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 The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is an ongoing international Counterterrorism, counterterrorism military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The main targets of the campa ...

. His notable projects include ''Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out'', ''Control Order House'', ''The Mountains of Majeed'', and ''Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition'' (in collaboration with researcher and writer Crofton Black). Edmund Clark's awards include the 2009 International Photography Award from

The British Journal of Photography The ''British Journal of Photography'' (BJP) is a magazine about photography, published by 1854 Media. It includes in-depth articles, profiles of photographers, analyses, and technological reviews. History The magazine was established in Liverpoo ...

, 2016

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

Photo-Text Book Award and 2017 Infinity Award in Documentary and Photojournalism category from

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ...

. In 2018 Clark was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the

Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with ...

. Edmund Clark was the

Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery () is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877. Ikon was set u ...

's artist-in-residence at Europe's only wholly therapeutic community prison,

HM Prison Grendon HM Prison Grendon is a Category B men's prison, located near the village of Grendon Underwood, in Buckinghamshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is jointly managed with HMP Spring Hill which is situated ...

from 2014 until 2018. Supported by the

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (October 24, 1906 – June 10, 1996) was an Austrian painter who lived in Britain from 1939 onwards, becoming a naturalised subject in 1948. Early life Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906 to ...

Charitable Trust, the residency culminated in the publication of ''My Shadow's Reflection'' (

: Birmingham and Here Press: London) and a solo exhibition ''In Place of Hate'' at

Life and career

Clark worked as a researcher in London and Brussels before gaining a postgraduate diploma in photojournalism at

London College of Communication The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It specialises in media-related subjects including advertising, animation, film, graphic design, photography and sound arts. It has approximately ...

. He gained access to

Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...

and to a house under a

control order A control order is an order made by the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom to restrict an individual's liberty for the purpose of "protecting members of the public from a risk of terrorism". Its definition and power were provided by Parliament in ...

(housing an individual held under the

Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that abolished control orders and provides new powers to allow the Home Secretary to impose restrictions on the behaviour of a speci ...

). 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.

Publications

*''Still Life: Killing Time.'' Stockport:

Dewi Lewis Dewi Lewis (born 10 March 1951) is a Welsh publisher and curator of photography. Career In 1975, Lewis was the founding director of the Bury Metropolitan Arts Association which operates the Met. Lewis also founded and was the first director of ...

, 2007. *''Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2010. *''Control Order House.'' London: Here, 2013. . Edition of 250 copies. **Second edition. London: Here, 2016. . Edition of 500 copies. *''The Mountains of Majeed.'' London: Here, 2014. . 8 photographs, 4 paintings by Majeed, 3 Taliban poems. Edition of 450 copies. *''Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition.'' New York:

Aperture In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture and focal length of an optical system determine the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. An opt ...

and

Magnum Foundation Magnum Foundation is a non-profit, photographic foundation located in New York City with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography. History and mission Magnum Foundation was founded in 2007, in the midst of the c ...

, 2016. . **Second edition. New York: New York: Aperture and Magnum Foundation, 2017. *''My Shadow's Reflection.'' London: Here; Birmingham:

, 2018. . Edition of 1000 copies.

Awards

*2009: International Photography Award,

British Journal of Photography The ''British Journal of Photography'' (BJP) is a magazine about photography, published by 1854 Media. It includes in-depth articles, profiles of photographers, analyses, and technological reviews. History The magazine was established in Liverpo ...

*2011: Best Photography Book of the Year at the International Photography Awards/Lucie Awards *2011: Best Book of the Year Award at the New York Photo Awards *2012: Shortlisted for

Prix Pictet The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its ...

: Power *2012: Best Book of the Year, Premio Ponchielli, GRIN Italian Photography Editors Association *2012: Winner

Zeit Magazin ''Die Zeit'' (, "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The ...

Fotopreis *2013: John Kobal Foundation Grant *2011 & 2013: Best Books of the Year, Kassel Photobook Award *2014:

Grant *2011 & 2015: The Roddick Foundation Grant *2016:

Photo-Text Book Award *2017: W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship *2017: Infinity Award,

*2014: Shortlisted for the

for ''Guantánamo: If the Light Goes Out'' *2018: Honorary Fellowship of the

Exhibitions

*''The Mountains of Majeed'',

Flowers Gallery The Flowers Galleries are two galleries in London (on Cork Street in the West End, and in Shoreditch in the East End) and a third in the Chelsea district of New York City. The three galleries represent over 60 artists. History The first F ...

, London, 27 February – 4 April 2015 *''Edmund Clark: Terror Incognitus'', Zephyr,

Reiss Engelhorn Museum The Reiss Engelhorn Museum, or (rem for short), is a museum in Mannheim, Germany. It has an exhibition area of , and houses around 1.2 million objects. Facilities and collection The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum is one of the major museums in Mannhei ...

, Mannheim, 31 January – 3 July 2016 *''Edmund Clark: War of Terror,'' Imperial War Museum, London, 28 July 2016 – 28 August 2017 *''In Place of Hate'',

, Birmingham, 6 December 2017 – 11 March 2018 *''Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died'',

, New York, NY, 26 January – 6 May 2018 *''Unseen Conflicts – War on Terror'', Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn, 7 September – 10 November 2018

Permanent collections

Fotomuseum Winterthur Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum of photography in Winterthur, Switzerland. History The museum was founded in 1993 and is dedicated to photography as art form and document, and as a representation of reality. Fotomuseum Winterthur is an art g ...

, Switzerland *

George Eastman Museum The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...

, Rochester, NY, USA *

Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-st ...

, IA, USA *

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

, London, UK *

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

, TX, USA *

National Science and Media Museum The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum G ...

, Bradford, UK *

National Portrait Gallery, London The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it ...

, UK

References

External links

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Edmund Clark on Flowers Gallery website

Edmund Clark on Parrotta Contemporary Art websiteEdmund Clark on East Wing websiteBiography on Prix pictet
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