UPDATE - Download information for delegates here - registration information, meeting points, venue changes and more! Note that conference dinner tickets are only available until February 8th, New Zealand time.

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Photographic Materials specialty group (AIC-PMG) and the International Council of Museums Conservation Committee's Photographic Materials Working Group (ICOM-CC-PMWG) invite you to the 2013 Joint Meeting in Wellington, New Zealand. This will be only the second time the two organisations have met together, following the first Joint Meeting in Rochester, NY, in 2007. Each organisation will share in the programme and the event will be jointly hosted by the National Library of New Zealand and Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand. Please plan now to attend and please check this website regularly for updates.

The Joint Meeting will have the most varied and expert participants. Delegates represent the greatest number of countries and individuals doing the most diverse and comprehensive work in photographs conservation. It will present the most current papers, posters and discussions concerning the care of photographic materials.

The meeting will be exceptional as it is the first time either group has met in the southern hemisphere. Meeting together in Wellington will be unique. With a dense clustering of experts, it will be of value to curators and collection managers as well as conservators and artists. The meeting will be as valuable as attending two international meetings for the cost, time and effort of one.

The Joint Meeting is aimed at professional and aspiring conservators, and other professionals involved with the care, conservation and management of photographs. We expect between 175–250 delegates from throughout the world including the Pacific Rim nations, making it one of the largest gatherings of photograph conservation experts.

Professionals in these roles are increasingly faced with diverse challenges of new media; requirements to prepare larger volumes of material for online access; justifying the special environments necessary for stabilising media with inherent vice and the heightened demands for exhibitions.

This Joint Meeting will be a platform for the most up to date knowledge, research and experience about new materials, remedial treatments and measures for extending the life-expectancy of photographic materials. Discussions will range from the single object-level to the building scale, with an increasing focus on economy and sustainable practices.

Contributions have been invited on:

• examination
• analysis
• documentation
• preservation and treatment of historic to contemporary materials
• storage
• exhibition
• digitisation
• ethics
• sustainable practices
• challenges of current economic restraints
• environmental disasters or threats.

Registration is now open -  REGISTER NOW.
All prices are in New Zealand dollars.

Now closed. The deadline for submission of abstracts for papers was August 1, 2012.
Download the call for papers (PDF). 

Now closed. Deadline for poster submissions was November 2, 2012. Download the call for posters (PDF).