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9-11 Nov 2026 Paris (France)
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Invited speakersInvited speakers et bios soon available.
Sylvia Centeno, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Silvia A. Centeno, research scientist, focuses on artists' materials and techniques and deterioration processes in paintings, photographs, and works of art on paper. She received a PhD in chemistry from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and started at The Met as an L. W. Frohlich Fellow to study unusual gilding techniques in Pre-Columbian metalwork. She has published and lectured on a number of topics, including pigment- and platinum-based photographic processes, daguerreotypes, heavy-metal soap deterioration in oil paintings, modern paints, early lithographic inks, and Renaissance paintings.
Lee-Ann Daffner, The Museum of Modern Art Lee Ann Daffner joined MoMA in 1998 and is responsible for the conservation and preservation of the Museum’s photographic collections, which are to be found in every curatorial department and the Library and Archives. She has worked on over 85 photography exhibitions and supervises and mentors interns and fellows in the David Booth Conservation Center and Department. Before joining MoMA, she held conservation positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, the Library of Congress, and the Better Image. She received her MA in art conservation from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Through research and technical analysis of photographs, Daffner promotes materials-based scholarship and the assimilation of this content in curatorial and technical art-history initiatives. From 2009 to 2015, she directed the conservation portion of the multiyear, cross-disciplinary study of the Museum’s Thomas Walther Collection of Modernist Photography and co-edited the Object:Photo print and online publications. She has contributed essays to numerous catalogues and technical articles to peer-reviewed journals. She serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC).
Christian Joschke, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Christian Joschke is an art historian, professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and is particularly interested in the relationship between arts and politics and the history of photography. Between 2007 and 2020, he successively taught as a lecturer at the Lumière Lyon 2 University and the Paris Nanterre University. He twice held a substitute professorship at the University of Lausanne, was a Research Fellow at the IFK in Vienna, at the Ryerson Image Center in Totonto, and at the department of art history and archeology at Princeton University (New Jersey, United States) and Humboldt University Berlin (Rudolf Arnheim Chair, 2023).
Nora Kennedy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Dr. Nora W. Kennedy is the Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge of the Photograph and Time-Based Media Conservation Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She joined The Met at its first Photograph Conservator in 1990. In addition to exhibition, loan, and acquisition responsibilities, Kennedy is a strong advocate for preventive conservation, scholarship, education and outreach. Kennedy has been engaged with New York University's Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center and lectures and conducts workshops internationally. She was awarded the University of Delaware’s Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement (2003) and the American Institute for Conservation’s Sheldon and Carolyn Keck Award recognizing a sustained record of excellence in the education and training of conservation professionals (2006). In 2011 she received the HP Image Permanence Award for her work with continuing professional development for conservators, the Digital Sample Sets, and the establishment of the Photograph Information Record. She is particularly proud of her roles in international initiatives such as MEPPI (Middle East Photograph Preservation Initiative) and the recent publication, Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care, a true global collaboration.
Bertrand Lavédrine, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Bertrand Lavédrine is a professor at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. He previously served as Director of the Centre de recherche sur la conservation (1998–2018), Head of the Conservation Master’s Program at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2003–2007), a member of the Board of ICOM-CC, SFIIC, and ARSAG, and Coordinator of the ICOM-CC Photographic Materials Working Group. He is actively involved in national and international research projects on heritage conservation and notably coordinated the European POPART project, dedicated to the preservation of plastic objects in museum collections. The author of papers and books on issues related to the preservation of photographic heritage—some of which are available in French, English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Vietnamese—he also teaches in professional training programs in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He has additionally been a visiting professor at the Conservation Center of New York University and at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Minpaku) in Osaka, and a Conservation Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute.
Paul Messier, independant conservator
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