Marc Wilson

Marc Wilson

@marcwilson.co.uk

Documentary Photographer. The Edge of Ruin Travelogue 2 - A thousand days of longing The Land is Yellow, the Sky is Blue Remnants A wounded landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust The Last Stand www.marcwilson.co.uk https://linktr.ee/marcwilson

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From The Last Stand photobook. Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Upper Normandy, France. 2012 On 19 August 1942, on the beach of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, a group from No 4 Commando landed with a mission to assault and destroy the German Hess battery above Varengeville, which...

From my book, The Edge of Ruin - Plate 54 Blaenau FFestiniog, Gwynedd Blaenau FFestiniog is one of 6 areas that comprise the UNESCO-listed Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales. The slate industry thrived here from 1780 to 1940; at the same time, the population grew to help meet demand. The material...

...was used to build humble homes and grand buildings, churches and factories – both in Britain and overseas. At this time, Wales supplied around one third of all roofing slate in the world. Northwest Wales was a cradle of...

... technical innovation; the engineering solutions and railway systems pioneered here went on be used around the world.

From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'. Route of a death march taken by 7,000 prisoners from Dachau three days before liberation. Dachau, Germany, 2016.

Sunday photobook inspiration #3. Saul Leiter. I’ve come to his work late, but I find it quite beautiful. Foot on EI, 1954 being one of my favourites. There is a wonderful discussion about his work and archive from those that knew him, on the Right Eye Dominant podcast.

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... the Germans, who established a radar detection station there. In August 1942, soon after the Allied raid on Dieppe (Operation Jubilee), the Germans established a command post they called the ‘Kahlburg’ (bare fort), dug out of the chalk cliffs, to protect that area. A maze of galleries...

... reinforced by brick masonry, it was built on four levels and reached by 225 steps, giving access to technical rooms, barracks, three observation posts and two combat posts. It also housed a 75mm heavy artillery battery.

... Its cliffs, the highest chalk cliffs in Europe, are over 100 metres high. During WW1, the Trianon – a Belle Epoque hotel on top of the cliffs above Le Tréport – was turned into a hospital for British soldiers wounded in the Battle of the Somme. In WW2, the building was destroyed by...

8...7...6 copies left available now of the 1st edition of 'On the Road'. Will they all go before Bound bookfair in Manchester next weekend?

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I'm giving a free talk at Ffotogallery (Cardiff) this Saturday 24th October at 3.30pm. There's also a book fair happening all day there too. If you are in the neighbourhood come by and be entertained. Ffotogallery, The Former Methodist Sunday School, Fanny St, Cardiff CF24 4EH

From my book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’ Plate 53 Easdale Island, Argyll And Bute The smallest of a cluster of slate islands in the Firth of Lorn, Inner Hebrides, Easdale experienced a peak in demand for its slate in the 19th century. At this time, up to 500 people lived & worked on the island. By 1960s...

..., the population had dwindled to just four inhabitants; today around 60 people live here. The annual World Stone Skimming Championships take place on the island; entrants are required to compete with specially selected stones of Easdale slate.

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“Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much,” US President Donald Trump said. Just a couple of hours ago Russia killed one-year-old Angelina in her stroller in a park in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Her mother later died in hospital. An 11-year-old girl was also killed.

Morning all. Back from 5 days on location and today’s photographers jobs: School drop off Pack & send book orders from this week. Prepare everything for BOP photobook festival Drop off films at Photographique in Bristol Set up table at BOP for weekend ahead. School pick up

From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'. Mass grave and memorial at Kaufering IV concentration camp, one of Dachau’s sub camps. Erpfingen near Landsberg, Germany, October 2016.

I will be at BOP this weekend in Bristol, with my books and zines on my own self publishing table in the main event space. Come and say hello if you are there. After a week on the road, I'll need lots of coffee!

From The Last Stand photobook. Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Upper Normandy, France. 2012 On 19 August 1942, on the beach of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, a group from No 4 Commando landed with a mission to assault and destroy the German Hess battery above Varengeville, which...

... could fire on the beach of Dieppe. They were successful, but the Dieppe raid ended in disaster for the Canadian and British troops. After the raid, the German coastal defences were strengthened. The monolith on the shingle beach was part of a blockhouse that originally stood on the cliff.

I am on the road later today so first. Sunday photobook inspiration. Invasion 68: Prague, by Josef Koudelka. The films were smuggled out of the country to New York. Koudelka did not acknowledge the photographs were his for 16 years due to threats of reprisals against his family.

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💔🇺🇦 Rescue team pulling this family out of rubble of destroyed building that was hit by Russians in Zaporizha. Their daughter died as result of this strike. Video courtesy of: BBC

Tools I need to work, part 8. Hasselblad 500C(m). Not my original from 30 years ago but as good as. Made in 1971 and still as good as ever.

Making progress. Over the last 3 months I’ve made work at 12 locations here in the UK for my current body of work. 60 plus more to visit here and in Europe.

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At least nine people were killed in Russia’s overnight missile and drone attack across Ukraine. A five-story apartment building in Pryluky, 150 km east of Kyiv, was severely damaged, while strikes caused extensive damage to homes and infrastructure in Kremenchuk. www.kyivpost.com/post/86298

kyivpost.comRussia Kills 11 in Ukraine as Missiles Damage Pryluky and Kremenchuk HomesMeanwhile, Kremenchuk suffered some of its worst housing damage since the full-scale invasion, while strikes hit cities across several Ukrainian regions.