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Research Seminar: Alan Meades and Karen Shepherdson on Arcades, Archives and our Coastal Communities

Alan Meades and Karen Shepherdson of CCCU’s Centre for Research on Communities & Cultures will be discussing an photographic archive of seaside arcades recently acquired by SEAS Photography.

South East Archive of Seaside (SEAS) Photography

Project by: Dr Karen Shepherdson

The SEAS Photography Centre is located at Canterbury Christ Church under the directorship of Karen Shepherdson. It was first established in 2012 with assistance from a Heritage Lottery award and has already gained national recognition. The archive focuses on digitally archiving substantial historic seaside photographic collec-tions which have originated from the South East Coast. This has included the vast Sunbeam Photographic Collect-ion, the Dreamland Archive and numerous ‘Walkies’.

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The Itinerant Photographer

Project by: Dr Karen Shepherdson

This research examines commercial seaside photo-graphic practice from 1860-1980. The exploration offers a visual exposition of the British seaside as represented through the refracted lens of the itinerant beach photographer – also often derogatorily referred to as a ‘Smudger’ or ‘Bodger’. Despite their hum-ble means of production, the photographs are frequently evocative, drawing the viewer into a nostalgic past shaped by visual half-truths. The re-search examines conventions, expectations and mytholo-gisations of what seaside portrait photography should present and how these provide a highly mediated and edited view of seaside experience.

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Close to Home

Project by: Dr Karen Shepherdson

My ongoing and long-term photographic project Close to Home attempts to adopt a pers- pective that is at once subjectively ‘at home’ and yet non-subjectively placed at an observational distance. Thro-ugh the medium of instant film (Polaroid) and associated processes such as emulsion lifts and transfers even substantial montages (100 images), remain small and seemingly parochial works. Yet drawing upon the writings of John Piper, Benjamin Britten and more recently Alexandra Harris, I aim to show that with a considered approach, complex layers of meaning in what is ‘close to home’ can be readily and creatively revealed.

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