Help CIFHA Foundation preserve, research, and share Argentina's and Latin America's photographic heritage. Based in La Boca, Buenos Aires, it safeguards more than two million documents across approximately 300 archives and collections, spanning from the 1840s to the present. Its holdings include daguerreotypes, glass plate negatives, historical prints, albums, books, periodicals, and cameras. Your contribution helps protect our collective visual memory.
Argentina and Latin America hold an extraordinary photographic heritage, yet much remains scattered, fragile, undocumented, or inaccessible. Glass plate negatives, early prints, nitrate and acetate films, and historical documents require specialized conservation and continuous care. Entire archives, including their authors, techniques, and stories, must be safeguarded. Without sustained resources, collections risk deterioration, loss of information, and disappearance from public memory.
CIFHA Foundation addresses this challenge through conservation, research, and public access. Donations sustain climate-controlled storage and preventive care; digitization and cataloging; historical research and documentation; exhibitions, publications, and educational programs; and an analog photographic laboratory that preserves specialized skills. This work protects more than two million photographic documents and makes their histories accessible to researchers, communities, and the public.
CIFHA works to ensure that nearly two centuries of photographic heritage remain protected, studied, and accessible to future generations. Preserving entire archives and their historical contexts creates a lasting resource for education, research, and culture. Supported by institutions including the British Library and UCLA, CIFHA safeguards collections such as the UNESCO-recognized Harry Grant Olds Collection, helping prevent the permanent loss of irreplaceable visual memory.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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