A new initiative for 2026, the CCA’s Photography Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research to reexamine the spectrum of interactions between photography and architecture and our photographic holdings.

The CCA holds one of the most significant photography collections in North America. Founded in 1974, before the formal establishment of the CCA, the collection has…

The University of St Andrews is applying to the Recognition Scheme to have the photography collection formally recognised as being of national significance. The Recognition Scheme (administered by Museum Galleries Scotland) is an opportunity for non-national museums, galleries and heritage organisations to officially have their collections recognised as being of equal quality and importance as those held by national bodies. 

As part of the process, applicants are required to submit…

As part of the 2025 Photo Oxford Festival historian Dr Rose Teanby will be talking about the life of Constance Talbot, wife of William Henry Fox Talbot. Recent research into artworks and photographs from the Bodleian and British Library Talbot collections throw a new light on her status as one of the earliest women photographers in Britain. Drawings from her family home in Derby,…

Seeking information about, and images by, the Grice Frères who operated in Port-au-Prince Haiti ca 1860-1865, also imprints and images by Francis H. Grice, William Grice, George Grice, and Hezekiah Grice Jr., and identified daguerreotypes of Haiti by A. D'Orthon Hartman(n) and other Caribbean daguerreotypists. My thsnks in advance for any assistance that can be provided.

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Rose Teanby has produced a short blog about Anna Atkins's visit to Chatsworth in 1851 and her cyanotyping of ferns. The blog connects to the current Chatsworth exhibition The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth which is on view until 5 October. The exhibition is showing a borrowed copy of Photographs of British Algae, Cyanotype Impressions by Anna Atkins in the Oak Room at Chatsworth (see photo above) and previously…

Surrey had many psychiatric and learning disability hospitals, and their archives inform our understanding of historic attitudes to mental illness, epilepsy, and a wide spectrum of learning disabilities.  Medical case notes telling the personal stories of thousands of people, young and old, who were admitted to these vast institutions are often accompanied by a photographic portrait of…

The Terra Nova, the ship immortalised by Herbert Ponting, has been filmed for the first time since it sank in 1943. The ship which was resdiscovered in 2012 carried Captain Scott's doomed polar expedition in 1912. The BBC's report used Ponting's images but failed to credit him, only the commercial picture libraries and collections housing his work. Ponting died in 1935 and his work is…

Autograph is looking for an experienced curator to work with our collection and our contemporary exhibition programme, which focuses strongly on photographic practice and engages with audiences in the UK and abroad.

We strongly encourage applications from global majority* candidates who are underrepresented in curatorial roles within the gallery and museum sector. Global…