V&A Museum
Senior Photographer
Type of Contract: Permanent
Location: South Kensington, London
Salary: £40,770
Hours of work: Mon-Fri, 36 hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 29 June, 23:59h
Date of Interview: tbc
The Photography and Digitisation department serves as a visual hub for the V&A, operating across multiple sites. The team undertakes imaging of the museum collections, its activities, people, and estate that are used for collections management, public access, exhibition catalogues, V&A publications, commercial sales and press and marketing activities.
As the Senior Photographer, you will supervise a team of Junior Photographers and Photographers based across the V&A family of sites and project locations: V&A Wedgwood, V&A East, V&A Storehouse, YV&A, Constantine West, etc. You will regularly travel to provide in-person training and guidance to ensure image output quality meet V&A Photography and Digitisation standards.
In this role, you will liaise between the different project functions and make crucial decisions to address strategic issues to ensure timelines and milestones are met. Your support to the Head of Photography and Digitisation in delivery of department strategy and vision and daily operation will be of crucial importance for the further enhancement of the team.
Aside from your managing duties, you will fulfil photography requests and deliver high-quality images to time and brief, and keep accurate production and imaging records to produce reports, as required by project and line management.
Please note: You will have the option of uploading a document when you apply (CV upload), we ask that you please use this to include a 20-image portfolio saved as a PDF or include a link to an online portfolio or website address in your supporting statement.
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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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