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Helen is the recipient of the 2016 Josef Breitenbach Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, for her research project 'Shared Vision: Experiments in Photography Education: 1945-1975'. As part of this project Helen will be investigating Breitenbach's teaching at Black Mountain College (Summer 1944), Cooper Union (from 1946-1966) and The New School for Social Research (from 1949-1975). Image: Josef Albers' drawing class at Black Mountain College. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon, National Portrait Gallery (2 July - 18 October 2015) ★★★★★ The Evening Standard ★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ The Times Read Mark Hudson's four star review for The Telegraph here. (Installation photograph: © Tori Miller / National Portrait Gallery, London)

'Snowdon: A Life in View' was staged at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 26 September 2014 - 21 June 2015. Read my interview on photographer Lord Snowdon's life and career with Amateur Photographer magazine here.

"This small but satisfying show reveals Armstrong-Jones' establishment swagger and an audacity to unsettle his subjects", says Christian House of The Telegraph. Read his four star exhibition review of Snowdon: A Life in View here. (Installation photograph: © Tori Miller / National Portrait Gallery, London)

I was Assistant Curator of exhibition Man Ray Portraits (2013), the first major museum retrospective of the innovative and influential artist’s photographic portraits.

Founded in 1920, by Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, the Société Anonyme was the first institution to promote avant-garde art in America. Discover more here. (Installation photograph: © Tori Miller / National Portrait Gallery, London)

San Francisco based photographer Todd Hido was born in the small town of Kent, Ohio. His photobooks to date have largely been concerned with the drama and tensions found within the suburban American landscape. More here on my interview with the photographer after the publication of 'Excerpts from Silver Meadows' (Nazraeli, 2013).

Glen Erler's 'Family Tree' was one of my favourite photobooks of 2013. At first viewing, it is a document of Erler's family’s life within the physical landscape of Southern California; however a quietly haunting exploration of the emotional landscape of a childhood remembered emerges. Read my interview with the photographer here.

In 2013, I collaborated with the University of Dundee on a series of displays celebrating the work of Hungarian born photojournalist Michael Peto, which were staged at the National Portrait Gallery, London; New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; and The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh. (Installation photograph: © Tori Miller / National Portrait Gallery, London)

Press coverage for 'Michael Peto Photographs: Mandela to McCartney' (2013) included an interview with Digital Photographer magazine discussing the photojournalist's work, and the context behind this project.

Jo Metson Scott's 'The Grey Line' was widely regarded as one of the most significant photobooks of 2013. Metson Scott's book was a deeply reflective examination of war, as told from the personal perspectives of US and UK soldiers. Read my book review here.

My exhibition review of 'Under the Influence: John Deakin and the Lure of Soho' for Photomonitor (2014). (Image: Lucian Freud, 1961 © The John Deakin Archive)

April 2013 marked the centenary of the birth of fashion photographer Norman Parkinson, and a retrospective exhibition 'Lifework: Norman Parkinson's Century of Style' was held at the National Theatre, London. Read my review for Photomonitor here. (Image: After Van Dongen, November 1959, © Norman Parkinson Archive)

Fred Daniels was an important pioneer of early British 'Stills' and portrait photography. In 2012, I curated the first museum display of his work. Daniels worked on many of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger renowned films, including A Canterbury Tale (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Black Narcissus (1947). Discover more about the photographer here. (Image: © Estate of Fred Daniels / National Portrait Gallery, London)

In 2012, display 'Neil Libbert: Photojournalist' celebrated the photographer's 55 years work as an award-winning photojournalist for the Observer, the Guardian and many other publications. View highlights from this display here. (Installation photograph: © Tori Miller / National Portrait Gallery, London)

Herbert Watkins was one of the most significant photographers in the nineteenth century but today remains largely unknown. Discover my previous research on the photographer.

'Brian Duffy: The Man Who Shot the Sixties' An essay for the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (2011). (Image: Fashion for Vogue, Florence, 1964, © Estate of Brian Duffy)

Often overshadowed by the reputation of her husband, László Moholy-Nagy, to whom she was married for thirteen years, modernist photographer Lucia Moholy greatly contributed to the development of twentieth-century photography. Discover more about her life and work in my essay for Photomonitor. (Image: Michael Polanyi, 1938 © estate of Lucia Moholy)

Format Photographers has a unique place in British photographic history. It was for a long time the only agency that consisted of, and promoted the work of contemporary women photographers. Founded in 1983, the agency encouraged members to develop their creativity and careers. Format's eight founding members were Anita Corbin, Sheila Gray, Pam Isherwood, Jenny Matthews, Maggie Murray, Joanne O'Brien, Raissa Page and Val Wilmer. Read my overview of the Format Photographers Agency 1983-2003 here.

In the 1970s and 1980s photographer Dmitri Kasterine's portraits and reportage featured in magazines including Harpers & Queen, Vogue, Interview, and the New York Times. His personal photographic surveys include England and the English (1981), and book projects documenting the residents of Newburgh and Brooklyn, New York. Find out more about his 2010 National Portrait Gallery exhibition here. (Image: Muriel Spark, 1978, © Dmitri Kasterine)

'The Photograph That Inspired Me' A feature on William Eggleston for London Independent Photography. (Image: Untitled (Memphis, Tennessee), 2000, © Eggleston Artistic Trust)