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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“When the lights go out And the darkness surrounds you Open your eyes
to the Wonderment"
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PORTRAITS
I approach my portraits as a set of images within a particular 'container' or concepts. For example 'Biographica' was photographed using a special sliding back land camera, manly used for landscapes. i wanted to photograph a series of interiors which also served as a biography of the people who inhabited them. The result is a very detailed exploration of The Home.
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I began as a photographer after artschool graduation working the streets which eventually led to a more formal approach to portrait work. My series shot over a year in 1984 saw the culmination of two distinct elements - shot on 35mm film and hand coloured which all my work was. By 1986 I was becoming frustrated with the still image and began a series of new works which radical change the way I worked. Firstly I moved over to 6 x 6 format and printed black and white. I also began to experiment with combining this with 8mm film, primarily as a recording of the session. TIme has come full circle as in the work of the Maverick Green Sofa sessions which moved from the still images on the Red Sofa Sessions to film clips.
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The sofa has been a motif since the early days when I did a project photographing Women on Their Sofas. As a concept each lady I photographed introduced me to a friend who had a sofa. I have use the sofa with the Walbersick Swimmers and the participants of the 2016 Aldeburgh Documentary Festival, both using the same plastic green sofa.
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My Dioromas are public constructed imaginary landscapes where people are invited to sit within and react as they wish, often by playing with the available props or bringing their own as in Diorama For Dogs.
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Carnival explores ideas with a mobile canvas studio when I was commissioned to photograph people at a centre in Lowestoft wearing their own mask creations for a parade.
Walbersiwick Swimmer