Family Photographs: Reworkedx
8 April to 25 April 2010
John Levett and Anne-Marie Glasheen
The Viewfinder Photography Gallery presented unusual reworkings of family photographs, by two artists: John Levett and Anne-Marie Glasheen. Both use their family photographs as a resource in creating new series, and as a tool for understanding and reinterpreting their own family histories. Anne-Marie creates new images, layering old and new photographs; John re-photographs existing photographs, finding new meanings in them through photographing them in different locations and on different surfaces.
The Family Photographs: Reworked exhibition was generously supported by Alec and Kaye Pettifer, Susan and Silvino Ferreira da Silva (canallondres.tv), Suzanne Reed, Joyce Pettifer, Kate Glasheen, Gladys Poncelet, Jacqui Poncelet (poncelet.me.uk), Helen Goulding, Daniel Glasheen (amberbow.com), Lucy Williams (fitzrovianoir.wordpress.com), James and Hannah Glasheen, Annabel McLaren and Barry Milton (myriadbooks.com), and two anonymous donors.
Family Photographs: Reworked Workshop
Sunday 25 April, 2-5pm
John Levett ran an accompanying workshop at the Viewfinder, at which Anne-Marie Glasheen also presented her work. Those taking part in the workshop were invited to bring along their family album—all of it or part of it. They were asked to consider what the album represents to the family, what hasn't been included, who hasn't been included, what events are absent, what photographs could have been taken but weren't. Participants looked at re-shooting the image—under light, under glass, in shade and shadow; in a formal context and casually. Participants considered how we might question the stories that the family snap tries to tell; what we might learn from pairing image and image.
This workshop was funded by the Capital Community Foundation and Grassroots Grants.
Exhibition catalogue
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Press Release
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