Nigel Henderson was one of the most influential artist-photographers of the post-war generation. This symposium, coinciding with the Parallel of Life and Art exhibition at the AA, looks at the broader photographic world in the 1950s, and aims to give a context both to Hendersons value as a post-war British photographer and to the nature of his work - both documentary and experimental. Short talks by Martin Harrison - Overview of Photography in the 1950s; and Mark Haworth-Booth - Roger Maynes Street Photography - are followed by a panel discussion with Hendersons contemporary Roger Mayne moderated by the shows curator Victoria Walsh. Martin Harrison is a photographic historian, Mark Haworth-Booth is Curator of Photography at the V&A, Victoria Walsh is the author of Nigel Henderson: Parallel of Life and Art.