Workers Lives Photographed: Approaches in Research and Museum Work

We invite you to join the seminar on worker portraiture in the postwar decades on the both sides of the "iron curtain", its archiving and public engagement. Focused on heritage of photographers Mykola Bilokon (Pokrovsk, Ukraine) and Franki Raffles (UK), the seminar offers opportunities for cooperation between artists, researchers, and museum practitioners.

To participate in the seminar, please register via this form.

The event will be held in English and Ukrainian with simultaneous translation. 

Among the speakers: 

• Tetiana Kostiuchenko – deputy director of the Pokrovsk Historical Museum; 
• Dr. Iryna Sklokina –historian, researcher at the Center for Urban History;
• Dr. Catherine Spencer – art historian, senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.

Organizers:

• NGO "Pokrovsk Cultural Code";
• Pokrovsk Historical Museum;
• Center for Urban History;
• Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture;
• University of St. Andrews.

The seminar is supported by the British Council. The meeting takes place within the framework of the project "The Worker Portrait in the Twentieth Century: Archives and Artistic Reflection" and is supported by the British Council’s Support for Cultural Activity in Ukraine with UK Involvement program.

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