In celebration of International Women’s Day 2027,  we invite scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation as speakers, or panelists in a free, online, global, 24-hour online, free symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to contemporary practitioners in 2024. This unique event aims to highlight the diverse and impactful work of women and female-identifying…

AntiquarianAuctions is offering a copy of Samuel Palmer Chapman's Stolen Minutes with the Muses, printed for private circulation, in 1877. The book is illustrated with a tipped-in albumen portrait of the author by his son. What makes this book of particular interest, other than the fact only three other copies have been traced, is that Samual Chapman was a professional…

London's V&A Museum has acquired a self-portrait of Maria ‘Mia’ Jackson (1818-1892), née Pattle; 1818–92), one of six sisters of Julia Margaret Cameron. It was purchased from descendants of Julia along with a second ambrotype of a South Asian women. The collodion positive on glass, or ambrotype, is dated to c.1858 and offers the tantalising suggestion that photography amongst the Pattle sisters was not confined only to Julia. As V&A curator Marta Weiss notes the…

Photography, from Fox Talbot to the 21st century, is the theme of the first part of Dominic Winter’s auction on Wednesday 7 October.

A highlight is a partially completed photograph album that comes by descent from the family of Mary Ryan. Found begging with her mother at Putney, Julia Margaret Cameron took young Mary into her Freshwater household, where she went on to become one of Cameron’s most…

The latest Source magazine has arrived. Of particular note for BPH, John Duncan writes that aerial images of Ireland are to be digitised. The Royal Irish Academy has secured funding to digitise 1567 prints and negatives from Cambridge University's Collection of Aerial Photographs made in Ireland between 1951 and 1973. The full collection will be released and made available by May…

Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery is seeking a permanent curator. Open Eye Gallery’s curator will embrace co-authorship as an approach to their practice. We are looking for someone who can work effectively with our arts, academic, community and other partners to create, share and champion photography. 

They will lead our programme of cultural exchange, forming relationships with…

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,…