{{Short description|British photographer (born 1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mark Neville | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1966 <!-- {{birth date|df=yes|1966|??|??}} --> | birth_place = London, England | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|df=yes|????|??|1|1979|??|??}} --> | death_place = | resting_place= | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|??.??|??.??|region:UK}} --> | field = Social documentary photography, war art | training = University of Reading; Goldsmiths' College (London); The Rijksakademie (Amsterdam, Netherlands) | movement = | works = ''Port Glasgow Book Project''<ref name="ng" /> | patrons = Imperial War Museum; Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation,<ref name="daiwa18">{{cite book| title=Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018 | publisher=Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation | date=2018 }}</ref> | awards = | spouse = <!-- {{marriage|???}} --> | website = {{URL|www.markneville.com}} }}
'''Mark Neville''' (born 1966)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-30|title=Mark Neville|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/mark-neville|website=www.nationalgalleries.org}}</ref> is a British social documentary photographer.<ref>{{cite news|accessdate=2018-06-07|title=People power: Mark Neville's documentary photography – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jan/06/mark-neville-documentary-photography-in-pictures|newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 January 2017|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|accessdate=2018-06-07|title=Mark Neville's Immersive Photo Experiment|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mark-nevilles-immersive-photo-experiment|newspaper=The New Yorker}}</ref>
==Life and work== Neville studied Fine Arts at Reading University, Berkshire (B.A.), Goldsmiths' College in London (M.A.) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands, although he was asked to leave after a violent incident with a female student.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.markneville.com/bio|title=About|website=Mark Neville}}</ref> As an artist he is known for working at the interface of art and documentary utilizing photography and films to capture the unique face of working communities.
Neville is best known for his ''Port Glasgow Book Project'',<ref name="ng">{{cite web| publisher=National Galleries | title= Port Glasgow|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/n/artist/mark-neville/object/port-glasgow-town-hall-christmas-party-pgp-420-1 }}</ref> after he spent a year as artist in residence in Port Glasgow in 2004 portraying the town's hardship of Scotland's post-industrial decline in a photographic book which was distributed as a gift to members of the community. He has worked on commissioned projects by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (''Braddock/Sewickley'', 2012)<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The Guardian | title=Picture of the week: Mark Neville 'Woodland Hills High School Prom'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/09/picture-of-week-woodland-hills-high-school-prom}}</ref> and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute (''Fancy Pictures'', 2008). His work ''Deeds Not Words'',<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|title= My best photograph: 'Mark Neville: Corby Carnival Queens'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/14/mark-neville-best-photograph-corby}}</ref> which addresses the Corby community involved in the toxic waste disposal court case,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Independent |title=Exhibition sheds new light on Corby toxic waste scandal that left 16 children with birth defects|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/exhibition-sheds-new-light-on-corby-toxic-waste-scandal-that-left-16-children-with-birth-defects-8750182.html}}</ref> exhibited in 2013 at The Photographers' Gallery in London.<ref>{{cite press release|publisher=The Photographers Gallery London|title=Mark Neville 'Deeds Not Words'|url=http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/mark-neville-deeds-not-words|access-date=3 October 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006120806/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/mark-neville-deeds-not-words|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=David Campany on 'Deeds not Words'|url=http://davidcampany.com/mark-neville-deeds-no-words | first = David | last = Campany | authorlink = David Campany}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Shaw|first1=Anny|title=Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Imperial-War-Museum-reopens-in-London-after-m-revamp/33301|accessdate=12 October 2014|newspaper=The Art Newspaper|date=16 July 2014}}</ref> Neville created a small body of work based on two 1-month residencies with the British Army in the Afghan province of Helmand as the UK's official war artist in 2010/11.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Apollo Magazine|url=http://www.apollo-magazine.com/review-mark-nevilles-helmand-work-iwm-london/|title= Review: Mark Neville's Helmand Work at the IWM London|date=13 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The art of war|first=Susan|last=Mansfield|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=23 September 2011|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-29710405.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328134547/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-29710405.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 March 2015}}</ref> Part of ''The Helmand Work'' showed at London's Imperial War Museum's Contemporary Art Gallery during its relaunch in Summer 2014.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Contemporary Art Gallery: Mark Neville|publisher=Imperial War Museum|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/press-release/IWM%20Contemporary%20Mark%20Neville_0.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|journal=Wall Street International|url=http://wsimag.com/art/9434-mark-neville|title=Mark Neville: 19 Jul–25 Sep 2014 at Imperial War Museums, London|date=28 May 2014}}</ref> Neville claimed to have suffered from and was eventually treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder upon his return from Helmand, and this experience also resulted in ''The Battle Against Stigma Book Project''. A selection of emails and prints from the book was included in the touring group exhibition ''With Different Eyes – The Portrait in Contemporary Photography'' which opened at Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur and Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2016, and in Neville’s solo show ''Battle Against Stigma'' at QUAD in Derby, England in 2018.
In 2012 ''The New York Times Magazine'' commissioned Neville to make the photo essay ''Here is London'',<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-30|title=Here Is London|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/01/magazine/mark-neville-london.html|website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref> which examined wealth inequality in the capital, and which they subsequently nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2016 Steidl published the first commercially available book on Neville's activist book practice. ''Fancy Pictures'' includes work from six of Neville's projects with an interview between David Campany and Neville and was shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards PhotoBook of the Year.<ref name="bjp-smyth-2017">{{cite web|access-date=2021-08-31|title=In Paris: 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards|url=https://www.1854.photography/2017/11/2017parisaperturebooks/|website=www.1854.photography}}</ref>
Neville’s 2017 project ''Child’s Play'' continued his investigation into mental health issues by examining the importance of play in personal development. Neville’s project made a link between the closures of adventure playgrounds in Britain’s urban areas and a drastic rise in cases of depression and anxiety among young people and children. Neville feels that taking and exhibiting photographs is not enough in these instances, the images have to be shared in a way that actually makes a difference.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Judah |first=Hettie |date=2017-01-31 |title=Hoops, wheels and moose-heads: playtime in the world's most inhospitable places |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/31/childs-play-photography-mark-neville-interview |access-date=2025-09-30 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
Begun June 2016 on the day Britain voted to leave the European Union Neville's ''Parade'' book project was commissioned by GwinZegal Centre of Art, in the town of Guingamp, France. Disgusted by the outcome of the Brexit vote, Neville decided to examine what community meant in Brittany ('Little Britain’), as a mirror to his own native country.
For many years, Neville lived and worked in London. In October 2020, he moved to Kyiv in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite news |author=Zoe Whitfield |url=https://www.vice.com/de/article/fotos-aus-der-ukraine-wie-sie-die-nachrichten-nicht-zeigen-russland-krieg/ |title=Fotos aus der Ukraine, wie sie die Nachrichten nicht zeigen |publisher=vice.com |date=2022-02-09 |lang=de |access-date=May 23, 2022}}</ref>
==Awards== * 2013: Nominated, Pulitzer Prize, by ''The New York Times Magazine'' for his photo essay ''Here Is London''<ref>{{Cite web| title=IWM Contemporary: part of major IWM London relaunch | url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/press-release/IWM%20Contemporary%20Mark%20Neville_0.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072255/http://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/press-release/IWM%20Contemporary%20Mark%20Neville_0.pdf | archive-date=2014-10-06}}</ref> * 2017: Shortlisted, PhotoBook of the Year, Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, for his book ''Fancy Pictures''<ref name="bjp-smyth-2017"/> * 2018: Shortlisted, Daiwa Foundation Art Prize along with Kate Groobey and Keith Milow<ref name="dsjf17">{{cite web| url=http://dajf.org.uk/news/daiwa-foundation-art-prize-2018-short-list-announced | date=23 October 2017 | title=Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018: short list announced! | publisher=Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation | accessdate=8 June 2018 }}</ref> * 2019: Nominated, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, London for his book ''Parade;'' also exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery, London. The other nominations were Clare Strand, Mohamed Bourouissa and Anton Kusters.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-11-12|title=Shortlist announced for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/11/deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-2020/|date=5 November 2019|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O’Hagan|accessdate=2019-11-12|title=French dogs and death camp skies reach Deutsche Börse photography prize final|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/05/deutsche-borse-photography-prize-mohamed-bourouissa-anton-kusters-mark-neville-clare-strand|newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 November 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''Port Glasgow.'' Self-published, 2004. Edition of 8000 copies.<ref group="n">[http://www.markneville.com/#/the-port-glasgow-book-project Neville's page about ''Port Glasgow'']</ref> * ''Deeds Not words.'' Self-published, 2011. Edition of 500 copies.<ref group="n">[http://www.markneville.com/#/deeds-not-words Neville's page about ''Deeds Not Words'']</ref> * ''London/Pittsburgh.'' London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0957508576}}. * ''Battle Against Stigma.'' Self-published, 2015. Two volumes; one volume has photographs by Neville and text by Neville and Jamie Hacker Hughes, the other volume contains written testimonies from various soldiers. {{OCLC|918969112}}.<ref group="n">[http://www.markneville.com/#/battle-against-stigma Neville's page about ''Battle against Stigma'']</ref> * ''Child's Play.'' London: Foundling Museum, 2017. {{OCLC|1156951143}}. Edition of 500 copies.<ref group="n">[http://www.markneville.com/#/childs-play Neville's page about ''Child's Play'']</ref> * ''Fancy Pictures.'' Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-86930-908-8}}. Includes work from six of Neville's projects. With an interview between David Campany and Neville, "Fancy Pictures".<ref group="n">[https://steidl.de/Books/Fancy-Pictures-0816264455.html Steidl's page about ''Fancy Pictures'']</ref> * ''Parade.'' Guingamp, France: GwinZegal, 2019. {{ISBN|979-10-94060-25-4}}.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/after-the-brexit-vote-mark-neville-looks-at-life-in-little-britain|title=After the Brexit Vote, Mark Neville Looks at Life in "Little Britain"|date=27 July 2019|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2019/06/27/guingamp-dans-l-objectif-amuse-d-un-britannique_5482137_4500055.html|title=Guingamp dans l'objectif amusé d'un Britannique|date=27 June 2019|website=Le Monde}}</ref><ref>"[https://next.liberation.fr/arts/2019/05/10/a-guingamp-l-echappee-du-penitencier_1726235 À Guingamp, «l’Echappée» du pénitencier]." ''Libération'', 10 May 2019.</ref><ref group="n">[http://www.markneville.com/#/parade Neville's page about ''Parade'']</ref><ref group="n">[https://gwinzegal.com/editions/parade-de-mark-neville GwinZegal's page about ''Parade'']</ref> * ''Stop Tanks with Books.'' Nazraeli, 2022. {{ISBN|978-1-59005-564-9}}. Photographs by Neville and short stories by Lyuba Yakimchuk. Edited by David Campany.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/mar/11/ukraine-stop-tanks-with-books-in-pictures | title=Ukraine: Stop Tanks with Books – in pictures | newspaper=The Guardian | date=11 March 2022 | last1=Neville | first1=Mark }}</ref><ref group="n">[http://www.markneville.com/#/stoptankswithbooks Neville's page about ''Stop Tanks with Books'']</ref><ref group="n">[https://www.nazraeli.com/complete-catalogue/mark-neville-stop-tanks-with-books Nazraeli's page about ''Stop Tanks with Books'']</ref>
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==Further reading== * {{Cite news |last= Moira |title= Throwing himself into it Three odd films by one artist are as funny as they are sad, finds Moira Jeffrey |newspaper= The Herald (Glasgow) |via=HighBeam Research |accessdate= October 12, 2014 |date= May 4, 2006 |first= Jeffrey |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23625531.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150328143655/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23625531.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 28, 2015 }} * {{Cite news |last= Moira |title= Land of Confusion The new show at Mount Stuart has invited the locals in, but what does it leave them with, asks Moira Jeffrey |newspaper= Scotland on Sunday |via=HighBeam Research |accessdate= October 12, 2014 |date= June 1, 2008 |first= Jeffrey |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-16486445.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150328143649/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-16486445.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 28, 2015 }} * {{Cite news |last= Bannerman |title= Artist's photos put real people of Clydeside back in the frame; Unique project documents town for future generation |newspaper= The Herald (Glasgow) |via=HighBeam Research |accessdate= October 12, 2014 |date= November 29, 2004 |first= Lucy |url= http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23584315.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150328143648/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23584315.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= March 28, 2015}} * {{cite news|title=Art and politics - can photos of Corby change public policy?|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/mark-neville-corby-photos-pollution-toxic-birth-defect|accessdate=12 October 2014|publisher=Channel 4|date=5 September 2013}} * {{cite news|last1=Barron|first1=Joanne|title=Photog from U.K. here to document steel heritage|url=http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yoursewickley/1125277-87/neville-sewickley-pittsburgh-steel-project-industry-book-photos-area-community#axzz3FuAE7xKM|accessdate=12 October 2014|newspaper=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|date=20 April 2012}} * {{cite news|last1=MacDonald|first1=Kerri|title=Postcard From a New London|url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/postcard-from-london/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0|accessdate=12 October 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 March 2012}} * {{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Stacey|title=Pittsburgh, After the Steel Mills|url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/pittsburgh-after-the-steel-mills/|accessdate=12 October 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=25 June 2012}}
==External links== * {{Official website|www.markneville.com}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Neville, Mark}} Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of the University of Reading Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London Category:Photographers from Yorkshire Category:British war artists Category:People of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Category:Social documentary photographers Category:British documentary photographers