The Cameroon Press Photo Archive (CPPA-B) is a photographic archive located in Buea, the regional capital of the South West Region of Cameroon. It holds around 120,000 negatives and 14,000 proof sheets (templates on which up to 16 contact prints were mounted for the purpose of reference) in total, granting a unique view of Anglophone Cameroon's history for the time period 1955 to 2000.[1] Between 2013 and 2015, African Photography Initiatives digitized 25,000 negatives and all 14,000 proof sheets. A copy of the digitized material is in the possession of the Ministry of Communication, the authority in charge of the photo archive.[2] The CPPA-B is considered an endangered archive.[3][4][5][6]
- ^ Nsah, Solomon Kekeisen (June 2017). "The Cameroon Press Photo Archive (CPPA) Buea in Crisis 1955-2016". Vestiges: Traces of Record. 3 (1): 65–81. ISSN 2058-1963. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Cameroon Press Photo Archives, Buea. Protection, Conservation, Access". African Photography Initiatives. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ "(Project 542), "Cameroon Photo Archives, Protection, Conservation and Access"". Endangered Archives Programme. 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ (in French) Schneider, Jürg and Rosario Mazuela Coll: Réveiller un gisement d'archives: Les Archives photographiques de Presse à Buea (Cameroun), in Images & Mémoires No 40, 2014: 18-22.
- ^ (in German) Schneider, Jürg and Rosario Mazuela Coll: Pressefotografie in Kamerun – Erschliessung, Digitalisierung und Konservierung des staatlichen Fotoarchivs, in Rundbrief Fotografie Vol. 20, No. 4 / N.F. 80, 2013: 22-27.
- ^ (in French) Mazuela Coll, Rosario und Schneider, Jürg: De l'archive papier au vide numérique. Le cas du Burundi – Perte d'un patrimoine visuel, in: Africultures, Perspectives africaines en photographie. No. 88, Seiten 86-99, 2012.