I’m a Hastings-based artist/writer and publisher working across photographic processes, writing, artist’s books, design and publishing.
I’m interested in exploring the potential of relationships between image, text and form, in work that responds to contemporary social issues and to historical events, often through the lens of the lived experience.
Books from my press Negative Press London (www.neg-press.com) are in many collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Wellcome Foundation, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Artists’ Book Collection, Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany; and Musée Français de la Photographie, Bièvres, France.
Some Queer Animals – Shortlisted 2024 Author Book Award at Arles Les Rencontres de la Photographie.
The Spots That Never Went – Highly Commended Finalist of the 2019 Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing, presented by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
Exhibitions include Photofusion, London; Bruce Castle Museum, London; Foyles Gallery, London; Dutch Centre, London; Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge; Arnolfini, Bristol; Bury Art Museum, Bury; and Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, Virginia, US.
My writing appears in anthologies, journals and academic publications.
roelofbakker(@)mac.com
@roelof_bakker
www.neg-press.com
CV ︎︎︎