Vernacular Photography: Recycling the Memory

The workshop investigates the current meanings, impact, and affect of vintage, found, anonymous, and vernacular photography in relation to our economy of images, altered by social media and photo-sharing applications making everyday photography more immediate, shareable and visible than ever. Five shoeboxes filled with photographs will help us to examine the ways vernacular photography influences, shapes, and challenges memory, individual and collective identities, personal and historical narratives, the social fabric, issues of authenticity, ownership, privacy and public life. In the form of artist zines, micro-editions, photo books, collage diaries, we create different appropriation- and assimilation strategies, so as to create, curate, and perform the vernacular.