North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
 Homecoming (Ghost Tree) |  Homecoming (Ghost Tree) |
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Homecoming (Ghost Tree) | Homecoming (Ghost Tree) |
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions
History
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
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.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Bill Jackson
fotofilm
“When the lights go out And the darkness surrounds you Open your eyes
to the Wonderment"
 The Night Hunter |  The Night Hunter |  Frames |
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 Frames |  Relics from Cabinet of Curiosity |  Relics from Cabinet of Curiosity |
 Zootorium from Cabinet of Curiosity |  Zootorium from Cabinet of Curiosity |  Heads from Cabinet of Curiosity |
 Heads from Cabinet of Curiosity |  Imaginary People from Cabinet of Curiosity |  Imaginary People from Cabinet of Curiosity |
 1984 |  1984 |  1986 |
 1986 |  Biographica |  Biographica |
 Maverick Red Sofa Sessions 2014 |  Maverick Red Sofa Sessions 2015 |  Maverick Red Sofa Sessions 2016 |
 Walberswick Swimmers |  Walberswick Swimmers |  Green Sofa Aldeburgh DocFest |
 Green Sofa Aldeburgh DocFest |  Diorama for Beachcombers |  Diorama for Beachcombers |
 Diorama for Dog Lovers |  Diorama for Dog Lovers |  Carnival Masks Lowestoft |
 Carnival Masks Lowestoft |
PHOTOGRAPHY and STILL IMAGES
A selection of photographic stills from projects ranging from long exposure photography in Night Of The Hunter and Frames, to the conceptual work in the series The Cabinet of Curiosity - Relics, Zootorium, Head and Imaginary People - commissioned by Troika Editions for The London Art Fair 2011.
Portrait projects from 1984, 1986 and Biographica to Diorama for Beachcombers commissioned by Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary for the London Art Fair in 2015 and Diorama for Dog Lovers commissioned by PhotoEast Photography Festival 2016.
Maverick Festival of American Roots Music Red Sofa Sessions from 2014 - 2018 where festival musicians sat and often performed on the iconic red soda found in a barn at the festival site. It has transformed into a film version in 2019 with another found sofa The Green Sofa Sessions (2020 cancelled due to COVID).
Carnival is 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.
Imaginary People V from Imaginary People