Ed Alcock
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A bunch of roses, with a british flag and a love heart, in the sitting room of Ashley Greenup (56). Greenup is a fervent supporter of UKIP, living in Carlise. He voted to leave the EU in the British Referendum on EU membership.
A discarded newspaper with the headline that reads: Brexit: Day of Farce.
Bryan Carter, a Yorkshire sheep-farmer, pictured at Bentham Auction Mart. Sheep, cattle and pigs are sold here, essentially to meat wholesalers. Many local sheep farmers voted to leave the UE in the referendum, despite the loss of generous subsidies.
Jasmin Barton is a member of the administrative staff at the Law School of the University of Exeter, in the south-west of England. She voted to remain in the EU.
A photograph from the book Hobbledehoy by Ed Alcock. The book is accompanied by an original text by French author, Emmanuel Carrere.
A photograph from the book Hobbledehoy by Ed Alcock. The book is accompanied by an original text by French author, Emmanuel Carrere.
Emmanuel Macron
Inna Shevchenko / FEMEN
Isabelle Huppert
Lucky Blue Smith
Fatsah Bouyahmed
Menou (2015)
Angry Bird (2014)
I am / Je Suis (2015)
Catherine
Johnny
Jean and Joelle
Adela
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Ed Alcock is a Franco-British documentary and portrait photographer, born in 1974 in the UK. After obtaining a PhD in mathematics, he moved to Paris to begin his photographic career as a correspondent for The Guardian and The New York Times, covering France, Europe, North and West Africa.

He now collaborates with the international press: The Guardian Weekend, The Observer Review, The Economist, The New York Times Magazine, Elle Magazine, Le Monde, L’Obs, Télérama, Figaro Madame, Polka Magazine, El Pais Semanal etc. He is represented by the Paris-based Agence MYOP.

The intimate, identity and territory are at the heart of his personal projects. His series include Hobbledehoy (published by Terrebleue, with an original short-story by Emmanuel Carrère), Love Lane and The Wait, in which he explores the ravages of a family secret. Following the UK’s decision to leave the EU, Ed Alcock spent four years on the series, See EU later, in partnership with Le Monde. He returned to his native country to photograph his compatriots and try to understand their reasons for choosing Brexit. In the series Home, sweet home, exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles, he explores whether one really needs Gallic ancestors to become French. In Sterile, he reveals an aseptic world, in which humour, fears and questions punctuate an absurd daily life during the first lockdown.

In 2022, he was a finalist of the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize; his project, « Zones à risque » was selected for the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; and he secured financial support from the CNAP for an upcoming documentary project.

His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (London), Rencontres d’Arles, the Promenades photographiques de Vendôme, the International Festival of Journalism (France), KT&G (Seoul, Korea), the GoEun Museum of Photography (Busan, Korea), Portrait(s) Vichy, Circulation(s), the Festival Photo La Gacilly, the Galerie Château d’Eau in Toulouse, Seen Fifteen (London) and the Lentos Kunstmuseum (Linz, Austria).

BOOKS

[1] Hobbledehoy. Ed Alcock, with a short story by Emmanuel Carrère. Éditions Terre bleue (2013);

[2] Love Lane. Ed Alcock. Autoedité (2015);
[3] Family/family. European Prospects (2015);
[3] Home, sweet home. Ed Alcock. Myop Éditions (2018).
[4] Time/Lapse. Myop Éditions (2019).
[5] Sine Die. Myop Éditions (2020).
[6] The map is not the territory. GoEun Museum of Photography (2022).

EXHIBITIONS

[1] Hobbledehoy, Myop in Arles, during the Rencontres d’Arles (2014);
[2] Hobbledehoy, Monat der Fotographie, Berlin (2014);
[3] Family/family, (with Julien Magre, Ilka Kramer and Arja Hyytiäinen), Galerie Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse (2015);
[4] The Wait, Seen Fifteen Gallery, during Photo London, (2015);
[5] Love Lane, Myop in Paris, during Paris Photo (2015);
[6] Rabenmütter, (with Tina Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Larry Clark, Rineke Dijkstra, Lucian Freud, Gustav Klimt etc), Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2015-2016);
[7] Entre chien et loup, Festival Photo La Gacilly (2017);
[8] #Stéphanoisfiers, Quartier Manufacture, Saint-Etienne (in partnership with La Comedie de Saint-Etienne et l’EPA-SE (2017);
[9] Entre chien et loup, Festival Photo Baden (2018);
[10] Home, sweet home, Myop in Arles, during the Rencontres d’Arles (2018);

[11] Home, sweet home, Festival Circulation(s) (2019);
[12] Entre chien et loup, Myop in Arles, during the Rencontres d’Arles (2019);

[13] Home sweet home, (with Martin Parr, Gillian Wearing, Edmund Clark etc), Les Rencontres d’Arles (2019);
[14] Ombres et lumières, Galerie Nicolas Silin, Paris (2019);
[15] See EU later, Festival Portrait(s) Vichy, (2020);
[16] Back to Black, Myop in Arles, during the Rencontres d’Arles (2021);
[17] Sterile, International Journalism Festival, Couthures-sur-Garonne, (2021);

[18] See EU later, Les Promenades Photographiques de Vendôme (2021);
[19] Entre chien et loup, NOP Grand-Est, Nancy (2021);
[20] Back to Black, Stimultania, Strasbourg (2021-2022);
[21] The map is not the territory, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea (2022);
[22] Notre Dame, Fisheye Gallery, Paris (2022).
[23] Travel notes from a disunited kingdom, Myop in Arles, during the Rencontres d’Arles (2022);
[24] The map is not the territory, KT&G Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2022);
[25] Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Londres (2022);

 

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Series

Valérie Bacot, for ELLE Magazine

Portraits — Ed Alcock

2021 - 2022

Portraits by Ed Alcock (2018) — Ed Alcock

2018
Emmanuel Macron

Portraits by Ed Alcock (2017) — Ed Alcock

2017
Golshifteh Farahani © Ed Alcock / MYOP for ELLE Magazine

"BE THEIR VOICE" — Ed Alcock

2023
See EU later

See EU later — Ed Alcock

2016 - 2020
Sterile

Sterile — Ed Alcock

2020
What is a Nation? // Qu’est-ce qu'une Nation?

Home, sweet home — Ed Alcock

2018
The Banality of Evil, by Ed Alcock

The Banality of Evil — Ed Alcock

2019

Entre chien et loup — Ed Alcock

2017
A photograph from the book Hobbledehoy by Ed Alcock. The book is accompanied by an original text by French author, Emmanuel Carrere.

Hobbledehoy — Ed Alcock

2009 - 2012

Love Lane — Ed Alcock

2014
Menou (2015)

The Wait — Ed Alcock

2014 - 2016

A Feminist Porn Movie — Ed Alcock

2018
Adela, #Stéphanoisfier (2016)

#Stéphanoisfiers — Ed Alcock

2016 - 2017

Theater of Operations — Ed Alcock

2015
Nos meilleures années?

Nos meilleures années ? — Ed Alcock

2021

Publications​ / Exhibitions

The Economist - Europe in Mortal Danger

The Economist - Europe in Mortal Danger

2024
Golshifteh Farahani © Ed Alcock / MYOP for ELLE Magazine

"Soyez leur voix" // "Be their voice" © Ed Alcock for ELLE Magazine

2023

Hobbledehoy, by Ed Alcock and Emmanuel Carrère

2013

Love Lane, by Ed Alcock

2014

MYOP in ARLES

2014

MOTHER OF THE YEAR - Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

2015

Family / Family Exhibition at the Gallery Chateau d'Eau in Toulouse

2015

Paris to Peckham: MYOP in Paris at Seen Fifteen Gallery, London

2015

Entre chien et loup / Festival Photo La Gacilly

2017

United Kingdom - from Empire to Brexit // Le Monde Diplomatique

2017

Emmanuel Macron, for Society

2017

Macron's mission, for The Economist

2017

Emmanuel Macron, for Polka #38

2017

The True Fillon for L'Obs

2016

Leila Slimani for Grazia

2017

Thomas Piketty for L'Obs

2014

The Making of a Feminist Porn Movie, for Elle Magazine

2018

Les Etats Genereux de la Culture for Télérama

2016

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet for M - Le Magazine du Monde

2013

Assigné (House Arrest), for Télérama

2015

Slave Today in France. An awareness campaign for the Comité Contre l'Esclavage Moderne (CCEM)

2016

Isabelle Huppert for The Observer Review

2016

Nan Goldin for The Observer Review

2014

Vincent Crouzet for Liberation

2017

Justice for Icon El Pais Magazine

2016

Emmanuel Macron for The Times Magazine

2016

Manuel Valls for Le Monde

2017

Jean-Luc Mélenchon for Le Monde

2017

Tiphaine Lagarde for Liberation

2017

Antoine Leiris for Libération

2016

Bataclan - One Year After for The Times Magazine

2016

François Fillon for Le Monde Idées

2016

Lucky Blue Smith for The Guardian Weekend Magazine

2015

Eddy de Pretto, for Elle Magazine

2017

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet for Le Monde

2017

Leila Slimani for El Pais Semanal

2017

Fields of unrealized dreams for The New York Times

2016

François-Henri Désérable, for Icon / El Pais Magazine

2016

Jacques Audiard for The Observer Review (UK)

2016

Gilles Lipovetsky for Icon / El Pais Magazine

2016

Amélie Nothomb for El Pais Semanal

2016

Michel Butor for Le Monde

2016

Jeff Mills for M - Le Magazine du Monde

2013

Maryse Wolinski, and the little notes left behind by Georges for The Guardian Weekend Magazine

2016

Eugénie Bastié for Libération

2016

Guy Bedos for M - Le Magazine du Monde

2013

Ingrid Betancourt for M - Le Magazine du Monde

2013

Fatsah Bouyahmed for Le Monde

2016

Chaumet, for M - Le Magazine du Monde

2013

The Good Little Soldier of the National Front for Télérama

2016

Emmanuel Macron (without beard) for Le Monde

2016

Emmanuel Macron (with beard) for Le Monde

2016

A l'école de la France - A school for migrants in Paris for M - Le Magazine du Monde

2015