Every artefact to the same standard
Photographer turned Archaeologist.Making images of artefacts photographed in detail and at scale.
Series
At True Scale
Different artefacts from different places, photographed under the same light, at the same angle, against the same background — and reproduced with the scale built into the metadata. No need for intrusive physical scales clouding the object.
The standard
Three things held constant, object after object, museum after museum.
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One light source.
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One angle to that light.
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One white ground.
Live from the archive
The scale lives in the data, not in the picture.
Zoom in as far as you like — the scale bar stays true, because the image carries its own millimetres per pixel. Switch it off and the object is left alone, with no ruler propped up beside it.
Glass bead from Sandby Borg, Kalmar County Museum. Loaded live from photarch.com.
Highlights
Teaching
Bringing the standard to your collection
I teach the method directly — to museum photographers, documentation officers and finds specialists who need their images to hold up ten years from now.
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Lecture
Why comparability fails in artefact photography, what a standard changes for a collection, and what adopting one actually costs.
Museums · Universities · Conferences
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Workshop
One or two days on site, with your objects, your room and your staff. We photograph your collection together and leave a repeatable setup behind.
On site · 1–2 days
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One to one
Sixty minutes over video for a single photographer or curator. Bring your images and your room; we work through what is holding them back.
Video · 60 minutes
About
I photograph archaeological objects. In 2014, during the excavation of Sandby Borg at Kalmar County Museum, I started working out a way to do it that would give the same result every time — the same light, the same angle, the same ground — so that images made years apart, in different museums, could still be compared.
That method is PHOTARCH. It has since been awarded the GFX Challenge Grant and published in The European Archaeologist. The archive it produces is open.
The method and the archive live on photarch.com →
Instruments · Autumn 2026
A standard is only as good as the instruments that hold it.
Two of them arrive this autumn. Both live on photarch.com; they are listed here because they are part of the same body of work.
PHOTARCH Desktop
A catalogue that measures. Import, calibrate, annotate and describe artefact images, then export records in the formats museum systems already accept.
photarch.com →PHOTARCH Board
A calibrated capture surface. The markers let the software derive true millimetre scale across the whole field and verify that a shot meets the standard before anything is measured.
photarch.com/board →Featured in
