 You are invited to the Women Alternative Photography Groups very first in-person event at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA Project Space in Folkestone, UK.
This seminar and private view will bring together three incredible women using alternative photographic processes within their creative practice. Interrogating migration, psychogeography, and sustainable photographic processes this seminar will introduce the work of Founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective Melanie King, Artist and Curator Ky Lewis, and Director and Founder of WAPG Elizabeth Ransom. This seminar will be an opportunity to celebrate women working with experimental photographic methods in unique and innovative ways. This seminar coincides with the opening of the exhibition Homesick by Elizabeth Ransom at the Brewery Tap Gallery. Following the seminar there will be a private view with free drinks which you are invited to join to socialise with the WAPG community. To book your free tickets and to learn more click HERE.
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 I am thrilled to announce that I will be exhibiting my Homesick series at the Brewery Tap Gallery UCA project space this May.
Join me in the seaside town of Folkestone from 28 May - 1 June for my very first solo exhibition!!! In the series, Homesick, I invited ten women and non-binary immigrants to share their stories and memories of homesickness in written form. They also provided a list of liquids that remind them of one of the places they have called home such as coffee, chicken broth, pisco sours, and kefir. I then soaked a roll of 35mm color film in the liquid for one hour for every day since they had returned to that location. This work was created in the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic when countries had closed their borders and travel was at a standstill. This was the first time for many of the participants that they had not had the option to travel back home to see their families and loved ones. The experience of homesickness was exacerbated for many resulting in physical and emotional symptoms. For some participants, it had been many years since they returned home. The longer that the participant had been away the longer the film was left to soak in the liquid. The emulsion slowly deteriorating over time. The heat of the liquids warped and distorted the negatives resulting in brightly coloured destroyed rolls of film. I would love to invite you to the PV and WAPG seminar in Folkestone on the 28 May from 6-8pm. |
Elizabeth RansomPhd Candidate at UCA, Instructor at Western Washington University and Photographic Center Northwest, and Visual Artist working with Alternative Photographic Practices. Archives
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