Jeremy Webb
I’ve explored Photography as freelance practitioner, tutor and writer, in all its various forms for over 35 years. The medium is far too versatile, offers far too much scope and potential to just stick with it in one place, wear one hat, as if to say “this is all I do, this is my patch” and then spend a professional lifetime sat in that zone.
You won’t find any unique or recognisable Jeremy Webb “house style” here, but you’ll find a wide range of different subjects, themes and approaches. I’ve always believed in exploring every area, every genre, every style of photography because this is simply authentic to my enquiring and curious nature and as natural to me as a musician might explore many different forms of music. So I give myself the permission to shift between Documentary, Surrealism, Pictorialism, Modernism, Expressionist Abstract, Conceptual, Minimalism or Complexity, according to project/subject.
I’ve spent the bulk of this time exploring, enquiring, playing, focussed on being independent and uncompromised, immersed in the medium and forgetting about selling or marketing my work simply because I’ve been having too much fun making it. I reach a point now, as a mid-career photographic artist, where I can enjoy the creative freedom that comes from being beyond the grip or thrall of gallery-led contemporary photography, or the sales-driven imperative of commercial work. I’ve had plenty of paid work along the way, but I’ve learnt and developed the most from simply immersing myself in the medium, teaching, collaborating, writing, exhibiting, running workshops, mentoring, and public art projects as satellite interests around my core practice.
I’m happy working with black and white darkroom processes, slide sandwiches, photograms, pinhole, and as much risk and imprecision as possible. But I’m also comfortable with the pixels and forensic clarity of digital, and a lot of my work overlaps photography with digital art and figurative work. Recent commissions have led me to produce a series of imagined landscapes of Doggerland, as it might have existed some 8500 years BC. I’ve recently producing large-scale prints raising awareness for Charles Bonnet Syndrome; a debilitating hallucinatory experience affecting some blind and poorly-sighted people and also returned to shooting live theatre. The Cut (Halesworth) showed a retrospective of my work from over 3 decades work, and 2021 saw the 2nd edition of my 2nd book Design Principles, published by Bloomsbury.
I'm currently exploring light painting figurative and portrait photography, with 3D LIDAR scanning and iPhone capability while continuing to run workshop programmes for outreach education and coaching or mentoring other visual artists in the Norfolk/Suffolk region.
This rich variety and creative freedom is what drives my work. In exploring my various themes and subjects, I'm driven by a desire to impart simple ideas and perspectives with clarity, directness, and economy.
Education:
Berkshire College of Art & Design, Reading, UK
1982 – 1984 ~ BTEC Diploma in Photography + BIPP Diploma in Photography (Credit)
1976 – 1982 ~ City of Norwich School, Norwich, UK
Current Work:
[Ongoing] ~ Photographer ~ varied commercial and private commissions, self employed sole trader, mainly running an art-based practice, working with artists, art teachers, live theatre & performance, museums and heritage sector
[Ongoing] ~ Teaching, mentoring, creativity coaching, occasional visiting Lecturer/Guest Speaker for NEACO/Take Your Place based at NUA (Norwich University of the Arts)
[Ongoing] ~ Writer on Photography – published author of 2 books (2005 & 2010) 2nd edition of 2010 book “Design Principles for Photography” for Bloomsbury published Feb 2020
[Ongoing] ~ Developing and producing personal work for future exhibition and publication opportunities, plus part-time work with art tutors and drawing groups as a life model, and portrait/character modelling for Royal Drawing School
2007 – 2019 ~ Distance Learning Tutor, online, for The Blackford Centre, Diploma in Photography course, and UK Distance Learning & Publishing (self-written Level 3 Digital Photography Award) also delivering CPD to teachers and school and local academy groups
Additional to the above, during 2020 lockdown I set up a small community darkroom. I also collaborated with Norfolk art teachers to produce a free educational resource for students self-isolating at home; a Photography Boot Camp for Art Teachers, used in 5 Norfolk schools
Qualifications and training
2020 - Completed (tes) EduCare Level 2 certificates in:
First Aid Essentials, Fire Safety, Child Protection, FGM Awareness, H&S in Education, The Prevent Duty, Child Protection and Safeguarding
2016 - Completed Safeguarding in Education training, The Cut, Halesworth
2012 - Artists for Climate Change, continuing participant in training and education activities, various, Norfolk
2009 - attended training workshops as member of Artists for Climate Change, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
1998 - Awarded Certificate in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), City College, Norwich
1993 - Awarded City & Guilds 928 in Teaching Basic Skills to Adults, Project 86, Norwich
1992 - Awarded ACSTT Stage 1 Certificate in Teaching Adult Learners, Advisory Council for the Supply and Training of Teachers, Norfolk Adult Education Service
1984 - BIPP Diploma in Professional Photography (Credit), Berkshire College of Art & Design, Kings Road, Reading, Berks
1984 - BTEC Diploma in Professional Photography (pass), Berkshire College of Art & Design, KIngs Road, Reading, Berks
Solo exhibitions
2020 - carbon C 6 ~ An exhibition of Light Painting photography at Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich
2018 - Risk/Revision, a solo retrospective exhibition shown at The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, drawing on both personal and commissioned work from 30 years experience as a photographer
2016 - Exhibition of portraits, commissioned by Suffolk Artlink, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral
2013 - Spindrift~ exhibition of coastal landscape prints and associated workshops, Norwich Arts Centre
2000 - Behind the Scenes, featuring documentary project based on the working lives of men and women at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Exhibited at same Hospital
1988 - Housing & Homelessness B&W print exhibition, Norwich City Council, City hall, Norwich
1985 - UK Landscapes, St George Theatre, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk
Group exhibitions
2018 “Seeing Things” Group exhibition based on lives of Charles Bonnet Syndrome sufferers, commissioned by Norfolk & Norwich Association for the Blind, at The Forum, Norwich
2015 - Commission & exhibition: Discovering Doggerland, one of 8 artists invited to respond, work presented and exhibited at The Cut, Halesworth Nov 2015 (See Projects)
2015 - 4 Light Painting still life works exhibited in group show The Transient Nature of Light at The Bank, Eye, Suffolk
2011 - 6 artworks exhibited at Great Ormond Street Hospital digital artworks exhibition, Axis
2010 - Ulysses II, project organised by Fiona Hayes of DayFour, The Print Space, London, Publication, exhibition and website
2007 - Mementos & Masterpieces: Photographic responses to public sculpture and monuments in Norfolk and Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre , Norwich
2006 - Day Four exhibition "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions", Six Degrees Gallery, Soho, London
2003 - Zone Zero 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modertn Art, Mexico City
2002 - Computer Art Festival, Mestna Gallery, Nova Gorica
2001 - Kentmere Awards (1st Prize Winner, Digital section), Touring exhibition, various locations throughout UK
2001 - London Photographic Awards, Inside Space Gallery, London
1996 - Intervals (A day in the life of 4 Norwich theatres), Norfolk Museums Service (4 photographers selected), Theatre Royal, Norwich
1988 - Sping Spang Spong, mixed media Group Show at St Gregorys Arts Centre, Norwich
1986 - Click, three person group show, Henley Exhibition Centre
Solo curated projects
2001 - Thru Fresh Eyes - exhibition of works produced by asylum seekers, Gt Yarmouth College, Various locations
Workshops
2014 – 2020 - Tutoring workshops in digital and film photography at The Cut, Halesworth. Continuous series of darkroom, image editing, and landscape workshops for students of all ages and abilities.
2018 Pinhole photography project run with history & culture therapy group, The Restoration Trust, at Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth
Site-specific photography workshops undertaken for MEAL (Museum of East Anglian Life), Beccles Free School, The Bank (Eye, Suffolk) and Cromer Museum, Norfolk
2014 & 2015 – Tutor to Paradise Walk Project, Waveney & Blyth Arts & The Cut, Halesworth
2014 - Lead tutor in Cromer Past & Present Project workshops with young people, Cromer Museum & Time & Tide Museum, Gt Yarmouth
2013 - Coastal landscape photography workshops Sept - November as part of Spindrift~ exhibition activities
2013 - Tutor - Beginners Darkroom, Creative Darkroom, and Photoshop courses, Norwich Arts Centre, 7th year of continuing appointment
2012 - Photography Co-ordinator: Eco Group art commissioning project, Hellesdon High School, began series of workshop-led sessions within the school and Artists for Climate Change resulting in pupil-created large scale artworks on permanent display within school
2010 - Workshop Leader - 6th form Photography Club, CNS School, Norwich, teaching lighting and darkroom skills
2009 - Tutor - Beginners Darkroom, Creative Darkroom courses, Digital photography workshops Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
2008 - Breckland Photography workshops, Breckland Council, Attleborough and Watton, Norfolk
2008 - Workshop series tutor - Sculpture Photography, Mementos and Masterpieces exhibition, Norwich Arts Centre
2007 - Breckland Photography Workshops, Breckland Council, Attleborough, Watton, Thetford, Swaffham & Dereham
Residencies
2020 - Artist in Residence ~ Wymondham High Academy, Norfolk
1995 - Photographer, Norwich Sculpture Park Project, Norwich
Private commissions
2011 - Present - Numerous commercial commissions undertaken for local & national businesses and organisations, inc. UEA Design Studio, Media Heaven, The Broads Authority, regional & national
Projects
2015 - Commissioned to shoot 7 locations for Paradise letters (see Projects section), resulting images published as postcards, Waveney & Blyth Arts.
2011 - Creative Practitioner, Creative Partnerships project, St Williams Junior School, Thorpe, Norwich, Working with 2 x Yr 5 classes: pinhole to digital
2010 - Creative Practitioner, Creative Partnerships project, North Walsham School, Norfolk, Teaching practical photography workshops - photography history, pinhole to digital, Yr 5
2010 - DayFour: Ulysses II - contributing photographer, Publication and launch exhibition at The Print Space, London, http://www.dayfour.info/
2009 - Workshop co-leader, Creative Partnerships project, North Walsham County Junior School, Norfolk
2008 - Tutor to CNS Coastal Photography Group , CNS School, Norwich, Exhibition & project work undertaken at Norfolk coast, CNS School, & Norwich University College of the Arts
Competitions, prizes and awards
2001 - image "Come & Be My Baby" shortlisted as Merit-awarded finalist, London Photographic Awards (LPA 5), Inside Space Gallery, London
2001 - image "The Witness" awarded 1st Prize, The Kentmere Awards
1999 - 3rd Prize, Salon of British Contemporary Photography, various
Other teaching/projects
2017 - Mentoring students at Stowmarket High School, as part of Young People Connected, organised by Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds
2000 - Tutor (p/t) - Digital Photography & Creative B&W courses, Norfolk Adult Education,
1999 - Tutor (5 yrs p/t > 2004) - Photography courses GNVQ, A level, HND, Gt Yarmouth College, Gt Yarmouth, Norwich
1999 - Tutor (p/t) Introduction to Photography, City & Guilds, Norfolk Adult Education
1992 - Visiting Tutor (p/t) - Norfolk College of Arts & Technology, 2nd-yr Photography Students, NORCAT, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
Educational experience - special needs
1996 - Tutor (p/t) to "Visable" workshop series, International Day of the Disabled, Warehouse Artists Studios, Norwich
1996 - Tutor (p/t) to homeless/hostel-living students photography project & exhibition, Voluntary Hostels Group (reg. charity), St. Giles St, Norwich
1992 - Tutor (p/t) - Basic Photography, Norfolk Social Services, Vauxhall Centre, Norwich
1992 - Tutor (p/t) - Basic Photography Skills, Norfolk Social Services, Ipswich Rd Training Centre, Norwich
Publications
2016 - Featured Photographer in iDeia Design Magazine, Brazil
2015 - Design Principles book translated and published in Spanish and Portuguese
2015 - Images from Waveney & Blyth Arts "Paradise" project published as series of postcards
2014 - Image published on front page of BBC News website
2010 - Book published: "Design Principles", Basics Creative Photography series, AVA Publishing Ltd
2007 - Book cover - Pen & Inc Press - Cheque Enclosed: UEA Creative Writing Anthology
2007 - images published in AVA book "Lighting" by David Prakel
2006 - Book cover - Pen & Inc Press - Tessellate: UEA Creative Writing Anthology
2005 - Book cover - Pen & Inc Press - Otherwheres: UEA Creative Writing Anthology
2005 - Book cover - Pen & Inc Press - This Little World (Pretext series)
2005 - Book published - Creative Vision: Digital & Traditional Methods for Inspiring Innovative Photography, published by AVA Publishing Ltd
2005 - Monthly feature/tutorial writer - Digital Photo Effects (2 yrs)
2004 - images published in The AVA Guide to Outdoor Photography by Cathy Joseph
2003 - Monthly feature writer UK Photographics website (2 yrs)
2003 - Portfolios published in Air, {Still, The Surgery of Modern Warfare, and EFX,
2002 - Featured artist in Spiked Magazine
2001 - Portfolios published in Digital Photo Art Journal & Photo Art International
2001 - Torchlit still life images pub: Rotovision book Lighting for Food & Drink
2000 - British Journal of Photography (BJP) pp24-25 critical review by John Tarrant
Other
1999 - Natural World prints represented by galleries, The Red Gallery, Marlow, Bucks , The Bircham Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
1992 - Raised £17,000 in grants & sponsorship, Warehouse Artists Studios, Norwich, Management Committee member
1991 - Temporary advisor - development, marketing & fundraising, Mancroft Advice Project (MAP), Norwich
1989 - Raised £2000 sponsorship, Frontier Tanzania Expedition, London & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1985 - Studio Assistant (temp), Holborn Studios, London 1984 - Black & White Printer (temp), Darkroom, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Web links - gallery/work/projects
{C}• www.flickr.com/photos/jezzajoy/
{C}• https://www.facebook.com/JeremyWebbPhotography/
https://www.instagram.com/jeremywebbphotography/
http://blog.bloomsburyvisualarts.com/2010/08/25/ava-talks-to-photographer-jeremy-webb/#more-500
Personal website
{C}• www.jeremywebbphotography.com
Details provided on this CV represent recent samples of work due to the varied and constantly-changing nature of my work. Further information can be found on my personal website above
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