7 APRIL 2022

Talent Story No. 3

Crédit photo : CC BY SA – Cliché A. Amet, photothèque musée de Bretagne

“Arkhênum’s work helps preserve the bonds of history and our society today.”

Simon Carty, who joined Arkhênum three years ago, sees his work as a scanning operator as a continuation of his career path. After finishing his studies in fine and applied arts (specialising in graphic design), Simon worked on assignments in the civil service, including the Justice archives.

Heritage as a driving force in daily life

Simon was keen to come back to live in the Bordeaux region when a friend told him about Arkhênum. As someone who loves images and archives, he applied to the company, was hired and threw himself wholeheartedly into his new role. “Once the documents have been prepared, I’m responsible for handling and scanning them with equipment fine-tuned to each record,” explains Simon. “I deliver images to the processing department for checking and finalisation.”

Thanks to the services provided not just by Simon himself but also his colleagues, he has stayed true to his first love and his earlier professional experience: images. He has particularly fond memories of the collection of posters in Belgium’s Cinémathèque Royale.

Simon also shares this commitment and thirst for heritage and archives with his colleagues in the digitisation team, who he discusses and debates with as the documents are processed and articles discovered.

TESTIMONIAL

“Our work helps safeguard all the archives that make us who we are today.”

“The documents we have access to are the glue that holds today’s society and history together”, he says. “Through our work at Arkhênum, we help to digitally preserve all the archives that make us who we are today.”

Simon Carty
Digitisation Expert

“Revealing genuine moments from history to the world”

Being in daily contact with old, sometimes unpublished, documents means Simon can discover great swathes of history. “The documents we have access to are the glue that holds today’s society and history together”, he says. “Through our work at Arkhênum, we help to digitally preserve all the archives that make us who we are today.”

Arkhênum’s new rallying cry, Revealing the Past, is in perfect accord with the company’s mission: to reveal crucial moments from history for the world to see; and to give the public access to documents that wouldn’t be available to them without digital technology.

Simon believes that every project he undertakes is noteworthy. At the same time, he admits to a special weakness for handling documents and old bindings from the Middle Ages with gilding and illustrations, or documents from the two World Wars. “We handle state archives or reports that fill in everything we might already know about these periods. It’s an incomparable experience”.

What motivates Simon in his day-to-day work?

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