Edmund Clark
Photographer
Edmund Clark is an award-winning photographer whose work links history, politics and representation. His series Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out, Letters to Omar and Control Order House engage with state censorship to explore hidden experiences and spaces of control and incarceration in the global “war on terror.” The Mountains of Majeed reflects on the end of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Clark’s work has been acquired for national and international collections including the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the National Media Museum in Britain, the George Eastman House Museum in America, and the Fotomuseum, Winterthur in Switzerland. Awards include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for outstanding photography for public service, the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award and, together with Crofton Black, an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography and the inaugural Photo Text Book Award at the Rencontres D’Arles. His work is the subject of a major solo exhibition, ‘Edmund Clark: War of Terror’, at the Imperial War Museum, London, from 28 July 2016 to 28 August 2017.
By following the seemingly mundane bureaucratic paper trail of the War on Terror, Photographer Edmund Clark and investigator Crofton Black uncover secrets the government would rather keep hidden.