- Venue
- Matt Roberts Arts
- Starts
- Friday, September 2, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, September 24, 2011
- Address
- Unit 1 25 Vyner Street London E2 9DG
- Location
- London
EJ Major was selected from over 960 international photographers as the Winner of the Salon Photo Prize 2011. The selectors included: Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate; Stefanie Braun, Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery; Tim Clark, Editor-in-chief, 1000 Words Photography Magazine; Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director, National Media Museum. The Prize includes a solo show at Matt Roberts Arts where she will be exhibiting two bodies of work, Shoulder to Shoulder and Marie Claire RIP. Major’s photographic work often involves an element of performance and is rooted in questions of identity. In the past few years she has become interested in protest, looking to the Suffragette movement as a historical context for the performance and investigation of protest today. In the series Shoulder to Shoulder, Major explores the mixture of confusion and concern that surrounds awareness in the globalised internet generation. Marie Claire RIP is a series of images based on an article published by Marie Claire in 2002, which featured police mug shots of a woman taken over a fourteen-year period. The article highlighted the harms of heroin use. Major restages the source material using herself as the subject. This body of work has featured in International Exhibitions and Biennials across the world, this will be its first showing in the UK.
