ATLANTUS

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Atlantus is a transoceanic photography project between Martin Toft and Gareth Syvret at Archisle: the Jersey Contemporary Photography Programme, hosted by the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive on the Island of Jersey. Prompted in part by the 350th anniversary in 2014 of Sir George Carteret naming of the State of New Jersey, USA after Jersey his island home in 1664, the project asks how two places that share a name on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean perceive each other within archives and cultural memory? In five stories that respond through image and text to the people, politics, landscapes, industries and identities of these places the Atlantus Project connects memories, archives and imagined lands on opposite sides of the Atlantic world through contemporary visual discourse. Atlantus is a transoceanic narrative in which estranged lands of incomparable scale come together in poetic gestures that ask: what’s in a name?

Osmond Simon in his dining room at Westways, Le Mont Rossignol, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands.5 April 2014.
Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, United States, 30 July 2014
Youths at Plemont Bay, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 29 June 2014
The Palms, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 14 August 2014
Ted Johnson, Johnson’s Farm, Stockton, New Jersey, United States, 21 August 2014
Captain’s Uniform, Martin Willing, St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands, 31 May 2014
Aircraft taking off from Jersey Airport flying west over St Ouen’s Bay, Jersey. 22 March 2014.
Daniel and Junior, Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States, 25 July 2014
Bayway Refinery, Linden and Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States, 25 July 2014
HMS Iron Duke, Corbiere, St Brelade, Jersey, 20 June, 2014.
Chapel Beach Club, Sea Bright, New Jersey, United States, 31 July 2014
Tamika Tolliver, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States, 1 August 2014
Belmar Mansion, New Jersey, United States, 4 Aug 2014
The Heenans, Stone Harbor, New Jersey, United States, 10 Aug 2014
Sister James Dolores, Villa Maria by the Sea Convent, Stone Harbor, New Jersey, United States, 13 Aug 2014.
Bryan Le Brocq, retired Herdsman, Middlewood Farm, St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands, 7 May 2014
Bryan in America in the 1960s, Middlewood Farm, St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands, 7 May 2014
Jersey Calf, Goodlands, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 27 May 2014
Linda Lee Wagner (née Harrison), Triple-Lee Jerseys, Hamlin, Pennsylvania, United States. 22 August 2014.
Karl Kukk, Horsetrainer, St Ouen Bay, Channel Islands, 5 October 2014
Black Horse, Stag Hill Road, Houvenkopf Mountain, Mahwah, New Jersey, United States, 25 August 2014
First Race Easter Monday, Jersey Race Course, Les Landes, St Ouen, Jersey. 21 April 2014.
Beach Haven, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, United States, 7 Aug 2014
Rocksteady’s 7th Birthday Liberation Party, Watersplash, Liberation Day, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 9 May 2014
The Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, 9 August 2014
Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States, 26 December 2014
Accommodation Block, Pontins Holiday Camp, Plèmont Bay, St Ouen, Jersey. 5 Feb 2015.
Taye Le Monnier, Miss Jersey Battle of Flowers 2013, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 8 April 2014
Polar Bear Plunge, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States, 1 January 2015
Justin Fearon, Gouldtown, New Jersey, United States, 16 August 2014
Sir George Carteret, St Ouen’s Manor, Jersey, Channel Islands, 7 April 2014.
Daniel J. Rieman, Mayor of the Borough of Carteret, Mayor’s Office, Carteret, New Jersey, United States, 28 July 2014
Boardwalk, Wildwood, New Jersey, United States, 10 Aug 2014
Alice De La Haye (‘Midge’), St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 17 April 2014
Laundry (farm workers accommodation), Le Rondin, St Mary, Jersey, Channel Islands, 6 April 2014
Worship, St Ouens Church, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 6 April 2014
Carteret Abattoir, Carteret, New Jersey, United States, 27 July 2014
Westside, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States, 2 August 2014
Artlantic Wonder Park, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, 8 August 2014
Saddam Hussein, National Guard Militia Museum, Sea Girt, New Jersey, United States, 4 Aug 2014
Joan and Don Syvret-Thompson, St Ouen’s Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, 10 May 2014
Vernon Le Brocq, Retired Fisherman, Grève de Lecq, St Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, 27 May 2014
Jamie Bottoms, The Lobster House, Cape May Harbor, New Jersey, United States, 11 Aug 2014
La Maison des Pres, St Ouen’s Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, 5 June, 2014
Boulder and Debris (after Superstorm Sandy), Deal, New Jersey, United States, 2 January 2015