Magnum Photography Foundation’s Photography, Expanded Syposium
One of the key challenges our project has been facing is how we can make our growing archive of portraits and interviews easier to access and browse for people with older computers and software, lower bandwidth, and less comfort in a digital space.
We were honored to be selected as one of four of Magnum Photography Foundation’s Photography, Expanded Lab projects and excited to work with our “lab partners” to think through possible solutions. We were paired with collaborators working in transmedia design (Christopher Taylor Edwards) and social media outreach (Anna Nolan); together, we explored some of our strengths and challenges is greater detail, and brainstormed possible next steps.
To learn more about the Photography, Expanded Symposium and our “lessons learned,” watch our brief presentation and the panel discussion involving all four projects that followed – and check out some of the other amazing talks while you’re at it!
While we are newly inspired to seek additional funding to support future creative collaboration and development of a more intuitive, user-friendly web archive, for now we have migrated our site over to a more easily searchable and downloadable temporary home. We launched this interim site on World AIDS Day and will continue to tweak and expand on the offerings there in the coming year (there are still more portraits and interviews from Australia – and longer versions of many interviews – to come!) We hope you’ll take some time to explore this new tool and let us know how it works for you.