“I arrived at this location from London and had only a couple of days due to the low budget. One thing I tried to do when I arrived somewhere was to get a local map and drive to a hill or vantage point to get a sense of the place. When I got to the top I saw the view over the old pottery kilns and the man with a dog. As a newspaper photographer that I then was I always had my long lens on a camera, loaded and ready, so I was able to grab it and get this shot before he walked off"
~ John Bulmer
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I came of age in the 60’s in England and this great image of John’s brings back so many memories of my love of British Cinema. Classic films like “Loneliness of the Long Distant Runner”, “A kind of Loving”, “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning”, “Room at The Top”, “Billy Liar” and others were all set in the North of England working class environments that John tended to focus on for his photo journalism assignments with the leading newspapers of the time. This image also has the feel of one of D. H Lawrence’s great northern novels like “Sons and Lovers” ... enjoy.
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