User:Les Golding Photographer

Les Golding is an award winning Leicester based professional photographer who provides a specialist photographic service to museums and art galleries in the East Midlands.

From 2002 until 2011 Les Golding was responsible for managing the photography of all of the digitisation of collections projects undertaken by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. For further information and images please refer to my "Links" page and follow the relevant link. Photography was undertaken using Hasselblad, Imacon and Canon (EOS 1DS and EOS 5D) digital equipment, processed on Apple Mac computers.

Since becoming self employed in 2012, Les has worked on various projects including:

[http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/great-north-museum/whats-on/exhibitions/the-curious-case-of.html The Curious Case Of. . .] winner in the Museums category of The Journal Cultural Awards, April 2013.

The North East in 100 Objects a major new website launched in May 2013. Capturing a history of the creativity and innovation of the North East, 100 objects have been selected from the collections of museums, galleries and archives.

The Museums Association is a membership organisation for everyone working in museums, galleries and heritage. This body approached Les Golding to provide a Case Study for a Museum Photographer.

The National Society for Education in Art and Design also have a page based on Les Golding's Case Study.

As an artist Les Golding's primary interest is in the genre of documentary photography.

Les Golding photographed the final week of operation of Austin & Pickersgill shipyard Sunderland circa 1980 (though the images are not digitised) for a major exhibition at Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery titled "And Ships Were Born". Les also photographed the finals weeks of production at Westoe Colliery South Shields and Wearmouth Colliery Sunderland which provide invaluable research material to historians.

More recent documentary photography by Les Golding can be viewed on these pages.

It is Les Golding's intention to expand this page to include more information on documentary photography projects.