The Richard Ellis Archive - Malta and Britain Intertwined

As part of the RPS Historical Group's series of talks looking at historical collections of photography, photographic archives, and those working historical and alternative processes this talk looks at the Richard Ellis Archive and its significance for the history of Malta and relationship with the British Empire. It is delivered by Dr Charles Paul Azzopardi. Dr Charles Paul Azzopardi FRPS is a Maltese photo-historian whose research expertise delves into the photographic practices of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Malta. He is a doctoral candidate at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has made significant contributions as a curator and photographic cultural heritage consultant at the National Archives of Malta and the Richard Ellis Archive. Azzopardi's research and photography have been published in fifty monographs, further solidifying his standing in photography and publishing. He is also the founder of the Malta Image Preservation Archive (MIPA), a non-governmental organisation aimed at preserving and digitising Maltese photographic cultural heritage, and serves as a lobby group advocating the development of a museum of Maltese photographic history and a national photographic collection.