North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
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In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions
History
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In 2014 I had an idea which I put to the Founder and Director of the Maverick Festival of Americana Roots Music, Paul Spencer. Cutting a long story short i found an old red sofa in a barn and the rest is history as they say. Nearly 200 individual singer / song writers and bands have sat on the Red Sofa. Many of the photographs have been used by the musicians for publicity and some have made their way onto album covers. In 2018 I did the sessions on an iPhone when we couldn't get the red sofa out a barn full of hay bales. Examples of sessions between 2014 -2018 which shows the development of the concept.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
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Bill Jackson
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ARCHIVE
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Below is a list of works going back to the 1980's. I have spilt the site into two distinct sections - Current and Archive.​
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Inspired by Bertolt Brecht, I embarked on a mass observation of people around me throughout 1984. All set pieces of people from choir singers to Shakespearean actors to metal works and hospital staff. There were nearly 70 final portraits. All were hand coloured, large scale pieces. This is just a few.
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Digitised from the original black and white 6 x 6 negatives (this re evaluation is ongoing). These were the last portraits I did until around 2008/09 . Commissioned by The Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry, they are all of people I know, friends and family. It was my way of saying goodbye to using film and silver based photography. I was already heavily involved in electronic imaging
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​Digital and Hybrid Projects from a time before yesterday. My first introduction to electronic imaging was in the mid 70's when two lecturers at Coventry School of Art had a room for electronica with video and audio, but serious explorations began when I decided to experiment with electronic imaging and sounds back in 1984/5.
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I wanted to do a series of panoramic environmental portraits, giving the viewer the optical illusion of looking through someones letterbox. I bought a sliding back camera system, designed to take landscapes pictures but took it into small confined spaces. The 5 x 4 quality allows the viewer of these large format prints to be to read every detail including the titles of the books on the shelves.
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TROIKA EDITIONS 'THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
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tThe concept "Cabinet Of Curiosities" or "Wunderkammer" was commissioned by Troika Editions in London and was selected for the Arts Projects at The London Art Fair in 2011. It comprised of distinct elements, each presented in different ways.
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A series of portraits of people wearing their own carnival masks for Artlink Suffolk, a participatory arts charity. They develop and deliver inclusive arts programmes that support peoples’ health and wellbeing.
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A selection from the series Diorama For Beachcombers commissioned by Caroline Wiseman for the London Art Fair in 2015, Diorama For Dogs commissioned by PhotoEast 201
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In 2014 I had an idea which I put to the Founder and Director of the Maverick Festival of Americana Roots Music, Paul Spencer. Cutting a long story short i found an old red sofa in a barn and the rest is history as they say.
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After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
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CARTE POSTALE at DANCE EAST 2018
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I was commissioned by PhotoEast in 2018 to produce an audio visual set as a backdrop for a performance by Casson and Friends at Dance East. The inspiration for the choreography was from conversations from the people of Ipswich in Suffolk.
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