Art historian Līga Goldberga speaks about her research in Zenta Dzividzinska's archive in the conference “Hidden (Hi)stories: New Perspectives of Women’s Photographies” in Thessaloniki, Greece

Art historian Līga Goldberga presented a paper titled “Archive as Ego Document: Exploring Curatorial Strategies that Activate Care Labor for Women’s Photographic Heritage” in the conference “Hidden (Hi)stories: New Perspectives of Women’s Photographies,” May 17-19, 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Līga Goldberga is the Photography Collections Expert and Archivist at the National Library of Latvia where she researches and curates the archive of Zenta Dzividzinska.

Photo courtesy of Līga Goldberga.

The conference, the fifth edition of the research project “Fast Forward: Women in Photography,” took place at the MOMus - Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and was co-organized by the MOMus - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, the University for the Creative Arts, and the University of Sunderland. 

Find out more about the conference here: https://fastforward.photography/our-projects/call-for-papers-fast-forward-conference-5-in-thessaloniki-greece/

Download a PDF of the full program of the conference here.

Find out more about the “Fast Forward: Women in Photography” research project here: https://fastforward.photography/

Līga Goldberga’s research is part of the State Research Program Project “Cultural and creative ecosystem of Latvia as a resource of resilience and sustainability” / CERS.

Zenta Dzividzinska, untitled (scans from previously never printed and unpublished negatives), 1968. Collection of the National Library of Latvia.

The conference coincided with the opening of the exhibition “HerStories. Photographic Practices, 1974-2024” at the MOMus – the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, on view from May 7 to September 15, 2024.

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://www.momus.gr/en/exhibitions/istoriestis-fotografikes-praktikes-1974-2024