Explore Decades of Work from an Award-Winning Press Photographer with New Book

Key Highlights :

1. Roger Bamber was known for his unrivalled pictures in a career which covered music, war, politics, people going about their daily lives and much more.

2. Roger, from Brighton, was known for his work on a new book which has already sold out.

3. Shan Lancaster, Roger’s wife for nearly 40 years, worked on the book with him from 2019 up until his death.

4. Roger's work appeared in The Argus many times, including one of his most famous pictures showing a child and the Punch and Judy show on the seafront.

5. Roger was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from the University of Brighton for his distinguished photojournalist and the wealth of images of Brighton inspired by the city.

     For decades, award-winning press photographer Roger Bamber captured stunning images that documented music, war, politics, and people from all walks of life. Now, his work is being showcased in a new book, Out Of The Ordinary, which was released this month.

     The hardback book contains many of Roger's most impressive images, along with stories of how he captured them. Shan Lancaster, Roger's wife of nearly 40 years, worked on the book with him from 2019 until his death in September last year.

     Shan met Roger in a pub in Brighton as a young journalist, and she said he was determined to finish the book before he passed away. “He had a very bad patch and was in hospital for a very long time. He said ‘I have got to do a book otherwise I’m going to die and won’t have done a book and I will be really p***** off’," she said.

     One of the most iconic images featured in the book is a skeleton running out of the Booth Museum. Roger had been invited to take pictures of botanist David Bellamy at the museum's centenary event, but he had other plans. He got the museum to set up a skeleton escaping from the building, and the picture made it into the papers.

     The book also includes one of Roger's favorite pictures, called “running out of steam”. It's a farewell portrait of five railwaymen whose jobs disappeared with the end of steam on British Railways in 1968.

     Roger's work appeared in The Argus many times, including one of his most famous pictures showing a child and the Punch and Judy show on the seafront. He won dozens of awards, most notably the British Press Photographer of the Year twice and News Photographer of the Year twice.

     The book is currently sold out, but more copies will be printed soon. There is also an exhibition of Roger’s work at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery until September, where visitors can explore his life's work.

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