Simply Women/ Women Athletes at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh
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- Simply Women/ Women Athletes at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh
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- 1986 Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh
- Description
- Soviet Women (also known as Women Workers in the USSR) was a photographic project that resulted from Raffles’ trip to the USSR in the summer of 1989. The project was funded by the Scottish Arts Council.
Shot on 35mm black-and-white film, the photographs of this project capture women working in various capacities: haying, harvesting in the field, livestock farming, road and railway construction, plastering, etc. Cumulatively the images form a depiction of the lives and experiences of ordinary Soviet women during what would soon become the final months of the Soviet communist system.
Among some 3500 negatives taken for the project, Raffles selected over 500 frames and made them into 5 x 7 inches prints. She also created a portfolio where photographs are accompanied by short textual anecdotes that reflect an exchange between herself and the women she photographed.
This project was made into an exhibition in May 1990 at the Pearce Institute, Govan, as part of the programme of events for Glasgow as European City of Culture. Then the pictures were transferred to be exhibited in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Entitled ‘Women Workers: An Exhibition about Women and Work in Glasgow and the Soviet Union’, the exhibition included both the Soviet Women project and photographs of women workers in Glasgow taken by Raffles immediately after she returned to Scotland from the Soviet Union. The latter project is named ‘Non-traditional Work’. - Collection
- Franki Raffles Photography Collection
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- Franki Raffles Photography Collection Parent record level Collection
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- July 1986 - August 1986
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- 1308 negatives
- 81 contact sheets
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- Special Collections - Photographic Collections
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- Acknowledgement
- © Franki Raffles Estate, all rights reserved. Image courtesy of University of St Andrews Library and Edinburgh Napier University.
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- 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.
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- Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums