Luke Unsworth Luke Unsworth

Textile photography at Birmingham Museums Trust

Always challenging to light and ‘stitch’ shoot long, narrow items whilst retaining high resolution. This was the task at Birmingham Museums’ Collection Centre when I was commissioned to photograph their African textile collection. The quality of the Fujifilm GFX100s camera and it’s prime lenses was a real help. And great to work in the huge Midlands Collection Centre again!

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Luke Unsworth Luke Unsworth

Community consultation - Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

I have worked on a number community focused projects based out of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery over the years. These range from community consultation sessions to family open days, writers groups and disability projects. All of which require documentation for funding & marketing purposes

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Luke Unsworth Luke Unsworth

Museum of US in Handsworth

“Museum of Us” is an exhibition curated by the residents of Somerset Road in Handsworth with the direction of curators at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. It was also the basis of a TV project on More 4:

Birmingham residents create their own museum for new Tony Robinson More4 TV series | Birmingham Museums

I was asked to photograph and thus document certain aspects of the exhibition, along with some portraits.

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