Nick Hedges
Nick Hedges was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, 1943. He studied photography at Birmingham College of Art 1965-1968, and as a final project he worked with Birmingham Housing Trust on an exhibition about the city’s badly housed.
He subsequently worked for Shelter, the National Campaign for the Homeless in London from 1968-1972 as a photographer and researcher, producing exhibitions and publications. After working freelance for, amongst others, MENCAP, CSV, the Royal Town Planning Institute, the BBC and Penguin Books, he returned to the Midlands to complete a 2 year photographic documentation of factory work. This study was exhibited widely, and published as the book ‘Born to Work’ in 1982.
He completed a documentation of the Fishing Industry in the North East for the Side Gallery in Newcastle, which was exhibited and published by the Gallery. He was appointed as subject leader in Photography at the University of Wolverhampton in 1988 until 2002. He is currently working on a project called ‘Conurbation’ with the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at Birmingham University.
Fishing Industry
from: Photography
A documentation of the North Shields fishing industry, 1979. The work later formed the bulk of the Amberside Fishing Pack, which was developed as an educational resource for North Tyneside schools.