About JANINE WIEDEL PHOTOLIBRARY

Janine Wiedel is a documentary photographer and photojournalist based in London and has been covering issues of social concern for the past 35 years.
Whilst working mainly on long term projects aimed at publication and exhibition she has over the years built up a unique collection of stock images covering a wide range of social issues including: education, protest, youth, childbirth, alternative lifestyles, multicultural communities, drugs and social exclusion.

Major Long Term Projects

Vulcan’s Forge: an exhibition and publication of industrial photographs of the West midland’s area

Awarded: West Midland’s Major Art’s Bursary 1978/1979

First shown: The Photographer’s Gallery 1979 with aid of Arts Council Grant

Publication received grant from ATV

 

Looking at Iran: an educational publication

Commissioned by: A&C Black 1976

Aided by Iranian Oil Company

 

Dover, A port in a Storm: an exhibition & publication

Commissioned by Cross Channel Photographic Mission, South Eastern Arts,

      and Kent County Council 1990/1991 1992

Project sponsored by Fuji Film

Exhibition sponsored by Dover District Council

Publication sponsored by Dover Fancy Box Company

 

Faces With Voices: an exhibition & publication on the people of Sudbury,Suffolk

Commissioned by: Gainsborough House Museum & Eastern Arts 1992

Exhibition sponsored by Eastern arts

Granted a British Council Touring Grant for US Exhibition

 

St Agnes Place Squat  an exhibition and publication in progress

A four year project following London's longest running squat. Now demolished

 

 Multi-cultural Comunities in London  an on going project 2007 to present

 

Major Solo Exhibitions: 

                                    The Photographer’s Gallery, London           1974

                                    The Photographer’s Gallery, London           1977

                                    The Half moon Gallery, London                   1977

                                    The Photographer’s Gallery, London            1979

                                    Stoke City museum & Art Gallery                 1980

                                    ATV Television Centre, Birmingham             1981

                                    Ikon Gallery, Touring Exhibition                   1981

                                    Invicta Gallery, Canterbury                           1990

                                    Dover Museum                                            1991

                                    Margate library                                            1991

                                    Gainsborough House Museum, Sudbury       1992

                                    Focal Point Gallery, Southend                        1992

                                    Goodnow Gallery, Massachusetts                  1994

                                    Profile Intermedia                                          2003

                                    St Agnes Gallery & Travelling bus                   2005                                                                      

                                    The Power House, Bremen, Germany              2006

Books Published:

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION Methuen press/ Routledge
IRISH TINKERS Latimer Press UK/ St Martin's Press USA
VULCAN"S FORGE Archetype
LOOKING AT IRAN A&C Black/ Lippincott
DOVER, a Port in a Storm CPPM
FACES WITH VOICES Richard Castell

Subject of: ' A Camera in the Street' (television documentary)

Photographs in permanent collection at:
Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C. - The Museum for Women, Washington D.C.
Dover Museum - Gainsborough House Museum