It’s ready!
I have completed my wet plate collodion journey, and am ready to exhibit the works.
The 29 ambrotypes of current male residents of Altrincham represent each of the men from Chapel St who failed to return from the Great War. They will be exhibited alongside another new work, At Rest, at the exhibition at AIR Gallery, Altrincham from 14 – 24 November 2018.
Carole Evans is a photographic artist, cultural organizer and educator. As a photographer and researcher, Carole is interested in memory and how photography can be used to evoke and (re) construct memory. Themes of heritage, nostalgia, and community are recurrent in her practice. Current work in progress is a project which will attempt to memorialise the 49 men from "the bravest little street in England," who failed to return home after the Great War. After seven years of working as Gallery Coordinator at Photofusion in Brixton, Carole continuously explores alternative ways of showing work outside the white walled gallery space, be it through her practice or in other curatorial ways. In 2011, she co-founded of Portrait Salon, a salon de refusés of images which have been rejected from the Taylor Wessing Prize organised by the National Portrait Gallery. In 2013 she devised and curated the Altrincham Arts Festival, a pop-up arts festival turning empty shops into temporary art galleries. She is currently Associate Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies at Ravensbourne, and is Dissertation Supervisor for the Photography BA (hons) at University of the Arts Farnham, where she also contributes to the Theory Lecture programme.
