Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s Post

📸🌏 A blue plaque has been unveiled to commemorate photographer, writer and geographer, John Thomson FRGS. This is the 1,112th blue plaque in London, but the first to include the word ‘geographer’. John Thomson had significant links to the Society, having been elected a Fellow in 1866, appointed an Instructor in Photography in 1886, and elected a Society Life Fellow in 1917. English Heritage has installed the blue plaque at 15 Effra Road in Brixton, marking the house where Thomson lived during the 1870s following his return from Asia. Thomson is recognised for having created a far broader panorama of Eastern culture than had previously been seen in the West, in work such as 'Illustrations of China and its People (1873-4)'. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTUEFe9P 📷 Image credit: English Heritage, Michael Pritchard.

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