What is happening now?
When the Fenton Collection arrived at Lacock’s Fox Talbot Museum, it was estimated to contain approximately 3,500 photographs, around 500 cameras, and other items, such as projectors and darkroom equipment. It’s looking like these numbers were something of an under-estimate. We are almost half way through the project and the volunteers have now catalogued over 2,500 separate objects, including a wide range of photographs, cameras and photographic accessories.
As the cataloguing proceeds, our volunteer photographers have been building a comprehensive photographic inventory of the technology collection, whilst others trained in scanning have been busy digitising photographs. The photographic inventory so far includes over 600 digital images of cameras and related technology, and over 1200 scanned photographs.
The Fenton collection will bring to Lacock an exciting programme of displays, conservation and photographic demonstrations, ensuring that this extraordinary collection is preserved and presented for ever, for everyone.