Advisory board

People who can tell us we're wrong.

An archive that grades its own provenance, ethics, and rights practices is an archive that will eventually grade itself generously. The advisory board exists to make that harder.

What the board does

  • Reviews our provenance and description standards, and challenges them where they're convenient rather than correct.
  • Advises on the ethics of holding photographs of identifiable people — especially the vulnerable, the deceased, and those who never consented to a camera.
  • Pressure-tests our rights, consent, and contributor-earnings model against how it actually lands for the people on the other side of it.
  • Has standing to publish disagreement with us. A board that can only agree isn't oversight.

Members

Seats are filled deliberately, across archival practice, photographic history, privacy law, and community representation. Members are listed here as each appointment is confirmed — we'd rather name no one than pad the page. Fill in

If you work in one of these fields and the project interests you, the door is the same as everyone else's: tell us.