This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Image Makers: exploring photographs from Africa, a project focused on significant historic photographic collections from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Working closely with the Project Curator and Project Lead, you will create accurate catalogue records and upload digitised images to the Museum’s database as well as helping to organise several thousand photographs so that they can be made accessible to project partners…

The latest Bern Schwartz Family Foundation V&A curatorial fellow in photography is Dr Sadie Levy Gale. The two-year appointment will see Levy Gale support the curatorial team and work on her own research projects. She joins the V&A from the Institute of Historical Research where she worked on record collections concerned with social welfare in The Social History Archive, including…

The latest Bern Schwartz Family Foundation curatorial fellow in photography is Dr Sadie Levy Gale. The two-year appointment will see Levy Gale support the curatorial team and work on her own research projects. She joins the V&A from the Institute of Historical Research where she worked on record collections concerned with social welfare in The Social History Archive, including…

This fellowship has been established to mark the joint donation to Christ Church and the Bodleian Libraries in 2025 of the exceptionally rare 1865 Michelson Alice, and the donation to Christ Church of the Jon A. Lindseth Lewis Carroll Collection. The fellowship…

London's National Portrait Gallery is to appoint a Chanel Curator, Photographs. The postholder will be a key member of the Photographs team within the Curatorial department and will play a significant role in the development, care and presentation of the Gallery's outstanding collection of photographic portraiture. Funded by the Chanel Culture Fund the new post is the first…

Through more than 900 extraordinary black and white images, this book reveals a Britain on the cusp of enormous change – a world that would soon be transformed forever by the Second World War. With photographs from every British county and city in the country, from Cornwall to Orkneyand from Cardiff to Derry, this spectacular 616-page book captures a nation poised between tradition and…

I do hope members will be interested in my latest post on Seventh and D, my website looking at the galleries of Alexander Gardner (and Gibson, Brady et al.)

In 1998 a box full of mid-Victorian images was discovered under a table at the old Normansfield Hospital, shortly before demolition work was due to begin there. The images were rescued by archivists from the Surrey History Centre and turned out to be almost 200 posed photographic portraits of patients at the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots in Redhill, Surrey, taken between 1860 and 1865.…