Ashton Dorton is a junior at the University of Kentucky, majoring in anthropology and minoring in photography. He is continuing work from the summer on digitizing the collection of artifacts from the Newport Historic Spring site. The goal of the project is to allow researchers and the public to have access to high-quality images of the artifacts by creating a website that categorizes the artifacts, making it easy to navigate. Ashton is excited to use photography to help remove the barriers restricting the public from seeing the past, as well as create a protocol for proper digitization.

Ashton Dorton

Undergraduate Research Student