BE FRANK . . .

'I gave him a hand to lug a whole plate camera and 40lbs of gear and accoutrements and by gum we had some lovely places to go up, like a fly crawling up a wall . . . he did get some beauties though from the top’ . . . in a letter from Lionel Greenstreet dated  17th November 1914 . . . from at exhibition at the Maritime Museum, Hull.
JAMES FRANCIS (FRANK) HURLEY . . . Born in Sydney, Australia 15 October 1885 . . . Photographer hired by Ernest Shackleton as the official photographer to his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition . . . His key skills were in using moving film, glass plate and celluloid negatives . . . which could be sold later to pay off expedition debts. He used Graflex cameras and Folding Pocket Kodaks for mobility . . . together with developing tanks, spools, chemicals, printing paper, thermometer, scales and weights, a darkroom lamp and clock.
Main image shows Frank Hurley and the extra shows one of his grand glass negatives of ship Endurance trapped in ice.