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Anna Sparham

@anna_sparham

photography curator | photo artist | back in brum | mum

 Birmingham, England
Joined February 2013
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Final few days to apply to our 12 month opportunity - Assistant National Curator @nationaltrust Closes Sunday! Read more about the role here bit.ly/3EJyF2h
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Come work with me:) We're looking for an Assistant National Curator for 12 months to join our team. Click the link below to find out more bit.ly/3EJyF2h
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A brief pilgrimage today to see the newly installed blue plaque for Christina Broom at her once home in Fulham. Thanks to the efforts of Dr Margaret Denny who made the application several years ago and to which I eagerly gave my support.
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Thanks very much to @mikeyp4 and @RPShistgroup for the lovely review of 100 Photographs in The PhotoHistorian.
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Happy birthday Kodak! I have been reliably informed by my t-shirt that it is 135 years since #GeorgeEastman patented the first Kodak roll-film camera alongside the hugely successful 'You press the button, we do the rest' slogan 📸 #kodak – at Paddington, London
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Lacock@LacockNT12 Aug 2023
Our pop up darkroom can be found in the Botanic Garden for #pinholecamera workshops on 19th August for #worldphotographyday. No need to book, just drop by between 10.30am and 3.30pm to try your hand at this very #analogue method of capturing light.
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Would you or someone you know like to lead the Photo Oxford Festival into its next phase? Role description and application details here (apply by 25.9.23): photooxford.org/about/vacanc…
Festival Launch photo thanks to The Oxford Collection

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Very exciting to wake up to article in the Guardian : bit.ly/3OaBcok as well as launch of Kickstarter for my new book Vulcans Forge @Bluecoatpress kickstarter.com/projects/ms1… #industry #Documentary
Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain’s industrial 70s

Heavy metal: how Janine Wiedel captured the filth and glory of Britain’s industrial 70s

The photographer travelled the West Midlands in a campervan to document the workers risking their lives to toil in steel mills, coal mines and blast furnaces

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Fantastic to see Light Struck come to fruition by the brilliant inspiring team @LacockNT A whole lot of colourful innovation from the awesome Ellen Carey in the most apt of creative settings. Thrilling to see this work up close, I encourage you to head there too
Poster for Ellen Carey exhibition Light Struck at entrance to Fox Talbot Museum

ALT Poster for Ellen Carey exhibition Light Struck at entrance to Fox Talbot Museum

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Today is the day! We are tremendously excited that this evening at 9pm on BBC2 both the Hardman's House & our sister National Trust place in Liverpool, 20 Forthlin Road, the childhood home of Paul McCartney, will feature in episode 3 of Hidden Treasures of the National Trust. 1/4
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Really glad I could attend tonight. @HilaryRoberts57 talking about her truly remarkable and unique career, @jo_gane about her fab practice and research to date, both reflecting on the memory, influence and friendship of the late, great Pete James. Very appreciated by all
Lecture hall at Birmingham City University, screen showing slide for Pete James lecture and caricature

ALT Lecture hall at Birmingham City University, screen showing slide for Pete James lecture and caricature

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Reflecting on a brilliant week away in Scotland with the family. Living off the landscape and experience for a while to come
A line of pine trees at dusk in Tyndrum, Scotland

ALT A line of pine trees at dusk in Tyndrum, Scotland

The Jacobite steam train crossing the Glenfinnan viaduct with watching tourists

ALT The Jacobite steam train crossing the Glenfinnan viaduct with watching tourists

The foot of Ben Nevis in evening sunlight

ALT The foot of Ben Nevis in evening sunlight

Mountains in The Isle of Skye

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Let's not allow this to go. Take a look
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#SaveSide crowdfunder.co.uk/p/saveside
As of 9th April 2023, Side Gallery will close to the public due to critical funding cuts and the cost of living crisis. For over 45 years, Side has been a dedicated home to documentary film and photography. Side's mission is to be an agent for change through the commission, exhibition, and preservation of world-class visual stories that highlight social concerns and celebrate diverse lives & landscapes across the North East, UK, and the globe. #SaveSide

ALT As of 9th April 2023, Side Gallery will close to the public due to critical funding cuts and the cost of living crisis. For over 45 years, Side has been a dedicated home to documentary film and photography. Side's mission is to be an agent for change through the commission, exhibition, and preservation of world-class visual stories that highlight social concerns and celebrate diverse lives & landscapes across the North East, UK, and the globe. #SaveSide

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Tom Hunter@TomHunterArt29 Mar 2023
Brilliant to hear my Tower Block model of the Holly street estate in #Hackney has been acquired by the @MuseumofLondon made with the great artist James McKinnon and featuring my #photography #portraits of the residents, so glad its got such a great home, thank you. #housing
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Delightful eavesdropping on train to Poole earlier this evening. Two teenage boys discussing photography, appreciating desire to work at it & not photographers overnight just cos they study it. Reckon they'll be alright going fwd, not taking naff photos of view thru train window
Fairly out of focus view of yellow broom in natural landscape through train window

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Early photographic processes, materials & inspiration powering in Oxford @bodleianlib from Anna Atkins cyanotype window displays to @jo_gane and her Talbot related cliché verre work, and so much more💪Well done to all involved
Window display at the Weston Library shop, Oxford with cyanotype prints, books and dried flowers

ALT Window display at the Weston Library shop, Oxford with cyanotype prints, books and dried flowers

Photographic artist Jo Gane seeing her work on display in the exhibition Bright Sparks at The Bodleian for the first time

ALT Photographic artist Jo Gane seeing her work on display in the exhibition Bright Sparks at The Bodleian for the first time

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Just about recovered frm disappointment & hassle of yesterday's travel antics. Meant to be in N. Ireland, but having battling cancelled trains to Heathrow, plane then cancelled too with no alternative. Trip blown 😫 On + side, back with my boys. & squeezing in Oxford trip Thur
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Very much looking forward to this. Historic & contemporary. A trip to N. Ireland this week (also exciting) means I'll have to keep waiting patiently though theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Invention of the negative makes Fox Talbot father of modern photography

Invention of the negative makes Fox Talbot father of modern photography

Who got there first? Talbot and his rival Daguerre created similar chemical processes, but only one can claim to be the real pioneer, a new exhibition demonstrates

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School's shut for both mine today. I did enjoy waking them. I'm definitely taking a lunch break & sliding to the park. Will be twice as thick as this from yesterday.
Sutton Park trees in the snow

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Sutton Park trees in the snow

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I'm marking 1 year (+ a day) working for @nationaltrust today with a trip to and from Tatton Park. Frequently cold but happy trekking
Tatton Park trees and low sun

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