Durham Mining 1964

John Bulmer is an acknowledged as an adroit recorder of provincial and industrial Britain, a reputation gained at Town Magazine, well known in the 1960s for good photography using others such as Terrence Donovan, David Bailey and Don McCullin. He did many groundbreaking stories for them including; on Nelson, Lancashire, The Black Country, and The North is dead.

His work was several times singled out for awards by the Design and Art Directors Club and has had pictures shown at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York, the Photographers' Gallery in London, and the National Museum of Photography in Bradford.