Someone yawning, a baby with a blurred face, weddings, jazz clubs, caravan holidays and a child in a kilt with their face obscured by the photographer’s finger. These are just a handful of the submissions made by members of the public to an online archive managed by GRAIN Projects. Developed as an open call repository, the GENERATIONS Archive forms part of the wider GENERATIONS programme that focuses on a series of newly commissioned four and five direct line generation family portraits by Julian Germain which are exhibited across public locations in Birmingham and neighbouring Sandwell this summer. GENERATIONS Archive is a newly formed archive drawn from multiple other family archives. It is reflective of the families and friendships of people across the West Midlands region, the images they hold in significance and the ways that these document both ordinary and extraordinary moments in their recent lives and older histories …
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Commissioned by GRAIN Projects and published by the Socially Engaged Photography Network / Open Eye Gallery, July 2022.
Image: GENERATIONS Family Archive, 2022.
Anneka French 