Announcing PMF's five guiding pillars
The Peter Marlow Foundation was established in 2018 to commemorate the late Magnum photographer Peter Marlow. The Foundation’s goals centre around celebrating, preserving and activating Peter’s archive, as well as supporting contemporary photography and visual literacy in the United Kingdom, with a special focus on Kent and surrounding counties.
In 2022 the Peter Marlow Foundation started compiling Peter’s archive in Dungeness in Kent. Marlow, his partner Fiona Naylor and their family lived between Dungeness and London since the early 2000’s. Naylor continues to be a resident at Dungeness and is in the process of developing a custom built home for PMF in Pluto II, an historic WWII pumping station. When completed the remodelled structure will house Marlow’s archive, an extensive photo book library donated from the Magnum Tokyo office, dark room, workshop space, as well as public programming and an artist residency program.
Since its founding, the organisation has established a dynamic programme of participatory engagement, designed to share and promote the potential of photography in its many forms.
Inspired by Peter's lens on humanity the PMF team and trustees recently reviewed our charitable mission and have defined these five guiding pillars for our work:
ARCHIVAL LEGACY
Preserve Peter’s archive, and our photo-book collection of significance, as an important historical legacy, with the potential to inspire future photographic practice, dynamic community engagement, and best-practice research. Offer access to our photo-book collection of significance that includes Peter Marlow and David Hurn’s respective personal collections and the Magnum Tokyo office collection.
PHOTOGRAPHER SUPPORT
Support UK-based documentary photographers, both emerging and established, in creating meaningful bodies of work about issues impacting our communities. Promote the use of this work within cultural and educational contexts. Advocate for and share archival best-practice knowledge with other photographers and photographer archives.
VISUAL LITERACY
Improve access to photographic practice, education, and employment for local communities, particularly young people. In a time of AI, contribute to a greater understanding of the roles images play in society and how to critically engage with them. Partner with community organisations to co-create socially engaged photographic projects. Create opportunities for disparate and often divided communities to come together through a shared passion for photography. Increase public enjoyment of photography and support well-being through creativity.
PLACE
Recognise and celebrate the significance of our location in Dungeness, and weave its cultural, natural, social, and geopolitical threads into our work. Develop a creative hub in Dungeness that activates Peter’s work and related creative practices with and for the wider community. Honour the historical connection between the Naylor Marlow family and Dungeness.
RESEARCH
Embed research into the foundation’s core priorities across all of the above pillars, ensuring that critical engagement continues to fuel and renew its activities.
In 2022 the Peter Marlow Foundation started compiling Peter’s archive in Dungeness in Kent. Marlow, his partner Fiona Naylor and their family lived between Dungeness and London since the early 2000’s. Naylor continues to be a resident at Dungeness and is in the process of developing a custom built home for PMF in Pluto II, an historic WWII pumping station. When completed the remodelled structure will house Marlow’s archive, an extensive photo book library donated from the Magnum Tokyo office, dark room, workshop space, as well as public programming and an artist residency program.
Since its founding, the organisation has established a dynamic programme of participatory engagement, designed to share and promote the potential of photography in its many forms.
Inspired by Peter's lens on humanity the PMF team and trustees recently reviewed our charitable mission and have defined these five guiding pillars for our work:
ARCHIVAL LEGACY
Preserve Peter’s archive, and our photo-book collection of significance, as an important historical legacy, with the potential to inspire future photographic practice, dynamic community engagement, and best-practice research. Offer access to our photo-book collection of significance that includes Peter Marlow and David Hurn’s respective personal collections and the Magnum Tokyo office collection.
PHOTOGRAPHER SUPPORT
Support UK-based documentary photographers, both emerging and established, in creating meaningful bodies of work about issues impacting our communities. Promote the use of this work within cultural and educational contexts. Advocate for and share archival best-practice knowledge with other photographers and photographer archives.
VISUAL LITERACY
Improve access to photographic practice, education, and employment for local communities, particularly young people. In a time of AI, contribute to a greater understanding of the roles images play in society and how to critically engage with them. Partner with community organisations to co-create socially engaged photographic projects. Create opportunities for disparate and often divided communities to come together through a shared passion for photography. Increase public enjoyment of photography and support well-being through creativity.
PLACE
Recognise and celebrate the significance of our location in Dungeness, and weave its cultural, natural, social, and geopolitical threads into our work. Develop a creative hub in Dungeness that activates Peter’s work and related creative practices with and for the wider community. Honour the historical connection between the Naylor Marlow family and Dungeness.
RESEARCH
Embed research into the foundation’s core priorities across all of the above pillars, ensuring that critical engagement continues to fuel and renew its activities.
