Juliet Baillie is an AHRC funded doctoral student in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she is also a Sessional Lecturer. She is currently writing up her thesis ‘Amateur Photographers, Camera Clubs and Pictorial Photography in 1930s London’. She has presented conference papers and published on skilled amateur photographic practice. She is particularly interested in photography magazines, taste and issues surrounding consumption and production in amateur photography.
Stephen Bull is an artist, writer, curator and lecturer. He has published two books of photographs A Meeting with a Celebrity (2004) and Meeting Hazel Stokes (2006). He is also author of the recent Photography, part of the Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications series (2009) and has contributed essays, reviews and chapters to The Media: An Introduction, Source: The Photographic Review, Creative Camera, Photoworks, Portfolio and Art Review. He is a Course Leader for Photography at The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. He has a long-standing research interest in skilled amateur photography and camera clubs.
Dr Karen Cross is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Roehampton. She completed her PhD on the education of amateur photographers at the University of East London in 2007. Her research interests include: amateur, snapshot and personal photography; theories of archive, and histories and analyses of photography education, particularly amateur training and education both formal and informal. She has published in Photographies and Into the Open.
Dr. Annebella Pollen is Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. Her AHRC-funded PhD (University of the Arts, London, 2010) examined the history and ethnography of mass participation photography, and her output in this area has encompassed publications, research papers, posters and exhibition content on the subject of vernacular photography, picture postcards, amateur photographic competitions and the selling of popular photography on the high street. Recent writings on these topics can be found in Photography and Culture, newformations, The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond, and in the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Photography.
Graham Rawle is an author, artist and designer. Creator of the long-running ‘Lost Consonants’ series in The Guardian, his published books include Diary of an Amateur Photographer, Woman’s World, The Wizard of Oz and most recently, The Card. He teaches art, design and illustration at the University of Brighton and recently received an honorary doctorate from Norwich University College of the Arts.
Roger Tooth is a journalist and photographer and is Head of Photography at the Guardian, having joined the paper in 1998 as Assistant Picture Editor. He was instrumental in the creation of the Guardian Camera Club as part of the wider policy of open journalism at the Guardian. He has previously worked as a staff photographer at IPC magazines and as a freelance photographer. In 2010 he edited Eyewitness Decade.
