Fifty Years of Photography.
A small Yorkshire photography business, the Dobson
Agency.co.uk, is celebrating 50 years in business this month. The Scarborough based company is proud to be still
documenting news & events for businesses and publications half a century
on.
According to they’re own records
the company was created around November 1964 by the late Scarborough photographer Dennis Dobson (hence the
name), a name which they have kept to this day.
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| FOUNDER: The late photographer Dennis Dobson. |
Fifty years on it's now
run by Director and Photographer Keith Meatheringham. Keith was born in Plymouth, Devon, but grew up in Cirencester,
Gloucestershire. ‘I moved
to Scarborough
over 20 years ago, he said - I guess I'm almost half Yorkshire
now - Although I know a lot would disagree'.
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| OWNER: Photographer/Director Keith Meatheringham. |
Award winning photographer
Keith said “I have had a real passion for photography from a
young age and I’m really excited at the prospect of opening up the Dobson
Agency’s 50 year photo library to others in the Scarborough and surrounding area via a new web
site in the next few months.
Images & jobs will be
able to be searched, with a scan and printing service being made available for
anyone who wants to buy prints of interesting photos, scenes or even themselves
or they’re loves ones from days gone by.
‘I came to work for the
Agency back in 1994 and took it over around 10 years later’ said Keith. ‘The business has had to diversify slightly through the years, but
our main source of income is providing creative photography for our many PR
companies (Public Relations) and magazines all over the UK, as well as
providing images for regional and national newspapers and other corporate and
commercial clients too’. ‘We would
love to do more photography for local companies in the North & East Yorkshire
areas too’.
Not only is Keith an active
photographer himself covering Yorkshire and the North of England, but the
business also has a network of over 100 photographers throughout the UK. Keith has had
photos published in most of the National newspapers in mainland UK, as well as having
images published in newspapers all over the world including the USA, Canada, Australia and Thailand and many more.
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| COMING SOON: Scarborough Photo Library. |
Keith says ‘Editorial photography is
the main part of the business and we must have covered over 16,000 jobs over
the last 50 years with a photographic library containing over half a million
images at least’. ‘Most is yet to be digitized, but we are making plans to
start scanning in our archive of negatives dating back to the early 1960’s
soon’.
Keith announced ‘We are
planning on using our social media platforms more to share our nostalgic images
with others’. ‘We have already started sharing some of our historic photos from
our earliest jobs back in 1964 and our plan is also to share regular ‘Fifty
Years Ago This Week’ picture stories via our Twitter, Facebook and Blog
etc’.
‘Surprisingly, we have
already had two people interested in buying photos that we have only just
shared this week - one person who wants to buy a photo we have of his Dad and
we have even had a former Miss World (1964) Ann Sidney contact us interested in
photos we have of her too’! ‘This is all in the first week of sharing our
archive material’. ‘So it’s all quite
exciting’. ‘The jobs and photos we have
on file are so interesting and we will have thousands of people’s family
members on film’.
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| OUT OF THIS WORLD: Miss World 1964 Ann Sidney |
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| BORO: Scarborough FC Team 1964 |
The Dobson Agency can be contacted at www.dobsonagecy.co.uk
and our Twitter account is @dobsonagency
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