Mick Hartley

Published by Bluecoat Press, a new book from photographer Janine Wiedel looks at West Midlands industry in the late 1970s:

An internationally acclaimed documentary photographer, Janine Wiedel spent five years in the late 1970s embedded with industrial communities in the West Midlands. Her compelling images poetically capture the harsh realities faced by workers as their livelihoods and heritage were threatened.

[Photos © Bluecoat Press/Janine Weidel]