Photographer & digital archivist.

I bring open-source tools to artists and small cultural organizations so their work stays alive: digitizing prints, negatives and ephemera, the server that stores them, and the website that shows them.

  1. 01

    Archive & disaster-recovery assessment

    An inventory of what you have and where it lives: digital assets, but also domain names, who owns the registrar account, and an overview of your local network. Then the risks, and a written plan.

  2. 02

    Digital archive setup

    A NAS and backups, a folder and metadata structure that will still make sense in ten years, 3-2-1 copies, and a one-page handbook so you can run it yourself.

  3. 03

    Portfolio & archive websites, custom tooling

    Fast, static sites owned by the artist. No subscriptions, no platform lock-in. Support when you need it.

  1. Screenshot of the ronniebookbinder.com home page
    01 — RONNIE BOOKBINDER — 2022–PRESENT

    Ronnie Bookbinder

    Painter portfolio & archive

    Portfolio for a Main Line painter, with every painting shown in proportion to its real size. It has grown into an archive of her work.

    • Astro
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Nginx
    • GoAccess
  2. Screenshot of the Backblaze case study about the SM Studios archive move
    06 — SM STUDIOS — 2020–21

    SM Studios

    Digital asset manager (staff)

    Moved 265 TB of a photographer's archive to cloud storage before consolidating two studios, so the move never risked the only copy.

    • Backblaze B2
    • Archiware P5
    • Apple Xsan
  3. Screenshot of the keystonedreams.com home page
    07 — KEYSTONE DREAMS — 2025–PRESENT

    Keystone Dreams

    Photography project

    An ongoing photography project about Pennsylvania, moved from hand-written HTML to Hugo.

    • Hugo

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If you have an archive, a collection or a website that needs looking after, write to phil@philcifone.com.