Light or shadow for photography at the V&A?

Francis Hodgson
Professor in the culture of photography, University of Brighton
In the first week of September, Martin Roth, the distinguished director of Londons Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), announced that he would be leaving. During his tenure, the V&A continuedas it had under his predecessor, Mark Jonesgradually to firm up its position as a world-class centre of photography, in a period when many other British institutions involved with the subject were either letting themselves