The following is a guest post by Dr Alistair Scott, Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University, marking the launch of the Franki Raffles Archive website www.frankirafflesarchive.org:
As today is International Women’s Day it seems an appropriate time to start to disseminate information about my research project into the photographic practice of Franki Raffles.
Franki Raffles (1955-94) was a feminist social documentary photographer. A St Andrews graduate, she was based in Edinburgh but travelled widely, photographing women at work and in their everyday lives, in Scotland, and across the world.
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