As an introduction to the project, ‘Chance, Challenge and Change’, we went on a day long school trip to the Jersey Archive Research Center (The Societe Jersiaise). The Societe belongs to part of the organisation Jersey Archive, who are collectively under the historical preservation group Jersey Heritage. The Jersey Archive hold all the official documents of archives relating to all aspects of Jersey’s historical and cultural past. Subsequently, Jersey Archive hold a considerable quantitiy of photographic archives, with up to 80,000 of them dating right back to 1840.

The day was hosted by ‘The Archilse Project’, a local organisation who aim to promote contemporary photography within Jersey, and who use the Archives themselves as a key research tool. The event was split up into three sections, the first part being a introduction to the archives and what they do led by, Graham Syvret who works alongside the Arshilse Project on behalf of Jersey Archive. The second part of the day was led by Tom Pope, an extremely talented young photogrpher who specialises in the experimental performance photography and is the Archisle Project’s Photographer in Residence 2015. Then in the latter part of the day, Tom put into practise on the style of photography he was informing us of, and worked outsidde with us for just under an hour, getting us to play a variety of games involving capturing perofrmacne with our camera. This was very fun, especially the orange throwing game which required you to catch a ball thrown at you after taking a picture of a fast approaching orange.