is a part of the fair’s Living Room sessions, guest-curated by London’s Barbican Centre and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
For more information please visit the website of Unseen Amsterdam.
Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
May 20 – September 17, 2017
A selection of Letters to Omar from the collection of Winterthur’s Fotomuseum will be shown as part of their exhibition series Situations.
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
July 28, 2016 – August 28, 2017
The exhibition brings together several series of Clark’s work including images and documents of CIA operated secret prisons or ‘black sites’, photographs from the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, correspondence from around the world sent to a British detainee in Guantanamo that was transformed by the censorship and intervention of the US military, and the experience of a ‘controlled person’ who was placed in a house in suburban England under the restrictive conditions of a control order – a form of house arrest or detention without trial – introduced in 2005.
Palazzo da Mosto, Reggio Emilia
May 5 – July 9, 2017
Selected works from Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition will be exhibited during the Fotografia Europea festival in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Edmund Clark and Crofton Black’s project is part of the group exhibition Archivi del futuro, curated by Diane Dufour, Elio Grazioli and Walter Guadagnini.
Princeton University Art Museum
February 4 – July 2, 2017
Revealing Pictures features more than thirty photographs from the collection of Christopher E. Olofson. Works on view by Edmund Clark, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Pieter Hugo, Liu Zheng, Zanele Muholi, Robert Polidori, and others serve as striking examples of photography’s ability to explore issues of identity, place, and nationhood.
GAF – Galerie für Fotografie, Hanover, Germany
May 18 – June 18, 2017
Images from Letters to Omar as well as videos Orange Screen and Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday will be exhibited in Images in Conflict alongside works by Dona Abboud, Christoph Bangert, Harun Farocki, Ziyah Gafić, Dirk Gieselmann & Armin Smailovic and Tim Hetherington. The exhibition and accompanying symposium are organised by the Department of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover.
June 17, 2017, 11am – 5pm
A day of conversation and debate curated by London College of Communication in response to War of Terror, Clark’s solo show at the IWM. Art, Justice and Terror will bring together artists, lawyers, eyewitnesses, writers and academics Moazzam Begg, David Birkin, Cori Crider, Anthony Downey, Max Houghton, Diana Matar, Stephen Mayes, Raffaello Pantucci, Fred Ritchin, Hilary Roberts, Christopher Stewart, Eyal Weizman to discuss how art may contribute to informing social attitudes on matters of justice in a time of global conflict, when the law has at times been absent.
For more information and to book a place visit the IWM website.
Edmund Clark will present his work at a one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with the Institute of the Americas, University College London.
Wednesday 5 May, 9.30am to 6pm, University of Warwick. For more information and other speakers see the event programme.
April 6, 2017, 6pm
Edmund Clark will present his work at the Princeton University Art Museum.
More information on the Princeton University Art Museum website.
March 8, 2017, 6:30pm
Edmund Clark will share his experience of working in places of incarceration at MAC in Birmingham, UK.
More information on MAC and Koestler Trust websites.
March 3, 2017, 6:30pm
Edmund Clark will be joining museum director and curator David Elliott in a panel discussion at the Royal Academy of Arts in London exploring the relationship between the arts and the state. The discussion will be chaired by Kirsty Lang, presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’.
More information on the Royal Academy of Arts website.
January 27, 2016, 5-6pm
Edmund will be presenting his recent work at the University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art. The Department Research Seminar is a weekly one-hour lecture series that is open to the entire university.
BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
November 4, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Selected works from Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition will be on show in Scratch on the Eyelid, group exhibition featuring works of Jean-Michel Alberola, François Boisrond, Edmund Clark, Damien Deroubaix, Joanna Helander & Bo Persson, Marek Kuś, Zbigniew Libera, Jean-Christophe Menu, Tony Oursler and Krzysztof Wodiczko. This exhibition is part of the XXV Ars Cameralis festival.
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black’s project Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition has received the 2017 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York in the Documentary and Photojournalism category.
For more information visit ICP website.
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition is included in the Lens Culture Experts’ Top 14 Photobooks of 2016, as selected by Peggy Sue Amison.
More information and full list on Lens Culture website.
December 7, 2016, 6:30pm
Edmund Clark will talk about his residency at HMP Grendon during this year’s Anne Peaker Lecture organised by The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Rashmi Becker, Carlotta Allum and Raheel Mohammed.
More information on CLINKS website.
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition is included in the editor of The Brooklyn Rail, Benjamin Gottlieb’s, list of notable art books of 2016.
More information and full list on The Brooklyn Rail website.
Tim Clark, Editor in Chief of 1000 Words Photography, has included Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition in his Top 10 Photobooks of 2016.
More information and full list on 1000 Words website.
Rob Hornstra, photographer and lecturer at KABK, The Hague, has included Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition in his list of Photobooks of 2016 for Photobookstore Magazine.
More information and full list on Photobookstore website.
November 10-13, 2016
East Wing are showing a selection of Edmund Clark and Crofton Black’s co-authored Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition as part of their exhibition Where are we now? at Paris Photo booth B31.
See the gallery page on the Paris Photo website for details.
November 11, 2016, 8pm
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will present Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition at Le Bal in Paris during Paris Photo.
More information on Le Bal website.
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will be signing their publication Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition during Paris Photo. The session will take place on Thursday, Nov 10 at 4.30pm in the Aperture Foundation booth, F7.
For more information visit Paris Photo website.
November 4, 2016
Clark will present his work at the photography Department of Photography at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (KABK), the Netherlands.
More information on KABK website.
Nov 2, 2016, 2-4.30pm
Edmund Clark, IWM’s Head of Art Kathleen Palmer and Research Curator Hilary Roberts, and LCC Senior Lecturer Paul Tebbs will present at the symposium exploring how, as warfare becomes increasingly asymmetric, contemporary photographic practice in relation to conflict has had to move beyond the concept of the frontline. Organised and chaired by Max Houghton, writer, critic, curator and course leader of the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at LCC.
For more information visit LCC website.
October 23, 2016, 4pm
Edmund Clark will present ‘Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition’ at Photo Publishers’ Market held at Phoenix Brighton. The market is co-organised by Brighton Photo Fringe and Photoworks/Brighton Photo Biennieal.
More information on Brighton Photo Fringe website.
Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
July 4 – September 25, 2016
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black’s Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition has received the inaugural Arles Photo-Text Book Award supported by Fondation Jan Michalski pour l’Écriture et la Littérature.
More information about the award on the Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles website.
London College of Communication, UK
July 11 – August 12, 2016
Part of the LCC Festival of Journalism and Art, the Very Now exhibition features work by David Birkin, Jeremy Deller, Laura El-Tantawy, Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps, Broomberg and Chanarin, Edmund Clark and Lewis Bush. Their work will be shown alongside work produced by multidisciplinary groups of UAL students with backgrounds in journalism, photography, film, animation, sound design, illustration and curation.
Centre de la photographie, Genève, Switzerland
June 1 – July 31, 2016
Edmund Clark will be showing a new installation of Control Order House as part of this innovative group exhibition of artists, hackers and political activists “celebrating” a quarter of century of the monitoring of public space. The exhibition Caméra(Auto)Contrôle is the core of the 50JPG—50 Days for Photography in Geneva 2016.
Opening night
May 31st, 2016
June 9, 2016, 5-6:30pm
World Policy Institute, New York, USA will be hosting a panel discussion between Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, authors of Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, and Dr, Jonathan Cristol, Fellow of the World Policy Institute.
More information on the World Policy Institute website.
June 8, 2016, 6:30pm
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will be presenting and signing their newly published book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition at the Aperture Foundation in New York, USA.
More information on Aperture website.
June 7, 2016, 7pm
The Frontline Club, London will be hosting a panel discussion between Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, authors of Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, moderated by Max Houghton, senior lecturer in photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
More information on the Frontile Club website.
June 5, 2016, 5pm
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will be presenting their newly published book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition at Ryans Bar as part of the Stoke Newington Literary Festival.
More information on the Stoke Newington Literary Festival website.
June 4, 2016, 11am – 1pm
Edmund Clark will be taking part in a panel discussion with Thomas Seelig, Director/Curator of the Fotomuseum, Winterthur and artist Giacomo Bianchetti and philosopher Marie-José Mondzain at the Centre de la photographie, Genève, Switzerland. The discussion will be moderated by writer Christophe Domino.
More information on the 50JPG—50 Days for Photography in Geneva festival website.
Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany.
January 31 – May 29, 2016
An exhibition bringing together seven bodies of Edmund Clark’s work in response to the ‘Global War on Terror’ in one installation, including “Control Order House”, “The Mountains of Majeed”, ‘The Victory Column of Enduring Freedom”, “Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday”, ‘Virtue Unmann’d: Dulce et Decorum Est” and two completely new works,“Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition” and “Body Politic”.
Opening Night
Saturday, January 30, 2016 / 7 p.m.
May 23, 2016, 12noon – 7pm
Edmund Clark will be in discussion with Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham at a conference bringing together artists who work inside spaces of incarceration and immigration detention. The conference will be taking place at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK.
More information on the Facebook event.
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will be signing their newly published book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition at the Aperture Foundation stall at Photo London 2016 in Somerset House at 3pm on May 22nd.
More information about the fair on Photo London website.
Edmund Clark’s work will be on show at the Flowers Gallery booth at Photo London 2016 in Somerset House, May 19 – 22.
More information on Photo London website.
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black will be signing their newly published book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition at the Aperture stall in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall at 3pm on May 21st.
More information about the signing on Aperture website and about the book fair on Offprint London website.
Edmund Clark will be taking part in a panel discussion with Ben Gyula Fodor and Maria Solrun, moderated by Jule Hillgärtner at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt from 7:30-9:30pm.
See the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit website for more information.
“British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the “war on terror” until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency—transfers without legal process known as extraordinary renditions. No public records were kept as detainees were shuttled all over the globe. Some were eventually sent to Guantánamo Bay or released without charge, while others remain unaccounted for.”
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition is co-published by Aperture and the Magnum Foundation.
Edmund Clark, will be taking part in a discussion to mark the launch of his new book with co-author Crofton Black, Eyal Weizman and Julian Stallabrass The Courtauld Institute of Art, from 6.30pm on Wednesday 23rd March.
See the Courtauld website for more information.
Edmund Clark will be launching his new book about extraordinary rendition with co-author, Crofton Black, at a launch party at Flowers Gallery, London, from 4-6pm on Saturday 19th March.
Click here for the invitation from Flowers. Come along. Please reply to RSVP@flowersgallery.com
Edmund will be taking part in this symposium at the Courtauld Institute exploring issues around terror, war and images.
Saturday 27 February, 9.30 am to 5.45 pm , The Courtauld Institute. For more information see the event programme.
Sunday, January 31, 2016, 4 p.m.
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black in conversation with Thomas Schirmböck, Director of Zephyr: Raum für Fotografie, at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim.
Monday 23 November, 1–5pm – FREE
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
Artists, academics and prison professionals discuss responses to issues of crime and incarceration in today’s society. Speakers include Edmund Clark,
Ikon Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire, Elizabeth Yardley, Associate Professor of Criminology, Birmingham City University and Andy Watson, Artistic Director, Geese Theatre Company, Birmingham. Places are free but should be booked.
Edmund Clark, Ikon Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon, is supported by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.
Edmund Clark will be exhibiting in ‘Violence and Disorder’ in the Kunstverein, Ludwigshafen, as part of this year’s biennial curated by Urs Stahel.
Fotofestival, Manheim – Ludwigshafen – Heidelberg. 18 September – 15 November.
Edmund Clark will be exhibiting The Mountains of Majeed at the Parotta Contemporary Art stand.
Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, 18 – 20 Septemeber 2015.
Edmund will be exhibiting at Photo Shanghai on the Flowers Gallery stand.
Photo Shanghai, Shangai, 11 – 13 September 2015.
Edmund will be taking part in this symposium at the University of Westminster exploring contemporary British documentary practice. Other panellists include artists Mark Neville and Lisa Barnard, and Hilary Roberts, the Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum.
Saturday 29 August, 3.30 to 5pm, Ambika P3 Gallery. For more information see the event listing.
Under Surveillance is a forceful photo essay on the means of photographic expression in an age of digital super-technology and permanent surveillance. Twenty-three international photographers addressed the complex of themes and present a range of documentary, staged, or conceptual approaches in their images.
17 April – 26 June, Ricus Aschermann Gallerie Für Fotografie, Hanover, Germany.
FT Weekend presents a panel discussion on Photojournalism, chaired by Peter Aspden.
Speakers include Edmund Clark, Lynsey Addario, Julian Stallabrass and Chloe Dewe Mathews.
This is a Photo London event at the Screening Room, Somerset House. Saturday 23 May, 1.15-2.30PM.
Edmund Clark talks about his series The Mountains of Majeed, which includes photographs, paintings and poetry, discussing the work, book and exhibition.
Somerset House, 22 May, 5pm – 6.30pm. This is a ticketed event, buy your tickets here.
Thursday 2 April 2015, 17:30-18:30. Drop in.
Edmund Clark has been invited by the Wellcome Collection to give an exhibition tour, bringing his unique perspective in response to ‘Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime’. This event is part of the Perspective Tours program.
More information can be found on the Wellcome Collection’s website.
Edmund Clark will exhibit with East Wing Gallery between March 18th-21st for Art Dubai. He will exhibit his new video installation Dulce Et Decorum Est: Virtue Unmann’d.
Edmund will be book signing at the Dewi Lewis stand on Saturday 14th, noon to 1pm.
Dewi Lewis Publishing
PhotoBook Market, St Werburgh’s Chapel, Friargate, Derby, DE1 1UZ
The Photobook Market is open 10.30 – 17.00 Friday & Saturday / 11.00 – 16.00 Sunday.
Edmund Clark will be exhibiting at Format Festival between the 14th March and 12th April. He will preview images from his upcoming book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, due to be published later this year.
Opening on the 27th February, Edmund Clark will be exhibiting The Mountains of Majeed in an installation incorporating photography, sculpture and Taliban poetry to explore the legacy of Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
Private View: Thursday 26th February, Flowers Gallery, Kingsland Road, London.
The 40,000 People on Bagram Air Base Haven’t Actually Seen Afghanistan, by Pete Brook. The full article can be viewed here.
“Last month, Nato launched its new mission in Afghanistan, sending 12,000 troops to assist national security forces. Their main hub will be Bagram, once the largest US base in the country. In an extract from his new book, photographer Edmund Clark describes his last visit as Operation Enduring Freedom wound down.”
Edmund will discuss his work in conversation with photographer Paul Lowe at the London College of Communication.
The Mountains of Majeed will be available for purchase, more information to come.
“We don’t see the war from the other side,” says Clark. “The Mountains of Majeed focuses on two sets of mountains – those captured by myself using a high-tech camera and the low-tech paintings of Majeed, which were exhibited around the base.”
The article can be viewed online.
“The paintings seem to be some kind of reminder of that way of life and its power to endure. But it is the mountains themselves that symbolise it more than anything else.” After all, as Clark says in his conclusion to the book, the mountains, both real and imagined, “belong to Majeed”.”
The article can be viewed online.
On the 12th and 13th of January Edmund will be running a two-day workshop for students studying Masters Degrees in Documentary Photography and Reportage.
More information can be found on the IED website.
De Standaard in Belgium have featured Edmund’s new work The Mountains of Majeed.
Download the pdf here.
Zeit Magazin in Germany have reviewed The Mountains of Majeed.
Read the article here.
It’s Nice That feature Edmund Clark’s new book The Mountains of Majeed.
The article can be viewed online.
Edmund Clark is launching a new publication ‘The Mountains of Majeed’ in November.
‘The Mountains of Majeed’ is a reflection on the end of the war in Afghanistan through photography, found imagery and Taliban poetry. This is the endgame to the war in Afghanistan. Two sides divided by concrete walls and a gulf in technology and understanding. Like the mountains in which they hide, the insurgents are ever present; watching beyond the walls, waiting for the end of Enduring Freedom.
See the Here Press website for details of the publication.
12th – 16th November 2014
Edmund Clark will be signing copies of ‘The Mountains of Majeed’ and other books during Paris Photo.
At the Grand Palais:
East Wing, stand D2 18:00 Friday 14th November
Oliver J Wood, stand EE25 17:00 Saturday 15th November
At Polycopies :
11:30 Saturday 15th November
12th – 16th November 2014
Parrotta Contemporary Art are showing a selection of Edmund Clark’s series ‘Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out’ as part of their exhibition ‘Shells of Invisibility’ at Paris Photo.
See the gallery page on the Paris Photo website for details.
8th November 2014
The Telegraph Magazine features five pages of images and text by Edmund Clark from his new publication ‘The Mountains of Majeed’ in an issue dedicated to conflict.
See the Telegraph website for the online version.
The Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland, has acquired a box set of the ‘Letters to Omar’ series and the film ‘Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday’ for their permanent collection.
Visit the museum collection here.
16th October 2014
Edmund has been invited to be part of a panel discussing the theme of art and incarceration at Tulane University, New Orleans.
See the university website for details.
15th October 2014
Edmund has been invited to talk to photography students at NOCCA in New Orleans.
See NOCCA’s website for information on the centre.
14th – 19th October 2014
Edmund has been invited to be international artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. He is being hosted by the foundation for a week of talks with universities and artists in New Orleans.
See the foundation website for details of its work.
2nd October 2014
Edmund Clark will be helping judge the Peaches and Cream photography competition organised by Millenium Images.
See details of the competition and the exhibition on the Millennium Images website.
19 July 2014 – 30 August 2014
Flowers is pleased to announce the group show Reflections of War featuring contemporary artists including: Edmund Clark, Ken Currie, Ori Gersht, Tim Hetherington, Nicola Hicks, Peter Howson, John Keane, Hanaa Malallah, Simon Norfolk and Michael Sandle.
Visit Flowers website for more details.
17 July 2014 – 30 August 2014
Flowers is pleased to announce the group photography exhibition Interiors, featuring contemporary photographers Tina Barney, Julie Blackmon, Edmund Clark, Jacqueline Hassink, Nadav Kander, Jason Larkin, Lori Nix, Robert Polidori, Hrvoje Slovenc, Richard Tuschman, and Shen Wei.
The exhibition focuses on fabricated or authentic interior spaces and explores how they tell the story of the current occupants or those who have left them long behind – including prisoners, children, and royalty – offering historical and anthropological insight into those who once occupied – or were imagined to occupy – that space.
Visit Flowers website for more details.
The August issue of the BJP is dedicated to new ways of looking at war. It features new work by Edmund Clark about Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, while Paul Wombell references Control Order House in an article about technology, war and distance.
Visit the BJP website for details.
Edmund Clark will be giving tutorials and talking about his work on the Magnum Photos and London College of Communication documentary photography course on the theme of a ‘Sense of Place.’
Edmund Clark has been invited to take part in the Visual Criminology Seminar Series. See website for details.
Edmund Clark has been invited to teach for a term on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Course at the London College of Communication.
Edmund Clark will be delivering the keynote speech on Saturday 14th June, day three of the National Photography Symposium.
For details of the symposium programme visit the RedEye website.
The book of Control Order House has been acquired as an object for the permanent art collection of the IWM (Imperial War Museums).
See the museum website for information about the recent acquisition.
30th May 2014
Edmund Clark will be talking about “Representation, absence and presence: Forensic Aesthetics and strategies of engagement through imagery in relation to hidden experiences in the Global War on Terror” on panel 21: “Reasserting presence: reclamation, recognition and photographic desire”, at the Anthropology and Photography Conference at the British Museum.
See details for the whole programme on the conference website.
1 February 2014 – 18 May 2014
A selection of images from ‘Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out’ on show in San Diego.
Prix Pictet, an annual juried prize, uses photography as an instrument to shed light on important social and environmental issues. The first three themes were Water, Earth and Growth. Power is the subject of this year’s exhibition.
For more information visit the MOPA website.
Talk and reviewing final year photography students’ work at Falmouth University.
Edmund Clark will be speaking at a one day event organised by Culture + Conflict at the Royal College of Art with Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips, Jannane Al-Ani, Jonathan Chadwick, David Cotterell, Sarah Rifky, Nat Muller and Hossan Mahdoun.
See details on Culture + Conflict’s website.
Control Order House will be discussed as part of an event looking at ideas of investigative photography in relation to a quartet of photography books at Fotomuseum Winterthur.
See the museum website for information.
Edmund Clark awarded Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grant for ongoing work about ‘Unseen Spaces of the Global War on Terror’.
See Time Magazine’s website for the list of awardees for 2014.
The World Policy Institute reviews Edmund Clark’s work in terms of issues of representation in the Global War on Terror.
See the article on the World Policy Journal website.
Talk at City Lit, the London centre for adult education. Part of a series by speakers working in or with photography.
See the City Lit website for details.
A talk for the Cultural Mediation course in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Università Bocconi, Milan.
“This intelligent and aesthetically intriguing book is a wonderful example of how a photographic approach compliments the subject revealing the mediums’ true nature.”
Max Pinckers reviews Control Order House for Photobookstore Magazine. Read the review here.
A series of talks and tutorials for the online MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course.
In conversation with Indre Serpytyte and Phd students about Forensic Aesthetics.
East Wing, the international photography platform founded in Doha, Qatar, are now working with Edmund.
Visit the East Wing website.
A talk and workshop over two days for photography students at the University of Huddersfield.
The Russian version of Esquire magazine features Control Order House across ten pages and online.
Visit the Esquire website to see the animated feature.
A talk for the Art and Human Rights Research Project at Oxford.
Review of the exhibition at The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.
Read it here.
A talk for Dr. Benedict Burbridge and the Arts Society at the University of Sussex.
11 October 2013 – 23 February 2014.
How do artists contribute to our perceptions of war and conflict in an age where our understanding is shaped by the media and the internet? This autumn, in Manchester, IWM presents its first major exhibition of its national collection of contemporary art produced since the First Gulf War. Edmund is exhibiting along side artists Steve McQueen, kennardphillipps, Langlands & Bell, Miroslaw Balka, Willie Doherty, Paul Seawright, Ori Gersht and Jananne Al An.
“Redeye, in collaboration with The Imperial War Museum North (IWMN), brings you a two-day intensive masterclass with Edmund Clark, considered one of the leading contemporary photographers in the UK. This masterclass is timed to coincide with IWMN’s exhibition Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War that features work from Clark’s project Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out.”
Visit Redeye website for details.
Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart and Berlin, are now representing Edmund.
Visit the gallery website.
Control Order House is featured in issue 51 of Cabinet.
5 December 2013 – 30 January 2014
A selection of Guantanamo work on show in New York as part of the Power exhibition at Aperture.
Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability, has chosen Power as the theme for its fourth cycle. As a theme, Power has enormous creative reach, embracing both hope and despair in equal measure. Over two hundred nominators worldwide recommended almost 650 photographers from seventy-six countries, many of whom presented images that are both awe-inspiring and disturbing.
For more information visit Aperture Foundation
Third in series of four seminars organised by arts organisation Culture + Conflict for a network of artists, curators, academics, administrators and critics. This one concerns Art and Satire, with talks from artists, writers and filmmakers Coco Fusco, Larissa Sansour, Zaher Omareen and Malu Halasa. Chaired by Professor James Thompson at Manchester University. There will also be a tour of the ‘Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War’ at the Imperial War Museum North, led by curator Sara Bevan.
“The facts of our age, shown with almost bland documentation that will chill you to the bone.” John Gossage
Control Order House selected by photographer and bookmaker John Gossage, and curator and writer Pete Brook, for their best books of the year selections.
Visit the photo-eye website to see all the selections.
8 November 2013 – 18 January 2014
Black – which like white is not actually a true colour – refers in our western tradition to the notion of nothingness or represents it. Occasionally, it is also an indication of not knowing, forgetting and that ‘non-time’ beyond memory. Black canbe understood as a means of crossing lines – from the visible to the invisible, from the conscious to the unconscious, from the present to the forgotten.
For more information visit Parrottta Contemporary.
“Deviner que sous la crainte du terrorisme, c’est encore un peu de la liberté de chacun qui est mise sous contrôle. Si Foucault avait été photographe… ”
Control Order House selected by cultural blog Discipline in Disorder as one of the books of the year.
Visit the website for more choices.
‘Control Order House is a significant work, quietly affecting with a deliberate and compelling impact.’
Tom Claxton, New York based photography book bibliophile selected Control Order House as one of his ten books of the year.
Visit the news section at Claxton Projects for the full list.
Tonight’s talk (7th January) postponed to tomorrow 8th January at 6.30pm due to freezing weather in New York.
Visit Aperture Foundation for details.
On the occasion of the New York presentation of the Prix Pictet exhibition Power at Aperture Gallery, two artists included in the exhibition, Edmund Clark and Jacqueline Hassink, will present in-depth views of their projects and discuss them in the context of the exhibition theme, Power.
Visit Aperture Foundation for details.
Control Order House nominated as one of the best photobooks of 2013.
See Time Lighbox for the selection.
Guardian photography critic Sean O’Hagan selected Control Order House as one of the best limited edition artist books of 2013.
See theguardian.com for the ten books selected.
The Prince Claus Fund Awards honour outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development by individuals or organisations whose cultural actions have a positive impact on the development of their societies.
“I first wrote about Clark’s work in November 2010 when his book Guantánamo: If the light goes out was excerpted in The Guardian. I was struck by the way Clark focused on the objects of violence as a conscious strategy to avoid the dehumanising effects of conventional photojournalism. I interviewed Clark (via Skype on 31 October 2013) to discuss Control House Order, and his reflexiveness is evident throughout the recording.”
Interview with David Campbell available via his website
A talk and seminar for second and third year students at UCA Rochester.
Second in series of four seminars organised by arts organisation Culture + Conflict for a network of artists, curators, academics, administrators and critics. This one concerns Art and Resistance, with talks from Professor Howard Caygill, whose latest book ‘On Resistance – A Philosophy of Defiance’ was published last month, Natalia Koliada from the Belarus Free Theatre, and filmmaker and photographic journalist Ronnie Close, currently based in Cairo. Chaired by Dr Bernadette Buckley, at Goldsmiths University.
On grants and fundraising for MA photojournalism and documentary photography students.
Visiting lecturer talk and individual tutorial sessions for BA (Hons) Photography students, starting 10am.
23 October- 22 November at Winchester Gallery
‘Bringing the War Home’ originally exhibited at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and features ‘Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out’. Other exhibiting artists include Peter van Agtmael, Sama Alshaibi, Farhad Ahrarnia, Lisa Barnard, Broomberg and Chanarin, Kay May, Asef Ali Mohammad, and Christopher Sims.
Control Order House book signing at Café Téléscope, 5 Rue Villedo, 75001 Paris, at 4pm. Visit the Here Press website for details.
Edmund will be talking about Control Order House for patrons of the Winterthur Museum and visitors to the East Wing Gallery, stand D2 in the Grand Palais, at 12 noon.
Edmund will be at Paris Photo from 13 – 17 November, including the fair at the Grand Palais, Offprint plus other venues and events. Visit the Paris Photo website for more details.
Talk about ‘Letters To Omar’ and the bureaucratic process that created the images.
‘Bringing the War Home’ originally exhibited at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and features ‘Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out’. Other exhibiting artists include Peter van Agtmael, Sama Alshaibi, Farhad Ahrarnia, Lisa Barnard, Broomberg and Chanarin, Kay May, Asef Ali Mohammad, and Christopher Sims.
Recorded talk for The Cultures of Memory Symposium
UCL Anthropology is one of the four organizing universities for The Cultures of Memory Symposium 2013, which will be held in London and York during 16-20 October 2013.
The Cultures of Memory is a multi-faceted, international symposium in which the four organizing universities will present their distinct creative practices and scholarship related to memory. These include public memory projects concerned with Guantánamo Bay detention camp and the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the performance and manifestation of remembrance, and the maintenance of cultural memory.
The symposium will present these ‘cultures of memory’ in exhibitions, performances, panel discussions, and papers.
UCL, London
Edmund has been developing new work in Bagram and Kabul, embedded with the US army, watch this space!
ZEIT Magazine has featured a spread on ‘Control Order House’.
An evening of screenings of newly commissioned work and selected existing multimedia installations. Edmund was one of the judges choosing the three new works to receive Night Contact funding.
Part of a research network of artists, academics, journalists, curators and funders taking part in series of workshops around the theme of Art and Conflict, organised by Culture + Conflict
Goldsmiths University, London
Edmund has been nominated for the Deutsche Börse award for his book ‘Control Order House’, and his installation of the same work at Brighton Photo Biennial.
Edmund was selected as a finalist for the W. Egene Smith Award for his new work on Extraordinary Rendition.
Edmund will be discussing his work ‘Control Order House’.
‘Guantanamo Bay: Art, Representation, Forensics and The State of the Unexceptional Other’
Sciences Po, Bordeaux
Control Order House featured as New Statesman Magazine’s Picture Book of the Week in the 21st-27th June issue.
Post on Media Space Tumblr blog, ‘Why I like’ – a WWII propaganda image by John Hinde
Talk and signing, Control Order House, at The Club, 3 rue Parmentier, Arles
Highlights include Alfredo Jaar, Gilbert Garcin, John Davies, Lartigue, Studio Fouad, Clare Strand, Alison Rossiter, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh & Rozenn Quéré, Sergio Larrain, Atelier de Mécanique and always Le Musée Reattu.
Royal College of Art, London
Part of a research network of artists, academics, journalists, curators and funders taking part in series of workshops around the theme of Art and Conflict, organised by Culture + Conflict
Judging submissions for New Work grant prize for festival in September
Talk for Tom Hunter and students at the London College of Communication
Published by Here Press
6-9pm, Flowers East, 82 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DP
Supported by Matrix Chambers
Talk for Harry Hardie and David White and students of Press and Editorial Photography from Falmouth University at Calumet, London
Looking forward to attending the announcement of the winners for the awards which I helped judge this year, and to meeting William Eggleston who is to be honoured for his outstanding contribution to photography
Broadcast of television interview on ‘The Works’, with writer and interviewer John Kelly on RTE’s arts programme
5pm – Talk and Discussion with Stephen Barber, Chairman of Prix Pictet
Gallery of Photography, Meeting House Square Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
3pm, Talk and tour at Huis Marseille Museum, Amsterdam
2-5pm Panel discussion at Huis Marseille Museum, Amsterdam with Jacqueline Hassink, Philippe Chancel and museum director Els Barents
5.30 pm, Huis Marseille, Keizersgracht 401 1016 EK Amsterdam
Talk for David Campany and students at the University of Westminster, London
I write about the significance of Control Orders in the UK and being the first artist to work and stay in a house where a man was held on suspicion of terrorist-related activity.
Two days of workshops with final year B.A. Photography students at Falmouth University
Talk for Deborah Baker and students at the University of Falmouth, Cornwall
Talk for Eyal Weizman and M.A. students of Visual Culture and the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London
Talk for Alison Morley and students of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the International Center for Photography, New York
The first showing of a touring version of my Guantanamo work organized by Professor Michael Ensdorf of Roosevelt University based on the images and text used for ‘ifthelightgoesout.com’ and the multimedia piece ‘Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday’
5pm, Gage Gallery, 18 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Talk for Michaela Crimmin and M.A. students on the Curating Contemporary Art programme at the Royal College of Art, London
6pm, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Meclis-i Mebusan Cad. Liman İşletmeleri,
Sahası Antrepo No: 4, 34433 Karaköy, Istanbul
One of three judges, along with Andrew Sanigar of Thames & Hudson and gallery director Juana de Aizpuru, of the Fine Art categories
5pm, Hungarian House of Photography, H-1065 Budapest-Terézváros, Nagymezõ utca 20
Exhibition Photographs by Dávid Ferenczy
4pm, Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
Exhibition combining the forensic aesthetic of large prints of the objects and spaces of the control, incarceration and exercise of power over the individual, with documents from the ‘Letters to Omar’ series and the multimedia installation ‘Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday’
6-8pm, Flowers Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
Great evening celebrating George Eastman House Museum with curator Alison Nordstrom
6.30pm, Galerie Vanessa Quang, 5B rue de Beauce, 75003 Paris, France
More information via Prix Pictet, More information via Galerie Quang
Highlights: Gustave le Grey at Petit Palais, Paul Graham at Le Bal, Archive of Modern Conflict at Grand Palais
More information Modernism or Modernity, More information on Paul Graham
6.30pm, Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton , BN1 4AJ
More information via The Lighthouse, More information via Whats On
Book Signing, PS Brighton
5.30pm, PS Brighton, Kensington Gardens , Brighton
Talk for Richard Billingham and students at University of Middlesex, London
More info about the exhibition. More information about the Prix Pictet
Bernheimer Fine Art , Brienner Strasse 7, 80333, Munich
All participating artists in the Stadtmuseum exhibition nominated three of the bodies of work for the prize. The festival organisers and editor of ZEITmagazin then selected the prize winner
Invited to be one of seven British photographers exhibiting in this very enjoyable festival based at the Stadtmuseum in Munich. The week involved a collaborative hanging with the other British and German photographers and a series of artist talks, tours, workshops and screenings. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Achtung – Respect, Control Change’
Münchner Stadtmuseum, St.-Jakobs-Platz 1 80331 München
Delighted to be one of the exhibiting shortlisted artists and congratulations to winner Luc Delahaye
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, Kings Road, London, SW3 4RY
More information on the Prix Pictet, More information about the Exhibition
With artist Omer Fast and Prof. Julian Stallabrass to examine how artists have aimed to lend public visibility to spaces controlled and concealed by governments and the military; along with the tactics deployed by those in power to suppress the publication of this material
4.30pm, Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, 58 – 67 Grand Parade Brighton BN2 0JY
Invited to show ‘Control Order House’ in Brighton Photo Biennial organized by Photoworks. This is the first manifestation of the work, shown here as an in-progress installation piece, having only recently been granted permission from the UK government to use the material.
‘An examination of space, control and criminalization. Edmund Clark is the first artist to be granted access to a house in which a person suspected of terrorist related activity had been placed under a Control Order.’
University of Brighton Gallery, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 9QA
Commissioned to develop a multimedia installation for the festival theme ‘Pictures in Motion’, focusing on the relationship between the still and the moving image and how one practice informs the other in terms of technique, aesthetic and exhibition.
‘Section 4 Part 20: One day on a Saturday’, produced in collaboration with multimedia editor Anna Stevens, explores levels of complicity surrounding the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, using material gathered from detainees, guards, interrogators and ordinary people. The installation is set in the Council Chamber – a symbolic site of both democracy and authority.
The Council Chamber, Berwick Town Hall, Berwick, Northumberland
With artists Amit Madheshiya, David Oates and Amanda Belantara
2pm, Berwick Town Hall, Berwick, Northumberland
With artists Amit Madheshiya, David Oates and Amanda Belantara
2pm, Berwick Town Hall, Berwick, Northumberland
Opening of exhibitions at Photographers’ Gallery, in Victoria Park, Hackney and in Park House, Oxford Street, London, to celebrate the diversity of London in 2012, by commissioning a portrait of a person or people from each of the 204 nations competing at the London Olympics.
My subject was Majid Mnahi from Kuwait.
Panel discussion for Prix Pictet at Rencontres D’Arles headquarters, with photographers Jacqueline Hassink and Philippe Chancel, Stephen Barber, Chairman of the Prix Pictet and Leo Johnson one of the judges.
Four days in Arles for Rencontres festival of photography including the announcement of the shortlisting of ‘Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out’ for the prestigious Prix Pictet
Talk and panel discussion with writers Andrea Stuart, Rachel Seiffert and Granta editor John Freeman at the University of East Anglia with the Norwich Writers Centre. The launch of Granta 119: Britain was part of the Worlds Literature Festival when 30 writers from around the world, led by Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee, Michael Ondaatje and Jeanette Winterson, gathered in celebration of England’s first UNESCO City of Literature
Announcement of my inclusion in programme for 2012 Biennial organized by Photoworks
Fascinating discussion on ways of looking at International Relations and geo-political security issues through the visual and material nature of objects rather than accepted forms of linguistic and textual representation.
3pm, Panel discussion at Istanbul Modern Art Museum with Jacqueline Hassink, Rena Effendi and Francis Hodgson, photography critic of the Financial Times