Background
Alfred Seaman was born in Norfolk in 1844.
Alfred Seaman was born in Norfolk in 1844.
He published a large (2,000 + views) series of stereoscopic photographs of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Manitoba He began his working life as a builder and took up photography as a hobby in the 1860s. He opened his first studio in Chesterfield Derbyshire in 1880 and subsequently ran studios in, Ilkeston, Alfreton, Matlock, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool, Hull and Brighton.
He served on the Committee of the PCUK from 1886 until his death and through this organisation he had links with eminent professional photographers of the day including Henry Peach Robinson, William Crooke, William England, Alexander Tate and Richard Keene, as well as the many wealthy amateurs who were members, such as the astronomer Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel.
He died in Sheffield in 1910.
In 1886 he was a founding member of the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom (PCUK) which held its first convention in Derby.