Comments on: Format – The Women Photographers’ Agency (RIP)

By: TPP

TPP — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:00:20 +0000

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.

By: Maggie Murray

Maggie Murray — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:42:58 +0000

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

By: Zena Blundell

Zena Blundell — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:17 +0000

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

By: Maggie Murray

Maggie Murray — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:18:46 +0000

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

By: TPP

TPP — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:08:24 +0000

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?

By: Sally Fraser

Sally Fraser — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:56:31 +0000

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