Chalk is Williams’ second self-published zine featuring the landscape of the Kent and East Sussex coasts. It includes images from her black and white photography series, Disrupted Landscapes (2020-2024), essays from writers Diane Smyth and Jane Madsen, and research images for her film, Chalk, produced in 2021.
The series Disrupted Landscapes distorts and displaces images of the white cliffs of Dover and its politicised coastal landscape to suggest the fracturing of the idealisation of the English landscape and the increasingly hostile environment of a country divided by class, geography, and wealth in the post-Brexit age. As Jane Madsen writes, this ‘landscape facing out towards Europe has long fed a nationalist agenda, the chalk cliffs ‘mythologised as symbols of whiteness in an idealised Albion’.
The images in the book include documentary photographs and altered and collaged landscape images. Political narratives combine with the geology of the coastal chalk landscape, creating pathways of dislocation and disruption.

24 pp / 297 x 210mm
Staple Bound
300gsm silk cover with matt laminate
170gsm uncoated
Edition of 100

BIO

Mandy Williams works with photography and video. She studied History of Art at Warwick University and Communications (Film) at Goldsmith’s College, London. She completed a MA in Photography at the UAL London College of Communication.

She has shown her work in the UK and overseas. Exhibitions include Print Now at London Art Fair, Resonance Open at Raven Row, Disrupted Landscapes at Four Corners, London and Photo Fringe 2024, and Earth Photo 2024 at Royal Geographical Society. Her videos have been selected for many film festivals, winning Best Experimental Short in 2021 and Best Director, Documentary Short Film in 2024.

Since 2016 her projects have focused on English coastal landscapes. Landscapes aren’t passive backdrops; she is interested in using them metaphorically. They have become a place for her to explore themes of solitude and grief, and to reflect on contemporary politics and environmental issues.

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