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Edmund Clark

Profession
Senior Lecturer, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
College
London College of Communication
Person Type
staff
Edmund  Clark

Biography

Edmund Clark is an award-winning artist and photographer interested in linking history, politics and representation, and is a Senior Lecturer on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication.

Edmund’s work has been exhibited widely, including major solo museum exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum, London and Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim. His work has also been acquired for national and international collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the National Media Museum.

He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for outstanding photography for public service in 2011 and shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Pictet for 2012 for the theme of Power.

Edmund’s works ‘Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition’, ‘Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out’ and ‘Control Order House’ engage with state censorship to explore the hidden experiences and spaces of control and incarceration in the ‘Global War on Terror’. More recently, with The Mountains of Majeed (2014) he reflects on the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Edmund regularly contributes to international conferences and symposia.

Related area

View the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course page

Links

edmundclark.com

@edmund_clark