Collaborative Workshops in Photograph Conservation Advisory Committee

Craig Kamrath is the associate conservator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, where he is responsible for the analysis, treatment, and long-term preservation of the photographic materials. He held positions at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) before joining the Amon Carter in 2023. He obtained his MA in Conservation from Camberwell College of Arts and holds a BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago.

Lydia Egunnike established LE Conservation Services (specializing in photograph and paper conservation) in mid 2020. She is a Professional Member of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) and is currently serving as a co-coordinator of PHOTON, (AICCM’s photograph SIG). She studied paper and photograph conservation at Camberwell College of the Arts, London in the mid 1990s and has a MAppSc. in Materials Conservation from the University of Canberra. After working in several UK conservation labs, she returned home in 1998 to become head of conservation at the State Library of Queensland. On leave from SLQ, she completed the 3rd cycle of the Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Residency in Photograph Conservation program (2003 – 2005 at George Eastman Museum and the Image Permanence Institute). After leaving SLQ in late 2011, Lydia spent 9 years as a Museum Development Officer for Queensland Museum working with paid and volunteer collection custodians in remote and regional Queensland. Providing tailored training in preventive preservation and disaster preparedness was a core component of the job. Over the years, Lydia has also provided specialized photograph conservation training to fellow conservators. She continues to provide conservation, preservation and disaster preparedness training to a wide range of clients.

Lydia is acutely aware of the on-going challenge for emerging and established photograph conservators in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region to receive specialized, quality training. As a grateful beneficiary of the CWPC workshop program, she is honored to be a committee member.

Caroline currently works in the Conservation team within Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga and the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. The photographic collections of these institutions are some of the most significant in Aotearoa New Zealand. Previously Caroline has been employed as Kaitiaki Taonga Conservator Photography at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Caroline has a particular interest in the photographic negative and has had a paper published on using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to identify the substrates of photographic negatives, in the AICCM Bulletin, volume 45. This paper also involved research of industry literature to refine local understanding of when particular substrates were available in New Zealand.
From 2017 - 2020 Caroline was part of the executive committee of the NZCCM (New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Materials), serving in the role of Treasurer.

Nayla Maaruf is the Conservator of Photography and Works of Art on Paper at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Nayla obtained her MA in Conservation at West Dean College from the University of Sussex, UK and her BA in Conservation from the University of Antwerp, Belgium with a year study abroad at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. She has previously worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.

Laura is a photograph conservator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Prior to starting at the Gallery, from 2019-2021, Laura was the Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Fellow for Advanced Training in Paper Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. From 2017-2019, Laura was the Craigen W. Bowen Fellow at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums, and from 2016-2017 was a graduate intern in photograph conservation at the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library. In 2017, Laura received her M.S. in photograph conservation and her M.A. in art history from The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has undertaken projects at the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York Historical Society, and NYU Libraries. Her past research includes studies of James Van Der Zee's portrait photographs, the light-sensitivity of paper negatives, Gardner’s Sketchbook of the War, and the darkroom practices of Irving Penn. Her recent publications include “X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Frédéric Flachéron’s Paper Negatives, 1848-1852” in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation.