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James Stevenson retired as the Manager of the Photographic Manager at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in March 2013. As well as being one of the world’s largest museums, it also has one of the largest in-house museum photographic studios in a UK Museum, comprising 18 staff, twelve of who are photographers. The studio photographs museum objects for its publications, exhibitions and online presentations. It also photographs events and activities which take place around the museum on a daily basis. New media is also created within the Photographic Studio with the section making video, animations and 3D imaging. Stevenson has responsibility for managing all of the images made within the museum and structuring the workflow for all digitisation programmes the museum undertakes. The Photographic Studio archive goes back to 1856 and comprises half a million analogue and 350,000 digital images. Stevenson has been at the V&A since 1993 and was previously Photographic Manager at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. He has worked as a professional photographer since 1974. Stevenson has been the V&A co-ordinator on the ARTISTE, SCULPTEUR, ARCO and 3D-COFORM European IST projects. He has also organised the digitisation programmes for the NOF funded People Play and Moving Here projects and the International Dunhuang Silk Road Project. The current TSB funded FABRIC project is also coordinated within the Photo Studio. Over the last four years he has been responsible for implementing the museum's digital asset management system. This corporate system holds all of the museums digital assets. Its implementation has become a focus for the museums digital projects including enabling the free use of images from the museum website. The V&A is the first museum to offer its digital assets to the academic, scholarly and public use of images in this way. He is currently working on integrating CBIR features from the SCULPTEUR and FABRIC projects into the asset management system and enabling CBIR onto the museums website. He was chairman of the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography, the UK association of cultural heritage image professionals between 1999 and 2012. Publications include chapters in: Don't Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore; edited by Louise Downie Digital Heritage: Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage; edited by Lindsay MacDonald Joint papers: Simon Goodall, Paul H. Lewis, Kirk Martinez, Patrick A. S. Sinclair, Fabrizio Giorgini, Matthew Addis, Mike J. Boniface, Christian Lahanier, James Stevenson: SCULPTEUR: Multimedia Retrieval for Museums. CIVR 2004: 638-646

Martin White, Nicholaos Mourkoussis, Joe Darcy, Panos Petridis, Fotis Liarokapis, Paul F. Lister, Krzysztof Walczak, Rafal Wojciechowski, Wojciech Cellary, Jacek Chmielewski, Miroslaw Stawniak, Wojciech Wiza, Manjula Patel, James Stevenson, John Manley, Fabrizio Giorgini, Patrick Sayd, François Gaspard: ARCO - An Architecture for Digitization, Management and Presentation of Virtual Exhibitions. Computer Graphics International 2004: 622-625 Simon Goodall, Paul H. Lewis, Kirk Martinez, Patrick A. S. Sinclair, Fabrizio Giorgini, Matthew Addis, Christian Lahanier, James Stevenson: Knowledge-Based Exploration of Multimedia Museum Collections. EWIMT 2004 Paul H. Lewis, Kirk Martinez, Fazly Salleh Abas, Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Stephen C. Y. Chan, Matthew Addis, Mike J. Boniface, Paul Grimwood, Alison Stevenson, Christian Lahanier, James Stevenson: An integrated content and metadata based retrieval system for art. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 13(3): 302-313 (2004)

Stephen Chi-fai Chan, Kirk Martinez, Paul H. Lewis, Christian Lahanier, James Stevenson: Handling Sub-Image Queries In Content-Based Retrieval of High Resolution Art Images. ICHIM (2) 2001: 157-163 Papers: Stevenson, James (2007). What The Modern Museum Should Expect From Its In-House Photographic Studio. International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting - ICHIM07: