The Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester, is pleased to announce the second year of its Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with politics, technology, culture, and heritage. Building on the first year of the series, the seminars continue to explore the rich and evolving field of photographic cultures and heritage,…

Display practices have increasingly embraced public engagement and archival afterlives, foregrounding the politics of lived spaces: who gains access, which voices are heard, and why. Participation, spectatorship, screen cultures and mass media have played fluctuating, and at times contradictory, roles in shaping these dynamics. Our digital traces, both intentional and beyond our control, have…

Impressions Gallery, Bradford is recruiting a new new Director to replace Anne McNeill who stepped back from the role after twenty-six years earlier this year. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Director will provide strategic and creative leadership for the organisation, working closely with our experienced team and partners to deliver an…

Thomas (Skelton) Glaister was an early pioneer of photography in Australia. He started work as a photographer in 1841 at Meade Brothers studio in New York before migrating to Australia in 1854. This article focuses on his time in Australia and is based on photographs in the State Library of NSW collections. full article

The launch of the Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit will take place online on 16 October. The tool designed to support the ethical decision-making of people using historical medical photographs, as broadly understood. At the heart of this toolkit is the idea that engaging with ethical considerations will enrich our scholarship and practice.  

This toolkit is for everyone who encounters historical medical photographs in any capacity, including any researcher or visitor to archives…

Congratulations to Dr Michael Pritchard and British Photography History for its milestone year and significant contribution to our discipline. The numbers (first page) speak for themselves for the hunger felt by the community for solid work and excellent editing (even for those of us who speak a different language). May you continue for a very long time. Iiiii

The British-born phootjournalist and Magnum photographer Ian Berry has died aged 92 years. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960.

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-ian-berry-1934-2026/

The next Bloomsbury Photograph Fair will take place on 11 October running alongside the Bloomsbury Book Fair. This fair is always very popular and attracts lots of exhibitors and interest.

Bloomsbury Photograph Fair
Holiday Inn, Coram Street, London, WC1N 1HT…