Announcing our Archive Research Fellowship
The Peter Marlow Foundation (PMF) was established in 2018 to commemorate the late Magnum photographer Peter Marlow. The Foundation’s goals centre around celebrating, preserving and activating Peter’s archive, as well as supporting contemporary photography and visual literacy in the United Kingdom, with a special focus on Kent and surrounding counties.
In 2022 the Peter Marlow Foundation started compiling Peter’s archive in Dungeness in Kent. Marlow, his partner Fiona Naylor and their family lived between Dungeness and London since the early 2000’s. Naylor continues to be a resident at Dungeness and is in the process of developing a custom built home for PMF in Pluto II, an historic WWII pumping station. When completed the remodelled structure will house Marlow’s archive, an extensive photo book library donated from the Magnum Tokyo office, dark room, workshop space, as well as public programming and an artist residency program.
Since its founding, the organisation has established a dynamic programme of participatory engagement, designed to share and promote the social potential of photography. As part of this work we partnered on our Young Creatives Collective programme with The University for the Creative Arts. Following that project, University leads Professor Anna Fox and Dr Caroline Molloy helped PMF’s Director of Development & Programming, Shannon Ghannam, secure Knowledge Exchange Partnership funding to support an Archival Research Fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship was to invite a PhD student from UCA to help PMF investigate best practice for photographic archives and develop an archival practices training programme for local young people.
Camille Serisier was selected as our inaugural Archival Research Fellow. Camille is currently a doctoral candidate and studentship holder in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts. Her wealth of experience in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector, alongside her participatory practice positioned her as the ideal candidate for this role.
As our Archival Research Fellow, Camille researched and drafted a comprehensive scoping review of the Foundation’s resources and goals. This included a reconsideration of our guiding pillars, an archival inventory, a proposed organisational structure that will allow us to deliver a world class photographic archive and related activities, an archival practices training programme for local young people as well as a sustainability strategy to support these ambitious changes. We are excited to pursue the recommendations included in Camille’s research in order to build upon and improve our existing programmes and activities.
A report about this research and its associated outcomes is available on the UCA digital research repository, UCARO and here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-PKWbUQ_ZB6MhDrx7zUBBv41ONI8M69furs3aKUw1z8/edit?usp=sharing
We hope that this report will be useful for other photographers and photographic archives and we would encourage you to let us know if and how you use this material.
We look forward to sharing additional outcomes of this significant knowledge exchange initiative in the future.
In 2022 the Peter Marlow Foundation started compiling Peter’s archive in Dungeness in Kent. Marlow, his partner Fiona Naylor and their family lived between Dungeness and London since the early 2000’s. Naylor continues to be a resident at Dungeness and is in the process of developing a custom built home for PMF in Pluto II, an historic WWII pumping station. When completed the remodelled structure will house Marlow’s archive, an extensive photo book library donated from the Magnum Tokyo office, dark room, workshop space, as well as public programming and an artist residency program.
Since its founding, the organisation has established a dynamic programme of participatory engagement, designed to share and promote the social potential of photography. As part of this work we partnered on our Young Creatives Collective programme with The University for the Creative Arts. Following that project, University leads Professor Anna Fox and Dr Caroline Molloy helped PMF’s Director of Development & Programming, Shannon Ghannam, secure Knowledge Exchange Partnership funding to support an Archival Research Fellowship. The purpose of the fellowship was to invite a PhD student from UCA to help PMF investigate best practice for photographic archives and develop an archival practices training programme for local young people.
Camille Serisier was selected as our inaugural Archival Research Fellow. Camille is currently a doctoral candidate and studentship holder in Photography at the University for the Creative Arts. Her wealth of experience in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector, alongside her participatory practice positioned her as the ideal candidate for this role.
As our Archival Research Fellow, Camille researched and drafted a comprehensive scoping review of the Foundation’s resources and goals. This included a reconsideration of our guiding pillars, an archival inventory, a proposed organisational structure that will allow us to deliver a world class photographic archive and related activities, an archival practices training programme for local young people as well as a sustainability strategy to support these ambitious changes. We are excited to pursue the recommendations included in Camille’s research in order to build upon and improve our existing programmes and activities.
A report about this research and its associated outcomes is available on the UCA digital research repository, UCARO and here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-PKWbUQ_ZB6MhDrx7zUBBv41ONI8M69furs3aKUw1z8/edit?usp=sharing
We hope that this report will be useful for other photographers and photographic archives and we would encourage you to let us know if and how you use this material.
We look forward to sharing additional outcomes of this significant knowledge exchange initiative in the future.
