Description

Closing Date: 07-Oct-2024

The Role
The Photography and Digitisation department of the Victoria and Albert Museum is looking for two junior photographers to join their team.

Based primarily at the V&A South Kensington and at a storage facility near Heathrow in West London, the post-holders will be part of a major cataloguing and digitisation project. The project will audit and document object parts from the Young V&A collection which are currently in storage.
Candidates should have experience working as a photographer, ideally in a museum environment, a portfolio of work, and to be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of imaging software and lighting techniques.

This is a 12month FTC position.
Applications Close 7 October @ 23:59
The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience. We strive to make the V&A matter to more people and in that context we work to the following six strategic objectives:
To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.