Our goal here at PHOSPHOR-Ostia is to create a picture site
of all of Ostia. We have started with
nearly 800 of our own photographs. And
even though we’ve been to Ostia twice we still haven’t been able to cover the
entire area. To that end we extend an
open invitation to all who have been to Ostia and who have high resolution
pictures of it to allow us to show your work as part of the PHOSPHOR-Ostia
project.
We’re very fortunate to have Carole Raddato as one of our contributors and we’ve started featuring her work as part of the on going effort to photograph Ostia. So far we have some of her photographs from the Museo Ostiense and this week I’ve added her pictures of the Baths of the Forum, (I, xii, 6). You can see her photos if you search for ‘carolemadge’ on PHOSPHOR-Ostia. She tweets as @carolemadge and she has her own blog at http://followinghadrian.com
PHOSPHOR-Ostia isn’t Flickr for Ostia. Every photograph has a lat/long pair
attached, a set of relevant keywords, and its own map. Each picture works to strengthen all the
others – they are not scattered in a disorganized stream like so many picture
sites. Here, for example, is the
PHOSPHOR-Ostia map of Carole’s picture contributions.
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| New photographs of the Forum Baths by Carole Raddato. PHOSPHOR-Ostia |
You can easily generate a map on the site for
any search word. Try ‘mithra*’, or ‘Hadrian’
for example. By the way, the ‘*’
character is a wild card for searching.
Anyone who has high-res pictures of Ostia Antica is strongly
encouraged to get in touch with us because we’d very much like to show your
pictures. And welcome, again, to
Carole Raddato!
