Resolution: I was a founding director of a non-profit dedicated to photography and photo collections in Africa. We collaborate to preserve vibrant photo collections and create innovative programmes to dramatically expand access.
Our projects tap photography’s unparalleled potential to communicate across linguistic and geographic borders, and promote photography as an artistic, cultural, and civic resource.
Co-founders and co-directors are Erin Haney and Jennifer Bajorek
3PA: Préservation du Patrimoine Photographique Africain
We brought together museum professionals, educators, artists, leaders and activists to collaborate and expand upon the role art can play as a civic and community resource.
Lectures and demonstrations by Bertrand Lavédrine (Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections, France), Debra Hess Norris (University of Delaware Department of Art Conservation), and Nora Kennedy (Photograph Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art) led hands-on practicums on identification of negative and print processes, safe handling and archiving, housing and storage materials, advocacy and grant-writing.
Fatima Fall (director, Centre de Recherches et de Documentation du Sénégal, Saint-Louis, Senegal), Henrike Grohs (director, Goethe-Institut, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire), Marie Lavandier (director, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Paris), Franck Ogou (l’École du Patrimoine Africain, Porto-Novo, Benin), and Erin Haney and Jennifer Bajorek of Resolution. Innovating on public programming, community outreach, publications, exhibitions and exhibition alternatives, intellectual property, and digitization. All sessions geared to address the needs of participants working the varied geographic, cultural, and institutional contexts in Africa.
photos and video (C) Caroline Lacey and Resolution