Recommendations for improving digitisation practices in the UK cultural heritage sector
By Ed Hall, 17 June 2026
Fellow's Profile
Ed Hall
Fellow's Profile
Ed Hall
Digitally preserving our planet's natural history through macro photography
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Developing digital resources to preserve natural history collections and open them for education
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2020
- Locality
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Yorkshire and The Humber
Biography
I am a natural history photographer and science communicator. My Fellowship involves visiting some of the largest museums in the USA to learn more about the digital preservation of museum specimens through photography and scanning, and using this to further public knowledge of our natural world.
I will use what I learn to advocate for the digital preservation of some of the UK's most important collections that are mostly hidden from public view, with the aim of making them more accessible to the public for educational purposes.
My background is in ecology research, photography and videography and my experience from all of these fields will develop my project.
Ideas
Activity
October 2021 Fellows' update: Ed Hall
Photographer Ed Hall (CF 2020) has curated an exhibition for Leeds Museum this month. The exhibition highlights the importance of insects in natural history collections and ways of digitally preserving them, which is the topic of Ed’s Fellowship.
By Ed Hall, 31 October 2021
Acknowledgements
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Digital Transitions
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Ideas
Activity
October 2021 Fellows' update: Ed Hall
Photographer Ed Hall (CF 2020) has curated an exhibition for Leeds Museum this month. The exhibition highlights the importance of insects in natural history collections and ways of digitally preserving them, which is the topic of Ed’s Fellowship.
By Ed Hall, 31 October 2021
Acknowledgements
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Digital Transitions
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
