This Photomonitor conversation between Jenny Brownrigg and Dr. Alistair Scott (Edinburgh Napier University) focuses on feminist social documentary photographer Franki Raffles (1955-1994). Dr Alistair Scott set up The Raffles Archive Project which has gathered together Raffles’ complete photographic practice, together with her notebooks, diaries and press cuttings. Jenny Brownrigg (Exhibitions Director, Glasgow School of Art) curated the exhibition ‘Franki Raffles: Observing Women at Work’ at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, the first solo exhibition of Raffles’ work in the twenty-three years since her untimely death.

The conversation looks at the genesis of the Franki Raffles Archive Project, the importance of the archive as a platform for a photographer's body of work and places Raffles' photography into a wider UK context of photography from the 1970s' and 1980s'.

Photomonitor is an online magazine focusing on photography and lens-based media in the UK and Ireland. Photomonitor helps to promote engaging thought on artists’ work to their readers in more than 120 countries around the world. The 'Interviews' series present interviews with leading members of the art and photography community. In the coming months Photomonitor will be speaking to artists across the UK and Ireland on their current practice, exhibitions, projects and inspirations.

This Conversation between Brownrigg and Scott was an invitation from Dr Katherine Parhar.