Blog - Hospital Snapshots

One of the aspects that make the Hering collection fascinating is how much they resemble portraits, either painted or photographic, rather than institutional mu

This month we look at Bethlem's collection of 'before' and 'after' snapshots.

Find out more about the photographs of Henry Hering.

This month we continue our appraisal of the Victorian photographs of patients, looking at the photo of John Payne.

We continue our look at the 19th century photographs of Henry Hering, taken at Bethlem.

This new series focuses on the collection of photographs taken at Bethlem in the late 1850s by Victorian photographer Henry Hering.