Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio – Endangered Archives Programme (British Library)

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The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new catalogue to its web pages. The catalogue gives details of material copied by the project EAP054: Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio

The collection consists of over 46,000 images taken by the photographer Jacques Touselle, who had his studio in the town of Mbouda, Western Region, Cameroon. The archives represent a record of life in this area over the past thirty years.

More information about the project can be found at:
http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_project.a4d?projID=EAP054;r=41

The catalogue can be accessed at: http://eap.bl.uk/database/results.a4d?projID=EAP054;r=41

For more information about the Endangered Archives Programme please visit:
http://eap.bl.uk and our blog http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/endangeredarchives/

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Signalons enfin que le Dr David Zeitlyn de l’Université of Kent, responsable de ce projet, a travaillé par le passé sur deux autres fonds de photographe au Cameroun occidental : ceux de Joseph Chila et Samuel Finlak. Ce travail a donné lieu à une exposition (Cameroon-London: Portrait Photographs by Joseph Chila and Samuel Finlak, National Portrait Gallery, 8 juillet-25 septembre 2005 et dont une version antérieure avait été présentée au British Council de Yaoundé en 2004) et a une publication : Joseph Chila and Samuel Finlak. Two Portrait Photographers in Cameroon (2005).