Colin Pantall is an photographer, writer, and educator based in Bath, England.
His work focusses on his immediate domestic environment and includes his book All Quiet on the Home Front, his publication Brexit Pictures, and his projectsThe Mental Load of Motherhood, Sofa Portraits and My German Family Album. He is interested in how environment, domestic space and family narratives overlap and interfere in our understanding of personal, visual, and political histories.
Museums
November 2022: My Parents in Woolley acquired by the Kunstmuseum Den Haag,
Books
October 2022: Sofa Portraits
November 2020: Brexit Pictures
October 2019: Magnum China (co-editor and writer)
November 2017: All Quiet on the Home Front
Published Work
December 2020: Splash and Grab Magazine - All Quiet on the Home Front
November 2020: Brexit Pictures Published
June 2018: Source Magazine – All Quiet on the Home Front
January 2018: American Suburb X – All Quiet on the Home Front
October 2017: All Quiet on the Home Front published
October 2017: British Journal of Photography: All Quiet on the Home Front
September 2017: Vogue Italia Online – All Quiet on the Home Front
Talks and Festivals
November 2020: While the World is Burning Screening, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia
November 2020: Speaker, Judge Bird in Flight Festival, Ukraine
October 2020 – April 2021: Mentor, Catalyst, Bristol Photography Festival
November 2019: Moderator – Huts of Memory Conference/Women in Photography, with Maria Kapajeva, Dragana Jurisic, and Hannah Darabi
November 2019 – September 2020: Fellow of the Mekong Arts Hub/South East Asia Arts Network
July 2019: In Conversation with Martin Parr, Port Elliot, Devon
October 2018: All Quiet on the Home Front Presentation, with Emilie Lauwers, Valerio Alvarez and Marouissia Prignot as part of the Collaborative Working Talks, Recyclart Extra Fort, Brussels
October 2018: Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery
May 2018: Working Practice Presentation, with Laia Abril, Jon Uriarte and Julian Baron, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastian
September 2017: Member of the Artistic Committee - Gazebook: Manifestazione Internazionale del Fotolibro, Sicily. I gave a talk about my book, All Quiet on the Home Front, as well as leading a symposium on Politics, Photography and Change with Matthieu Asselin, Natalia Christie and Marco Paltrinieri.
January 2016: Speaker at It’s All in the Edit Symposium, UWE. Other speakers were Emma Bowkett (Financial Times Magazine Photo Editor) and Johnny Briggs
December 2016: On Empathy - With Magnum Photos at Barbican Centre, London. I gave a talk on my work and empathy with Jess Crombie of Save the Children and Olivia Arthur of Magnum Photos.
September 2016: Member of the Artistic Committee - Gazebook: Manifestazione Internazionale del Fotolibro, Sicily. I took part in an In-Conversation with Martin Parr.
June 2016: Creative Director, Photobook Bristol 2016: I curated, scheduled and organized speakers for Photobook Bristol 2016. I also wrote content and publicity materials for this event. Speakers included Krass Clement, Martin Parr, Mariela Sancari, Mark Power, Laura El-Tantawy and Susan Meiselas.
November 2015: Curator of Sound, Word, Landscape: A day of talks and screenings at the Southbank Bristol looking at developments in the making, publication and exhibiting of landscape photography. Speakers include Jem Southam, Susan Derges, Ester Vonplon, Paul Gaffney and Angus Carlyle
September 2015: Member of the Artistic Committee - Gazebook: Manifestazione Internazionale del Fotolibro, Sicily: I helped organise and publicise this new festival. I also gave a talk on my own work, ran portfolio reviews and held a workshop with Alex Bocchetto of Akina Books
June 2015: Vienna Photobook Festival – I gave a lecture on Narrative and my Germany Family Album. I also ran portfolio reviews for the Festival Book Prize.
June 2015: Photobook Bristol 2015 – Workshop Leader: I led Carolyn Drake, Nicolo Degiorgis and Rudi Thoemmes in a workshop on book publishing
November 2014: Three Days in Tharoul: I took part as a writer in a book-making workshop with Paul Gaffney and Pierre Liebaert
November 2014: Paris Photo: Lecture on My German Family Album
June 2014: Photobook Bristol: I took part in The Future of the Photobook Panel (with Anouk Kruithof, Bruno Ceschel, Delphine Bedel and Max Pinckers)
February 2014: Ffotogallery, Penarth: I led an In Conversation with Michal Iwanowski and Paul Gaffney
Some Recent Writing and Editing Work
2019 -2020: Photography, Truth and Storytelling – a series of posts for World Press Photo Witness
April 2019: Vogue Italia: Claude and Lilly – feature on the photobook by Vincen Beeckman
April 2019: Magnum Photos: Diana Markosian and Walking – first in a series on photographers and their inspirations
February 2019: Feature with Matthew Genitempo, British Journal of Photography
November 2018: Overcoming the clichés of War, Anastasia Taylor-Lind feature, World Press Photo, Witness
October 2018: Co-editor and writer of Magnum China.
October 2016: Feature on Amak Mahmoodian, Foam Magazine
September 2016: History of European Photography, Vol III: Writer of the section on British Photography 1970 -2010
July 2016: New Talent: Nicolo Degiorgis, Foam Magazine
July 2016: Education and Workshop Feature, The British Journal of Photography
May 2016: Introductory text for Nicolo Degiorgis’ exhibition and catalogue of work by Max Pinckers and Daisuke Yokota
March 2015: Mishka Henner’s Feedlots, Foam Magazine.
March 2014: Lina Hashim interview: Islam, Collaboration and Subversion. The Photograph as Evidence, The British Journal of Photography
July 2014: Mind Games: An interview with Joan Fontcuberta, The British Journal of Photography
October 2011: Collaborative Practice, The British Journal of Photography
Group Exhibitions
December 2020: Art Remedy Screening, Miami
November 2020: While the World is Burning Screening, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia
2018: National Portrait Gallery, London - Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
2010: Galleriana Contemporaneo, Venice - Looking at|Looking for
2009: The Photo Festival of Savignano, Italy - Looking at|Looking for
2009: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
2008: National Portrait Gallery, London - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
2008: The Lowry Centre, Manchester – Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
2007: National Portrait Gallery - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
2007: Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam - Innocence Now