Intricacies of Place: Visualizing Migration Through Alternative Photographic Processes with Elizabeth Ransom
Intricacies of Place: Visualizing Migration Through Alternative Photographic Processes with Elizabeth Ransom
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, August 8th, at 7 pm EDT
Join us for an in-depth discussion on the significance of place. With Elizabeth Ransom as our guide, we will explore how alternative forms of photography can be used to navigate stories of global movement and migration.
Based between the Pacific Northwest and the South of England artist, researcher, and educator Elizabeth Ransom draws from her own personal experience of migration to visualize the complex and individual understanding of transnationality.
From homesickness to place attachment Ransom uses alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, film soup, and soil chromatography to investigate the everyday lived experiences of those who have their roots in multiple locations. Reflecting on themes of displacement, memory, rootedness, and belonging particularly from the perspective of migrant women Ransom will take us through three of her most recent bodies of work Immigration Day (2019), The Woods (2021-2022), and Homesick (2021-2023). Ransom is also the founder and director of Women Alternative Photography Group a feminist research project celebrating women, non-binary, and LGBTQIA+ artists from all backgrounds working with alternative photographic processes. Ransom will introduce the ongoing interview series and some of the work she is doing to advocate for women working with analog photography.
Elizabeth Ransom is a PhD candidate at the University for the Creative Arts where she is completing a practice-based PhD on the use of alternative photographic processes to visualise the lived experience of transnationality for migrant women. Ransom is the Founder and Director of Women Alternative Photography Group (WAPG) and works for the Fast Forward: Women in Photography as Assistant Researcher and Administrator. Ransom is an Adjunct Professor at Western Washington University in the Art and Art History Department and runs workshops at The Photographic Center Northwest. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, India, Mexico, China, and the US.
Elizabeth Ransom, The Woods 7, Soil Chromatography
Elizabeth Ransom, Apfelsaft Schorle, Berlin Frankfurt Moscow Champex Trains - 57 days, Film Soup
Elizabeth Ransom, Rain Cyanotype 2 from the series Immigration Day
Elizabeth Ransom, Surface Records from the series Immigration Day
