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Welcome to the flickr site for Photographic Index, part of the BA (Hons) in Digital Photography at the London South Bank University.

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Photographic Index is a unit that examines the nature of the photographic image through historical analysis and practical experimentation.

In this project the Photographic Index group work with the photographic archives of Camerawork, a London-based photographer’s gallery that operated from 1975 to 1998.

Twenty boxes related to Camerawork’s touring exhibitions programme is currently housed at the London South Bank University. The aim is to engage with a particular section of this archive, the box titled Girls’ Subcultures. (GS box) containing the 1981 photographic series Visible Girls by Anita Corbin.

The aims are to rethink the content of this box in the wider context of photographic archive and cultural memory.
1-exploring the concept of photographic exhibition in a networked environment, through the development of an online archive.
2-reinterpret the concepts of subculture in contemporary youth culture by producing a reinterpretation of the GS box in the form of a gallery exhibit.

Throughout the project, students engage in a dialogue with the Girls’ Subculture archive box, experimenting with a range of strategies, including ways to digitise its content and to update it into contemporary youth culture.