Phil Jackson is a professional photographer working in documentary, portraiture and reportage. His clients range from local charities and the voluntary sector to press and organisations operating nationally.
He says of his work:
I am photographer interested particularly in people. My projects are centred around culture, habits and interaction. One of my on-going themes, Encounters & Conversations, features random meetings with people who I usually do not know. But there is something that interests me about that person in that place at that time. Something which compels me to say hello and to start a conversation. If it’s appropriate, I ask if I can photograph them as we talk. This results in either a series of images that records the meeting or simply a single image or portrait of that moment in time.
Image from the Hale Well-Being Project. See artist’s website.
Phil was born in 1964 and has always lived in the Bradford area. He has taken photographs from an early age, and completed a BTEC Graphic Design course at Bradford College in 1982 He was employed in several design and advertising agencies until redundancy in his mid-twenties prompted him to go freelance, solo initially, then to establish a design agency with two colleagues. In 2014 he decided to return to solo freelance work as a photographer.
Image: from Missione Catolica Italiana project.
He has documented the life and work of many local people involved in a range of community projects, including the Missione Catolica Italiana soup kitchen, The Bradford Club, Hirst Wood Regeneration Group, The Hale Project, Saltaire Dragon Boat Race, and the Saltaire Living Advent Calendar.
Phil’s work has been exhibited locally, including the Saltaire Arts Trail, and published in press and print in partnership with a number of arts organisations. Phil has also documented the restoration of the Odeon, Bradford, in association with another local photographer, Simon Sugden.
Bradford Lunch Club. Image: see artist’s website, below.
Artist’s website: Avantifoto