JESSIE MARTIN
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Jessie Martin is an interdisciplinary geographer and photographer based in Germany. Her interdisciplinary practice explores relations between capital, power, politics and ecology in and across places. She is currently working towards her doctorate in the 'Practicing Place' research group at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her PhD project adopts a transdisciplinary approach to investigate how capitalism practices place through the relations of fossil carbons. Her research acts against the Nature/Human binary to re-articulate how the relations of nature, capital and global power function through petro-geographies and their associated spatial imaginaries.
Her photographic practice is an important part of her research approach, which engages with photography's capacity to make visible capitalist practices which are often hidden and obscured. She received her BA in Photography at the University of Westminster and holds an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has previous experience leading modules on the BA Photography course at University of West London, as well as teaching in Further Education settings.
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EDUCATION
2015 - 2017 MA Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London
2009 - 2012 BA (Hons) Photographic Arts at University of Westminster
EXHIBITIONS
2024 - 'Living London', London Museum of Water and Steam, Brentford, UK
2022 - Despatch Exhibition, New Forest Museum and Heritage Centre, UK
2021 - ArtFullFrame Exhibition, London Photo Show, Bargehouse Gallery, OXO Tower, London
2021 - Open Art Exhibition, The Jam Factory, Oxford, UK
2020 - 'Space Between Us', Artlink Hull, UK
2018 - 'In Transit', Urbiquity Urban Lab ‘18, ASSAB ONE, Milan
2017 - 'The Urban Condition', Lewisham Arthouse, London
2017 - Selection of works on permanent display, The Albany Theatre, Deptford, London
2016 - 'Imprint of Space', St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths University, London
2016 - 'Urban Pause', Laurie Grove Baths, Goldsmiths University, London
2012 - 'University of Westminster Degree Show', Free Range at the Truman Brewery, London
2012 - '22/Twentytwo', New Gallery, London
SELECTED EMPLOYMENT
2024 - Ongoing - Research Fellow (Doctoral Candidate), Practicing Place research training group, University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, funded by the DFG (the German Research Foundation)
2019 - 2024 - Photography Lecturer and Technical Facilitator, Richmond Upon Thames College
2018 - 2024 - Photography Lecturer and Module Leader, BA Photography, University of West London
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
2025 - Presentation of Conference Paper, 'The Legacies of Petro-Geographies: Reiterating Industrial Capitalism through the Subsurface', Subsurface Futures: Extractives, Critical Minerals, and Decarbonization, University of Wyoming
2025 - Presentation of Research, 'The Visual Archive as Embodied Process: Disrupting Oil Narratives by Reimagining Petro-Geographies', Haunted Archives of Livingness: Visual Culture and the Politics of Care in the Age of Ecological Entanglement, Reframing the Archive, International Conference on Photography & Visual Culture
2025 - Presentation of Research, 'Aesthetic and Material Engagements with Oil: Unmaking Petro-Geographies through Transdisciplinary Research', International Visual Methods Conference 'Visual Bridges: Connecting Perspectives', Bahçeşehir University of Istanbul, Turkey
2025 - Presentation of Research, 'Artistic Engagements with Deep Time: Unmaking Petro-Geographies through Transdisciplinary Research', 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Porto, Portugal
2024 - Lecture, 'Researching in Movements Across Spaces: Attempts to Re-articulate Spatial Imaginaries of Power', Robida Collective, Topolò, Italy
2022 - Artist Talk, 'Interrogating Place, Gender, and the Unconscious', New Forest Heritage Centre
2020 - Presentation of Conference Paper, 'Deconstructing Understandings of Emptiness: An Examination of Representations of Transitory Space and 'Non-place' in Photography', Discovering Dalmatia Conference, The Institute of Art History & The Cvito Fisković Centre, Split
2019 - Presentation of Conference Paper, 'When Private Property Masquerades as Public Space: the Shifting Face of Publicness in London's City Squares', Excursions Conference, University of Sussex
2018 - Visiting Lecturer, Norwich University of the Arts
2018 - Visiting Lecturer, University of West London
2018 - Artist Talk, 'In Transit', Urbiquity Urban Lab, ASSAB ONE, Milan, Italy
2016 - Artist Talk, UrbanPhotoFest Intercollegiate Brunch, 4COSE studio, Vyner Street, London
CURATORIAL
2017 - 'The Urban Condition', UrbanPhotoFest, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2016 - 'Memory and Materiality', UrbanPhotoFest, The Greenwich Gallery, London
2012 - 'Office of Re-Opening', Yallops Gallery, Norwich, UK
2012 - '22/Twentytwo', New Gallery, London
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND FUNDING
2024 - Participant, Summer School of the Academy of Margins, Robida Collective, Topolò, Italy
2022 - Image-maker in Residence, The Sociological Review, October Issue: Verticality,
2019 - Recipient of AN Artist Bursary, collaborative research trip to Stockholm with artist Isabella R Martin
2018 - Participant: In Transit, Urbiquity Urban Lab ‘18, Milan
2012 - 'Office of Re-Opening', Yallops Gallery, Norwich, UK
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Written paper 'Deconstructing understandings of emptiness: an examination of representations of transitory space and ‘non-place’ in photography', in the publication 'Watching, Waiting and the Photographic Representation of Empty Places', edited by Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko, published by Leuven University Press
2023 Chapter 'Understanding, Reactivating, and Reproducing Autobiographical Memory: Discovering the Historical Family Archive' in the book 'The Handbook of Research on the Relationship between Autobiographical Memory and Photography', published by IGI Global.
2022 'Image-Maker in Residence: Jessie Martin', Interview, The Sociological Review, October Issue, Verticality
2022 'Night Moves' photographs and text, WorkShowGrow, Out Loud, Issue No. 2
2022 Photographs from series 'Night Moves', Fleur and Arbor, Environment Zine, Issue No. 2
2020 Excursions Journey Volume 9 No 1: Fake, 'When private property masquerades as public space: the shifting face of publicness in London's city squares'
2019 Murze Issue 5 March/ April 2019: 10 days of Art featured artist
2018 K[]NESH SPACE Issue 1 Scale: ‘Measuring Public Space’ commissioned photo essay
2018 Curating the Contemporary, 'The Great British Seaside?' online article
2018 BASE, La Triennale di Milano: ‘Balcony’ limited edition artist book
2017 LAW Magazine Issue 9 Law and Order: 'Night Rules' article, photographs accompanying text
2017 FLIP Magazine Issue 38 Urban: 'Turning Point' article
ASSOCIATIONS AND GROUPS
Practicing Place Research Training Group
The Urban Photographers Association
AWARDS
Recipient of the Canon Student Program 2017
Attended the Visa Pour l'Image International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan as part of the Magnum Young Talent Initiative, fully funded by Canon.