Edmund Clark

Edmund Clark is a British photographer whose work explores incarceration and control in the War on Terror.[1][2]

Life and career

Clark worked as a researcher in London and Brussels before gaining a postgraduate diploma in photojournalism at London College of Communication.[3]

He gained access to Guantanamo Bay 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.[4]

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. Stockport: Here Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9574724-0-2. Edition of 250 copies.
    • Second edition. Stockport: Here Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9935853-1-9. Edition of 500 copies.
  • The Mountains Of Majeed. Stockport: Here Press, 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, 2015. ISBN 978-1-59711-351-9. Released to coincide with Clark’s solo exhibition at Imperial War Museum, London, July 2016 – August 2017.[5]
  • My Shadow's Reflection. London: Here Press; Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2018. ISBN 978-1-911155-15-7. Edition of 1000 copies.

Awards

  • First place Editorial Essay, International Photography Awards
  • First place Editorial Feature, International Photography Awards
  • Shortlisted for the International Photographer of the Year prize at the Lucie Awards[6]
  • 2014: Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet for Guantánamo: If the Light Goes Out[7][8]

Exhibition

Permanent collections

References

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/nov/03/guantanamo-photographs-edmund-clark-gallery
  2. ↑ http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/08/long-read-edmund-clark-and-crofton-black-on-the-war-on-terror/
  3. ↑ "Prix Pictet Biography". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  4. 1 2 "Recent Acquisitions". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  5. ↑ http://www.herepress.org/publications/edmund-clark-control-order-house/
  6. ↑ "BJP Edmund Clark's Guantanamo: If the light goes out". Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  7. ↑ http://www.prixpictet.com/portfolios/power-shortlist/edmund-clark/
  8. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (16 August 2012). "Political, provocative, personal: photography to look forward to". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "Edmund Clark: War of Terror". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  10. ↑ King, Alex (22 July 2016). "The artist peering into the darkest corners of the War on Terror: From suburbia to Guantanamo". Huck. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Myall, Steve (26 July 2016). "A force feeding chair, a waterboard and collection of shackles are among haunting War on Terror images". London: Daily Mirror. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
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