John Bulmer: photographs from the north of England to South America

Manchester, 1977 This photograph was taken for a story about Manchester in Geo magazine. The street's houses had all been demolished for redevelopment but the pub was still standing Photograph: John Bulmer

Elland, a mill town in Yorkshire, from the series The North UK 1965 Photograph: John Bulmer

Appalachia, USA, 1968 Shot for a Sunday Times story on white poverty. When Bulmer knocked on doors, he was often greeted by the barrel of a shotgun Photograph: John Bulmer

The Black Country Taken for a Town magazine article in 1960 called England’s Hard Centre Photograph: John Bulmer

The Black Country Unloading coal from barges for the steel foundry Photograph: John Bulmer

The Black Country Also shot for the Town magazine article, England’s Hard Centre Photograph: John Bulmer

The Black Country Another photo in the series shows a woman and her son’s girlfriend preparing to go to the pub. They lived in a one-up, one-down terrace and the son worked in a steel foundry. He drank 17 pints in the evening Photograph: John Bulmer

County Durham, 1964 This photograph was taken at a drift mine, for a major colour essay on the north in Sunday Times magazine, published in 1965 Photograph: John Bulmer

Equador, 1965 The junta with a priest and a peasant. This Sunday Times assignment on the struggle for power in South America showed the servitude of the poor Photograph: John Bulmer

Hartlepool, 1961 A greyhound fancier with his dog and family Photograph: John Bulmer

Hartlepool, 1961 Taken for a story in Image magazine about sea coal gatherers, the worst hit by unemployment in Britain Photograph: John Bulmer

Liberia, 1968 This wedding photo was part of a Sunday Times series on countries and their leaders, including portraits of Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Yugoslavia Photograph: John Bulmer

Pembridge, Herefordshire, 1966 Shot for a piece in the Sunday Times magazine on life in an English village Photograph: John Bulmer

Manchester, 1977 This photograph of football fans outside Old Trafford was taken for Geo magazine Photograph: John Bulmer

North Korea, 1973
This was Bulmer's last assignment for the Sunday Times. He was one of the first photographers to enter North Korea since the war Photograph: John Bulmer

Paraguay, 1965 A religious festival photographed for a Sunday Times story on South America Photograph: John Bulmer

Romania, 1968 A family in the park in Bucharest Photograph: John Bulmer

Romania, 1968 A story for Venture magazine, also published in the Sunday Times. Romania was behind the iron curtain but Bulmer found it surprisingly easy to enter the country Photograph: John Bulmer

This girl in a doorway was photographed for a Sunday Times story on the north in 1965 Photograph: John Bulmer

Another photo from the series about the north in the Sunday Times in 1965. Despite becoming the country's first all-colour supplement, the magazine still published black-and-white photographs Photograph: John Bulmer