Saturday Spotlight: Conserving Photographs after Japan's Tsunami

Assistant curator Philip Grover discusses the background to the Pitt Rivers Museum's current Long Gallery exhibition 'Surviving Tsunami: Photographs in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake'. His talk will examine the role of photography after the 2011 disaster, as well as look in detail at the work of the Rikuzentakata Disaster Document Digitalization Project, a volunteer-led initiative to salvage and conserve historic material from three institutions destroyed in the tsunami. A group of volunteers continues to work on the RD3 Project, drying, cleaning, digitising and documenting over 65,000 photographs, many of which record life in the Tohoku region over the last century.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000393?id=EVENT462942