Fotomuseum Winterthur | Workshops | Saturday, 01.10.2022, 14:00–17:00
Workshop: The Family Album – Stories to Take Home with You
Lindokuhle Sobekwa, from the artist book I Carry Her Photo with Me, 2017 © Lindokuhle Sobekwa / Magnum Photos
Digital images and the digital photo album have changed how we create memories of our (chosen) family. We collect faster, more easily and in greater quantities. Analogue photo albums have become rare and therefore also provide a special feeling of remembrance. Our workshop offers you the opportunity to take the time and creatively record your own family story on paper. Bring your printed family images with you and, under instruction, create a small, bound photo album to take home with you.
Admission (including material costs): CHF 40.–
Admission to the exhibition is not included.
This workshop is limited to a maximum of ten people.
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.
Admission (including material costs): CHF 40.–
Admission to the exhibition is not included.
This workshop is limited to a maximum of ten people.
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Chosen Family – Less Alone Together. The exhibition presents works by contemporary photographers who are concerned with family histories. Its focus is on the artists’ personal family history and their process of coming to terms with it, using photos from their family archive and contemporary photographic documents. It also examines artistic approaches that attempt to loosen up entrenched visual (role) representations. Our traditional concepts of family are challenged by the photographic re-enactment of personal family structures – in which members of the family are involved in the process of producing images – and the documentation of communities that experience affinity outside the bonds of (blood) kinship, making it clear that an elective family is family all the same.