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I'm delighted to announce a Kickstarter project lead by Colin Wilkinson (formerly of Bluecoat Press) of a new documentary photography book covering the last 60 years of coal mining in Britain, with some focus on the miners strike which of course started in 1984 - 40 years ago. This is a collaboration by a number of well known documentary photographers (including John Bulmer, Patrick Ward, Janine Wiedel and others), and an obscure one (me).
The kickstarter link is here and after two days we're nearly halfway to the target.
The introductory blurb is as follows, lots more on the Kickstarter page:
The demise of the British coal mining industry is one of the most remarkable and tragic stories of the last fifty years. In 1965, over 455,000 miners worked in coalfields across Britain (down from a peak of 1.2 million in 1920). Today, in 2024, just four underground coal mines remain, providing jobs for fewer than 300 miners.
Coal Faces is a story in pictures of the last 60 years of coal mining in Britain, seen through the eyes of some remarkable photographers. As the government finally puts coal mining to bed in favour of renewables and other greener sources of energy, this book is an epitaph to an industry that powered the Industrial Revolution, provided the fuel to heat our homes and kept the lights on.
Seventeen photographers have contributed to this important record, sharing their work and recollections in their own words. Their photographs record the period before the Miners' Strike of 1984-5, the momentous Strike and its aftermath. Each photographer has taken a different perspective, creating collectively an essential tribute to the men, women and communities that made Britain an economic powerhouse.
Coal Faces is unique record of coal mining from Image & Reality, in collaboration with editor and photographer David Gilbert Wright and sixteen other photographers: John Bulmer, Mik Critchlow, Simon Hill, Nick Hodgson, Roger Hutchings, Andy Marland, Jenny Matthews, Martin Mayer, Keith Pattison, Mark Pinder, Brenda Prince, Martin Shakeshaft, Roger Tiley, Patrick Ward, Zak Waters and Janine Wiedel.
I'm delighted to announce a Kickstarter project lead by Colin Wilkinson (formerly of Bluecoat Press) of a new documentary photography book covering the last 60 years of coal mining in Britain, with some focus on the miners strike which of course started in 1984 - 40 years ago. This is a collaboration by a number of well known documentary photographers (including John Bulmer, Patrick Ward, Janine Wiedel and others), and an obscure one (me).
The kickstarter link is here and after two days we're nearly halfway to the target.
The introductory blurb is as follows, lots more on the Kickstarter page:
The demise of the British coal mining industry is one of the most remarkable and tragic stories of the last fifty years. In 1965, over 455,000 miners worked in coalfields across Britain (down from a peak of 1.2 million in 1920). Today, in 2024, just four underground coal mines remain, providing jobs for fewer than 300 miners.
Coal Faces is a story in pictures of the last 60 years of coal mining in Britain, seen through the eyes of some remarkable photographers. As the government finally puts coal mining to bed in favour of renewables and other greener sources of energy, this book is an epitaph to an industry that powered the Industrial Revolution, provided the fuel to heat our homes and kept the lights on.
Seventeen photographers have contributed to this important record, sharing their work and recollections in their own words. Their photographs record the period before the Miners' Strike of 1984-5, the momentous Strike and its aftermath. Each photographer has taken a different perspective, creating collectively an essential tribute to the men, women and communities that made Britain an economic powerhouse.
Coal Faces is unique record of coal mining from Image & Reality, in collaboration with editor and photographer David Gilbert Wright and sixteen other photographers: John Bulmer, Mik Critchlow, Simon Hill, Nick Hodgson, Roger Hutchings, Andy Marland, Jenny Matthews, Martin Mayer, Keith Pattison, Mark Pinder, Brenda Prince, Martin Shakeshaft, Roger Tiley, Patrick Ward, Zak Waters and Janine Wiedel.
