A pioneer of colour images

He was quick to take up new technology ahead of many others who were working in London’s Fleet Street.

Bulmer began his photographic career at the Cambridge University newspaper while studying engineering.

He then co-founded Image magazine, before starting work at the Daily Express in 1960.

After the Express, his reputation grew through regular magazine commissions which included Town, where he first began documenting the north of England.

In 1962, Bulmer began working for the country’s first colour supplement, The Sunday Times Magazine.

At a time when photographers still preferred black and white, Bulmer welcomed the possibilities of colour. Even more groundbreaking was his decision to use colour for one of his most famous series on ‘The North’.