“I love the people”
– Robert Blomfield on Edinburgh, March 1966
Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, 1965
Robert Blomfield’s photographs take us to Edinburgh between 1957 and 1966. Born in Leeds in 1938, Bloomfield studied medicine in Scotland’s capital. He took pictures for pleasure, recording things that caught his eye. Never exhibited during his lifetime, once his prints were dry, Robert would be put them into their yellow Kodak boxes.
March 1966
Forth Road Bridge under construction, 1962
“I didn’t need to set the stage, the stage set itself. All I had to do was take the photo”
Student Union, Teviot Row House, 1961
Stockbridge, 1966
Salisbury Street, 1960
Robert Blomfield
Riego Street, Tollcross, 1965
Littlewoods, Princes Street, 1965
June 1965
India Place, Stockbridge, 1965
Harrison Park, 1960
Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street, 1960
Edinburgh, 1966
Calton Hill, 1964
Bookmaker outside Aird’s Bar, Arthur Street, 1960
April 1966, Edinburgh
April 1966, Edinburgh
In 1999, Blomfield gave up photography and his career as a doctor after a stroke left him paralysed. He retired to Yorkshire and died in December 2020
Buy: Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh 1957-1966. More at the website to his work: here.
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