Photo Scarborough

15/03/2026

We wish that we knew who the photographer was of this postcard view of Children’s Corner on Scarborough’s South Bay. The groups of people it depicts are lovely! The postmark is dated 1904.

04/03/2026

📸 I Am Martin Parr + Intro 📸
📅 Friday 27th March, 5pm
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🔗 Book your tickets via link in bio
Age Rating: 12

We are pleased to present the documentry, I Am Martin Parr, which is the definitive portrait of an extraordinary photographer who revolutionized contemporary photography by inventing a political, humanist and playful style.

The screening will be precceded by an introduction from exploring the history of street photography in scarborugh from walkies to martin parr. We are also excited to present a handout/zine to all attendees featuring interviews with two amazing local photographers and whose work have both been influenced by parr.

For any photo fans or photographers this is an event not to be missed!

Access: the venue has a lift up to the cinema, for specifc venue access information please head to the SJT website.

The film festival is supported by and funded by and

25/09/2025

We’re excited to be hosting another Regional Shorts Competition at Scarborough Film Festival 2026. Get your entires in via film freeway - https://filmfreeway.com/ScarboroughFilmFestival-1

Looking forward to watching what you’ve all been up to!

23/09/2025

Anyone with an interest in North Yorkshire history can explore our North Yorkshire Archive shop at https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/leisure-tourism-and-culture/county-record-office

You can search images like the one shown here with schoolboys and the mayor and mayoress on the front of a steam train in Harrogate station around 1935.

North Yorkshire Archive has over 6,500 images and archives from the 12th century to the present day.

09/09/2025

Do you have 6 - 8hrs a month you can spare?
The W. W. Winter Heritage Trust are looking for a Treasurer and new trustees to help build a sustainable future for one of Britain’s oldest photographic studios offering public and community benefit.
We would welcome applications from those with skills and knowledge of accountancy, legal services, project management and fundraising.
We would also welcome applications from Derby’s local communities serviced by the studio.
Download the advertisement to learn more - https://winterheritagetrust.org/applications-invited-for-trustees-treasurer/

13/07/2025

We’ve been contacted by a member of the Watson family, originally from Sheffield. Some of their family photos by Scarborough photographers were sold online in the past and they are trying to trace them. Please get in touch with us if you know where they are. It would be lovely if the family could see these images of their ancestors. Thanks.

15/06/2025

This photo seems to predate the building of the in 1867. So it must have been taken soon after the photographer Enoch Barraclough (1831-1901) first arrived in Scarborough. Although taken by Barraclough it has been sold by John Whitfield a chemist whose business open in 1867. Whitfield advertised a stock of photographic materials and that he had three darkrooms to let to travelling photographers.

Find out more about Scarborough’s photographic history on our website

https://www.photoscarborough.org.uk/photography-in-scarborough

10/06/2025

A great piece of research about Scarborough’s most famous photographer.

27/05/2025

Looking forward to hosting this event. Hope that you can come!

Tickets are now available for Photo Scarborough: PHOTO SOCIAL! at Shakespeare Gallery, on Wednesday 28th May 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

22/05/2025

Have you been to see this little exhibition yet? Explores the history of Victorian photography in Scarborough through the words and imagery on the backs of Carte de Visite photographs. It’s free to visit, but you might be tempted to buy something in Scarborough Market Hall & Vaults and that’s not our fault!

09/05/2025

Henry Osguthorpe was a Scarborough photographer who came here from Sheffield about 1870. After his death in 1883 his wife Mary Ann took over the business, later joined by their sons. The Osguthorpe Brothers moved to Spennymoor in County Durham in about 1900, but Mary stayed in Scarborough.

You can see this Carte de Visite and others in an exhibition Castle Book Bindery in Scarborough Market Hall & Vaults from tomorrow. Part of Big Ideas By The Sea

There is more on Henry Osguthorpe on our website - https://www.photoscarborough.org.uk/henry-osguthorpe