Matt Haycocks
Matt Haycocks is a designer and lecturer at Belfast School of Architecture and Westminster University London. His research interests include domestic photography of place, the historicization of place and the use of historic images to brand and promote places. His current research project investigates exhibition and trade show architecture in early 20 th century Dresden using both institutional archives and postcards. He is part of a team (with Brigitte Lardinois, London College of Communication) researching the Reeves Archive. The Reeves Studio in Lewes East Sussex founded in 1858 is probably the world’s oldest photographic studio still in operation, with an archive of approximately 240,000 glass negatives. He designed and co-curated the exhibition ‘Stories through a Glass Plate’ for the Brighton Photography Biennial 2014 and a further exhibition is planned for the November 2016 of Studio Portraits of Women 1914-18 from the Reeves archive. Both exhibitions use novel strategies for the display of images beyond a conventional gallery model.
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