From the daguerreotype to the digital print, we are surrounded by images that connect and celebrate humanity. As nations struggle with increasingly catastrophic environmental disasters, armed conflict, health emergencies, social injustice, and other crises, the need to preserve our world’s heritage, including photographs, is heightened. Through collaboration and community engagement, the practice of photograph preservation has the capacity to cross boundaries, build trust, and bridge divides.

During this presentation (which includes a little music), professor Debra Hess Norris, from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, will share information on the characterization and preservation of photographic materials. She’ll offer lessons she learned as a conservator, educator, fundraiser, and advocate, from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to the TEDx public stage.