The Photographic Collections Network has announced a series of free talks that explore some of the lesser-known and under represented histories of photography. The first two are:
26 May 2021 at 7pm: Apna Heritage Archive.
Anand Chhabra, the founder of Apna Heritage Archive, tells the story of how he built a community photographic archive representing Wolverhampton’s population of 40,000 Punjabis. He will give an insight into the challenges and benefits of creating such an archive. Anand is a co-founder, director and the incumbent Chair at Black Country Visual Arts (2014) and also co-founded ReFramed, the first Black & Asian photographers' network in the Midlands in 2020.
1 June 2021 at 7pm: Colonialism and the Archive.
The powerful new film African Apocalypse, airing on BBC2 on 22 May, tells the story of a young man’s journey across Africa in search of a colonial killer; a non-fiction retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The film’s narrator and protagonist, Femi Nylander, begins his journey exploring photographic archives that bear witness to the brutal violence visited on the people of Africa by Europeans. We are pleased to welcome the award-winning director of African Apocalypse Rob Lemkin, the narrator Femi Nylander and the Archive Producer Morgane Barrier, who will discuss the role of archives in revealing the workings of empire and imperialism. We recommend you view the film on BBC iPlayer before attending this event.
See:https://www.photocollections.org.uk/ Links to book are above.
Image: Femi Nylander exploring a colonial archive, from the film African Apocalypse
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