IT and Culture: Materials of the Arab Image Foundation digitized and released online

The Arab Image Foundation is Beirut’s pioneering non-profit archive of Middle Eastern photography. Its collection features over 500,000 photographs from 50 countries of the Arab world and its diaspora. It brings together works of more than 250 amateur and 700 professional photographers and studios. The images date back to the 1860s.

The digitization initiative was launched in 2016. The online platform currently provides access to 22,000 photographs, but it will finally comprise roughly 55,000 images.