About this Event
In Practice, cameraless darkroom workshop with Sequence at BACKLIT on Wednesday 14 October 2026 at 18:00pm – 20:00pm
Join Dan Wheeler from Sequence for a cameraless photography workshop in the Sequence darkroom at BACKLIT.
Bring objects and ephemera from your own archive or collection to explore making photographic images without a camera. Work created during the session will contribute to THE DRAFT, an ongoing publication, which will travel to the exhibition's, Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive, next locations.
The workshop is free, with a £11.55 refundable deposit to secure your place. This will be returned when you attend the session. BACKLIT covers the full £50 cost of each place; the deposit helps ensure these limited spaces are used.
Visitor Information
- Date: Wednesday 14 October 2026
- Time: 18:00 - 20:00
- Location: Sequence Darkroom, Floor B
- Address: BACKLIT, Alfred House, Ashley Street, Nottingham, NG3 1JG
- Accesible via steps or step free lift into the building
- Access into the darkroom includes one step or a ramp is available
More information about Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive
Tessa Boffin: Where We Touch the Archive is centred on the work and legacy of artist and activist Tessa Boffin (1960–1993).
Working across photography, writing, performance and activism, Boffin challenged dominant ideas of gender, sexuality and visibility, creating space for queer lives to be represented differently. Bringing her work into dialogue with new commissions by Sophie Mak-Schram and Leah McLaine, the exhibition approaches the archive not as a fixed record of the past, but as an energised and collective space shaped by what survives, what remains absent and what can be activated in the present.
The commissions have developed through extensive research within collections held by University for the Creative Arts Special Collections, the Estate of Tessa Boffin/The Gupta+Singh Archives and Hales, London and New York. Responding to Boffin’s images, pedagogy and politics, the new works extend the questions held within her archive rather than attempting to complete or resolve them.
Co-commissioned by Devonshire Collective, Aspex Portsmouth, BACKLIT and Photoworks. Supported by the Jenni Crain Foundation, The National Archives, the Paul Mellon Foundation and Arts Council England.
Access Information
- Step-free access: Available via Alfred Street and via a tarmac ramp to the lower ground floor and Project Gallery.
- Lift access: Our staff-operated lift is currently accessible from Ashley Street only. If you require lift access, please email in advance or use the intercom when you arrive so that a member of staff can assist you.
- Accessible parking: Limited parking is available by arrangement. To book parking, please call 0115 837 2426 or email .
- Toilets: All toilets are gender neutral. Please note that we are undergoing capital development and have limited access to toilets.
- Assistance dogs: Guide and hearing dogs are welcome throughout the building.
- Need more information? If you have any questions or access requirements before your visit, please get in touch—we're happy to help.
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