INDUSTRY:
MUSEUM
CLIENT:
THE WENDE MUSEUM
YEAR:
2025
EXPERIENCE:
PHOTOGRAPHY
Museum Object Photography & Digitization
about.
At the Wende Museum, I worked under the Director of Collections and Collections Associate and was trained in professional object handling, cataloging in MIMSY, and applying controlled vocabularies to create consistent metadata records. This training gave me a strong foundation in collections documentation, as well as the care and handling of sensitive and oversized materials.
I drew on my photography background to initiate a project digitizing their USSR in Construction magazine collection, an iconic Cold War–era propaganda series. To complete this, I set up a professional photography station and developed a repeatable digitization workflow to ensure future files can be accurately named, processed, and stored for long-term access. You can look through some of my work on the Wende Online Collection. Here are a few favorites:
This project became a bridge between my collections training and my digital practice. Working with fragile, oversized materials required adapting my technical skills to a cultural heritage context and gave me firsthand experience in balancing efficiency with care. This work also laid the groundwork for my Digital Humanities capstone, where I extended this work by analyzing metadata patterns and visual propaganda through computational methods.
consulting services
I offer museum object photography and digitization services, with a focus on helping institutions develop workflows for oversized paper-based objects or other complex materials.
I understand the challenges small teams face when working with limited resources and I bring both technical skill and workflow clarity to make digitization more sustainable, not overwhelming. If you're setting up a digitization project or looking to document your process for long-term use, I can help make your collection visible (and built to last).
