PHOTON is excited to announce a series of free online Zoom lectures by Australian and international conservators and heritage practitioners, running across 2023 and 2024.
Our first speaker is esteemed photographic conservator Cheryl Jackson (Senior Conservator, Preservation for Digitisation, National Library of Australia). In this session called ‘What’s a Darkroom? – Growing up in Photo Conservation’, Cheryl will talk about the changing nature of photographic conservation in Australia over the last 30 years. She’ll tell us about the changing nature of her approach to photographic conservation, some successful treatments, and a maybe a (recoverable!!!) failure.
About the Speaker:
Cheryl has worked in Paper and Photo Conservation since 1987. She was fortunate enough to be at the Canberra College of Advanced Education when they offered a Photographic Conservation subject for the first time – she says it paid to fail chemistry and hang around for an extra semester.
Cheryl has had the privilege of working at the National Archives of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Library of Australia, and short sessions at the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She has been a member of the AICCM since 1984 (with a hiatus in the 2000s while helping raise two kids).
Cheryl has sought out additional training regularly, both in Australia, thanks to PHOTON, and in the US. The training has covered black and white, colour and digital materials and the preservation of large scale collections. She enjoys passing her knowledge on to current and emerging colleagues. Esteemed photographic conservator Cheryl Jackson, Senior Conservator, Preservation for Digitisation at the National Library of Australia, will be presenting a talk titled The Evolution of Photographic Conservation in Australia Over the Last Thirty Years”.
Cheryl has worked in Paper and Photo Conservation since 1987. She was fortunate enough to be at the Canberra College of Advanced Education when they offered a Photographic Conservation subject for the first time – she says it paid to fail chemistry and hang around for an extra semester.
Cheryl has had the privilege of working at the National Archives of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Library of Australia, and short sessions at the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She has been a member of the AICCM since 1984 (with a hiatus in the 2000s while helping raise two kids).
Cheryl has sought out additional training regularly, both in Australia, thanks to PHOTON, and in the US. The training has covered black and white, colour and digital materials and the preservation of large scale collections. She enjoys passing her knowledge on to current and emerging colleagues.