Tours for FORMAT 2015

Tour dates and times have been announced!

During international photography festival FORMAT 2015, W.W. Winter will be running tours around the studio and building. One—hour tours will be available to visitors to explore the building and discover a history of photography, equipment and images in the studio's archive.

Booking Essential

Book through the QUAD box office on 01332 290 606 (places are limited to 15 per session).
Tours will take place at 12noon and 2pm on the following dates:
Saturday 14 March
Saturday 21 March
Wednesday 25 March
Tuesday 31 March
Thursday 9 April

Please note the tour includes at least one flight of stairs.

Artist in Residence

We are also delight to announce that artist in residence, Debbie Adele Cooper, will be exhibiting her Winter's inspired work at St. Werburghs Church, Cheapside, Derby (close to Derby Museum). Read about her work on the FORMAT website here, and follow her project on twitter:

Sneak preview of one of the dry plate glass negatives made at thephotoparlour for @formatfestival only… http://t.co/0sr4BgjlzB
— Archive Artist (@archive_artist) February 19, 2015

We look forward to seeing you!

A Rather Fabulous Foursome

Who are these handsome lads and lasses? Who indeed!

We may not know who they are or what they did but they have one thing in common for certain - they were all photographed at W. W. Winter Photographer's in Derby, on quarter plate glass negatives, most likely in the late 1940's.

How do we know?

There's a rather fabulous project going on at W. W. Winter's at the moment. We have our very own Artist in Residence. Debbie Adele Cooper has been combing our archive, delicately scanning these old glass negatives to reveal a myriad wonderful faces. Her research has taken her back through traditional darkroom printing and now onto vintage photography techniques.

Get involved and have your photo taken!

The rediscovery of these lost faces reminds us of our personal histories and the traces we leave... perhaps the above sitters had families in Derby. Maybe their offspring are living here today. Do you look like one of the people in the portraits that Debbie has revealed? Then she wants to hear from you now!

You don't have to be related to the people in the pictures, just have a resemblance to the original, and a link to Derby yourself.

Take a look at the DerbyAnon website - new images are still being added.

Follow the project on Twitter and Instagram via @archive_artist

Contact Debbie via email through info@debbiecooper.org

We look forward to seeing you in the studio and finding out whose face you fit!