12201178064?profile=originalThe Photographic Collections Network has announced a series of events relevant to collections and archives of photography. These range from copyright to environmental sustainability. Details are below.  The PCN is working on a collaborative research project with The Photography and the Archive Research Centre at LCC, exploring what a new Directory of Photographic Collections could look like, how it would function and what it could provide. If you can spare a few minutes to be part of this research click this link https://fulcrm.link/2/15504/2712/95rr6ff0908l24r2cr621f2m708m4936 to answer a few short questions and help us shape a future directory.

Save the Date: Copyright,IP and archive photos Wednesday 1st December, 2-3pm GMT: online
We will be having an online talk led by the Intellectual Property Office on copyright and IP. If you have questions you can put them forward before the event by clicking this link leading to an online form. https://fulcrm.link/2/15505/2712/190849ru201m8408ulm8fmm9225680u8

Photo Histories PCN & Redeye collaboration: FREE Online events:
Redeye's Photo Histories is a new strand of events that looks at some of the many histories that photography can uncover. The strand features photographers, archivists, scholars and historians exploring some of the lesser-known and under-represented histories of photography.

Format Collective, 27 Oct 7-8:30 pm BST
Maggie Murray, founder of Format Collective. Established in 1983, Format was the first and only women's agency in Britain. If you’ve read the excellent recent book, Photography of Protest and Community by Noni Stacey, you might wonder how the radical collectives of the 1970s transitioned into the progressive photography of today. This talk sheds light on that era. Format Collective tended to focus on events and individuals who weren't being represented in mainstream media. From LGBTQ+ marches to The Miners' Strike to women's rights movements, these women photographed a range of important political events and social movements. 

In this talk Maggie Murray will take us through how and why Format was set up as a collective and agency for women photographers. As well as what it was like being a photographer, and especially a female photojournalist in the 1980s and 90s. Maggie will give us an insight into how the members juggled different aspects of their core aims such as creative, commercial and political. She takes us through the struggles they faced, how they overcame them with support, and how they developed, both collectively and individually. And finally, what led to the closure of the agency in 2003. 
https://fulcrm.link/2/15506/2712/1706r714c4m778rm46541005ur120516


Material Histories Online, 2 Nov 7-8:30pm GMT
The study of photographic history has often depended on interacting physically with materials - we learn a lot about prints, negatives, plates and equipment from handling them. But now much more of our life is online, and that’s likely to continue. So how do we adapt this subject to the restrictions of online learning - and what are the possible benefits and new opportunities of learning in the digital world?

We are delighted to welcome Professor Kelley Wilder to guide us through this renewed learning space. 

In this talk Kelley introduces some photographic materials and explores how we can interact with them in a meaningful way. She will invite us to consider how the digital world is changing what we learn about materials, and how we learn it. You are then welcome to take part in an open discussion, where she creates talking points, demonstrates a few things, and sets out some ambitions for a new world of learning. Come along and join in as much as you like; if you would like to sit back and listen, that is fine too!
https://fulcrm.link/2/15507/2712/f54r328cl89cu01mfu350m0u3855f2mu


Engage Gallery Education: 
Applying conversations on class and inequality in collections
28 Oct 10-11:30am £40 for non members

Workshop: Jon Sleigh will reflect on a recent project with the National Gallery on class, and its application in three physical tours at the gallery. Key questions and sharing will look at the value of applying contemporary lived experience to historical work. This workshop’s particular focus is around ideas of class and economic inequality. The workshop will also consider how the educator might orient themselves within such readings, in ways that support the educator’s own safeguarding. We’ll look at language, establishing ethics of content with audiences, and reading the pieces not as a form of division – but as a positive and usable tool that brings others together.

This session features artworks from the Government Art Collection. As well as contributions from the GAC’s Curator of Public Engagement, Chantal Condron, we will be applying art readings on class, to artworks, as practical examples. While each artwork holds significance as being part of a national collection, they also offer the potential of being incredibly emotive works with which to explore our arts practice.
https://fulcrm.link/2/15508/2712/9279lf5rcr3r723m17cc2llu0030488l

 

The National Archives: Archives supporting environmental sustainability 
8 and 10 November | Online  
Join TNA for an opportunity to be part of the sustainability conversation and reflect on climate change as COP26 – the world's most important climate change conference – takes place this November in Glasgow. Come hear about the past, present and future of environmental sustainability in the archives sector, share your ideas for change and take away tools to create a positive impact in your organisation. This event will take place over two mornings (Monday 8 November and Wednesday 10 November) and we encourage participation on both days. 
https://fulcrm.link/2/15510/2712/36l9967788922920ul6u9fc0l3fu343l

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