Talking Cultural - Archives Unplugged

panel discussion about the work of photography archives, the central principles of archival practice, which underpin our understanding of what archives are and do in society.

International photography archive manager of Werner Bischof's collection, Marco Bischof and Ngā Taonga principal archivist Jamie Lean and Auckland Libraries participate in this informative and free panel. Jamie Lean is the Principal Archivist for Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound.

He has had over two decades of experience in acquisitions, storage, preservation and digitisation of audio visual media in new Zealand. In that time he has led development of specialist collection storage including nitrate film, digital film preservation projects, the transition to a digital archive as well as moving and handling physical collections. 45 minutes plus Q + A.