The UAH Archive presents the top five of the audiovisual background in COVID19 times
A few weeks ago, Universidad de Alcalá Archive launched an initiative to create an audiovisual fund for confinement. Alicia Lopez, UAH archive worker, has selected some of the best images with the aim of involving teachers,students, researchers and administrative staff in the activity.
We are living through a historical moment with everything what is happening in the most nearby environment. The AUAH, in its mission to preserve the documentary heritage, is preserving all the graphic and audiovisual documentation sent by the university community and the citizens of Alcalá de Henares. Alicia López, a university archive worker, shares with uah.esnoticia the following selected images as some of the most original for the moment. The selected images are shown below.
#1. Playing dominoes.
Author: Victoria Leyva Palma. UAH Alumni licensed in History. Citizen and neighbor of Alcalá. Image taken between March 15 and April 15, 2020. Close-up dominoes in what looks like a game being, one of the players, an older person.
#2. Alcala phase 0.
Author: José Esteban Tosina. Image taken on May 17, 2020. Photograph made at the intersection of The Plaza de Cervantes and Calle Mayor. José comments 'Even though we were in Phase 0, and could go for a walk with the kids, the afternoon didn't invite you to do it'.
#3. The art of protecting others.
Author: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Millán. Image taken April 21, 2020. Artistic photography with comic esthetics divided into two parts, where a police officer and a nurse appear.
#4. Applause.
Author: María Cristina Ayala Fernández
Image on April 15, 2020. Counterbalanced with clapping hands from balconies.
#5. Last day with my father.
Author: José Esteban Tosina. Image taken on April 26, 2020. Forefront of an urn of ashes by which a cross hangs. Ahead a sanitary toy doll.
They've already received a lot of pictures and videos. All interested parties can participate by sending their documents to the e-mail address archivo@uah.es.
UAH´s archivist, Alicia López González, comments that 'interested parties can send their documents whenever they wish; now, when it returns to normal or in the future'. All documents are being stored in the University's digital audiovisual archive. Alicia Lopez concludes by saying that a 'consultation tool will be available to consult this fund in full in the future'. Actually, we are sharing the best images and videos in AUAH profiles on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter'.
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