Picture It photographs now on display!
Could you complete the Picture It challenge?
By Pauline Gault, Informal learning project manager
During the opening event of the temporary exhibition Presence of the Past, 20 photography enthusiasts got together to start ‘Picture It’ – a participatory photo project.
They had three months to take pictures, following specific instructions about the subjects and themes connected to the exhibition, with a Kodak camera. This was particularly appropriate as our building was originally funded by George Eastman, who helped invent the Kodak camera!
On Sunday 21 September, which also doubled as a European Heritage Day, the participants met for a workshop with a facilatator in the museum education room. Here they reflected on the Picture It project, discussed and explained their pictures, and together chose the arrangement of the pictures within the exhibition space that inspired the whole project.
The participants’ photographs are now exhibited on a wall in the exhibition space until the end of Presence of the Past in January 2026.
Want to try the Picture it challenge yourself? Check out their wall display and follow the Picture It list of instructions. Share your photographs, tagging the museum!
What I liked was that it‘s no matter how good photographer you are with your high-tech camera, here we were all placed on equal footing with this camera from the 1980s.
I did not follow the numbering suggested; towards the end of the assignment, when I detected these feelings, I captured them.
Image credit: Basia Pawlik Photography