Old Market community photo-shoot

Free photography day for the community by IC-Visual Lab in collaboration with ONE GIANT ARM

‘10 to 10’ Old Market Community Photo-Shoot

Thursday 19 September 2013, 10am-10pm at the IC-Visual Lab photo office, 58 Old Market St, Bristol, BS2 0ER

Free photography event following the theme “Community”. The project aims to bring together the local community in a fun activity using photography. The event, led by IC-Visual Lab is designed to encourage locals and the wider Bristol community to explore and document Old Market Quarter - bringing attention to the area by building a live photo archive - The Old Market Diaries.

From 10am-10pm participants can capture the everyday life of The Old Market community. The participants can choose to photograph their homes, gardens, work places and streets. The activity is open for everybody - photographers and non-photographers, locals and the wider public. Instructions and map will be provided from the IC-Visual Lab office (58 Old Market Street) during the event.

Participants can then upload their images to a dedicated website www.icvl.co.uk/10to10 which will be available during the day. Our editors will select the final images that shall be uploaded to the project’s online archive. The IC-Visual Lab office will also contain facilities for downloading the images from cameras as well.

Up-and-coming photographers have been invited by One Giant Arm to come along during the day to take their own view of the area. The final images will then become part of the online archive and will be published in a photo booklet co- edited with OGA.

Also available on the day:

Mobile Portrait Studio - professional portrait photographer Kirsty Mackay will taking pictures of passers by in Old Market, who will be able to get their prints afterwards on Clifton Colour.
Digitising old photographs and family albums - bring along your old photographs and family albums related to Old Market to be digitised. The activity will review the past of the area, trying to find unique events that took place and recording the stories behind them. The digitising studio will be based in IC-Visual Lab office.

More about Old Market Quarter

Old Market Quarter has been selected for this project as it is one of Bristol’s fastest growing communities with residents originating from over forty different countries. Yet, Old Market, with its changing worlds and its connected histories, hasn’t ever had its stories told. Via the interventions of the IC Visual Lab collective of photographers and local participants Old Market will act as a catalyst to construct living archive of the area that will enable and enhance greater community cohesion, both within the local community itself but also within greater Bristol as a whole.

Emma Harvey, Centre Manager for the Trinity Centre said; ‘’Trinity has run several heritage projects about the area and we're happy to support IC-Visual Lab in running this great project that explores and celebrates the rich and diverse heritage of local communities"

For more information contact ibi@icvl.co.uk