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
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
Getting Creative with Street Photography The Talk I find the experience of coincidence too powerful to resist reacting to. For 40 years I have experimented with post production techniques, for example when working as a press photographer the Mini Metro was released and having covered … Continue readingTalk 2: Creative Street Photography