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About

1000 Words is a leading online contemporary photography magazine. It commissions and publishes exhibition and photo book reviews, essays and interviews in response to the visual culture of our present moment. Founded by Tim Clark in 2008, the editorial commitment has always been to explore the possibilities for the medium whilst stimulating debate around current modes of practice, discourses and theory internationally. Released quarterly, it attracts an average of 140,000 unique visitors from more than 120 countries every month. 1000 Words was also nominated as Photography Magazine of the Year at the Lucie Awards in 2014 and 2016. 1000 Words recently ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to support the 10 year anniversary print edition, which was released October 2018.

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Editor
Tim Clark
tim@1000wordsmag.com

Editorial Assistant
Alex Merola

Copy Editor
Michaela Nettell

Website Design
Anthony Salvador

Editorial Design
Sarah Boris

Advertising Director
Matt Roberts

Editorial Emiriti
Jenna Banat, Dominic Bell, Brad Feuerhelm, Michael Grieve, Sean Stoker, Robson Yee

Contributing Writers
Lesley A. Martin, Hannah Abel-Hirsch, Jesse Alexander, Peggy Sue Amison, Chloe Athanasopoulou, Gerry Badger, Simon Baker, Jenna Banat, Martin Barnes, Nathalie Belayche, Daniel C. Blight, Simon Bowcock, Chas Bowie, Susan Bright, Ben Burbridge, Lewis Bush, David Campany, Christian Caujolle, David Chandler, Debra Klomp Ching, Federica Chiocchetti, Natasha Christia, Tim Clark, Tom Claxton, Louise Clements, Bridget Coaker, Jörg Colberg, Edwin Coomasaru, Laurence Cornet, Charlotte Cotton, Alfredo Cramerotti, Joanna Cresswell, Taous R. Dahmani, Lucy Davies, Janna Dyk, Elizabeth Edwards, Jon Feinstein, Brad Feuerhelm, Joan Fontcuberta, Wayne Ford, Oliver Gapper, Jean-Kenta Gautier, Maggie Gray, Michael Grieve, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Sean O’Hagan, Paul Halliday, Ihiro Hayami, Yining He, Taco Hidde Becker, Greg Hobson, Francis Hodgson, Max Houghton, Martin Jaeggi, Erik Kessels, Sara Knelman, Anouk Kruithof, Liz Kuball, Jeffrey Ladd, Emma Lewis, Robin Maddock, Gordon MacDonald, Katarzyna Majak, Shoair Mavlian, James McArdle, Alexander McSpadden, J. MacNeill Miller, Jeremy Millar, Sabine Mirlesse, David Moore, Renee Mussai, Michaela Nettell, Gemma Padley, Cara Phillips, Rachel Ridge, Anna Sansom, Julia Schiller, Aaron Schuman, Mark Sealy, Roula Seikaly, Eugénie Shinkle, Iris Sikking, Katrina Sluis, Diane Smyth, Lucy Soutter, Ilaria Speri, Urs Stahel, Will Steacy, Sue Steward, Lisa Sutcliffe, Emilia Terracciano, Laura Vallés, Stefan Vanthuyne, Ivan Vartanian, Pedro Vicente, Erik Vroons, Oliver Whitehead, Val Williams, Eti Wade, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Duncan Wooldridge, Francesco Zanot, Alice Zoo

About the founder

Tim Clark is a curator, writer and since 2008 has been editor in chief and director at 1000 Words. He has also served as associate curator at Media Space, The Science Museum, London; artistic director of Photo Oxford 2017, together with Greg Hobson; curator of Photo50, London Art Fair 2019; and guest curator at FORMAT International Photography Festival 2019.

Clark has curated numerous solo exhibitions of artists such as Alec Soth, Julia Margaret Cameron, Martin Parr, Mariken Wessels, Edgar Martins and Peter Watkins. Group exhibitions have included Mutable: Multiple (2019), co-curated with Louise Fedotov-Clements; Who’s looking at the family, now? (2019); Lexicon of Crime (2017); and Rebecoming (2014).

He writes for FOAM, TIME Lightbox, Photoworks, Objectiv, FT Weekend Magazine and The British Journal of Photography, as well as in exhibition catalogues and publications. He is a visiting lecturer on the MA Photography and Visual Design at NABA Milano, and also led the Photography & Curation course at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in partnership with London College of Communication where he is associate lecturer on the BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.