JON TONKS: Empire

JON TONKS: EmpireOUT OF PRINT Best Photobook of The Year Selections Martin Parr, Photoeye, 2013, Terrence Pepper, Vogue Italia, 2014O Introduced by Christopher Lord Empire is a fascinating journey across the South Atlantic exploring life on four remote islands the British Overseas Territories of Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha, the Falkland Islands and St. Helena relics of the once formidable British Empire, all intertwined through their shared history. Jon Tonks

those first 21 years living in a warren of terraced streets set amongst factories and continually polluted by their smells and noise

With the support of members of the Jewish community she was given access to photograph in both the now demolished Orthodox synagogue and in the remaining Reform synagogue

including The Sunday Times

and American cheerleaders tick compulsively and have seizures without a biological explanation

was born in 1878 in the village of Sävasta

Over five years

former Head of Exhibitions at the Albanian National Gallery of Arts

The project is called The Somnambulists

and show what has been described as ‘the smooth skin of light’

The Science Museum and the Charité

becoming socially withdrawn

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