Bradford-born photographer Ian Beesley has donated his archive created over the past fifty years to Bradford's Industrial Museum. It consists of some 200,000 items including negatives, prints, notebooks, posters, books and cuttings. Bessley said in a Twitter post that that he wanted it to 'be free for future generations to access'.
Ian has just published Life. A retrospective, a book that looks back at his work. An exhibition of the same name and Born in Bradford are at Salts Mills, Saltaire over the summer.
See: @IanBeesleyphoto
For the book: https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/life/
Details of the exhibition: https://www.saltsmill.org.uk/#
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Wonderful ~ Makes a change from so often seeing archives broken up and sold at auctions.