Book of All Collections, 2017-19

Book of All Collections, 2017-19

"In 2016, Zaatari spent 6 months in the archive of the AIF, looking at all photographic collections, reviewing original contracts with owners of collections, reading reports of research missions and talking to the different members who did research throughout the years. Inspired by how archeology museums present items in their collections, the aim was to produce, for every collection, a sheet that includes a picture count, provenance, researcher names, contractual elements and that describes collections contents telling the story of how they made it to be part of the AIF archive. The book is an insightful register that acts like a guidebook to the AIF collection."