Jessie Martin
Jessie Martin is an interdisciplinary geographer and photographer. She is currently developing her PhD project as a Research Assistant in the Practicing Place DFG funded graduate school at the University of Eichstätt. Her interdisciplinary practice explores relations between capital, power, politics and ecology in and across places. She looks to reimagine the practices which construct places, while investigating their historical formation and conceptualisation. Jessie previously worked as a photography lecturer at University of West London, has an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, and completed her BA in Photographic Arts from University of Westminster. Her PhD project adopts a transdisciplinary approach to investigate how capitalism practices place through the relations of fossil carbons, and specifically oil. Her research acts against the Nature/Human binary to re-articulate how the relations of nature, capital and global power function through petro-geographies and their associated spatial imaginaries.