{"id":574393,"date":"2026-05-09T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:14:11","slug":"late-photographers-images-of-1980s-walsall-go-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574393\/","title":{"rendered":"Late photographer&#8217;s images of 1980s Walsall go on display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A recently discovered archive of images of Walsall taken by a late photographer and journalist which were found in a loft, is to go on display at an exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharon Hepburn, who worked for BBC TV as a producer and director and was a video journalist, died aged 62 from breast cancer in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her collection of hundreds of images of life in Walsall in the 1980s, including street markets, homeless hostels, factories and clubs, were discovered after her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers said an exhibition, featuring 40 of the photographs, will launch on Saturday as part of the Fotofest 2026 Visual Expo in Walsall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recently discovered archive of images of Walsall taken by a late photographer and journalist which were found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574394,"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-574393","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\/574393","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=574393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}