Roger Bamber

Bowels of the Earth

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:58:24 +0000

A tour of the intricacies of Brighton’s huge Victorian Sewage system is always the first attraction to sell out at the Brighton festival in spite of stiff opposition from the arts. This picture was lit using portable flashes held by sewage workers down secondary tunnels.

Taking Stock

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:57:29 +0000

Old vaults under Brighton railway station, where the wine for the “Brighton Belle” used to be stored, had been turned into a model railway museum under the feet of the passengers on the platforms.

Baby Feet

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:57:00 +0000

Baby J. and his mother Anna were the focus of a story about single women who decide to have children using the “Donor Insemination” method.

Inside Story

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:56:36 +0000

Dartmoor Prison inmates and staff were coached by Glyndebourne Opera Company for their own production of “The Transformation”, to be staged in the prison. Darren Colling, a prisoner, was rehearsing his role as a robot, watched by Prison Warder Colin Anderson who had a singing role.

Water Babies

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:55:48 +0000

Pregnant mothers were learning to relax in antenatal classes in a swimming pool. The buoyancy of the water helped them exercise gently. They had foam rings under their bottoms for stability, which let them float about with just their tummies and faces visible above the water.

Drum Beat

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:55:20 +0000

Luke Cresswell and other members of percussion group “Stomp” rehearsed their act in a narrow terraced street, wearing Oil Drum shoes. They had just taken off internationally, with tours of the USA and Europe playing instruments like brushes, dustbins, kitchen sinks (with water), and Zippo lighters.

Flocking Over

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:54:43 +0000

Shepherd John Stanesby had resumed the old tradition of taking his sheep over the half-mile causeway to graze on Burgh Island in Devon, which is usually cut off by the tide and only passable twice a day. Until John revived the use of the island pasture, sheep had not been taken across for 50 years.

Two Horse Race

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:54:18 +0000

A baby tigertail seahorse greets its father from the confines of a test-tube. The male adult had given birth to it in a breeding programme in the Brighton Sealife Centre. The species is hunted in the wild - more than 20 million tigertails are exported to China and Japan each year for use in treatments for baldness and impotence.

Reflected Glory

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:52:51 +0000

Brighton Pavilion was freed from a cage of scaffolding and tarpaulin for the first time in ten years at the end of a £10 million refurbishment. The result was photographed using the reflection it cast in a little 12ft by 8ft ornamental pond in the grounds. Puzzled visitors who had seen the picture kept asking the Pavilion staff where the lake was.

Hootenanny

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:52:29 +0000

A tiny owlet, one of a pair of European Scops Owlets sits in the hand of the curator of a Gloucestershire bird sanctuary. Hatched at the sanctuary, they were the first of the species to be born in Britain.

Light at the End

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:52:07 +0000

With the last lighthouses being automated in Britain, the old lighthouse on the Island of Lundy was used to show photographically the extreme weathers these old stalwarts and their keepers endured. This is one of a set portraying different effects including fog, clouds and moonlight.