As a documentary photographer John has an extensive and impressive personal archive of black & white and colour images of the North West region's cultural, community and social history

A keen 35mm photographer for many years, John's archive of black & white and colour images of the North West stretches back to the early 1960's.
These include
Music
Rockette Morton and Captain Beefheart 1973

Ed Banger & the Nosebleeds 1977
John Cooper Clarke 1978
Vini Reilly 1978
Bernard Kelly aka Gordon The Moron 1980
The Passage 1978
Cathy La Creme 1980 c Paul Hollyer
Manchester
Hulme Crescents 1978
Hulme Community Arts 1979
Salford Community Arts 1980
Every Street/The Roundhouse, Ancoats 1980
Cultural
Commonword Writer's in Performance including Mike Rowe and Joe Smythe
British Shakespeare Company, Mikron and North West Spanner Theatre Group in Performance
Never one to stand still, in more recent times John has embraced digital photography with his usual enthusiasm and energy and will undertake commissions for assignments shot on traditional 35mm film and digital still or moving DV formats.
John having a chat with Tony Benn at the wcml 2009
Photo by Michael Herbert