Alison Jackson

Photographer

Alison Jackson is a photographer best-known for her photographs of celebrity lookalikes in controversial situations and as producer of the BBC2 series Double Take, in which celebrity lookalikes performed sketches of their doubles in compromising situations. Her work has been exhibited all over the world, including solo exhibitions at the Julie Saul gallery in New York, the Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi in Brussels, and London's Hamiltons Gallery and Richard Salmon Gallery.

Jackson was educated at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and rose to prominence in the late 1990s with her first lookalike photographs, taken from her project Mental Images. Double Take launched in 2003 and earned Jackson a BAFTA. She has since produced a number of television shows along similar lines, frequently featuring Tony Blair. She is the author of Private (2004) and Confidential (2007).