Some of Jerome’s key Exhibitions, Community Projects, and Commissions:
Centenary Photographer in Residence, Stoke-on-Trent City Council
2025. Jerome has spent the year documenting the civic functions and community celebrations across the city of Stoke-on-Trent as it turns 100.
From formal meetings of full council, presentations to citizens, and visits of dignitaries and guests to the Lord Mayor’s Parlour, to community events, parades, concerts and festivals – all have been subject to Jerome’s lens throughout the city’s special year.
The images will help illustrate a special publication in 2026, reviewing the city in its 100th year and the impact and legacy of the centenary.
STAMP: The Queen’s Head. Tribute to artist Arnold Machin
2022. Jerome was one of a number of artists participating in Ceramic City Stories’ community led celebration of Arnold Machin’s iconic ‘profile portrait’ of Queen Elizabeth II, used on postage stamps since 1967 to the present day.
Jerome’s ‘side-selfie’ monochrome portrait photographs, and other artists’ work, were on display at Winkhill Mill, Stoke, throughout June 2022.
Back to Ours Album: Part 1. Lead Artist
October 2019, exhibition and booklet, commissioned by Back to Ours, Arts Council England Creative People and Places project.
Following 18 months of assignments documenting the delivery and impact of Back to Ours, this exhibition and booklet reflects on the diverse range of artistic projects delivered and commissioned by Back to Ours, and how the project has engaged communities in Hull.
The exhibition was presented at Artlink Gallery in Hull.
Stories from Fountain Road Estate – Lead Artist
Spring 2019, exhibition and booklet, commissioned by Absolutely Cultured.
Stories from Fountain Road Estate celebrated the lives of local people in a new and unique exhibition displayed in the heart of the community.
Working with Absolutely Cultured volunteers to interview and photograph the people and architecture of the Fountain Road Estate, Jerome captured the unique stories of 35 residents. 25 panels of portraits were mounted on the exterior walls of the former park- keeper’s hut at Waterloo Street Play Area in Hull.
150 visitors attended the opening day of the exhibition, with many dozens more coming to see the images over the course of the following week. To accompany the exhibition, 2,500 booklets were also published and distributed to visitors and residents of the estate.
HULL IS THIS – Editor
2018. Jerome established a constructive news and solutions-focused journalism platform for the city of Hull in 2018. He was the project’s freelance editor, and produced its audio interview and documentary podcasts.
HULL IS THIS (www.hullisthis.news) has influenced the news industry since its inception, and Jerome is now regularly called upon to comment upon the news industry locally, and nationally – with appearances on radio, TV, and at sector conferences and gatherings.
FEASTival People – Resident Artist, Freedom Festival Arts Trust
2018, commissioned by Freedom Festival Arts Trust.
Jerome spent the summer of 2018 visiting local food growers to examine the impact locally-produced food is having on communities in the city of Hull.
The project helped to tell the story of Freedom Festival’s ‘FEASTival’, an enormous community meal of locally grown food, shared by 1,500 people, prepared by dozens of volunteers. FEASTival’s creative partner was Artlink, and delivery partner was Timebank Hull & East Riding.
The FEASTival People project comprised audio interviews published as podcasts on social media, and a booklet of portraits of people which was gifted to visitors to the festival.
ADVENT People
December 2017. As Hull’s year in the limelight as the UK City of Culture came to an end, Jerome gathered together a portfolio of the city’s movers and shakers to reflect on what the year had achieved – and more importantly, to look ahead towards the city’s immediate future.
Advent People portraits and quotes were shared across social media channels each day in December 2017, and picked up by local news and media.
Off The Shelf – Encounters between photographer Jerome Whittingham and Hull Library Services
2017. An installation of photographs, commissioned by Hull Library Services and the James Reckitt Library Trust.
Looking back over recent years this playful installation documented Hull Library Service’s support for the arts in the city of Hull – from Jerome’s perspective.
Comprising over 200 images by the photographer, from many events, including: Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Heads Up Festival, The Big Malarkey, Untold Hull, and more.
The images were presented as an installation constructed from over 200 cardboard boxes, printed by Garthwest Ltd – Hull’s globally renowned packaging company.
The installation was on display in Hull’s Central Library and cafe between September and December 2017, and is currently forming smaller installations in libraries across the city.
Contemporary Voices – Africans in Hull and East Yorkshire. Lead Artist
2016/17, Untold Hull, Hull City Library Service & William Wilberforce Monument Fund. Contributing to a wider Heritage Lottery Fund project.
Audio recorded oral histories, accompanied by photo portraits, of 30 people of African descent, with connections to Hull and the East Riding up to 2007.
The stories reflect aspects of participants’ lives relating to their origins and their more recent experiences within the region. The portraits and podcasts were presented in an exhibition at The History Centre, Hull, October 2017.
www.africansinyorkshireproject.com
HumberHelp – tackling homelessness in Hull and the East Riding. Editor & Project Lead
2014-2019, Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, HullHARP, East Riding Voluntary Action Services, Humbercare Ltd.
Humber Help project aims to help co-ordinate information-sharing between all those whose lives are affected by the chaos of homelessness and the wide variety of local organisations that provide services of support to those in need. The project mission is to improve the communication of homelessness services and issues on three levels:
• making those caught in homelessness more aware of the services and support available to them, providing daily information of help that is immediately available.
• helping organisations, also, to have a greater understanding of the variety and extent of services available to the people they’re supporting, enabling them to direct clients to additional support, and encouraging partnership-working to the benefit of all.
• helping the public to have a deeper understanding of all issues around homelessness, providing opportunities for volunteering, and encouraging development of more informed responses to the issues.
Dementia – voice and influence. Lead Artist
2015, Hull NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, Health and Wellbeing Fund.
Co-ordinating and delivering a range of digital media workshops and support, giving participants at Butterflies Memory Loss Support Group a voice to influence policy around dementia in Hull. Participatory workshops including photography, animation, sound recording, and graphic design.
Moved – stories of poignant artistic experiences. Project Lead
2015, Untold Stories, Hull City Library Service and Roots & Wings.
Audio interviews and photo portraits.
Most people can pinpoint one experience of art – a piece of music, an image, a film, a fashion statement – that impacted upon their life, made them stop in their tracks and consider their situation. Art has an influence upon our lives, moving us, changing us, forming our identity, shaping the culture of our communities. This project explores art’s impact upon individuals in Hull, adding to the current conversation in the city about the value of the arts to our communities, and revealing untold stories of how art has moved those who, in turn, influence the city.
Portraits and podcasts published via a bespoke website, designed by Jerome:
www.moved.photomoments.me.uk
Butterflies and Battlefields – conflict with dementia in the home. Project Lead
2014, Special Commission – Humber Mouth Literature Festival.
Ebook, photography and verbatim text, with Dave Windass contributor.
Public awareness of dementia is ever-growing, few people have not witnessed at least something of its effects. Yet, general understanding of dementia’s impact upon families is poor. Stories of households’ conflict with this illness are going untold.
Butterflies and Battlefields aims to illustrate, in a very accessible way, ‘What’s happening?’ as families respond to the conflict of dementia.
The ebook for this project has been downloaded over 3,000 times, and was available from the website:
www.butterflies-and-battlefields.co.uk
Behind Walls – exhibition of artwork from HMP Hull. Curator
March/April 2013, HMP Hull and City Life Church & Project.
Exhibition, over 50 pieces of art, including paintings, line drawings, models, and projected images. The first time that art produced by prisoners at HMP Hull had been curated and put on public display.
Buzz Media – youth media project and studio. Director
2009-2011, alternative education provision, and education enrichment for schools and youth training organisations in Hull.
Buzz Media was established to engage young people, aged 14 to 18, in media activities exploring many issues relevant to young people, including: health, sexuality, employability, politics, gender, and more.
The project ran a bespoke photographic studio, and was one of the few non-school projects to be an authorised delivery partner of ‘Smart Moves’, the then alternative education provider for the local authority.
The project provided education for up to 15 14-16 year olds each day, those that were at risk of exclusion from school, or who had circumstances which prevented their attendance in mainstream education.
Buzz Media all delivered much enrichment work to supplement the provision of training to young people not in education, employment or training (‘NEETs’) for a number of youth organisations in the city.
Buzz Media employed one youth worker directly, provided an apprenticeship placement, and worked in partnership with Hull City Council’s Youth Development Service.
Young Roots Heritage Project – exploring the heritage of East Park, Hull. Lead Artist
2008-2009, Hull City Council Youth Development Service, Heritage Lottery Fund.
This project engaged young people to learn about the history of Hull’s East Park. Supported by Hull City Council’s Youth Development Service and community media practitioner Jerome Whittingham (and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund), young people gathered people’s memories of East Park – using photography, sound recorded interviews and video, at weekly workshops for over a year.
A film and exhibition was installed in the education room in the pavilion, East Park Hull, for permanent display to park visitors.