Workshops
Three-month Training Course in Photograph Conservation for Libraries, Archives and Art Collections
Rahul Sharma
Join us for an intensive 3 months training course in photograph conservation for libraries, archives and art collections. This course is designed for people working in libraries, archives and other institutional collections, who work with photographic materials as a part of their professional responsibilities.
Over 12 weeks of on-site instruction, you will learn the fundamentals of photograph conservation: identification of photographic processes, minor conservation treatments, preventive conservation, and disaster salvage for 19th, 20th, and 21st century materials. At the end of the course, you will return to your home institution, and carry out a 4-week conservation project, where you will apply what you have learnt during the course.
The workshop will be hands-on, where you will spend time in the darkroom reconstructing historical processes to understand the materials, their identification, and deterioration. This will be complemented by sessions in the conservation lab, where you will work on historical and contemporary photographs. In addition to in-person training, you will attend online lectures from art-historians and conservators to understand what we do and why we do it.
Apply for this programme and we will let you know if you are selected by February 10th, 2025.
This training programme is supported by Tata Trusts and conducted by the Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru.
Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is a Photograph conservator currently based out of India. Trained in conservation from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi, and the University of Amsterdam, he was worked in both private practice, and in organizations such as the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH),Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA), The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona,and the Getty Research Institute.
Rahul’s work in photograph conservation combines bench conservation and technical-art historical analysis to not just preserve, but better understand cultural heritage objects. His most recent project was a condition survey and assessment of the glass plate negative archive of Raja Lala Deen Dayal, housed at IGNCA, New Delhi.
