As flagged earlier this year on BPH the ground-breaking Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at her former London home in Belgravia. The plaque was unveiled on 12 May at 10 Chesham Place…

A Blue Plaque to William Constable is to be unveiled in Brighton on the 29 May 2026 at 57 Marine Parade. The unveiling is scheduled for 1130 and attendees are asked to gather for 1115. Following the unveiling those attending are encouraged to go for a fish and chip lunch in the restaurant on Brighton's Palace Pier.

William Constable (1783-1861) was the first person to open a…

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,100 employees and over 29,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient…

Just an update here which I hope will be of interest to any of press photo agency history lovers on my Press Photo History project - two staff memebers have recently sent memories (and a few photos) of their time at the Fox Photos press agency in the 1950's and 60's.The agency was one of the major suppliers of news photographs to the Fleet Street newspapers ...and the…

We all know the sounds of a photo booth - the familiar swoosh of the curtain rail, the clattering of the spinning stool, and the clunk of the flash…four of them, one after another. Hidden away in the corner of a railway station or shopping centre, for generations the photobooth has been a space for people to experiment with the image they want to present to the world. A place to explore identity. As the photobooth marks its centenary, presenter and oral historian Alan Dein considers the…

Dominic Winter Auctions is to offer the only known example of a near full-face portrait of a Southwold fisherman dating from c.1886. The 34 x 29cm portrait is an albumen print rather than the platinum more usually associated with Emerson's work and is inscribed on the back by Emerson 'An Old Sea-Dog - Taken Direct, Negative untouched, by P.H. Emerson BA MB, (Copyright)'. It is estimated at £1000-1500.

The catalogue entry notes:  A completely full-face portrait of the…

In 1974, photographers Terry Dennett and Jo Spence made repeated visits to 'illegal' Gypsy and Traveller sites in and around London. They got to know the people who lived there, documenting their lives in sound and image. The results of their project never formed a dedicated exhibition or a comprehensive publication, either then or since. Our Studio Was The World makes this…

To coincide with the publication of the publication of Hill and Adamson’s The Fisherwomen and Men of the Firth of Forth by Sara Stevenson, a strictly limited series of museum-quality modern prints has been created. Curated by Sara Stevenson and Michael Gray, five images have been selected to represent the depth and humanity of Hill & Adamson’s work. Each print is drawn from a limited edition of just 50, produced to the highest archival standards, and presented within a signed…