Quote Originally Posted by schafphoto View Post
So at least some of my work won't end up at a flea market like some glass plates of Cathedrals in Europe I found a few years ago which are beautiful documents of history, but stuck in a box in my darkroom.

-Schaf
These glass plates should kept at the https://www.bnf.fr/fr, where they also keep the photographic documents of the so famous 'Mission Héliographique', the first official mission started in 1851 to document, by photography, the historical and cultural sites in France, which was the very first in history.

The work I was telling about, is till a certain extend a private initiative, although it is done by a group of (retired-) professionals and scholars, and partially subsidised by the local authorities. So we will have to take care of and keep what we have done.

I already made up the needed documents that a part my archives will be legated to the university's library, and the other part to the local Museum for Industrial Archaeology when I depart...

The work I did for the industry will go to the Industrial Archaeology.

In the meantime I am organising and documenting the part of my work that wasn't done for art collections, archaeological cataloguing, university's art and cultural surveys and musea collections, as the latter are already archived these photographic documents.
I still have a large part that wasn't published by them.

BTW, as long as I live, I have to apply the Belgian law on the intellectual property from 30/06/1994 (based on the Berner convention of 24/07/1971) and keep ready all my commissioned work available as I wasn't allowed to 'sell' my photo's as such, only the publication rights for them...