This new podcast leads on from our previous one about recording your own oral history interviews, but here we focus specifically on the subject of using photographs to help elicit stories from people.
Julia and Rick, from Catcher Media, talk about their own experience of using photographic archives, especially in their most recent 4-year project: www.herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk, and are joined in this endeavour by Geoff Broadway who has been using family photographs in his own project: Living Memory which was set up to ‘record, archive and celebrate life stories and personal photography collections from across the Black Country’.
Geoff, Julia and Rick touch on many topics in their free-ranging discussion including how photographs can provide a rapport, and some of the recurring themes that people return to when talking about their lives through old family or archive photographs. underpinning the whole discussion is the sense that when you record someone’s life story or listen to them you are in fact bearing witness and valuing someone else’s story.
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