One Photo at a Time
September 21, 2024 | 1–3 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Anne Cox Chambers Wing Lobby
Registration Required
Image Credit: John Stephens
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What would it be like to build your own archive? How do time, people, and memories inform the photos and objects around you?
One Photo at a Time is an archival workshop that will engage visitors in documenting, preserving, and archiving one’s personal memories and history through photography. The workshop will focus on communal sharing, memory recollection, and storytelling to further imagine a world where narratives, whole or fragmented, are accessible and looked after with care. Participants will receive a toolkit with equipment and materials to process a photograph on-site and four additional photographs in their homes. Photos will be printed from smartphone devices, using Polaroid’s Lab Printers, and placed in photo sleeves.
About Your Instructor
Sierra King serves as the founder of Build Your Archive, where she has used the framework to document her own artistic and archival praxis. She lives and works as an artist, archivist, and curator in Atlanta and holds a BA in art from Valdosta State University. Her current research investigates how ritual and routine practices among Black women and their communities have led to historical pivots within the global narrative. This work is also considers the relationships between community memory workers and institutional spaces. King is a Social Justice for Archivist scholar and master’s student in Library and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama.
About Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space
This workshop is offered in connection to Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space. Mitchell rose to global prominence in 2018 when he photographed Beyoncé for the September issue of Vogue as the first Black artist to shoot the cover in the magazine’s then 126-year history. In his work, Mitchell explores style, beauty, and family lineage through playfully theatrical, expressive, and often communal photographs. His images, which seamlessly blend his fashion and conceptual photography, connect to references of ancestral heritage and the importance of leisure and camaraderie.
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