Comments on: Photographs http://www.vaviblog.com A voice for N.I. Vavilov Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christine Mackey http://www.vaviblog.com/photographs/comment-page-1/#comment-15111 Christine Mackey Mon, 23 May 2011 14:20:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/?page_id=88#comment-15111 Hello, My name is Christine and I am a PhD student/ visual artist based in Leitrim, Ireland. I am currently working on an art project to do with heritage seeds in Ireland and the aim of the exhibition is open up a discussion on seeds as an extremely important part of all our cultures. In Ireland many heritage seeds have been lost, however the work of seed-savers in Clare are doing excellent work in trying to preserve and grow what we do have.I went to Norway http://www.christinemackey.com/gobalvault.html to visit the seed vault and that was a really incredible journey. I would dearly love to visit Russia- but for now I am not sure from a financial point of view that I can go. At the moment I have become really interested with the Irish Pea which was repatriated from Vavilov Institute by Irish Seed Savers and part of this work would be to trace the historical journey the humble pea has made from Ireland to Russia and back again. The reason why I am writing is for a number of reasons, I am interested in collecting an archive of images from the Vavilvov Institute taken by individuals and groups all over the world and to present these images as part of this exhibition. Of course full credit would be acknowledged to all people. I think this would make for an interesting piece of work as it references both the movement of seeds but also people and the importance of this institute, which in Ireland very few people know exists. I wonder if readers would be interested in taking part in this exhibition request and would be delighted to hear back from people. Really looking forward to a possible dialogue and sharing of information and ideas. My work can be viewed on www.christinemackey.com Yours sincerely Hello, My name is Christine and I am a PhD student/ visual artist based in Leitrim, Ireland. I am currently working on an art project to do with heritage seeds in Ireland and the aim of the exhibition is open up a discussion on seeds as an extremely important part of all our cultures. In Ireland many heritage seeds have been lost, however the work of seed-savers in Clare are doing excellent work in trying to preserve and grow what we do have.I went to Norway http://www.christinemackey.com/gobalvault.html to visit the seed vault and that was a really incredible journey. I would dearly love to visit Russia- but for now I am not sure from a financial point of view that I can go. At the moment I have become really interested with the Irish Pea which was repatriated from Vavilov Institute by Irish Seed Savers and part of this work would be to trace the historical journey the humble pea has made from Ireland to Russia and back again.
The reason why I am writing is for a number of reasons, I am interested in collecting an archive of images from the Vavilvov Institute taken by individuals and groups all over the world and to present these images as part of this exhibition. Of course full credit would be acknowledged to all people. I think this would make for an interesting piece of work as it references both the movement of seeds but also people and the importance of this institute, which in Ireland very few people know exists. I wonder if readers would be interested in taking part in this exhibition request and would be delighted to hear back from people.
Really looking forward to a possible dialogue and sharing of information and ideas.

My work can be viewed on http://www.christinemackey.com

Yours sincerely

]]> By: admin http://www.vaviblog.com/photographs/comment-page-1/#comment-6464 admin Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:11:47 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/?page_id=88#comment-6464 And where are they now? It would be good to know that they remain in good hands are being, perhaps, digitized and made available. And where are they now? It would be good to know that they remain in good hands are being, perhaps, digitized and made available.

]]> By: Paul Stapleton http://www.vaviblog.com/photographs/comment-page-1/#comment-6354 Paul Stapleton Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:10:51 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wordpress/?page_id=88#comment-6354 While I was editing and designing "Five Continents", when I was working for the-then IPGRI, I asked the Vavilov Institute to send me originals of the photographs that I found in the manuscript. The archivists scoured their archives and sent me a big box by DHL, which when I opened it, contained original glass negatives, each in a paper envelope, precisely labelled in Vavilov's own handwriting, and each slide signed by Vavilov himself. I almost had heart failure. How much were these worth? I immediately sent them off to be scanned and returned them as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, we did not have the funds to do the photographs justice in the actual publication. While I was editing and designing “Five Continents”, when I was working for the-then IPGRI, I asked the Vavilov Institute to send me originals of the photographs that I found in the manuscript. The archivists scoured their archives and sent me a big box by DHL, which when I opened it, contained original glass negatives, each in a paper envelope, precisely labelled in Vavilov’s own handwriting, and each slide signed by Vavilov himself. I almost had heart failure. How much were these worth? I immediately sent them off to be scanned and returned them as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, we did not have the funds to do the photographs justice in the actual publication.

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