Under The Missiles: The Women Racing To Save Ukraine's Photographic Treasures

Buzko heads a team of three women in the archive of the Institute of Archaeology at Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv who are racing to get their institute's visual heritage online, lest the unthinkable happens. The project the women are creating is named the Digital Memory Storage, which draws from physical materials held by the archive, including thousands of photographs from the personal estates of Ukrainian archaeologists, which had never been digitized. The Digital Memory Archive began during the pandemic after Buzko and her colleague Volodymyr Mysak hit on the idea to make their institute's precious collections available online, rather than letting them remain the dusty preserve of a few scholars with visitor's passes to the Kyiv archive.

Author: Amos Chapple

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