Documentary Photography
Documentary Photography is a style and genre of photography that focuses on social, political and societal issues and everyday life.
It is an essential medium in the reportage of world events big and small. Many photographers dedicate their life’s work to focus on particular issues such as War, Protests and social injustice, highlighting the impact on society.
Our featured photographer Andrew Moore has focused on protests and conflicts in the UK and overseas since the 1980s. His work includes the documentation of the poll tax riots in 1990, as well as the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Everyday Life
British Culture Archive predominately focuses on British documentary photography and photography that highlights cultural change throughout the 20th Century and beyond.
Thomas Blower’s images of everyday life in Greater Manchester capture the freedom of childhood before the rapid rise of technology. A selection of Thomas’s images we’re used to document everyday life in 1970s Manchester as part the Use Hearing Protection Exhibition at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum.
British Culture Archive | Features
Photographs of Liverpool and Merseyside, 1980s | Nick Wynne
The passage of time moves at an ever growing pace – whilst it’s essential to move forward, we can often forget where we came from
Flesh at The Hacienda – Photos of Manchester’s legendary gay clubnight
Not many nightclubs could spawn what became one of the most popular gay nights in Europe, but then not many nightclubs were The Haçienda. Launching
Photographs of Wigan Casino, 1976 | Red Saunders
Aside from being a founder of the Rock Against Racism movement, Red Saunders is also an established photographer who has worked for many publications during
Rob Bremner’s Photographs of Liverpool’s Pier Head, 1989
Rob Bremner is a British social and documentary photographer born in Wick in the North of Scotland. Whilst studying in Wallasey Rob became acquainted with
Photographs of Toxteth in the 1980s | Leroy Cooper
Leroy Cooper’s arrest in 1981 was the tipping point of events and growing tensions that sparked the uprising in Toxteth. Leroy ”The day I was
Rock Against Racism Northern Carnival, 1978 | Thomas Blower
Thomas Blower is a documentary photographer from Manchester, UK. Thomas captured inner city Manchester in the 1970s-80s and still continues to document the changing face of