V&A appoints Forbes as Director of Photography

Photography Curator DUNCAN FORBES will join the V&A in the newly-created role of Director of Photography in April.

Forbes will lead the V&A’s team of photography curators, spearhead a major cataloguing and digitisation programme, and oversee development  of the V&A Photography Centre, opening in 2022.

He was previously Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Senior Curator of Photography at the National Galleries of Scotland.