Feed Your Mind: Telling stories through family photographs

Join curator Angela Brown for a discussion about the importance of family album photographs.

This lunchtime talk will explore how individual photographs can tell bigger stories when grouped as an archive, and the ways that family albums can be an important form of self-representation, giving people the power to share their own stories.

Angela will delve into some of the histories featured in a new digital archive of family photographs developed by Impressions Gallery and New Focus: Bradford Young Curators. Built following months of community outreach, the archive brings together personal photographs from households, families, and community hubs across Bradford, and addresses themes of migration, belonging and home – as seen and lived through the eyes of its residents.

Angela will also invite some of the young curators to share their experiences of preserving these treasured photographs and memories, as well as the process of building a digital archive.

The talk will take place in our current exhibition , featuring some of this rich archival material, which together with newly commissioned photography, presents a vibrant portrait of life in Bradford.

Feed Your Mind is our ongoing series of informal, insightful lunchtime talks inspired by our exhibition programme.

Free, donations welcome.

Bradford Family Album and Make Yourself at Home are curated and produced by Impressions Gallery and New Focus: Bradford Young Curators. Commissioned by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.

Image top: Leaving party, Pollard Lane, 1981. Courtesy of June Nicholson.

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