Memorial Photo Booth
Memorial Photo Booth is an ongoing participatory project, trialled initially online at the art.earth Borrowed Time Symposium on Death, Dying and Change (November 2021), followed by an in-person event for Dying for Life at Cambridge Crematorium in 2023. In the memorial Photo Booth, the artist works with individual volunteer collaborators to create experimental photographic and digitally printed Memorial Portraits. The project encourages discourse and reflection about notions of memorialisation in a post-pandemic world and the place of the Memorial Portrait in the contemporary archive.
Participants are invited to consider how they wish to be visually represented in perpetuity; and when is the optimum time of life to capture a Memorial Portrait. In online Photo Booth workshops, a head and shoulders portrait is captured as a screen-grab. Face-to-face Photo Booth sessions rely on a simple portable backdrop and digital photography. Resulting images are then taken through various layers of analogue and digital process, before being produced as Fine Art prints. Each collaborator receives in exchange a new and unique digital and Fine Art print of their Memorial Photo Booth portrait.
Please get in touch if you would like more information about this project, or would like to participate in a Memorial Photo Booth
