Janine Wiedel

Having completed two years of an architecture degree at the University of Colorado, where there were few women enrolled on the course, Wiedel switched to studying fine art and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute as well as workshops with Ansel Adams, Nancy Newhall and Beaumont Newhall in the late 1960s.{{Cite journal|last=Lukens|first=Victoria|title=Janine Wiedel|journal=BAPLA Journal|volume=Winter 1990/91|pages=28–29}} She moved to Britain in 1970 to study photography at the Guildford School of Art from 1970 to 1973. Adams had a great influence on Wiedel's approach to photography, as did Thurston Hopkins who she studied under at the Guildford School of Art.

While in San Francisco, she photographed the Berkeley People's Park protest and riots in 1969. Her photographs contrasted idyllic scenes of community gardening with images of the police and the National Guard occupying Berkeley which emerged from Wiedel's observational style and were put into sharp relief through her editing.{{Cite web|last=Fay|first=Blue|date=10 March 2021|title=The camera as a false shield: Janine Wiedel on photographing 1969 People's Park protests|url=https://www.dailycal.org/2021/03/08/the-camera-as-a-false-shield-janine-wiedel-on-photographing-1969-peoples-park-protests/|access-date=14 March 2021|website=The Daily Californian}} Wiedel also photographed the Black Power movement in the late 1960s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.socialdocumentary.net/photographer/Janine%20Wiedel|title=Janine Wiedel – Biography|website=SDN – Social Documentary Network|access-date=17 September 2019}} The resulting photographs have been published by Café Royal Books (see below).

In 1973 Wiedel spent three weeks living with the Inuit of Pangnirtung on the East coast of Baffin Island in Canada's Northwest Territories. She subsequently published her experience and photographs in the New Humanist magazine in 1974 and the Times Educational Supplement in 1978.{{Cite news|title=Keeping up with the past|last=Wiedel|first=Janine|date=26 December 1978|work=Times Educational Supplement|page=10 & 23}}{{Cite journal|last=Wiedel|first=Janine|date=August 1974|title=White World – White Ruin|journal=New Humanist Magazine|volume=90|issue=4|pages=119–121}}

In the early 1970s she spent five years photographing Irish Travellers, resulting in the book Irish Tinkers (1976, updated in 2013 as an ibook titled Irish Tinkers: A portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970s) and an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1974. She was a photographer for the film Traveller (1997).{{citation|title=Traveller (1997)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120366/fullcredits|via=www.imdb.com}}

In 1976 Wiedel was commissioned by the publishers A & C Black (UK) and Lippincott (USA), with support from the National Iranian Oil Company, to produce a children's educational book, Looking at Iran, {{ISBN|9780397317974}}. At a time of political unrest in Iran, Wiedel photographed the lives of the people of Tehran.{{Cite web|last=Meley|first=Chloé|date=10 May 2021|title=A bustling portrait of Iran on the brink of revolution: Before the Storm|url=https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/a-bustling-portrait-of-iran-on-the-brink-of-revolution/|access-date=13 June 2021|website=Huck magazine}}

Classroom interaction was also one of her ongoing projects in the 1970s and 1980s. Wiedel was commissioned by the Times Educational Supplement,{{Cite journal|date=12 April 1991|title=Dover and Its People|journal=Times Educational Supplement|pages=30}} Penguin Education and other educational publishers. She provided the photographs for the book A Guide to Classroom Observation by Rob Walker and Clem Adelman in 1975. This book was published in eReader format in 2005.{{Cite book|last1=Walker|first1=Rob|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKuJAgAAQBAJ&q=A+guide+to+Classroom+observation&pg=PP1|title=A Guide to Classroom Observation|last2=Adelman|first2=Clem|last3=Wiedel|first3=Janine|publisher=Methuen|year=2005|isbn=0203396073}} The classroom photographs have been archived by Four Corners Archive.{{Cite web|title=Classrooms – Janine Wiedel|url=https://www.fourcornersarchive.org/archive/index?keyword=%22Classrooms+-+Janine+Wiedel|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Four Corners Archive}}

In 1977 Wiedel was the first photographer to win the West Midlands Arts major bursary. She photographed and documented the lives of people in the West Midlands.{{Cite news |last=Jeffries |first=Stuart |date=12 July 2023 |title=Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain's industrial 70s |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/12/janine-wiedel-images-of-flaming-1970s-industrial-britain |access-date=12 July 2023}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19771110/214/0008|title=An American in Aston|last=Grimley|first=Terry|date=10 November 1977|work=Birmingham Daily Post|access-date=10 October 2019|page=8}} For around two years in the late 1970s, Wiedel lived in her Volkswagen van in the Birmingham area photographing a range of people and industries, including miners, chain-makers, steel workers, jewellers and pottery workers.{{Cite journal|last=Lancaster|first=Clive|title=Viewed: Vulcan's Forge|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=126|issue=6231|pages=1258–1259}}

This resulted in an Arts Council–sponsored book Vulcan's Forge (1979) and an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1979.{{Cite journal|last=Lutkens|first=Victoria|date=September 1989|title=Profile: Janine Wiedel|journal=Photography|volume=36|pages=60–67}} A related TV programme, England their England: Camera in the Streets, was shown on ATV at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 9 May 1978{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19780509/016/0002|title=Television|date=9 May 1978|work=Birmingham Daily Post|access-date=10 October 2019|page=2}} and reviewed by Keith Brace in the Birmingham Daily Post.{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19780510/072/0004|title=Television|last=Brace|first=Keith|date=10 May 1978|work=Birmingham Daily Post|access-date=10 October 2019|page=4}} The exhibition was laid out to try to give an impression of the working conditions and the atmosphere of the area. Instead of rows of uniformly sized photographs, there were sections devoted to different industries, some special lighting and audiovisual material as well as the videotape of the ATV programme.{{Cite web|date=1979|title=Vulcan's Forge: Janine Wiedel|url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/vulcans-forge-janine-wiedel|access-date=8 March 2021|website=The Photographer's Gallery}} Vulcan's Forge was exhibited again in its entirety in 2021 at The Hive in Birmingham and reviewed by Josh Allen in Tribune.{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Josh |date=21 December 2021 |title=The West Midlands' Lost Labour |url=https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/12/photography-deindustrialisation-vulcans-forge-janine-wiedel |access-date=10 April 2022 |website=Tribune}}

Between 1977 and 1979 Wiedel and Rob Walker{{Cite web|last=Academia|title=Rob Walker|url=https://eastanglia.academia.edu/RobWalker|access-date=7 August 2020}} collaborated on a research study in a London secondary school. The project was supported by The Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE) at the University of East Anglia.{{Cite web|last=University of East Anglia|title=History of CARE|url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/education/research/care/about-care/history|access-date=7 August 2020}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The study involved photographer and researcher working closely in selected classrooms photographing, interviewing, analysing and exhibiting the results along with feedback from students and teachers. The study was published in Field Methods in the Study of Education edited by Robert G Burgess.{{Cite book|last=Burgess|first=Robert G|title=Field Methods in the Study of Education|publisher=Falmer|year=1985|isbn=9781850000129|location=London|pages=191–215}} Wiedel's photographic contributions appear in chapter 10 'Using Photographs in a Discipline of Words'.

Wiedel photographed the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp from 1983 to 1984. In the same year that US cruise missiles arrived at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, Wiedel first visited the camp, which was a centre for peace and anti-nuclear movements and also became a symbol of the women's movement. She spent the next two years photographing and interviewing the women who lived there. Her work documents the lives and resistance of the women at the camp, made up of makeshift dwellings alongside the perimeter fence of the base.

In 1989 Wiedel won the South Eastern Arts Cross Channel Photographic Award, a one-year commission to photograph the town of Dover before the completion of the Channel Tunnel.{{Cite journal|date=3 August 1989|title=From tinkers to tourists...|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=136|issue=6729|pages=4}} Her book Dover: A Port in a Storm (1991) and her solo exhibition Dover and its People: Janine Wiedel (1991) at the Dover Museum and the County Hall Gallery in Maidstone were the results. Wiedel spent a year documenting life in Dover and the changes the Channel Tunnel would bring to the people and their culture, with the series capturing two juxtaposing ways of life in the town.{{Cite web|last=Rawlings|first=Charlotte|date=13 January 2021|title=The ferries, nightclubs and seaside revelry of '80s Dover|url=https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-ferries-nightclubs-and-seaside-revelry-of-80s-dover/|access-date=8 March 2021|website=Huck}}

In 1991 she was awarded a one-year commission from the Gainsborough's House Museum to document the people of Sudbury (Suffolk). Her book on the subject, Faces with Voices, was published in 1992; and the exhibition Faces with Voices: Portraits from an English Community was shown at Gainsborough's House, and opened by Humphrey Spender in 1992.{{Cite journal|last=Harrod|first=Tanya|date=18 April 1992|title=Innocent pleasures|journal=The Spectator|volume=268|issue=8545|pages=34–35}} The exhibition then travelled with a British Council visual arts grant to the Goodnow Gallery in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1994.

Between 2001 and 2005 Wiedel documented the lives of the multicultural community in St Agnes Place, a squatted street in South London.{{Cite web|last=Social Documentary Network|title=Squatting the Street for 30 years|url=https://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Janine_Wiedel/233|access-date=23 July 2020}} In 2005 two hundred riot police evicted the occupants from 21 of the houses, leaving 150 homeless. Wiedel's photographs are a lasting record of their lives, stories and eventual eviction. Between 2002 and 2006 Wiedel photographed the Rastafarian and BAME community in London which included a food growing and food awareness programme (funded by London 21 and the Scarman Trust) in Brixton.{{Cite web|last=Social Documentary Network|title=RastaFari, a way of life|url=https://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Janine_Wiedel/250|access-date=23 July 2020}} In 2006 Wiedel co-ordinated and organised a talk, Groundation concert and multiscreen photographic presentation of the London Rastafarian community for the Profile Intermedia 9 conference The Tower of Babel at the Power House, Bremen, Germany.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

In 2016 Wiedel spent six months photographing in the Calais jungle and the Grande-Synthe refugee camp in Dunkerque, resulting in an exhibition In Transit: Life in the Refugee Camps of Northern France.

From 1968 to the present Wiedel has been documenting protest, protest movements and multicultural communities.{{Cite web|title=Janine Wiedel: Stock Photo Library|url=https://archive.wiedel-photo-library.com/index|access-date=23 July 2020}} In 1974 Wiedel established a photo library which continues to be updated. Since 2003 the collection has been in the process of digitisation. Throughout her career, she has undertaken freelance commissions and taught in universities and art & design colleges as a part-time visiting lecturer.

Wiedel's exhibition Vulcan's Forge, originally shown at The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1979, returned to the West Midlands in November 2021.{{Cite web|last=Allen|first=Josh|date=21 December 2021|title=The West Midlands' Lost Labour|url=https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/12/photography-deindustrialisation-vulcans-forge-janine-wiedel|access-date=30 January 2022|website=Tribune Magazine}} She wanted to invoke memories and revisit the images of how people worked and what their workplaces were like in the late 1970s.{{Cite web|date=9 December 2021|title=Hunt for Stoke-on-Trent industrial workers in 1970s photographs|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-59592185|access-date=30 January 2022|website=BBC News}} The exhibition was recreated at The Hive in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham from November 2021 to January 2022.{{Cite web|date=November 2021|title=Exhibition – Vulcans Forge|url=https://www.rmlt.org.uk/Event/exhibition-vulcans-forge|access-date=30 January 2022|website=The Hive: Ruskin Mill Land Trust|archive-date=30 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130164452/https://www.rmlt.org.uk/Event/exhibition-vulcans-forge|url-status=dead}} This follow-up project included an appeal on local news to the people of Stoke-on-Trent to help find those who appeared in the photographs.{{Cite web|last=Blackman|first=Lee|title=Hunt for industrial workers in Stoke-on-Trent photos|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b8s89w|access-date=30 January 2022|website=BBC Sounds}} As a result, Birmingham author Andy Conway was reunited with Wiedel who had photographed him as a schoolboy waiting at a factory gate 45 years previously.{{Cite web|last=Conway|first=Andy|date=17 November 2021|title=The Photographer, the Forge and the Schoolboy (reunited after 45 Years)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecmt6jEgkc|access-date=30 January 2022|website=YouTube (GB)}}

In 2024 Wiedel republished her book Vulcans Forge, Industries of the West Midlands 1977-1979, in a large format with Bluecoat Press, incorporating a foreword by photographer Josh Allen.{{Cite news |last=Jeffries |first=Stuart |date=12 July 2023 |title=Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain's industrial 70s |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/12/janine-wiedel-images-of-flaming-1970s-industrial-britain |access-date=7 October 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

• Looking at Iran written and photographed by Wiedel. UK: A & C Black, 1976. {{ISBN|071361806X}}. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1976. {{ISBN|9780397317974}}.
• Irish Tinkers. UK: Latimer, 1976. {{ISBN|9780901539403}}. New York: St. Martin's, 1976, 1978. {{ISBN|978-0312436278}}. With a foreword and transcripts by Martina O'Fearadhaigh. Hardback.
• London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1979. Softback.
• Documentary-Photos, 2013. iBook for iPad and iPhone.
• Vulcan's Forge, London: Archetype Visual Studies, 1979. {{OCLC|78400929}}. With a foreword by Sue Davis. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, London; Associated Television (ATV) Centre, Birmingham; and Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery (now known as the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery).
• Dover, a Port in a Storm: Twentieth Century Lives in an English Town. Cross Channel Photographic Mission, 1991. {{ISBN|9780951742709}}.
• Faces with Voices. Plymouth: Images, 1992. {{ISBN|9780948134333}}. Text by June Freeman and photographs by Wiedel. With a foreword by Ronald Blythe.
• Vulcans Forge, Industries of the West Midlands 1977-1979, Bluecoat Press 2024, ISBN 9781908457813. Large format book with foreword by photographer Josh Allen.{{Cite web |last=Maher |first=Daniel Milroy |date=2024-03-25 |title=Janine Wiedel's book documents the last days of British industry |url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/janine-wiedel-vulcans-forge-photo-book/ |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=Creative Review |language=en-UK}}

• People's Park Berkeley Riots. Southport: Café Royal, 2019.{{Cite web|last=Cafe Royal Books|title=Documentary Photography International|url=https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/international|access-date=19 September 2020|website=CRB}}
• Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 1983–1984. Southport: Café Royal, 2019. Edition of 250 copies.
• Chainmaking: The Black Country, West Midlands 1977. Southport: Café Royal, 2018. Edited by Craig Atkinson. Edition of 250 copies.{{Cite web|last=Cafe Royal Books|title=British Documentary Photography|url=https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/|access-date=19 September 2020|website=CRB}}
• Coal Mining: The West Midlands 1978. Southport: Café Royal, 2018. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 250 copies.
• Black Power: Black Panthers: 1969. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Later reprinted twice.{{Cite book|title=Black power, Black Panthers, 1969|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1018382085|access-date=19 September 2020|via=WorldCat|oclc=1018382085}}
• Black Power: Black Panthers: 1970. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Second edition, 2017. Edition of 200 copies.
• Smiths' Drop Forge: Birmingham 1976. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 200 copies.{{Cite web|last=Fulleylove|first=Rebecca|date=3 June 2020|title=Café Royal Books: 15 years of documenting the UK|url=https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cafe-royal-books/|access-date=19 September 2020|website=Creative Review}}
• Iron and Steel: The West Midlands 1977. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 200 copies.{{Cite book|title=Iron and steel West Midlands 1978|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1082899852|access-date=19 September 2020|via=WorldCat|oclc=1082899852}}
• Industry, West Midlands: 1977–1979. Includes seven separate zines in a box set: Industries The West Midlands 1977–1979 (exclusive to this box set), Smiths' Drop Forge: Birmingham 1976, Iron and Steel: The West Midlands 1977, Coal Mining: The West Midlands 1978, Coal Mining: The West Midlands 1978, Chainmaking: The Black Country, West Midlands 1977,{{Cite book|title=Chainmaking : the Black Country, West Midlands, 1977|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104647440|access-date=19 September 2020|via=WorldCat|oclc=1104647440}} The Jewellery Quarter: Birmingham: 1977, and The Potteries: Stoke-on-Trent: 1978. Edition of 100 copies.{{Cite book|title=Industry, West Midlands 1977–1979|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081311641|access-date=19 September 2020|via=WorldCat|oclc=1081311641}}
• Saintes Maries Gypsy Festival Camargue 1974. Southport: Café Royal, 2020. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 250 copies.
• Iran 1976. Southport: Café Royal, 2020. Edited by Atkinson.
• Port of Dover 1989–90. Southport: Café Royal, 2020. Edited by Atkinson.
• Leisure Time Dover 1989–90. Southport: Café Royal, 2020. Edited by Atkinson.
• Arctic Summer 1973. Southport: Café Royal, 2022. Edited by Atkinson.
• High-Rise 1983: Part One. Southport: Café Royal, 2022. Edited by Atkinson.
• High-Rise 1983: Part Two. Southport: Café Royal, 2022. Edited by Atkinson.

• A Guide to Classroom Observation. London: Methuen, 1975. By Rob Walker and Clem Adelman, with photographs by Wiedel. {{ISBN|9780416812107}}.
• British Journal of Photography Annual 1981. Henry Greenwood, 1980. {{ISBN|0900414197|9780900414190}}.
• Lichtbildnisse: das Porträt in der Fotografie. Klaus Honnef, Jan Thorn Prikker, and Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1982. {{ISBN|379270661X|}} and {{ISBN|9783792706619|}}.
• Field Methods in the Study of Education. Edited by Robert G. Burgess. London: Falmer, 1985. Chapter 10: ‘Using photographs in discipline of words' by Rob Walker with photographs by Wiedel. {{ISBN|1850000123|}} and {{ISBN|9781850000129|}}.
• A Woman's Place: The Changing Picture of Women in Britain. Harmondsworth & New York, Penguin Books, 1986. By Diana Souhami with photographs by Wiedel. {{ISBN|0140086099|9780140086096}}.
• Industrial Image: British Industrial Photography 1843 to 1986. By Sue Davies and Caroline Collier with photographs by Wiedel. London, Photographers' Gallery, 1986. {{ISBN|9780907879114|}} and {{ISBN|090787911X|}}.
• British Journal of Photography Annual 1992. London: Bouverie, 1991. {{ISBN|0900414405|9780900414404}}.
• Black Country Working Women. By Clare Wightman. Wolverhampton, Light House Media Centre, 1991. {{ISBN|0951232827 |}} and {{ISBN|9780951232828|}}.
• Soundings. Maidstone, Kent: Cross Channel Photographic Mission, 1994. Edited by Jane Alison and Brigitte Lardinois. {{ISBN|9780951742754}}. With an introduction by Neal Ascherson.
• Research as Social Change, New Opportunities for Qualitative Research. Michael Schratz and Rob Walker. London: Routledge, 1995. Wiedel contributes to the chapter 'Being there: using pictures to see the invisible'. {{ISBN|0415118697|}} and {{ISBN|9780415118699|}}. eBook (2005) {{ISBN|9780203014004|}}.{{cite journal|title=Research as Social Change: New Opportunities for Qualitative Research|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203014004/chapters/10.4324/9780203014004-12|doi=10.4324/9780203014004-12|access-date=2019-09-16|website=www.taylorfrancis.com|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}{{Dead link|date=October 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Picturing Childhood: The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery. Patricia Holland. London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004. {{ISBN|1860647758|}}.{{Cite web|last=Holland|first=Patricia|title=Picturing Childhood: The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery|url=https://epdf.pub/picturing-childhood-the-myth-of-the-child-in-popular-imagery.html|access-date=22 September 2019|website=EPDF}}
• Great Brixton: A Photobook of Brixton's Greatness. The Champion Agency, 2015. {{ISBN|0993451306|}} and {{ISBN|9780993451300|}}.
• The British Life Photography Awards: Portfolio 1: The winning images from the inaugural British Life Photography Awards. The British Life Photography Awards (Contributor). London. Ilex, 2015. {{ISBN|178157264X|9781781572641}}.
• British Life Photography Awards: Portfolio 2. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, UK ed, 2016. {{ISBN|1907893881|9781907893889}}.
• British Life Photography Awards: Portfolio 3. BLPA, CLOC Ltd. 2017. Not published with an ISBN.
• Photoworks Annual, Issue 25. Brighton. Photoworks and Arts Council England. 2019. Includes a chapter by Wiedel "The London Fancy Box Company, Dover", from the series, Dover: A Port in a Storm, 1989–1990. {{ISBN|9781903796559}}
• Online booket You Can't Beat a Woman: The story of the founding of refuges. June Freeman & Ravi Thiara. 2018. A Heritage Lottery project.{{Cite web|last=Online booklet|title=You Can't Beat a Woman: The story of the founding of refuges|url=https://www.youcantbeatawoman.co.uk/booklet/|access-date=20 July 2020}}
• Coal Faces, edited by David Gilbert Wright, published by Image & Reality, 2024. {{ISBN|9781738424528}} Hardback, {{ISBN|9781738424535}} Paperback.

• Janine Wiedel, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1974.{{cite web | url = https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/sites/default/files/1971-2017_TPGExhList.pdf | access-date = 30 October 2018 | publisher = The Photographers' Gallery | title = Exhibition History, 1971–Present}} Photographs of an Inuit family on Baffin Island and of Irish travellers.{{cite web|access-date=2018-10-30|title=Design Journal – VADS: the online resource for visual arts|url=https://vads.ac.uk/diad/article.php?title=3&year=&article=d.306.30|website=VADS (organisation)}}
• Classrooms: Janine Wiedel, The Half Moon Gallery, London, 1977.{{Cite journal|last=Reed|first=David|date=6 May 1977|title=Janine Wiedel at The Half Moon Gallery|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=124|issue=6093|pages=383}}
• Classrooms: Janine Wiedel, touring exhibition by The Half Moon Photography Workshop. 1977.{{Cite web|last=Half Moon Photography Workshop|title=Classrooms|url=https://www.fourcornersarchive.org/archive/view/0003065|access-date=7 August 2020}}
• Vulcan's Forge: Face of the West Midlands by Janine Wiedel, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1979.{{cite web|title=Vulcan's Forge: Janine Wiedel|url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/vulcans-forge-janine-wiedel|access-date=25 July 2021|website=The Photographers' Gallery|df=dmy-all}}
• Vulcan's Forge: Janine Wiedel, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, 1980.
• Industries and Life in the West Midlands by Janine Wiedel, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. 1980.
• Vulcan's Forge: Janine Wiedel, ATV Centre, Birmingham, 1980.
• British Women: Janine Wiedel, Invicta Radio Station, Canterbury, 1990.{{Cite journal|date=16 August 1990|title=News|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=137|issue=6782|pages=24}}
• Dover and its People: Janine Wiedel, Dover Museum (as part of the White Cliffs Experience), Dover, 1991.{{Cite journal|date=7 March 1991|title=Pinboard|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=138|issue=6810|pages=9}}
• Dover and its People: Janine Wiedel, County Hall Gallery, Maidstone, 1991.{{Cite journal|date=17 October 1991|title=On Show|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=138|issue=6842|pages=26}}
• Faces with Voices: Portraits from an English community: Janine Wiedel, Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, 1992.{{Cite journal|date=9 April 1992|title=On Show|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=139|issue=6866|pages=29}}
• Faces with Voices: Portraits from an English community: Janine Wiedel, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, 1992/93.{{Cite journal|date=17 December 1992|title=On Show / Diary|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=139|issue=6902|pages=23}}
• Faces with Voices: Portraits from an English community: Janine Wiedel, Goodnow Gallery, Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA, 1994.
• Vulcan's Forge: Janine Wiedel, The Hive, Birmingham, 2021/22{{Cite web|last=Allen|first=Josh|date=25 November 2021|title=Vulcan's Forge Returns to the West Midlands|url=https://josh-allen.net/2021/11/25/vulcans-forge-returns-to-the-west-midlands/|access-date=30 January 2022|website=Josh Allen}}{{Cite web|last=Lamont|first=Paul|date=December 2021|title=Janine Wiedel: Vulcan's Forge Revisited|url=https://outsideleft.com/main.php?updateID=2134|access-date=30 January 2022|website=Outside Left Culture}}

• Rastafari 2006: Ras Napthali and Janine Wiedel, Rastafari Documentation Photos at the Profile Intermedia 9 Conference Tower of Babel, 2006, Bremen, GermanyConference Programme, The Tower of Babel, November 31 to December 3, 2006. Profile Intermedia Conference 9, Bremen, Germany, pages 2 and 14.
• In Transit: Life in the Refugee Camps of Northern France, Gallery 101, International Headquarters of The Salvation Army, London, 2017. With Jacky Chapman{{cite news|access-date=2018-10-30|title=How to celebrate and show support on World Refugee Day in London|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/attractions/world-refugee-day-how-to-celebrate-and-show-support-in-london-a3568926.html|newspaper=Evening Standard}} This exhibition was also shown in the following locations: Dulwich College, London, 2016; South Hampstead High School, London, 2018; The Steeple, Dundee, Scotland, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://in-transit-photos.com/|title=Calais Jungle and Grande-Synthe Dunkirk|website=In Transit – Refugees in Northern France|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• Black Country Living, Blast! Festival of Photography, Talks and Walks, Sandwell Borough, West Midlands, 2019. With John Myers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.blastphotofestival.com/|title=Blast! Festival of Photography, Talks and Walks|website=Blast Photo Festival|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• Still: Stories from the Jewellery Quarter, Iron House Gallery, Birmingham, 2019. Wiedel's photographs of the Jewellery Quarter were displayed alongside work by Andy Pilsbury and Inès Elsa Dalal.{{Cite web|last=Townscape Heritage|title=JQ on View: Janine Wiedel|url=https://th.jewelleryquarter.net/jq-on-view-janine-wiedel/|access-date=23 July 2020}}

• WIAC 1900–1975, Women's International Art Club, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1975{{Cite web|url=http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/inventories/inv_pdfo/A3299/A3299-B2-2-1-002-jpeg.pdf|title=Exhibition brochures, events and flyers by the Women's International Art Club (WIAC) Camden 1974–1985|website=Hilda and Rusty Bernstein Papers 1931–2011|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• Children Photographed, travelling Arts Council exhibition by the Children's Rights Workshop & IKON. First shown at the Shaw Theatre, Euston Road, London, 1976.{{Cite journal|last=Picton|first=Tom|date=November 1976|title=Children are beautiful, too...|url=https://www.fourcornersarchive.org/archive/view/0000004|journal=Camerawork|volume=4|pages=6–7}}
• Art for Society, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1978{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/history/exhibitions-1950-present/|title=Exhibitions 1950–Present|website=Whitechapel Gallery – History|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• Realising Design, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1978/79{{Cite web|url=https://archive.ica.art/sites/default/files/downloads/Complete%20ICA%20Exhibitions%20List%201948%20-%20Present%20-%20July%202017.pdf|title=ICA Exhibition Archive 1948–2017|website=Institute of Contemporary Arts|access-date=22 September 2019|archive-date=28 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828003121/https://archive.ica.art/sites/default/files/downloads/Complete%20ICA%20Exhibitions%20List%201948%20-%20Present%20-%20July%202017.pdf|url-status=dead}}
• A Woman's Place: The Changing Picture of Women in Britain. A British Council exhibition first shown at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1984. The exhibition subsequently toured overseas in 30 countries.{{Cite book|title=A Woman's place: The Changing Picture of Women in Britain|last=Souhami|first=Diana|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1986|isbn=9780140086096}}
• Industrial Image: British Industrial Photography 1834–1986, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1986/87{{Cite journal|last=Gross|first=Jozef|date=23 January 1987|title=VIEWED: 'Industrial Image'|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=134|issue=6598|pages=101–103}}
• Black Country Working Women. Arts Council touring exhibition first shown at the Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, 1990.{{Cite journal|last=Bailey|first=Christopher|date=Autumn 1990|title=Black Country Working Women|journal=Oral History|volume=18|issue=2|pages=75–78|jstor=40179175}}
• Resistance is Fertile: The Art of Protest, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, 2015{{Cite web|url=http://www.ovada.org.uk/resistance-is-fertile/|title=Resistance is Fertile|website=OVADA|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• British Life Photography Awards 2016, The Mall Galleries, London, 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/british-life-photography-awards-2016|title=British Life Photography Awards 2016|date=March 2016|website=Mall Galleries|access-date=22 September 2019}} Prize winner in two categories, 'Life at Work' and 'Historic Britain'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-35726733|title=British Life Photography awards|date=7 March 2016|website=BBC News – In Pictures|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• Industrial Might, Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, 19 May 2018 (part of the Reclaim Photography Festival). Wiedel showed a selection of images from Chainmaking, The Black Country, 1977.{{Cite web|url=https://reclaimphotographyfestival.org/whats-on/rpf18-janine-wiedel-industrial-might-19-may-2018-black-country-living-museum/|title=RPF18 Janine Wiedel 'Industrial Might'|date=11 May 2018|website=Reclaim Photography Festival|access-date=22 September 2019}}
• You Can't Beat a Woman: The story of the founding of refuges.{{Cite web|last=Founding Women's Refuges: a Heritage Lottery project|title=You Can't Beat a Woman|url=https://www.youcantbeatawoman.co.uk/|access-date=20 July 2020}} January 2019. The Minories, Colchester{{Cite web|last=The Minories|first=Colchester|title=You Can't Beat a Woman|url=https://www.colchester.ac.uk/event/you-cant-beat-a-woman/|access-date=20 July 2020|archive-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720144500/https://www.colchester.ac.uk/event/you-cant-beat-a-woman/|url-status=dead}} and Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green{{Cite web|last=Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green|title=You Can't Beat a Woman|url=https://www.espaciogallery.com/past-exhibitions-2019.html|access-date=20 July 2020}}
• Art Against Racism, The Movement Photography Gallery. Online exhibition. 2021.{{Cite web|title=The Movement Photography Gallery|url=https://artagainstracism.org/movement-photos/|access-date=25 July 2021|website=Art Against Racism}}
• Light Years: The Photographers' Gallery at 50, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2021/22.{{Cite web|last=Brittain|first=David|title=Light Years: The Photographers' Gallery at 50|url=https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/light-years-photographers-gallery-50|access-date=25 July 2021|website=The Photographers' Gallery}}
• War Inna Babylon: The Community's Struggle for Truths and Rights. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2021.{{Cite web|title=War Inna Babylon|url=https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/war-inna-babylon#|access-date=25 July 2021|website=Institute of Contemporary Arts}}
• Intersectional Geographies, Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, 2022. A group exhibition curated by Jacqueline Ennis Cole.{{Cite web |title=Intersectional Geographies |url=https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/exhibitions/intersectional-geographies/ |access-date=10 April 2022 |website=Martin Parr Foundation}}
• Cafe Royal Books, Documentary, Zines and Subversion, Martin Parr Foundation, Paintworks, Bristol. 14 April – 12 June 2022.{{Cite web |title=Cafe Royal Books |url=https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/exhibitions/cafe-royal-books/ |access-date=26 April 2022 |website=Martin Parr Foundation}}

• 1977: West Midlands Arts Award. One year bursary.{{Cite journal|date=18 November 1977|title=News and Notes: WMA award|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=124|issue=6121|pages=994–995}}
• 1989: Cross Channel Photographic Award, South Eastern Arts. One year commission to photograph the town of Dover before the completion of the Channel Tunnel.
• 1991: Gainsborough's House Museum. One-year commission documenting the people of Sudbury.{{Cite journal|date=2 April 1992|title=Pinboard|journal=The British Journal of Photography|volume=139|issue=6865|pages=9}}
• 2014: Commended, Historic Britain category, British Life Photography Awards, for "Smith's Drop Forge (1977)".{{Cite web|last=British Life Photography Awards|first=Historic Britain – Commended|title=Smith's Drop forge (1977)|url=https://www.blpawards.org/winners2014#&gid=1&pid=45|access-date=20 July 2020}}
• 2015: Winner, Life at Work category, British Life Photography Awards, for "Throwing and Winding, Silk Weaving, West Suffolk".{{Cite web|last=British Life Photography Awards|first=Life at Work – Winner|title=Throwing and Winding, Silk Weaving, West Suffolk|url=https://www.blpawards.org/winners2015#&gid=1&pid=7|access-date=20 July 2020}}
• 2015: Winner, Historic Britain category, British Life Photography Awards, for "Standing up against Apartheid, Trafalgar Square, London 1985".{{Cite web|last=British Life Photography Awards|first=Historic Britain – Winner|title=Standing up against Apartheid, Trafalgar Square, London 1985|url=https://www.blpawards.org/winners2015#&gid=1&pid=12|access-date=20 July 2020}}
• 2015: Highly commended, Historic Britain category, British Life Photography Awards, for "After the Queen's Silver Jubilee 1977, Resting with the Queen".{{Cite web|last=British Life Photography Awards|first=Historic Britain – Highly commended|title=After the Queen's Silver Jubilee 1977, Resting with the Queen|url=https://www.blpawards.org/winners2015#&gid=1&pid=40|access-date=20 July 2020}}
• 2016: Winner, Life at Work category, British Life Photography Awards.{{cite news|access-date=2018-08-17|title=British Life Photography awards|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-35726733|newspaper=BBC News|date=7 March 2016}}
• 2016: Winner, Historic Britain category, British Life Photography Awards.
• 2017: Winner, Historic category, British Life Photography Awards, for "Alan and fellow workers on midday break".{{cite news|access-date=2018-08-15|title=British Life Photography Awards winners document everyday experiences in the UK|url=https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/british-life-photography-awards-winners-115253|magazine=Amateur Photographer|date=12 December 2017}}{{cite web|access-date=2018-08-15|title=Winners, 2017|url=https://blpawards.org/winners2017|website=blpawards.org}}
• 2017: Commended, Life at Work category, British Life Photography Awards, for "Loom-Weaver".

• Camera in the Streets, TV documentary by Associated Television about Wiedel, 1978.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macearchive.org/films/camera-streets|title=Camera in the Streets|date=1978|website=Media Archive for Central England (MACE)|access-date=22 September 2019}} Recording held by the BFI Mediatheque archive collection, Brum & Beyond: West Midlands on Screen.{{Cite web|title=Camera in the Streets|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/all-mediatheque-films|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706080540/http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/all-mediatheque-films|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 July 2012|access-date=19 September 2020|website=BFI Mediatheque Films archive collection}}
• A series of oral history interviews with Wiedel, held between 1980 and 1990. Photographers' Gallery Recordings at the British Library, London.{{Cite web|last=Photographers' Gallery Recordings|title=Janine Wiedel|url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLLSA7010760&indx=8&recIds=BLLSA7010760&recIdxs=7&elementId=7&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=3&query=any%2Ccontains%2Cjanine+wiedel&search_scope=LSCOP-ALL&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&vl(2084770704UI0)=any&vid=BLVU1&institution=BL&tab=local_tab&vl(freeText0)=janine%20wiedel&dstmp=1600519603896|access-date=19 September 2020|website=British Library}}
• Documentary stills from the town of Shildon, Co. Durham after the closure of the railway works. Thames TV, March 3, 1986.
• BBC Radio Stoke, Hunt for industrial workers in Stoke-on-Trent photos, Lee Blackman interviews Janine Wiedel, 8 December 2021.{{Cite web|last=Blackman|first=Lee|date=8 December 2021|title=Hunt for industrial workers in Stoke-on-Trent photos|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b8s89w|access-date=30 January 2022|website=BBC Radio Stoke}}
• BBC Midlands Today, Evening News, 13 December 2021.{{Cite web|date=13 December 2021|title=Evening News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012ks5|access-date=30 January 2022|website=BBC One: Midlands Today}}
• Interview with Mark Bentley, featured in Black & White Photography Magazine, Issue 292, 2024.{{Cite journal |last=Bentley |first=Mark |date=July 2024 |title=Vulcan's Forge |url=https://www.blackandwhitephotographymag.co.uk/magazine/blackwhite-photography-issue-292/ |journal=Black & White Photography |issue=292 |pages=34–39}}

Wiedel's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Four Corners Gallery, London: 36 works (as of 12 July 2023)
• Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol: at least 21 prints from Vulcan's Forge (as of 12 July 2023){{Cite web |last=Martin Parr Foundation |title=Janine Wiedel; Vulcan's Forge |url=https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/prints/vulcans-forge/ |access-date=12 July 2023 |website=Martin Parr Foundation}}
• Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 portrait of Edward Steichen{{cite web|access-date=2018-08-15|title=Edward Steichen Archive in The Museum of Modern Art Archives|url=https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/finding-aids/steichenf|website=Museum of Modern Art}}

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• {{Official website|archive.wiedel-photo-library.com}}
• {{IMDb name|nm0927257}}
• [https://www.socialdocumentary.net/photographer/Janine%20Wiedel Janine Wiedel – Social Documentary Network]

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