The International Advisory Board and representatives of collaborating institutions are assisting PHELETYPIA with their expertise

The following experts have confirmed their participation in the International Advisory Board:

  • Petra Schlosser Trnkova, PhD, Head of the Photography Research Centre at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Janka Blaško Križanová, ArtD, Photo conservator, Conservation and Restoration Department, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • Dr. Duncan Forbes, Director, Department of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum London, United Kingdom.
  • Dr. M. Susan Barger, Consultant for Small Museums and Archives, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
  • Robert Koestler, PhD, Director, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, USA.
Group photo of Valentina Ljubić Tobisch and Wolfgang Kautek with advisory board member M. Susan Barger.

Valentina Ljubić Tobisch and Wolfgang Kautek met advisory board member M. Susan Barger in May 2022, Los Angeles, USA.

1st meeting of the PHELETYPIA International Advisory Board took place on Friday, 3 March 2023. 

In attendance were:

  • Dr. Duncan Forbes, Director, Department of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum London, United Kingdom.
  • Dr. Susan M. Barger, Consultant for Small Museums and Archives, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Author of the book “The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science” (with William B. White).
  • Robert Koestler, PhD, Director, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, USA.
  • Prof. Anna Artaker
  • Prof. Wolfgang Kautek
  • Mag. Dr. Valentina Ljubić Tobisch