Lead Photographer and Studio Manager

📋 Description

• Photograph the collection yourself. This is a hands on role and you will carry a meaningful share
• Lead a small team of photographers, covering standards, workflow, priorities and development.
• Set the technical standard the studio photographs to, and hold contractors to it when the team
• Agree priorities with curatorial, exhibitions and collection colleagues, and decide which objects
• Plan how the studio works through periods of high collection access, when objects are photographed
• Photograph the institution's significant public events with a considered style.

🎯 Requirements

• Professional photography experience where the image itself is the product (studio, object, product
• Ability to shoot to a studio standard at pace and outside a controlled set, not only under ideal
• Real leadership experience - setting standards, managing workload and shaping how a team works
• Sound judgement on prioritisation, including the confidence to decline work that does not warrant
• Working knowledge of contemporary capture and imaging technology, and a view on where it is heading.
• Cultural or heritage collection experience is welcome but not required.

🎁 Benefits

• Hands-on access to a collection of national significance at a point when a large part of it is
• Clear mandate to define what this studio stands for, rather than maintaining for someone else's
• Investment going into studio facilities and equipment
• Your images become the primary way the public experience a collection that is almost entirely in
• An ongoing position with public sector conditions, flexibility and long term security.