Croissants and coffee have become a staple of our exhibitions programme, as we follow the opening of each temporary exhibition with a ‘Breakfast with the Artists’ event.
From the very first photographic images to the work of contemporary photographers, photography is one of our major areas of expertise and is represented throughout our collection.
Greg Hobson takes a look at Taryn Simon’s new photography book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Here’s a sneak preview of our latest exhibition, Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works, opening 30 September 2011.
Images from our Daniel Staincliffe display, Fauna Automata: British Wild Boar, are being installed today.
Ruth Haycock talks about her experience filming with photographer Daniel Meadows in preparation for our exhibition of his work.
What do you get if you mix the talent of a world-class photographer with the support of two national institutions and a successful fellowship programme? In this instance, our future exhibition Outposts: Donovan Wylie.
Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie recently visited us to work on the final stages of his premiere exhibition Outposts.
Read Brian Liddy’s thoughts on selecting works for The Lives of Great Photographers, and watch a video of his in-conversation event with Impressions Gallery’s Anne McNeill.
Learn the basics of how to care for glass negatives, colour transparencies, lantern slides and photographic prints.
The biggest threat to the wellbeing of photographs is you! Most damage—especially to more fragile supports such as glass and paper—has occurred through human negligence or ignorance.
The New Chrysotype Process is so named in honour of Sir John Herschel who, in his classic paper of 1842 (1), first coined the term chrysotype to describe the photochemical production of an image in colloidal gold metal.
Terry King gives an overview of the gum bichromate process, with a step-by-step guide to printing.