How confident do you feel with caring for your photographs at home? Join artist and archivist Cassia Clarke in an insightful workshop exploring how to care for your personal photographic archives.
Taking the lead from Clarke's debut publication Preserving the Familial Archive you will be introduced to a method of caring for your physical photographs and the materials required to do so.
The workshop will be split into three themes...
Emotional: A discussion-based activity using your selected photograph from your personal photographic archive, you will be prompted to creatively engage with the image through drawing and/or collage.
Visual: A photographic recreation activity using a polaroid camera to recreate your chosen photograph. You can keep your polaroid photo.
Tangibility: A physical and contextual preservation activity. You will be introduced to a method of caring for you physical photograph and the materials required to do so, using the polaroid as an example of this. The last part of the workshop will cover distilled institutional methods of caring for a photograph, physically and contextually.
"Had her name been scribbled on the back of the albumen print, there would be at least one fact I could convey with a measure of certainty, one detail I would not have to guess, one less obstacle in retracing the girl's path through the streets of the city." - Saidiya Hartman; Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2021); A Minor Figure, pg. 13-14*
Please bring one personal/ family photograph with you to the workshop, either digital or physical.
Saturday 4 October, 10.30am to 12.00pm, as part of our Photobook Fair programme of events.
Free event, donations welcome, suggested £5.
If you have any questions about the event or need help booking a place please email hello@impressions-gallery.com or call 01274 737843.
*Reference: “Girl #1 Wanders through the streets of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward and New York’s Tenderloin, year 1900. She is young yet so old and raw.”
Image top: Preserving the Familial Archive © Cassia Clarke
