Mark Neville

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Mark Neville
Born1966
London, England
Nationality British
Education University of Reading; Goldsmiths' College (London); The Rijksakademie (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Known for Social documentary photography, war art
Notable workPort Glasgow Book Project [1]
Patron(s) Imperial War Museum; Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, [2]
Website www.markneville.com

Mark Neville (born 1966) [3] is a British social documentary photographer. [4] [5]

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Life and work

Neville studied Fine Arts at Reading University, Berkshire (B.A.), Goldsmiths' College in London (M.A.) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, although he was asked to leave after a violent incident with a female student. [6] As an artist he is known for working at the interface of art and documentary utilizing photography and films to capture the unique face of working communities.

Neville is best known for his Port Glasgow Book Project, [1] after he spent a year as artist in residence in Port Glasgow in 2004 portraying the town's hardship of Scotland's post-industrial decline in a photographic book which was distributed as a gift to members of the community. He has worked on commissioned projects by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (Braddock/Sewickley, 2012) [7] and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute (Fancy Pictures, 2008). His work Deeds Not Words, [8] which addresses the Corby community involved in the toxic waste disposal court case, [9] exhibited in 2013 at The Photographers' Gallery in London. [10] [11] [12] Neville created a small body of work based on two 1-month residencies with the British Army in the Afghan province of Helmand as the UK's official war artist in 2010/11. [13] [14] Part of The Helmand Work showed at London's Imperial War Museum's Contemporary Art Gallery during its relaunch in Summer 2014. [15] [16] Neville claimed to have suffered from and was eventually treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder upon his return from Helmand, and this experience also resulted in The Battle Against Stigma Book Project. A selection of emails and prints from the book was included in the touring group exhibition With Different Eyes – The Portrait in Contemporary Photography which opened at Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur and Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2016, and in Neville’s solo show Battle Against Stigma at QUAD in Derby, England in 2018.

In 2012 The New York Times Magazine commissioned Neville to make the photo essay Here is London, [17] which examined wealth inequality in the capital, and which they subsequently nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2016 Steidl published the first commercially available book on Neville's activist book practice. Fancy Pictures includes work from six of Neville's projects with an interview between David Campany and Neville and was shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards PhotoBook of the Year. [18]

Neville’s 2017 project Child’s Play continued his investigation into mental health issues by examining the importance of play in personal development. Neville’s project made a link between the closures of adventure playgrounds in Britain’s urban areas and a drastic rise in cases of depression and anxiety among young people and children.

Begun June 2016 on the day Britain voted to leave the European Union Neville's Parade book project was commissioned by GwinZegal Centre of Art, in the town of Guingamp, France. Disgusted by the outcome of the Brexit vote, Neville decided to examine what community meant in Brittany ('Little Britain’), as a mirror to his own native country.

For many years, Neville lived and worked in London. In October 2020, he moved to Kyiv in the Ukraine. [19]

Awards

Publications

Notes

  1. ↑ Neville's page about Port Glasgow
  2. ↑ Neville's page about Deeds Not Words
  3. ↑ Neville's page about Battle against Stigma
  4. ↑ Neville's page about Child's Play
  5. ↑ Steidl's page about Fancy Pictures
  6. ↑ Neville's page about Parade
  7. ↑ GwinZegal's page about Parade
  8. ↑ Neville's page about Stop Tanks with Books
  9. ↑ Nazraeli's page about Stop Tanks with Books

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  2. ↑ Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018. Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 2018.
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  4. ↑ "People power: Mark Neville's documentary photography – in pictures". The Guardian . 6 January 2017. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Mark Neville's Immersive Photo Experiment". The New Yorker . Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "About". Mark Neville.
  7. ↑ "Picture of the week: Mark Neville 'Woodland Hills High School Prom'". The Guardian .
  8. ↑ "My best photograph: 'Mark Neville: Corby Carnival Queens'". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "Exhibition sheds new light on Corby toxic waste scandal that left 16 children with birth defects". The Independent .
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  18. 1 2 "In Paris: 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards". www.1854.photography. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  19. ↑ Zoe Whitfield (9 February 2022). "Fotos aus der Ukraine, wie sie die Nachrichten nicht zeigen" (in German). vice.com. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  20. ↑ https://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/press-release/IWM%20Contemporary%20Mark%20Neville_0.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
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  26. ↑ "À Guingamp, «l’Echappée» du pénitencier." Libération, 10 May 2019.
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