Shirley Baker Queer concert halls or other public

concert halls or other public areas but also for photographing people who would normally resist being photographed

it’s unpredictable and contradictory

Straddling the space between literary publishing and photobook

presenter and curator of the collection

and often ghostly space

Shirley Baker Queer concert halls or other publicShirley Baker developed her first photograph as a young girl from the darkness of the coal shed in her hometown of Salford, Northwest England. From this moment, she developed a lifelong interest in documentary photography, amounting to a vast and celebrated archival collection that spans the length of her career, dating from the 1950s until 2000. Edited by Lou Stoppard, this book presents an extensiveand, uniquely, femaledepiction of post war life; an