Miner in front of brick wall

Documentary Photographer David Wright is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography.  From the project ‘Welsh Miners – 1977 – The end of an era‘ .

My name is David Gilbert Wright. I am English and was born in London where I still live.

I went to Wales in 1977 to document the miners. Little did I know that what I was seeing would quickly fade away and become a thing of the past with a matter of years. With the coming of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Government, a change was about to happen to the whole way of life of these people. It is hard to imagine how much devastation was done to the lives of the mining communities.

This is probably one of my all-time favourite portraits and it is interesting to think that it was probably one of my first. The man in this photograph appears so dignified, yet the lines on his face indicate 20 or more years of toiling down the mines to earn wages to keep his family just above the breadline. He is one of our key workers of yesteryear.[…]

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