Senior Photographer

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.

Please note: You will have the option of uploading a document when you apply (CV upload), we ask that you please use this to include a 20-image portfolio saved as a PDF or include a link to an online portfolio or website address in your supporting statement.