Can personal photographs become a means to conduct oral histories? Josh Allen explores how the Living Memory Project’s methods expand the power of the photograph as a source.
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Radical Object: The Photos of an East London Suffragette
Jane McChrystal surveys Norah Smyth’s engrossing photographs: a powerful record of women’s Suffrage activism, campaigning and social justice in East London.
‘Paradise’ in Missing Pictures: A Brief and Incomplete History of Sri Lankan Photography
What is a ‘photography of the East’? Taking the case of the ‘paradise island’ of Ceylon, Vindhya Buthpitiya explores how the island’s photographic past survives in fragments, glimpses, memories and fading archives.
The Indian Memory Project
Designer and photographer Anusha Yadav writes about the Indian Memory Project website, a visual and oral history of the Indian sub-continent through family and personal archives
Why it was Kicking off Then
Journalist and author Paul Mason shares his fascination with the “unruly women” of the Paris Commune
