Documentary Photography • Manchester • 1970s–1980s • Represented by British Culture Archive
David Chadwick is a British documentary photographer whose work includes photographs of Hulme and Manchester nightlife made during the 1970s and 1980s.
Chadwick studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic’s School of Art from 1972 to 1975 while working as an assistant to fashion photographer Roger Alexander. During his final year, he began photographing Hulme, returning over the following two years to document some of the first residents of the newly built Crescents and surrounding estate.
After completing his studies, Chadwick worked as a photographer while lecturing at Blackburn College. During the 1980s, he became a staff photographer for the Manchester magazine Manchester Flash.Â
British Culture Archive represents selected work from Chadwick’s archive for editorial use, print editions and image licensing.
David Chadwick received an Arts Council Photography Award in 1978–79. Four photographs from his Hulme series are held in the Arts Council Collection. The John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds material from Chadwick’s Hulme and Manchester Clubs work.
Selected exhibitions include:
Human Interest, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1985
No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–1987, Hayward Touring, 2008–09
We Were All Here, Once, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2013
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, 2015
Authorised edition prints published by British Culture Archive, produced directly from Chadwick’s original negatives.