MIGUEL RODRIGUES STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL ARTS IN LISBON AND LONDON (AR.CO VISUAL ARTS AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE LISBON, AULA DO RISCO SCHOOL OF ADVANCED ARTISTIC STUDY LISBON AND LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION). HE HAS ALSO COMPLETED MANY SHORT TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND SECONDMENTS FOCUSED ON MUSEUM AND HERITAGE PHOTOGRAPHY, DIGITISATION AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION (BRITISH LIBRARY SOUND ARCHIVE INTERNSHIP, TAPE AUDIOVISUAL PRESERVATION TRAINING COURSE AMSTERDAM, SEVERAL JISC DIGITAL MEDIA ONE-DAY COURSES, ETC). HE WORKED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON COMPUTER CENTRE AS AN IMAGING SPECIALIST, DURING WHICH TIME HE CO-DEVELOPED AND CO-MANAGED THE ULCC DIGITISATION SERVICE, AND COLLABORATED WITH SUCH ENTITIES AS THE BRITISH TELECOM ARCHIVES, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, KING'S COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND THE WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY, AMONGST OTHERS. AFTER ULCC, MIGUEL WORKED AT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, HANDLING THE IMAGING ON IMPORTANT PROJECTS SUCH AS THE "MUSEUM OF WRITING", THE DIGITISATION OF ANNA BIRKBECK'S PERSONAL ALBUM OR THE "BENTHAM PAPERS" DATABASE. HE HAS ALSO WORKED EXTENSIVELY AS A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER, INSTRUCTOR AND CONSULTANT, BOTH IN PORTUGAL AND THE UK, PHOTOGRAPHING COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS, TEACHING PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAINING ARCHIVISTS AND ARCHIVES ASSISTANTS IN DIGITISATION, AND ADVISING INSTITUTIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. MIGUEL COMBINES THE TECHNICAL EXPERTISE OF SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED THROUGH NUMEROUS IMAGING CHALLENGES, EMPLOYING MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF EQUIPMENT ON WIDELY DISPARATE PROJECTS, WITH THE CREATIVE FLAIR OF A LENS-BASED ARTIST AND A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. HE HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO DEEPEN AND EXPAND HIS KNOWLEDGE BOTH AS A PHOTOGRAPHER AND TO OTHER ADJACENT AREAS, SUCH AS THE DIGITISATION OF ANALOGUE SOUND OR THE CONSERVATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS. MIGUEL HAS ALSO WORKED AS A LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHER, TRANSLATOR, EDITOR, PRODUCER AND PROJECT MANAGER.