BPH has just learnt of the passing of John Chillingworth yesterday, aged 97 years.  As his website notes: 

As a teenager, he made a traditional entry into Fleet Street at the height of the Second World War. His initial ambition had been to make the tea for the darkroom staff of the country's leading picture magazine, but he rapidly proved his…

Last week's presentation of the Bodley Medal to Sir Don McCullin (see below) the first photographer to be honoured provided an opportuntity for the Library to invite guests to meet Lydia Heeley, the Bern and Ronny Schwartz Curator of Photography who was…

The National Trust publication Cultural Heritage magazine for spring/summer 2024 carries a conversation between the Trust's National Curator for photography, Anna Sparham and Robin Muir where they discuss the Trust's photography collections. The maagzine is free to download. 

The Trust is shortly to appoint an Assistant National Curator for…

The latest issue of The Classic is now available to view online or collect from one of the venues stocking the printed magazine. The issue includes interviews with publisher Bruno Tartarin; Claudia Baroncini, director of the Alinari Foundation; and with gallerist Stephen Daiter. Elsewhere Michael Diemar looks at the story behind Charles Jones and his photographs of vegetables,…

Silvergrain Classics magazine has reported that the German Photo Council has been actively campaigning to have analogue photography officially recognized by UNESCO as cultural heritage. Analogue photography has been officially registered in the State Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia as the first step in this process.This…

London's The Photographers' Gallery has a number of courses of interest.  V&A curator Hana Kaluznick is running an online course on Colour Photography: Histories and Techniques from 16 April. Writer and lecturer Stephen Bull is running an online course on Photography & Celebrity from 19 May, and writer and curator is leading a course on photography, truth and identity from 19 May. 

In addition, the Gallery archivist is offering 45-minute sessions on…

I've recently read that although the autochrome was announced in June 1907, due to high demand,plates weren't on sale in Britain until October 1907.  I have two autochromes taken on the 18th of October 1907 in Sefton Park in Liverpool.
Does anyone know of any British autochromes that might be earlier?

That might be earlier?

I'm just curious.

An exhibition of new work by the photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath RSA, in collaboration with the writer Melissa McCarthy. The way our perception flexes and makes new meanings depending on the circumstance is a phenomenon that Norman McBeath explores in this work. In 'Exceptional Subjects' he has made a photographic study of items…