Éditions Emile

20/09/2022

Tomorrow we will be launching our fifth issue, ED.EM.05 Agriculture - looking back to go forward during Jersey Festival of Words at Jersey Library between 2-3pm showing a collection of images by Maurice Richardson who donated his archive to the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive upon his death in 2022. The event will include a panel discussion on the past, present and future of agriculture in Jersey, chaired by India Hamilton (Co-founder SCOOP The Sustainable Cooperative and Jersey Food Systems Lab), who also wrote a stellar text to accompany the images in the publication. Deputy Kirsten Morel, (Minister for Economic Development, Tourism, Sport and Culture - Government of Jersey) will be introducing the panel discussion which will include James Godfrey (CEO Royal Jersey Agricultural & Horticultural Society), Aaron Le Couteur (Sheep Farmer and Conservation Grazier) and Kaspar Wimberley (Director and Co-founder SCOOP, The Sustainable Food Cooperative and Curator of The morning boat).

This is a free event and we encourage anyone interested in this subject to attend. You can register a free place via Eventbrite on link below here. There will be an opportunity to buy a copy of ED.EM.05 and past issues at the event. Otherwise copies and a set of Limited Edition Prints can be purchased online at https://www.edem.je or at Société Jersiaise bookshop on 7 Pier Rd, St Helier, Jersey.
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Look back on a photographic history of agriculture in Jersey

18/03/2022

If you want to learn more about the history of Victoria and Albert Piers, go to our website and purchase a copy of ED.EM.04 - Victoria and Albert - on the piers.

https://www.edem.je

WORK BEGINS ON ALBERT PIER

175 years ago, the foundation stone of the Albert Pier was laid. The pier’s construction took six years and was completed in 1853.

During the early 19th century, Jersey’s fishing fleet had started to grow rapidly, especially with the trade in cod caught off the Newfoundland coast, and the Island’s harbour facilities were in desperate need of improvement. Work commenced on a new South Pier in 1841, later being named the Victoria Pier following Queen Victoria’s visit to the Island, which coincided with the completion of the pier in 1846. Work then began on the Albert Pier the following year.



In 1859, renowned local artist Philip John Ouless captured Albert Pier as part of a series of small watercolour paintings of Jersey scenes that we were lucky enough to add to our art collection last year.



Ports of Jersey Société Jersiaise

15/03/2022

Launch of ED.EM.04: Victoria & Albert - on the piers
Fourth issue in a series of photo-zines produced by Éditions Emile – an imprint celebrating the unique collections held in the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive in the island of Jersey.

Issue four considers the development and use of Victoria and Albert Piers. A recent donation to the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive showing work being carried out to the piers between 1929-31 forms the backbone of the zine, with contemporary photographs, produced by four local photographers placing recent construction work to the piers within this historical and social context. Doug Ford, Maritime Historian and former Community Learning Director at Jersey Heritage, has written a new text for this issue; a concise history of the piers up to date, providing the broader context of a working harbour for an island community.

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06/07/2021

When we set out to produce the ED.EM. series we were interested in re-positioning historic collections within contemporary contexts. By bringing Michelle Sank’s work and placing it on the same page as Henry Mullins’ the viewer is asked to consider 165 years of portraiture in Jersey, both within the evolution of the photographic medium itself and as cultural records of islanders posing for the camera. Within that period the island has undergone significant changes socially, politically and economically, and yet, many of the same power structures exist.

In a new text written by Gareth Syvret, who founded Archisle: The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme in 2011 and spent almost 20 years studying Mullins albums while working as the photo-archivist at the Société Jersiaise (1999-2018), he describes, how the deliberate arrangement of the portraits of Jersey residents on the pages of Mullins albums represents a clear political intention. Syvret writes, ‘while Mullins’ archive of portraits reproduced and reinforced the status of the wealthy and powerful, Sank broadens this social matrix by placing Farmer alongside Financier, or by showing two ways to be outside a home: in the communal garden of a social housing estate or beside a private swimming pool outside a home. The relationship in pose, posture and placement of the hands between Mullins’ and Sank’s subjects proves that certain behaviours and ways of being, bodily, in the world persist inside or out of the photographer’s studio.’

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30/06/2021

First review of ED.EM.03 Henry Mullins / Michelle Sank - On the Social Matrix in the Jersey Evening Post by Rod McLoughlin, former Cultural Development Officer at Government of Jersey and staunch supporter of Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise that hosted Archisle - The Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme founded and led by Gareth Syvret (2011-18), of which Michelle Sank was its inaugural International Photographer-in-Residence in 2013.

Rod also officially opened Michelle's exhibition Insula in St Helier from which a selection of portraits are juxtaposed in this publication with those of Henry Mullins who made over 9000 carte de visite portraits of Jersey's ruling elite and wealthy upper classes in the mid-Victorian period.

In his review, Rod writes 'What might seem an unlikely alliance is one which highlights the way that Jersey has evolved as a community supported primarily by agricultural, maritime and emerging tourism economies into a contemporary international finance centre....Whereas the Mullins albums reflect access to photography which is determined by a commercial relationship between photographer and subject, the work of the photographer-in-residence is not limited in this way, which opens up a range of work that juxtaposes a Lieutenant-Governor and Bailiff with agricultural workers and Islanders photographed outside their own homes'.

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24/06/2021

We are excited to launch the third issue of ED.EM.03 - Henry Mullins / Michelle Sank - On the Social Matrix with a new text by Gareth Syvret

Henry Mullins and Michelle Sank represent 165 years of the practice of photographic portraiture in Jersey. That period has seen the island undergo major social and economic changes. Through these photographers’ works, we examine those changes and the power structures that remain in place within this insular society.

ED.EM. is a series of new photo-zines produced by Éditions Emile
– a new imprint celebrating the unique collections held in the
Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive in the island of Jersey.

Get you copy here!

https://www.edem.je

08/05/2021

Tomorrow on 9th May the Bailiwick of Jersey is celebrating 76 years of liberation from N**i occupation during WWII. Again the island will be awash with flags and bunting as a visual signifiers of this momentous event in the public imagination.

Last year we published ED.EM.02 Occupation - at leisure 1940-44 with images held in the Pelz Collection at Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise of life during the occupation as seen and experienced from the German Officers stationed here.

In addition we produced a set of 6 Limited Edition Prints presented in a specially designed sleeve referencing early 20th-century packaging of scenic and tourist views.

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19/11/2020

Orders for ED.EM.02 - Occupation at leisure 1940-44 have been shipped today and we thank everyone for the support who purchased our photo-zine. Our business model is not-for-profit and all money raised is used to cover production costs for the following issue.

For each issue of ED.EM. a set of Limited Edition Prints is produced. In Occupation - at leisure 1940-44 a set of 6 Limited Edition Prints are presented in a specially designed sleeve referencing early 20th-century packaging of scenic and tourist views. Print size 8 x 8 cm in an Edition of 50.

We are ready to take your order here: https://www.edem.je

11/11/2020

Today on Armistice Day we are publishing the second issue of ED.EM.02 - Occupation at leisure 1940-44. The occupation and subsequent liberation of Jersey in 1945 are key events in the recent shared history of Islanders. The suffering of locals as well as the military and political prisoners brought to the Island as forced labour is well documented, and it is within that context that we take a look at photographs produced by the Occupiers themselves. A selection of images presented here for the first time are held in the Pelz Collection at Photo-Archive Societe-Jersiaise showing German soldiers at leisure.

We thank everyone who have been involved in making this issue, Alan Allix and Andrew Gilson for their expertise on the subject, sharing their research and agreeing to write a short text. Société Jersiaise Librarian Valérie Noėl for the French translation, digitisation of images by Judy Smith, Alan Richomme, Shannon O'Donnell with assistance from Leah Bohea and Eleanor Gilson, and design by Callum Naden of a set of 6 Limited Edition Prints.

Thanks also to the many people who have supported the production by purchasing pre-orders. We have received 250 copies from our printer Park Communications and are ready to dispatch. You can get your copy here.

https://www.edem.je

06/11/2020

It's been a busy morning taking orders for our new issue of ED.EM.02 after a page spread featured in Jersey Evening Post today. Our print-run is 250 so hurry if you want to reserve a copy for £8.00. A set of 6 Limited Edition Prints are also available through our website for £30.00

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04/11/2020

Great feature in Channel Eye today about our second issue of ED.EM.02. In this publication, we examine the lives of German administrative officers during the Occupation of Jersey. The familiarity and at times banality of the two collections we are looking at is rarely referenced in this historical context. Published next week, you can pre-order a copy here at www.edem.je

https://channeleye.media/launch-of-second-issue-of-ed-em-02-occupation-at-leisure-1940-44/

Second issue in a series of new photo-zines produced by Éditions Emile – a new publishing imprint celebrating the unique collections held in the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive. The Occupation and subsequent Liberation of Jersey in 1945 are key events in the recent shared history of Isla...

03/11/2020

In the past few months we have been working behind the scenes on editing a set of images from the Pelz collection at SJPA for our second issue of ED.EM.02 - a series of new photo-zines produced by Éditions Emile – a new publishing imprint celebrating the unique collections held in the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive.

In this issue, we examine the lives of German administrative officers during the Occupation of Jersey. The familiarity and at times banality of the two collections we are looking at is rarely referenced in this historical context. Many of these images are attributed to Major Hans Egon Pelz, though as he himself appears in many, it makes specific attribution difficult.

To help us identify military personnel we enlisted the expertise of Alan Allix, who is a founder member of the Channel Island Occupation Society and Andrew Gilson a local historian who is nearing the completion of a new book on agriculture during the occupation. Both have visited Germany and met with some of German officers and their families. We are indebted to them both for their assistance and very pleased too that they also agreed to write a short text with references from their long-standing research and interest in Field Command 515 who were the civil administration in Jersey during the occupation.

Printing of ED.EM.02 is currently underway, so please stay tuned for the launch and publication date of Occupation – at leisure 1940-44 next week. You can pre-order a copy here.

https://www.edem.je