John Bulmer

I stumbled across this photographer in my travels through Retronaut, one of my favourite websites twentieth century images.

John Bulmer documented some of the most atmospheric images of Northern England taken in the last century. Having discovered his talent while a student at Cambridge, Bulmers passion got him thrown out of the university as he was found attempting to document a fellow student jump an 8ft gap between two buildings. A pioneer of colour photography, Bulmer worked for the Sunday times magazine during the sixties.

Bulmer worked on many groundbreaking stories including The North, The Black Country as well as many around the world, visiting almost 100 different countries.

Yet my favourite of his images remain those taken in Northern England in the sixties. Here is a small sellection of his images I particularly like.

Cuba, 1965

Ethiopia, 1960s

France

Haile Selassie

Miles Davis

Thelonius Monk