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Newport Snow 1985
Clarke, Stephen
Clarke, Stephen
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2018-02-08
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The photographs for Newport Snow were taken in the winter of 1985 during the second year of Clarke’s undergraduate course in Fine Art at Newport College of Art. He had photographed the city following a heavy snowfall which had transformed Newport’s everyday landscape of streets, buildings and fields. The book stands as an allegory for Clarke’s own dilemma: he was searching for a way forward in his undergraduate studies as he had reached a point of stagnation. Following a tutorial with the head of his course, Roy Ascott, he was advised to go out to take photographs of whatever was of interest. Subconsciously these photographs of walkways, bridges and gates leading through the city mirrored his own mental state which had him feeling snowed in and looking for a way ahead. These pictures were a turning point for Clarke signalling his commitment to photography.
Newport Snow 1985 was published by Café Royal Books in an edition of 200. It was edited by Craig Atkinson, founder of Café Royal Books.
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Clarke, S. (2018). Newport Snow. Southport: Café Royal Books.
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Composed of 21 black&white photographs taken in the winter of 1985. It is included in a Café Royal Books box set of 100 photobooks titled Archive, and is in the collection of major institutions. The photobook Newport Snow 1985 was exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation in the exhibition Café Royal Books: Documentary, Zines and Subversion (14 April-12 June 2022); and at Stills: Centre for Photography, Edinburgh as part of the exhibition titled Café Royal Books (10 November 2023 – 10 February 2024); and at the Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, in the exhibition Winter Books from our Archives (1 December 2021 – 31 January 2022).
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