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Exciting Role as Senior Photographer at the V&A, the World’s Leading Museum of Art and Design
Overview
Salary
£40770
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, boasting a permanent collection of over 2.8 million artistic and creative artifacts that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. Our mission is to be recognized as the leading institution in art, design, and performance, aiming to enrich the public's lives through the promotion of knowledge, research, and enjoyment of the designed world.
Role Summary
- Supervising a team of Junior Photographers and Photographers across various sites.
- Ensuring all image output meets V&A Photography and Digitisation standards.
- Making crucial strategic decisions for project success.
- Delivering high-quality images in accordance to times and briefs.
Role Requirements
- Ability to travel regularly for in-person training and guidance.
- Excellent decision making and strategic thinking abilities.
- Experience in photography and digitisation.
- Ability to manage and organize teams for project success.
Application Process Details
- Submit an online application with an updated resume and portfolio showcasing your photography skills.
The Role The Photography and Digitisation department serves as a visual hub for the V&A, operating across multiple sites. The team undertakes imaging of the museum collections, its activities, people, and estate that are used for collections management, public access, exhibition catalogues, V&A publications, commercial sales and press and marketing activities.
As the Senior Photographer, you will supervise a team of Junior Photographers and Photographers based across the V&A family of sites and project locations: V&A Wedgwood, V&A East, V&A Storehouse, YV&A, Constantine West, etc. You will regularly travel to provide in-person training and guidance to ensure image output quality meet V&A Photography and Digitisation standards.
In this role, you will liaise between the different project functions and make crucial decisions to address strategic issues to ensure timelines and milestones are met. Your support to the Head of Photography and Digitisation in delivery of department strategy and vision and daily operation will be of crucial importance for the further enhancement of the team.
Aside from your managing duties, you will fulfil photography requests and deliver high-quality images to time and brief, and keep accurate production and imaging records to produce reports, as required by project and line management.
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.
Benefits Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks
