Janine Wiedel (born 1947)[1] is a documentary photographer and visual anthropologist.[2] She was born in New York City, has been based in the UK since 1970, and lives in London. Since the late 1960s she has been working on projects which have become books and exhibitions. In the early 1970s she spent five years working on a project about Irish Travellers; in the late 1970s two years documenting the industrial heartland of Britain.[3] Wiedel's work is socially minded, exploring themes such as resistance, protest, multiculturalism and counterculture movements.[4]
Wiedel's books include Irish Tinkers (1976), Looking at Iran (1976), Vulcan's Forge (1979), Dover, a Port in a Storm (1991) and Faces with Voices (1992).
She had solo exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1974 and 1979.[5] Associated Television broadcast a TV documentary about her titled A Camera in the Street. She has won British Life Photography awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
- ^ "Janine Wiedel's best photograph: an Irish Traveller in 1970s Galway". The Guardian. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ Watling, Eve (1 September 2019). "Tea, sit-ins and solidarity: Inside Greenham Common's radical protest". The Independent. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
- ^ "About the author". Irish Tinkers: a portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970's. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ "Resistance with Homer Sykes & Janine Wiedel". Miniclick Photo Talks. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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