David Wise

[David Ford]

You may be interested in an article I have just published in Litro on the Hartlepool photographer David Wise - he is a figure who deserves greater recognition.

I first came across the photographs of David Wise in the Independent Magazine (24 March 1990) where they illustrated an article about drinking in Hartlepool pubs. The black and white pictures were raw and honest – brutally so – but they also depicted moments of great tenderness: a man looking at his crying girlfriend unable to comfort her, a drunken kiss, a last desperate hug before kicking out time...

Read the full article here:

https://www.litromagazine.com/every-saturday-litro-magazine-publishes-essays-that-reach-far-beneath-the-surface/hard-beauty-the-photographs-of-david-wise/

David

[Dirk van der Werff]

Hartlepool Art Gallery appear top have found a stock of David's A3 booklet ... £1.50 !!!  

     

[Nina Wise]

Hi David - hope you're well! I'm Nina, David Wise's daughter - i'd love to chat with you if you have time? Thanks!