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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > UK > Ian Beesley
Street corner off Thornton Road, Bradford, 1977
When I graduated from college in 1977 I received a Kodak scholarship for social documentation.
I headed home to Bradford to photograph the north and the industries that made it.
I couldn’t afford a car so used to walk from my home in Eccleshill around the streets and across the city looking for subjects to photograph.
I shot in black and white not for any aesthetic reasons – that’s simply all I could afford - but I’ve since grown rather fond of monochrome.
Street corners were always good locations where people would gather or children would play.
Here I came across some kids playing marbles whilst two ladies chat across the street
Photographs and words by Ian Beesley
Life, Bradford style: the work of Ian Beesley – in pictures A look at the work of the Bradford-born social documentary photographer. Expelled from school, Beesley found work in his local sewage works. With the encouragement of colleagues he found photography and began a lifelong study of the north’s cultural heritage G
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
The Leap: Children playing behind Lister’s Mill, Manningham, Bradford, 1978
I find this one really joyful and reminiscent of my own childhood.
These kids are a health and safety nightmare, just as they should be
Photographs and words by Ian Beesley
Life, Bradford style: the work of Ian Beesley – in pictures A look at the work of the Bradford-born social documentary photographer. Expelled from school, Beesley found work in his local sewage works. With the encouragement of colleagues he found photography and began a lifelong study of the north’s cultural heritage G
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
Fish ‘n’ Chip Van, Otley Road, Bradford
The chip shop owner told me he had to fire one of his assistants because he kept parking the van the wrong way round
Photographs and words by Ian Beesley
Life, Bradford style: the work of Ian Beesley – in pictures A look at the work of the Bradford-born social documentary photographer. Expelled from school, Beesley found work in his local sewage works. With the encouragement of colleagues he found photography and began a lifelong study of the north’s cultural heritage G
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
Mill Chimneys,
Bradford,
1970s you can see just the one chimney left, Drummond Mill chimney – the one in the middle.
The mill to the right burnt down a few years ago.
I know this photo looks like it’s from a completely bygone age, but the skyline of much of the north of England still looks a lot like this – just lots less chimneys.
Part of the reason I love exhibiting at Salts Mill is that it’s quite simply still here.
The wrecking ball never got near this place, it was rescued by Jonathan Silver and he revived it.
People make things here: cutting edge technology is being engineered by forward-thinking companies within these Victorian sandstone walls.
Salts Mill is a place of hope, it’s a northern powerhouse all of its own making
Photographs and words by Ian Beesley
Life, Bradford style: the work of Ian Beesley – in pictures A look at the work of the Bradford-born social documentary photographer. Expelled from school, Beesley found work in his local sewage works. With the encouragement of colleagues he found photography and began a lifelong study of the north’s cultural heritage G
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
Ian Beesley
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/16/
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