IMAGES of Bradford created by a group of photography students are being transferred to a renowned archive in New Mexico.

Earlier this year students at the Bradford School of Art, based in Bradford College, created a number of pinhole photographs using cameras built from items ranging from tin cans to matchboxes.

It was part of a joint project with the National Science and Media Museum that saw 24 photographs taken by the students displayed in the museum as part of its “Poetics of Light” exhibition.

Now the images by the 13 students will be sent to the New Mexico History Museum to become part of the permanent “Palace of the Governors” photo archive.

The archive, based in a former Spanish political base, is home to over 1,000,000 images, including thousands of photographs in its Pinhole Resource Collection.

Pinhole photography involves exposing a piece of film using light travelling through a small hole in a light tight box, and cameras can be made from a variety of simple household items.

For the exhibition, which ran at the Science and Media Museum from March to June, students were asked to capture images of Bradford, and came back with views of its surrounding countryside, architecture and people.

The images were displayed alongside pinhole photographs created by Bradford Photographic Society, as well as acclaimed photographers from around the world.

The exhibition’s co-creator, Daniel Kosharek, has now requested the students sign their work and send it to him at the New Mexico Museum to become part of the permanent archive, where he is the curator.

Sally Robinson, photography lecturer at Bradford School of Art, said having the images stored in the archive was a huge honour for the students and the college.

She said: “This project has been a fantastic opportunity for students from beginning to end, and they have gained so much from it.

“To have their photography displayed in a renowned national gallery space at the National Science and Media Museum was wonderful. Now they will, in the near future, have their signed work taken permanently into an international photo archive in the USA so they can truly say they have worked at an international level.

“Throughout this project they have won praise from all external contacts for the quality of their work, their professionalism, and their enthusiasm. They are a true credit to the college.”