The Art Newspaper carries a fascinating Q&A with James Hyman where he talks about the 3000 strong Claire and James Hyman Collection of photography collectionand what might happen to it in the future, He makes a strident, but reasonable, call for a senior curator of British photography at Tate Britain to compliment Simon Baker, curator of international photography, at Tate Modern. He suggests that within the Tate staff there have shown a lack of interest in receiving the collection, although Nicholas Serota has been 'personally engaged'.
Read the full interview here: http://theartnewspaper.com/reports/photography-review/why-a-collection-of-british-photography-is-probably-going-abroad/
See more of the Hyman Collection at its website here: http://www.britishphotography.org/artists
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Sadly it looks like they've made up their minds to give it to an overseas institution. They may be right about museums not appreciating donated material though.
I wonder, now the V&A is beefing up its interest in photography with the move of the RPS collection, whether that rather than Tate Modern might be a suitable destination. I'm surprised that the Tate isn't biting their arms off to get these though, now it has all that extra space to fill.