Exposing the Archive – A Workshop on Medical Photography
Join Liz Orton, a visual artist working with photography, text, and performance for a free workshop in which you’ll be able to explore the relationship between images, knowledge, ethics and authorship through the medium of collage and/or zine-making. As contemporary researchers or creative practitioners, you will use visual and material forms of inquiry to consider how to respect the dignity of historical medical subjects, and how to acknowledge the challenges of sharing archival images, whilst also taking care of yourselves.
We’ll be exploring freely available online visual material held at Wellcome Collection. All craft materials will be provided. The materials have been carefully selected by the Ethics of Medical Photography project team, but due to the nature of medical photography, could include nudity and upsetting, outdated representations of mental illness, disability and race.
This workshop is part of a project on the Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present and Future run by De Montfort University and the University of Leeds in collaboration with Wellcome Collection, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
This workshop is for early career researchers, on or post their PhD research journeys, from any discipline.
Participants must be 18 or over.
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:30 – 15:30 BST
Wellcome Collection183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE