ARCHIVE CREATION

Over the last two decades David and his wife, Rebecca, have invested their time and resources into David’s extraordinary collection with the clear objective of trying to ensure that it realizes its educational potential. Working as detectives, they tracked down Kennerly’s original photographic material from agencies and publications around the world. This material now lives with them in their home. They have invested more than $250,000 to research and deploy best practices to organize the various types of material, invest in software and personnel to protect and upgrade digital files, keeping early digital files usable and stable, create custom digital databases, edit slides and negatives to identify key images, create, process and catalogue thousands of digital files from original negatives. They are now embarking on the next step to help this collection become a living archive available to the public.