Atlantus Limited Prints /  by Martin Toft

Mon 7 Dec 2015: ATLANTUS LIMITED PRINTS. In conjunction with the exhibition Quintessence a set of limited edition prints from the series ATLANTUS are available for purchase. Money raised through print sales will be used to develop our new lens-based project, Masterplan exploring contemporary Jersey corporate culture and the island’s finance industry.

The four images are printed to the highest quality using Spectrum Photographic.

Size: 20×24″ (508×610 mm) incl 1″ white border

Digital C-type prints on Fuji Professional Crystal Archive Lustre paper.

Signed and Editioned

Limited to 20

£150 (exc P&P)

All enquiries here: http://www.archisle.org.je/print-sales/

Image: Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, United States

Image: Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, United States

Atlantus images exhibited in Quintessence /  by Martin Toft

Sun 29 Nov 2015: Four images from Atlantus project is exhibited in Quintessence – a group exhibition celebrating the first five years of Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme. Since its launch in 2011, Archisle has engaged diverse approaches to contemporary lens based media to lead creative research into the condition of ‘islandness’ In Quintessence, Curator, Gareth Syvret contrasts work in the Archisle collection in a group exhibition for the first time to ‘analyse the ways in which the islands’s culture and landscape has been interpreted by Jersey and international photographers.’ Artists represented in the Archisle collection were invited to nominate colleagues who have influenced or inspired their own visual language. The exhibition features works by: Martin Parr / Tony Ray-Jones / Jem Southam / Michelle Sank / David Goldblatt / Yury Toroptsov / Elsie Wright & Frances Griffiths / Tom Popé / Peter Finnemore / Mark Le Ruez / John Gibbons / Martin Toft / Finn Larsen.

Exhibition is open from 30 November 2015 to 2 January 2016. Private View is on Thurs 3 November. See you there!

Atlantus at Paris Photo /  by Martin Toft

Thur 12 Nov 2015: If you’re at Paris Photo this weekend, get a copy of Atlantus – our transoceanic journey told in five stories and designed as a multi-functional newspaper / pop-up exhibition by Kummer & Herrman at a special price of €10.00. Sold at Polycopies by Tipi Bookshop and at Le PhotobookFest by L’Ascenseur Végétal where you also can find many other fine people, photo books and zines.

Atlantus Night Screening /  by Martin Toft

Tue 10 Nov 2015: Atlantus film projected on to the wall of Normans as part of Skipton Art Series Projection Gallery, an event organised by Jersey Arts Trust currently being screened every night at 5;30 pm in St Helier, Jersey from 11-14 Nov 2015.

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Atlantus Film Projection /  by Martin Toft

This week from Tue 10th to Sun 15th Nov the Skipton Arts Series Jersey Projection Gallery starts at 5:30 pm with night screenings on the facade of Normans, Commercial Buildings, St Helier. Our 12 mins Atlantus film will be screened, featuring photographs and out takes from our newspaper. Images are mixed with the voices from some of the central characters in our transoceanic journey. Listen to Herdsman Bryan Le Brocq speaking in a Jersey accent of his time when he brought cows across the Atlantic Ocean from Jersey to New Jersey in the 1960s and hear Linda Lee Wagner talk about her memories of receiving Precious Galinthia, a Jersey heifer given to her as part the tercentenary celebrations in 1964. The outdoor display also includes work from Jersey Heritage, Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise, Archisle: Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme and CCA Galleries International Collections among others. Viewing will be from the Steam Clock, where Coco Rico will be selling crepes and hot drinks.

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