Posts in Resources
Carte de Visite - No 2. Josefina 'Fina' Franke

Back in February I had purchased a small bundle of carte de visite (CDV) from a second hand shop in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, two of which were taken by female owned photo studios. Hallgren was the first of the collection I had explored and today I am sharing what I found about the second photographer, Josefina Franke. Like the Hallgren post, I wanted to share a little insight into the way I work and research so buckle up because this is a bit of a long post!

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Carte de Visite - No 1. Berta Hallgren

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll have seen that in February, I posted about a small photography bundle that I had purchased from a second hand shop in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. My haul consisted of five carte de visite and a Christmas issue of the magazine Femina. Upon scanning, I realised two of the cards I had bought were made by two different women owned photography studios! As it is Women’s History Month, what better way to end it with a dive into the histories of these photographers! When I started researching however, I ended up finding more information than anticipated so have decided to split this up into two parts! I wanted to do this a little different to the biographies and such that I have seen on other blogs, by giving you a look at the way I work.

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International Women 's Day! News and Bits

Happy International Women’s Day! A bit of a short one today. I was recently approached by Llantarnam Grange to put together a guest post for their blog and I decided that it would best to, rather than repeat myself over here, point you in the direction of some other blogs and sites which were interesting to me, so might be to you too!

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The Forger and the Gatherer

The whole point of this blog is not only to keep you all update with what I’m doing artistically and historically, but to share resources with you. Exhibitions, archives, publications, people, you name it. To be used for research, be that historical, social, family history or artistic research and inspiration! I know this is a little late, but yesterday was Holocaust Memorial Day. I figured this would be an ideal time to share with you an archival resource and an exhibition which are historical, and photographic, Jewish resources

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