Mapping The Unseen

• Prize
  Gold in Moving images/Other, 1st Place winner in Moving images
• Photographer
  Bill Jackson
• Link
  https://vimeo.com/220279841
• Website
  http://www.billjackson.photography

Working with specially constructed drawing tools in the dark of night I engage with natural elements including the sea and the wind to map out spaces and environments, tapping into the natural energies to trace and draw, and document unique, live, site specific performances. The reality of the captured image is fundamental to all my work, particularly with long exposure photography, or space-time

• Biography
  Working with specially constructed drawing tools in the dark of night I engage with natural elements including the sea and the wind to map out spaces and environments, tapping into the natural energies to trace and draw, and document unique, live, site specific performances. The reality of the captured image is fundamental to all my work, particularly with long exposure photography. This concept of time is crucial to my ideas, exchanging the classic definition of photography as a series of instant glimpses of the world in which we live, to a personal definition of ‘space-time’. 
• Awards
  2017 Gold Award Toyko International Fotoaward Toyko  2013 Third Prize Nature Award PX3 Paris  2013 Editors Award Award The Print Space London  2011 Selectors Award Suffolk Showcase  2011 Silver Award RPS 154th International Print Exhibition 2010 Shortlisted for the Robert Cornelius Portrait Award Honourable Mention 2010 Bronze Awards  Epson International Panoramic Awards 2010 Bronze Award 153rd RPS International Print Exhibition 2009 Honourable Mention  World Photographic Gala Awards Madrid Spain 2009 Gold Award Graphis Photography Annual 2010 2009 Honourable Mentionat the PX3: PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS  2009 Silver Award 152nd RPS International Print Exhibition    2008 Honourable Mention at the PX3: PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS  2009 Portfolio 2 Book Cover Award The Center for Fine Art Photography Colorado USA    2008 Premier Prix TROISIéME exposition internationale Centre d'artistes Voix Visuelle Ottawa  Canada 2008 Best of Show Trains Planes and Automobiles Museum of Contemporary Arts Fort Collins Colorado  USA 2007 Prizewinner Orilla 6 Museum Of Contemporary Arts Sante Fe  Argentina 2006 Mattice Award Dangenart Gallery Nashville  USA 2006 Toray Digital Creative Arts Award Toray Industries Japan 1996 West Midlands Arts Award  1986 Northern Arts Exhibition Award 1982 Southern Arts Exhibition Award 1982 GLC Exhibition Award 1980 West Midland Arts Photography Award