- UAB Microcredential
- Code: 5187/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Blended
- Credits: 3 ECTS
- Start date: 02/02/2026
- Finish date: 25/04/2026
- Places: 20
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 411 €
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Special price 123 €
Group of application: Amount with the NextGenerationUE Fund discount applied
- Teaching language: Catalan
- Location: Synchronous online teaching from 5 to 7 p.m.
This course is designed to provide a specialized understanding of family photography, from its historical significance to conservation techniques and contemporary artistic interventions. Students will learn to value and preserve their own photographic collections, as well as to understand their impact on family memory and identity.
Family and domestic photography is an invaluable visual testimony of both personal and collective history. These images capture meaningful moments, relationships, and events that shape our identity and memory. Processing them using professional archival methodology is essential for several reasons:
- Preservation of historical memory: Family photographs are historical documents that allow us to understand and connect with our past. Proper preservation ensures that these memories endure for future generations.
- Protection of cultural heritage: Every family contributes to the cultural mosaic of society. Preserving family photographs helps sustain cultural diversity and enrich the collective heritage.
- Emotional value: Family photographs hold immense sentimental value. Keeping them in good condition and describing them in the first person allows us to relive special moments and maintain a living connection with our loved ones.
- Resources for research: Family photographs can be valuable sources for genealogical, historical, and sociological research. Proper processing facilitates access and use of these images for future studies.
- Physical and digital preservation: Conservation and digitization techniques ensure that photographs remain in good physical condition and are easily accessible in digital format, protecting them from degradation and loss.
- Use in contemporary art: Family photographic archives are essential in contemporary art as they allow exploration of personal and collective narratives, offering a unique perspective on human experiences and shared memories.
The archival treatment of vernacular photography is fundamental to preserving our history, culture, and emotions, ensuring that these valuable images endure over time.
The course "Skills for Managing Family Photography" is aimed at individuals interested in acquiring skills and knowledge related to the archival treatment of family photographic documents. Through theoretical and practical sessions, participants will learn classification, organization, conservation, and digitization techniques, as well as the necessary practices to ensure long-term preservation.
This course will also offer reflection on space and time in family photographs and examine the use of everyday photography in contemporary art.
Additionally, basic preventive conservation concepts will be introduced to help maintain the integrity and historical value of these significant images. Participants will learn to appreciate and preserve their own photographic collections and understand their impact on memory and family identity.
By the end of the course, attendees will be equipped to manage and preserve their family photographic heritage in a professional and effective manner.
This course is aimed at individuals who wish to specialize or have an interest in these types of documents and who work or want to work as:
- Managers or professionals in institutions, organizations, or archives that store and handle photographic documentation.
- Staff involved in the treatment and management of photographic documents in institutions such as archives, documentation centers, museums, etc.
- Professionals looking to retrain and pursue new career opportunities in the field of audiovisual preservation and processing, with a focus on document management and dissemination.
- Archival Treatment of Family Photographic Documents
- Conservation and Preservation of Family Images
- Contemporary Artistic Interventions in Family Photography
Family and domestic photography is an invaluable visual testimony of both personal and collective history. These images capture meaningful moments, relationships, and events that shape our identity and memory. Processing them using professional archival methodology is essential for several reasons:
- Preservation of historical memory: Family photographs are historical documents that allow us to understand and connect with our past. Proper preservation ensures that these memories endure for future generations.
- Protection of cultural heritage: Every family contributes to the cultural mosaic of society. Preserving family photographs helps sustain cultural diversity and enrich the collective heritage.
- Emotional value: Family photographs hold immense sentimental value. Keeping them in good condition and describing them in the first person allows us to relive special moments and maintain a living connection with our loved ones.
- Resources for research: Family photographs can be valuable sources for genealogical, historical, and sociological research. Proper processing facilitates access and use of these images for future studies.
- Physical and digital preservation: Conservation and digitization techniques ensure that photographs remain in good physical condition and are easily accessible in digital format, protecting them from degradation and loss.
- Use in contemporary art: Family photographic archives are essential in contemporary art as they allow exploration of personal and collective narratives, offering a unique perspective on human experiences and shared memories.
The archival treatment of vernacular photography is fundamental to preserving our history, culture, and emotions, ensuring that these valuable images endure over time.
The course "Skills for Managing Family Photography" is aimed at individuals interested in acquiring skills and knowledge related to the archival treatment of family photographic documents. Through theoretical and practical sessions, participants will learn classification, organization, conservation, and digitization techniques, as well as the necessary practices to ensure long-term preservation.
This course will also offer reflection on space and time in family photographs and examine the use of everyday photography in contemporary art.
Additionally, basic preventive conservation concepts will be introduced to help maintain the integrity and historical value of these significant images. Participants will learn to appreciate and preserve their own photographic collections and understand their impact on memory and family identity.
By the end of the course, attendees will be equipped to manage and preserve their family photographic heritage in a professional and effective manner.
This course is aimed at individuals who wish to specialize or have an interest in these types of documents and who work or want to work as:
- Managers or professionals in institutions, organizations, or archives that store and handle photographic documentation.
- Staff involved in the treatment and management of photographic documents in institutions such as archives, documentation centers, museums, etc.
- Professionals looking to retrain and pursue new career opportunities in the field of audiovisual preservation and processing, with a focus on document management and dissemination.
Contents
- Introduction to Family Photography- Archival Treatment of Family Photographic Documents
- Conservation and Preservation of Family Images
- Contemporary Artistic Interventions in Family Photography
Career opportunities
This course provides the skills to work in the treatment, preservation, and dissemination of family and personal photographs in various settings such as archives, museums, libraries, documentation centers, and private collections. It also prepares participants to engage in projects focused on historical memory recovery and photographic heritage, or to offer services as independent professionals in the digitization, description, and preservation of photographic collections.Scholarships and financial aid
Within the framework of the plan for the development of university microcredentials, tuition scholarships are offered.
Funded by the "Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan - Funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU."
See the application information on the FUAB Microcredentials scholarships and grants and application information page.
Coordinating centres
FUAB Formació. Archivística y Gestión de Documentos
Collaborating centres
Arxiu del Port de Tarragona
Contact
Ariadna Morente Pagès
Phone: 935929710