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One of the tasks of the photographer working for the Western Cape Archives and Records Service is to capture images of contemporary events, buildings, the evolving urban landscape and life in Cape Town. The Digital Collection follows the CA (Cape Archives) Collection (black and white photographs).

The AG (General) Collection contains 19 000 photographs and were donated to the Cape Archives by various donors over the years.
These photographs include portraits of individuals, families, buildings, towns, transport, nature, war, etc.

Ray Ryan was a well-known Cape photographer and the 1078 photographs in his collection deals mostly with historical houses and buildings, churches, nature, mountain passes, monuments and statues, etc. He was also an instructor at the Ruth Prowse School of Art and his particular focus was the architecture of the Western Cape. In his book 'Beautiful Homesteads of the Western Cape' (1972) his enthusiasm for our endemic architecture may be seen.