Edmund Clark
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Edmund Clark HonFRPS is a British artist and photographer whose work explores politics, representation, incarceration and control. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material. Several of his projects explore the war on terror.[1]
His notable projects include Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out,[2][3] Control Order House,[4][5][6] The Mountains of Majeed,[7][8][9] and Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (in collaboration with researcher and writer Crofton Black).[10][11] Edmund Clark's awards include the 2009 International Photography Award from The British Journal of Photography,[12] 2016 Rencontres d'Arles Photo-Text Book Award[13] and 2017 Infinity Award in Documentary and Photojournalism category from International Center of Photography.[14] In 2018 Clark was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Edmund Clark was the Ikon Gallery's artist-in-residence at Europe's only wholly therapeutic community prison, HM Prison Grendon from 2014 until 2018. Supported by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, the residency culminated in the publication of My Shadow's Reflection (Ikon Gallery: Birmingham and Here Press: London) and a solo exhibition In Place of Hate at Ikon Gallery.[15][16][17]
Clark worked as a researcher in London and Brussels before gaining a postgraduate diploma in photojournalism at London College of Communication.[18]
He gained access to Guantanamo Bay detention camp and to a house under a control order (housing an individual held under the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011). His book Control Order House is his response to a period he spent staying in a house with a man known as 'CE' who had been placed under a Control Order due to his suspected involvement with terrorist-related activity. Clark spent three days working in the house taking a large number of quick, uncomposed photographs surveying the site. These images, along with architectural plans of the house, redacted documents relating to the case and a diary kept by 'CE' form a portrait of sorts: of the site and its inhabitant and of the structure of legal restriction imposed and represented by the house.[19]
Publications
- Still Life: Killing Time. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2007. ISBN 978-1904587538
- Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2010. ISBN 978-1904587965
- Control Order House. London: Here, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9574724-0-2. Edition of 250 copies.
- Second edition. London: Here, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9935853-1-9. Edition of 500 copies.
- The Mountains of Majeed. London: Here, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9574724-8-8. 8 photographs, 4 paintings by Majeed, 3 Taliban poems. Edition of 450 copies.
- Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition. New York: Aperture and Magnum Foundation, 2016. ISBN 978-1-59711-351-9.
- Second edition. New York: New York: Aperture and Magnum Foundation, 2017.
- My Shadow's Reflection. London: Here; Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2018. ISBN 978-1-911155-15-7. Edition of 1000 copies.
Awards
- 2009: International Photography Award, British Journal of Photography[20]
- 2011: Best Photography Book of the Year at the International Photography Awards/Lucie Awards[21][22]
- 2011: Best Book of the Year Award at the New York Photo Awards[23]
- 2012: Shortlisted for Prix Pictet: Power[24]
- 2012: Best Book of the Year, Premio Ponchielli, GRIN Italian Photography Editors Association[25]
- 2012: Winner Zeit Magazin Fotopreis
- 2013: John Kobal Foundation Grant[26]
- 2011 & 2013: Best Books of the Year, Kassel Photobook Award[27][28]
- 2014: Magnum Foundation Grant[29]
- 2011 & 2015: The Roddick Foundation Grant[30]
- 2016: Rencontres d'Arles Photo-Text Book Award[31]
- 2017: W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship[32]
- 2017: Infinity Award, International Center of Photography[33]
- 2014: Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet for Guantánamo: If the Light Goes Out[34][35]
- 2018: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society[36]
Exhibitions
- The Mountains of Majeed, Flowers Gallery, London, 27 February – 4 April 2015[37][38][39][40]
- Edmund Clark: Terror Incognitus, Zephyr, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, 31 January – 3 July 2016[41]
- Edmund Clark: War of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, 28 July 2016 – 28 August 2017[42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
- In Place of Hate, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 – 11 March 2018[49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][excessive citations]
- Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 26 January – 6 May 2018[62][63][59]
- Unseen Conflicts – War on Terror, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn, 7 September – 10 November 2018[64][65]
