Start date and time

Thursday 2 February 2023 9:00 AM

to Friday 3 February 2023 4:30 PM

Event cost

£30/£55

Overview | Registration | Schedule 

Overview 

Photography and Memory is a collaboration between the City Art Centre Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative Industries, and The Glasgow School of Art (GSA).

"Photography is the medium opening a window to a concentrated, captured memory. Such memory is evoked by an artist in an aesthetic condensation of the situation experienced." (Walter Benjamin)

The Symposium takes as its starting point the following three exhibitions concurrently running at the City Art Centre: 

Glean: early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland, curated by Jenny Brownrigg, GSA. 
This exhibition surveys the work of fourteen pioneering women photographers and filmmakers, documenting different aspects of rural and urban Scotland.

Edinburgh: A Lost World is an exhibition of work by Ron O'Donnell, Lecturer in Photography at Edinburgh Napier. In the 1970s and 80s O'Donnell photographed interiors of shops and other public spaces across the city. The exhibition tracks social change thirty years later by returning to these forgotten interiors. 

Paul Duke is an alumni of Edinburgh Napier's Photography programme, with his exhibition, No Ruined Stone he returns to Muirhouse to where he grew up from the mid-1960s to early 1980s. His images document urban regeneration and social flux.

Edinburgh Napier Merchiston Campus, Room B55

10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH10 5DT

Registration 

Single Day Pass £30/ Concession £20
Two Day Pass £55/ Concession £35
Tickets include catering

To register email researchSACI@napier.ac.uk

Schedule

Day 1 - 2nd February 2023

9:15 a.m. 
Welcome and Opening


Diane MacLean - Dean
Kerstin Stutterheim - Head of Research, School of Arts and Creative Industries
Garrabost Jayalakshmi - Director Centre of Creative Practice

9:30 a.m. 
Panel 1: Post-Imperialism and Post-Revolutionary Photography


Ellen Yiwei Wang
Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine: Recycling Memories of Post-Revolutionary China through vernacular photographs
University of Oxford, Dept. History of Art

Alexander Supartono
Reframing Colonial (Hi)stories: The Family Photo Albums of Sugar Industrialists in Java at the turn of the 20th Century
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

Simon Popple
Restaging Afghanistan: Photography, Memory and Imperialism
The University of Leeds, School of Media and Communication

Chair — Emile Shemilt
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

11:00 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m.
Keynote 1: Jenny Brownrigg Glean: Early 20th Century Women

Filmmakers and Photographers in Scotland
Glasgow School of Arts

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Hauntology, Landscape and Memory

Michael Schoefield
Bunker Hauntology: Photographing Coastal Erosion, War Ruins and the Loss of Cultural Heritage
The University of Leeds

Valentin Via
Landscape Imaginary and Collective Geo-Cartographies. The Still images of Daniel & Clara
Rovira i Virgili University Barcelona, Spain

Sophie Gerrard
Drawn to the Land: Women Custodians of Scottish Landscape
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

Alexander Boyd 
The Empty Frame: Photography, Memory and the Highland Clearances 
Northumbria University

Chair — Lei Cox
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and
Creative Industries

2:45 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m.
Panel 3: The Personal and as Memory and history


Claire Bottomley
(Re)enacting Memories: Possibilities for Radical Re-enactment within Photography
Helsinki, Finland. Artist and educator

Esra Enes
Three steps: How Photography Shifted
Izmiir University of Economics, Turkey

Rutherford
The Self as Auteur: An interpretative Phenomenological Investigation of Self
Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media and Communication

Chair - Laura Guy
The Glasgow School of Art

4.30pm End of Day 1 

Day 2 - 3 February 2023

9:15 a.m. 
Welcome and Introduction

Alistair Scott, School of Arts and Creative Industries

9:30 a.m.
Panel 4: Hidden Histories and the Photo Album


Tugba Tas
Migration, Photography and Memory: A Case Study from the Diaspora from Turkey in London
Ankara University, Turkey

Valentina Bonizzi
Diaries: Lindart and the Albanian Association of Women Artists 1993-2022
Tirana, Albania, artist and researcher

Caroline Molloy
Hidden Histories: A Study of Transcultural Identity Mediated through Family Photography
University of the Creative Arts Farnham

Chair — Alexander Supartono
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

11.00 a.m. - Break 

11.15 a.m. 
Panel 5: Uncomfortable Histories: A Complex Picture

Andrew Eskind
Making Uncomfortable History Visible: Siegfried Lauterwasser, A Case Study
New York, USA - independent researcher

Emile Shemilt
Of Stewards and Sentinels: (Re)viewing the environmental stewardship of South Georgia during the Industrial Whaling Era
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

Sarah M Lepson 
Destigmatising Posthumous Photographs of Children in the 19th Century and Today
Community College Philadelphia, USA, Prof. In Art History

Casey Hayward
Transience and Intransigence: Fading Memories of Social Affliction documentary filmmaker, artist,
Associate Professor, Bentley University

Chair — Sarah Smith
The Glasgow School of Art

13:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. 
Keynote 2: Ron O'Donnell - Old Edinburgh: New Ideas

Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

2:45 p.m. 
Panel 6: Photography Through Material Memories


Martha Cattell
Ensure A Perfect Representation of Every Plant
independent curator, artist, researcher — UK

Norman McBeath
Lacrimae Rerum: Box Rooms and Dark Rooms
Independent Photographer and Printmaker

Kerstin Stutterheim
The Goldberg-Condition - More to be Seen than One can See
Edinburgh Napier University, School of Arts and Creative Industries

Chair — Christina McBride
The Glasgow School of Art

3:30 p.m. 
Closing Words

Kerstin Stutterheim, Garrabost Jayalakshmi and Alistair Scott