Downpour at The Photographers' Gallery (and how to make a receipt printer thing for an exhibition)

On Thursday evening, last week, I went to the launch of the new season of exhibitions at the Photographers' Gallery. I was invited because I am in one of them!Downpour is showing as part of Connection Established: Digital Folklore and Web Craft, an exhibition focused on the rise of craft and personal spaces online. You know, the kinds of people who are making their own personal homepages, who are making zines, who are bringing back blogs. Who are... on Downpour?I'm also inside the thing I'm inside.The exhibition is cool! Curated by Sam Mercer, who is a friend and always a joy to run into at an arts event – and who works at The Photographers' Gallery – and also Kendal Beynon, who I had not met before this, but who is a delight – and is also doing a PhD on the subject, which this exhibition is an extension of. There's a little pirate box, there's a copy of the Internet Phonebook, there's Merrit Kopas's LAN Party book.It's a cool show! Photo © Heather Shuker ⁠And Downpour is showing in a…