Associate Curator Ruth Kitchin picks some photographic highlights from John Thomson’s 19th-century album Foochow and the River Min.
We’ll be making hundreds of images from the world’s largest public collection of Cameron portraits available online as part of a year-long digitisation project.
In 1826, Niépce used his heliography process to capture the first photograph, but his pioneering work was soon to be overshadowed by the invention of the daguerreotype.
Copper Horses is a witty, intriguing and intimate story about a boy’s relationship with his dad, his dad’s relationship with a machine, and everyday heroes.
John Hinde was a pioneer of colour photography in Britain. Some of his work has just gone on display at the Photographers’ Gallery’s exhibition Mass Observation: This is Your Photo.
This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Rejlander, the flamboyant and mysterious photographer who pioneered the painstaking technique of combination printing.
One of the most important figures in photographic publishing—we even named a research room after him in recognition of his contribution to photography and cinematography.
Colin Harding takes a look at the life of one of the legendary figures of Fleet Street, who always came back with the picture his editor wanted.
Photographer Ian Beesley attended the Bradford v Swansea Capital One Cup Final, and brought back some photographs of this historic occasion.
Our collection includes these beautiful Kodachrome portraits of women in the armed forces, photographed during the Second World War.
Colin Harding looks at one of the major figures in early British photography.
Our Photography Curator Colin Harding looks back at his time spent with legendary photographer Don McCullin.