Manifesto

MEMORY CULT is the equidistant point between two good places: the university and the dive bar. This mixture of intellect and play, personal and creative, practical and spiritual, is our distinct core. MC is a space — for ricochet, contagion, creative role-play, exploring the unfinished, presenting the completed, wondering out loud, seeking, finding, exchanging experience and being exposed to new ways of seeing. Outside of and in response to the limitations of social media, it is a space for images and the image-maker.

MEMORY CULT curriculum is non-matriculating, non-hierarchical and non-linear. Prompts, projects & critiques are invitations to make contact with ourselves, others, and the world, which can never be early or late.

Content is approached as a buffet: take what's desirable and leave the rest. Come back for seconds. The private group is open forum; although each month focuses on a project with supporting texts and images, any post is fair game and encouraged. Vernacular, documentary and fine art photography are the overlapping triplets we love.

Are we a school? Community? Artist commune? Global collective journal? Support group? Treehouse? Emotional nudist colony? Our motto above all: stay loose. Broader than genre, our scope is personal and exploratory photography. We exist to strengthen the individual in creative calling. Our structure helps to locate the person within the work, the voice within the person and the photography that voice alone can create. MC is a home.