They say we are “daring, adventurous and militant.”
We believe in the power of mass communication and are inspired by new modes of storytelling. We create work that exists at the limits of art, technology and act
JAPC was founded by award winning artists Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke and was forged out of the radical guerilla spirit of Just Another Photo Festival, a photography, film and new media festival that democratises visual media by bringing it back to the world itself and forging new audiences.
Our projects have helped change laws and create positive impact. We have done this through our partnerships with organisations such as WaterAid on their To Be A Girl campaign, which raised £2 million providing 130,000 girls with reusable sanitary kits and build toilets; with ActionAid on the campaign #MyBodyIsMine; and with the eco-feminist project Sisters of the Moon, which raised £5.6 million as part of WaterAid’s Thirst for Knowledge campaign.
We constantly evolve, looking for ways to reach new audiences and ways to create lasting impact through our work and the stories we tell.
We believe that Tarkovsky put it best when he said, “The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth.”
Our films have been have been screened internationally, including: selected nominee in-competition Festival de Cannes, SXSW, CPH:Dox. Selected Winner Special Jury Prize at Tribeca Festival, Selected Winner Viborg Film Festival Anidox VR and, Selected Winner European XR Awards. Selected Winner, Best Experimental – Aesthetica Film Festival 2022 (Fireflies).
Our work is held in several public collections:
Victoria & Albert Museum (UK)
Museum of Modern Art Library - Special Collections (USA)
Harvard Art Museums (USA)
Autograph ABP (UK)
Martin Parr Foundation (UK)
Rencontres d'Arles (France)
Olympic Museum (Switzerland)
WORK
FILM / TIME BASED MEDIA ART / IMMERSIVE
BAFTA Breathrough 2024 UK (JAPC C—Founder & Director Poulomi Basu)
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, Sélection Officelle, Immersive Compeition, Festival de Cannes, 2024
Blood Speaks: Period, Power, Protest – Kunsthal Charlottenborg x CPH:Dox, Copenhagen March 2024 Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, SXSW World Premiere - In Compeition, March 2024
Maya: The Birth, Special Jury Mention Award, New Voices Immersive Competition, Tribeca Film Festival, USA 2023
Shortlisted, BFIxCHANEL Filmmaker Awards 2023
Maya: The Birth, UN Women, Games for Change, UN HQ New York (USA) July 2023
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, Meta x Women in Immersive Grant 2022
Fireflies, Winner, Best Experimental, Aesthetica Film Festival, UK 2022
Moon Palace, Unseen/Unbound, Amsterdam 2022
Centralia: Ghost Dance, The Photographers’ Gallery, Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, Official Selection, Production Bridge, 78th La Biennale Cinema Venice 2021
Blood Speaks, Selected Sundance New Frontiers Lab Fellowship 2017
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, Digital Catapult/UK Arts Council, Creative XR Grant 2020 & 2021
Blood Speaks, SXSW 2019.
Blood Speaks, Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Natural History Museum, New York, USA, Oct 2018
Blood Speaks, Nominee: Sheffield Doc Fest Alternate Realities Commission Award 2018
Blood Speaks, Selected: Sheffield Doc Fest Alternate Realities Meet Market 2018
Blood Speaks, Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF), Nepal 2018
BOOKS
Centralia by Poulomi Basu, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2020
Magic Party Place by CJ Clarke, Kehrer Verlag, 2016
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Fireflies, SEX NOW, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Sept 2025- May 2026 (group) Phantasmagoria, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Oct 2025- Feb 2026 (solo)
Always Coming Home, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Oct 2025-Jan 2026 (solo)
Centralia, Collection Display, Victoria & Albert Museum, June 2024-
Sisters of the Moon, South London Gallery, March-June 2024 (group)
Olympism Made Visible, National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, Oct 2023 (group)
Centralia, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Paris Photo, Nov 2023
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sept 2023 (solo)
Fireflies, East Gallery, Norwich, Oct-Nov 2023 (solo)
Centralia, Barbican, Oct 2023 - Jan 2024 (group)
Fireflies, Autograph ABP March-June 2022 (solo)
Eruptions, Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Oct 2021- Feb 2022 (solo)
Centralia, Porto Biennale, Portgual 2021
Centralia, TJ Boulting Booth, Photo London Fair, September 2021(solo)
Centralia, The Photographers’ Gallery, Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 (solo)
Centralia Deutsche Boerse Foundation HQ, June - September 2021
Centralia, Photo Works, Festival in a Box, Sept-Oct 2020
Centralia, Paris Photo 2020
Centralia, Rencontres Arles 2020
BIRTH, TJ Boulting, London Oct-Nov 2019
Who is Looking at the Family Now?, Mothers of ISIS, London Art Fair, UK, Jan 2019
Centralia, Getxo Photo, 2018
Blood Speaks, Cortona on the Move, Italy, July-Sept 2018