Thomas Sutton

Thomas Sutton is a very important person not only in the story of local photography, but also in wider photographic history. Sutton had a workshop and studio in St Brelade’s bay from 1848 until it burnt down in about 1854. The printing establishment where he worked with Frenchman L.D. Blanquart-Evrard in the 1850s was advertised as "founded at the suggestion of, and patronised by, H R H Prince Albert" who was a keen collector of photographs. Sutton’s early experiments and contributions include the patenting of a "panoramic lens for taking photographic pictures", the publishing of a pamphlet on a method of printing which he claimed to be permanent and the compilation of the first dictionary of photography. He also produced the first photographic publication of the island - "Souvenir de Jersey".

Other Photographers Featured in the Collection

Read more about the people behind the lenses of the Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive : 

• Ernest Baudoux
• Edwin Dale
• Francis Foot
• Emile Guiton
• Philip Morel-Laurens
• Henry Mullins

• Clarence Philip Ouless
• Phyllis Gertrude Ross
• Albert Smith
• Frederick William Spinner
• Thomas Sutton
• Richard Whinnerah