We’ll begin with an automatic writing exercise, drawing out our experience of travelling to and arriving at Photobook Cafe. This will help to settle us in and relax us in the space.

Together, we’ll start to informally explore the photographs that Alex has brought to the session. This will involve group conversation and some free association writing exercises to shape our understanding of the images. 

Through a process of selection and collecting, we’ll begin to assemble our own archival folder, bringing images and text together to create a layered history. If you have brought your own images, you’ll be encouraged to use those in your archive, too.

To finish the session, we’ll each write an affirmation to the place in which we live. We’ll seal it in an envelope to store in our own personal archives, to be read - or not read - at a later date.

Please bring 3-5 images of your own to the session to include within the Archive. These can be images you took or found imagery.