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Born in Hull in 1964, George Norris grew up in a vibrant, working-class family rooted in West Hull’s traditional scraping and recycling trade. The son of a well-known local rag-and-bone man and a mother who worked at the socialist-leaning Smith & Nephew pharmaceutical company, Norris was raised with a strong work ethic, starting his first […]

Daniel Meadows was born in Berkshire before being sent away to boarding school at 8. At 18 he left for the North stating “the adults I had known had had long enough to teach me something and I’d learnt nothing but cruelty and laziness”.  He went to Manchester Polytechnic to study photography. After being inspired […]

Stuart / Linden was the roving reporter for APN and the Gay Times during the early to mid 1990s, his columns for those magazines were entitled: Out & About with Linden.  He visited Hull three times and documented nights in Vauxhall Tavern and Alexandra Hotel Stuart was also a lecturer at a local further education […]

Murray was born in HU3 off Boulevard on Ena Street.  His Dad worked as a bus conductor and his mum a telephonist and the Station Hotel. Murray was the youngest of three and was often left to his own devices. This enabled him to spend his hours between the Western and Carnegie Libraries as he […]

Russell Boyce moved into a small, terraced house on St George’s Road, Hull with three other students in 1982 to start a degree course in Fine Art. Russell quickly moved away from painting to photography under the guidance of tutor and documentarian Daniel Meadows and started to document the community he was living in. Being […]

Tony Ward is a commercial photographer and co-owner of Top Color on Hessle Road with his wife Gloria. They have been in business there since 1987. He also owned a shop on Analaby Road. He has photographed Bobby Mandrel/Kandy Lee Barry regularly since the early 80s. He also photographed many Singers, Tribute and Drag acts in his studio on the first floor on […]