Why We Post
”We used to talk, now we talk photos.” Why We Post, UCL In a social digital world, the role of photography has changed dramatically, something that is highly affecting how museums and archives work with photograph collections. This is the starting point of the project...
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Reflections from the Helsinki Photomedia Conference
Helsinki Photomedia 2016, Photographic Agencies and Materialities March 30. April 1. 2016 Elisabeth Boogh, Kajsa Hartig, Bente Jensen, and Anni Wallenius At the turn of March and April the project team participated in the third biannual Helsinki Photomedia research...
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Experimenting with Instagram as documentation tool
Guest post by Kitt Boding-Jensen, curator, Den Gamle By, Aarhus, Denmark Den Gamle By has in two projects experimented with the picture sharing app Instagram as a documentation tool. In the following, some of our learnings from these experiments will be described....
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Archives and Museums’ use of social media for collecting photography
A majority of us takes photos and videos anywhere, anytime, of anything and everything on mobile devices, on tablets and smart phones cameras, and share them with each other. It happens across cultures and on a global scale. Photography is already a common cultural...
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The Museum liked your photo
Why do people photograph? How do they choose their themes, tools, materials and moments for the photographs? Where do they keep their photos? What information do they attach to them? How do they show their photographs and who gets to see them? These questions are...
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Towards a New Practice of Collecting
The digital turn has changed photography; some say that the development is as profound as when photography was invented in the 1830´s. Photography is no longer a physical thing collected in shoeboxes or photo albums, or kept in controlled climate archives as a unique...
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Launching #collectingsocialphoto – and a look in the rear mirror
As we are now launching the project Collecting the Digital: From a Photographic Perspective, we (the participating museums and archive) will start by looking at where we are and what lies ahead. Not only within the project but also in our museums and archives and how...
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