Tom Carr, Irish Traveler, Galway Ireland, 1973
Inuit Mother and Child, Baffin Island, 1974
Janine Wiedel is a documentary photographer whose work spans over five decades. Her career began in the late 1960s where she photographed the Black Power Movement and Berkeley People’s Park Riots. Arriving in England in 1970, she has embarked on a continuous series of socially engaged long-term projects which have been turned into major exhibitions and books. These include: a four year project on Irish Travellers (first exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in 1975); a two year project “Vulcans Forge’ on the Industries of the West Midlands (first shown as an installation exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery in 1979 and published in 2024 by Bluecoat Press): a two year documentary on Greenham Common (being published this year): and a three year documentary on a South London Squat (to be published later this year). Over the years she has had six books of her work published as well as sixteen Café Royal Books zines. With her camera, she continues to explore themes such as resistance, protest, multi-culturalism and counterculture movements.
