Land & Sea brings together an exceptional group of photographers whose work explores our relationship with landscape, coastline and the natural world. Spanning photography’s earliest experiments to contemporary camera-less practices, the exhibition presents historic and modern works that share a fascination with light, material and place.

Photography remains one of the most rewarding fields in which to build a collection. Alongside editioned prints, this exhibition includes unique…

The Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal (CCA), with the 2027 iteration of the institution’s Photography Research Fellowship Programme. The CCA holds significant holdings of ninteenth century British photography

The 2027 programme foregrounds the CCA and the PMC’s shared research commitments to the…

As audiovisual formats and digital storage technologies continue to evolve, cultural heritage institutions are increasingly responsible for collections that span both legacy digital media and time-based audiovisual carriers. From floppy disks and CD/DVDs to MiniDiscs and tape-based formats, these materials require different, but overlapping, approaches to ensure their long-term…

Shannon Taggart became aware of Spiritualism as a teenager, when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather's death. In 2001, while working as a photographer, she began taking pictures where that message was received - Lily Dale, New York, home to the world's largest Spiritualist community - proceeding to other such communities as England’s…

The Herschel Museum of Astronomy will launch two new exhibitions exploring the connections between photography, astronomy and scientific discovery: Photology: John Herschel, Henry Talbot and Early Photography and The as-yet unseen by contemporary Irish artist Grace Weir.

Photology: John Herschel, Henry Talbot and Early Photography will explore Sir John Herschel’s pivotal role in the development of photography, and his collaboration with photographic pioneer…

New Brighton Creative Futures (NBCF) and the Martin Parr Foundation are developing a major new public artwork honouring one of Britain’s most important photographers - Martin Parr - and his landmark series The Last Resort, made in New Brighton.…

Irène Gernsheim, née Guénin, the second wife Helmut Gernsheim, the photographer and photographic historian, died aged 92 years on 22 April 2026. Irène and Helmut were married in 1971. After Helmut Gernsheim's death in 1995, she contributed to preserving his legacy and regularly spoke about his work in the history of photography. 

In 2002 Irène, passed Gernsheim's collection of twentieth century photography, including his own photographs, to the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim,…

Bristol's Negative Thinking is holding a two-day workshop which will give you the skills and insight you need to produce albumen prints from your own collodion glass negatives. The weekend will start by learning how to make wet plate collodion negatives; working in the studio and darkroom to produce negatives of sufficient contrast and density to be subsequently printed on to albumen…