14th May – 21st June 2009
Two young girls in Elland, a mill town in Yorkshire,
dated 1965 and published in The Sunday Times.
Photograph by John Bulmer
John Bulmer Retrospective
Hereford Photo Festival is pleased to present a photographic retrospective of the work of photographer and film maker John Bulmer.
From 1959 to 1977, John Bulmer's contribution to British photojournalism was both extensive and significant. Working as a photographer for the Daily Express, the quarterly magazine Man About Town and the Sunday Times he worked on assignments both abroad and in the UK. One of his significant bodies of work was made in the North of England and is an affectionate look at the day to day lives of people whose way of life was rapidly disappearing.
In 1962 the Sunday Times launched the Sunday Times Colour Supplement, the first colour newspaper supplement in Britain. Having chosen to use colour film rather than the black and white format of his contemporaries, John Bulmer was one of the few photographers prepared for the dawn of colour editorials and he swiftly became a key contributor.
This timely retrospective will show John Bulmer’s important work from the North of England, and his series of international assignments commissioned by The Sunday Times.
John Bulmer will be talking to Eamonn McCabe at the Hay Festival on Wednesday 27th May at 1pm.
An interview with John Bulmer by Carey Gough is now available on line here.
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