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Jim Cooke
, British, b.1951
Title
Roros, Norway 1999Date2003
MediumC-type print
Dimensions
30.5 × 40.5 cm
Signedon verso, lower left: Jim Cooke
Credit LinePresented, Zelda Cheatle, 2024
Object numberNGI.2024.71.5
DescriptionEnglish-born Jim Cooke’s photographs examine the development and decline of industrial landscapes throughout Europe. He focuses on the effects of human intervention on nature, through depictions of mines, factories, docks, railways, building sites and car parks. Of this series, Jim Cooke states: “I have a long held fascination in how we mark and shape the places we inhabit and how these acts of markings join us over vast divides of time, space and culture…This work was produced as an engagement with the resonance of place and a desire to combine elements of antiquity with the banality of the everyday.” This image is part of a portfolio of 30 photographs published by Zelda Cheatle in 2003 to celebrate 15 years of exhibitions in her London gallery. The artists included in this collection reflect Cheatle’s aim to highlight the work of important twentieth century photographers while at the same time exhibiting and supporting emerging artists. The photographs range from digital prints to silver gelatin prints and cyanotypes.
Inscriptionon verso, lower left: Roros, Norway
ProvenancePresented, Zelda Cheatle, 2024Exhibition HistoryZelda Cheatle Gallery , London, 2003