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By Alex Novak

The London Photograph Fair, which has been run by photo dealer James Kerr of Pump Park Vintage Photography for the last few years, will have new organizers after the Sunday, May 25th show. After May, the fair will be run by Daniel Newburg, the former director of Photo London, in conjunction with U.K. dealers Arnaud Delas and Jane Orde.

London Photograph Fair

Originally created by Richard Meara, the show has grown from a simple table-top show into a mix of small booths and tables. It still remains one of the oldest such shows in the world. It is held at the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury on Coram Street, WC1N 1HT, London. The hotel is very close to the Russell Square Tube Station, and a matter of a few minutes walk from both Euston and King's Cross/St. Pancras.

After the May show, two more fairs are planned for this year (September 14, which is tables only, and November 9, which will be a mix of tables and booths).

James Kerr can be contacted at jameswkerr@gmail.com, or at +44 7802 333 841. Dan Newburg can be reached at: dnewburg@mac.com.

For more details on the London Photograph Fair, you can go to: http://www.photofair.co.uk.

Novak has over 49 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. He is a long-time member and formerly board member of the Daguerreian Society, and, when it was still functioning, he was a member of the American Photographic Historical Society (APHS). He organized the 2016 19th-century Photography Show and Conference for the Daguerreian Society in NYC. He is also a long-time member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD. Novak has been a member of the board of the nonprofit Photo Review, which publishes both the Photo Review and the Photograph Collector, and is currently on the Photo Review's advisory board. He was a founding member of the Getty Museum Photography Council. He is author of French 19th-Century Master Photographers: Life into Art.

Novak has published numerous photography articles and columns in several newspapers, including the Photograph Collector, Focus magazine and the Daguerreian Society Newsletter. He has been interviewed extensively on the photography art market by the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Classic magazine, Maine Antique Digest, the Art Newspaper, Art News, Art Business News, Focus magazine, PDN, Black & White magazine, Photographie Internationale, Antiques & the Arts Online, Art Critical and the Photograph Collector newsletter, as well as by many other publications, television programs and websites, both in the USA and in France. He was quoted extensively in the book, "Collectingphotography" by Gerry Badger. He has spoken at numerous photography events and programs.

He writes and publishes the E-Photo Newsletter, the largest circulation newsletter in the field. Novak is also president and owner of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, a private photography dealer, which sells by appointment and has sold at exhibit shows, such as AIPAD New York and Miami, Art Chicago, Classic Photography LA, Photo LA, Paris Photo, The 19th-century Photography Show, Art Miami, the Daguerreian Society, etc.