As part of Anand’s continued work with Dudley College students and the Living Memory project, Anand has arranged with Paul Ford tat Dudley Archives to conduct a workshop presentation on how archivists record photographs, tour the Strong Rooms within the building and also present to students the collections held at the archives. This enables students to expand themselves in an area that is currently not taught in their curriculum concerning vernacular images. The students received a masterclass from Paul on how images are given dates, descriptions, catalogued, retained, housed, printed and it went on like this! The students got access to some of the oldest and most valuable collections including a papal address on parchment to one of the local Lords in the area from the 12th century. They got to understand why we have string rooms and the students got to look at various photographic collections held at Dudley Archives from past to present. We are thankful to Dudley College c/o Phil Brooks and students as well as Dudley archives for working with Anand in partnership!
Students receive a masterclass from Paul Ford on how photos are archived at DA.
Students receiving a tour and look at some of the most important documents within the strong rooms at DA.
Photo students got to view both ancient and modern photographic collections at Dudley Archives. (Phil Brooks centre)
Students use new technology to convert 100+ year old glass plates & convert into positives on their mobile phones. © Anand Chhabra
Anand also critiqued students work with their own vernacular images on the day towards their own individual work for the Living Memory Project.