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Africa Media Online welcomed into National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)

Report Back on Heritage Digital Campus 2023

Heritage Digital Campus

Save the Date: Digital Campuses 2022 and 2023

Sandile Swana

Meet our New CEO

Installation of Bundu generator

Takeaways from 2020 and 2021

Reaching your audience digitally: Second webinar series

Reaching your audience digitally: why a digital archive can make all the difference

The Digitise Africa Trust

Announcing Preservatio

Africa Media Online in Three-and-a-Half Minutes

Showcasing African Heritage Innovation on an International Stage

Launching MEMAT 4

First IIIF Workshop in Africa, Heritage Digital Campus 2019 and Local Training

MEMAT Metadata App Enables Remote Capture of Metadata

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchains and Other Innovations at CEPIC in Berlin

Announcing an All New Website for Africa Media Online

Launching the Africa Media Online Preservation Cloud

IIIF Conference Reflection and Call for Papers

WITS-NRF Digitisation Capacity Development Initiative

South African Museums Association KZN 2018

Phansi Museum Digitisation Project

Help to Set Shahidul Alam Free!

DocuFest Africa: The Exhibition

In Honour of David Goldblatt

Our first Africa Media Online Wedding!

Auriol Batten Digitisation Project

Home Straight for ANC Archives Digitization Project

South Africa Lags Behind Kenya on Digitisation and Digital Access to Archives

Metadata for Africa: making African heritage discoverable

Digitising Your Photos with Your Camera and Lightroom

Hamba Kahle Peter McKenzie

World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 at the Durban Art Gallery – October 2017

2 and 3D Photography at the Rijksmuseum: Confirmation and Direction

Dereck Nxumalo Project: The Oversized Painting Challenge

Interview with Femke Van Der Valk of World Press Photo and David Larsen of Africa Media Online

Why the World Press Photo Exhibition is Important for Nurturing Democracy in South Africa and Elsewhere

Building a State of the Art Digital Backup Solution

Shooting for the Google Cultural Institute: Fabric, Fashion and Identity – The story of IsiShweshwe

DocuFest Africa: Festival of Visual Storytelling at the Hilton Arts Festival

Africa Media Online brings the World Press Photo Exhibition to the Hilton Arts Festival 15-17 September 2017

The Gordon Collection, Digitization and Open Access at the Rijksmuseum

Gentle High Speed Capture of Historic Manuscripts

Kingswood College Benefits from 100 Megapixel Digital Capture

To show a Phase One IQ3 100 Megapixel digital back

First 100 Megapixel Camera in Africa

Reflections on the 80th South African Museums Association Conference

Upcoming National Conference for Forum for School Museums and Archives

Capturing the Fine Detail in Natural History Collections

Unprecedented Versatility – The Alpa 12 FPS Technical Camera

Digital Campus 2016 Focuses on Natural Heritage

Jean-Pierre Kepseu: Yaounde, Cameroon

Iconic African Images – Steve Biko

Survey results: How Picture Researchers are finding images online

New Simplified Pricing

Leading Lights: World Class Lighting for Heritage Collections

Metadata Practice from Africa

Lessons from the World’s Largest Gathering of Picture Libraries

Phase One Cultural Heritage Practitioner

Investing in the New Phase One XF Medium Format Digital Camera

Majority Ownership of Africa Media Online in the Hands of Not-for-Profit Organisations

Michaelhouse Taking their Digital Archive to New Heights

CEPIC Congress 2015, Warsaw

Forum for School Museums and Archives Conference in Pietermaritzburg

Steps to Build a Digital Archive: Selecting

MEMAT Help Videos: Using Your CRM

Copyright and Licensing for Photographers

Steps to Build a Digital Archive: Screening

What Kind of Stock Images Sell?

MEMAT Help Videos: Administrating MEMAT

The Ethics of Photography

Steps to Build a Digital Archive: Scoping

What is Stock Photography

The 4 Essentials of Professionalism for Photographers

MEMAT Help Videos: Introduction to Logins

Facebook Group for African Photographers (and those working with African photography)

Why Build a Digital Archive Anyway?

Managing images across a company

Video Introduction to MEMAT

Rondebosch Boys Launches a Digital Archive

Shutha.org: Understanding Photo Genres

Submit Work to the 10th China International Press Photo Contest

What we do

Legacy of the Mine

Graeme Williams Wins 2013 Ernest Cole Award

Historic Schools Build Digital Archives

Advanced lightbox functions

Kimbanguist Orchestra Symphony

How to create and send lightboxes

How to purchase image use rights

Iconic Kwa-Zulu Natal image

Fotofringe 2013

ANC Archives Launched

Making the ANC Digital Archives Work

A Pictorial History of the Digitisation of the ANC Archives

Searching within a photographer’s collection

Africa Media Online picture blog

Winners of the 9th China International Press Photo Contest

150 Years of Maritzburg College Celebrated with the Opening of a Museum

World Press Photo Award Winning Multimedia Journalist to Mentor on Shutha Digital Campus

Benefit Auction for John Liebenberg Hip Operation

Emissaries of an Iconic Religion

Photography and Democracy

What you said about Heritage Digital Campus last year

World Press Photo Heads Line Up at First DocuFest Africa

Encounters Documentary Film Festival Comes to KwaZulu-Natal

The Silent Majority Project

Training for Designers, Picture Buyers and Picture Researchers

Shutha Digital Campus Registration Opens

Heritage Digital Campus 2013 Registration Now Open

Partnering with Google to Present South African History to the World

Digitisation of the ANC Archive

The Shutha Digital Campus at Michaelhouse

The Heritage Digital Campus at Michaelhouse

Invitation to Heritage Digital Campus in the Eastern Cape in March

For Future Generations – Hugh Tracey and ILAM Exhibition in CT

Picture Library - Buy

Noor-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography

Two African Photographers Lift Three World Press Photo Awards

2011 World Press Photo Exhibition makes last stop in Cape Town

Celebrating the life of Gisèle Wulfsohn

The Right Stuff: Gear for a New Generation of Multimedia Journalists

Photo & Film Expo 2011, Joburg

South African Photographers at Victoria & Albert, London

Nigerian Photographers Exhibit in Berlin

Eric Miller: "The Nevergiveups" Exhibiton

Edward Ruiz Mentorship Application Invitation

CCMP Fellowships to UNFCCCs COP17 climate change conference in South Africa

Tragic News

Media Picking Up on Anton Hammerl Missing in Libya

Jodi Bieber Appeals to International Community in Tears for Anton Hammerl

Free Resource Launched Aimed at Pro Photographers in Majority World

Jodi Bieber presents at World Press Photo Awards Days

South African Photographer presents at World Press Photo Awards

South African Photographer Anton Hammerl Still Missing

Twenty Ten Project Ends on a High Note

Grant for Photographers Working for Social Change

Petition to Release South African Photographer and Tragic Loss in Libya

Africa in Perspective

Digitisation Funding Application for Collections with Genealogical Value

Digitsation of 3,500 Objects from Vukani Museum Completed

African Photographer Wins 2011 World Press Photo of the Year Award

Free Online Resource Enabling Photographers to Access Markets

National Geographic All Roads Photography Programme

Supergrannies

Joop Swart Masterclass

Sharon Stone in Abuja

2011 World Press Photo Contest Deadline Approaches

Oupa Nkosi’s "Black Diamonds" Hailed by Top Photo Blogger

2011 Anthropographia Photo and Multimedia Awards for Human Rights

Mail & Guardian Twenty Ten Wrap Up

Killing Soccer in Africa

Twenty Ten Exhibition in Cape Town

World Press Photo Exhibition Opens, Maputo, Mozambique

New United Nations Environmental Programme African Journalist Award

Africa Media Online launches new online media management system

Africa Media Online launches new collections management system

74th SAMA National Conference, 27 to 29 September 2010

Twenty Ten wraps up

allAfrica.com: One of Africas leading news sites showcases Twenty Ten stories

“It’s Euro-sports, not politics, that’s shaking up Africa,” says Daily Nation’s Charles Onyango-Obbo

Twenty Ten boosts African multimedia journalism

African voices reach all corners of the world

Launch of ‘Africa United: The road to Twenty Ten’

Google sued by photographers – AfterDawn

Twenty Ten Dream Team Print Journalist: Mark Namanya

Twenty Ten Dream Team Print Journalist: Nanama Keita

Twenty Ten Dream Team Print Journalist: Joseph Opio

Twenty Ten Project Dream Team photographer: Arnaud Thierry Gouegnon

Twenty Ten Project Dream Team photographer: Ahmed Jallanzo

French Photo Features Translated into English

Twenty Ten Project Dream Team photographer: Emmanuel Quaye

Twenty Ten Project Dream Team photographer: Andrew Esiebo

The Dream Team

Local photographer brings a national hero to an international audience

Footballs Made to Last

Farm Soccer – Belgone Soccer Club in Zimbabwe

Football Fever on Africa’s Great Lakes

More positive outlook for African media

Pyramid football

Elephants are football fans too?

An African journalist reflects on South Africa’s reputation

Stories of people, stories of place

All score in Burkina Faso

Can the international financial crisis benefit African journalists?

Lagos complete, looking to Burkina Faso

Letter from Lagos

Telling it like it is: a Sudanese journalist reports on his Twenty Ten training

African radio now online!

Spreading it far and wide

From Cape Town to Cairo

Ghana phase over… looking toward Egypt

Africa Media Online launches two new blogs

African media: We must act quickly!

Ghana are the first African team to qualify for the first African World Cup!

Great technology from Africa for Africa and the world

David Larsen Posts from Accra, Ghana

Creative Commons Lawyers to Input Heritage Digital Campus

Launch of Africa Media Online’s Heritage Digital Campus

€2.2 Million 2010 World Cup Project with World Press Photo and FreeVoice

The next Generation of MEMAT begins to take Shape

Report from Buenos Aires exhibition

Emerging South African Photographers Feature in South American Exhibition and Launch of Africa Media Online’s Art Print Range

Johannesburg and Kenyan Pro Photographers Take Top Honours in the First African Photo Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

Twenty-Seven African Photographers Through to Final Stage of the African Photo Entrepreneur Programme

What You Said About the Africa Media Online 2008 Digital Campus

World Press Photo adds value to African Photo Entrepreneur Programme

Building an Archive that will Last: Resolution

Early Bird Discount for Masterclasses Ends Today

2008 Digital Masterclasses

Building an Archive that will Last: Bit Depth

Building an Archive that will Last: Interpolation

Building an Archive that will Last: File Size

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