Hunting around for contact details whist looking for some shadowing or work experience, I found this Women’s Hour interview with Harriet Logan and Maggie Murray. I’m not sure whether anything has really changed, and would have like to have seen the exhibition. This is probably the same Harriet Logan – astounding portraits of children. Nothing much on the web about Maggie Murray, but there’s a book available and this Redeye pdf from 2003: “So You Want to Change the World With Photography?” with transcripts of sessions by Tom Stoddart and Simon Norfolk, this is a great find.
If anyone knows how to contact Maggie Murray, or if you have any other info, please do let me know.
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Hi
I’m on your page http://www.thephotographypages.co.uk/2008/02/format-the-women-photographers-agency-rip/ and am also looking for contact details for Maggie Murray.
If anyone did by any chance give them to you I’d be most grateful if you could send them to me.
By the way I have maggie.murray@compuserve.com from 2003 but am not getting a response.
She has some negatives of mine from Format days which I’d love to have back…
Many thanks,
Sally Fraser
Hello Sally,
Hopefully she’ll get in touch. My site has pretty good search engine optimisation so if someone, or Maggie Murray herself Googles the name, this will appear. And of course if I hear anything, I’ll let you know.
You were in Format too, then?
My email address is now maggiemurray@phonecoop.coop
The old Compuserve address shown on your site also has a mistake in it so would not have worked even tho the correct address operated until May 2007
Format closed after 20 years in 2003. Some of the photographers work is now held by Photofusion picture library. The National Portrait Gallery recently acquired some portraits from the archive.
I have been in touch with Sally Fraser to return her negatives, which she left with us for the historical files (early pictures of the uk women’s movement). It is not usual for agencies to hold negatives… only prints, copy transparencies or nowadays digital files. Sally was not a member of Format, but one of several women who approached us to handle some specific pictures on their behalf.
All the best Maggie
Hi I’m currently studying for a degree in photojournalism and I am writing my dissertation on the understated role of women in photography. I have been trying to find out more about female only agencies such as Format without much success and came across your site. Is there any chance you could tell me who, apart from Maggie Murray and Harriet Logan were involved in founding the agency. Also if you have any other leads to websites for female only agencies I would very much appreciate it.
Zena
I think you need to update your site. It’s misleading.
Format’s work now on display at National Portrait Gallery. Jan -Jun 2010
Maggie Murray
Maggie, thanks again for writing, I do appreciate you getting in touch again. I did write after you posted your first comment, but your email address bounced.
The exhibition looks magnificent: I’ll definitely try and get down to see it. I’m sure you’re being inundated with requests for interviews, but if you’d like to share a few thoughts with me to publish here, that would be wonderful. Please feel free to email if you feel that could be a plan.
I will indeed do a post about your show at NPG soon as I have a minute: hopefully that’ll be Friday this week. In the meantime, for people reading this thread, here’s the link:
Format at The National Portrait Gallery.