Shackleton Museum Autumn School : 8-10 November 2024, Athy, Ireland
During the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition of 1921-1922, George Hubert Wilkins made a series of colour photographs, or autochromes. These images depict Quest, landscapes of South Georgia and its whaling stations, and the Shackleton memorial cairn at Grytviken with the “Hope Cross” on the day of its completion. With colour photography in its infancy, very few colour images were made on previous polar expeditions and so this collection of 30 pictures represents the only body of autochromes, or indeed colour photographs, of any substance from the era. For a century, the original plates have lain in the archive of the family of John Quiller Rowett, the businessman who financed the expedition. They have never been shown as a complete set. A selection of the Wilkins Quest autochrome images will be exhibited at the Autumn School, and Jan Chojecki, grandson of John Quiller Rowett and author of The Quest Chronicle, will present their story.
Autumn School Programme: https://shackletonmuseum.com/autumn-school-2024/
The Quest autochromes: https://questchronicle.org.uk/news/exploring-in-colour-the-quests-colour-photographs-now-available/
