Bill Jackson was born in 1953 in the West Midlands somewhere near Wolverhampton. His mother, Gigiola Truferelli, came to England from Italy after the Second World War and his grandparents, Fernando Truferelli and Maria Persi-Proietti were noted artisans in Perugia. He graduated from Coventry School of Art and Birmingham University and taught photography, film and multi media in various art schools in the UK until 2005. An important part of his teaching was his work as an artist. In 1986 he moved away from film based materials to explore ideas in video and electronic media and was one of the first of the British photographers at the time to do so. That work was shown at the National Museum of Photography in Bradford in 1991, as part of a symposium on the future of photography in the digital age, hosted by Colin Ford, Zelda Cheatle and Paul Hill.

He was a founder director, along with film producer Saskia Sutton and multimedia designer, Nick Middleton, of 4cine.co.uk, an educational film website, which carried film interviews with major film makers and directors. He was also a founder director of CobaltUK.com, an internet research development company in the UK, developing applications for the film and arts organisations and was a consultant for the charity TImewitnesses.org, developing multimedia solutions for memory projects of non combatant survivors of the Second World War.

He was a founder director, (along with film producer Saskia Sutton and multimedia designer, Nick Middleton) of 4cine.co.uk, an educational film website, which carried film interviews with major film makers and directors. He was also a founder director of CobaltUK.com, an internet research development company in the UK, developing applications for the film and arts organisations and was a consultant for the charity TImewitnesses.org, developing multimedia solutions for memory projects of non combatant survivors of the Second World War.

For the last three years, Jackson has returned to still photography after a gap of 20 years. Since the return to the printed image, he has enjoyed worldwide exposure with exhibitions across major cities in the USA, Northern Ireland, Japan, Argentina, Italy and the UK. He has won several international awards for his work and was selected and hung for the Royal Academy Summer Show in 2008. He currently lives and works between London and Suffolk, where he has his print and photographic studio in a 16th C farm. From here he will run his newly founded print workshop for artists and photographers.

The texts that accompanies some of the outside work is taken from his book 'Out Of My Head' which is the land work done in 2007-2009. Three contributors were asked to comment : the writer and author, Nicholas Royle, the artist and photographer, Simon Head and the artist curator, Thomas Yeomans.