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    An Interview with Tosin Adeosun, Founder & Curator of African Style Archive

    Meet Tosin Adeosun as she details her experiences as a digital curator, managing care and loss in user-generated archives and shares some of her favorites from the Flickr Commons collection.

    Welcome, Anna!

    Anna will be joining us on an AHRC PhD placement from University College London to support on Data Lifeboat research.

    Greetings, Oreoluwa! Introducing our next 2025 Research Fellow

    Oreoluwa Akinyode joins us as our second Research Fellow of 2025, exploring the historic interplay of West African photography and textiles.

    Looking for Daybooks in the Archives

    Our research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.

    Four Principles for Reflective Web Archiving

    Jill Blackmore Evans returns to put forth four principles for enacting Reflective Web Archiving, to deliver a more responsible, equitable and usable web archive for the future. 

    Flickr Foundation goes Dutch!

    Tori shares her highlights from Flickr Foundation's big week in the Netherlands talking data care and digital commons

    Creative Commons 4.0 has arrived on Flickr!

    "As the home of the largest collection of Creative Commons-licensed photos on the planet, Flickr has long championed the power of CC licensing..."

    New! Research Report on Data Lifeboat

    Please enjoy our write-up of the co-design workshops we ran last year with preservation experts, archivists, librarians, academics, and technologists on the viability of Data Lifeboat

    Flow chart outlining the lifecycle of a digital image from creation to publishing to sharing on flickr.com to preservation

    Accessible Archives: our strategy for the next three years

    Find out more about how we are centering our work on the digital image lifecycle, from creation to preservation

    Future Memories Symposium: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World

    Tori shares her reflections from the Rijksmuseum x World Press Photo Forum symposium in May

    The Forgetful Web: A Case for Reflective Archiving 

    Digital media theorist, Jill Blackmore Evans, sets up the argument against 'restorative nostalgia' and towards a more enlivened mode of web archiving

    Visualizing Reproductive Care Through Archives and Collective Storytelling

    Flickr Foundation Spring Research Fellows, Molly Sherman & Emily Fitzgerald, share the second instalment of their research project, investigating image archives of reproductive care on Flickr.

    Inheriting the Internet, Part 3: Workshop & Conclusions

    Final instalment of Amy & Daniel's Digital Legacy capstone project, this time exploring the topic through in-person workshops

    ‘Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory’ Reflections

    Tori shares her reflections and ruminations from the Born-Digital Collections conference at Senate House, London

    Inheriting the Internet, Part 2: User Research

    In the second instalment, Amy and Daniel discuss the expert interviews and user research they undertook to uncover insights into Gen Z's digital archival literacy