Photography, personal archives and handmade books
A hand resting on a shoulder. A familiar dress. Something in the background you have never noticed before.
What makes a small detail in a photograph stay with us?
My workshops invite you to look again at family photographs and discover where they might lead. Drawing on my artistic project Punctum of Memory, we explore how a photographic detail can become a new image or the beginning of a personal story.
The starting point is Roland Barthes’s idea of punctum: the detail in a photograph that touches us personally.
Host a workshop
I welcome collaborations with galleries, museums, libraries, cultural centres and festivals. Workshops can be offered independently or alongside an artist talk, project presentation or exhibition.
With nine years of experience teaching photography, I offer individual guidance while encouraging participants to develop their own visual language.
Get in touch to discuss a workshop for your programme.
Tell me about your venue, preferred dates and group, and I will prepare a tailored proposal.
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Revived Memories
An experimental Polaroid workshop
4 hours · 8–12 participants
Choose a detail. Change its scale. Watch it become another photograph.
Working with a digitised family or archival image, you will select a fragment that draws your attention. Through cropping and enlargement, you will explore how its meaning changes when it is separated from the original scene.
You will then photograph the fragment directly from a screen using a shared Polaroid camera. As the image develops, the familiar photograph takes on a different texture and physical presence.
The workshop combines guided experiments, individual support and a shared viewing of the finished photographs.
You will leave with your own Polaroid image and a way of working you can continue exploring at home.
Bring a small selection of digitised photographs. No previous Polaroid experience or personal camera is needed.
Family Portraiture
Photography, writing and a handmade memory zine
8 hours, including breaks · 8–12 participants
What would you write beside a photograph—and what would you leave unsaid?
In this workshop, you will create a small handmade book combining archival photographs with your own writing. A gesture, an unanswered question or a half-remembered moment can become your starting point.
Short writing exercises will help you explore what you remember, what you know from others and what remains uncertain. You will experiment with photographic fragments, collage and the order of images and words, discovering how a story unfolds across pages.
I will guide you through editing, making a paper mock-up and folding and hand-stitching your publication.
You will leave with a personal photo-text zine, made by hand.
Bring digital files and printed copies of selected photographs. Reproductions of letters and personal notes are welcome too. No bookbinding experience or attendance at the Polaroid workshop is required.
A space for your own approach
You choose which photographs to work with and how much to share. Personal storytelling and reading aloud are always optional. Your book can remain entirely private.
We work with copies, keeping original photographs and documents intact.