Robert Adamson was one of the first professional photographers, setting up in business in Edinburgh in March 1843. He had aspired to be an engineer but his health was too poor. His brother, John, who was involved in the early experiments with photography in St Andrews, taught him the calotype…

Michael and Barbara Gray are experts in the calotype process and have the specialist knowledge required to print modern calotypes from the original negatives. Until recently, Michael Gray was curator of the Fox Talbot Museum of Photography. This museum, located in Lacock, Wiltshire, commemorates the life and work of William…

A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid…