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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

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Fri 19 Aug 2022    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
life-bradford-style-the-work-of-ian-beesley-salts-mill-saltaire-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Fri 19 Aug 2022    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
life-bradford-style-the-work-of-ian-beesley-salts-mill-saltaire-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Fri 19 Aug 2022    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
life-bradford-style-the-work-of-ian-beesley-salts-mill-saltaire-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mill Chimneys, Bradford, 1970s

If you stand in the same spot now

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

Fri 19 Aug 2022    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
life-bradford-style-the-work-of-ian-beesley-salts-mill-saltaire-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Beesley

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2022/aug/19/
life-bradford-style-the-work-of-ian-beesley-salts-mill-saltaire-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/jul/22/
members-view-poet-steel-mill-guardian-talk-ian-mcmillan-photographer-ian-beesley

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/16/
ian-beesley-best-photograph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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