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Archive Project Photographer

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Reference:TG4349 

Opportunity type:Fixed-term, Part-time 

Working hours:21.6 hours per week  

Salary:£18,916 per annum (£31,527 pro rata)  

Location:London  

Closing date:20 March 2025 at midnight 

This role will support three Archive digitisation projects; the archives of Vaness Bell, Duncan Grant & David Garnet, phase two of Tate’s Émigré Art Archives Project, and the archives of Milein Cosman.

You’ll be working with a varied range of 2D material such as drawings, prints, paintings, sketchbooks, photographs, correspondence, diaries, and writings that will help to offer revealing glimpses into the thoughts and preoccupations at critical moments in these fascinating artists’ lives, as well as enhance scholarly understanding of them and their working methods. Your photographs will enable greater access to our Archive collections, providing an invaluable resource for researchers, as well as being used in two editorial films being produced on Ewan Philips and Halima Nalecz, and in upcoming exhibition catalogues.

You’ll work closely with the Archive cataloguers, the Project Manager and the Photography & Imaging team, with opportunities to explore and contribute to our wider remit of photography activity where possible. If you’re an experienced photographer with an interest and commitment to providing technically accurate, high quality images in a cultural heritage setting we’d love to hear from you.


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Application Information

If you wish to apply for this vacancy, please apply online. Please also refer to our Guidance Notes that can be found below.

Frequently, we receive a high level of applications and as such, reserve the right to close applications before the advert deadline. To avoid disappointment, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Successful candidates will have access to a range of benefits, including 25 days annual leave entitlement, rising to 27 days pro rata after 3 years of service; an extra day off for your birthday each year; a cycle to work scheme; opportunities for blended and flexible working; free access to Tate exhibitions and other museums and galleries; Life Assurance; and a ‘Defined Contribution’ pension scheme with generous employer contributions. Successful candidates who are already members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme or have recently left the scheme may be eligible to remain as members of this scheme instead.