As I stated in my project specification I intended to explore how Jersey’s trade has developed over time from past to present and then looking into future projections. As part of this I have gathered a selection of Archival Imagery from the Societe Jersaise Photo Archives that show forms of trade on the island from the past, which I am going to use in photo montages as a way of looking at the past of Jersey’s Trade with other places. These photographs were taken by four Jersey based archival photographers: Ernest Baudoux, Francis Foot, Percival Dunham and Albert Smith. These photographers documented the people, the buildings, events and just the general goings-on of the island in the late 19th and early 20th century. Percival Dunham was Jersey’s first ever photojournalist. In 1913 and 14 Dunham worked for Jersey Illustrated Weekly and then the Morning News, which was the main competitor for many years for the Evening Post which is now the Jersey Evening Post (JEP) which has now been Jersey’s only daily newspaper for several years. Ernest Baudoux was originally from France and worked in Jersey from 1869 as a portraitist, taking pictures of important islanders’ houses, he also took a large number of pictures documenting the outdoors of Jersey. Francis Foot had an interest in photography in the early 20th century after being born in 1885, his family were known as those who owned the HMV franchise for Jersey selling gramophones and records, notorious for its F.Foot HMV sign which has recently been restored in 2018. Some of Foot’s photographs were published as postcards around this time. But eventually the gramophone and record side of his business became more important and took over the larger shop in Pitt Street, where Francis was still selling records in the 1950s and 60s. The fact that this was the story behind Francis Foot is something which I believe nicely fits into this project as I have been looking at trade on the island.
Charlie, overall I feel you need to provide more details in all your blog posts e.g. this one here, talk about which photographers from the archive you researched, Ernest Badoaux, Albert Smith etc and what they main interest in photography was…image of St Helier/ town or landscapes/ views or people / portraits etc