Don McPhee, the most modest of newspaper photographers, worked in the Manchester office of the Guardian for 33 years until his death in 2007. From there he travelled Britain and the world, taking pictures that revealed a sure news sense, a deep sympathy for people, an instinct for the beautiful, and an ironic sense of humour: it’s hard not to resist a smile when you see his picture of two large farmers locked in belly-to-belly conversation.
His shot of a striking miner in a toy policeman’s helmet eyeballing a line of police officers has become a key image of the 1984 miners’ strike and his picture of the Humber bridge is a wonder of composition.
Don knew Bollington well. He lived in Poynton and used to sail his narrow boat south over the aqueduct to Aldephi Mill for an afternoon outing. He once very reluctantly agreed to talk with his former colleague Denis Thorpe at the Arts Centre and grabbed the fascinated attention of a large audience. And for the 2005 festival he photographed school children making little White Nancys for a fine colour front page of the festival edition of Bollington Live.
The Guardian staged an exhibition of his work in London early in 2008 and many pictures from that show are included in this exhibition. It should be a fine tribute to the man and his work and it hoped that his wife Lillian will open the show.
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