Mark Edwards

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Mark's working method is rigorous and time-consuming, after a number of visits to a location and research into its history, he will set up his equipment – a cumbersome 8” x 10” plate camera which is placed on top of a high ladder so that the view is elevated. The long exposure needed to capture the detail in these photographs requires a completely windless moment and Mark often makes his work just after dawn.

Mark Edwards is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Suffolk, Visiting Research Fellow at the UEA and a practicing artist.  Hi imagery is included in major photographic collections including the V&A Museum, The Government Art Collection, The Hyman Collection of British Photography and Norwich Museum.  It has also been published and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions including Rituals, Gallery 881, Vancouver, Canada, Spotlight, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich (2019-20), Into the Woods:  Photography & Trees, V&A Museum, London and A Green and Pleasant Land, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2017-18).  My work is also currently on display at the British Embassy, Berlin, the British High Commission, Islamabad and HM Treasury, London.  Recent publications featuring his work include, W.G. Sebalds’ Artistic Legacies (University of Amsterdam, 2022), Into the Woods: Photography & Trees, (V&A/Thames & Hudson) and Approaching Photography, (Bloomsbury). 
 
He has presented his research at numerous conferences including, Paul Mellon Centre University for Studies in British Art, Yale University, (Countless Edens, 2020), University of Amsterdam, School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (W.G. Sebalds’ Artistic Legacies, 2019), The Photographers Gallery, London (Countless Edens, 2019), Tate Britain, London (Constable and the Weather, 2015), V&A Museum, London (John Constable: The Making of a Master, 2014), Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, Norwich (Monuments, 2014) and The Holburne Museum, Bath (Approaches to Landscape;  Mark Edwards & Don MuCullin, 2012).