Summer is here, hordes of children will soon be let loose from the nation’s classrooms, and we would love you all to visit us and ‘Discover the Full Story’.
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.
Guest blogger Mike McKenny reviews Mohamed Al-Daradji’s Son of Babylon and gives an overview of LIFF’s Q&A session with the director.
Learn the basics of how to care for glass negatives, colour transparencies, lantern slides and photographic prints.
Mike McKenny takes a deep dive into the world of the Ford brothers’ zombie flick The Dead, with a review of the movie and an interview with the directors and star Rob Freeman.
From Nim to the Nintendo 3DS, take a whistle-stop tour through 60 years of videogames.
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.
One of the most effective ways to date a photograph is also one of the simplest: look at what the subjects are wearing. These contacts and resources may also be helpful.
Television is such an intimate part of most of our lives that any discussion of its origins automatically incites a host of personal emotional responses uncommon to other inventions.
When Jimmy Wales founded the website Wikipedia in 2001, he envisaged that it would ultimately become a digital brain representing the sum of all human knowledge.