With the 2025 Routledge publication Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use, and Care as a starting point, we are pleased to announce the following upcoming international program. Join leaders and allied professionals in a free online exploration of the evolving field of photograph conservation.
Co-Organized by the American Institute for Conservation, Photographic Materials Group (AIC PMG), and the International Council of Museums - Committee for Conservation, Photographic Materials Working Group (ICOM-CC PMWG), this session promises to be an engaging and far-reaching exchange among colleagues dedicated to the preservation and understanding of photographic heritage.
Program Title: Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use, Care, and Direction
Time: 08:00 EST / 13:00 GMT / 14:00 CET / 21:00 HKT
Duration: 2 hours
Registration will be free, and details and access link will follow shortly.
Image: The Met's dedicated photograph conservation lab in 2001, seen here before it was fully occupied. Pictured from left to right are Nora Kennedy, Erin Murphy, Adrienne Lundgren, and Nancy Reinhold. Image credit: Juan Trujillo.
Programme
Welcome
Dr. Richard Mulholland. Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University and ICOM-CC Photographic Materials Working Group Coordinator (UK)
Tatiana Cole. Conservator of Photographs, Harvard Art Museums and AIC Photographic Materials Group Chair (USA)
Book Editors’ Remarks: Context and vision behind Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use, and Care
Nora Kennedy. Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA)
Bertrand Lavédrine. Full Professor, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (France)
Debbie Hess Norris. Chair and Professor, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware (USA)
Moderator: Luisa Casella. Independent Photograph Conservator (USA)
Purpose and Value of Photograph Holdings Around the World - Now and in the Future
Soledad Abarca. Director, National Library of Chile (Chile)
Sérgio Burgi. Head Curator of Photography, Instituto Moreira Salles (Brazil)
Denise Bethel. Independent Advisor, Researcher, Writer, Lecturer (USA)
Moderator: Clara von Waldthausen. Director, MA Programme Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Global Challenges, Education, and Building Capacity
Paul Ninson. Founder and Executive Director, Dikan (Ghana)
Estíbaliz Guzmán. Senior Conservator of Photographs, Centro Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)
Girikumar. Conservator in Private Practice (India)
Moderator: Dr. Richard Mulholland.Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University and ICOM-CC Photographic Materials Working Group Coordinator (UK)
Future Direction in the Field of Photograph Conservation
Rana Nasser Eddin. Director, Arab Image Foundation (Lebanon)
Fred Ritchin. Author, Educator, Editor, and Curator (USA)
Paul Messier. Photographic Print Research, Analysis and Consulting (USA)
Moderator: Marta García Celma. Senior Conservator, M+ Museum (Hong Kong)
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