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Our archival imagery is sourced from the Hulton|Archive which comprises over 300 separate collections and in excess of 40 million negatives, making it one of the greatest resources of original archive photography in the world. The library was founded by Edward Hulton, publisher of the seminal news weekly, Picture Post which revolutionised photojournalism and picture magazine publishing in Britain and beyond. In 1957 the archive was bought by the BBC who added the Daily Express and Evening Standard collections providing coverage of British and international events and personalities from 1939 to the early 1980s.

AH Robinson

Alfred Hind Robinson was one of the pioneers of panoramic photography and shot over 2000 panoramas

Baron

Specialising in court, society and ballet portraiture, Baron once called himself the ‘poor man’s Cecil

Chaloner Woods

Spanning three decades from 1940 – 1970, this collection is primarily fashion-related and represents the

Charles Edridge

Born outside London in 1926, Edridge’s first involvement with photography came when,

Christopher Simon Sykes

Born in 1948, Sykes left Eton to attend Ravensbourne College of Art and since graduating has worked as

Erich Auerbach

The Erich Auerbach collection covers classical music, jazz, ballet and opera from 1945 – 1977

Evening Standard and Daily Express Collections

Founded in 1827 and covering a period from 1925 to the early

John Chillingworth

The son of a newspaper man, John Chillingworth was born in London in 1928.

Justin De Villeneuve

Justin de Villeneuve, born Nigel Davies in London¹s East End,

Kos Evans

This unique exhibition, will feature some of Kos’s most dramatic and breathtaking photographs...

Larry Ellis

Born in Shoreditch in East London in 1931, Ellis left school at the tender age of fourteen

Lorenzo Agius

Lorenzo shot to great prominence in the world of photography in 1996 with his seminal images for the ground

Murray Garrett

Murray Garrett’s first professional photographic assignment was to cover Eleanor Roosevelt and

Phillips Collection

Covering a period from 1908 to the early 20s this collection of nearly 10,000 glass negatives is a

Reg Lancaster

Reg Lancaster has worked for the Daily Express for 44 years, which in

Sasha

Alexander Stewart was born in 1892. Following an apprenticeship, he turned professional in 1914 and

Slim Aarons

Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both

Terry Fincher

Terry Fincher began his career after the Second World War as a photographer for Keystone Press

Terry O’Neill

Born in 1938 in the East End of London, Terry O’Neill’s career began at the tender age of 22,

Thurston Hopkins

Thurston Godfrey Hopkins trained as a magazine illustrator at Brighton College of Art, but discovering that

William England

Originally starting his career in the 1840s as a daguerreotypist, William England joined the