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Sanna Charles b. 1979
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Education:
MA Art & Design in Education, UCL Institute of Education, 2015
Photography (BA), University of Brighton, 2001
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Relevant Employment:
2021- present. Photography & English teacher (45%). Steinerskolen i Hurum. Special projects include setting up a black & white darkroom, taking school class photos and documenting annual events.
2018-2020. Education Lead. Museum of Youth Culture. London. Museum of Youth Culture is a UK based youth and subculture photography archive run by Youth Club Archive. I worked as Education Lead developing resources and projects using the archive for schools and youth services. youthclubarchive.com
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Upcoming:
Fucking Slayer (2024) Documentary film in post-production. A continuation of my photobook God Listens to Slayer. Completion date December 2024.
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Publications:
When Death Comes Only Good Deeds Count #1 & #2 (2015-2017), self-published zine
God Listens to Slayer (2015), published by Ditto Press/Ditto London
sha•man (2013), published by Ditto Press/Ditto London
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Solo Exhibitions:
God Listens to Slayer, Exhibition & photobook launch.
Ditto Project Space London, Apr 2015.
Bildband, Berlin, Aug 2015.
S/M Sound & Mysticism, Supernormal Festival, Braizers Park, Oxfordshire, Aug 2014.
sha•man, Exhibition & photobook launch, collaboration with Mark Wagner.
MKII, London, Sept 2013
Islington Mill residency, Manchester, Sept 2013.
Dead Historians Society, Collaboration with History and Politics students from B-SIX College, London.
Pie Factory, Margate, Margate Photo Festival, August 2012
MKII, London, June 2012.
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Group Exhibitions:
Forbundet Frie Fotografer 50 år Salongutstilling, FFF, Oslo, August 2024. With the work Butterfly (2024)
‘My soul was not my soul at all but a dead system’; collage and audio work, in Thing 020 : Conduction, for Form IV, [online] curated by Isabel Mallet, January 2022
‘Lonesome Drift’; film work, in Thing 012 : Steps, for Form IV, [online] curated by Isabel Mallet, February 2019
Salon 17: New Approaches in Photography, Four Corners, London, October 2017. With the video work Searching for Strength in a Lachrymose Universe (2017), presented by LCN and Four Corners.
Rip it Lick it Stick it, Doomed Gallery, London, April 2017. With the work Something to do with Fucking (2017), curated by Louie Jenkins.
RA Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Art, London, August 2016. With the work Dancing with the Dead in my Dreams (2016), coordinated by Richard Wilson RA.
‘Get Your Ass to Mars’; gif work, in Thing 002 : Conversion, for Form IV, [online] curated by Isabel Mallet, August 2015
On Landscape #1, sha.man. Guest Projects, London, March 2014. Touring exhibition of landscape themed artist books – “A series of exhibitions based on conversations between artists Minna Kantonen, Dafna Talmor and Emma Wieslander aim[ing] to challenge traditional representations of landscape”
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Bibliography (selected):
‘LCN / Four Corners Participant Feature: Sanna Charles’, for Space Studios [online], October 2017
The Book of Black by Faye Dowling, with the works: Topless in Leather (2010), Loz in the Woods (2015) and sha.man (2015), 2017 - Lawrence King. pp. 82 – 83 & 86.
‘God Listens to Slayer – meet the world’s most committed metalheads’, interview by Rachel Segal Hamilton, British Journal of Photography, August 2015, pp. 36 – 41.
‘New photobook God Listens to Slayer is a fitting tribute to heavy metal fans’, review by Maisie Skidmore, It’s Nice That [online], April 2015.
‘Heavy Mettle’, ‘God Listens to Slayer’ review by Mat Colegate, Grafik, April 2015.
‘Portraits of Slayer fans in their natural habitat’, interview by Jak Hutchcraft, Vice Magazine [online], April 2015.
‘Ten years with the metal heads’, interview by Felix Petty, I-D Magazine [online], April 2015.
‘Sha.man’, interview & review by Huck HQ, Huck Magazine, September 2013.
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Talks / Other Projects:
Sound Effects / Video Effects, two nights of talks by artists working in film and/or photography whose work is connected to music in one way or another. Brighton & London. June 2024
London Creative Network (LCN) – “a tailored development programme for artists and creative practitioners in London”. Funded workshops for Wet-plate Collodion photography and 16mm filmmaking. 2018
‘The School & the Gallery’, presentation of the Portman Gallery and its history from 2007, given to the Art & Design in Education MA students from UCL Institute of Education, November 2017
Photoscratch: Guest Edit. Presentation of works in progress at Four Corners. London. Nov 2017
Meal-Ticket #2, Participation in artist talks. KK Outlet, London, with Mr. Bingo & Giles Duley, June 2013
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Awards:
Artists’ International Development Fund from Arts Council England 2018, to extend the project We sat together beside the dance floor - a roadtrip around Finland and its dancehalls.
A-N Travel Bursary 2017 recipient of £1000 for a research trip to Finland to begin a project about rural dance pavilions.