1994
Frederick William Flower: A Pioneer of Portuguese
Photography Exhibition curated by
Michael Gray, Vitoria Mesquita, José Pessoe and André
Rouille, shown at the Museo Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal,
including new albumen and salt paper prints by Barbara and
Michael Gray.
1995 A
Shifting Focus: Photography in India, 1850 to 1900
British
Council touring exhibition curated by John Falconer from
negatives and prints held in the collection of the East
India Company Archives of the British Library Oriental and
India Collections. Albumen, salt paper and modern toned
silver chloro-bromide prints.
1996
The Working of Miracles: William Ellis, the first
photographs of Madagascar 1853-1865 A British Council
Exhibition at the Fine Art Society, Bond Street, London and
at the Royal Palace Antananarivo, Madagascar. Exhibition
POP silver prints by Barbara and Michael Gray.
1996 The
Working of Miracles: William Ellis First photographs of
Madagascar 1853-1865 Further set of prints were made for
exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New
York. Spring 1998.
1997/8
Hidden Worlds, John Thomson, Photographer
Exhibition
curated by Richard Ovenden. The most comprehensive and
extensive exhibition devoted to the life and work of John
Thomson. Showing a large number of original photographs and
publications from the archives of the National Library of
Scotland, the National Museum of Photography film and
Television, the Science Museum, Bradford and several
private sources. The exhibition also includes a number of
images exhibited for the first time. The National Library
also commissioned Barbara and Michael Gray to reprint 72 of
John Thomson’s original wet collodion negatives from
the collection of the Welcome Institute for the History of
Medicine’s archive. The prints were made on hand-made
albumen printing-out-paper and toned with a combination of
gold, platinum and palladium salts.
1998
Photographs and Phantasms: Sir Harry Johnson
Photographs of
Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba circa 1910. A British Council
Exhibition curated by Dr Petrine Archer-Straw. 150
exhibition gold and platinum toned prints produced on
Centennial fibre-based printing-out-paper and printed by
Michael and Barbara Gray. Exhibited at the Royal
Geographical Society and venues in the West Indies, Haiti
and Cuba; Spring 1998.
1998 Di
Lucis Primigeni: WHF Talbot His seminal role in the
discovery and invention of the negative-positive process of
photography. An exhibition commissioned and staged by the
University of Pordenone department of postgraduate
photographic studies located at the Villa Ciani, Lestans,
Italy. 40 silver salt paper prints taken from original
negatives that form part of the Lacock Abbey Collection
shown together with 10 original prints. May to August 1998.
1999
Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic
1914-1916 Expedition Staged at the
American Museum of Natural History, New York. Curated by
Caroline Alexander. April through to October 1999. 176 hand
printed and archivally processed selenium and thiocarbamide
toned silver gelatin prints commissioned by the AMNH and
printed by Barbara and Michael Gray from the original
negatives of Frank Hurley the expedition’s
photographer held in the archives of the Royal Geographical
Society, London.
2002
Images of Persia: Laurence Lockhart Photographs from Cambridge
University BP Archives,Laurence Lockhart Collection who
worked for British Petroleum in Iran, between 1924-6 and
1948-52 exhibition prints taken from the
photographer’s original negatives. Exhibited at
Tehran University as part of a symposium on The
Contribution of Foreign Scholars to Persia and Persian
Studies. Preparation of database and image digitisation
proposal for the cataloguing of the Laurence Lockhart
Collection