Grazie all’approfondita specializzazione ed esperienza nel campo dell’identificazione delle tecniche e dei materiali fotografici, Sandra M. Petrillo è frequentemente invitata ad effettuare lezioni, seminari e master class presso varie istituzioni culturali e d’insegnamento superiore.
Le nostre conferenze più recenti:
- Seminario: “Silver Based Photographic Images On Paper. Composite Materials and Their Deterioration. Conservation Restoration”, KUMU, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, April, 2016.
- ”Caring for Family Memories. Collaborative Working When Conserving Framed Daguerreotypes”, The Daguerreotype Symposium 2015, Bry-sur-Marne, 2015.
- “Daguerreobase: The European Union Daguerreian Era Documentation Project”, The Daguerreain Society Symposium, Austin, 2014.
- “Silver, Mercury and Gold. Understanding and preserving daguerreotypes”, Finnish Museum of Photograpy, Helsinki, 2014.
- Conference: Edward Steichen’s The Bitter Years Exhibition. A Project of Many Dimensions. ICOM-CC PMG Interim Meeting, Benaki Museum, Athens, 19-22 October 2010.
- Lecture: Preserving Photographs in the XXI Century. New Frontiers. ICPAL Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario, Rome.
- Student advisor for thesis in photographic material at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Thesis by Teresa Peratello: Non-destructive Analytical Methods Applied to the Identification of Toned Photographic Prints.
- Workshop: Identification of 19th Century Photographic Prints, Kyoto University of Art and Design.
- Lecture for Photo Forum (an auxiliary of SFMOMA): 19th- Century Photography in India from the Paul Sack’s Collection, San Francisco.
- Workshop: Prussian Blue. History and Practice of the Cyanotype Process. Photomeetings Festival, Luxembourg.
- Director of Professional Development for the staff of the Italian Photographic Foundation (FIF), Turin. Seminars on the identification of photographic processes and preservation methods for historic photographs.
- Workshop: Discovering the Processes of Historic Photographs. Science Festival 2003, MNHA, Luxembourg.
- Lecture: A History of Photographic Conservation. The evolution of a certain point of view, Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg.
- Workshop: The Historic Photographic Processes, CNA.
- Student adviser for a final thesis in photographic restoration, INP-IFROA. Thesis by Cécile Miller: Tirages noir et blanc glacés aux gélatino-bromure d’argent altérés par un dégât des eaux.
- Workshop: Identification Techniques for Photographic Materials and their Preservation and Conservation, University of Tor Vergata, Rome.
- Workshop: Technology and Identification Methods for Main Historic Photographic Processes, CNA.
- Workshop: Retouching Materials and Methods for Filling Losses in Photographic Prints, Fachhoschule of Bern, (Switzerland).
- Delivered two workshops in photographic restoration for the students of INP-IFROA, Saint-Denis.
- Workshops in Conservation and Preservation of photography (cased materials, salted and albumen prints) for students attending trade school, San Casciano dei Bagni (Tuscany), 1999
- Lecture: Études des techniques de montages des panoramas photographiques composés des vues juxtaposées sur papier albuminé. Restauration de deux panoramas de J.P.Sébah per il 21st ICOM-CC Meeting, Edinburgh, 1-6 Settembre 1996.