John Spinks (photographer)

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John Spinks is a British photographer, living in London. [1] He has made the books Factories (2010), The New Village (2017) and Harrowdown Hill (2023).

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Life and work

Spinks grew up in a village in North Warwickshire. [2] He studied photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, Surrey and now lives in London. [1]

Factories, made in conjunction with menswear brand Albam, includes portraits of workers, the machines they operate and their personalised tools, in British factories making clothes for the company. [3]

The New Village was made in the former mining village in which Spinks grew up. [2] The book includes, in the words of Sean O'Hagan in The Guardian, "full-length portraits of individual inhabitants interspersed with almost deadpan photographs of the ordinary houses that they live in", as well as "the indeterminate stretches of land where suburban housing estates end and the English countryside begins". [4] It was made over 17 years using an 8×10 view camera. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Studio Visit - John Spinks". Paper Journal. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 "John Spinks' photobook The New Village". Creative Review. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  3. "Albam's clothes are made in these places, by these people". Creative Review. 15 November 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  4. O'Hagan, Sean (25 June 2017). "The New Village by John Spinks – review". The Observer. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  5. "John Spinks: Factories". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  6. "The bleak beauty of England's forgotten towns". Huck Magazine. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  7. "Harrowdown Hill: landscape, photography and the death of David Kelly". The Guardian. 18 May 2023. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 7 September 2023 via www.theguardian.com.