Dr Charles Paul Azzopardi is a Maltese physician whose research interests delve into the photographic practices of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Malta. He is a doctoral candidate at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has made significant contributions as a curator and photographic cultural heritage consultant at the National Archives of Malta and the Richard Ellis Archive. Azzopardi's research and photography have been published in fifty monographs, further solidifying his standing in photography and publishing. He is also the founder of the Malta Image Preservation Archive (MIPA), a non-governmental organisation aimed at preserving and digitising Maltese photographic cultural heritage, and serving as a lobby group advocating for the development of a museum of Maltese photographic history and a national photographic collection. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and Fellow and Past President of the Malta Institute of Professional Photography.