If we are unable to provide a photocopy of a particular document or photograph, or if you require a photograph of a document or a duplicate photographic print for your own personal use, then you can take a photograph (without flash) of the document in the search-room yourself, or else use the services of our recommended professional photographers.
Photography of documents and reproduction of photographic prints is, like other forms of copying, subject to copyright regulations. Photographs of original documents or of photographic prints may generally be taken provided the photograph is for personal use - that is, not for exhibition, reproduction, or publication in printed form or on a website. A copyright form, available from staff in the search-room, should be completed whenever photographs are taken, and a copyright card may have to be placed within the area photographed.
There is no charge for taking your own photographs.
If you require a photograph of a document or a photographic print for exhibition, reproduction or publication in printed form or on a web-site, please inform us. We can then identify and contact the document/photograph and copyright owners for permission, or assist you to do so yourself. If you do not inform us that you are intending to reproduce or publish a photograph of a document or a photographic print held in our record office to which copyright applies, you will be infringing the laws of copyright.
We have contact with a reputable local firm of professional photographers. If you require a photograph of a document taken to a professional standard, or a duplicate print of one of our photographs, ask at the search-room desk for an order form.
Costs are variable, depending on the size of the original document/photograph, size of print, whether colour or black and white, whether a slide is needed, etc. The photographers will bill you directly when the work is completed.
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