Festival Art Souterrain

After Griffintown (Robert Walker, 2019-2020) and Hochelaga (Joannie Lafrenière 2020-2023), the McCord Stewart Museum has selected Andrew Jackson for the third photographic commission in its Evolving Montreal series. The Montreal-based British-Canadian artist’s research-creation project focuses on Little Burgundy.

Andrew Jackson will explore the urban, social and cultural transformations of the neighbourhood known as the cradle of Montreal’s Black Anglophone community. He is particularly interested in the themes of family, transnational migration, displacement, trauma and collective memory.

As an artist expressing himself through documentary photography, he has an impressive track record. His work has been published in many major publications, including the L. A. Times, The Guardian and Stern magazine, and is held in prestigious collections in the UK and the USA.

Andrew Jackson is a British-Canadian photographer and artist who has worked primarily in Montreal, Canada and the UK. He is an associate lecturer at the London College of Communication, teaching in the MA Documentary & Photojournalism program and has previously served on the advisory board of the Photo Ethics Centre.His practice is developed at the intersection of photography and text and, most recently, focuses on notions of family, transnational migration, displacement, trauma and collective memory.

A landmark in the heart of Montreal for over 100 years, the McCord Stewart Museum bears witness to the history of Quebec’s metropolis as well as its influence in Canada and around the world, celebrating the vitality, creativity and diversity of the communities that make it up.

The Museum amplifies their voices by interpreting and disseminating the remarkable heritage under its custody: six expansive collections of 2.5 million images, objects, documents and works of art that make it one of North America’s leading museums.