Roger Hargreaves

Chairman

Roger Hargreaves is a writer and curator of photography and is a research fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at the London College of Communication.

His exhibition on nineteenth century portrait photography in 2001 The Beautiful and the Damned at the National Portrait Gallery, London was considered a landmark and the accompanying catalogue, co-authored by Peter Hamilton, was the recipient of major publishing awards in Britain and America. He was the founding editor of the forthcoming Journal, Photography and Culture and is currently developing a research programme into the influence of European émigrés on British photography 1930-1960.

He curated the exhibition, Being There: Harry Benson's Photojournalism at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in August 2006. The exhibition set a new attendance record at the Gallery and has since toured to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. More recently he curated the exhibition Daily Encounters: photographs from Fleet Street which opened at the National Portrait Gallery London in July 2007. His recent writings include articles on photography for Photoworks magazine and the Sunday Times Magazine, the publication Things As They Are, Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs published by Tate Publications and Figure and Ground, the Portraits of Richard Renaldi, published by Aperture.

His interests in photography are wide ranging and international spanning the early history of the medium through to contemporary practice.