Resources

Video Resources (click the titles to go to each video page):

What Photographs Do: The role of photographs in a museum

Recording of a talk by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices, this talk (and corresponding book) offers an extensive and unique range of accounts of what photographs 'do' in museums, expanding the critical discourse of both photography and museums.

Representation, Diversity, Inclusion in, and Access to (photo) Collections and Archives

Recording of a seminar hich brought together inspirational photograph projects to share ideas and promote conversation about how (photo) collections and archives can become more representational and diverse, how we ensure that those who are included in collections have access to them, how we can enable that collections and archives are more inclusive.

Family Album, Close to Home: Co-producing Multigenerational Narratives of Polish Resettlement in the UK

Recording of an online talk by PhD student Rio Creech (Dec 2022) who shared their experience using private family photographs - including those sourced from their grandparents' albums - as the basis for an exhibition that spotlighted the stories of Polish refugees placed in Grove Park resettlement camp after the Second World War. Rio's talk explored how we can use photographs to bring together and connect the dots between the diverse experiences of diasporic people living in Britain across multiple generations.

Video: Orphan Works, Copyright and Photo Collections

Recording of a talk by Gov.UK Intellectual Property Office looking at how to work with Orphan Works in a collection, the page also includes useful links and futher reading.