Justin Partyka

Justin Partyka is from the county of Norfolk on the east coast of England. He now lives in the city of Poitiers. Justin has been making photographs for over twenty years. After completing a Masters degree in folklore and ethnography at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, Justin returned to his native region of East Anglia and dedicated himself to photographing the rural landscape and culture over a period of many years. His work often focuses on a local sense of place and considers how elements of the past continue to exist in the present.

Justin’s photographs have been exhibited widely including at Tate Britain, London ; the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich ; the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading ; and the Boutographies photo festival in Montpellier, France. Publications include Granta magazine, the Guardian weekend magazine, and Source magazine. Also the limited edition books, Field Work and Not Exactly Nature Writing, and a commissioned series of photographs for a reissue of the classic book of oral history Fenwomen.

Justin’s extensive photography in his native region of East Anglia consists of multiple series of work and his is currently bringing these together for a major exhibition and publishing retrospective project, Close to Home. Justin’s other projects include photographs made in Saskatchewan, Canada, and Cádiz, Spain. He has also photographed in other parts of the United Kingdom, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, Sicily, and various locations in the United States. Since 2015 he has been developing a new series of photographs in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France.