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The Work on this site is a selection of documentary images produced by Roger Tiley. Roger started his career in photography purely by accident, after being told to study an additional A' level at sixth form college. His tutor persuaded him to enrol on a new A' level course in photography, as he was short of students. After he completed his course, Roger was successful in gaining employment as an industrial photographer for Lucas Industries, a large car component company. After spending four years at Lucas, he decided to specialise in the documentary genre, studying at the renowned School of Documentary Photography, under Magnum photographer, David Hurn.
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| On completion of the course in 1984, Roger worked for a number of national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Observer. Much of his journalistic work was based on the year-long miners strike in 1984/85. This led to his first major long-term commission titled 'The Valleys Project'. | |
Since the 1980s, Tiley has concentrated on working on major commissions for exhibitions, archive collections, television and book publication. Over the past three decades, Tiley has had work exhibited and published regularly in Europe and the USA and is the author of three books. He has worked on numerous major commissions, including photographing the Welsh descendants living in Pennsylvania and covering extensively the mining communities of West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. His latest project involves making a series of documentaries combining moving image and still photography. |
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