NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY APPOINTS PRODGER HEAD OF PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION

摘要

The National Portrait Gallery has appointed Phillip Prodger, founding Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, as Head of Photographs Collection, from 1 June. Prodger will lead the gallery's photographic exhibitions and displays programme and oversee its collection of more than 250,000 photographs, which spans from the medium's invention to the present. Terence Pepper OBE, HonFRPS, formerly Curator of Photographs, has a new part-time role, which commenced in January, as the Gallery's Senior Special Advisor on Photographs, and will be working on special projects with the Exhibitions team until early 2016.