SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
Principal Investigator: Thy Phu
Co-Applicants: Sarah Bassnett, Elspeth Brown, Deepali Dewan, Sarah Parsons
Collaborators: Kelly Wood, Nadine Attewell, Julie Crooks, Silvia Forni, Richard Fung, Donald Goellnicht, Sunil Gupta, Vinh Nguyen, Gaelle Morel, Sophie Hackett, Laura Wexler, Peter Leonard, Gabrielle Moser, Laura Levin, Lily Cho, Sharon Sliwinski, Shawn Michelle Smith, Linda Steer, Abdelkaderr Ouda, Kamran Sedig
Partners: Western University, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (formerly the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives), Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University's Film + Photography Preservation & Collections Management (F+PPCM) program, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Yale University
Staff, Students & Volunteers
Archivists, Curators, and Consultants
Lucie Handley-Girard, The ArQuives (formerly CLGA) Digital Archivist
Jennifer Orpana, ROM Assistant Curator
Julienne Pascoe, FamCam Digital Consultant
Current Interns, Assistants, and Volunteers
Vitor Pavao, MA F+PPCM student, Ryerson University: ROM Intern (2019)
Tori Abel, PhD student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ROM Collection Technician (2019)
Videographers
Manuela Accarpio
Celio Barreto
Blanche Joslin
Annette Mangaard
Katie Micak
Vitor Pavao
Past Staff, Students, and Volunteers
Victoria Abel, MA F+PPCM student, Ryerson University: ROM Intern (2017); ROM Collection Technician (2017-2018); CLGA Collection Technician (2018)
Celio Barreto, MA F+PPCM student, Ryerson University: ROM Intern (2016-2017); ROM Collections Assistant (2017-2018); FamCam Technical Assistant (2016-2018)
Christina Battle, PhD Art & Visual Culture candidate, Western University: FamCam Graduate RA & Video Editor (2016)
Anne Cibola, Designer: Logo & Conference material (2017)
Mark Kasumovic, PhD Art & Visual Culture candidate, Western University: FamCam RA & Video Editor (2017-2018)
Nawang Kinkar, undergraduate student, University of Toronto: ROM Digitizing Volunteer (2016/2017)
Idit Kohan-Harpaz, MA student, F+PPCM, Ryerson University: ROM Intern (2018)
Bonnie Lao, U of T student: Translation Volunteer (2018)
Jennifer Orpana, PhD Art & Visual Culture: FamCam Project Assistant (2016)
Sehr Shah, History & Political Science undergraduate student, University of Toronto: ROM Intern (2016/2017)
Sajdeep Soomal, MA student, University of Toronto: CLGA Collections & Outreach Assistant (2017-2018)
Melanie Wilmink, PhD candidate, York University: FamCam Conference Coordinator (2017)
Maya Wilson-Sanchez, Visual & Critical Studies undergraduate student, OCAD U: ROM Intern (2017)
External Collaborators
Oral History Workshop II (July 2017): Gracia Dyer Jalea (Toronto Ward Museum), Luis van Isschot (University of Toronto) & Sizwe Alexandre Inking
Videography Workshop (June 2017): Annette Mangaard (Video Consultant)
OCADU Graduate Course (2016/2017) - Digital Futures: Family Camera at the ROM (DIGFS5003 & DIGFS5004)
Instructors: Martha Ladly (course director), Immony Men (creative & technical director), Julie Crooks (curatorial instructor), Jennifer Orpana (curatorial instructor)
Participating Students: Samaa Ahmed, Margarita Castro, Bijun Chen, Mudit Ganguly, Thom Jeffrey Garcia, Sara Gazzaz, Afaq Ahmed Karadia, Annette Mangaard, Ania Medrek, Katie Micak, Natasha Mody, Manik Perera Gunatilleke, Maya Wilson-Sanchez and April Xie.
Preserving & Caring for Vernacular Photographs Workshop (Sept. 2016): Monique Fischer & the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
Oral History Workshop I (May 2016): Gracia Dyer Jalea (Toronto Ward Museum) & Luis van Isschot (University of Toronto)
Banner Image (top of page): Reframing Family Photography conference (M. Kasumovic, 2017).