Ignite Talk by James Heald, Wikimedia UK: “Case Study: Mapping the Maps”, Europeana Tech 2015 Conference How to find 50,000 maps in a haystack of 1,000,000 images; geolocate them, and categorise [...]
Ben Alper is an artist based in North Carolina. He curates The Archival Impulse, a project dedicated to his personal collection of vernacular photography. I see many of my recent [...]
Eka Sharashidze is a Georgian artist currently living in Berlin. For her, photography is the expressive medium used to create collage images. In the series “Wall People” she captured [...]
Starting in the late 1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto took pictures of cinemas interiors and drive-ins with the aim of encapsulate the whole lenght of a movie in a single shot. He left the camera shutters [...]
To mark its 30th anniversary, Belfast Exposed has organised an extensive exhibition of photographic work, displayed both at its premises on Donegall Street as well as at The MAC.
‘Soldier Behind Shield, Northern Ireland’ (1973) © Philip Jones Griffiths. Courtesy of Magnum On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Belfast Exposed is delighted to be working in [...]
There are two parts to the anthology Arkive City, featuring two types of documents. Part One presents a selection of edited transcripts from the Performing the Archive events. These include [...]
By Martin Bruhns from Source Photographic Review The origin of Belfast Exposed dates back to 1983 when a group of local photographers came up with the idea for an exhibition to which people from [...]
By Mark Bolland from The Source Photographic Review What happens to a photographer’s work when they are no longer around to look after it? Following some recent cases of national [...]
By Jennifer Grigg from The Source Photographic Review The definition of photography, for some curators, is an elusive one. Art or technology? There are photographers who do not consider what they [...]
Photography, Photographs and Public Libraries By Pete James from The Source Photographic Review In recent times a growing body of work has begun to chart and re-assess the historical relationship [...]
Ronan Deazley looks into the saleability of some ‘public interest’ photographs. From The Source Photographic Review On Wednesday 6 June 2001 all of the mainstream British press (with [...]
With the opening of the National Library's photographic archive in Temple Bar and the coinciding publication of Sarah Rouse's illustrated guide to the collection, there is an opportunity to [...]
Mitchell Whitelaw – “Visualising culture”. Whitelaw presents a fascinating look at a number of projects he is involved in to preserve and visualise rich data about [...]
by Pet Brook 08.20.13/ Photo: Alex Welsh/WIRED For his book Photography Changes Everything, Marvin Heiferman spoke to experts in 3-D graphics, neurobiology, online dating, the commercial flower [...]
Museums and copyright have historically had a somewhat strained relationship. Overly complicated copyright laws and overly long copyright terms have only made this more problematic, resulting in [...]
seven new short films, extended audio interviews and a dedicated archive issue of Source Magazine
September 11 was one of the most photographed events in the world, so why is it that no more that a handful of images, or rather motifs, remain that are repeated ad infinitum?