Artist Talk - Jillian Edelstein
Our June artist talk is by the multi-award-winning South African, London-based, photographer, the amazing Jillian Edelstein, who will talk about her photographic life.
Finding that growing up white in apartheid South Africa led to feelings of ‘anger and guilt’, Edelstein states that ‘Photography was a way, for me, of channelling those emotions’, and that ‘At the time I believed that by pointing a camera at security police, or at Casspirs (armoured personnel carriers) cruising the townships, or by documenting clashes between protestors and riot police I might help to change the situation in our country’ (Edelstein, 2002).
Edelstein decided to leave apartheid South Africa for London, England in 1985 in order to gain more editorial and educational experience. She studied Photojournalism at the London College of Printing in 1985, but did not complete the course as she started working for The Sunday Times in 1986 as a freelancer.
She works and is passionate about portrait as well as documentary photography - her images have appeared internationally in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The FT Weekend Magazine, Vanity Fair, Interview, Vogue, Port, The Guardian Weekend, The Sunday Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Forbes, GQ and Esquire.
She’s also several numerous awards for her work including a Visa d’Or at the Perpignan International Festival of Photojournalism, John Kobal Book Award and The Taylor Wessing Portrait Award twice.
Location
POST, Second Floor, Industrial House, Conway Street, BN3 3LW