Andrew Jackson is based in Montreal, Canada and is a photographer, and lecturer in photography, at London College of Communication and on the advisory panel of The Photo Ethics Centre.
His works interrogate notions of place, belonging and selfhood, within intimate and personal interventions and are held in the United Kingdom Government Art Collection. Besides other public and private collections of art.
These interventions focus on the themes of migration, displacement, and collective memory, but also seek to question and challenge how photography has traditionally narrated and represented stories of the diaspora.
As the art historian Professor Eddie Chambers has written, “British life has had the disastrous effect of immigrants not being routinely regarded as sensitive human beings, but being instead cast as vexatious problems. Jackson’s work restores humanity to people from whom this critical characteristic has been routinely withheld or withdrawn. And in restoring humanity, a thousand stories of life can be, and are, told.”
Jackson is a recipient of the month-long Light Work / Autograph ABP (AIR) International Photography Residency in Syracuse, New York, and a graduate of the MA Documentary photography program at Newport in Wales. In 2018 Jackson was shortlisted for the Elliott Erwitt Fellowship and in the past has been a nominee for the Prix Pictet award.
Jackson is the co-founder and co-director of ReFramed, a UK based organisation which creates opportunities for artists from Black, Asian and other racialised communities to engage with photography. He has undertaken written commissions most recently - In The Night Of The Day for Living Memory Project.
As a full member of Diversify Photo, he is available for commission, and lives and works between the UK and Canada.
Public Collections
United Kingdom Government Art Collection
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum: Permanent Collection
The Garman Ryan permanent collection: New Art Gallery, Walsall:
National Photographic Archive; Birmingham Central Library:
Cadbury Trust Archive
Autograph ABP
Light Works (Syracuse University)
