Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain
@pccgb.bsky.social
Official account of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain (PCCGB), dedicated to the history of photography, the collecting and using of old cameras and other photographica.
Website: https://pccgb.net
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This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
Sharing again the next online seminar, this time linking our website! empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o... While consent always feature in conversations on ethics, how it can be applied or rethought in historical contexts leads to more questions than answers, as we'll see!
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is happening on Monday 8 December, 2.30 pm, online! It's going to be a fantastic seminar with Dr Ayra Thampuran, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, who will share short provocations on the topic of consent, followed by plenty of time for questions and discussion #photohist
This should be well worth attending - and the book will be reviewed in the next issue of 'Photographica World'. Those interested in previous book reviews on the subject of World War One photography should check out our online review section here: pccgb.net/new-book-rev...
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This should be well worth attending - and the book will be reviewed in the next issue of 'Photographica World'. Those interested in previous book reviews on the subject of World War One photography should check out our online review section here: pccgb.net/new-book-rev...
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Head to Paddington Reservoir Gardens to see the works on display there, including the Head On Exposure Awards, and this - the winning photo by Abdelrahman Alkahlout called Faith amidst genocide.
Head On Photo Festival 2025 | 8–30 November
Image credit: Abdelrahman Alkahlout
#headonphoto
Head On Photo Festival 2025 | 8–30 November
Image credit: Abdelrahman Alkahlout
#headonphoto
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Head to Paddington Reservoir Gardens to see the works on display there, including the Head On Exposure Awards, and this - the winning photo by Abdelrahman Alkahlout called Faith amidst genocide.
Head On Photo Festival 2025 | 8–30 November
Image credit: Abdelrahman Alkahlout
#headonphoto
Head On Photo Festival 2025 | 8–30 November
Image credit: Abdelrahman Alkahlout
#headonphoto
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Foam talent deadline extended til 16 Nov. This prize has been career-changing for several former students. mailchi.mp/foam/foam-ta...
Foam Talent Call: Deadline extended until 16 November
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November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Foam talent deadline extended til 16 Nov. This prize has been career-changing for several former students. mailchi.mp/foam/foam-ta...
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📸 Excited to share my first blog post! I’ve rounded up the best brand‑new film cameras you can actually buy in 2025, with real‑world pros & cons, and how they’ll fit into a serious film workflow.
Check it out: withframes.com/blog/buy-bes...
#FilmPhotography #35mm #FilmIsNotDead
Check it out: withframes.com/blog/buy-bes...
#FilmPhotography #35mm #FilmIsNotDead
Best New Film Cameras You Can Buy in 2025 - Frames Blog
Explore new film cameras available in 2025. From 35mm to large format, discover models from Pentax, Leica, Lomography, and more that you can buy brand new today.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📸 Excited to share my first blog post! I’ve rounded up the best brand‑new film cameras you can actually buy in 2025, with real‑world pros & cons, and how they’ll fit into a serious film workflow.
Check it out: withframes.com/blog/buy-bes...
#FilmPhotography #35mm #FilmIsNotDead
Check it out: withframes.com/blog/buy-bes...
#FilmPhotography #35mm #FilmIsNotDead
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Throwback Thursday 📸
Penzance Promenade, c.1910
Gibson & Sons
A photograph of the promenade with three stylish ladies approaching the photographer. The sea railings were replaced with a new design in 1896, and the whole area was paved in the following year.
Penzance Promenade, c.1910
Gibson & Sons
A photograph of the promenade with three stylish ladies approaching the photographer. The sea railings were replaced with a new design in 1896, and the whole area was paved in the following year.
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Throwback Thursday 📸
Penzance Promenade, c.1910
Gibson & Sons
A photograph of the promenade with three stylish ladies approaching the photographer. The sea railings were replaced with a new design in 1896, and the whole area was paved in the following year.
Penzance Promenade, c.1910
Gibson & Sons
A photograph of the promenade with three stylish ladies approaching the photographer. The sea railings were replaced with a new design in 1896, and the whole area was paved in the following year.
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A new biography explores the remarkable life and collecting legacy of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, the 19th-century heiress and ceramics scholar.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A new biography explores the remarkable life and collecting legacy of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, the 19th-century heiress and ceramics scholar.
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This should be excellent #photohist
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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October 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This should be excellent #photohist
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Photography folks, a longread for your Sunday coffee. Enjoy!
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Mugshots and Camera Fiends
Anika Burgess on how photography transformed 19th century public life
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October 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Photography folks, a longread for your Sunday coffee. Enjoy!
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Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
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Edinburgh-area photo history nerds! I'm giving a talk 17/9/25 @ the Edinburgh Photographic Society. It's not technically a public event but if you are interested in attending, PM me & I'll send a link. More below. #tintypes #photohistory #wetcollodion #photography #altprocess #Victorian #Edinburgh
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Edinburgh-area photo history nerds! I'm giving a talk 17/9/25 @ the Edinburgh Photographic Society. It's not technically a public event but if you are interested in attending, PM me & I'll send a link. More below. #tintypes #photohistory #wetcollodion #photography #altprocess #Victorian #Edinburgh
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Don't forget to book your free tickets to our Bill Douglas Memorial talk for Heritage Open Days by Geoff Brown - 'From Silent to Sound'! 👉
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/.../lecture-...
See you there! 🎬🎥
#heritagesky #museumsky @museumsandheritage.com #heritageopendays #billdouglas #filmsky #silentfilmsky
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/.../lecture-...
See you there! 🎬🎥
#heritagesky #museumsky @museumsandheritage.com #heritageopendays #billdouglas #filmsky #silentfilmsky
September 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Don't forget to book your free tickets to our Bill Douglas Memorial talk for Heritage Open Days by Geoff Brown - 'From Silent to Sound'! 👉
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/.../lecture-...
See you there! 🎬🎥
#heritagesky #museumsky @museumsandheritage.com #heritageopendays #billdouglas #filmsky #silentfilmsky
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/.../lecture-...
See you there! 🎬🎥
#heritagesky #museumsky @museumsandheritage.com #heritageopendays #billdouglas #filmsky #silentfilmsky
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It’s one year this week since the publication of the Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. The 36 essays from around the world are free, open access to all: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
September 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It’s one year this week since the publication of the Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. The 36 essays from around the world are free, open access to all: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Photographica World No.180 is out now - contents include a look at the Diana F+ and Dan 35 cameras, seaside animal photography, fingerprints, Chinese missionaries, manufacturer E.H. Farrow, Johan Steenbergen & the Photorex, the life and work of Ernest Marriage FRPS, and much more
#photohist
#photohist
July 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Photographica World No.180 is out now - contents include a look at the Diana F+ and Dan 35 cameras, seaside animal photography, fingerprints, Chinese missionaries, manufacturer E.H. Farrow, Johan Steenbergen & the Photorex, the life and work of Ernest Marriage FRPS, and much more
#photohist
#photohist
Peter was a speaker at the Club's AGM in Weston-super-Mare in 2013, talking about how he & Bill Douglas built up their unique collection of material on the history of the moving image. Many PCCGB members will recognise the truth of his comment: ‘collecting is the disease for which there is no cure’!
It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of Peter Jewell on Monday. As this tribute on the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum website affirms, he played a huge role in supporting the museum & also in preserving & promoting the cinematic legacy of Bill's work
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March 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Peter was a speaker at the Club's AGM in Weston-super-Mare in 2013, talking about how he & Bill Douglas built up their unique collection of material on the history of the moving image. Many PCCGB members will recognise the truth of his comment: ‘collecting is the disease for which there is no cure’!
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It’s #MosseWednesday!
Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.
Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.
February 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s #MosseWednesday!
Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.
Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.
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Born #OTD 1837 #photographer Marie-Lydie Bonfils. Moved to Lebanon in 1867 and ran a studio with husband Felix.
#WomenInPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth
Interesting blog on BL website
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#WomenInPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth
Interesting blog on BL website
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The Good Woman named Bonfils
To mark International Women's Day we have a guest blog by Yasmine Chemali, grant holder of EAP644. The blog gives us a fascinating insight to photography of the Middle East and Lydie Bonfils - a very ...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Born #OTD 1837 #photographer Marie-Lydie Bonfils. Moved to Lebanon in 1867 and ran a studio with husband Felix.
#WomenInPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth
Interesting blog on BL website
blogs.bl.uk/endangeredar...
#WomenInPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth
Interesting blog on BL website
blogs.bl.uk/endangeredar...
The growing interest in collecting among the younger generation has been clearly noticeable at Photographica these last few years
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March 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The growing interest in collecting among the younger generation has been clearly noticeable at Photographica these last few years
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Que no nos pare la falta de creatividad, por favor! 😂
Hoy sale mi primer libro, #Retratadas. Fotografía, género y modernidad en el siglo XIX español, publicado por Cátedra.
Estará disponible hoy en la Central del Museo Reina Sofía y a partir de mañana en vuestras librerías habituales!!
Hoy sale mi primer libro, #Retratadas. Fotografía, género y modernidad en el siglo XIX español, publicado por Cátedra.
Estará disponible hoy en la Central del Museo Reina Sofía y a partir de mañana en vuestras librerías habituales!!
February 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Que no nos pare la falta de creatividad, por favor! 😂
Hoy sale mi primer libro, #Retratadas. Fotografía, género y modernidad en el siglo XIX español, publicado por Cátedra.
Estará disponible hoy en la Central del Museo Reina Sofía y a partir de mañana en vuestras librerías habituales!!
Hoy sale mi primer libro, #Retratadas. Fotografía, género y modernidad en el siglo XIX español, publicado por Cátedra.
Estará disponible hoy en la Central del Museo Reina Sofía y a partir de mañana en vuestras librerías habituales!!
This looks a fun way to celebrate Anna Atkins' birthday
How to make a folded origami fortune teller cyanotype photography process #origamilovers #cyanotype
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How to make a folded origami fortune teller cyanotype photography process #origamilovers #cyanotype
YouTube video by Jo Howell
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March 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This looks a fun way to celebrate Anna Atkins' birthday
New research on autochrome pioneer and 'Photographic News' editor Percy Salmon FRPS
#photohist
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Autochrome Pioneer
This week (12th March) marks 153 years since the birth of photographer, author and journalist Percy R. Salmon FRPS (1872-1959). His life and career were celebrated in 2022 in a short film produced …
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March 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
New research on autochrome pioneer and 'Photographic News' editor Percy Salmon FRPS
#photohist
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#photohist
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Susan Sontag admitted in 1978 that “On Photography” (1977) is not about photography, while also defended it as not against photography. She claimed that it is about how capitalist industrial society uses photography and its implications.
March 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Susan Sontag admitted in 1978 that “On Photography” (1977) is not about photography, while also defended it as not against photography. She claimed that it is about how capitalist industrial society uses photography and its implications.
Happy Birthday #AnnaAtkins!
#WomensHistoryMonth Celebrating the 226th birthday of photographic pioneer #AnnaAtkins by revisiting my 2024 blog for the @linneansociety.bsky.social. A rare photo of all three volumes of Photographs of British Algae, Cyanotype Impressions courtesy of Linnean Society.
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March 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Happy Birthday #AnnaAtkins!
PW 179 is now at the printer and will be with subscribers soon - contents include Albert Kahn's autochromes, Captain John Baptist Lucius Noel on Mt Everest, in-depth looks at Riley Reflex & Salex Murer cameras, Johan Steenbergen, cameras in movies about war photography, and much more..
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March 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
PW 179 is now at the printer and will be with subscribers soon - contents include Albert Kahn's autochromes, Captain John Baptist Lucius Noel on Mt Everest, in-depth looks at Riley Reflex & Salex Murer cameras, Johan Steenbergen, cameras in movies about war photography, and much more..
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Good news! If you missed this talk, you can now watch it over on YouTube: youtu.be/8bUzNsTlzRc?...
March 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Good news! If you missed this talk, you can now watch it over on YouTube: youtu.be/8bUzNsTlzRc?...