Sixties North Sea Trawling

One of my first assignments, after leaving the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Photography,  involved spending a month on a North Sea trawler in the height of winter.

It was a memorable experience. I lived and worked  with the eight-man crew in the cramped conditions of a small trawler.

They were all wonderful. Very cooperative and even  slightly sympathetic during my frequent  bouts of seasickness. I had never realised how many positions a small boat in high seas  could get into at the same moment!

At that time, being fairly hard up, I was using aMiranda, single lens reflex.  Although not expensive, as such cameras go, it survived everything the seas threw at it and produced more than 2,000 black-and-white images. Here are some of my favourites. You can others, covering a wide range of subjects,  in my new book The Way It Was –  A Photographic Journey Through 60s Britain.  Details on this website.