Early Photography
Keep up to date with historic photography exhibition reviews from UK museums and galleries and explore the latest news, event listings, websites and resources highlighting photography collections in the UK.
Tom Hunter finds shrines from a disappearing world in Findings of Birmingham
In an exhibition of pinhole photographs at a central square in Birmingham, acclaimed photographer Tom Hunter takes a journey back into the country's industrial heritage and his own history.
Diffusion: Inaugural Cardiff International Festival of Photography makes for great May
Cardiff's inaugural photography festival is also notable for international vantage points ranging from industrial Portugal to rural Norway.
Bodleian Library wins £1.2 million for personal archive of William Henry Fox Talbot
Ahead of the deadline for the £2.2 million asking price at the end of February, Oxford's Bodleian Library has been awarded £1.2 million towards securing a major collection once owned by the forefather of British photography.
Brassai, Bresson and more in Shoot! Existential Photography at The Photographers' Gallery
The evident existential possibilities of the photo shooting gallery are explored - with the help of some intellectual lions - in this playful group show at the Photographer's Gallery.
Hall Place discovers an Illuminated World through the photography of Arthur Boswell
Little is known about the man behind this intriguing collection of early photography, but the subjects reveal a life spent travelling overseas as well as a love of his local area.
Lindsay Seers goes from Zanzibar to London in Nowhere Less Now at The Tin Tabernacle
The contemporary artist takes over one of the last remaining corrugated iron churches for an atmospheric trip through history, photography and the moving image.
In the Blink of an Eye: The National Media Museum Bradford sees Media and Movement
The National Media Museum explores our fascination with movement for the Cultural Olympiad, including a new commission filmed at the UK Olympic training centre.
Promoting Early European Photography at the National Waterfront Museum in Wales
Six rooms of more than 100 pictures in Swansea showcase the work of pioneers from across the continent who produced some of the very first images of life in their country.
Julia Margaret Cameron Photographs of Children at the V&A Museum of Childhood
The V&A Museum of Childhood is hosting the first exhibition devoted solely to Julia Margaret Cameron's pioneering photographs of children.
Ways of Looking aims for Berlin and Bienniale feel in inaugural Bradford photography festival
Douglas Gordon, Jeremy Deller and Donovan Wylie headline the boutique Bradford festival full of exhibitions, events and trails based on a theme of Evidence.
Lightning and Fox Talbot: Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Experimental Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has been using his unusual techniques to capture lightning and to revisit the earliest negatives of William Henry Fox Talbot.
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the Twentieth Century at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy is celebrating the birth of modern photography by looking at the giants of Hungarian photography and their infuence thoughout the 20th century.
The North: John Bulmer's shots capture a moment in time at Third Floor Gallery Cardiff
The revered photography pioneer presents shots snapped up by The Sunday Times Magazine from the 1960s and 1970s.
Linnaeus Tripe and early photographic pioneers of the South West at Plymouth Museum
Early pioneers of photography from the south west are brought to the fore at Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery.
Royalty star photographers Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron enter Blackwell House
Rarely-seen black and white portraits from two pioneering 19th century photography stars have debuted in Cumbria.
