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Jon Tonks spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship. Some 400 rolls of film, 24 flights and 32 days at sea later, the resulting work creates an insight into these distant places that resonate with a sense of Britishness which is remarkably recognisable yet inescapably strange.
Born in the West Midlands in 1981, Jon Tonks studied product design before becoming a staff photographer on a local newspaper. He moved to London to take a master's degree in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, and it was during his studies that he undertook a trip to Ascension Island which was to launch the Empire project. Winner of an AOP award, Tonks has been published widely in the UK national press and his work is in a number of private collections. Empire is his first book.
I Am Not A Wedding Photographer will be a joint publication with the Martin Parr Foundation to accompany their upcoming exhibition 'Not a Wedding Photographer' by Ian Weldon.
Ian Weldon treats the familiar territory of wedding pictures in a decidedly documentary manner, finding the 'people and character and laughter and happiness and sadness and dancing and drinking, and Love' to be fertile ground for his project work.
I Am Not A Wedding Photographer
End of Industry
Where Time Stood Still
