{"id":94357,"date":"2025-08-25T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94357\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:41:16","slug":"teenage-memories-inspire-bradford-photographers-latest-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94357\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage memories inspire Bradford photographer’s latest show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IanIan Beesley<\/p>\n

Ian Beesley took most of the photographs in his home city of Bradford in the 1970s and 1980s <\/p>\n

A new selection of photos taken on street corners in and around Bradford in the 1970s and 80s are to go on show.<\/p>\n

Taken by renowned social documentary photographer Ian Beesley, the images are the latest addition to his Life Goes On exhibition at Salts Mills in Saltaire.<\/p>\n

Shooting primarily in black and white, the 71-year-old has spent five decades documenting life in the north of England, amassing an archive of around 200,000 photos.<\/p>\n

Mr Beesley, from Eccleshill, in Bradford, said street corners were a “focal point” of life at the time, providing a rich source of inspiration.<\/p>\n

“You know when I was younger, that’s where you would meet. On the corner of a certain street,he said<\/p>\n

“People would gather there. Often it was where the bus stop was, the telephone box, the post box, the posters for the latest movies.<\/p>\n

“But it was a good focal point, you know, for people to meet and then go off on their various activities.”<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Ian Beesley with the Leica M6 which he has used for more than 45 years<\/p>\n

Mr Beesley took the photos, which form this latest addition to his ongoing show, on a Leica M6.<\/p>\n

He said: “It was mainly taken around the streets of Bradford in the ’70s and ’80s when I used to just walk around taking street photography.<\/p>\n

“And you’d find a street coroner where kids were playing marbles.<\/p>\n

“Or you’d find some fantastic graffiti which would go from the humorous to the perverse, from the political to the angry.” <\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Children play on an unnamed street coroner in Bradford<\/p>\n

Mr Beesley had planned to retire last year but instead now collates new selections of unseen images from his vast archive for public display.<\/p>\n

“Because I’ve got this massive archive I’ve found another body of work which will be going into Salts Mill in November,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Let’s say it’s based around Halloween and it’s probably not for those that are fainthearted.” <\/p>\n

\"IanIan Beesley<\/p>\n

The side of The Moulders Arms In Sticker Lane, which has now been demolished <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Beesley Ian Beesley took most of the photographs in his home city of Bradford in the 1970s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-94357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}