Charles Latham (photographer)

Charles Latham (15 May 1847 – 27 October 1912) was staff photographer of the magazine Country Life in the early years of the 20th century.

The earliest known photograph by Latham was of the Three Nuns Inn on Aldgate High Street, taken for the antiquarian Philip Norman.

[8] He then worked on George Birch's book on London churches of the 17th and 18th centuries,[9] which has been described as "the handsomest piece of preservation propaganda ever printed".

[12] Latham became staff photographer of the magazine Country Life shortly after it was founded in 1897 by Edward Hudson.

Gotch said of him, "The art of fitly illustrating architecture has not been widely acquired and we hold ourselves fortunate in having secured the services of Latham.

[11] But as Kristina Taylor has noted, he often included people and props into his compositions, particularly in the Country Life work where he had more freedom.

One is from Harold Batsford, who remembered him as a man with a red beard, a limp, and the complete absence of the letter H. On one occasion, Latham was planning to photograph a house that had been subjected to unfortunate Victorian "improvements".