Bedford took up photography around 1853 and in 1854 he photographed the objects in Queen Victoria's collections. Bedford travelled around Britain taking landscapes but worked as a lithographer until 1858 when he devoted himself to photography.

As well as being an excellent photographer Edwards was one of the nineteenth century's best known printers and made high quality art books. He patented a modification of the collotype printing process called the Heliotype around 1867.

William England worked for a daguerreotype studio form 1840 to 1845. In 1854 he was he started work for the London Stereoscopic Co. and produced at least three magnificent series of photographs for them. The first was taken in the U.S.A. in 1859, the second in Paris in 1860 and 1861, and the third was of the 1862 International Exhibition. He left The London Stereoscopic Company in 1863.

Roger Fenton was one of the most famous photographers of the nineteenth century. In June 1852 he took stereo photographs for Sir Charles Wheatstone and later that year started commercial work photographing antiquities for the British Museum. He took some of the earliest documentary photographs of war during his visit to the Crimea in 1855. In 1862 he sold all of his equipment and returned to his law practice.

In 1856 Howlett was running his own photographic studio and produced a series of portraits of soldiers from the Crimean War. Howlett took landscape and architectural views but is perhaps best known for his photographs of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his huge steamship the Great Eastern.

In 1854 George Swan Nottage (1823-85) started what was to become one of the largest photographic publishing companies in the world. While based in London by the 1860s the company had branches around the world in cities like New York and Sydney. By 1884 Nottage had amassed a huge fortune and was elected Mayor of London.

Lovell Reeve was born in 1814 at Ludgate Hill. He started his working life as grocers apprentice at the age of 13. In 1848 he left his partnership selling natural history specimens to concentrate on publishing. In 1858 he published the first book illustrated with stereo photographs, Tenneriffe: an Astronomers Experiment by Piazzi Smyth. In 1858 he also published The Stereoscopic Magazine which contained images from some of the better-known British photographers of the time including; Roger Fenton, Ernest Edwards, Robert Howlett, H. Taylor.
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Henry Negretti (1817-1879) and Joseph Warren Zambra (d. 1877) were in partnership from 1850 and sold a variety of scientific instruments. In the late 1850s they had expanded their business to include the publication of stereo photographs and by 1879 they were one of Britain's largest photographic publishing companies. More

Sedgfield produced more than 1000 beautiful stereo views of titled English Scenery between 1855 and 1866. These were published by A. W. Bennett and sold tinted or un-tinted. In 1860 he produced a natural history series of shell arrangements.

In the 1840s George Washington Wilson trained as a portrait miniaturist before becoming an "artist and photographer" in Aberdeen in the 1850s. In 1857 his photographs of the crowded pier at Greenwich and the firing of guns from Royal Navy ships were credited with being the first to capture instantaneous action. By the late 1870s the company had become one of the best-known photographic and printing firms in Britain.

Between 1867 and 1891 Brodie worked in Sydney taking landscape views in a variety of formats. Turner & Henderson reissued Brodie's stereos as single images in a publication titled Album of Views of New South Wales, in 1872. More

A music publisher and retailer of books Clarke also published A. Brodie's stereoviews. In the 1860s he was selling local and imported stereoscopic slides at a shilling each or a dozen for 10 shilllings.

Clifford arrived in Hobart in 1848. In 1861 he was selling his stereoscopic views from his grocers shop along with photographic equipment. In 1865 he advertised that he had 700 stereo views of Tasmania on sale. He was a member of the Stereoscopic Exchange Club and had finished most of his photographic work by 1873.

Hetzer arrived in Sydney in 1850. In the same year he became a member of the Australian Artists Society and in 1859 exhibited stereo works at an exhibition held by the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. He seems to been an early practitioner of the calotype but he is best known for the stereoscopic views of Sydney he published between 1858-1863. In 1867 Hetzer left Australia and sold his studio equipment and nearly 3,500 registered negatives at auction to Joseph Degotardi. More

Hunt arrived in Sydney in 1854, to take up a position as first clerk at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint. He was a keen amateur photographer and took photographs with other mint employees and John Smith in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Hunt was still taking stereo photographs in the 1880s. More

Jevons came to Sydney in 1854 to work as an assayer at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint. Jevons used the wet collodion process to take photographs of the Sydney Mint and Sydney harbour with his friends Robert Hunt and John Smith. He left Australia in April 1859 and was later professor of political economy at University College London.

Before he moved to Sydney Moresby worked as secretary to his father Admiral Sir. Fairfax Moresby. Matthew painted watercolours of ships but possibly learned photography in the late 1850s from his friend E. W. Ward. Their flagship was the HMS Iris and Matthew Moresby took two stereo views of it c. 1858-1859 which are now in the Macleay photographic collection.

Morris & Co. works were exhibited at the 1873 London International Exhibition. Most of their work was produced in Melbourne and Tasmania between 1864 and the 1870s.

John Smith came to Sydney in 1852 to take up the position of professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics at the University of Sydney. He was a keen amateur photographer and took many stereo views of Sydney University as well as portraits of wealthy Sydney families.  More