ANN-MARIE LEQUESNE
makes work which is social and collaborative. Staging events that combine elements of re-enactment
and tableau vivant, she asks participants to perform for the camera.

The Annual Group Photograph began in 1997. Each year since then LeQuesne has asked participants
(various each year) to come together solely for the purpose of posing for a group photograph. The event
has gathered a core of faithful participants as well those attracted by the particular venue. Ages of those
being photographed, to date, range from 9 days to 83 years. To follow this ongoing project and join the
mailing list go to www.theannualgroupphotograph.com

In the summer of 2005 LeQuesne will re-enact a medieval illumination in Mongolia.

Other recent projects include:

Wave - three re-enactments of a photograph taken on the Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-16:
1) on Seskaro Island in Sweden;
2) off the Sampo icebreaker in the Gulf of Bothnia;
3) on Kemi waterfront in Finland.

Votes For Women a re-enactment of a suffragette protest, on the boating lake in Victoria Park, east London.

Shoot - a re-enactment, at Tate Britain, of a small photograph supposedly taken at the Execution of the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico in 1867.

After the fact - LeQuesne and a colleague were trained by the London Metropolitan Police in witness interview techniques.
Using this training, witnesses to Shoot were interviewed for their recollections of the event and recorded on video.