Upcoming workshop.
10 participants will attend the Digitization of Photographs workshop which consists of a four-day workshop that will take place at the Arab Image Foundation from 21-24 March 2017.
13 participants from the MEPPI alumni cohort attended the Environment, Exhibition and Storage of Photographs workshop, an advanced workshop part of MEPPI Phase II. The workshop was a two-week workshop which took place at the bibliothèque nationale du royaume du maroc 10-21 October 2016.
18 participants from the MEPPI alumni cohort attended the Digitization of Photographs workshop, an advanced workshop part of MEPPI Phase II. The workshop consisted of two four-day back to back workshops which took place at the Arab Image Foundation from 10-13 May & 16-19 May. Topics covered included understanding quality issues of digital reproductions; quality control and image processing; choosing and evaluating equipment; and file and metadata management. The workshop teaching includes lectures and practical work sessions.
16 participants from the MEPPI alumni cohort attended the Environment, Exhibition and Storage of Photographs workshop, an advanced workshop part of MEPPI Phase II workshops.
The Environment, Exhibition and Storage of Photographs workshop was a two-week workshop which took place at the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut 9-20 November 2015.
MEPPI courses are designed to provide basic theoretical and practical training in the care of a broad range of photographic materials found in the collections of museums, libraries, archives and other repositories.
The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative’s (MEPPI) second course opened on the 11th of November 2012, gathering 16 participants from Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Iran and the UAE. The course began with an 8-day workshop, generously hosted by New York University, Abu Dhabi (NYUAD).
The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI) Beirut 2011, held its first course in photograph preservation co-ordinated by the Arab Image Foundation (AIF), the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Conservation Institute. This was the first of a series of three, 8-day photograph preservation workshops in the Middle East.
