{"id":766208,"date":"2026-09-10T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766208\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:58:12","slug":"search-for-handsworth-lads-in-1979-inner-city-photo-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766208\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for Handsworth lads in 1979 inner-city photo project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photographer has appealed for help in finding two people who took part in a pop-up studio shoot nearly 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before the humble selfie became popular, in 1979, Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon invited members of the community to take pictures of themselves as part of a project to archive inner-city life in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 500 people took part in the pop-up sessions, which were set up outside a terraced house on Grove Lane in Handsworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, as Bishton plans to have the nostalgic photographs printed in a book, he has managed to track down the majority of the participants except two, who were boys at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told BBC Radio WM: &#8220;They must be well into their middle age now. They came along, two lads who were obviously mates, and they took their photo together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For some reason, we&#8217;ve never heard from them, nobody seems to recognise them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer has appealed for help in finding two people who took part in a pop-up studio shoot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766209,"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-766208","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\/766208","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=766208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}