MONOGRAPHS2018My Shadow’s Reflection (Ikon/Here Press 2018)
2017Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, 2nd edition (Aperture/Magnum Foundation 2017)
2016Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (Aperture/Magnum Foundation 2016)
2014The Mountains of Majeed (Here Press 2014)
2013 Control Order House (Here Press)
2010 Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out (Dewi Lewis Publishing)
2007 Still Life Killing Time (Dewi Lewis Publishing)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2017In Place of Hate, exhibition catalogue (Ikon Gallery)
Photographers and Research: The Role of Research in Contemporary Photographic Practice, edited by Shirley Read & Mike Simmons, Published by Routledge.
European Photography: Time Maps. Memory, Archives, Future (Fotografia Europea/Silvana Editoriale)
2015P
recarious Fields (Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg/Kehrer Verlag)
Under Surveillance (Revolver Publishing)
2012 Power (te Neus)
2011 Confined: The Captive and Keeper in Contemporary Life (The Bluecoat)
2010 Bringing the War Home (Impressions Gallery)
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2017Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, ICP Infinity Award
The Unseen Consequences and Networks of Air Strikes and Drone Warfare, W Eugene Smith Fund Fellowship Award
2016Rencontres d'Arles Photo-Text Book Award
2015 The Roddick Foundation Grant2014 Magnum Foundation Grant Award
2013 Selected for Kassel International Fotobook Festival
Best Books of the Year -
Control Order House Shortlisted for W. Eugene Smith Foundation Grant for Humanistic Photography
John Kobal Foundation Grant
2012 Nominated for
Henri Cartier-Bresson International Award Shortlisted for
Prix Pictet Winner
ZEIT Magazin Fotopreis 2011Best Book of the Year Award, Premio Ponchielli, G.R.I.N Italian Photography Editors Association
The Royal Photographic Society
Hood Medal for Outstanding Photography for Public Service Selected for Kassel International Fotobook Festival
Best Photobooks of the Year Best Book of the Year Award at the New York Photo Awards
Best Photography Book of the Year Award at the International Photography Awards/The Lucies
Best Documentary Book at the International Photography Awards/The Lucies
2010 Best Personal Work, Photo District News Annual
Nominated for
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Editorial Photographer of the Year at the International Photography Awards/The Lucies
Shortlisted for
Photographer of the Year at the International Photography Awards/The Lucies
Roddick Foundation Publication Grant
2009 Winner,
The British Journal of Photography International Photography Prize
2008 Terry O’Neill Award for Contemporary British Photography,
3rd Prize
2003 Gold Pencil at the One Show Awards for Best Public
Service/Political Newspaper or Magazine Campaign
COLLECTIONS & RESIDENCIES
The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
The Imperial War Museum, London, UK
The National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
Joan Mithell Foundation Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, USA
Ikon Gallery Artist-in-Residence, HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire, UK
Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
The George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The Grinnell College Art Collection, Iowa, USA
National Trust of Great Britain Artist-in-Residence, Osterley House, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
The Day the Music Died, International Center of Photography, NYC, USA (Jan - May 2018)
The Mountains of Majeed, Flowers Gallery, New York, USA
2017In Place of Hate, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Situation #81: Edmund Clark, Letters to Omar, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, Palazzo da Mosto, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2016Terror Incognitus, Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
War of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, UK2015
The Mountains of Majeed, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
2013Guantanamo:If The Light Goes Out, Gage Gallery, Chicago,USA
2012 Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Letters To Omar & Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday, Flowers Gallery, New York, USA
Control Order House, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK
Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday, Berwick International Film Festival, Berwick, UK
2010 Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out & Letters To Omar, Photofusion, London, UK
2009 Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, Association of Photographers Gallery, London, UK
2008 Still Life Killing Time, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Still Life Killing Time, Light House Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2007 Faces and Memories of Centenarians, Bloomingdale’s, San Francisco, USA
2006 Faces and Memories of Centenarians, Bloomingdale’s, SoHo, New York, USA
2005 Baby Fathers, Wasps Studio Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Faces and Memories of Centenarians, Spitz Gallery, London, UK
2004 On Trust: People and Place, National Trust Jersey Gallery, Osterley House, London, UK
2002 Baby Fathers, Platform for Art, Piccadilly Circus Station, London, UK
2000 Tree Street, Architecture Foundation, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2017Sites of Special Scientific Interest (2008), Der Aa-Kerk, Norderlicht Photo Festival, NUCLEUS | Imagining Science, Groningen, NL Control House Order, Getxophoto International Photography Festival
The Mountains of Majeed, Group Exhibition, 'The Wall' (curated by Dr. Christiane Stahl, Director of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung) , Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin DE
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (selection), Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT
Revealing Pictures, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Letters to Omar (selection), 'Images in Conflict', Galerie Fur Fotografie, Hanover, DE
'Scratch on the Eyelid', BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL (part of the XXV Ars Cameralis Festival)
2016Scratch on the Eyelid, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Festiwal Ars Cameralis, Katowice, Poland
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle, Centre de la photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
Where Are We Now? - East Wing presentation for Paris Photo 2016
2015
[7P] [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields, Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
Under Surveillance, Ricus Aschermann Gallerie Für Fotografie, Hanover, Germany
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, Format Festival, Derby, UK
2014 Reflections of War, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Interiors, Flowers Gallery, New York, UK
2013 Catalyst: Contemporary Art & War, Imperial War Museum North, UK
Black Out: On the Verge of the Photographic, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
Bringing The War Home, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK
Power, Prix Pictet, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
Power, Prix Pictet, Westbau, Löwenbrau Art Complex, Zurich, Switzerland
Power, Prix Pictet, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Power, Prix Pictet, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
Power, Prix Pictet, Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Power, Prix Pictet, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Holland
Power, Prix Pictet, House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2012 Power, Prix Pictet, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Power, Prix Pictet, Bernheimer Fine Art, Munich, Germany
Achtung: Respekt, Kontrolle, Veränderung, Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Power, Prix Pictet, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The World in London, The Photographers’ Gallery/Victoria Park, London, UK
2011 Prime Years, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
Confined, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Collateral Damage, CUC, Liverpool, UK
Mutations III, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
2010 Bringing The War Home, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK
Mutations III, Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany
Mutations III, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
Mutations III, MACRO Testaccio, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy
Mutations III, MUSA, Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna, Austria
Mutations III, Bast’Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Prime Years, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, USA
Seen But Not Heard, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, UK
2008 and earlier Still Life Killing Time, Studio Macrillante, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Still Life Killing Time, Terry O’Neill Awards for Contemporary British Photography, Fulham Palace Gallery, London, UK
Landworks and Cityscapes, Group Show, Assoc. of Photographers, London, UK
Touching the Earth Lightly, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
On Trust, The National Trust, Jersey Galleries, Osterley House, London, UK
Collections & Residencies
Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Fundació Per Amor a l’Art, Valencia, Spain
George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
Grinnell College, Iowa, USA
Imperial War Museums, London, UK
Ikon Gallery Artist-in-Residence, HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire, UK
Joan Mithell Foundation Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
National Trust of Great Britain Artist-in-Residence, Osterley House, London, UK
Selected Talks, Conferences & Symposiums 2018 In Place of Hate, Ikon, Birmingham, UK
2017 Art, Justice and Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Imperial Cultures of the United States, University of Warwick, UK
Still Life Killing Time: Edmund Clark on Working in Prison as an Artist, MAC Birmingham, UK
Provocations in Art: Art Under State Control, Royal Academy, London, UK
2016 Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, Le Bal, Paris, France
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, KABK, The Hague, Netherlands
Very Now:
LCC Festival of Journalism and Art, London College of Communication, UAL, London, UK
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva Switzerland
The New War Photographers, The Frontline Club, London, UK
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
World Policy Institute, New York, USA
Border Control, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK
Kultur. Macht. Politik., Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany
Art and Terrorism Symposium, Courtauld Institute, London, UK
Terror Incognitus, Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, Germany
2015 Art, Prison and Rehabilitation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Interpreting Documentary, University of Westminster, London, UK
FT Weekend Presents: Photojournalism, Somerset House, London, UK
The Mountains of Majeed, Photo London, Somerset House, London, UK
2014 Art and Incarceration, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts, New Orleans, USA
Visual Criminology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Anthropology and Photography, British Museum, London, UK
Artists’ Responses to Conflict, Royal College of Art, London, UK
If It Could Speak: Forensic Aesthetics, Imperial War Museum North, Salford, UK
Guantanamo, Power, Representation, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
2013 The Cultures of Memory, University of College London, UK
Guantanamo Bay, Art, Representation, Forensics and The State of the Unexceptional Other, European Consortium for Political Research General Conference
Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France
Power and Guantanamo, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
The Representation of Power, Huis Marseille Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Power, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Classified Spaces: Agents of Change & the Politics of Space, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK
Pictures in Motion, Berwick International Film & Media Festival, Berwick, UK
The Use of the Camera: Can photography be used to illustrate big ideas?,The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Materialities, Visualities, Securities: The Study of Security in International Relations, Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Face Off: Pakistan, Issues of Terror and Intolerance, Department of Culture, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar, Pakistan
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Houses of Parliament, London, UK
2011 Captivity in Twentieth Century Warfare: Archives, History, Memory, Ecole Militaire, Paris, France
Medium & Message: Conflict Photography in the Digital Era, University College, Dublin, Ireland
Remembering Guantanamo, International Sites of Conscience, Columbia University, New York, USA
2010 The Political Life of Things, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
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