projects

The activity in a common space and the multifaceted cooperation of the Archeology of Photography Foundation and Sputnik Photos have resulted in an important joint project, which is the permanent program of activities of the Social Center of Photography at 20 Chlodna Street in Warsaw, implemented thanks to a grant from the City of Warsaw.

The Virtual Museum of Photography is an extensive portal that allows free browsing of photographic collections developed by the Archeology of Photography Foundation, and also selected collections of other institutions like Jewish Historical Istitute or Magnetic Fields Foundation. The portal primarly functions as an online database with more than 80 000 objects from more than 20 collections, which can be browsed in many ways and the results easily filtred.

The Archeology of Photography Foundation is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Romanian institution Visual Arts Forum (Asociația Forumul Artelor Vizuale - FAV). The first joint project will be Freedom. Body. Resistance an initiative aimed at promoting contemporary Romanian art in Bulgaria and Poland, offering a new perspective on the changes that have taken place in society and the art scene since 1989.

The Living Archives project was an attempt to look from a different perspective at the artist legacies and other interesting archival collections entrusted to the APF. As part of the project, historical Polish photographers’ archives were opened to contemporary artists who proposed their own projects in their context.

The APF is launching a new exhibition series, Phototheque: starting this year (2013), besides authors represented by the Foundation, we will start showing interesting but little known archives from outside Warsaw. The purpose is to contribute to the charting of a decentralised map of photographic individualities. The series begins with Energy of Time. The Dalkia Archive, a collection of photographs from ca. 1922-1940 by Łódź-based documentalist Wiktor Jekimenko, which premiered at the ‘Fotofestiwal’ International Photographic Festival in Łódź in 2011.

FotoRejestr for its aim had popularization of the idea of archiving photographic collections as well as location and promotion of interesting private and institutional archives. Fotorejestr (www.fotorejestr.net) was a multifaceted project carried out in cooperation with norwegian Teknisk Museum, National Digital Archives of Poland and History Meeting House, Warsaw.