Over the past half term, I have been working with the Societe Jersiaise Photographic Archive implementing key ideas to developing the Archive to my own personal project. These skills have made me develop various creative perspectives involving Archive extraction, research, experimentation and documentation. Exhibition and presentation design.
Some of the skills, which I have been contributing to my Archive experience, consist of:
- Scanning & storing images
- Image manipulation, resizing, creating composites
- Producing teaching materials for Photo Archivist’s Workshop
- Re-purposing images for Jersey Projection Gallery –(Ex. Skip ton Arts)
- Archive Searching database
- Outputting digital prints, labeling and marking images from the
- Understanding copyright policy
- Retrieving original images from vintage collection in strong room
- Working in secure areas, safe practice in the archive environment
- Appropriate handling of original archive materials
My personal project has allowed me to evolve, as with help from Gareth Syvret, I’ve been able to manipulate photographs which relate to the history and period of my new house and how I can contrast the changes and traditions in everyday life today.