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.
Herbert Ponting
Herbert Ponting was a self-taught photographer who spent time travelling through the...
Bert Morgan
Bert Morgan (1904-1986) began his career syndicating photographs for the Chicago Tribune...
Patrick Lichfield
After a stint in the Army, Patrick Lichfield pursued a career in photography and became...
Ernst Haas
A pioneer of colour photography and member of Magnum, Ernst Haas described himself as a "painter...
John Kobal Foundation Archive
John Kobal was a renowned authority on cinema and Hollywood portrait photography...
Evening Standard and Daily Express Collections
Founded in 1827 and covering a period from 1925 to the early...
Michael Ochs
The Michael Ochs Collection contains extraordinary Imagery of 20th Century Music and...
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...
Christopher Simon Sykes
Born in 1948, Sykes left Eton to attend Ravensbourne College of Art and since graduating has worked as...
Terry Fincher
Terry Fincher began his career after the Second World War as a photographer for Keystone Press...
AH Robinson
Alfred Hind Robinson was one of the pioneers of panoramic photography and shot over 2000 panoramas...
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both...
Larry Ellis
Born in Shoreditch in East London in 1931, Ellis left school at the tender age of fourteen...
Murray Garrett
Murray Garrett’s first professional photographic assignment was to cover Eleanor Roosevelt and...
Erich Auerbach
The Erich Auerbach collection covers classical music, jazz, ballet and opera from 1945 – 1977...
Baron
Specialising in court, society and ballet portraiture, Baron once called himself the ‘poor man’s Cecil...
Sasha
Alexander Stewart was born in 1892. Following an apprenticeship, he turned professional in 1914 and...
Charles Edridge
Born outside London in 1926, Edridge’s first involvement with photography came when...
Chaloner Woods
Spanning three decades from 1940 – 1970, this collection is primarily fashion-related and represents the...
Justin De Villeneuve
Justin de Villeneuve, born Nigel Davies in London¹s East End...
John Chillingworth
The son of a newspaper man, John Chillingworth was born in London in 1928...
Reg Lancaster
Reg Lancaster has worked for the Daily Express for 44 years, which in...
Kos Evans
This unique exhibition, will feature some of Kos’s most dramatic and breathtaking photographs...
William England
Originally starting his career in the 1840s as a daguerreotypist, William England joined the...
Phillips Collection
Covering a period from 1908 to the early 20s this collection of nearly 10,000 glass negatives is a...