Library & Archives, the Natural History Museum
Library & Archives Senior Digitiser
Type of Contract: Full time, fixed term
Location: South Kensington, London
Salary: £34,398 per annum
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Closing Date: 08/06/2025
Date of Interview: w/c 16th June
The Natural History Museum’s Library and Archives (L&A) supports the mission and strategic objectives of the Museum by developing and facilitating access to one of the world's most comprehensive resources for current and historical natural history literature. The L&A collection is of institutional, national and international significance and complements the Museum’s specimen collections, supports curation and research, and contributes to the Museum’s public engagement and commercial activities.
We are looking for a skilled and proactive senior digitiser to image our special collection items, for example rare books, flat artworks and archival material, to create digital assets for uploading to dedicated NHM storage locations and L&A’s web-based discovery platform, Digitised Collections. You will be experienced in capturing associated metadata, expert in handling library special collections and/or archival material and knowledgeable about working to relevant sector standards and best practice to generate digital assets. The role offers a unique opportunity to work with an incredible collection and you will play a crucial part in making these collections openly available.
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British Library (BL Qatar Foundation Partnership)
Senior Imaging Support Technician
Type of Contract: Fixed Term until 31 October 2026
Location: London St Pancras
Salary: £28,119 per annum
Hours of work: Full time (36 hours)
Closing Date: 20/05/2025
The British Library, in Partnership with the Qatar National, Library is digitising and publishing collection items related to Qatar and the Gulf Region. This partnership brings to life rare and unique items from our collections, making them accessible for audiences worldwide.
We are looking for a highly skilled and proactive Senior Imaging Technician to join the British Library and Qatar Foundation Imaging Team, contributing to an ambitious and impactful project.
If you are an experienced photographer or imaging professional with a background in cultural heritage environments, this role offers an exciting opportunity. Strong photography skills, experience in handling special collections, managing large datasets, and performing post-imaging tasks are essential.
As a Senior Imaging Technician, you will be part of a team including photographers, scanning technicians, and a quality assurance officer. You will be responsible for meeting key performance indicators (KPIs) and producing images that adhere to the Programme's quality standards.
In this role, you will play a vital part in supporting the Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme, working closely with teams across cataloguing, conservation, rights clearance, and translation to ensure the efficient processing and delivery of digitised materials.
If you are eager to make a meaningful impact by enhancing the accessibility of information for global communities, we would love to hear from you.
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Science Museum Group
Junior Photographer (2 Positions)
Type of Contract: Fixed term until end December 2025
Location: Science + Innovation Park, Wroughton (Wiltshire)
Salary: £27,500 pa
Hours of work: 35 hours per week
Closing Date: 23/04/25
Science Museum Group are conducting a consolidation project of the objects within the hangars on site at the National Collections Centre (NCC), the main store for museum objects of Science Museum Group. Photography is taking place of the objects for their Collections Online website: (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk).
As part of the project, SMG are recruiting a number of Junior Photographers to undertake large scale, rapid, professional imaging of this collection. As a Junior Photographer you will be working with Collections Project Officers to provide high quality images of the collection based in hangars onsite at NCC.
The role offers a unique opportunity to work with an incredible museum collection. You will play a crucial role in making the collection available digitally through Science Museum Group’s Collections Online website. This is an exciting opportunity to begin your career as a cultural heritage photographer and would suit early career candidates. If you are interested in utilising your photography skills in a specialist environment and working with some truly fascinating collections, we would like to hear from you.
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Tate
Project Photographer
Type of Contract: Fixed term until end March 2027
Location: Tate St Ives, Cornwall
Salary: £28,854 (£36,067 FTE)
Hours of work: 21.6 hours per week (3 days)
Closing Date: 23/03/25
Senior Photographers are responsible for developing and advancing Tate’s practice, ensuring we are working at our best and with the most appropriate methodologies, equipment and workflows. This role will lead on and deliver the photography of the Barbara Hepworth Materials and Studio Collection. This role is supported by the National Heritage Lottery Fund and is based in our offsite store and Conservation Unit in St Ives.
In collaboration with the Photography & Imaging Manger you will be responsible for developing an exciting new photography standard at Tate for the wider Studio and Materials Collection, that will accurately and technically record these unique, historical objects, whilst bringing them to life in visually appealing content. There will also be a requirement to deliver technical conservation imaging to support the treatment of the objects prior to their display in the reopened Palais de Danse, a former dance hall and studio of the British sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, in St Ives. On-site architectural and editorial photography of the renovation of the Palais de Danse may also be required.
You will be establishing and advocating for photography requirements within the project team and organising a schedule for object photography with Art Handling, Conservation, Curatorial and Registrar teams.
Tate Photographers are responsible for providing the highest quality of photography and imaging services across Tate, working within the Collection Care Division and more widely with Curatorial, Communications, Development, Digital, Audiences, Learning and Tate Enterprises. Working in the studio and on location we respond flexibly and creatively to briefs, bringing excellence and innovation to a collaborative and supportive team. Tate Photography also manages and preserves the varied assets it creates, making images accessible to all through diligent administration of our DAMS.
The Palais de Danse project contains working materials that belonged to both Hepworth and her assistants including scrapers, files, rasps, brushes, pulleys, spacers, wire mesh, prototypes, polishes, preparations, paper sacks of surgical dental plaster, turntable fitments, frames and a large number of plinths Hepworth made for the display of her sculptures. Significant furniture and fittings, include workbenches, stools, period cupboards and shelving in the workshops; coloured screens, a large mirror and lampshades in the dance hall; the chequerboard grid on the floor of the Upper Workshop with a visible outline of the United Nations' Single Form.
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Tate
Archive Project Photographer
Type of Contract: Fixed-term
Location: Tate Britain
Salary: £18,916 per annum (£31,527 pro rata)
Hours of work: 21.6 hours per week (3 days per week)
Closing Date: 20 March 2025 at midnight
We're looking for a Photographer to join our friendly, supportive team!
This funded project role will support three Archive digitisation projects; the archives of Duncan Grant, David Garnet & Vanessa Bell, phase two of Tate’s Émigré Art Archives Project, and the archives of Milein Cosman.
You’ll be working with a varied range of 2D material such as drawings, prints, paintings, sketchbooks, photographs, correspondence, diaries, and writings that will help to offer revealing glimpses into the thoughts and preoccupations at critical moments in these fascinating artists’ lives, as well as enhance scholarly understanding of them and their working methods. Your photographs will enable greater access to our Archive collections, providing an invaluable resource for researchers, as well as being used in two editorial films being produced on Ewan Philips and Halima Nalecz, and in upcoming exhibition catalogues.
With support from a Senior Photographer you’ll be responsible for planning and delivering an efficient and smooth flow of items from the point of cataloguing, to photography, to upload and audit. This is a 3 day per week part time position with working days to be agreed with the successful candidate. Hybrid working is available in this role for editing and administrational tasks, however regular on-site time will be essential for completion of photography. Where possible we will offer developmental opportunities within the wider remit of the Photography & Imaging team.
This role presents an opportunity to develop project management skills alongside expanding your cultural heritage photography experience in a supportive and collaborative team.
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Genus
Photographer - Digitisation specialist
Type of Contract: Temporary – 3, 6 or longer month placements
Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia – Live in Bahrain
Salary: TBC – Saudi Weighting – Approx £40- £50k pa equiv. tax free
Hours of work: 40 hours per week or more
Closing Date: 28.03.25
Genus – www.genusit.com - are working on a number of large remote digitisation projects. We are actively looking to recruit specialist photographers, archivists, conservators and digitisation specialists for short term projects. For one of these projects in particular we are looking for expressions of interest from individuals looking to temporarily relocate to work in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (30-minute drive from Bahrain where you could live) for anything from 3 months to 3 years. In total, we will need the equivalent of 7 full time staff for 3 years, potentially starting in late 2025. We require experience in capturing analogue photographic negative and print stock, film and video stock, and an extensive collection of print materials, to both a high quality and throughput level. Post processing will be completed in the UK. Accommodation and working visas will be arranged. Pay will be based on completed, quality-controlled work, thus allowing for uncapped, untaxed earning potential.
Please register your interest at – chriselwell@genusit.com with a view to attending an Open Day event in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, to discuss further.
Not interested in this project but would like to be part of the Genus Team for upcoming projects in other parts of the world and the UK? Please, still register your interest in the open day, so we can discuss other potential exciting future opportunities.
To register your interest contact Chris Elwell: www.genusit.com - chriselwell@genusit.com
