Analogue Memories is a collaborative assemblage of photographic memories gestalted by the aesthetics and contemporaneity of disposable cameras. As part of the very first experimental folk high school week at Gellerup Højskole, photographic material was collected with disposable cameras by the participants attending the three week-long courses. The photographs subsequently formed the basis for a reunion where the former “students” were invited to co-create a permanent photo exhibition conveying insoghts from their experiences during the experiment. The first image is a composite photograph of the whole art piece, measuring just under 11m² in total. The proces of composing and putting together the exhibition was also photo documented and is exhibited below among the first onehundred pictures. Weaved in between and following these are digitized versions of the 697 photographs that make up Analogue Memories. The photo exhibition will be on display throughout 2023 at Gudrunsvej 82 in Gellerup, Aarhus. An audiovisual highlight reel of the whole week is exhibited at the bottom of the page.

This art installation is also part of my master's thesis in visual anthropology. The exhibition and its gestalt explored various modes of communication and presentation to enhance the understanding and engagement with the research findings. By incorporating analogue photography and insisting in a collaborative process the exhibition provided a comprehensive and dynamic experience for all participants to engage with our collective experiences and made it possible to co-create a visual narrative comprising a manifold of voices, perspectives and entanglements.

This exhibition was created as part of the research project: 
Ildsjæl: A Multimodal Study of Altruism, Bildung, and Mutable Perceptions of Democracy in Danish Welfare Work