Broughton’s mission is photographer as recorder; her skill is the
ability to present tangible evidence of the emotional within human
experience.
In Empty Porn Sets, by recording the space left behind after the human
activity, the work makes a strong statement against a voyeuristic or
judgemental look at the processes of making porn, withdrawing from any
moral discourse. Instead, the emptiness has the effect of mainlining
emotional reverb into the space.
These calm expositions are like the people Broughton works with – quiet,
possibly vulnerable, but with a steely individuality, such as her series
Virgins, respondees to an advert in Time Out magazine. The uncannily
common gaze shared by the women says they are apprehensive about being
declared, and would rather be left to blossom in their private worlds,
but revealed by Broughton their conviction is the magic she brings out.
”Generously curious, unjudgingly celebratory, confidently uncertain, Jo
Broughton’s photographs…remind me of the letter by Chekhov in which he
said that it is sometimes much better to ask the right questions than to
have the right answers. “
Simon Watney
Goodwin Credit
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art, 2000-2002
BA (Hons) First Class. Editorial, Fashion and Advertising Photography,
Kent Institute of Art and Design, 1996 - 1999.
BOOK ANTHOLOGY
September 2007; Chosen by “Against all Odds” to shoot for the book ‘Uk
at home’ book along side fifty other English documentary photographers.
Book to be published February 2008. Documentry filmed along side project
aired in Febraury 2008.
June 2006: Published new work from a series titled ‘Goodwin Bank’ in the
book New Art from London by Chris Townsend (Thames& Hudson). On sale
now. Images will also be part of the associated touring show
Punk; A Directory of modern subversive culture, published 1st July 2007,
www.hollowgallery.com/punk.html
DOCUMENTARY
2005: Subject of a BBC Four documentary:
“As part of A Picture of Britain, Jo Broughton and other top
photographers join Tom Ang, to chronicle Britain’s urban, rural and
industrial regions using the latest digital photographic technology.”
RESIDENCY
September 2006: Invited onto a two year programme by Four Corners Centre
for Film and Photography as artist in residence, London (East)
www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk
SOLO SHOWS
2005
“My Ex-Boyfriends’ Girlfriends”. Curated by Antonio Geusa at ‘Fine Arts
Enterprise M’ars’, Contemporary Art Centre, Russia.
2004
Bunny in Head Lights, installation piece at The Ragged School, London
2003
Me, Myself and Them, Virgins and My Ex-Boyfriends’ Girlfriends at Tom
Blau Gallery, London
GROUP SHOWS
January 2008, Exhibiting at Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg,
Titled ‘Puberty’ with the installation ‘Virgins Wanted’ . 15th January –
12th May 2008.
November 2007
Exhibited at ‘Four Corners gallery, titled ‘No Ball games’ with the ’
Installation of ‘Empty Porn Sets’ projection of images and sound.
November 1st –December 15 2007.
July 2007
Punk; A directory of modern subversive culture;
The Ada Street Gallery, Hackney, London touring onto Galerie Lecocon,
Hamburg, Germany
Dates and times
12th-25th July 2007 - Private view of the show in London
3rd –18th August 2007 – Music Event at the Rota Flora, Hamburg,
Germany
2006
September: Group exhibition Renée Vara project, ( Vara Global Fine Arts
LLC), Photo New York, showing My Ex-Boyfriends Girlfriends, Empty Porn
sets and Pete Doherty series.
March-April: Exhibiting in group show, with the work Empty Porn Sets and
Bunny in Head Lights at the Start Contemporary Gallery, Brighton, UK
9th November 2005-Febuary 12th 2006: Exhibiting a portrait of musician
Pete Doherty as part of the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize at the
National Portrait Gallery, London
2004
The series Empty Porn Sets including an installation of sound and images
for Photoworks, curated by Gordon MacDonald, at the Towner Gallery,
Eastbourne, UK
My Family Album in book form with Eshoda Arts at ‘The Home Ideal Show’,
Hotbath Gallery, Bath, UK
2003
Curated & exhibited in ‘After Hours’, part of the Hidden Art of
Hackney
Festival, London
2002
My Ex-Boyfriends’ Girlfriends included in ‘Bootleg Identity’, Caren
Golden Gallery, New York
Virgins, final year show, The Royal College of Art, London
Empty Porn Sets, installation of sound and images exhibited in the show
‘Meantime’, at The Upper Gulbenkian, the Royal College of Art, London
2001
My Ex-Boyfriends’ Girlfriends and Me and Women Alike, Arte Viva Festiva
Europeo, Sengalia, Italy
Also, produced Sister Celeste for the workshops held for the duration of
the festival and final exhibition
My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriends at The Royal College of Art Interim show,
London
2000
Real Women and Me and Women Alike touring group show, from A.k.A, London
to St Johns Restaurant, London
My Family Album as part of Brick’s Presents dual show with the artist
Angie Hicks at the Distillery Gallery, Hoxton, London
1999
Me and Women Alike in ‘Sync’, Atlantis gallery, Brick Lane, London
Nominations and Awards
2006
July: ‘Empty Porn Sets’ entered into the Creative Review’s 2006
Photography Annual which reviews the best new photography in the last
twelve months. Issue published October 2006
Chosen to exhibit a portrait of musician Pete Doherty as part of the
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery
2004
Short listed at Photo Espania Descubrimientos 04, with My Ex-Boyfriends’
Girlfriends on a plasma Screen in Santa Ana Plaza, Spain
2003
Nominated for the Olympus Up-coming Photographers Award, UK
2002
Short listed for St James Home Photography Prize with Empty Porn Sets
exhibited at Flowers East Gallery, London
2002
Short listed & exhibited with My Ex-Boyfriend’s Girlfriends for the ‘Red
Mansion Spero Prize’, the London Institute Gallery, London
2001
Winner of the Helen Chadwick Award
2000
Winner of the A.O.P Assistant Award with the series Me and Women Alike
Nominated for City Bank Art Prize
EDITORIAL PORTRAITURE AND ADVERTISING
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