Archive and Projects Intern

Salary: £22,500 gross, pro rata 3 days per week

Four Corners is offering two 12-month paid internships as part of its new National Lottery Heritage Fund project, The People’s Gallery. This is an exciting opportunity to work on Four Corners’ Archive collection whilst gaining skills in archiving and collections management, and experience in delivering community and exhibition projects.

About Four Corners

Four Corners is a centre for film and photography that has been based in East London for 50 years. We create projects and exhibitions that engage with radical histories and stories from the margins that might not otherwise be told. We recognise that access to the arts is not always equal, and we aim to change that by supporting broad audiences through skills, mentoring and creative opportunities.

Four Corners is a registered charity. We are a team of twelve part-time staff, and we work closely with partners in archives, the local community, higher education, visual arts and film to deliver our programmes.

You can find out more about our mission here: http://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/mission

Four Corners Archive

Four Corners’ Archive documents the early history of Four Corners and the Half Moon Photography Workshop/Camerawork (1972 – 1987). Neighbours in East London, these innovative art collectives played an important role in the development of socially engaged film and photography in the UK. Four Corners continues to draw upon this radical history through its work today. The archive is held at Four Corners and the Bishopsgate Institute, and can be explored online at http://www.fourcornersarchive.org.

The People’s Gallery

The People’s Gallery project will develop Four Corners’ Archive collection and open up its history to new audiences. We aim to create a ‘living archive’ that draws connections between the past and the present and supports community collaboration. We will carry out new research into socially engaged film and photographic work produced in East London in the 1970s and 1980s. This will include interviewing early members of Four Corners and the Half Moon Photography Workshop, and collecting and digitising new material for Four Corners’ Archive collection. Alongside, we will work with volunteers to create short films inspired by the Archive. There will be two exhibitions and a lively events programme.

The Internship Role

This project supports two 12-month paid internships for people from backgrounds under represented in the heritage sector. We are currently seeking applications for the first internship, which will run from April 2024 to March 2025. We are seeking applicants with a strong and demonstrable interest in archiving and collections management, and/or community arts projects.

The intern role will be divided across three main areas: the physical archive collection, the digital archive, and a community archive project working with volunteers. You will work alongside Four Corners’ project staff and volunteers, and receive training in cataloguing and digitising archive material, oral history interviewing, and Premiere Pro editing. You will also support with archival research, digital communications, and the planning of exhibitions and events as required.

There will also be opportunities to create short film and audio works, curate content for Corners’s
online archive and social media, and support exhibitions. You will also be involved in the Project
Steering Group.

Further information

For further details on the role and information on how to apply, please download the application pack.

The closing date for this position is 25/03/2024 at 10:00