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…

Displayed in the ‘Burra’ room at Rye Art Gallery, as a part of Terry Hulf’s Retrospective: Notes from a Landscape, we are delighted to present 30 monochrome portraits of artists, which have additional impact for us at Rye Art Gallery. Terry’s relationship with this ‘colony’ of artists that work here on the Sussex and Kent borders stretches back a long way. He captures them here at different moments both in the present and in time past. It is a history of connections with…

This new book investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue. It explores photographic images used in the study of art, as well as the implications of placing European images of non-European cultures in an archive, album, library, or museum. It also addresses questions of digital space,…

As part of the project “GENIAC: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Archival Images of the Colonial Period,” we are organising a one-day international workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on Tuesday 13th May, from approximately 9:15 to 16:00.

This not-to-be missed event brings together leading professionals from the GLAM sector, AI researchers, historians and digital humanists to explore the ethical and technical challenges of applying AI to colonial-era photographic archives.…

While working as Beaford’s Photographer-in-Residence, renowned documentary photographer James Ravilious invited members of the public to share their historic photographs of rural North Devon. Ravilious re-photographed these for inclusion in the Beaford Photographic Archive and returned the originals to their owner. The resultant collection of around 9000 images became known informally…