HARD BEAUTY: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DAVID WISE BY DAVID FORD.
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Way back in 1990, the inaccurately named Independent newspaper - currently owned by and ex-KGB oligarch and a Saudi Arabian Sultan!- wrote a stitch up of Hartlepool, my home town, which was presumably intended to blow up the skirts of its chattering class readership and give them a cheap thrill.
Invariably, the article was not well-received in Hartlepool and it is probably best forgotten. However, in its favour, the article did feature a series of gritty photographs by local photographer David Wise.
I knew David- though not very well- as did a lot of of my family and friends. He was a few years older than me and sadly died in 1999, aged 40.
So, I was very pleasantly surprised today when I spotted this splendid article that David Ford had written for Litro Magazine in 2021.
So, please follow the link and read the article, if you fancy.
All photographs © David Wise.