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Interview with Don McPhee, photographer for the Guardian. Conducted by David Marsh on 7 November 2002. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording and additional notes.

Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):

Disc 1:
Track 1
00.00 Joined Guardian in July 1971
00.30 Worked for several newspapers before the Guardian
01.15 Applied for one of two photographer jobs
02.00 Hired by Geoffrey Taylor and Fred Armstrong
03.00 Joined because of the way the Guardian treated its pictures
03.30 Believes pictures are now chosen for their entertainment value as opposed to their relation to the story
05.00 Talks about pay
05.35 First assignment in Northern Ireland
06.00 Talks about how a 'wire team' and a portable darkroom had to be taken to every assignment
07.40 Describes wire transfer
08.20 Riots in Belfast

10.20 Didn't have rolling news, describes radio 4 news summaries
12.00 Problems with agency photographers
16.30 Trip to India
19.30 Networking

20.00 Enjoys ease of digital transfer
24.00 Using colour in photography
25.00 New and old techniques in photography
28.40 'Design has overtaken the use of pictures in newspapers'

30.00 Favourite jobs
35.00 Roles of journalists and photographers are very different
36.00 Most memorable moments

45.00 Technology dramatically changes the newspaper
47.00 Plate cameras to 2 1/4 square film to 35mm film and now digital cameras
48.30 How people react to pictures in different ways

55.00 Describes the Guardian as a wonderful paper

Black and white 35mm negatives.

Material drawn from the 2008 exhibition 'Don McPhee: Photographer', Guardian Newsroom,

Bromide prints made for the exhibition:
Strike vote, Chrysler car plant, Coventry, 1975. 1 print - 20 x 24"
Watersheddings, Oldham, 1982. 1 print - 20 x 24"
Botshabelo, South Africa, 1990. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Pietermarisburg, South Africa, 1990. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Alan Bennett, Yorkshire, 1989. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Saddleworth Moor, 1986. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Boxing Day Cowboys, Salford, 1972. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Window shopping, Stockport, c.1980. 1 print - 16 x 20"
The last Belle Vue Christmas Circus, Manchester, 1981. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Wives groups, Chrysler car plant, Coventry, 1975. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Jesse Jackson, Presidential Campaign, Alabama, 1988. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984. 1 print - 16 x 20"
Enoch Powell, King's Hall, Belfast, 1974. 1 print - 20 x 16"
Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, 1994. 1 print - 20 x 16"
Margaret Thatcher, Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, 1990. 1 print - 20 x 16"

Vintage prints shortlisted for the exhibition:
The last pit ponies, Wheldale colliery, 1972. 1 print - 11.5 x 8"
London Festival Ballet's The Nutcracker, rehearsal, Manchester, 1971. 1 print - 7.5 x 11"
Harold Wilson, Huyton Labour Club, 1974. 1 print - 9 x 10"
Edward Heath, 1973. 1 print - 8 x 11"
Jeremy Thorpe, Coventry, 1976. 1 print - 9 x 12"
PanAm flight 103. Lockerbie, 1988. 1 print - 13 x 16"
Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Policeman's helmet). 1 print - 9 x 12"
Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Arthur Scargil and loud speaker). 1 print - 11 x 16"
Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Police and Pickets clash). 3 prints - 8 x 11"
Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Sunbathing). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Miner's strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984 (Police hold down a Picket). 1 print - 8 x 11"
Siege, Oldham, 1973. 4 prints - 8 x 10"
Greek and Turkish refugee camps, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1974. 21 prints - 7.5 x 11"
Catholic children being evacuated from Belfast to Dublin, 1972. 2 prints - 11 x 9.5" / 11.5 x 7.5"
Media scrum at funeral, Derry, 1983. 1 print - 10 x 12"
Orange Parade, Belfast, 1972. 4 prints - 6.5 x 8"
Ulster Defence Association, Belfast, 1972. 1 print - 6.5 x 8"
Members of the Ulster Defence Association preparing for a pitched battle against the British Army in Belfast (nd). 1 print - 7.5 x 12"
Members of the Ulster Defence Association barricade the streets of Belfast, [1972]. 1 print - 7.5 x 12"
Ulster Defence Association (child with baseball bat) (nd). 1 print - 16 x 20"
Ulster Defence Association (preparing to battle), 1972. 1 print - 12 x 10"
Belfast, 1972 (Soldier with gun). 1 print - 10 x 12"
Short Strand murals, Belfast, 1974. 1 print - 10 x 12"
Captured men and soldiers (arms against wall) (nd). 2 prints - 12 x 16"
Township life in Alexandra near Johannesburg, South Africa, c.1990. 1 print - 12 x 16"

Plans for selection and photographs of Don's filing cabinets by Denis Thorpe

Material drawn from the 2005 Manchester Art Gallery exhibition 'Don McPhee: The View From Manchester'

Rough plans -
15 boards put together by Don McPhee for exhibition layout

Prints -
Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1994. 2 prints - 10 x 16" / 12 x 16"
Miner's Strike, Orgreave coking plant, 1984. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Shire horse sale, Denby Dale, 1989. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Blackpool, 1971. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell, Dudley West by-election, 1994 - 12 x 16"
Caribbean carnival, Leeds, 1975. 2 prints - 12 x 16"
Boxing day cowboys, Salford, 1972. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Enoch Powell, King's Hall, Belfast, 1974. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Hartlepool, 1988. 1 print - 12 x 16"
The last pit ponies, Wheldale colliery, 1972. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Humber bridge, 1997. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Jesse Jackson, Presidential Campaign, Alabama, 1988. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Jeremy Thorpe, Coventry, 1976. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Tony Benn and Denis Healey, Labour party conference, Blackpool, 1981.1 print - 12 x 16"
Tony Blair, John Prescott and Gordon Brown, Labour party conference, Blackpool, 1998. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Watersheddings, Oldham, 1982. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Strike vote, Chrysler car plant, Coventry, 1975. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Elsie Tanner (Pat Pheonix), Coronation Street, 1973. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, 1991. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Pietermarisburg, South Africa, 1990. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Sheffield Against Rate Capping, 1984. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley, Labour party conference, Blackpool, 1990. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Wives groups, Chrysler car plant, Coventry, 1975. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Cyril Smith, Liberal party conference, Blackpool, 1975. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Anglican Whitsuntide walk, Manchester, 1980. 1 print - 12 x 16"
The last Belle Vue Christmas Circus, Manchester, 1981. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Neil Kinnock, Walton by-election, 1991. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Child sweeping street, Salford, 1971. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Window shopping, Salford, c1980. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Alan Bennett, Yorkshire, 1989. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Teddy boys, Manchester, 1983. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Mary Wilson and John Stonehouse, Labour party conference, Blackppol, 1975. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Manchester vs Salford University boat race, River Irwell, 1972 - 12 x 16"
Queen Elizabeth II aboard a boat, framed aside a John Lennon statue (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Old couple relax on bench in [Scarborough]. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Disused pit stack, South Elmsall, 1984. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Manchester street scene, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Slea Head, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland, 1987. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Old woman paddling in the sea, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Sea sick on dry land, Scarborough, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Man playing a drum whilst a woman drinks, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Manchester Airport, 1985. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Indian boy in factory. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Derbyshire Miners march, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Two men outside a supermarket, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Putting on a brave face, The Durham Miners' Gala. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Two horse riders on the beach set in front of an Industrial landscape. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Women with shopping walks up a road, framed aside a vandalized bus stop. 1 print - 12 x 16"
One punk with Mohican admires another's badge. 1 print - 12 x 16"
Man with binoculars and 'Inland Revenue' banner - 12 x 16"
Two punks lean against a wall as a group of women pass by
Aeroplane in [China], (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Mandela supporters, South Africa, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Man carries bread on his head, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Mother and her sick child, (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
Group exercising in street (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"
A Jewish man reads facing the wall behind two armed soldiers (nd). 1 print - 12 x 16"

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Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Picture Desk; London Picture Library