Areas of Expertise
Passion. Expertise. Commitment
Photography
Wide-ranging experience, knowledge and understanding of a wide-range of issues affecting organisations with photography, and those wanting to use photography to support their own objectives e.g. organising photography competitions, commissioning and using photography, IP and copyright and rights’ issues affecting photography. Designing and developing indoor and outdoor exhibitions, public programmes, producing photography guides and information materials. Media and press comment information.
Advisory and valuations for insurance and probate
What do we know about?
Photographic history research
Photographic collections and archives
Extensive experience in researching wide-ranging aspect of photographic history, from photographers and individuals working in photography, thematic research, photographs, to photographic technology and cameras, for use in exhibitions, publications and online. We have access to wide-variety of original source materials, especially for British photography from the 19th to 21st centuries.
We have provided expertise to a variety of institutions including the V&A Museum, London; British Library, the former National Media Museum, private collectors and international museums in the UK, Europe, United States, Middle East and Asia
Expertise and extensive experience in reviewing and surveying collections. Inventorying, cataloguing and organising collections of photographs, cameras, books and manuscript material. This can range from a living photographer’s negatives, prints and archive, to historical collections of photography, and present-day collections of photography, books and cameras.
Client advisory for photographs (working with a specialist photography valuer), photography book and photographic equipment collections.
Some of our principal areas of expertise include the following: photographs, processes, cameras, lenses, photographic equipment, photography books and literature, photobooks, stereoscopy, magic lanterns, pre- and early cinema, optical toys and devices, digital photography, artificial intelligence (AI) as it affects imaging
Broad knowledge of international historical and contemporary photography
Experience in historical sources including patents, trademarks and IP, archive, library and collection research, archives, museums and collections