The tower in the forest, found slide from my collection.
I'm reviving my Flickr account, if you fancy traveling back in time and seeing how I used to talk about photographs from back in time, then take a look. www.flickr.com/photos/parso...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is incredible
Star Trek and Cat. From my collection. As ever I love the surreal nature and humour of this.
#foundphoto #photography #startrek
Archiving in the Age of (Super) Abundance - There is an incredible free event from the BFI tomorrow which is free to livestream... its certainly worth watching. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...
Drop me a message if you'd like a copy. Thanks for your support! I promise it's very boring.
Boring Book, Dawn Parsonage. It's full of portraits of bored people, both contemporary as part of the project, and also found photographs of bored people through time.
This is an appeal for support to help with my practice, so do order a copy if you can!
www.dawnparsonage.com/product-page...
Yep we've moved over to Signal, its great!
haha yes! But at a fair I imagine.
Page from a family album, Kansas, USA c. 1920s-1950s.
Each page is dedicated to one person, lovingly stuck down to create a cascade of portraits of one person growing up.
From my own collection
Blimey. Your work is incredible.
This looks stunning
Good luck!
The Edwardians Weren't Always Edwardian. Please take a look at my next SubStack all about a huge project which I've been wrangling for a while - What do you do with every single photograph of someones life? I think you'll enjoy it.
dawnparsonage.substack.com
You'll be pleased to know that I now have a Substack about my collection. I've collected for more than 30 years and in that time I've gathers around 20,000 images give or take the odd 5,000. Please consider subscripting, see you there!
open.substack.com/pub/dawnpars...
The Scream 1940s South Africa. Part of my collection.
Thank you so much for the research!
Silly wolf
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From my collection, Teddington, England 1906.
Just incredible
Thank you!
Heres to love and togetherness.
#foundphoto #oldphoto #together #love #humanity
Indeed! It's always a good thing!
I'm literally obsessed with Ocativa E Butler at the moment
From my collection.
Photographs of emotions are a big part of my collection. They link us to the people we see, they come alive.
#foundphoto #foundphotograph #love
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