Humphreys had been part of the Angel of the North’s story “from the very start”.<\/p>\n
“It was just incredible to see from it being in pieces on the floor in the factory [in Hartlepool], to actually being erected in Gateshead,” he says.<\/p>\n
The 66ft (20m) tall landmark was built on the site of a former coal mine in 1998, during his first few years at PA.<\/p>\n
The main thing that has changed since then is the move from film to digital cameras, he says.<\/p>\n
“It was a lot more difficult,” Humphreys says.<\/p>\n
Film cameras used light to capture images, rather than a digital sensor.<\/p>\n
“You were very limited to the number of shots, so you were really relying on your knowledge of the camera, your lighting,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Once that moment had gone on film, there wasn’t another chance to get that back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humphreys had been part of the Angel of the North’s story “from the very start”. “It was just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-517187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}