Franki Raffles Photography Collection

Object type Photograph Record level Collection

Details

Title
Franki Raffles Photography Collection
Description
Franki Raffles was a feminist social documentary photographer. She was based in Scotland but also travelled widely, photographing women at work and in their everyday lives. Her death in 1994 at the age of 39 came just as her work and reputation was coming to wide public attention.

The Franki Raffles Photography Collection holds photographic materials and documents related to Raffles's career as a photographer, ranging from materials for learning photography and images produced from her early attempts to take and print photographs, to exhibition mock-ups for her last and unfinished project. The collection contains over 40,000 photographs that exist in a variety of physical manifestations. The work of Raffles in the collection is organised in accordance with the photographic projects and journeys she undertook.

In collaboration with Edinburgh Napier University and with the full support of Franki Raffles’s family, the University aims to compile a systematic catalogue of her work and to organise an exhibition of selected photographs which will begin the process of assessing her career, celebrate her contribution to photography in Scotland and contribute to the wider understanding of social documentary and feminist photography.

This collection is managed in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University
Collection
Photographic Collections
Parent record
Scottish Contemporary and Social Documentary Collections (collecting area) Parent record level Collection
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Date
1979 - 1994
Department
Special Collections - Photographic Collections
Record level
Collection
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Format
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Acknowledgement
© Franki Raffles Estate, all rights reserved. Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library and Edinburgh Napier University.|© Franki Raffles Estate, all rights reserved. Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library and Edinburgh Napier University.
Conditions
The Franki Raffles Collection is jointly managed by Edinburgh Napier University and the University of St Andrews. Reproduction for University of St Andrews exhibition, publication, research and promotion. Any external or commercial use to be approved/managed by artist or estate, which can be facilitated by Special Collections.|The Franki Raffles Collection is jointly managed by Edinburgh Napier University and the University of St Andrews. Reproduction for University of St Andrews exhibition, publication, research and promotion. Any external or commercial use to be approved/managed by artist or estate, which can be facilitated by Special Collections.
Credit line
Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums

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