Guest Lecture: Jack Latham 15th November 2016

Notes from Lecture

Graduated in 2012

2009 started at newport

Had an interest in international affairs

Inspired by tim henvington- war photographer ’multimedia storyteller’

Failed a-levels

Moved to Birmingham to photograph a heroin addict clown, got slated for ethics

Then he went on to photographing fight spaces in Cardiff, lost interest because couldn't’t tell context of images made them boring.

A pink flamingo (reference to housing) 2012-2014 used student loan to create final project in the USA

Photographing metaphorically the people who didn't’t make it to Oregon

‘Religion seeps its way into all my work’

Sugar Paper Theories – conspiracy theory written on sugar paper

‘retraces what police documents say about the case’

Presented his version of the case

Extracted archive imagery from case files (burial sites, original archive)

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