An overview of the course and an exploration of the history and changing forms of archives. Guest speaker: David A. Bailey

How to make archives available to different audiences and how to promote your archive. Introducing the use of open access and community involvement to increase reach and build stronger stories within archives. Guest speaker: Andrea Holzherr

Introducing the debate on whether to digitise collections, in full or part. Practical guidelines in finding a suitable affordable platform.

An introduction and practical guidelines. Guest speaker: Nathalie Herschdorfer

Introduction to different solutions & considerations for both digital and physical material. Final Q&A session on next steps with your archive. Guest speaker: Luce Lebart

David A. Bailey MBE is a photographer, writer, curator, lecturer and cultural facilitator who lives and works in London. David’s practice is focused on the issues that relate to black representations in the areas of photography, performance and artists’ film. These interests have informed his appointment as an advisor and subsequent curator with Autograph (ABP) and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) in 1994. He has co-curated groundbreaking exhibitions such as Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance with Richard J. Powell at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1997. From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive (AAVAA) at the University of East London. From 2005 to 2011 he was a Curator at Platform for the Remember Saro-Wiwa Living Memorial.

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is the Director of the museum Photo Elysée, the photography museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is an active voice in contemporary photography and has been invited to organize numerous exhibitions outside Switzerland. She teaches the history of photography at the Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL). She is co-curator of Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage. 

Andrea Holzherr is a cultural director, publicist and curator. She has worked as the Global Cultural Director and Curator for Magnum Photos, Paris since 2003. She is responsible for promoting the Magnum Archive through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums and cultural institutions. Previous to this, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as Assistant Curator to the Director. She is co-curator, with Anne-Marie Beckmann and Karen McQuaid of Ernest Cole: House of Bondage.

Luce Lebart [biog to come]

Kathryn Tollervey is the Archivist at The Photographers’ Gallery. She has twenty years’ experience working in photographic archives such as Foster + Partners (Norman Foster’s architectural studio) photographic & special collections archive, the Victorian high street photographer Edward Reeves’ Archive and the archives of celebrated American-photographer Lee Miller.