Collection photography · Digitisation · Image rights
Photographing art
for the record.
I'm the Collection Digitisation Manager at the Art Gallery of South Australia. I manage the Gallery's collection photography, its FotoWare image library and its copyright service.
01 / The work
The work
Paintings, works on paper and objects photographed for catalogues, exhibitions and the online collection. Each entry notes how it was lit and captured.
02 / Projects
Projects
The systems and services behind the images: how the Gallery requests, stores, checks and publishes its photography.
Monet's Water Lilies, photographed in situ
01 / Collection photography
Monet, in situ
A campaign image shot in the gallery, because the painting couldn't come to the studio.
FotoWare: one home for the Gallery's images
02 / Digital asset management
One image library
Bringing the Gallery's collection images into one managed library, connected to EMu and the website.
Photography requests: an in-house system
03 / Workflow design
A better way to request
Replacing a third-party subscription with a request system built on the Gallery's own Microsoft platform.
Image rights for Tarnanthi
04 / Copyright & ICIP
Rights, with relationships
Clearance for exhibitions of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, designed around cultural rights as well as copyright.