Liberation Occupation

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Liberation Occupation

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48 page newspaper produced in collaboration with A-Level photography students

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In their final academic year of 2019-2020 I led an extensive programme of study exploring Jersey’s Liberation and Occupation history with a group of 35 A-Level photography students at Hautlieu School. Students surveyed the landscape of coastal fortifications around the island of Jersey and were challenged with responding to personal stories told by islanders experiencing the German Occupation first-hand in 1940-45. Finding inspiration by looking through images, documents and objects held in various collections in Jersey’s public archives they produced a series of individual creative outcomes such as montages, photo-zines and collectively constructed a visual narrative presented as a newspaper supplement printed and distributed by Jersey Evening Post leading up to the 75th Liberation of the island of Jersey on 9 May 2020.

Collaboration with educational partners included Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive, Jersey Heritage, Channel Island Occupation Society, Jersey War Tunnels, Bureau des Îles Anglo-Normandes and post-graduate students from École Européenne Supérieure d’art de Bretagne in Rennes with funding from Liberation 75.

Since the summer of 2019 A-Level Photography Students at Hautlieu School have been working on an extensive programme of study in their final year exploring Jersey’s Liberation and Occupation history in collaboration with Société Jersiaise, Jersey Heritage, Channel Island Occupation Society, Jersey War Tunnels, Bureau des Îles Anglo-Normandes and post-graduate students from École Européenne Supérieure d’art de Bretagne in Rennes with funding from Liberation 75. Students were challenged with responding to personal stories told by islanders experiencing the German Occupation first-hand and finding inspiration by looking through images, documents and objects held in various collections in Jersey’s public archives, producing a series of individual creative outcomes such as montages, photo-zines and collectively construct a visual narrative presented as a newspaper supplement printed and distributed by Jersey Evening Post on Friday 24 April 2020. The Liberation vs Occupation project began partly as a response to 75 years of celebrating freedom in Jersey from the German Occupation in 1940-45. Sadly, islanders will not be able to commemorate this landmark event as initially planned and it is hoped that this newspaper and joint exhibition between Jersey and French students will in some small way act as catalyst for remembering those years of hardship and subsequent joy when Churchill’s now famous speech was broadcast on the 8 May 1945 with the endearing words ‘our dear Channel Islands are also to be freed today’.

Photographs: A-Level photography students, Hautlieu School
Design and concept: Martin Toft, with support from Patrick Cahill
Editing and sequencing: Martin Toft
Text: Timothy Le Cocq, The Bailiff of Jersey, Martin Toft
Newsprint, 52 pages, 420mm(h) x 561mm(w)
Colour and black and white photographs 
Printer: KP Services (Jersey) Ltd
Published by: Jersey Evening Post
Publication date: 24 April 2020
Print run: 12,0000