James Allan Johnstone Cash, F.R.P.S, F.I.B.P (1902 in Bucklow, Cheshire – 14 February 1974 [1])
Cash was a radio engineer before becoming a photographer and writer. [2] Having had a love for travelling since he was young, at 23 years old he moved to Canada to work for the Northern Electric Company's broadcasting station. [1] Cash travelled throughout the 1930s, taking photographs with his Leica camera. [1] He married Betty, another photographer and traveller, in 1939 and together they owned a gallery in Camden Town which specialised in travel photographs. [1]
Cash's photographic endeavours lead him to found the Hampstead Photographic Society in 1937 and from 1944 to 1945 was its president. [1] He then served as a photographer in the army during World War II. [2] In the 1960s he became a founding member of the British Guild of Travel Writers along with Anthony F. Kersting who he collaborated with on a book of photographs. [3]
An exhibition of his photographs 'Camera Globe Trotter' toured the UK in 1975-6, starting at the Society House of the Royal Photographic Society, and visiting Woburn Abbey and The Grand Hotel, Brighton. [4]
Photographs contributed by James Allan Cash to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project. [6]