Jessie Boylan

Jessie Boylan is a photographer and videographer based in Melbourne, Australia. She has exhibited in several solo and group shows in Australia and internationally.

Jessie was a finalist in the Spirit of Youth Awards, 2009, the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, 2007 & 2009, the Head On Alternative Portrait Awards, 2009 & 2010, and the Friends of the Earth International Photography Competition, 2009.

Jessie aims to highlight the ongoing legacy of the nuclear age, as well as the ongoing impacts of mineral exploitation, displacement, conflict, trauma and violence. Jessie also produces a weekly half hour radio segment for 3CR 855am called 'The Radioactive Show' – which covers nuclear issues in Australia and Internationally. She has also done stints in journalism, writing for the Inter Press Service in Africa and Australia. Jessie is a member of the Atomic Photographers Guild which is made up of 26 members world-wide, who aim to render visible all aspects of the nuclear age. Jessie does multimedia work for the Mineral Policy Institute, who investigate the social and environmental impacts of mining in Australia and the Pacific. Jessie is currently represented by Obscura Photos.

Jessie Boylan

Australia, 2012, 13 min, English Producer: Jessie Boylan Editor: Anthony Kelly Music: Genevieve Fry Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government performed highly secretive nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia and on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia. A total of twelve major nuclear tests were performed, and up to 700 minor 'dirty' trials were also conducted. The area was massively contaminated with radioactive materials and cleanups were attempted in 1967 and 2000. However, examinations after these cleanups found that many of these sites still remain radioactive. Shot on location at Maralinga in 2011, this short film takes the viewer through a cinemagraphic landscape of the places these bombs were exploded, as well as extracts...