Tristan Lund Presents: Jane Evelyn Atwood
Jane Evelyn Atwood. In Camera L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
Tristan Lund Presents: Jane Evelyn Atwood
Jane Evelyn Atwood, shortlisted for the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, will discuss the breadth of her expansive, fifty year career as a photo documentarian. Of particular focus will be her renowned project Pigalle People and Too Much Time, both presented at Photo London jointly by her galleries In Camera and L. Parker Stephenson.
Jane Evelyn Atwood was born in New York but has lived France since 1971. Her work reflects a deep involvement with her subjects over long periods of time. Fascinated by people and by the idea of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, or choose to ignore. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. It was partly on the strength of these photographs that she received the first W. Eugene Smith Award in 1980. Jane Evelyn Atwood describes her method of work as “obsessive”. She does not move on to a new subject until she feels she has completely understood the one at hand and her own relation to it, and until she believes that her pictures reflect this understanding.
Atwood has published thirteen books, received numerous awards, and held career retrospective exhibitions at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, the Botanique, Brussels, and at L’Imagerie, in Lannion, Brittany.
Atwood is shortlisted for this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for her monumental book Too Much Time / Trop de Peines, an in depth exploration of female incarceration.
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