Ariana Lindquist

Ariana Lindquist is a certified archivist who specializes in photographic archives and digital asset management (DAM). At the United Nations, she served as an Information Management Officer and team lead for the UN Photo Library, overseeing photographic archiving workflows that supported discovery, access, and reuse at scale. Her DAM experience includes hands-on administration, workflow enhancement, and platform upgrades in Orange Logic, an enterprise-scale, visuals-first DAM environment. Her work is grounded in two decades of visual communication and documentary photography practice, including a Fulbright in China documenting a period of profound socio-economic and cultural transformation.

In addition to collections and systems work, at the UN she developed and produced editorial visual storytelling for high-visibility, public-facing communication. She established digitization standards for image negative scanning to produce high-quality master files of enduring value. Through the Department of Global Communications News and Media Division AI working group, she researched and contributed to guidance on ethical AI use in archival workflows, image integrity, and content provenance (C2PA/Content Credentials). Independently, she also researched and drafted updated UN Photo image non-manipulation policy, reviewed and approved through UN channels.