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About the photographer, Janine WIEDEL:
Janine WIEDEL is an American documentary photographer and visual anthropologist based in London who has been covering issues of social concern since the late 1960s.
Her career has mainly focused on groups struggling to survive on the edges of mainstream society. These projects have become major studies, books and exhibitions, and have fed into Wiedel’s extensive archive and
photolibrary which contains a unique collection of stock images covering a wide range of social issues including: education, protest, youth, alternative lifestyles, multicultural communities, drugs and social exclusion.
Major Long Term Projects
'Black Panthers and Berkeley Riots: photographs in California 1968-1969'
'Irish Tinkers: Five years project documenting the Irish Travellers'
'Eskimo Summer: Life on Baffin Island living with an Inuit Family '
'Looking at Iran: Educational book documenting Iran during the Shah's reign'
'Vulcan’s Forge: Two year project documenting Britain's Industrial Heartland'
'Dover, A port in a Storm: Documenting Changes before construction of tunnel' 'Faces With Voices: A year documenting the people of Sudbury, Suffolk' 'St Agnes Place: Four year document of South London squatted street' Rastafarian way of life: Documenting a Rastafarian community in London
'Food Awareness & Food Growing:Project with Rastafarian & BME community'
'In Transit: a collaborative Documentary project with Jacky Chapman on the Calais Jungle and Grande-Synthe Refugee Camps 2016'
Ongoing Projects:
'Protest in it's many forms & Multicultural Communities in Britain'
Solo Exhibitions:
The Photographer’s Gallery, London 1974 The Photographer’s Gallery, London 1977 The Half moon Gallery, London (and touring) 1977 The Photographer’s Gallery, London 1979 Stoke City museum & Art Gallery 1980 ATV Television Centre, Birmingham 1981 Ikon Gallery, Touring Exhibition 1981 Invicta Gallery, Canterbury 1990 Dover Museum 1991 Margate library 1991 Gainsborough House Museum, Sudbury 1992 Focal Point Gallery, Southend 1992
Goodnow Gallery, Massachusetts 1994 Profile Intermedia 2003 St Agnes Gallery & Traveling bus 2005 The Power House, Bremen, Germany 2006
Recent Exhibitions:
The Mall Gallery, London: British Life Awards (highly commended) 2014
Ovada Warehouse, Oxford: 'Resistance is Fertile' (group show) 2015
The Mall Gallery, London: British Life Awards (winner of 2 categories) 2015
James Caird Hall, Dulwich College, London: 'In Transit' (Janine Wiedel /Jacky Chapman) 2016
Gallery 101, London: In Transit, refugee camps in France, Janine Wiedel & Jacky Chapman 2017
Books Published:
'Classroom Observation Methuen press/ Routledge
'Irish Tinkers Latimer Press (UK) / St Martin's Press (USA) 1978
'Vulcan's Forge Archetype Visual Studies' (1979) 'Looking at Iran A&C Black (UK) Lippincott (USA)' (1976) 'Dover, a Port in a Storm CPPM' (1991) 'Faces With Voices Richard Castell' (1992) 'Irish Tinkers: A Portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970s ' (1976, iBook 2013)
'In Transit, refugee camps of Northern France' (Chapman/ Wiedel, 2017)
'Black Panthers, Black Power 1968' (2017)
'Smiths' Drop Forge, Birmingham 1976' (2017)
'Iron and Steel, West Midlands 1978' (2017)
Photographs in permanent collection at: Arts Council of Great Britain, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., The Museum for Women, Washington D.C., Dover Museum, Gainsborough House Museum
Janine WIEDEL is an American documentary photographer and visual anthropologist based in London who has been covering issues of social concern since the late 1960s.
Her career has mainly focused on groups struggling to survive on the edges of mainstream society. These projects have become major studies, books and exhibitions, and have fed into Wiedel’s extensive archive and
photolibrary which contains a unique collection of stock images covering a wide range of social issues including: education, protest, youth, alternative lifestyles, multicultural communities, drugs and social exclusion.
Major Long Term Projects
'Black Panthers and Berkeley Riots: photographs in California 1968-1969'
'Irish Tinkers: Five years project documenting the Irish Travellers'
'Eskimo Summer: Life on Baffin Island living with an Inuit Family '
'Looking at Iran: Educational book documenting Iran during the Shah's reign'
'Vulcan’s Forge: Two year project documenting Britain's Industrial Heartland'
'Dover, A port in a Storm: Documenting Changes before construction of tunnel' 'Faces With Voices: A year documenting the people of Sudbury, Suffolk' 'St Agnes Place: Four year document of South London squatted street' Rastafarian way of life: Documenting a Rastafarian community in London
'Food Awareness & Food Growing:Project with Rastafarian & BME community'
'In Transit: a collaborative Documentary project with Jacky Chapman on the Calais Jungle and Grande-Synthe Refugee Camps 2016'
Ongoing Projects:
'Protest in it's many forms & Multicultural Communities in Britain'
Solo Exhibitions:
The Photographer’s Gallery, London 1974 The Photographer’s Gallery, London 1977 The Half moon Gallery, London (and touring) 1977 The Photographer’s Gallery, London 1979 Stoke City museum & Art Gallery 1980 ATV Television Centre, Birmingham 1981 Ikon Gallery, Touring Exhibition 1981 Invicta Gallery, Canterbury 1990 Dover Museum 1991 Margate library 1991 Gainsborough House Museum, Sudbury 1992 Focal Point Gallery, Southend 1992
Goodnow Gallery, Massachusetts 1994 Profile Intermedia 2003 St Agnes Gallery & Traveling bus 2005 The Power House, Bremen, Germany 2006
Recent Exhibitions:
The Mall Gallery, London: British Life Awards (highly commended) 2014
Ovada Warehouse, Oxford: 'Resistance is Fertile' (group show) 2015
The Mall Gallery, London: British Life Awards (winner of 2 categories) 2015
James Caird Hall, Dulwich College, London: 'In Transit' (Janine Wiedel /Jacky Chapman) 2016
Gallery 101, London: In Transit, refugee camps in France, Janine Wiedel & Jacky Chapman 2017
Books Published:
'Classroom Observation Methuen press/ Routledge
'Irish Tinkers Latimer Press (UK) / St Martin's Press (USA) 1978
'Vulcan's Forge Archetype Visual Studies' (1979) 'Looking at Iran A&C Black (UK) Lippincott (USA)' (1976) 'Dover, a Port in a Storm CPPM' (1991) 'Faces With Voices Richard Castell' (1992) 'Irish Tinkers: A Portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970s ' (1976, iBook 2013)
'In Transit, refugee camps of Northern France' (Chapman/ Wiedel, 2017)
'Black Panthers, Black Power 1968' (2017)
'Smiths' Drop Forge, Birmingham 1976' (2017)
'Iron and Steel, West Midlands 1978' (2017)
Photographs in permanent collection at: Arts Council of Great Britain, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., The Museum for Women, Washington D.C., Dover Museum, Gainsborough House Museum
- Format
- Zine (no dust jacket as issued), 14 x 20 x 0,5 cm., 36 pp., b/w ills., digital printing, English. Ltd. to 250 copies