Life, Bradford style: the work of Ian Beesley – in pictures

A look at the work of the Bradford-born social documentary photographer. Expelled from school, Beesley found work in his local sewage works. With the encouragement of colleagues he found photography and began a lifelong study of the north’s cultural heritage

• Salts Mill in Saltaire, West Yorkshire is showing the first ever career retrospective, Life, from 20 August 2022