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 methods 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 a selected photograph from your personal/ family photographic archive either digital or physical, you will be prompted to creatively engage with the image through drawing and collage.

Visual: A photographic recreation activity using a polaroid camera to recreate your chosen photograph. The aim of this exercise is that each participant will leave with a polaroid.

Tangibility: A physical and contextual preservation activity, covering distilled institutional methods of caring for a photograph.

“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.

Booking essential via Eventbrite, or call the gallery on 01274 737843 or in person at our friendly welcome desk.

Workshop fee £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: © Cassia Clarke