Andrew Jackson’s works negotiate explorations of selfhood, representation and narration within intimate and personal interventions, which focus on transnational migration, belonging, displacement and collective memory.

As the art historian Professor Eddie Chambers has written “British life has had the disastrous effect of immigrants not being routinely regarded as sensitive human beings, but being instead cast as vexatious problems. Jackson’s work restores humanity to people from whom this critical characteristic has been routinely withheld or withdrawn. And in restoring humanity, a thousand stories of life can be, and are, told.”

Jackson is a recipient of the month-long Light Work / Autograph ABP (AIR) International Photography Residency in Syracuse, New York and a graduate of the MA Documentary photography program at Newport in Wales. In 2018 Jackson was shortlisted for the Elliott Erwitt Fellowship and the Magnum Foundation Social Justice fellowship and in the past has been a nominee for the Prix Pictet award.

His works are held in both International and National collections of photography such as the United Kingdom Government Art Collection, the Garman Ryan Collection, Light Work Collection at Syracuse University, Rugby Museum & Art Gallery and a range of private collections.

He has undertaken written commissions most recently - In The Night Of The Day for Living Memory Project.

He is the co-founder and co-director of ReFramed a UK based organisation which creates opportunities for artists from Black, Asian and other racialised communities to engage with photography.

As a full member of Diversify Photo, is available  for commission,  and lives and works works between the UK and Canada. 

Currently in Montreal

Public Collections

United Kingdom Government Art Collection

Work from From a Small Island

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum: Permanent Collection

From a Small Island (2 works) 

The Garman Ryan permanent collection: New Art Gallery, Walsall: 

All that it was…all that it is (8 works, Digital C-Type prints 12 x 10)

National Photographic Archive; Birmingham Central Library:

When the Curtain Rises (32 works Black and white hand prints 10x8 boxed)

Echoes from the Frontlines (20 works, C-Type prints 16x12)

 All that it was…all that it is (38 works, Digital C-Type prints 12 x 10)

Cadbury Trust Archive

The Promise of the City; (36 works, Digital C-Type prints)

Autograph ABP

Portfolio box from From a Small Island

Light Works (Syracuse University)

2 x 24 x 20 prints from From a Small Island  series