Every published object is open access◆PHOTARCH — an open photo archive for museums, archives and collections◆A measurable archive◆Comparable objects, from any collection◆The scale is in the file, not on the picture◆One method, the same light, every time◆Every object at its true size◆Every published object is open access◆PHOTARCH — an open photo archive for museums, archives and collections◆A measurable archive◆Comparable objects, from any collection◆The scale is in the file, not on the picture◆One method, the same light, every time◆Every object at its true size◆

Become a member

Membership is free. Sign up and you are a member: download, save, compare and export, and receive the PHOTARCH guidebook when it is out. The archive itself stays open to everyone, with or without an account, and every published record is open access by default. What is paid for is the tools that produce the material, never the access to it.

Become a member — free

Without an account

Free
  • —Browse the whole archive
  • —View object details, metadata and provenance
  • —Filter, search, map and timeline
  • —Cite any record by its ARK identifier

As a member

Free · No card
  • —The PHOTARCH guidebook, when it is out
  • —Download JPEG with embedded XMP metadata and scale
  • —Download TIFF masters
  • —Favourites, collections and canvases
  • —Share collections and canvases by private link
  • —Compare up to 24 objects with scale alignment
  • —ICC colour profiles
  • —Bulk CSV export of archive metadata
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Your badge

Every member has a badge. It stands beside your name on your own pages, and where others see you: your notes, the canvases and collections you share, your organisation’s team.

  • Member Every member. Free.
  • Private With a Private licence for the PHOTARCH app.
  • Organisation In an organisation with the Organisation subscription, and everyone it invites.

Private licence

100 € once

The PHOTARCH app without the free version’s limits, for one person on one computer at a time, with updates for 12 months from the purchase; the version you have keeps working after that. Your badge turns green.

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Organisation subscription

Museums, universities and heritage organisations working together in PHOTARCH use the organisation subscription — the same one that covers the capture tools, at 150 € per month, billed yearly, with no limit on how many photographers take part. It is not a separate archive plan: the archive stays free, and the subscription adds the tools and the shared workspace around it.

  • —The PHOTARCH app: one computer that catalogues, and as many reading desktops as you want — the full app, with no limit on objects
  • —PHOTARCH for iPhone for every photographer, shooting straight into the Mac, one phone connected at a time
  • —Organisation dashboard with team overview
  • —Any number of photographers on one organisation
  • —Team activity: canvases, annotations, collections, favourites
  • —Add objects to the archive — only organisations can
  • —Hold material back until it is ready to publish
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Publishing to the archive is part of the organisation subscription, at no extra charge. Objects photographed with the PHOTARCH method are graded in The PHOTARCH app and published from it by the organisation.