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This is my fortnightly podcast, featuring in-depth, long-form interviews with a diverse range of talented, innovative, world-class photographers from established, award-winning and internationally exhibited stars to young and emerging talents, discussing their lives, work and process.

“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness”
— W. Eugene Smith

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© Edmund Clark (& possibly Majeed!)

© Edmund Clark (& possibly Majeed!)

025 - Edmund Clark

April 20, 2016

Edmund Clark is an award-winning artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His work traces ideas of shared humanity, otherness and unseen experience through landscape, architecture and the documents, possessions and environments of subjects of political tension.

The series Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Letters to Omar and Control Order House, the first and last of which have been published as books, engage with state censorship to explore the hidden experiences and spaces of control and incarceration in the ‘Global War on Terror’, as does Edmund's latest book, co-authored by counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black, Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition. His other book, The Mountains of Majeed, reflects on the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history.

Edmund’s work has been acquired for national and international collections including, in Britain, The National Portrait Gallery, The National Media Museum and The Imperial War Museum, London where he is currently preparing for the opening of a major, year-long exhibition, which he talks briefly about in the interview.

Awards include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for outstanding photography for public service, being shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Pictet on the theme of Power and being twice nominated for the Deutsche Borse Prize.

He teaches postgraduate students at the University of the Arts London, contributes regularly to international conferences and symposia, and is actively engaged with education through lectures, talks, workshops and portfolio reviews.

In Episode 025, Edmund discusses:

  • A handy summary of what his work is about

  • Guatantamo Bay project

  • Being in the image age

  • Control Order House project

  • The Mountains of Majeed

  • Extraordinary Rendition

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