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]
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
- Edmund Clark: War of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, July 2016 – August 2017[9][10][11]
Permanent collections
- Control Order House, Imperial War Museums, UK.[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/nov/03/guantanamo-photographs-edmund-clark-gallery
- ↑ http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/08/long-read-edmund-clark-and-crofton-black-on-the-war-on-terror/
- ↑ "Prix Pictet Biography". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- 1 2 "Recent Acquisitions". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ↑ http://www.herepress.org/publications/edmund-clark-control-order-house/
- ↑ "BJP Edmund Clark's Guantanamo: If the light goes out". Archived from the original on 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- ↑ http://www.prixpictet.com/portfolios/power-shortlist/edmund-clark/
- ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (16 August 2012). "Political, provocative, personal: photography to look forward to". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ↑ "Edmund Clark: War of Terror". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ King, Alex (22 July 2016). "The artist peering into the darkest corners of the War on Terror: From suburbia to Guantanamo". Huck (magazine). Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Official website
- Biography on Prix pictet
- Edmund Clark Q&A Telegraph
- Guantanamo If The Light Goes Out Project