The Photography 

In the ten years between graduating from the Royal College of Art Film School and becoming a BAFTA-winning film and television director, Bob Bentley travelled the world — often on location as a sound technician.

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Whenever the opportunity arose, he captured photographs of the people, communities, and landscapes he encountered — many in remote or rarely visited places. His eye was drawn equally to the extraordinary and the everyday.

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The resulting collection of slides, long forgotten in boxes and folders for decades, is now being revealed for the first time in over half a century.

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The images featured in Bob Bentley's most recent book - A Take on the World 1970s - Photography Bob Bentley, accompanied by Bob Bentley’s personal reflections, offer an intimate and authentic glimpse of the 1970s — documentary photography at its most honest and human.