Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary

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I chose this picture as my favourite as I love their position, the lighting, and the story behind it. I find so fun and interesting. This picture, taken in the split second after seeing him, later won News Photographer of the Year for 1973. But the icing on the cake was when a box from El Vino’s, the legal watering hole of choice in Fleet Street, was delivered to me. It was full of wine and fine cheeses and there was a card from the barrister James Crespi on top: ‘Dear Roger, thank you for the best portrait of me ever taken.’ Roger had moved to Brighton in 1973, and in 1999 he worked with Brighton and Hove council in its bid for city status, his portraits and images of favourite places contributing to its success.

University of Brighton, honorary master's degree "for his distinguished photojournalism and the wealth of images of Brighton inspired by the city" [1] Roger Bamber, 31 August 1944-11 September 2022: award-winning photographer; lover of steam trains; life-long supporter of Leicester City; teller of long stories with a great joke landing at the end. Roger Bamber is survived by his wife Shan Lancaster. 1389899: David Bowie, May 1973 The exhibition was a wonder. It was fascinating and beautiful. It made me feel really inspired to do more photography and pursue my dream to become a photographer. I really liked the photo of the pavilion reflected in the water. I still can’t figure out how Roger Bamber managed to capture that extraordinary picture. The picture is ironic because there isn’t much water there, but the perspective makes the pond look like an enormous lake.Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary (brightonmuseums.org.uk) – exhibition, 1 April to 3 September 2023. And, of course, a C5 trike being overtaken by a bus – part of the catalogue of work that Roger did for the local bus company who have since, in his honour, named a bus after him. With an instinct for the surreal and irreverent, much of his best work has a subtle anarchic thread running through it, from Mrs Thatcher mistaking manure for clean straw, to a pantomime cow dancing at the brink of a cliff.

Curator Chris Littledale arranging Bassett-Lowke O gauge model steam locomotives on a tinplate model station for the opening of the Toy and Model Museum in the Victorian cellars under Brighton Station in 1991. It is now one of the world’s great toy collections, with more than 10,000 exhibits from the 18th to the 20th centuries, but its model trains are still the most popular attraction. Bamber was born in Leicester on 31 August 1944 to Vera (nee Stephenson) and Fred Bamber. He had an older sister Valerie. His mother had a job in the local textile industry and his father was a telephone operator. [3] He grew up near the Great Central Railway line which created a lifelong interest in steam trains. [1] Denis recalls “Roger had an irresistible charm. He could persuade anyone to do anything. We had a very different way of working, but I guess we formed a mutual admiration society. I observed the surreal moments of ordinary things and Roger created wonderful pictures out of the ordinary. His pictures were like theatre.” I really enjoyed the creativity of taking photos of another person’s work, and then making it my own. The Wapping dispute, and dissatisfaction over increased working hours, soured Bamber’s relationship with The Sun and in 1988 he quit to go freelance, working principally for The Observer and then The Guardian.I once asked Bamber what he wanted his epitaph to be and he answered by telling me a story about a man who had approached him at a bar. Without realising who he was, the man had started talking about Guardian photographers he admired. ‘Who’s that madman in Brighton?’ he asked. ‘It’s me,’ Bamber replied. The man smiled. ‘I can tell your pictures from the length of a tube train’, he said. The camera angles and the composition of the images really Inspired me and I learned a lot. I want to try to learn how to do this too, to capture a whole scene in a way that still looks good, and to use high contrast in my images. Theo Bamber died of lung cancer at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 11 September 2022. [4] Publications [ edit ] The exhibition will include around 70 framed photographic prints and 10 large reproductions, interpretation, slide shows and film.