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Teresa Mesquit

Freelance/Private Practice/Self-employed/Independent

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Teresa Mesquit was Conservator of photographs at Moderna Museet, Stockholm from 2013-2023 and trained at the School of Conservation in Copenhagen. Before moving to Sweden, she was Associate Conservator at the Getty Research Institute, where she worked on photographic materials in the GRI Special Collections for 14 years. Together with Barbara Lemmen, Teresa contributed a chapter on Polaroid materials to Coatings on Photographs, published by AIC. She has presented at previous PMG and ICOM-CC PWG meetings on e.g. the Polaroid coating, dye reversion in the treatment of a color reversal print, the Helmut Gernsheim Duplicate Collection at Moderna Museet, the treatment of water-damaged large-format prints, on evolving exhibition practices in the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery at Moderna Museet, and the recovery and mass-digitization of 100,000 nitrate and acetate negatives at Nordiska Museet. Teresa consults for institutions and private clients in Sweden.