Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz; this means that 75 years ago Magnum co-founder George Rodger was one of the first photojournalists to witness and report the devastation. I was with Jinx Rodger a couple of years ago uncovering her late husband’s photographic archive when she first shown me his prints…
Category: George Rodger Archive
George Rodger Archive goes to Santander!
I received an email this morning congratulating me on Story38- George Rodger Archive has been shortlisted to be showcased at Santander Photo Festival on 6th June. It’s great to have the opportunity for the George Rodger Archive story being shared, disseminated and even translated for audiences all over the world. Congrats Kate.. That is good…
Story 38 Exhibition
It’s regrettably been over a month since my work with the George Rodger Archive was exhibited and yet I’ve not written up about it. From 30th May until 5th June 2014, Story 38 was showcased at the Lanchester Gallery in Coventry. The piece compromised of an A1 print of the archive, an eighty page book about…
George Rodger Archive: Bergen-Belsen
Magnum co-founder George Rodger was one of the first photographers to document the Bergen-Belson camp after its liberation in 1945. His biographer, Carole Naggar, describes 20th April 1945 as one of three traumas that seriously impacted Rodger’s life. I spent time with his surviving wife and archivist, Jinx Rodger, in 2013 and 2014 while I…
Visiting the George Rodger Archive
Almost two weeks ago now I went back to the George Rodger Archive. I have been several times before this visit to talk to Jinx and record our conversations; I found that from these visits I had learnt a lot about George, the archive and herself. I realised what was important in the archive: -Africa…
What is a Photograph?
Imagine technology as a train that constantly moves forward, as time does, according to our perception. Photography is a product of technology, in this example acting as a single coach, which is inherently synced with its direction, and shares many of its attributes. In order to understand how photography has taken it’s current form and…
The George Rodger Archive Proposal
At 88 years of age, Jinx Rodger still spends 6 hours everyday cataloguing her late husband’s archive – an archive which spans every photograph, artefact and correspondence, because, as Jinx admits “I just can’t throw anything away […] I looked up to him like a God” (Jinx, 2013). George Rodger is the Magnum Photos co-founder…
The Seal of Approval
I spoke woth Jinx’s son Jon today on the phone and I explained to him my project. I was wary that with our speradic emailing that he wasn’t as enthusiastic about the project as I was. In the conversation I explained my intentions: The make an assortment of handmade books to showcase stories of the…
Protected: Interview with Jinx Rodger
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Meeting Jinx Rodger
Meeting Jinx Rodger was quite an experience. Having read so much about her and her life with George Rodger in articles and in Carole Naggar’s biography, I felt pretty nervous to meet her. The visit was fleeting really; I met Jinx, her son Jon and Carole Naggar and spent about two hours with them. I…