Between 2018 and 2019 the Barakat Trust funded Omniya Abdel Barr’s very ambitious project to enhance the Creswell archives in six International collections.
K.A.C Creswell’s works are held by at least five institutions and in private collections. And together they constitute an invaluable
The project provided digitisation, cataloguing and extensive data cross-referencing to his photographic collections. In addition, original unpublished drawings were prepared at the American University in Cairo to be digitised and others were checked at the Ashmolean museum. The overarching aim of this project was to allow Creswell’s important photographic collections to be complete and available online on their respective institutions. This in turn will help facilitate the success of future projects allowing better use of Creswell’s material.
The team was further approached by a potential new director at the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities to ask if they would like to share their experience with assessing their Islamic Art and Architecture collection of photographs for future cataloguing and digitisation. This is a subsequent plan that is almost as massive as the Creswell one. Please stay tuned for future updates on this!
