From Concept To Community: Building A Digital Platform That Fosters Knowledge And Collaboration.
Karla Alvarez and Santiago Navarrete, members of the team behind this initiative, will share how this project came to life, evolved from an idea into an international resource, and the challenges they navigated along the way.
The structure of the event will be a 30 minutes presentation followed by a Q&A. We hope that you will join us to discuss how to inspire, stay connected and share knowledge in the field of Photograph Conservation.
Karla Alvarez holds a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography of Mexico (ENCRyM-INAH), specializing in photograph conservation, and has additional training in Ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH-INAH). She has worked on the conservation of institutional archives in Mexico, including the National Archives (Archivo General de la Nación) and the National Film Archive (Cineteca Nacional). In the private sector, she has participated in projects involving the digitization of photographic negatives and the conservation and treatment of photographs at Cecilia Salgado’s studio. She is currently a Photograph and Paper Conservation Fellow at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Her practice brings together conservation and phenomenology, exploring the subjective, embodied, and ethical dimensions of decision-making in conservation.
Santiago Navarrete Mortera studied Conservation and Restoration at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography of Mexico (ENCRyM-INAH) and analog photography at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía. He has participated in literacy education campaigns and is particularly interested in working with rural communities. Currently he is the Photograph Conservator at the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Archive in Mexico City, and he finishes his thesis focusing on accessible cold storage solutions for cellulose nitrate and cellulose acetate negatives.