The talk will focus on the Swiss photographer Werner Nefflen (1919-2014). However, it is not about his professional work and his commissioned works, but about photographs taken in his spare time. Nefflen was close to nature and often hiked in the mountains in the summer. In the process, he photographed numerous mountain farmers at making hay and building haystacks. Werner Nefflen's work is now kept in the historic museum of Baden and catalogued in an archival information system. A large part of the images have been digitized and are publicly accessible. As is common in archives today, the images can be searched via text queries, but this often leads to unsatisfactory results. In my talk I will apply the new ontology "Records in Contexts" RiC-O (https://github.com/ICA-EGAD/RiC-O) to contextualize Nefflen's vacation images from different perspectives, both in terms of content, geography, but also in terms of publication. Using example images, I will show how a photographer's legacy can be described and accessed in new ways.

This presentation was held on June 8th, 2021 in Rome, and reflects a momentary reflection of this theme at that time.