First Light Spotlight: Corrupted Archives
Watch the second edition of First Light Spotlight, titled ‘Corrupted Archives’ Laura Robertson in conversation with recent graduate Schnel Franzine, Eleanor Woodley and Andrew Moseley.
Discussing the glitch aesthetic as an intervention in photography, and specifically its potential as a visual metaphor for the fractures and ruptures to family life caused by addiction, disorder or trauma. Hosted by arts writer and First Light editor Laura Robertson, this First Light Spotlight will be on UCEN Manchester BA Photography graduate Schnel Franzine and her photocollage series ‘ISOlation Relations’. They’ll be joined by special guests Programme Director of Photography at UCEN Manchester, curator and writer Andrew Moseley, plus University of Salford Fine Art graduate, writer and researcher Eleanor Woodley, who’ll be reading a new text in response to Schnel’s work.
Open Rooms, Open Eye Gallery’s digital events program, will be hosting a season of talks in partnership with Waterside as we approach the launch of the exhibition, First Light – New Northern Photo Graduates in the spring/summer 2021.
The exhibition, devised by Waterside’s Mario Popham, brings together works by 13 photographers who have graduated from the region’s educational institutions in 2020. Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence, Laura Robertson will be producing a special First Light edition of Tilt (Open Eye Gallery’s in-house zine) featuring 13 commissioned pieces of new writing that responds to the selected photographic works.
This season of talks, chaired by Laura and Mario, will bring together the photographers, writers and educators who are central to this project. Together they will discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the images, the potential for collaboration across disciplines, the relationship between the image and the word and the role educators play in the early development of artistic practice.
Image credit © Schnel Franzine
Watch the second edition of First Light Spotlight, titled ‘Corrupted Archives’ Laura Robertson in conversation with recent graduate Schnel Franzine, Eleanor Woodley and Andrew Moseley.
Discussing the glitch aesthetic as an intervention in photography, and specifically its potential as a visual metaphor for the fractures and ruptures to family life caused by addiction, disorder or trauma. Hosted by arts writer and First Light editor Laura Robertson, this First Light Spotlight will be on UCEN Manchester BA Photography graduate Schnel Franzine and her photocollage series ‘ISOlation Relations’. They’ll be joined by special guests Programme Director of Photography at UCEN Manchester, curator and writer Andrew Moseley, plus University of Salford Fine Art graduate, writer and researcher Eleanor Woodley, who’ll be reading a new text in response to Schnel’s work.
Open Rooms, Open Eye Gallery’s digital events program, will be hosting a season of talks in partnership with Waterside as we approach the launch of the exhibition, First Light – New Northern Photo Graduates in the spring/summer 2021.
The exhibition, devised by Waterside’s Mario Popham, brings together works by 13 photographers who have graduated from the region’s educational institutions in 2020. Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence, Laura Robertson will be producing a special First Light edition of Tilt (Open Eye Gallery’s in-house zine) featuring 13 commissioned pieces of new writing that responds to the selected photographic works.
This season of talks, chaired by Laura and Mario, will bring together the photographers, writers and educators who are central to this project. Together they will discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the images, the potential for collaboration across disciplines, the relationship between the image and the word and the role educators play in the early development of artistic practice.
Image credit © Schnel Franzine
