
Photo novels on display!
Few days are left to visit the exhibition Roman-Photo at MUCEM, Marseille, which will run until next Monday, April 23rd. We (Valentina and I) visited it last week and are enthusiastic about it. The exhibition is a large retrospective on the photo novel. Starting from the origin of the medium, the first half delineates its core features and its evolution in time, showcasing a great variety of well-known titles next to lesser-known ones, photo novels with celebrities, short fil

PHOTO-Lit at ECHIC 2018
Last week Valentina and Clarissa presented PHOTO-Lit at the ECHIC Conference “Equip and Engage. Research and Dissemination Infrastructures for the Humanities”. The title of the presentation was “PHOTO-Lit: Opportunities and issues of digitizing the Belgian photo novels”. After introducing the project, the talk focused on questions of preservation and dissemination that the digitization process of photo novels raises. It touched upon metadata and the challenge of recording the