ONLINE COURSE
Rediscovering Your Forgotten Frames: Using Your Personal Photo Archive to Create New Work
Explore the potential of the perhaps overwhelming number of images in your photo archive: unused pictures from earlier or unfinished projects, or just random photographs you took long ago. Through weekly assignments, you’ll learn to rediscover and repurpose your images by weaving them together with newly created photographs to develop and uncover new stories and emotions in these forgotten frames. We’ll examine the work of artists, photographers, and writers — including Gerhard Richter, JH Engström, and Carmen Winant — who have dwelled in the past to create in the present. By the end of the course, you will have gained new tools to navigate and activate your archive and create meaningful connections with your current personal practice.
Helena Goñi is an artist driven by analog processes in photography and is a photobook enthusiast. Helena is from Bilbao, Spain, and is currently based in Brooklyn, where she moved in 2021 thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the International Center of Photography.
She holds an MFA in Photography from Central Saint Martins (London) and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, BilbaoArte Foundation, Cité des Arts (Paris), and Koganecho AIR (Japan). Her work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the International Center of Photography, 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo), PhotoMuseum Zarautz (Spain), Aldama Fabre Gallery and others. She is also the founder of Caleidoscopio, a photography educational platform for youth in the Basque Country.