British visual artist Alan Eglinton tells his own story through his cross-disciplinary projects. His emigration to France at an early age, his wedding proposal to his South Korean partner or becoming a father are a few examples. His photographs and texts are very often of a poetic nature. However, he knows the risks of sentimental effusion and adds a pinch of sarcasm or self-mockery when he sees fit.
Starting from Super Limousin, an early schoolbook in which he learnt French through the juxtaposition of words and cut-out catalogue photos, the interplay of both mediums runs throughout his practice. He explores the way photographs and words may amplify and expand each other, create graphic shifts in a sequence and, ideally, contribute to an active reading of the work.
When taking photos, he responds spontaneously to scenes or states of lighting amidst the flow of the everyday. A strange gravity may lie behind pictures of an apparent serenity.
The photobook is one of the central mediums in Alan’s creative output. He explores the photobook’s narrative possibilities by means of his collaboration with international publishers and through the workshops he runs.
Alan has been managing the Same Dust publishing imprint and photobook store in Seoul since 2021.

Personal contact
alan@alaneglinton.com

Awards
Only the fires say, nominated for the Unveil’d Photobook Award, London, UK, 2018
Poems, shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Book Award, LE BAL, Paris, FR, 2012

Solo exhibitions
Only the fires say, Galerie Madé/PhotoSaintGermain, Paris, FR, November 2018
Only the fires say, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, January 2018
Poems with England, Galerie Hasy, Le Pouliguen, FR, March-May 2015

Group exhibitions
No Subtitles, Gallery The C, Seoul, KR, September 2023
Say, Kyungbuk National University Art Museum, Daegu, KR, July-September 2023
Réminiscences, Valimage, Beaugency, FR, July-September 2020
The Artist’s Pencil, Curator’s Atelier 49, Seoul, KR, November-December 2020
Photography Through Books, Y Art Gallery, Seoul, KR, July-August 2020
Ardelim, Beaugency, FR, spring 2020
Quinze Étés Reliefs, Hôtel de Région, Marseille, FR, October-November 2019
Books of Light, Datz Press, Seoul, KR, July-September 2019
Quinze Étés au Sud, Galerie Arena, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, FR, July-September 2019
Yes, No, Maybe, Extraordinary Project/Photoville, New York, USA, September 2018
Yes, No, Maybe, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, FR, June 2018
Momentum, Minimum Studio, Palermo, IT, May 2018
Poems, f/stop Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig, DE, June 2012
Poems, Kassel Dummy Award, LE BAL, Paris, FR, April 2012
BÄZÄR, Le Magasin de Jouets, Arles, FR, July 2012
Photofora, Beaugency, FR, September-October 2011
Hypotheses and Drifting, With or Without Photographs, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR, January-March 2011

Collections
Only the fires say & Poems, Edinburgh College of Art Library, Edinburgh, UK, January 2020
Only the fires say & Poems, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, UK, January 2020
Poems, New York Public Library, New York, USA, September 2019
Only the fires say, The Library Project, Dublin, IE, spring 2018

Books
Super Limousin, Same Dust, October 2023
Poems, Datz Press, KR, autumn 2019
Only the fires say, Poursuite Editions, FR, spring 2018

Residencies
Palbok Arts Factory, Jeonju, KR, August-October 2023
Collège Franco-Britannique, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, FR, 2016
Valimage Photography Residency, Beaugency, FR, 2011
Treasure Hill Artists Village, Taipei, TW, April-August 2011
Münzstraße 10, Berlin, DE, December 2006

Publications
Litmus Story #4, Martianstory, Daegu, KR, August 2022
Interview with Nick Waplington, Stud, photobook by Aurélien Mole & Aurélie Jacquet, Paris, FR, September 2019
Artist Feature, Der Greif, München, DE, August 2019
Interview with Richard Ingleby, Studies in Photography magazine, Edinburgh, UK, summer 2018
Turning Point, fLIP Magazine, London, UK, July 2017
Super Limousin, Le Tigre Magazine, Paris, FR, September 2014

Talks
Poems, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, UK, December 2019
On Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood, Edinburgh College of Art Book Fair, Edinburgh, UK, March 2019
Only the fires say, Y Art Gallery, Seoul, KR, February 2019
Only the fires say, IRASUN, Seoul, KR, April 2018

Teaching/Workshops
Lecturer in photography, Forth Valley College, Stirling, UK, ongoing
Cyanotype workshops, Alliance Française de Glasgow, UK, ongoing
Edinburgh Photobook Club, various cultural venues, Edinburgh, UK, ongoing
Glasgow Photobook Club, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK, ongoing
Cameraless photography workshop, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, FR, spring 2016
Photogram workshop, Some Institute for Picturebooks, Seoul, KR, summer 2015

Education
MFA in Photography, French National School of Photography, Arles, FR, 2006
Masters degree in Film Studies, essay on the films and photography of Raymond Depardon, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, FR, 2003