Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East.

 

The APAAME Archive is home to over 100,000 aerial photographs, and it can be hard to know where to start.

The best entry point to the Archive is

www.flickr.com/photos/apaame/collections/

 

To see a selection of the photographs organised as sets, follow this link:

www.flickr.com/photos/apaame/sets/

 

To see a selection of the types of sites we photograph, follow this link:

www.flickr.com/photos/apaame/sets/72157625278938608/detail/

Or check out our featured sets: www.flickr.com/photos/apaame/collections/72157623017171896/

 

Please visit our blog at www.apaame.org for more information about the project and our wider research in the Middle East.

 

No charge is normally made for use of APAAME photographs in academic articles or in limited print books intended for an academic audience. An administration fee may be charged however. You should inform us via this page of your proposed use, for our records.

 

If photos are for commercial undertakings such as magazines, newspapers or books aimed at a popular audience, there is a reproduction fee.

 

Please contact us using the details on this page www.apaame.org/p/contacts.html to obtain high resolution, watermark-free images, quoting the full reference numbers of those in which you are interested.

 

When publishing any photograph, for commercial or academic purposes, please include a full reference in your bibliography:

 

Aerial Photographic Archive of Archaeology in the Middle East (APAAME), archive accessible from: www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/aerial-archaeology.

 

Also, any photograph should include the FULL reference number underneath it in text, for example: APAAME_19980508_DLK-0002.tif

 

While the individual who has taken the photograph(s) has signed over the right for the images to be distributed by APAAME, the individual still retains the formal right to be identified as the photographer. Wherever possible, a credit to the photographer should be published with the photograph(s). The photographer's name is indicated in the copyright field of the EXIF metadata attached to each photograph.

 

NB: These are not art photographs. They were taken for archaeological purposes, sometimes not taken in optimum conditions of time of day, light, direction, height etc. However, even images that are poor quality can have a value and it has seemed best to make virtually everything available online rather than just our selection of the best.

 

The earliest photographs in the Archive from the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan Project date from 1997 and several subsequent years were taken on film - they have been digitized from the original film or slide copy.