Karl Bailey

13/12/2023

I stared at this photo inside a charity shop today for a long time. I thought about how special this dog must have been to someone and how the last remaining trace or memory of it exists here, physically in this print. I can't describe why this simple photograph made me feel something, Barthes describes this feeling as Punctum. "The punctum of a photograph is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me)."

I couldn't leave it in the shop, to potentially be lost to landfill.

11/01/2023

More reenactors from my ongoing project ‘Another World’

25/09/2022

For and from yesterdays autumn equinox event.

An amazing end to the reenactment season and a huge thanks to for allowing me into your world.

25/08/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sid9SlUqHNg&ab_channel=NOWNESS

I Was Always Here portrays the remarkable photographer Charlie Phillips. He is responsible for some of the most iconic photographs from the 60s and 70s, most...

09/08/2022

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20/07/2022

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04/07/2022

I’m looking to have conversations with lifelong Portsmouth residents to discuss themes around a project I’m researching which involve history, class, politics and Pompey culture.

I’ll be conducting the informal conversations during my residency at throughout August.

All opinions and walks of life welcome, feel free to DM me here or email: [email protected]

12/01/2022

Some recent new work…

05/12/2021

‘Here and There’ a group exhibition with myself, and comes into its final week. Here’s the opening times! I also have print editions and open editions available to purchase the gallery - go check it out!

21/11/2021

My most recent series of work, 9 environmental portraits projected onto the side of Stanhope house in Portsmouth city centre.

Such an amazing experience to be asked to be involved alongside so many great people. just to name a few.