I worked with an international team of curators, conservators, researchers, and developers to create Object:Photo, a digital humanities platform about modernist photography. Using an innovative data-driven approach, the platform allows users to layer information about key exhibitions, publications, and studios with artists’ biographies and in-depth material analyses to uncover new insights about photography between the 20th century’s two world wars.

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My role: As the project’s cataloguer and content strategist, I collaborated with database managers to structure the project’s research into data and liaised between the museum and external developers to negotiate the platform’s information architecture and user interface.

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Selected articles, awards, and presentations:

• “Black and White and Accessible All Over.” The New York Times. 2015

• “Object:Photo—Visualizing the Thomas Walther Collection.” MoMA Inside/Out. 2015

• “Mapping the Material and Social Histories of Photographs.” Hyperallergic. 2015

• “Object: Photo, Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909-1949 @MoMA.” Collector Daily. 2015

• Gold Award of Excellence from the Communicator Awards

• Best in Class Distinction from the Interactive Media Awards in both Arts/Culture and Photography

• Platinum/Best in “Campaign or Series” Category in the 45th Creativity Media & Interactive Design Awards

• “After Digitization: Using Digital Humanities to Explore Art History.” Presentation at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Budapest, Hungary. March 2015

• “Virtual Vision: Digital Humanities Approaches to Researching Objects and Collections.” Reconsidering the Object: Approaches to Researching Interwar Photography in the Digital Age symposium. The Museum of Modern Art. December 2014

• “Object: Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949.” Muzeum@Digit conference at the National Museum. Budapest, Hungary. November 5–6, 2014