Born in England, Hugh Owen’s interest in photography started in the 1840s. He was a member of the Edinburgh Calotype Club, and a founding member of the Photographic Society of London. He is known for his photographs of objects displayed at the London Great Exhibition in 1851.

Royal Commission (1852). Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations 1851. Reports by The Juries on The Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Devided Vol. I–IV. London: Spicer Brothers/W. Clowes and Sons.

Hamber, A. (2018). Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition, New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press.