Vahur Puik

Estonia Estonia

Ajapaik.ee & Sift.pics – enriching photographic heritage

I have been working as photographer and then in several Estonian museums on positions related to exhibitions and photographic collections. As my academic background is cultural geography I've been drawn to landscape issues in connection to both photography and museums. As a long time digital optimist I've been carefully following the global trends in digitising (photographic) heritage, participatory museum approach and crowdsourcing. Since the end of 2012 I've been dedicated full time to developing Ajapaik.ee – a gamified crowdsourcing platform for geotagging and rephotographing historic pictures. In spring 2015 we created a new participatory tagging app Sift.pics.