Andrew Jackson is an artist interested in exploring the challenges of selfhood, representation and narration. He is an award-winning recipient of the Autograph ABP /Light Work (AIR) International Photography Residency in Syracuse, New York and a graduate of the MA Documentary photography program at Newport in Wales. Andrew is working with the Community and History Archive Service, (CHAS)Â Sandwell.
Andrew Jackson
Commissioned Artist
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In the Night of the Day
I imagine the lives of real strangers, on both sides of the conflict, brought together during just one day out of the two thousand, one hundred and ninety-four days of the Second World War. Exploring the ways in which their lives became entwined on April 9th, 1941, in a small town called Smethwick, by fate as much as by politics.
In the Night of the Day – the starting point
Drivers in cars, enslaved as they are today to satnavs that choose routes for them to drive along, sometimes break free from the sound of their master’s voice to notice that two houses are slightly different from the others on St. Mark’s Road. Maybe some notice that the windows are different or perhaps it’s that the front doors are? Or maybe that the colour of the brickwork seems slightly fresher than the other houses, which lead off ahead, along the road to come.