Gawain Weaver is a photograph conservator in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation. He earned his M.A. in art history and advanced diploma in art conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2005), and was a fellow in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House and the Image Permanence Institute (2005-2007). He has studied photograph conservation at Library and Archives Canada, the Amon Carter Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Northeast Document Conservation Center, and teaches photograph preservation at the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University.