Colin Ford (curator)

Colin John Ford CBE (born 1934) is a British photographic curator, historian of photography, and former museum director.

[3] He is Vice-President of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust and Chairman of the Peel Entertainment Group.

[citation needed] Ford is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

The Royal Photographic Society established the annual Colin Ford Award in 2003 for contributions to curatorship, named after Colin Ford as the first director of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

[7] There are several photographs of Ford in the National Portrait Gallery (London) collection, including works by Arnold Newman, Norman Parkinson, and Cheryl Twomey.

Photograph of Sir John Herschel by Julia Margaret Cameron , an illustration in Ford's book Julia Margaret Cameron: 19th Century Photographer of Genius.