Science Museum Group
Lead Photographer
Type of Contract: Full-time Permanent
Location: Science Museum, London
Salary: £41,500 per annum
Hours of work: 35 hrs per week
Closing Date: 09/03/2025
The Science Museum Group (SMG) Photo Studio requires a highly effective visual storyteller who uses their technical expertise to make outstanding and well-crafted photographs. Our vision is to produce images that can weave together extraordinary objects, historical events, and powerful ideas into rich inspiring stories of the innovations and people who have shaped our world.
As part of a collaborative multi-site Photography team, you will provide high quality photography leadership to the SMG museums whilst being based at Science Museum, London.
In this role, you will manage a team of professional photographers in SMG’s London based studio as well as providing support to photographers across the group’s five studios. You will lead on a broad range of photography services for SMG, championing our work and developing systems to maintain the highest standards. You will have the flexibility to adapt shooting style for bespoke exhibition content, whilst working within a technical framework that meets heritage sector standards.
You will work collaboratively with the Collections Services and the group’s Photography teams to ensure commissions for projects and exhibitions across the group’s sites are delivered on time, within budget.
As part of this role, you may be asked to travel and work on offsite locations to deliver high profile photo shoots of SMG’s activity. You will ensure that all tasks are carried out in a safe and secure manner to comply with current legislation and following best professional practice.
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Science Museum Group
Photographer
Type of Contract: Fixed Term (6 Months)
Location: Science Museum, London
Salary: £34,600 per annum
Hours of work: 35 hrs per week
Closing Date: 09/03/2025
The Science Museum Group (SMG) is here to inspire futures, and our Collection Services department underpin the care and management of our unique objects.
In this role you will deliver professional photography across a range of services from our studio in London. Within this function, photography provides a professional, technical, and creative service making digital content for a diverse range of clients and stakeholders within SMG.
Working in the photographic studio, on gallery locations and offsite, you will create enhanced photography of collection objects, copy 2D material from the museum’s archives and create on-brand communications photography for external affairs. You will carry out post-production and apply metadata making images accessible through our Digital Assessment Management System (DAMS) for all users.
*The current length of the fixed term contract for this role is set at 6 months. There is a possibility that this could be extended in the future, however this can’t be guaranteed at this stage.
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V&A
Digital Imaging Assistant
Type of Contract: Full-time Permanent
Location: Cromwell Road, London
Salary: £27,528 per annum
Hours of work: 36 hrs per week
Closing Date: 17/02/2025
The V&A is a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Our mission is to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere.
To support our mission we are recruiting a Digital Imaging Assistant to join our Photography and Digitisation department. The post-holder is expected to be able to respond quickly and efficiently to cope with digitising a wide variety of 2D material such as prints, colour transparencies, glass-plate negatives, posters, paintings, books, manuscripts, wallpaper and fabric samples and deliver high-quality images to time and brief. Candidates will have experience working in a professional digital imaging environment, ideally in a heritage context and are able to demonstrate knowledge of relevant imaging software and hardware and imaging processes. A willingness to learn and follow new procedures is essential.
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National Gallery
Photographer
Type of Contract: Full-time Permanent
Location: Trafalgar Square, London
Salary: £36,843 per annum
Hours of work: 35 hrs per week
Closing Date: 28/01/2025
Date and type of Interview: Week commencing 10/02/2025
The National Gallery is seeking an experienced cultural heritage photographer for a full-time, permanent position.
The role will involve studio photography of the Collection including high resolution detail photographs for mosaicking, technical imaging such as X-radiography and UV-induced fluorescence imaging, the digitisation of archive material, image processing including compositing and inkjet printing.
You will also be required to photograph the people, buildings and events of the Gallery in support of fundamental activities such as exhibitions, learning programs and digital projects.
The successful applicant will have experience of photographing artworks using a high-end medium format digital camera and studio lighting, be creative and well organised with excellent IT and communication skills. You will have a flexible approach and be a supportive team member.
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Imperial War Museums
Digitisation Manager - Access
Type of Contract: Permanent
Location: Duxford
Salary: £38,700 - £41,000 per annum depending on experience
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Closing Date: 9am 6th January 2025
Date and type of Interview: Interview for this post is to be confirmed
The IWM Visual Resources digitisation team converts the IWM analogue collections to enable them to be accessed (for example through collections search) and preserved digitally. The team undertake the work in house or contract work to third parties through frameworks. In all instances the team deliver to internal customers who then connect content with our audiences.
The Digitisation Manager role is split between two specialists who manage the in-house teams:
1) Digitisation Manager Access
Manages the programme of digitisation in support of public and commercial programmes. They manage largely on-demand work, with some project-based work.
2) Digitisation Manager Preservation
Manages the programme of digitisation where longevity of the original is short. They manage large projects, with some on-demand work.
The Museum’s ambition for the next five years (see Annual Report 5.3 Digital Futures) is to significantly increase the rate of digitisation. Due to the age of our collections IWM is digitising its most vulnerable assets now, as many of the assets will no longer be viable to digitise in five years’ time.
The access and/or preservation need will be established by your Head of Department (working within the governance structure). Your role will be to channel the work to in-house teams or third-party suppliers.
Focusing our ways of working to turn the strategic vision to increase the rate of digitisation into reality will be the focus of your work. This will demand accurate progress reporting, and quality assurance to ensure the transition period results in positive change. The Digitisation Manager Access will work with the Preservation Digitisation Manager to identify and resolve issues, maintain the working environment and deliver the same standard of reporting.
You will be the day-to-day point of contact for third-party suppliers working on projects within your area, have delegated budget responsibility for equipment and materials and reciprocally cover the Digitisation Managers work in their absence.
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The Royal Collection
Photographer
Type of Contract: Fixed Term Contract (1 Year)
Location: St James’s Palace, London
Salary: £34,000 p/a
Hours of work: 37.5 per week over 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Closing Date: Sunday 1st December at 23:55
Date and type of Interview: 1st Stage – MS Teams W/C 9th December, 2nd stage – On Site W/C 16th December
It's knowing you’re capturing a unique snapshot of history. It’s working as one team to deliver impressive projects. And it’s the satisfaction of presenting and promoting one of the world’s greatest and most diverse art collections. This is what makes working for Royal Collection Trust so different.
The Publishing & Images team is responsible for the photography of works of art within the Collection; as well as the management and marketing of digital images for use by internal and external colleagues and by customers who wish to purchase images through our Picture Library.
Joining this dedicated team, you'll photograph works on paper, manuscripts and books and all other decorative works of art whilst ensuring the delivery of high-quality images on time and to brief.
You'll process digital files, undertake detailed colour management and work with the Digital Imager to ensure files are ready to be uploaded to the Royal Collection’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) system.
You’ll maintain an up-to-date pool of images, as well as undertaking specific photography requests as and when required, using your expertise in RAW image processing software to bring the images to life. With photographic sessions undertaken in both Royal Residences and external locations, you’ll liaise with internal and external stakeholders to plan and discuss the brief for each photography session. Attending shoots will involve moving photographic equipment between different sites as required.
In all your work, you’ll aim to show the beauty of unique and often fragile paintings and other works of art. And your passion for producing engaging photography will be vital in promoting the works of this unique collection.
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