The Directory of Travelling Photographers. Part 1: 1841-1881 and the new Part 2: 1882-1921 are now both available online via the Romany and Traveller Family History Society (RTFHS) website. The website has just been updated with part 2. Additional records have been found for the earlier period, and for post -921. It is hoped to incorporate these into one consolidated…

The receipients of the Archives Revealed Scoping Grant programme for 2025-26 managed by The National Archives have been announced. Inevitably photography is integral to many of the recipients' collections. The programme is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Archives.

Of particular note is Oldham Archives which holds the Oldham Chronicle collection. The Chronicle archive is 77.3 cubic metres in…

 Hill and Adamson salt print is available to purchase if anyone is in NYC or can work through the various taxes and shipping information, at Swann Auctions. Though judging by the expression on the sitters face(Professor Monro)…

Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic world. He soon teamed up with Robert Paul to make a moving picture camera and then shot the first commercial films in Britain in spring 1895, in parallel with the work of the Lumière…

The National Portrait Gallery, which owns twelve volumes of Camile Silvy's studio daybooks, has published a blog by Paul Frecker tracing the story of the daybooks and the missing volume 11 (July 1863-June 1864). Frecker also explores the importance of the books and Silvy's negatives. He is the author of Cartomania published in 2024 by September Publishing. …

The National Archives, Kew, has announced a series of summer seminars. Of particular interest to photographic historians are: 

• Family photography archives: Practices, Silences, and Ideologies with Uschi Klein on 10 June from 1300-1330

  Drawing on the photographic family archive of three generations of amateur photographers from Romania covering the inter-war,…

Paul Messier, Director of the Lens Media Lab at Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, has nnounced that the lab will cease operations from 30 June 2025 as a consequence of a lack of funding. Founded in 2015 with funding and vision from the John Pritzker Family Fund, the Lens Media Lab led a pioneering research program, integrating physics, data science, art history, and conservation science to study 20th century…

London's Photographers' Gallery is seeking a curator and an assistant curator. The Curator role involves curating, exhibition planning & delivery, and liaising with the wider Gallery team on budgeting, fundraising & development, press and communications, exhibition installation and events. As Assistant Curator you will support the work of the exhibitions team by providing key…