 I'm Philip Hatfield. I'm the curator for Canadian and Caribbean studies at the British Library. I actually always had an interest in photography. There's always been that idea with my photography of it being a way of writing down memories with light. There's something about the way that photographs and collections of books, collections of maps, collections of music continue to speak to us in new ways as we develop as people as we develop as cultures as well, more generally. It's probably no accident that I became a curator of a North American collection. Canada and the United States have a strong connection with photography and with photographic history. I like photography and I enjoy working with collections. Oh look, here's this area where they actually fit together really, really well. The collections that we work with here at the British Library are magnificent. There is an excitement to collecting material and not necessarily knowing what questions are going to be asked of it. What matters about being a curator is making sure that the people to whom it's the most use continue to get access to that collection. Because they're the people who are doing interesting things with the collections and asking interesting questions with them. Just talking to them about their work and helping them do their work is absolutely fascinating.