The Sound of Photography

Shirley Read

Frank Watson’s guest on The Sound of Photography is Shirley Read. Shirley is a Curator,Writer,Teacher and Photographic Historian. She has previously worked with Camerawork and initiatiated The National Conference of Socialist Photography. As an independent curator and historian, Shirley has developed a wide range of exhibitions including  a major retrospective of Jo Spence. Over the last three decades she has worked with The British Library undertaking extended interviews with many leading U.K. photographers for the Oral History of British Photography Sound Archive. She will be speaking about editing a book about the life of Edith Tudor Hart published by Museumsetc in 2025.