The furore over the Science Museum group’s decision to transfer 400,000 images from the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum rumbles on, and there have also been grumblings about the future of Media Space, the 500 sq. m gallery that opened at the Science Museum in London in 2013. It hosts two photography exhibitions a year, featuring works drawn mainly from the NMM—but an established UK photographer, who prefers to remain anonymous, tells us that he is concerned about the venue’s future in light of the V&A row. A spokesman for the Science Museum assures us that “there’s a programme in place for Media Space in 2016-17; Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph, and the show afterwards, which is still to be announced but will look at India and its photographic history”. Watch this (media) space.
