Marc Atkins

His publications include The Teratologists, Thirteen, Warszawa, Faces of Mathematics and The Logic of the Stairwell.

• Name — Marc Atkins

Atkins attended Stafford College of Art and Design, where he gained a distinction, and Cheltenham School of Art, where he received a first class honours degree in sculpture. He undertook postgraduate studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands, in performance, video, film and photography. He later moved to Rome, returning to London in 1991. From 1993 to 1994, he was assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Canada.

Atkins has published three collections of prose and poetry: The Prism Walls, The Logic of the Stairwell and Silent Street.

• 2018: Equivocal Form, Ambiguous Function: Drawings and Photo-Drawings, Velorose, London. • 2015: Marc Atkins, a retrospective exhibition at Galerie Wittert, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium. • 2001: The Teratologists, Standpoint Gallery, London. • 2001: Atopos, former Poznański textile factory, Łódź, Poland. • 2000: Marc Atkins, Foundry, London. • 1999: Liquid City, 291 Gallery, London. • 1994: Footfalls Echo in the Memory, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City. • 1992: South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, London.

Atkins' image and text collaborations include projects with the writers Iain Sinclair and Rod Mengham. His photographs appeared in Sinclair's Lights Out for the Territory (1997), a book on London walking, memory and urban history. Reviewing the book in The Times, Peter Ackroyd wrote that "the mysterious photographs of Marc Atkins complete the process". Atkins and Sinclair later published Liquid City (1999), a book combining Atkins' photographs with Sinclair's writing. Reviewing the book in The Observer, Stephanie Merritt wrote that it "reverses the balance" of the earlier partnership by "foregrounding Atkins's photographs". In The Times Literary Supplement, Anthony Rudolf wrote that the photographs in Liquid City could stand on their own without the text, while also describing the work of Atkins and Sinclair as an interaction between two "great jazz soloists". Atkins' image and text practice has also been discussed in relation to poetry and photography. Drew Milne's essay "Corners of the Eye: Collaborations in Contemporary Poetry and Photography", published in Works on Paper in 2002, discussed Atkins' work with Sinclair and Rod Mengham within wider image and text practices. The collaboration was also discussed in architectural criticism. In AA Files, William Firebrace reviewed Liquid City alongside Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Space, considering both works in relation to London, authorship and urban representation.

• The Prism Walls. Contraband Books.. • Still Moving, photography with poetry by Rod Mengham (Veer Books) • The Logic of the Stairwell, prose and poetry (Shearsman Books) • Silent Street, prose poetry (Shearsman Books) • The Teratologists, photography (panoptika) • Liquid City, photography with text by Iain Sinclair (Reaktion Books) • Thirteen, photography with text by thirteen writers, including Julian Rathbone, Bill Drummond, James Sallis, Mick Farren, Stella Duffy and Nicholas Royle (The Do-Not Press) • Warszawa, photography with poetry by Tadeusz Pióro and Andrzej Sosnowski (WIG Press). • The World's Top Photographers: Nudes, also includes the work of Guy Bourdin, Bettina Rheims, Robert Mapplethorpe and Rankin (RotoVision) • The Nude, also includes the work of Bill Brandt and Ralph Gibson (RotoVision) • Faces of Mathematics, solo photography with introductions by Nick Gilbert, and also with text by the participants, including Michael Atiyah (panoptika)

Several of Atkins' works are in the Tate collection. The National Portrait Gallery, London holds 11 photographic portraits by Atkins.