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,…

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…