J. Allan Cash

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]

• Fellow of the Institute of British Photography.
• Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.[5]

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]

• Photography with a Leica, J. A. Cash, London; Fountain Press, 1955.
• African Voyage, J. A. Cash, London; Fountain Press, 1955.
• The English Countryside in Colour. A collection of colour photographs by J. A. Cash and A. F. Kersting. London: B. T. Batsford, 1957.
• Camera Globetrotter, J. A. Cash, London; Fountain Press, 1973.
• History, People and Places in the Cotswolds, J. A. Cash, Bourne End; Spurbooks, 1974.