Martyn Pitt’s unique photographic collection, which chronicles the final years of the British coal industry, is on show at Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum. Steve Teale reports.
A photographer spent years combining art with graft, chronicling the declining years of the coal mining industry. Martyn Pitt took photographs of colliers as they toiled on the face and underground, creating a collection of images which is now on show at the National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield. The show opened at the weekend and is a major new exhibition celebrating the work and career of Mr Pitt who documented the work as the industry’s photographer.
The Museum acquired Mr Pitt’s image archive in 2014 which spans the period of privatisation between 1994-2012 and includes film negatives and digital photographs, taken whilst working for British Coal, RJB Mining and UK Coal. His work was used to illustrate mining reviews, safety posters, newspapers and much more. These images equate to the sole visual record of mining during that period.
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