Preserving Middle East Photo Heritage
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 09:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative (MEPPI), a collaboration among the Arab Image Foundation, the University of Delaware, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Getty Conservation Institute that launched last year, is building a network of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving the region's rich photographic heritage, and their efforts show it -- in projects now under way from Iraq to Morocco.