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Past workshop
Bring your class to Autograph for a hands-on workshop exploring photography, archives and collective history
Autograph
Rivington Place
EC2A 3BA, UK
Using our current exhibition Armet Francis: Beyond the Black Triangle as a starting point, this free 90-minute workshop will invite students to learn how personal photographic collections can play an important role in preserving and narrating British history. After visiting the exhibition, the group will look through a selection of photographs of family life, friendships, neighbourhoods, work and leisure. We will discuss why the photographs were taken and what they tell us about the people in them.
This workshop will ask:
What role does personal photography play in documenting society?
Why have some histories been preserved more than others?
What can personal photography tell us about the identity of people in the photographs?
How do we share, collect and archive our personal pictures in the digital age?
This will be followed by a practical activity, inviting students to think about their own archive and history. They will recreate a photograph that they believe will be important to share with people in the future, by using an instant camera. Students will then learn how to preserve the image using archive techniques. This workshop will be led by artist and archivist Cassia Clarke who recently rescued her family photographs which had been stored in an airing cupboard and in her nephew's bedroom.
You can book a workshop for your class on one of the dates below:
Thursday 12th October
Wednesday 8th November
Tuesday 28th November
Wednesday 6th December
Wednesday 10 January
Tuesday 16 January
Friday 19 January
Each day, workshops are available at 10-11:30am or 12:45-2:15pm
Those dates don't work? Get in touch! You can request another date on the booking form and we'll try to make it happen.
Click the button below to fill in a quick form to request a workshop.
These workshops are suitable for KS4 and KS5, please specify on the form which age group you are bringing so we can tailor the experience for your students.
After we receive your form, a member of Autograph's team will be in touch to confirm your booking and answer any questions.
22 Sep 2023 - 20 Jan 2024
Chronicling the lives of people of the African diaspora for over 40 years
Cassia Clarke is a Luton-born British-Caribbean artist specializing in archival and curatorial work. Cassia uses an autoethnographic and co-curatorial approach to encourage greater knowledge democracy and collective intervention for better accessibility to institutionally held knowledge.
Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Planning a visit? Have a look at our Visit Us page to find out more about getting to the gallery, accessibility and more.
Autograph welcomes people with all types of disabilities.
Our building and entrance is step free. A wheelchair accessible lift goes to all floors.
Two disabled parking bays are available to book in advance, located directly next to our building.
Free, Thu 5 Oct 6:30 - 8:00pm
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Free, Oct 2023 - Jan 2024
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Banner image: Cassia Clarke, Untitled (Packaged Photographs in a Archive Box), 2023. Courtesy the artist.
Images on page: 1) Armet Francis, Fashion Shoot, Brixton Market, London, 1973. © and courtesy the artist. 2) Cassia Clarke. Photograph by Alex Charovas. 3) Autograph, photograph by Zoë Maxwell.
Autograph is a place to see things differently. Since 1988, we have championed photography that explores issues of race, identity, representation, human rights and social justice, sharing how photographs reflect lived experiences and shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
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