As part of Headstone Manor and Museum's current exhibition Lights Camera Kodak which runs until 30 November Dr Michael Pritchard will look at the history and development of the camera from its origins in the early 1880s to the advent of digital cameras from the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on those made by Eastman Kodak Co from 1888 and Kodak Ltd in the United Kingdom. Many of those Kodak cameras were landmarks in the history of the camera and amateur photography such as the…

We are thrilled to announce that applications are now open for an exceptional opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the conservation, digitisation, and management of photographic collections. This 6-month, part-time, paid traineeship is designed to nurture the next generation of conservation professionals and address the critical shortage of expertise in the preservation of photographic heritage.

Our studio, based in North London, is led by photographic conservators Simon Fleury…

Richard Ovenden, Bodley's librarian, has reported the gift of the earliest image of the Radcliffe Observatory, now ⁦Green Templeton College, to the photography collections at the Bodleian Library. The image is a paper negative by William Henry Fox Talbot, from 1842.

The negative is…

The main call for papers has now closed with seventy proposals received. As this is a global event for International Womens Day 2025 the organisers are still open for proposals from scholars or academics from under-represented areas of Asia, both East and South, and Africa, or papers dealing with photography, by or of women, from those areas. 

Use the link on the original call: …

Visit the Library for a spooktacular collection encounter featuring spirits, ghosts, auras and ectoplasm. Seeing is believing…. Join Tony Richards and Jamie Robinson from the library's imaging team to discuss the late Victorian craze of spirit and supernatural photography including books and photographic examples from our collections. Drop in to the Historic Reading Room for this…

This lecture takes as a case study the Czechoslovak surrealist group, formed in 1934 and still active to this day in Prague, through the lens of its distinctive tradition of surrealist documentary photography as a tool to reflect and critique its geographic and historical contexts.

A long-time specialist in the history, theory and practices of the international surrealist movement, Krzysztof Fijałkowski is Professor of Visual Culture and senior lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme,…

The Centre for British Photography is seeking a Director of Development and Strategy. Established in 2020, the Centre (UK registered charity no. 1190955) presents an expansive overview of the diversity of photographic practices in Britain from a range of voices past and present. Its mission is to support all kinds of photographic practices in Britain and to provide platforms for…

Identify and Care for Your Photographic Collections, is a hands-on workshop designed to assist community archivists and enthusiasts in learning how to identify, care for, and preserve photographic materials. Hosted at Cupar Library, the workshop features experts from the University of St Andrews, including Laura Brown, the Curator of Photography, and Erica Kotze, an accredited conservator with over 20 years of experience.

Participants will gain practical knowledge on…