
Making Memory Visible Through Photography
Photographer and academic Julia Winckler, Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton's School of Art and Media, traces how photography carries and reconstructs memory across migration, war and loss. Delivered at Gresham College, the talk moves through case studies: a suitcase belonging to the Hecker family that opens onto Holocaust post-memory, two sisters recalling wartime experience differently, a participant-led photography project in Agadez, Niger, and the testimony of interpreters recalling the countries they carry with them. Student projects built from found photographs address grief and absence, while later sections cover work with professional and community archives, a speculative history of the garden city at Peacehaven, a 1912 photograph that launched a playgrounds project, Marilyn Stafford's images of a demolished Paris neighbourhood, and Crawley's new town photographs, which drew 3,000 visitors who recognised faces sixty-five years on. Winckler closes by framing photography as a continually evolving memory practice.