The Archeology of Photography Foundation invites you to take part in an international online workshop organised as part of the Museum Dialogues programme – an initiative coordinated by the University of Sunderland (Northern Centre of Photography and NEPN), in collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and MUFoco – Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea.
When?
– Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 2.00–5.00 pm (Polish time; 1–4 pm British Summer Time)
– online (Zoom)
Attendance is free of charge, but advance registration is required.
About workshop
The fifth event in the Museum Dialogues series will focus on issues relating to the acquisition, cataloguing and public access to photographic archives – both within and outside museum institutions.
Invited experts will share their experiences in collection building and accession practices, discussing the institutions’ objectives, issues of public access, and the challenges associated with the care of photographic archives. The meeting will also address the visibility of archives, strategies for their development, and the role of research and educational and exhibition activities in promoting them.
The workshop will also address key issues of representation, diversity and inclusivity, as well as the barriers faced by artists with diverse identities in the process of incorporating their work into archives. Participants will also reflect on what makes it into the archive, and on the challenges of constructing historical narratives based on incomplete materials.
What is Museum Dialogues?
Museum Dialogues is an international research and networking programme aimed at transcending the boundaries between disciplines such as art history, visual culture, photography, new media and curatorial studies. The project brings together researchers and practitioners, fostering the exchange of experiences, methods and reflections on displaying, collecting and interpreting photography.
The initiative builds a transnational network of collaboration, develops new tools for working with photography, and explores how contemporary museum practices influence the understanding of global photographic cultures.
We invite you to register and take part in the meeting
This is a unique opportunity to discover international perspectives and exchange experiences in the field of working with photographic archives.
Experts
Dr Weronika Kobylińska – art historian, president of the Archeology of Photography Foundation and lecturer at the Łódź Film School. Author of academic publications on the history of photography in Poland, exhibition curator and judge of photography competitions.
Hyunjung Son – a curator, researcher and critic from Seoul, specialising in photography and visual culture. She works at the Photography Seoul Museum of Art (Photo SeMA), Korea’s first public museum of photography. Her work focuses on, among other things, photographic archives, the materiality of photography, and the reinterpretation of photographic history beyond dominant narratives.
