Day 1 – 29 May 2024
2and3D Photography 2024
Adam Lewi De Kaminski, freelance photography specialist and designer, Sweden
“I’ve been to other conferences in other countries before, but this is my first time at 2+3D Photography in Amsterdam. The atmosphere is very welcoming, the people and the staff of Rijksmuseum and the symposium are so friendly. I’m impressed by the knowledge of the speakers, who are from diverse areas. It provides many perspectives on our field. I’m here to learn and to network, it’s like a mingle party for highly motivated experts like myself. It’s only the first coffee break after the first set of presentations and I’m already running out of business cards…”
Michael O’Neill, collection employee at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington
“The past years my colleagues and I watched the previous online editions of 2+3D Photography. It was really assuring to see what other people in our field do. This conference is a way to connect with people from across the globe. Getting people together. What is the new direction? This edition I’m here as a symposium visitor and as a speaker as well. Tomorrow afternoon I’m presenting XY digitization of massive cultural artworks, going to share what my team have been up to in New Zealand. The workflow and our solution, which is affordable and can be repeated quite easily.”
Noora Alzaabi, scientific photographer at Louvre Abu Dhabi
“Scientific imaging is quite new to our region. I’m the only one doing it at the museum. It’s fantastic being here and seeing other people in the same line of work. Talking to people and getting to know what they do and their input on all of this. Now I’m diving into doing 3D imaging, I’ve only done it a few times. It’s good to see what is out there on the market and get an idea of how to further do it. It’s educational, understanding how other people in the same field do it. I’ve got information on what the basics are and what standards to follow.”
Jesse Huiskamp, KU Leuven Bibliotheek
“At our library, I am responsible for digitization, quality management and extraordinary photographic assignments. I have been doing that for almost seven years now. During the Covid pandemic, I attended the 2+3D conference online. Great to be here live now. Especially the technical part of our profession interests me a lot. I have some questions about color management. About measuring out and implementing transmissive targets myself. I would like to do that, but I don't have enough know-how yet. David R. Wyble's presentation just now on this subject was interesting. I hope to ask him some questions later this conference.”
Channa Hofsté and Jenny de Bruin, Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden
“‘It is interesting to know what is happening in the field. We are attending this congress to keep our knowledge up to date on what is happening in terms of new developments so that we can steer the best possible course with the museum. That makes this symposium very meaningful.”
Bart Lahr, collection photographer at Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam
“It is nice, educational and useful to be here. I have also attended previous editions of 2+3D. What strikes me is how many developments there are, how everything is becoming more and more technical and specific, especially in scientific terms. At our museum, we are already happy when an object is photographed. What is shown at this symposium goes many steps further. It's inspiring to take note of that. It is also very important and good that at conferences like this one, we are among our peers. That we don't feel we are working on our own, don't have to re-invent the wheel ourselves.”
Loïc Baboulaz from company ARTMYN, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Digital photography and 3D for artworks is my field. It’s always nice to go to conferences about these topics. I listened and watched all presentations of today with much pleasure, but the one of Liselore Tissen Picture-Perfect – The Perception and Applicability of Facsimiles in Museums was for me most fascinating, because we did a similar study in Switzerland. It was interesting to hear about the outcomes of the Dutch study.”
Alice Plutino, post doctor and researcher at University of Amsterdam
“I study digitization of motion picture films, so I work in collaboration with the Eye Filmmuseum. I like this 2+3D conference at Rijksmuseum because it’s very technical. In motion picture films there’s a lack of technical research considering digitization color reproduction. Coming to this conference is to learn what the groundbreaking research in this field is, especially in photography. There are not so many speeches about motion picture films. But actually, I think that many of these techniques can also be applied to movies. So, I’m here to learn, also about low-cost digitization apparatus. I think it’s very imported to provide accessibility to these kinds of techniques, also to non-institutional archives or museums. I’m interested in this kind of link and see the differences between big and expensive instruments and low-cost hardware and software.”