The Peter Marlow Foundation (PMF) was established in 2018 to celebrate, preserve, and activate the archive of the late Magnum photographer Peter Marlow, while supporting contemporary photography and visual literacy across the UK, with a special focus on Kent and surrounding counties. As part of this mission, we launched our Archival Research Fellowship, funded through a Knowledge Exchange Partnership with the University for the Creative Arts. The fellowship invited a PhD student to help PMF investigate best practices for photographic archives and develop a training programme for local young people.
We were delighted to work with Camille Serisier as our inaugural Archival Research Fellow. Camille, a doctoral candidate at UCA with extensive experience in the GLAM sector, conducted a detailed scoping review of PMF’s resources, goals and organisational structure, and created an archival inventory, collections management documentation, plans for a training programme for local young people and a sustainability strategy.
A full report of Camille’s work and outcomes is available on our website and via the UCA digital research repository, UCARO. We hope it will support other photographers and archives, and we look forward to sharing more results from this knowledge exchange in the future.
Read more here: https://petermarlowfoundation.org/journal/announcing-our-archive-research-fellowship/
Image: Archival Research Fellow, Camille Serisier, working in the Peter Marlow Foundation archive in Dungeness. Photo Credit: Olivia Arthur/Magnum Photos
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