Mark Haworth-Booth

Mark Haworth-Booth OBE (born 20 August 1944) is a British academic and historian of photography.

Haworth-Booth started his career at the Manchester Art Gallery in 1969 and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 to 2004, becoming Senior Curator of Photographs and played a major role in building up its collection of photography.

[1] The last photography exhibition he curated, with the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National Portrait Gallery, London, was a centenary retrospective of the pioneering photographer Camille Silvy (1834–1910).

Haworth-Booth lives in North Devon with his wife Rosie (née Miles), whom he married in 1979.

Rosemary Miles (her professional name) made many important acquisitions of BAME printmakers for the V&A collection and served as the chair of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers.