This discussion brings together two accomplished female practitioners, photographer Nancy Floyd and writer / curator Sara Knelman, who share an interest in creating women-centred archives. Weathering Time is Floyd’s monumental on-going project of daily self-documentation. Begun in 1982 as a way to document herself age, the project has evolved into an extensive ‘visual almanac’ of the artist with family, friends, pets, evolving technologies and changing fashions and cultures of the last 42 years. 

Lady Readers is collection of photographs of women reading that Knelman has been accumulating over the last decade and highlights her interest in photography and text. Her archive comprises found vintage photographs from every era of photographic history and offers the viewer a window into the possibilities of the private and emancipatory spaces of reading, especially important to women.

Accompanying them in this discussion is Iris Sikking who will moderate the talk. Sikking is Curator of Photography at Fotomuseum Den Haag and co-editor of the volume Why Exhibit?

Nancy Floyd is a winner of the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography. Her Work will be on display in Copeland Gallery 17th-26th May.

Sara Knelman’s Lady Readers can be seen in Unit 8, Copeland Park between 17th-19th May.

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