This summer, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) will shine a light on the power of landscape photography by exploring the ways in which the camera has shaped how the natural world is seen and understood. On view until 24 January 2027, Sightlines: British Landscape Photography, 1840 to Now spans nearly two centuries and presents more than one hundred photographic works, ranging from the pioneering botanical studies of early innovators William Henry Fox Talbot and Bessie Rayner…

The work being under taken at Liverpool Museums on the Stewart Bale Ltd photography archive continues. A second newsletter has just been issued which discisses the process of cataloguing. Three volunteers talk about an image with has resonated with them. 

Stewart Bale Ltd was a family run photographic practice specializing in commercial, architectural and industrial photography. It was based in Liverpool from c1911 until the early 1980s, with an additional studio in London from 1949…

Following on from two previous tours the art historian Aneela de Soysa has arranged a further 14-day tour of Sri Lanka with a focus on Julia Margaret Cameron's final years in the country. Julia Margaret Cameron  was one of the most influential photographers of her nineteenth century and spent the last four years of her life in Ceylon. In 1875, aged 60, she and her husband Charles, then…

CEWE, which is supporting the National Trust as it discovers its photography holdings across its historic properties and sites has released a short film about how photographs are bringing Calke Abbey's history to life. The film features Mort Marsh, Calke's Collections and House officer, and Dr Jayne Knight, Assistant National Curator of Photography. 

Check out the film below or at the link here:…

BPH has just learnt of the passing of Sidney Ray last year and it is important we remember such significant figures from British photography. Sidney Ray, who died last year aged 85 years, was a lecturer at the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL) for many years and a respected authority on photographic optics and technology.

Born in Aberdeen, he was educated at Owen’s School,…

A story that has been live for a while is the proposed sell off of the archive of the now-closed Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow. The story of the CCA and its closure, and relationship with Creative Scotland, the Scottish government and Glasgow City Council, is outside the scope of BPH. Check out the museum press and The Herald websites for more on this.The recent threat to 103 Trongate, Glasgow, which houses Street Level Photoworks and other arts organisations is a…

Since photography's invention in 1839, people have tried to photograph what cannot be seen: ghosts, dreams, prayers, sickness, sin, psychic forces—even the human soul. The images they produced are beautiful, unsettling, and often absurd. The experiments behind them are stranger still. Leading scientists, artists, physicians, and thinkers took these investigations seriously. Yet today…

Traditionally stories of culture and society have been held and told by institutional collections. But what about the everyday material which is hidden, forgotten or displaced outside of these traditional records? Who tells these stories and decides who they belong to, how they are looked after and what their value is? Who are they for? Whose Archive is it Anyway? is the first in a three-part series of events exploring the future of archives and archiving. This one-day event on…