Exhibition Preparations: Discovering a Different Side of Sunbeam

This week I have been framing prints of some of the Sunbeam photographers themselves as they "worked" the Thanet coast. These images not only go some way towards documenting "the process" linked with the images in our archive, but also help to contextualise the images, showing some of the photographers at work and the seafront kiosk where the images could be purchased.

The to-do pile of prints, mounts and
some of the smaller frames.

Preparing image of Sunbeam photographer for framing.

Slowly getting through the pile...

Some of the finished frames ready to go.

On a slightly different note to the summery seaside images of children playing on the beach and eating ice-cream, I have also been framing selected Sunbeam reportage images. These demonstrate a side of the SEAS archive that is little-known and quite a contrast when juxtaposed with the stereotypical seaside portraits. In particular, the shell-shocked gaze of a blood-splattered casualty of a bus-crash is slightly disturbing and almost haunting for the viewer after looking at the images that are lighter in nature.

The conference and exhibition are now less than a month away, and preparations are now well-underway as we look towards July 10th and 11th. To book your place on the two-day conference, which includes an evening reception for the exhibition, click-through to:

http://shop.canterbury.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=37&catid=172&prodvarid=250