From Silver to Gold: Mining Photographic Archives with Eric William Carroll

Written By Susan Patrice
 

From Silver to Gold: Mining Photographic Archives with Eric William Carroll

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, June 28th, at 7 pm EDT

With approximately five billion photographs made every day, it can be utterly overwhelming to search and sift through other people's photos. Enter the archive! Artist and photographer Eric William Carroll will walk through his experience collaborating with archivists & archives and incorporating appropriated imagery into his own creative practice.

Eric will speak openly and in detail about how he approached photographic archives for his projects A Light Year of Lead, Standard Stars and Punctum/One Year of Taking Pictures, and offer up his advice for other artists and photographers interested in collaborating with image archives.

Half of the evening's program will include time for Q&A's for participants to ask questions or offer up their own experience in working with archives. We'll be sure to touch on hot-button topics such as copyright, image quality, and transformation.

 

Eric William Carroll’s work on photography, science, and nature explores the differences in how we experience, organize, and represent the world. Through his photographs, installations, and performances, Carroll creates visual and emotional connections that span enormous distances in space and time. As a public scholar Carroll activates archives and collaborates playfully with artists and non-artists alike. At the heart of his practice is a genuine sense of curiosity and humor that questions traditional binary relationships.
 
Carroll’s work has been shown widely and has been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Pier 24 Photography, among others. Carroll has participated in residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Rayko Photo Center and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and was the winner of the 2012 Baum Award for Emerging Photographers. Born and raised in the Midwest, Carroll is currently based in Asheville, North Carolina.

 

Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll

 

Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll

Eric William Carroll

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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