Nigel Jackson
The photogram is central to Nigel Jackson’s practice. His work is concerned with themes of fragility and transience, objects and the values and meanings we invest in them. His current work is focused on the concept of An Ecology of the Image. Nigel is developing for the digital age the possibilities of the vanished early photographic experiments of Midlands pioneer Tom Wedgwood. “Unfixed sun pictures, created through the effects of light and moisture on photographic papers, are akin to living beings in their continuing reactions to their environment – developing, declining and finally disappearing, leaving their space in the image ecology for new images”. At critical points in the process these fragile and transient images are scanned by the artist. Nigel has exhibited widely including in Luminous at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival China, in Birmingham at the International Festival of the Image and at the Rencontres d'Arles, France.