Offline Journal #015
The latest issue #015 of Offline Journal looks at the important topic of where and when a photographer's work might be safely stored.
ARCHIVE is the theme for issue #015 – the biggest issue to date with 108 pages of photography and writing on photography in and beyond Wales. This ARCHIVE issue has 26 articles, many of which explore the approach and thinking by established photographers on preparing their work with a view to leaving it safe somewhere, somehow.
There are articles exploring the archives with bodies of work by Daniel Meadows, David Hurn, Ron McCormick, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, and Robert Greetham. And a discussion with Will Troughton, Curator of Photographs at the National Library of Wales which holds over a million photographs in its National Collection.
Three special articles delve into photography in music album art from Lucy Purrington, Alex Lloyd Jenkins and Mark McNulty – likely a form of photography, consciously or unconsciously, residing in many of our own private collections and has real emotional value and, perhaps, handed down to new generations. Two other articles look at very different long-term projects on rivers by Jim Cochrane and Eleri Griffiths - with portraiture as an important part.
There's a review by Ellie Macdonald on Paul Cabuts' Another Place photobook, a new Offline Essay on The Photobook as Archive by Brian Carroll, and a PROGREDIOR end piece by Owen Pritchard that considers whether Wales as a devolved nation with new political leadership values the cultural importance of photography now and going forward.
Plus lots more - see the full contents pull-down tab below.
#015 CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Hurlow • Marc Arkless • Aled Rhys Hughes & Emyr Young • Robert Greetham • Paul Cabuts & Ellie Macdonald • Craig Easton • Daniel Meadows • David Hurn • Ron McCormick & John Crerar • Alex Lloyd Jenkins • Lucy Purrington • Mark McNulty •. Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert • Jack Lowe • Isaac Blease & Louis Little
/ Martin Parr Foundation • Marian Delyth • Rhodri Jones • Eleri Griffiths • Jim Cochrane • Robert Greetham • Ben Woolhead • Jon Pountney • Pete Davis • Julie Cook & Paul Davies • Marc Lewis / Clwb Ffoto • Phil Cope • Will Troughton • Owen Pritchard
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Editor: Brian Carroll
Cover images: Paul Hurlow
INTRODUCTION
Brian Carroll
MARC ARKLESS
Half a second forever: Some thoughts on archives & archiving
ALED RHYS HUGHES
Against the Wall - interview with Emyr Young
PAUL CABUTS
Another Place - interview with Ellie Macdonald
CRAIG EASTON
Book review, and his get-atable archive - interview with Brian Carroll
DANIEL MEADOWS
Archive: been there, done it
DAVID HURN
Archive: not quite done
RON McCORMICK
The importance of being archived - article by John Crerar
ALEX LLOYD JENKINS
Igniting Firestarter
LUCY PURRINGTON
Images made where the music happens
MARK McNULTY
His art on a sleeve
JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT
Life in the Archive
PAUL HURLOW
Walking Crymlyn Burrows – interview with Brian Carroll
JACK LOWE
Charting archive horizons
MARTIN PARR FOUNDATION
Being part of the archive
MARIAN DELYTH
The Living Archive
RHODRI JONES
Archive: effort, time and budget
ELERI GRIFFITHS
Tales from the Riverbank
JIM COCHRANE
an open path : transience, memory, history
ROBERT GREETHAM
Archives: Some random thoughts
RIP MARTIN PARR
Reflections from Italy – Rhodri Jones
SHEDS
Exhibition & events review – Ben Woolhead
CLWB FFOTO
One year on – Marc Lewis
PHOTOPOETRY
From partnership to publication – Phil Cope
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Will Troughton on accepting archives
OFFLINE ESSAY
The Photobook as Archive – Brian Carroll
PROGREDIOR
Between the frames: Photography, Politics and the Welsh Blind Spot – Owen Pritchard
SIGNATURES
New photobooks & photozines
CHAOTIC
Seeking the next cohort of photographers
ARCHIVE – 108 pages – the biggest issue to date
Cover images by & feature article on Paul Hurlow