I was pleased to present a paper entitled 'Wellow: Recounting ancestral memories of place through lens based autobiographical practice' at this online international conference organised by Archivo Platform and the Archivo Papers Journal.

'Wellow' (2020), is a short experimental video, comprised of an edited sequence of 45 photographs, ending with a 20-second video clip. The film dwells upon the specificity of place in relation to memory, family history, mortality and religion, triggered by the deterioration and redevelopment of the artist's late Grandfather’s Baptist chapel in Wellow, a rural village on the Isle of Wight.

'I don't wanna be the best...I just wanna dance' (working film title)

I am currently working on a new project that reflects upon my childhood experience of learning to dance and my obsession with the film and TV series 'Fame'. As a shy, skinny girl I was able to escape into another world through dance and become someone else and free myself from my inhibitions.

There are only two photographs of me performing on stage as a child which seems unreal compared to the contemporary obsession with documenting our lifes relentlessly, especially parent's photographing their children's acheivements.

This film and photography project draws upon significant objects saved from the past - worn out ballet shoes, leotards, photographs, Fame albums and fan magazines, as well as High School Christmas production programmes, together with extracts from the well loved children's novel by Mary Noel Streatfeild, 'White Boots' (1956) to create a multi-layered reflective narrative.

My chapter, 'Staging Sermon: Performing Autobiographical Memory Through The Waste Land' is included in this extensive edition. My chapter provides a self-reflexive evaluation of a series of nine photographs, entitled 'Sermon' from the 'Waste Land' project (2005-2010), that was produced for my practice-based PhD. T.S Eliot’s seminal poem, 'The Waste Land' (1922) was used to examine my adaptation methodology and self-representational strategies through a visual translation of my experience of parental divorce.

'The Handbook of Research on the Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Photography' covers many aspects of the multiple relationships between autobiographical memory and photography such as the idea that memory and photography can be seen as forms of mental time and the effect photography has on autobiographical memory. Covering key topics such as identity, trauma, and remembrance, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, sociologists, psychologists, artists, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, educators, and students.

Edited by Dr Mark Ingham (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Dr Nela Milic (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK), Dr Vasileios Kantas (University of West Attica, Greece), Dr Sara Andersdotter (University of the Creative Arts, Sweden), Dr Paul Lowe (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK)

Release Date: February 2023

Pages: 636

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5337-7

ISBN13: 9781668453377

ISBN10: 1668453371

EISBN13: 9781668453384