John Bulmer

Woman and Child with Washing Line, Halifax, 1965 - John Bulmer (Photography)

Signed and numbered Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 inches Edition of 50 Primarily known for his social documentary photography of the north of England, John Bulmer (born 1938) was th...

Signed and numbered Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 inches Edition of 50 Primarily known for his social documentary photography of the north of England, John Bulmer (born 1938) was th...

Silver gelatin print, printed 1980s; image dimension 15 x 11 5/8 in. (380 x 293 mm), sheet dimension, 15 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (390 x 309 mm). The verso signed "W. Suschitzky" in black crayon, titled and dated Dundee. 1946". [Michael Omasta, et al. Wolf Suschitzky: Seven Decades of Photography (Vienna: Synema, 2014), ill. p. 188]. A photograph that attests to Suschitzky's keen interest in the social environments of the working class. His worked as a cinematographer brought him to Britain’s coal mining communities, to the steel mills and the workers' housing. "In Dundee I came across the worst slums I had ever seen. When I took this picture I was next to a ten story high tenement building. There was only one toilet on each floor and one cold water tap...

The washing lines and bright colours of a backstreet in New Delhi – Cawston won the BJP Nikon Endframe Award in 2009. His prize was funding for a dream project and he chose to travel...