The Slow Camera Exchange and Shared Memories Exhibition in Hollyhill Library

Launch of The Slow Camera Exchange and Shared Memories exhibition series in lead up to Cork Culture Night

 

Exhibition in Hollyhill Library from the 8th–30th September 2022

Launch on the 8th September 2022 @ 18:30 in Hollyhill Library

 

The Slow Camera Exchange is being launched in Hollyhill Library running from the 8th to the 30th September. 

 

The Slow Camera Exchange, supported by the Creative Ireland Creativity in Older People Fund, was established in memory of Hermann Marbe and speaks to his aspiration of making the arts and creativity more accessible. It supports people from all walks of life to use analogue photography processes to slow down and see the world through a variety of different lenses.

 

The exhibition will include a unique series of mini-exhibitions. The Shared Memories exhibit will feature a selection of images created with residents from the Westgate Centre. Led by artists Carmel Creaner and Anne Kiely, participants used a unique 4X5 monorail bellow camera previously used by Hermann. 

 

Images from members of the FProject Collective will also be displayed in the exhibition. The groups used equipment from the collection of over seventy analogue cameras collected and used by artist Hermann Marbe during his lifetime to create the exhibition. Completing the exhibition series will be a collection of polaroid images taken Hermann Marbe and his family. 

 

Together with Cork Film Centre, Cork City Library Service and funding support from the Creative Ireland Programme, the initiative will establish a camera loan scheme via a pilot initiative at Hollyhill Library – the first of its kind in the country. The initiative will facilitate access to a selection of analogue, user-friendly cameras and kits from the collection for a cohort of older people and intergenerational groups.

 

Founder and artistic director of the project, Jessica Carson Marbe speaks to the goals of the project:

 

“Hermann and I were not only partners in life but creative collaborators. We were fascinated by creative expression that usually goes unseen and stories that are often unheard and loved to work in spaces where participation in the arts is broad and accessible. We viewed that creative expression as a right.  It seems fitting for his cameras to be made available for use and to celebrate that creativity that will emerge.”

 

The Slow Camera Exchange is supported by the Creative Ireland Programme, an all-of-government five year initiative, which places creativity at the centre of public policy. Further information from creative.ireland.ie and Ireland.ie