# Cameron Newham > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cameron_Newham > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cameron_Newham.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham > Source revision: 1355888746 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Ecclesiastical photographer and programmer}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA}} | name = Cameron Newham | other_names = C. B. Newham | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|8|12}} | birth_place = [South Yarra](/source/South_Yarra), [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), Victoria, Australia | education = [Camberwell Grammar School](/source/Camberwell_Grammar_School), [Scotch College, Perth](/source/Scotch_College%2C_Perth) | alma_mater = [University of Western Australia](/source/University_of_Western_Australia) (BSc, 1987) | occupation = Ecclesiastical photographer, programmer | known_for = Documenting England's rural parish churches | website = [https://www.parishchurches.org parishchurches.org] }} '''Cameron Newham''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} (born 1965) is an [Australian](/source/Australians)-born [British](/source/British_people) photographer, author, and independent heritage documentarian. He is best known for his ongoing effort to photograph every rural parish church in England, a project that has spanned more than two decades and produced over 500,000 images from more than 9,000 churches.{{Cite news |last=Addley |first=Esther |date=2019-12-27 |title=Australian on mission to photograph every parish church in England |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/27/australian-on-mission-to-photograph-every-parish-church-in-england |access-date=2025-05-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |last=Laing |first=Jemima |date=2009-09-03 |title=A photographic labour of love |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8235000/8235853.stm |access-date=2025-05-12 |work=[BBC News](/source/BBC_News) |language=en-GB |archive-date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250512160020/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8235000/8235853.stm |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Howse |first=Christopher |date=2019-07-27 |title=Sacred Mysteries: One man's photographs of 9,000 rural churches |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/07/27/sacred-mysteriesone-mans-photographs-9000-rural-churches/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250512160014/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/07/27/sacred-mysteriesone-mans-photographs-9000-rural-churches/ |url-status=live }} ==Biography== Born in [South Yarra](/source/South_Yarra), [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), on 12 August 1965, Newham was educated at [Camberwell Grammar School](/source/Camberwell_Grammar_School) and [Scotch College, Perth](/source/Scotch_College%2C_Perth), before completing a [BSc](/source/Bachelor_of_Science) in information technology and geography at the [University of Western Australia](/source/University_of_Western_Australia) in 1987. He began his career as a software engineer with [Australian Defence Industries](/source/Australian_Defence_Industries) in 1989 and, during that period, co-authored ''Learning the Bash Shell'' for [O’Reilly Media](/source/O'Reilly_Media).{{cite web |last=Newham |first=C. B. |title=About C B Newham |url=https://www.parishchurches.org/bio |access-date=11 June 2025 |website=The Parish Church Photographic Survey}} Newham relocated to the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) in 1996 from [Perth](/source/Perth), [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia) and has since held a range of information-technology posts, including positions at [Nomura Research Institute](/source/Nomura_Research_Institute), [Macromedia](/source/Macromedia) and the [British Library](/source/British_Library), while pursuing large-scale photographic fieldwork. Newham began photographing rural parish churches in 1997, and was initially inspired by the [architectural guides](/source/Pevsner_Architectural_Guides) of [Nikolaus Pevsner](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner), later drawing on the early-20th-century books of [John Stabb](/source/John_Stabb_(ecclesiologist)) after encountering them during a 2007 project on Devon churches. His project gradually expanded to include the detailed documentation of church architecture, sculpture and interior features such as pre-1900 [monuments](/source/Tomb_effigy), [fonts](/source/Baptismal_font) and wall paintings. By the mid-2020s, Newham had photographed more than 9,000 churches and compiled an archive exceeding 500,000 images. His work has been used by scholars in the fields of medieval architecture, sculpture and funerary art. Newham's photographs of knightly effigies were featured in [Tobias Capwell’s](/source/Tobias_Capwell) monograph ''Armour of the English Knight 1400–1450'', and were praised for offering overhead views that emulate a devotional perspective.{{Cite web |last=Warren |first=Jeremy |date=2016-01-23 |title=Armour from God's point of view |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2016/01/23/armour-from-gods-point-of-view |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250512160019/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2016/01/23/armour-from-gods-point-of-view |archive-date=12 May 2025 |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=The Art Newspaper}} Newham has also contributed to the Post-Reformation Wall Painting Project (PRWP), a scholarly initiative cataloguing later church murals in England.{{Cite web |last=Pridgeon |first=Ellie |date=2015-02-05 |title=PRWP App |url=https://postreformationwallpaintingproject.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/prwp-app/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Post-Reformation Wall Painting Project |archive-date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250512160019/https://postreformationwallpaintingproject.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/prwp-app/ |url-status=live }} Newham’s 728-page book entitled ''Country Church Monuments'', published in 2022, received notice across both popular and academic press; reviewers in the ''[Literary Review](/source/Literary_Review)'', ''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'', ''[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)'' and ''[The Antiquaries Journal](/source/The_Antiquaries_Journal)'' highlighted its authoritative commentary, comprehensive scope and high quality photography of 365 rural monuments.{{cite magazine |last=Andrew |first=Nigel |date=November 2022 |title=Graven in Stone: ''Country Church Monuments'' |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/graven-in-stone |access-date=11 June 2025 |magazine=Literary Review}}{{cite news |last=Wells |first=Emma J |date=7 December 2022 |title=''Country Church Monuments'' by CB Newham review – withered corpse or marble baby? |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/country-church-monuments-by-cb-newham-review-xg09tl59m |access-date=11 June 2025 |newspaper=The Times}}{{cite news |last=Howse |first=Christopher |date=2 October 2022 |title=Take a tomb-crawl of England's weirdest country church monuments |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/take-tomb-crawl-englands-weirdest-country-church-monuments/ |access-date=11 June 2025 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cite journal |last=Wilson |first=Jean |date=October 2023 |title=Review of ''Country Church Monuments'' |journal=The Antiquaries Journal |volume=103 |pages=456–457 |doi=10.1017/S0003581523000306 |via=Cambridge Core}} ==Selected works== * {{cite book |last1=Newham |first1=Cameron |last2=Rosenblatt |first2=Bill |title=Learning the bash Shell |edition=3rd |date=March 2005 |publisher=[O'Reilly Media, Inc.](/source/O'Reilly_Media) |isbn=9780596009656}} * {{cite book |last1=Newham |first1=C. B. |title=Some Old Devon Churches: A Tribute to John Stabb |date=2009 |publisher=DAE Publishing |language=en |isbn=9781906265014}} * {{cite book |last1=Newham |first1=C. B. |title=Country Church Monuments |date=6 October 2022 |publisher=Particular Books |language=en |isbn=9780241488331}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/explore/story/cb-newham National Churches Trust: #ChurchExplorer] {{DEFAULTSORT:Newham, Cameron}} Category:Living people Category:English photographers Category:Australian emigrants to the United Kingdom Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Category:People from South Yarra, Victoria Category:1965 births --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Cameron Newham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham?action=history)). 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