La Rue des Trois Pigeons:
a blog about photography and Jersey.
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Excavating Emile: an introduction
This series of articles explores the photography of Emile F. Guiton (1879-1972) in relation to archaeology. Whilst Emile’s work with the Société Jersiaise (the Société) extended far beyond the field of archaeology, it was his first and (management of the photographic collections aside) arguably his greatest contribution.
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Maurice Richardson: a conservative man
Being handed a seemingly chaotic personal archive is enthralling and complex experience. It is laced with contradiction; offering an intimate invitation in to a person’s life, yet the individual you see remains a fragmented reflection. As an archivist, you imitate an archaeologist, identifying artefacts as belonging to one strata or another, capturing records of transactions,…
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Taking Time
Taking Time consists of a series of images taken along St Catherine’s Pier, photographed predominately during the period of the first and second coronavirus lockdowns. The series is a photographic documentation of the highly popular pastime of fly fishing, which occurs frequently along the Pier as a recreational pursuit. The series consists of observational portraits…
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