FOUND PHOTO FOUNDATION
FPF Found Photo Foundation is an artist-led platform dedicated to collection, care and study of orphan photographs. There are multiple reasons photographs become orphan: they may have been abandoned following the death of their owners, they may have been stolen, or they may have simply ceased to be useful and thrown in the garbage, from where they may have been rescued and put back on the market.
FPF Found Photo Foundation methodologies contrast with those of traditional institutional archives. They are experimental and mobilise vernacular and queer feminist models of assembling collections. Artistic methodologies, developed specifically for each collection, include critical transdisciplinary research, collaborative field work, photogrammetry, 3dmodeling, biographical annotation, photobook publishing and installation work.
Exhibitions like "Dear Aby Warburg" and "Paradigm Store" have provided a curatorial framework to survey the creative processes within the Found Photo Foundation. These reflect the diversity of media and archival methodologies deployed in the work with orphan photography, including the use of provisional taxonomies and the foregrounding of participatory tools.
FOUND PHOTO FOUNDATION experimental participatory archiving
Dear Aby Warburg: What can be done with images? Dealing with Photographic
Material Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
CHAOS OF MEMORIES
Reflective essay drawn out of existing artistic practice,
the focus is the Found Photo Foundation experimental archiving
TORN, FOLDED, CURLED : FOUND PHOTO FOUNDATION IN RESIDENCY
AT THE ARAB IMAGE FOUNDATION
FPF#1 Newspaper work
Found Photo Foundation
TIMELINE VORTEX (UNFIXED)
Found Photo Foundation
Born in 1987: The Animated GIF exhibition
The Photographer's Gallery Media Wall
Time of Its Other (allegories of history)
Found Photo Foundation
Connecting Worlds exhibition
The Drawing Room/ UBM
Order and Collapse: The lives of Archives
The book presents the Found Photo Foundation
in the context of contemporary artistic and research-based
approaches to existing archives, the act of collecting images,
and creating new archives.
Source: Arab Image Foundation
Reflective essay organised around three photobooks sourced from the Arab Image Foundation photographic collections
Dear Aby Warburg
What can be done with images?
This book presents FOUND PHOTO FOUNDATION
with recent positions in contemporary art that deal
with photographic material.
Participatory Architectures (Memory, Archive, Revolution)
Found Photo Foundation
Paradigm Store exhibition
Orphan Editions: photobooks sourced from the FOUND PHOTO FOUNDATION
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk