Pete Hill was born in Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, in 1957. Obsessed with photography from an early age, he got his first “proper” camera for his 15th birthday and would walk the streets of Sheffield photographing anything and everything.

Largely self-taught, he got his photographic education from Time Magazine’s Life series of photography books, so he grew up with the American greats such as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen and shots of New York in the 1940s and 50s. Also, more locally, Bert Hardy.