About the Author

Professor John Hannavy is a well-known writer and broadcaster on the history of photography, with over twenty books to his name, and two series of television films for the BBC. He has been an avid collector of Victorian photographica for thirty years and his first book was published in 1974. Since then he has written and lectured extensively on the subject of early photographic history. He writes regularly on travel photography and the history of photography for a number of magazines and has recently completed a major book comparing the experience of travel and the challenges of travel photography in Victorian times with the present day. In 2000/2001, Professor Hannavy was the Centenary President of the British Institute of Professional Photography and in 2002 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to support his researches into early travel photography in Russia and China. Now an independent researcher, he was formerly Professor in Art & Design at the University of Bolton.