Mining
I’ve completed the final two images in the set now… so here’s my panel of four Victorian Miners. If you’d like to see the full size images they start here.
I’m going to get back in touch with the museum as I think there’s lots more potential to explore. Fingers X’d they are up for it.
For me there have been precious few advantages to lockdown, frankly I’ve hated it. But it has given me chance to catch up with my editing & revisit some old shoots.
Back in 2017 I embarked on a project with my good buddy David Cudworth at the National Mining Museum in Wakefield. It was a project close to my heart because I spent the first 15 years of my working life in the mining industry. They trained me as an electrical engineer & then I moved into training… there’s no doubt that those early years had a massive effect on my personality moving forward. It was a difficult & challenging environment in which to practice engineering & that required a very pragmatic “can do” approach from its engineers, something I’ve never lost. I have so much to thank the industry for.
One of the shoots was in the Victorian section of the mine & tbh I’ve never really given the images I captured the love & attention they deserve. I’ve decided to work up 4 of them as a panel & here’s the first two.
