Jessica Potter is an artist and writer who lives and works in London. Her work is concerned with the relationship between word and image involving processes of photography, writing and drawing. She is currently in the final stages of a PhD by practice in the Photography Department at the Royal College of Art, London. She gained her MA from Camberwell in 2004 and BA from Goldsmiths in 1999.

Jessica Potter’s work investigates the photograph as a site of writing through processes of description that operate between the photograph and the written word. The relationship between word and image is central to thinking about the nature of the photograph. Within this context she has developed a body of photographic work and writing that takes the form of voice recordings. The work brings together examples taken from 20th century French literature and 20th century American photography, specifically the writing of Gustave Flaubert, Alain Robbe-Grillet and George Perec and the photographic series Labor Anonymous by Walker Evans.

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