For some reason I can’t fathom my Apple Mac wont allow me to put links in so have to put them in on a PC.
Anyway, my on-line photographic exhibition is now up and running – complete with short film!- so now its "all hands on deck" to complete mounting the digital prints.
www.childrenofcraigynos.com
Having worked on computers so much for the past few months I had forgotten how particular one has to be when it comes to producing a finished product that you can hold in your hands – not that folk are going to hold the photos in their hands but you get my meaning.
As I prepare this exhibition I hear the voices of my tutors at Glasgow School of Art muttering their mantra:" less is more, less is more" and find myself doing some ruthless editing of phtographs.
Web site goes live.
Well, at 1am this morning I get an e-mail from my web designer- ex graduate from Glasgow School of Art- to say that he has uploaded my photographic exhibition "The Children of Craig-y-nos" to its new domain name:www.childrenofcraigynos.com
We have checked and double-checked all links to make certain they are all working, so here’s hoping….
I am astonished this morning to get a phone call from Wales from a woman congratulating me on the new online photographic exhibition”The Children of Craig-y-nos”.
The site does not go “live” until next week and some parts are still under construction.
How did she get into it?
“My grandson did this morning at 9 o clock.”
So he hacked into it!…I didn’t dare ask his age. Suspect he’s still in primary school.
And that’s what constantly amazes me about this project- the way it crosses generations.
Yesterday I got an e-mail from the granddaughter of 90 year old Thomas Isaac who was in the Adelina Patti Hospital in 1928.
This is the first photograph of Craig-y-nos Castle, built in 1880.( Well, this is where the image should be if only the technology worked…)
The “Children of Craig-y-nos” online book has turned into a public project using new media to tap into the collective memories of a whole community dealing with a taboo disease.
I am co-authoring a printed version with Outreach Historian Dr Carole Reeves, organising a Patients Reunion next month which ties in with an online photographic exhibition and an exhibition in Wales.
It is supported by The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London’, Heritage Lottery Fund and The Sleeping Giant Foundation (new media oral history charity in Wales).
