Social Documentary Photo Book Workshop at The Fitties: Friday September 1st 2022 THE WORKSHOP Friday September 1st 2022: 10am – 4pm This is an unique opportunity to be part of a Future Heritage Professional Photo/Editorial team for the day as they create a feature photo … Continue readingFitties Photo Book Workshop
Part of what I do in photography is assess images and run a region for the Royal Photographic Society. I have five counties to look after in the RPS East Midlands, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire. In April 2022 I appointed representatives to each … Continue readingThe Day We Went To Lyveden
When I started work on the Brentwood Gazette there had been a heavy snowfall, and one of the first assigments I was given was to take my camera out onto the streets to get some photographs. I remember taking one of a group of boys … Continue readingEast End of London
Street Photography and Beyond The Talk I begin this talk by describing my early career as a press photographer on both local and Fleet Street newspapers in the 1970s/80s, where I would often find myself working on the streets. Then I move onto more recent … Continue readingTalk 1: Urban Street Photography
Social Documentary Photography . As a press photographer my work fell into two main areas, news and features. I did my fair share of news coverage, but it was the feature stories I really enjoyed, and what I associate with social documentary, which I refer … Continue readingThe Stonemason Project
Colin Wood : the Local Stonemason Colin Wood is the local stonemason in Caistor, Lincolnshire and he, his father and his grandfather have worked from the same 12ft square room since 1886. In 2015 I spent a few weeks with Colin photographing him at work … Continue readingThe Stone Mason
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Park Hill Streets in The Sky was opened in 1961, the year I was born and was designed to home 3000 people in the 1000 social housing flats. Over the years manufacturing industries who needed human workers moved to other countries or automated and the … Continue readingStreets in The Sky 2015
I returned to Sheffield’s Park Hill ‘Street in the Sky’ a few times after the first visit and then in 2020, just before the Corona Virus took hold I spent the day there and met new residents and saw lots of building going on, including … Continue readingStreets in the Sky 2020
Post World War the UK needed to build many new homes and place workers where manufacturing needed them. By the late 60s/70s they started to build upwards and created high rise habitats. In Grimsby, five blocks were built but when in 1976 the UK Government … Continue readingGentrification : Freeman Street