This year’s AHFAP conference will take place on the 2-3 of November at the iconic Barbican in East London. The keynote will be given by Catherine Croft, director of The Twentieth Century Society and editor of the C20 magazine. Prior to joining The Twentieth Century Society, she worked for English Heritage as a buildings inspector. She is also the author of a book on Concrete Architecture and regularly writes about contemporary as well as historic buildings.
The other speakers are:
Jonathon Vines & Eugenio Falcioni: Endangered Archive Programme
Supporting the work of the Endangered Archive Programme run by the British Library (EAP) in Lesotho and other countries: rewards, lessons and challenges from delivering digitisation workshops around the world.
Børre Høstland: New Museum. New location. New possibilities.
This presentation will focus on the newly opened National Museum of Norway and the motorized easel we have developed to enable us to work more accurately and create new possibilities of digitising artworks.
Tony Richards: Watermark Imaging - Why didn't I think of this before?
This talk will focus on a simplified method of watermark imaging.
David Rowan: Photographing Japanese Scrolls at Birmingham Museums Trust
How we photographed multiple 15m long Japanese Scrolls at the Birmingham Museums Trust during Covid and while the museum was closed.
George Eksts: Reverses
Between 2007 and 2021 I photographed nearly 200,000 works on paper. This is the story of their 'verso' sides, where accidental marks, damage, fragments of unfinished sketches, notes etc. were found.
Kevin Percival & Laura Humphreys: Memory Bank: Documenting Blythe House
Memory Bank aims to capture and record the current state of Blythe House, the home of the Science Museum, British Museum and V&A's archives.
Brittany Brighouse and Eelco Roelsma: From Home Scanner to DigiLab
Digitising the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning
Andrew Tunnard: Large Object Photography at the National Collections Centre
The SMG's National Collections Centre is currently undertaking a project photographing nearly 200 large objects, from the extra-large through fire engines and submarines, down to vans and cars.
Jason Candlin: AI - Jobs for Robots or People?
A discussion paper looking at a number of areas where AI is having an effect on workload for scientific, technical and commercial photographers.
The conference is open to non-members. Details: https://ahfap.org.uk/ahfap-conference-2023
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