Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson British / Canadian photographer based between Tiohtià:ke, Montréal, Can & UK. Assoc. Lect. UAL

I’m pleased to share that I have recently received two Canada Council for the Arts grants to develop two distinct new bo...
05/27/2026

I’m pleased to share that I have recently received two Canada Council for the Arts grants to develop two distinct new bodies of work.

Each project opens a different line of inquiry within my wider practice, continuing my interest in memory, Black presence, landscape, history, and the ways personal and collective experience are held in place.

More soon on each project, the research behind them, and the questions they will allow me to pursue.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Je suis heureux de vous annoncer que j’ai récemment reçu deux subventions du Conseil des arts du Canada afin de développer deux nouveaux corpus d’œuvres distincts.

Chaque projet ouvre une ligne de recherche différente au sein de ma pratique, en poursuivant mon intérêt pour la mémoire, la présence noire, le paysage, l’histoire, ainsi que les manières dont les expériences personnelles et collectives s’inscrivent dans les lieux.

Je partagerai bientôt davantage d’informations sur chacun de ces projets, sur les recherches qui les sous-tendent et sur les questions qu’ils me permettront d’explorer.

Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

The Weight of LightThis work begins by questioning the long-standing idea of light as a metaphor for knowledge, truth, a...
03/12/2026

The Weight of Light

This work begins by questioning the long-standing idea of light as a metaphor for knowledge, truth, and progress.

Since the Enlightenment, light has been used to signify clarity and understanding. Yet these same ideas were also mobilised to justify colonial expansion and systems of control.

To illuminate was therefore not simply to reveal, but also to name, classify, and ultimately possess land and people.

Accra, Ghana
The Weight of Light (ongoing)







The Weight of LightLight falling on the land reveals not only what is physically visible, but also the traces of colonia...
03/12/2026

The Weight of Light

Light falling on the land reveals not only what is physically visible, but also the traces of colonial ways of seeing that continue to shape these places and the Black bodies moving through them.

Whether arriving as Black Loyalists, travellers at the end of the Underground Railroad, or artists many years later, Black presence in these landscapes remains entangled with those histories.

Accra, Ghana
The Weight of Light (ongoing)







The Weight of LightIf colonialism reordered land through maps and drawn lines, the wall and other boundaries are where t...
03/12/2026

The Weight of Light

If colonialism reordered land through maps and drawn lines, the wall and other boundaries are where that line becomes visible.

The project links landscapes in West Africa and Québec, tracing how colonial ways of seeing continue to shape the land and the bodies moving through it.

Accra, Ghana
The Weight of Light (ongoing)







Posted • 𝗠𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗮𝗴 𝗴𝗲𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗸𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘁! 🤍De catalogus kon...
08/16/2024

Posted • 𝗠𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗮𝗴 𝗴𝗲𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗸𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘁! 🤍
De catalogus kon alleen maar tot stand komen dankzij teamwork - van ons eigen team en co-curatoren, onze partners en natuurlijk alle kunstenaars.

Onze speciale dank gaat uit naar vormgever Rob van Hoesel, Kleurenfelix voor de beeldvoorbereiding en onze co-curator Dr. Ileana L. Selejan die samen met onze vaste teamleden de redactie op zich nam. De catalogus wordt gedrukt door NPN printers in Breda. Het beeld op de cover is van Mounir Raji.

Wil je er zeker van zijn dat je een exemplaar kunt bemachtigen? Je kunt ‘m nu alvast bestellen in de voorverkoop voor maar €7,50 in plaats van €9,50 in onze festivalshop in Carré Chassé (vanaf de opening op 13 september). Bestel ook alvast je passe-partout (met early bird korting!) of dagticket. Link in bio.

www.bredaphoto.nl/tickets

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𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆! 🤍
The catalogue could only come about thanks to teamwork - from our own team and co-curators, our partners and, of course, all the artists.

Our special thanks go to the designer Rob van Hoesel, Kleurenfelix for image preparation and our co-curator Dr Ileana L. Selejan who, together with our team members in Breda, took on the editing process. The catalogue is printed by NPN printers in Breda. The image on the cover is by Mounir Raji.

Want to make sure you get a copy? You can pre-order it now for only €7.50. At the festival shop (open from 13 September) it will cost €9.50. You can also now pre-order your passe-partout (with early bird discount!) or day ticket.

www.bredaphoto.nl/en/tickets



Posted • 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦: 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻Op 13 september opent het BredaPhoto Festival. Koop nu je passe-partout voor ...
08/14/2024

Posted • 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦: 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻
Op 13 september opent het BredaPhoto Festival. Koop nu je passe-partout voor €29,50 (normale prijs €49,50)! We stellen naar aanloop van het festival onze kunstenaars aan je voor. 🤍

Andrew Jacksons project ‘From Whence We Came’ toont een intiem beeld van de ingewikkelde paden van ons leven in verschillende, transnationale en intergenerationele contexten. Deze bedachtzame, tedere foto’s van dierbaren, van de plaatsen waar ze woonden, de huizen die ze bouwden, van wat ze achterlieten, zetten ons aan het denken.

Fotografie kan niet meer bieden dan fragmentarische blikken op het verleden, maar hier nodigt het werk bezoekers uit om na te denken over verbindingspunten binnen onze enorm verdeelde maar toch diep verbonden wereld: wat ligt er tussen toen en nu, daar en hier, waar en wanneer we ons ook bevinden in deze beweging.

🎫 Link in bio!

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On September 13th, the BredaPhoto Festival opens. Get your passe-partout now for €29.50 (regular price €49.50)! In the run-up to the festival, we will introduce our artists to you. 🤍

Andrew Jackson’s project ‘From Whence We Came’ presents an intimate portrayal of the intricate paths of our lives across multiple, transnational and intergenerational contexts. These thoughtful, tender photographs of loved ones, of the places where they lived, the homes they made, of that which they left behind, give us pause.

Photography cannot provide but fragmentary glimpses into the past, yet here, the work invites visitors to consider points of connection within our vastly divided yet deeply interconnected world: what lies between then and now, there and here, wherever and whenever we might find ourselves in this movement.

🎫 Link in bio!



I'm really happy to have been selected to be in the Breda Festival lineup this September. I'm really looking forward to ...
06/13/2024

I'm really happy to have been selected to be in the Breda Festival lineup this September. I'm really looking forward to attending and seeing the work of the other photographers. Many grateful thanks goes to for all of her support and hard work in helping to make this happen - it means a lot!

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Posted • Happy to share the Lineup for BredaPhoto 2024! I'm deeply grateful to these incredible artists who have accepted our invitation to join this year's festival and to the wonderful team I have been working with for more than a year as guest co-curator.

Special thanks to Rosângela Rennó with whom I am working on a solo show at the spectacular Grote Kerk Breda. Likewise to Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte and Claudia Gordillo, I couldn't be happier about being able to bring precious work by such inspiring artists from Latin America and the diaspora. To Andrew Jackson whose beautiful work demonstrates time and again our interconnectedness. And not least to Max Gorbatskyi and Viktoria Bavykina from Ukrainian.Photographies, Selman Selma and Ioana Cîrlig because it's such a privilege to be able to bring such powerful work from Eastern Europe, my home region.

The Lineup includes many incredible artists and practitioners, and we've been working hard to ensure this exhibition and the programming is not to be missed! Hope you can join us in September in Breda.

Photography can often be either feast or famine. Currently, though, without sounding boastful, *straightens tie* I have...
06/05/2024

Photography can often be either feast or famine. 

Currently, though, without sounding boastful, *straightens tie* I have a full plate *the writer crosses himself, at this point, and looks upwards towards the heavens* as I'm working on several exhibitions and hopefully concluding a long-term work in progress in Europe.

The work, Such is the Pathway, explores the inter-generational traumas of war upon a family still living with the legacies of World War II, but also the desire for acts of commemoration and memorialisation which follow all war's end.

Above image: Family, Normandy, France. June 4th, 2024





I'm really happy to finally be able to announce that I've been working on a commission from  for a solo exhibition at th...
05/21/2024

I'm really happy to finally be able to announce that I've been working on a commission from  for a solo exhibition at the museum.

Many thanks to the McCord Stewart Museum for this opportunity, with a special thank you going out to 






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